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प्रश्न
What did the boy wonder about?
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उत्तर
The boy wondered that all the things found in Scotland were all the same as in England.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
A1. True or False
State whether the following statements are true or false:
(1) The author's new house was situated at Bangalore.
(2) The writer was delighted because their new house, was the biggest they ever lived.
One of the advantages of growing up in an Army household was the frequency with which we moved. 'Postings' came with predictable regularity every three years. What was unpredictable and therefore exciting was the suspense. Where would we go this time? Ambala, Pune, Dehradun, Allahabad, Tejpur, Bangalore, Yo! ............ In my short span of thirteen years we had moved lock. stock and barrel eleven times!
Every move meant change. New journeys, new places, new schools, my new books, new uniforms, new friends and new houses. We lived in tents, bashas, Nissen huts, flats and bungalows. No matter what the shape and size of the dwelling, mother soon put her own special stamp on it and transformed it into a familiar place - our home - complete with bright yellow-curtains, coffee-brown carpet, assorted pictures, hanging ferns and potted palms - providing a comforting sense of continuity in our essentially nomadic life.
I was thirteen, the year we moved to the Cantonment at Allahabad. In stark contrast to the razzle-dazzle of the city's commercial areas like Katra and Chowk, the Cantonment was a quiet, orderly place with broad tree-lined roads that still carried the names of long-dead Britishers. Our bungalow was on a sleepy by-lane called MacPherson Road. When we first saw it, my brothers and I were delighted. It was by far the biggest house we had ever lived in. The task of furnishing those huge, echoing rooms daunted Mother.
A2. Complete
a. The broad tree-lined roads were named after.............................
b. Katra and Chowk are .............................
c. Mother was daunted with the task of................................. .
d. The suspense was exciting because the posting was.........................
A3. Personal response
What do you think are the problems faced by those who change households frequently.
Briefly comment on:
The purpose of the author’s journey to Mount Kailash.
What, according to Russell, is the importance of love in life?
Discuss in small groups.
‘On reading Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry, the question insistently occurs why there is no similar A Defence of Science written by a scientist of equal endowment.’
The poetic effect is achieved in the poem through understatement and asides. Discuss this with examples.
Find from the lesson word/phrase that mean the following.
colours .............
Read the story and choose the appropriate meaning.
Struggling artists ____________
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
The newly planned city looks modern and amazingly beautiful.
Read the lesson and name the following.
The Father of modern neurosurgery ______
Compare the features of a comedy and tragedy.
What do the following event/action tell us about the characters? Discuss.
The Archbishop announced that everyone was free to try his hand at the sword and called all the Lords to a Tournament.
How long does the whole event described in this passage take? Work it out by reading the passage.
What was the businessman looking for? Why?
What prompted the young seagull to fly finally?
Hamid’s granny scolded him for buying iron tongs. Then she understood that Hamid had bought it ______.
What were the children doing beside the stone wall?
Why can’t Alice get through the little door into the garden?
Look at the picture and tick Choose the correct word.
Jana and her family moved to the village _______ ago.
Being a bachelor, the stranger had no patience with children.
