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(All exercises by Hakikat Rai Sharma)
- Read the passage and answer the questions given below it.
Questions
1.
Which Prize has Malala Yousafzai won?
2.
What has she reiterated?
3.
To which country does she originally belong?
Complete
the sentences correctly.
4.
People should have unity………………....
5.
She will stay in Pakistan…………………..
6.
Swat valley is……………….
7.
Write antonym of ‘defend’ (Para 5)
8.
Find synonym of ‘praise’ (Para
2)
Answers
1. Nobel Peace Prize.
2. That she will continue to campaign
for the education of girls.
3. Pakistan.
4. on issues such as education and
healthcare.
5. for 4 days.
6. a former Taliban stronghold.
7. Attack.
8. Appreciate.
- Read the Passage and answer the questions given below it.
Questions
1.
Why are the investigations going on?
2.
Which body ordered two retests?
3.
Which classes were affected by this leak?
4.
How many students took the exam of Economics?
5.
How many arrests have been made so far?
6.
When were the question papers leaked?
7.
Find the word which is antonym of ‘disappear’. (Para 1)
8.
Find the synonym of the word confessing. (Para 2)
Answers
1. The investigations are going on in an exam paper leak.
1. The investigations are going on in an exam paper leak.
2.
The CBSE ordered two retests.
3.
The classes X and XII were affected by this leak.
4.
50,0000 students took the exam of Economics.
5.
Noone has been arrested so far?
6.
They were leaked in advance.
7. Emerge.
8. Admitting.
Read the
passage and answer the question given below it briefly.
Questions
1. In which country is Seoul?
2. What has been called a ‘hostile act`?
3. Why have sanctions been expanded?
4. Name the country which helps North Korea.
5. What does DPRK stand for?
6. What is KCNA?
7. What is North Korea trying to build up?
8. Name the purpose of this act.
(A) Find words similar in meaning for the following
words/phrases from the passage.
(B) a country that has agreed to support another one (para2)
(C) a check (para3)
(D) a series of events that will lead to a particular outcome
(para4)
Answers
1. Seoul is in South Korea.
2. Expansion of sanctions against North Korea has been
called a hostile act.
3. They have been expanded for repeated missile tests.
4. China is the country which helps North Korea.
5. DPRK stands for Democratic People`s Republic of Korea.
6. It is an official news agency of North Korea.
7. It is trying to build up nuclear forces.
8. Its purpose is to defend the sovereignty of the country.
A. sanctions
B. ally
C. curb
D. road
“I HAD A DOVE, AND THE SWEET DOVE DIED”
John Keats
I had a dove, and the sweet dove died,
And I have thought it died of grieving;
O what could it grieve for? Its feet were
tied
With a silken thread of my own hand’s
weaving:
Sweet little red feet! Why would you die?
Why would you leave me, sweet bird, why?
You liv’d alone on the forest tree,
Why, pretty thing, could you not live with
me?
I kiss’d you oft, and gave you white pease;
Why not live sweetly as in the green trees?
Read the poem given above and answer the questions given
below:
1. Who
had a dove?
2. How
was the dove?
3. What
does a dove symbolize ?
4. Who
was kissed?
5. What
is ‘pretty thing’?
6. Name
two acts of the poet which show his love for the dove.
7. What
was the cause of the dove’s death?
8. Is
the poet’s love for it real? Why/why not?
Answers
1.
The poet/ John Keats had a dove.
2.
The dove was sweet.
3.
A dove symbolizes ‘peace’.
4.
The dove was kissed.
5.
The pretty thing is the dove/the person whom the
poet loved.
6.
(1) He kissed it often.
(2)
He gave it white peas.
7.
The loss of freedom was the cause.
8. His love for the dove is
selfish. He did not care for its likes/freedom/wishes.
Jawaharlal
Nehru, gave the following speech as India's first Prime Minister to the Constituent
Assembly in New Delhi at midnight on August 14, 1947. Though this speech is
full of ideals and embellishments to inspire a nation, about to make a new beginning,
it is historic and can be recognized as the first voice of Independent India.
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Read the speech given below and answer the
questions.
"Tryst
with Destiny"
1. 'Awake
to freedom' "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time
comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very
substantially.
2. At the stroke of midnight
hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes which comes
but rarely in history, when we
step out from the old to the new, then an age ends, and when the soul of a
nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn
moment we take the pledge of dedication to India and her people and to the
still larger cause of humanity.
3. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again.
4. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
5. Freedom and power bring responsibility. That responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now.
3. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again.
4. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
5. Freedom and power bring responsibility. That responsibility rests upon this assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now.
Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.
6. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we might fulfill the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
7. And so we have to labor and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagines that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
8. To the people of India whose representatives we are, we make appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell."
Questions:
1. Who is ‘we’?
2. What comes rarerly in
history?
3. What is India’s past filled
with?
4. What does the speaker want
the Indians to do? (para 4)
5. Explain ‘those pains’ (para
5)
6. What accompanies power and
freedom?
7. When can the work be over?
8. Which adventure does the
speaker talk about? (last para)
9. Find the words from the
speech of which meanings are given below
(a) a serious promise (para 1)
(b) a person’s inner character
( para 2)
(c) a long search for something
( para 3)
(d) great victories (para 4)
10. Find words opposite in
meaning to those given below.
(a) Dependent (para 5)
(b) intermittent (para 6)
(c) solitary (para 7)
(d) to depart (para 8)
Answers
Note:
Write answers is complete sentences.
