HSC Arts Class 11 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

Complete the passage by filling the blanks with the passive forms of the verbs.

The water should be boiled in a vessel. Then tea leaves and milk ______to the water. The vessel ______ with a lid. The tea ______ and ______ into the cups. Sugar ______and ______ well.The tea ______ hot.

Here is a recipe to make a chocolate cake in a pressure cooker. Rewrite the instructions in the passive voice. The first one has been done for you.

Method

1. First sift the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
2. Add butter, sugar, salt, water, and vanilla and beat the ingredients using a whisk.
3. Add the eggs and beat the batter until it is smooth
4. Transfer the batter into the baking tin.
5. Heat the pressure cooker, covered with the lid, but without the pressure, for 3-4 minutes on high heat. Then place the cake tin in the empty cooker (Do not add water in the cooker).
6. Close the lid (without the pressure), lower the flame, and cook for about 30 minutes.

Write the process of wrapping a Christmas gift in a paragraph in passive form, with the help of the pictures given below.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

Rekha and her sisters (watch, watches) television everyday.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

Ravi (do€esn’t, don’t) like sports.

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My classmates (study, studies) before a test.

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One of the cookies (is, are) missing.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

A lady with ten cats (live, lives) in that big house.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

Measles (is, are) very serious.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

The committee (decide, decides) when to adjourn.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

Our team (is, are) the best.

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Everybody (enjoy, enjoys) a good song.

Underline the correct verb in these sentence.

Either of these (is, are) suitable.

Correct the following passage.

Where does the deer and the antelope play? One place is Yellowstone National Park. It were created in 1872. Parts of the park is in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. The park are a safe place for many animals. Bears, moose, buffalo, deer and antelope lives there. Beavers, otters, fish and eagles also enjoys the park. For them, Yellowstone be ‘home sweet home.

Do you go for leisurely walks? If you are a city-dweller, what or who would you expect to see on your way?

If you go to a village, what scenes would you observe?

Find words from the poem that convey the following ideas:

1. connected together
2. spread over the surface of the ground in a straggling manner 
3. make out or understand
4. slender woody shoots growing from branches or stems of trees

Complete the summary of the poem by filling in the blanks with the words given below.

The poet, in a relaxed state of mind, is sitting in a (1) ______. He reflects on how his mood brings (2) ______thoughts, which are inevitably followed by (3)______ones. He feels connected to all of nature, and senses an inherent joy in all (4)______. He has faith in the fact that all the primroses and periwinkles around him (5)______ the air they breathe. He feels that every bird in the grove moves with (6)______. As the twigs catch the breezy air, they do so with the same pleasure (7)______ all life on earth. This joy of nature seems to be heaven-sent. Nature’s holy plan is to offer joy and peace to all forms of life on earth. The poet’s pleasant train of thought slowly leads to the sad reflection of how mankind alone has wrought sorrow and (8)______ upon itself. He firmly believes that man is meant to spend his days blissfully taking part in the vitality and joy surrounding him in (9)______. He therefore concludes rhetorically, emphasizing that he has good reason to (10)______ the distress, man unnecessarily brings upon himself.

Read the lines given below and answer the question that follow.

And ‘tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes…

1. What is the poet’s faith?
2. What trait of Nature do we see here?

Read the lines given below and answer the question that follow.

And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there…

1. What did the poet notice about the twigs?
2. What was the poet’s thought about then?