HSC Commerce (English Medium) इयत्ता १२ वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

Read the following extract and rewrite it from the point of view of Tom.
[You may begin with: I crossed from the right to the centre and said that it was a queer place ...... ]

Rewrite the following extract as if the girl with an apple is the narrator :

[You may begin like this: A stranger said something, in a language. I didn't understand.... '] 

I glanced around to make sure no one saw me. I called to her softly in German. "Do you have something to eat?" 
She didn't understand.  I inched closer to the fence and repeated the question 111 Polish. She stepped forward. I was thin and gaunt, with rags wrapped around my feet, but the girl looked unafraid In her eyes. I saw life. She pulled an apple from her woollen jacket and threw it over the fence. I grabbed the fruit and. as I started to run away, I heard her say faintly," I'll sec you tomorrow."  I returned to the same spot by the fence at the same time every day. She was always there with something for me to eat a hunk of bread or, better yet, an apple. We didn't dare speak or linger. To the caught would mean death for us both. 
I didn't know anything about her, just a kind farm girl, except that she understood Polish. What was her name? Why was she risking her lire for me?  Hope was in such short supply), and this girl on the other side of the ranch gave me some. as nourishing in its way as thc bread and apples.  Nearly seven months later. my brothers and I were crammed into a coal car and shipped 10 Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia. "Don't return," I told the girl that day. "We're leaving." 

Composition :
Rewrite the story extract as if Oliver is the narrator.
[ You may begin as: "I had no knowledge of where my brother was ..... "]

        Oliver, therefore, had no knowledge of where his brother was, but Frederick refused to believe this. 'You have not seen him since the wrestling match!' he said disbelievingly. 'Sir, sir, that cannot be! You must find your brother, wherever he is. Do not dare to come back without him! If you do not bring him to me, dead or alive, within the year. I will take all your land and possessions and you will not be allowed to live anywhere within my dukedom'.
       And so Oliver also set out for the forest of Arden, in search of his brother Orlando. Rosalind and Celia. with the faithful Touchstone, wandered through the forest for many days. They grew so tired and hungry that they felt they could go on no longer in search of Rosalind's father, but at last they met a shepherd who told them that his master had a cottage for sale. They thankfully
bought the cottage and lived there, wandering through the forest every day and returning to the little house at night.
       Although Rosalind did not know it, her father was not very far away. He and the faithful lords who had accompanied him were happily settled in the forest. They had grown to love the simple
life they led. They found it safer and more sweet than the life of
the court, where people were often greedy and jealous and cruel.
They had enough food for their needs because they could 'hunt
the deer in the forest and grow their own fruit and vegetables.
They were full of contentment and good cheer.

Read the following sentence.

Santosh purchased a computer. He read the operating manual and followed the instructions.

1. He linked the monitor, keyboard and printer.
2. He plugged in the main cable.
3. He switched on the monitor at the back.
4. When the light appeared on the screen, he placed the Day Disk in Drive A.
5. He pushed in the disk until the button clicked out. (It took about 30 seconds for the computer to load the programme.)
6. He pressed the Drive button and the disk shot out.
7. He replaced the Day Disk with the Document Disk.
8. He pressed function key 7.

Convert these sentences into passive voice by filling in the blanks. The first sentence has been done as an example.

Firstly the monitor, keyboard and printer were linked up. Then the _______ was _______. The monitor ________ at the back. When the light appeared on the screen, ________in Drive A. The disk __________ until _________. It took the computer 30 seconds to load the programme. The drive button __________ and the disk shot out. The ________ with Document Disk. Finally, the function key 7 ________ The word processor was then ready to use.

Begin the following sentence with the word given in the bracket.

I can guide visitors.   (Visitors)

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Animals are paying me back.  (I)

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The behaviour of the Black Panther is being documented. (They)

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All the research on the animal has been done through camera traps.  (They)

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Madegowda is employed by The Bison.  (The Bison)

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The surroundings were reminding me.  (I)

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Raju was amazed at my solitary visits to Umbarzara. (My solitary)

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I found a bright red soil trail. (A)

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Older leopards like Pardus carry away livestock from villages. (Livestock)

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I have lost almost 80 percent of a season’s yield of sugarcane. (80 percent)

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Tracking an animal also teaches you life lessons.   (Life lessons)

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Many things have been taught to me by the forests.  (The forests)

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Resentment among locals towards the animals is created by this. (This)

Both the partners have signed this agreement in haste.         ...(Identify the correct ‘Passive Voice’ form of the above sentence from the alternatives given below)

Read the following extract and extend it by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words :

So the good Duke and his followers helped him to bring Adam to their hidingplace, and Orlando and the old man were fed and taken care of When the Duke learned that Orlando was a son of his old friend Sir Rowland de Boys, he welcomed him gladly to his forest court.

Orlando lived happily with the Duke and his friends, but he had not forgotten the lovely Rosalind. She was always in his thoughts and every day he wrote poetry about her, pinning it on the trees in the forest. 'These trees shall be my books', he said, 'so that everyone who looks in the forest will be able to read how sweet and good Rosalind is.' Rosalind and Celia found some of these poems pinned on the trees. At first they were puzzled, wondering who could have written them; but one day Celia came in from a walk with the news that she had seen Orlando sleeping under a tree.

Read the following extract and extend it by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words

Eventually I made my way to England where I was sponsored by a Jewish charity,
put up in a hostel with other boys who had survived the Holocaust and trained in electronics.
Then I came to America, where my brother Sam had already moved. I served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and returned to New York City after two years. By August 1957, I'd opened my own electronics repair shop. I was starting to settle in.
One day my friend Sid who I knew from England called me. " I've got a date. She's got a Polish friend. Let's double date."
A blind date? Nah that wasn't for me.
But Sid kept pestering me and a few days later we headed up to the Bronx to pick up his date and her friend Roma.