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Question
What does he carry in his hand?
Options
A whistle
A torch
A lantern
A big stick
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Solution
A lantern
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e.g. All credit cards accepted.
We accept credit cards.
Meaning: The organization accepts credit cards from customers for all their transactions.
1. Domestic help required
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Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair...
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
Lustrous tokens of radiant lives,
For happy daughters and happy wives.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
What is referred to Rainbow-tinted circles of light ?
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Which wealth is referred to by the poet?
The village consisted of less than thirty houses, only one of them built with brick and cement. Painted a brilliant yellow and blue all over with gorgeous carvings of gods and gargoyles on its balustrade, it was known as the Big House. The other houses, distributed in four streets, were generally of bamboo thatch, straw, mud, and other unspecified material. Muni’s was the last house in the fourth street, beyond which stretched the fields. In his prosperous days Muni had owned a flock of forty sheep and goats and sallied forth every morning driving the flock to the highway a couple of miles away.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Describe the Big House.
What is an oasis? How is it useful for desert plants?
What items of food did Golu take before leaving his home for the Limpopo river?
Where did each of them find a home?
Ray was not a pawnbroker. Why then did he lend money to people in exchange for their old watches and clocks?
What did the specialist prescribe in addition to medicine?
Fans don’t talk, but it is possible to imagine that they do. What is it, then, that sounds like the fan’s chatter?
What was troubling the talking fan?
Say what you feel about homework. (The words and phrases in the boxes may help you.) Do you think it is useful, even though you may not like it? Form pairs, and speak to each other.
For example:
You may say, “I am not fond of homework.”
Your partner may reply, “But my sister helps me with my lessons at home, and that gives a boost to my marks.”
(not) be fond of
(not) take to
(not) develop a liking for
(not) appeal to
(not) be keen on
(not) have a taste for
- support
- assist
- with the aid of
- help
- be a boon
- give a boost to
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Where can we see beauty?
Talk to your partner and say whether the following statement is true or false.
Deserts are endless sand dunes.
In the short story, To Build a Fire, which "wild idea" came into the Man's head when all seemed lost?
Which of the following lines contains the same literary device as the one in 'I wandered lonely as a cloud,' from wordsworth's poem, 'Daffodils'?
What is the phrase 'The Century's corpse outleant' in the poem, The Darkling Thrush, a metaphor for?
Why does Shane Koyczan begin the poem, Beethoven, with the word “Listen”?
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason.
In Act III Scene iv of the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth dismissed the guests at the banquet without standing on any ceremony because ______.
