HSC Commerce इयत्ता १२ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for English

‘ A friend in need is a friend indeed’. Does this hold good in all situations? Share your views with your class.

Adventures, expeditions, and explorations are always exciting. Especially when they are real and if it is the first of its kind, it is even more thrilling. The only question that comes to one’s mind is what makes one to take up such tasks that involve high risks. It is the spirit of formidable adventure and certain qualities which make them achieve such feats.

Tick the qualities that are required to achieve such a feat.

What did Hillary do with his wet boots?

Name an equipment and a tool carried by the climbers during their expedition.

Why did Hillary become clumsyfingered and slow-moving?

What did Hillary find in a tiny hollow?

When did Hillary feel a sense of freedom and well being?

What did Hillary mean by saying “We had had enough to do the job, but by no means too much”?

How did the mountaineers belay?

Why was the original zest fading away?

What did Edmund Hillary do to escape the large overhanging ice cornices?

What did Tenzing and Edmund Hillary gift to the Gods of lofty Summit? How did they do it?

What did the photograph portray?

The soft snow was difficult and dangerous. Why?

How did the firm snow at the higher regions fill them with hope?

Given below are some idiomatic expressions with their meanings. Understand the meaning.

Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.

The Sherpas are cheerful, gallant men, who______ tents, oxygen, food etc., for climbers during their ascent of the summit.

Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.

The team ______carefully so as to reach the summit successfully

Fill in the blank with the right idiom. Choose from the option.

When they had to climb through deep new snow the party sometimes had to______.