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Choose the correct answer and fill in the blank.
‘‘I pray you to answer my question.’’ Here ‘pray’ means _______________.
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Choose an adverb that collocates with “breathed _______________.
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Answer the following question.
The learned people were sometimes divided in their opinions, different persons giving quite different answers; at other times, none of them gave an answer. They all suggested ways to look for an answer. Point out one example of each.
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Answer the following question.
Though the hermit did not say anything to the king for some time, he did not ignore the king or treat him rudely in any way. Do you agree? What evidence of his politeness can you point out? What shows that he listened and responded to the king’s words?
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Answer the following question.
The hermit ‘spoke only to common people’; so the king ‘put on simple clothes’. Do you think the king hoped to be mistaken for a common man or was he just showing that he was a humble person? What shows that the hermit knew him to be the king?
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Answer the following question.
Did the king behave as an ordinary person, rather than as a ruler, at the hermit’s hut? What shows it? Did he also act as a good, kind person? When did he do so?
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Answer the following question.
Do you think the hermit knew, beforehand, not only about the king’s arrival but about the ambush by his enemy? Think a little about this and say what you really feel.
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Consider this list of the different things that happened and rearrange them in the order of time, that is, what happened first, what happened next, and so on. Read the related paragraph again if you are uncertain.
- The bearded man resolved to kill the king.
- The king went alone to see the hermit.
- The king executed the bearded man’s brother.
- The king spent the night at the hermit’s hut.
- The bearded man laid an ambush to kill the king.
- The king’s bodyguards recognised and wounded the bearded man.
- The bearded man came out of the ambush.
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Read the story in your own language, summarize the following aspects of the story in 4 to 5 lines each in your own language. Write it in your notebook.
(a) King’s problem : __________________
(b) Attempts made to find a solution : __________________
(c) Climax : __________________
(d) Solution : __________________
(e) Message : __________________
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From the story, find the collocation of the following.
____________ time.
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Write down in your notebook two points for the following. How do you know?
the learned advisers who came to the court confused the king.
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Connect the dots to get what means a lot to you.
The word is ___________.
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You are quite familiar with computers, especially personal computers. Form pairs and make a list of famous computer manufacturing companies. One is given to you.
(a) Apple (b) _________ (c) _________ (d) _________.
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Complete the web by filling the various benefits of computers.
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Rearrange the incidents in the life of Steve Jobs in chronological order.
(a) Steve Jobs started Next.
(b) Jobs underwent surgery.
(c) Jobs learned about serif and sans serif typefaces.
(d) Jobs returned to Apple Inc.
(e) Jobs married Laurene.
(f) Jobs was diagnosed with cancer.
(g) Jobs dropped out of Reed College.
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Read the third story again. Complete the flow-chart given below.
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Read the lesson. Refer to a dictionary and match the words in column ‘A’ with their meanings in column ‘B’.
| No | ‘A’ | ‘B’ | |
| (a) | diagnosis | (i) | the power believed to control events |
| (b) | devastating | (ii) | complete list of items especially in a special order and description. |
| (c) | intuition | (iii) | act of identifying the nature of a problem or illness. |
| (d) | calligraphy | (iv) | power of understanding situations or people’s feelings before hand. |
| (e) | destiny | (v) | causing great destruction |
| (f) | catalogue | (vi) | beautiful handwriting did with a special pen or brush. |
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Go through all the three stories. Identify some qualities of Steve Jobs and complete the web chart.
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Complete the following table.
‘The Three Stories in the Life of Steve Jobs’
| About | Setbacks | Reactions | Achievements and benefits | |
| First story | ||||
| Second story | ||||
| Third story |
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Say HOW?
The calligraphy classes helped Steve Jobs after 10 years.
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