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प्रश्न
Multiple Choice Question:
According to the passage the home is a ________
पर्याय
house
loving family
furniture
building
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उत्तर
According to the passage, the home is a loving family.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about Language
Here are some sentences from the text. Say which of them tell you, that the author:
(a) was afraid of the snake, (b) was proud of his appearance, (c) had a sense of humour,
(d) was no longer afraid of the snake.
1. I was turned to stone.
2. I was no mere image cut in granite.
3. The arm was beginning to be drained of strength.
4. I tried in my imagination to write in bright letters outside my little heart the words, ‘O
God’.
5. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out.
6. I looked into the mirror and smiled. It was an attractive smile.
7. I was suddenly a man of flesh and blood.
8. I was after all a bachelor, and a doctor too on top of it!
9. The fellow had such a sense of cleanliness…! The rascal could have taken it and used it
after washing it with soap and water.
10. Was it trying to make an important decision about growing a moustache or using eye
shadow and mascara or wearing a vermilion spot on its forehead?
Answer following question in short.
How did kangaroos react to duck’s request?
What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
Is Lushkoff a willing worker? Why, then, does he agree to chop wood for Sergei?
Answer the following question in one or two sentences.
How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?
In groups of six, work on one of the mysteries given below by surfing the net and through other sources. Make a power point presentation.
- Yeti , the abominable snowman
- Loch Ness Monster
- UFOs ((Unidentified Flying Objects)
- Lost city of Atlantis
- Crop circles
- Nazcalines
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling,luminous,tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Pick a simile from the stanza.
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling,luminous,tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
The poet has used several expressions which form pictures in the readers mind “fields of sunlit corn” and “circles of light”. Pick out more such expressions from the poem.
Beside him in the shoals as he lay waiting glimmered a blue gem. It was not a gem, though: it was sand—?worn glass that had been rolling about in the river for a long time. By chance, it was perforated right through—the neck of a bottle perhaps?—a blue bead. In the shrill noisy village above the ford, out of a mud house the same colour as the ground came a little girl, a thin starveling child dressed in an earth—?coloured rag. She had torn the rag in two to make skirt and sari. Sibia was eating the last of her meal, chupatti wrapped round a smear of green chilli and rancid butter; and she divided this also, to make
it seem more, and bit it, showing straight white teeth. With her ebony hair and great eyes, and her skin of oiled brown cream, she was a happy immature child—?woman about twelve years old. Bare foot, of course, and often goosey—?cold on a winter morning, and born to toil. In all her life, she had never owned anything but a rag. She had never owned even one anna—not a pice.
Why does the writer mention the blue bead at the same time that the crocodile is introduced?
Ans. The author mentions the blue bead at the same time that the crocodile is introduced to create suspense and a foreshadowing of the events’to happen.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Describe Sibia’s home.
“He had the distinction of being the only member of the party to have bagged any game...”The phrase in underlined means
Mark the right answer.
Why was Gopal barred entry to the palace? How did Gopal manage to get in? What was the king’s reaction to Gopal’s deed?
Whose knucklebones were collected by Willy Wonka?
What went wrong when the tortoises, snakes and lizards left the forest?
What surprised Prem in Pambupatti village?
Discuss the question in pairs before you write the answer.
Why did he serve the Lion for a long time?
Now complete these sentences about your house and home.
(i) My house is ____________.
(ii) The best thing about my home is ____________.
Answer the following question:
How did she become an astronaut? What gave her the idea that she could be an astronaut?
Multiple Choice Question:
The poet asks us to think and find proper words to_________.
The words given against the sentences below can be used both as nouns and verbs. Use them appropriately to fill in the blanks.
(i) He gave a ______________________ in answer to my question. (smile)
(ii) We also _______________________ to see him smile.
“You should be able to qualify with your eyes closed.” Who said these words and to whom?
