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प्रश्न

Big male elephants throw logs at electric fences because 

पर्याय

  • they want to be free.

  • they are great throwers.

  • they enjoy the sparks thus caused.

  • they are very strong animals. 

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उत्तर

They enjoy the sparks thus caused. 

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Answer the following question in 120-150 words:           

What kind of life did Silas lead at Lantern Yard? 


The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?


'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'.


Who said to whom and when / why?

  Who said To whom? When / why?
......the world is full of inequalities.      
I want to do something interesting.      
It is against the will of God.      
Our home is full of love.......      
...... we can affirm along with United Nations that men and women are equal.      

Think and answer in your own words.

'Beauty' in stanza 5 to 6 can refer to a beautiful maiden as well as nature itself. Explain when and how nature ‘dances’ and also 'smiles'.


Complete the following statements with the help of the text.

To learn about meditation, you have to see ____________________________________________________________ Watch your thinking. Do not ________________________ Do not ____________________________________ Begin to learn ______________________________ Just watch thought. Do not ____________________________________________________.


Form groups and discuss the following question:

The events described in the poem take place at a certain place, at a certain period of the year, under specific weather conditions. Describe the place, the time, and the weather conditions.


Antonio’s ships were lost at sea.


Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage.

It is believed that _________ Homer, who __________ and who ________ to all who __________________.


Guess the meaning of the following word:

exorbitantly 

Write the smaller and related words that you see within this word.


Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.

gentle-hearted 


Describe Gulliver’s home in Lilliput. 


What mistake did the man in the moon make?


Why did Granny scold Hamid?


What were the children doing beside the stone wall?


The market was ______ away from the village.


Why did Muthu say that he could walk along its side?


How did the aliens know the boys' language?


What happened to the two girls at the end of the war?


Choose the picture for the passage.

Our national emblem is taken from Ashoka’s pillar at Sarnath. It is found on all government documents, coins, currency notes, postcards, and envelopes. It consists of four lions standing back to back but, we can see only three lions at a time. There is a Dharma chakra in the centre of the base plate, with the figure of a bull in the right and that of a horse in the left. The entire structure is sitting on a lotus. The words ‘Sathyameva Jayate’ is written under it in Devanagari script. These words mean, ‘Truth alone Triumphs’.

Karate makes me brave and bold. Would you like to learn it?


How did he win the match?


Did she give up the fight?


All the children wished to go to the______.


Meena was transferred to a______.


Name the places that Tenzin’s family lived in.


Work or play, let us______.


Who fell down and down and down?


Match the following items from column-A with those column-B:

Column 'A' Column 'Non-Textual'
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer (i) Trinidad
(b) Daniel Defoe (ii) Wuthering Heights
(c) V.S. Naipaul (iii) Robinson Crusoe
(d) Emile Bronte (iv) The Canterbury Tales

Read the extract and complete the activities given below:

The call of the seas has always found an echo in me. Not being rich enough to roam in a private yacht, I have taken the poor man's way out. I swim across them. I have always been fascinated by the Indian ocean, whether at Mumbai, at Puri or at Gopalpur. I have swam in all these places and have felt the thrill. But the idea of swimming the Palk Strait did not occur to me until after I swam in the English channel. Steeped in the history and tradition of this nation, practically unconquered. teaming with hair-raising hazards, the sea between India and Sri Lanka had all the elements of challenge, danger and difficulty that tempted me. By the way, for preparation, I continued a strict and rigorous course of training which began in 1960. I also had to collect a comprehensive range of facts and information about this sea. Neither of these was easy.

Despite all the information I had gathered, I soon found that very little was known about the Palk Strait, especially about the tides and currents. Everything about the English channel is known-there is the Channel Swimming Association, there are trained pilots there are wants to be hired, accurate weather forecasts, dependable tide tables and every other form of assistance was readily available. All that one needed was money. Here in the Palk Strait one has to find out firstly from where information could be obtained and then decide how much of it could be incorrect or misleading!

A1. Rewrite the following as per their sequence in the extract:    (2)

  1. I also had to collect a comprehensive range of facts and information about this sea.
  2. I have swam in all these places and have felt the thrill.
  3. All that one needed was money.
  4. Despite all the information I had gathered, I soon found that very little was known about the Palk Strait.

A2. Explain:    (2)

What does the writer man by saving, "Steeped in the history and tradition of this nation, practically unconquered, teeming with hair-raising hazards, the sea between India and Sri Lanka had all the elements of challenge, danger and difficulty that tempted me"?

A3. Give reason:   (2)

The narrator had an intense desire to swim in the Palk Strait. Explain the reasons for it.

A4. Personal Response:    (2)

Do you like to have an adventurous life? Express your opinion.

A5. Grammar:

Do as directed:   (2)

  1. Very little was known about the Palk Strait. (Rewrite as a negative sentence)
  2. I had to collect a comprehensive range of facts. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with 'A comprehensive ........)

A6. Vocabulary:   (2)

Give the synonyms of the following words:

  1. rigorous - ______
  2. thrill - ______

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