1. the Indians
2. a time for a country to become
free after centuries of slavery/dependence
3. Successes and failures
4. to be courageous and intelligent enough to
make the fullest use of the chance/oppurtunity to do their best
5. Pains may be injustice, torture,
atrocities, killings, usurping etc by the Britishers
6. Responsibility/
accountability/ duty
7. When all the people of
India get rid of their sorrows and lead a life of respect/joy
8. To rebuild India and provide justice to all
9. (A) pledge
(B)
soul
(C) quest
(D)
triamphs
10.
(A) sovereign
(B) Incessant
(C)
together
(D)
dwell
All
correct answers other than these ones must also be accepted.
Read the passage and answer the questions.
Lord Ram was the crown prince of Ayodhya. His father was king Dashrath and
mother was Queen Kaushalya.
Circumtances forced his father to order him to spend fourteen years in exile.
He wanted to go alone but Luxman, his younger brother and wife Sita accompanied
Rama. They lived in forest. One day when Rama and Luxman were away from their
cottage, Rawana, the demon king of Lanka, kidnapped Sita.
Rama and his brother were sorrow –stricken. They searched
for her. Hanuman, a monkey god, helped them tremendously. He tried to persuade
Rawana to release her but the latter did not agree. Lord Rama, an incarnation
of Vishnu, attacked Rawana and freed his wife. Rawana was killed in the battle.
His victory shows that good always wins and evil is always defeated. Therefore
we should adopt good things.
Questions
1.
Who was Lord Rama?
2.
What was his father?
3.
Where did he want to go alone?
4.
What happened to Sita one day?
5.
Why did Rama attack Rawana?
6.
Complete following sentences(2 marks)
(a) Rawana was………………………… .
(b) …………… is always defeated.
7.
Find opposite of following words from the
passage
8.
(a) Never
(b) Near
Answers
1.
the crown
prince of Ayodhya
2.
king of Ayodhya
3.
to exile
4.
She was kidnapped by Rawana.
5.
Because Rawana did not set Sita free.
6.
a. king of Lanka
b.Evil
7. a. always
b. away
The Solitary Reaper
by William Wordsworth
Behold her, single in the
field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever
chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what
she sings?--
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er
the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
Read the poem given above and answer the questions by
ticking the correct choice given below every question.
1. Who is ‘her’ in the first line?
(a) the poetess
(b) the bird
(c) the reaper
(d) the listener
2. ‘lass’ means
(a) reader
(b) critic
(c) passerby
(d) girl
3. Which bird sings in spring time?
(a) nightingale
(b) cuckoo
(c) peacock
(d) dove
4. The Poet says, “Will no one tell me
what she sings?” because
(a) he is a Britisher.
(b) he does not know the singer’s
language.
(c) he is eager to get an answer.
(d) he asks it without any purpose.
5. Who listens to the nightingale’s song?
(a) the poet
(b) the reaper
(c) the poet’s companions
(d) tired travellers
6. What the poet imagines in the third stanza is
(a) his future life
(b) reaper’s name
(c) a danger
(d) what the song might be about
7. What touches the heart of the poet is
(a) Beauty of song
(b) Theme of song
(c) Natural beauty
(d) girl’s appearance
8. ‘A voice so thrilling ne’er was
heard’
Which figure of speech does this line have?
(a) personification
(b) metaphor
(c) hyperbole
(d) simile
Answers
1.
(d) the reaper
2.
(d) girl
3.
(b) cuckoo
4.
(b) he does not know the singer’s language
5.
(d) tired traverllers
6.
(d) what the song might be about
7.
(a) beauty of song
8.
(c) hyperbole
Question: Read the passage given below and answer the questions.
Experts: Look Elsewhere To Explain Outbreak
In Delhi,
which has about 40 lakh households, mosqui to control workers carried out a
staggering 2.9 crore home visits this year checking for breeding of dengue or
chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes, according to data put out by Delhi's three
municipal corporations. That works out to an astonishing eight visits for
each household till September.
The corporations' data also shows that this year
mosquito larva breeding was found in about 1.2 lakh households. As a share of
the total number of visits made, this is a puny 0.4% or about one in 250.
If this data is accurate, it raises the question
whether this whole strategy of fighting dengue and chikungunya focused on
in-house breeding is valid and workable.The ongoing outbreak of these two
diseases means mosquitoes of the Aedes species have bred in large
numbers.Where were these mosquitoes breeding?
If the figures are valid each and every household was under constant supervision. It is possible that between two consecutive visits to any house, mosquitoes could have laid eggs, developed to adulthood and flown away it takes just six days for this cycle at an optimum temperature of 32 degrees Celsius, according to Gautam Aditya, a vector expert from Calcutta University.
(From ‘The Times of India’ of 20th
September, 2016)
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1.
i.
Who paid 2.9 crore visits?
ii.
What was their purpose?
iii.
What did 1.2 households have for the workers?
iv.
Which two diseases are referred to?
v.
Which figures does the author talk about?
vi.
What is Aditya’s profession?
2.
Find words from the passage which have the same
meaning as those given below.
a.
astonishing (para 1)
b.
small (para 2)
c.
families (para 2)
d.
a biting insect (para 4)
ANSWERS
1.
i.
mosquito control workers
ii.
to check for breeding of dengue and chikungunya
carrying mosquitoes
iii.
mosquito larva
iv.
Dengue and chikungunya
v.
Figures of finding mosquito larva in households
vi.
a vector expert
2.
a.
staggering
b.
puny
c.
households
d.
vector
