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प्रश्न
Although Paul's mother liked to be rich she did not approve of betting on horses.
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उत्तर
Paul's mother foolishly wished to be rich and yet was not able to achieve or materialise her desire. She blamed it on her husband for being unlucky. However, she was one of those humans who do not tread as per their cloth. She was used to a lavish lifestyle and blamed her husband and misfortune for low income. Yet there was one thing appreciable about her that she was against gambling. She did remark in her conversation with her brother that she had seen her family members pursuing it and how it led to their fall. She advised her son to not indulge in it and made him promise that he will not think about racing horses anymore.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
B1. Find reasons
(i) The effect of receding forest …………………………………. .
(ii) The number of animals is reduced because ………………………. .
(iii) Elephants entered the city because…………………… .
(iv) Elephants lived a wary life …………………….. .
On the left bank of the Ganga, where it emerges from the Himalayan foothills, there is a long stretch of heavy forest. There are villages on the fringe of the forest, inhabited by bamboo cutters and farmers, but there are few signs of commerce or pilgrimage. Hunters, however, have found the area an ideal hunting ground during the last seventy years, and as a result, the animals are not as numerous as they used to be. The trees, too, have been disappearing slowly; and, as the forest recedes, the animals lose their food and shelter and move further on into the foothills. Slowly, they are being denied the right to live
Only the elephants can cross the river. And two years ago, when a large area of the forest was cleared to make way for a refugee resettlement camp, a herd of elephants - finding their favourite food, the green shoots of the bamboo, in short supply - waded across the river. They crashed through the suburbs of Haridwar, knocked down a factory wall, pulled down several tin roofs, held up a train, and left a trail of devastation in their wake until they found a new home in a new forest which was still untouched. Here, they settled down to a new life but an unsettled, wary life. They did not know when men would appear again, with tractors,bulldozers and dynamite.
B2. Find out
Mention four things the elephants did when they found shortage of food:
(i)………………
(ii)………
(iii) …………
(iv) ………….
B3.Phrases
Make meaningful sentences by selecting any two of the following phrases:
(i) to make way for
(ii) in short
(iii) on the fringe of.
B4. Language study
Select the proper alternative to make the correct voice:
(i) Hunters have found an ideal hunting ground.
-An ideal hunting ground ........found by hunters. (had been, has been, was)
(ii) They are being denied the right to live.
- The people ........them the right to live. (are denying, were denying, denying)
B5.Personal response
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How did the air raids disrupt the Dutch public life?
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What do you infer from Darwin's comment on his indifference to literature as he advanced in years?
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How do you respond to these lines?
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses
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Make sentence of your own using the following expression.
put up with:
What decision taken by Dick changed his fortune?
Some poets do not use uniformity in rhyming words, nor a steady rhythm. Such poems with no uniformity in rhyme, rhythm, length of lines or stanzas are called Free Verse. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore are some famous poets who have composed poems in Free Verse.
A quick glance at the poem ‘Vocation' reveals that the style used by Tagore is Free Verse.
Now turn the pages of your textbook and see if you can find other poems in Free Verse.
Find evidence from the lesson and write in your own words.
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Make a list of archaic words from the poem and give their modern equivalents.
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The tongue justifies the possession of the spectacles on behalf of the nose. Pick up the expressions from the poem that argues in favour of the Nose and complete the following web diagram.
Write a short note on the following:
The living world on Rakata
Shakespeare’s poetry has come to be valued for its own sake on the stage. Comment with reference to the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
Expand the following ideas in a paragraph or two:- Courage and resourcefulness are the keys to overcome problems.
Write a conversation between a donkey and a school boy.
Complete the following table.
| No. | Utterance | Who said it | To whom | When |
| (a) | I touched it in the hall at the ministry. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (b) | It will give us time to look some more. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (c) | I might have needed it. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (d) | You must have made a mistake. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (e) | Well, I lost it. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
| (f) | Mine was an imitation. | ___________ | ___________ | ___________ |
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
size - big _______________.
Complete the following diagram.
Which of the words and phrases in the poem will you use in a realistic description?
Put a tick mark against the ones you will use.
- little
- shining tail
- golden scale
- cheerful
- grin
- claws
- gently smiling
- jaws
Correct the following sentence and rewrite it.
The best shoes that Papa Panov had made were a pair of lady’s shoes.
Fill in the blank choosing the appropriate word/idiom from the lesson.
As soon as I ______ of my home, I greet my family.
List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
If you don’t understand something, don’t let the others know about it.
List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
When you want to make a speech, there’s no need to think about it in advance.
Guess the meaning of on the wing.
Find out the difference between the fingerspelling method, sign language and Braille.
Identify the character or speaker.
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Identify the speaker/character.
‘ The one that spits deadly poison straight into its opponent’s eyes.’
What does the tamarind give?
Who is Raj?
Narrate the story based on the story map
The wild boar got up from its daybed because it was disturbed by another boar.
Fruits, vegetables, and water in the Mars are not ______.
Which line tells you that the girl was faster than the boy?
What does it give to the farmer?
_______ broke out in the near by villages.
Find the rhyming word from the poem.
Crowd - ______.
Read scene I of the play carefully and answer the questions below.
Tabaqui acts as ______ to the pack of wolves.
What did you learn from this lesson?
Look at the picture and Choose the correct word.
Write the word under the correct group and divide it.
bullet
candle
bat
title
ball
tiffin
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Circle and write the adverbs.
I'm waiting here. ______
______ lies stretching in the river.
Find and write the clues.
Clue for blind eye ______
Name the character or speaker.
"Did someone scold you?"
Kani and Teddy were in the garden at _____.
Divya loved solving _______.
Rani and Divya informed the happening to the ______.
What sort of a boy is described in the poem?
Who according to Gandhi, can fight against evil and how?
Pick out word which mean the same as
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