HSC Arts कक्षा ११ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

They came early but there was ______work to do.

Anand invited ______ friends for the birthday party.

The teacher gave ______ student a separate topic for the assignment.

______ the water overflowed from the tank.

______ of my friends wished me on my birthday.

Vijay had ______ idea about the problem.

Adhi had taken ______ photos during the programme.

______ girls who attended the class informed the others about the test.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets and read the completed passage aloud.

The people of India, as a whole, 1 ______(be) warm-hearted and hospitable. Any calamity in any part of the world immediately 2 ______(arouse) their charity and generosity and a committee 3 ______(be) promptly 4 ______(set ) up to collect funds to help the distressed. The most endearing quality in them 5 ______(be) the respect they show for the work done in any capacity. They 6 ______(believe) in what we 7 ______(call) the dignity of labour.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

I ____(like) to spend time with my friend, whenever I ____(be) free.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

He ____(be) likely to miss the train. He ____(run) up to the station.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

At the moment they____ (wait) at the bus-stop. But I ______(not know) their plans for the journey.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

They firmly _______(believe) in the existence of God.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

We ______(hear) a lot of noise because the new buildings ______(transmit) sound vacant.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

She always ______ (make) excuses for coming late.

Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.

The Prime Minister ______(leave) for America to meet the delegates tomorrow.

You are a commentator for a 5000 metre running race. Use simple present and present continuous tenses and complete the commentary from the beginning to the end of the race. Read the completed passage aloud.

The 5000 metre race is about to begin. Lined up at the starting point, from left to right, are John of Great Britain, Peter of Nigeria, and Jeeva of India. The runners are warming up for the great event. Now they 1 ______(take) their positions on the track. They 2 ______(be) all ready for the start. There 3 ______(go) the starter’s gun! Yes, the race has begun. John 4 ______(lead) and Jeeva 5 ______(follow) him closely.

Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.

DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.

DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.

DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.

DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.

DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.

DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.

DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.

DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.

Fill in the blank using past perfect tense form of the verb:

I ______never______(see) such a beautiful sunrise before I came here.

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We were not able to stay overnight as we______not______(reserve) the tickets in advance.