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प्रश्न
Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.
challenge
उत्तर
Challenge: A call to take part in a contest or competition.
Vikram accepted the challenge of his teacher and won a prize in the annual day celebrations.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer the following with reference to the story.
“Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
- Who does ‘they’ refer to?
- What does ‘regular’ mean here?
- What is it contrasted with?
Answer these question in a few words or a couple of sentence.
When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Tick the right answer.
When something is considered auspicious, (welcome it/avoid it).
Tick the right answer.
When you replicate something, you do it (for the first time/for the second time).
Take down the following scrambled version of a story, that your teacher will dictate to
you, with appropriate punctuation marks. Then, read the scrambled story carefully and try to rewrite it rearranging the incidents. A grasshopper, who was very hungry, saw her and said, “When did you get the corn? I am dying of hunger.” She wanted to dry them. It was a cold winter’s day, and an ant was bringing out some grains of corn from her home. She had gathered the corn in summer. “I was singing all day,” answered the grasshopper.
“If you sang all summer,” said the ant, “you can dance all winter.”
“What were you doing?” asked the ant again.
The grasshopper replied, “I was too busy.”
“I collected it in summer,” said the ant. “What were you doing in summer? Why did you not store some corn?”
Study the words in italics in the sentences below. They are formed by prefixing un – or in – to their antonyms (words opposite in meaning).
• I was a short boy with rather undistinguished looks. (un + distinguished)
• My austere father used to avoid all inessential comforts.(in + essential)
• The area was completely unaffected by the war.(un + affected)
• He should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal intolerance. (in + equality, in+ tolerance)
Now form the opposites of the words below by prefixing un- or in-. The prefix in- can also have the forms il-, ir-, or im- (for example: illiterate –il + literate, impractical –im + practical, irrational – ir+ rational). You may consult a dictionary if you wish.
| _____adequate | _____acceptable | _____regular | _____tolerant |
| ____demanding | ____active | _____true | _____permanent |
| ____patriotic | ____disputed | ____accessible | _____coherent |
| _____logical | _____legal | _____responsible | _____possible |
Why does grandfather take Toto to Saharanpur and how? Why does the ticket collector insist on calling Toto a dog?
Discuss the following topic in groups.
The second bear did not attack the lady because he was afraid of her. Do you agree?
Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each of the following statements.
(i) Timothy and Grandfather went to Lucknow in a special compartment.
(ii) The compartment in which Grandfather and Timothy travelled had no other passenger.
(iii) Timothy and Grandfather travelled in a first-class compartment.
(vi) All passengers in the compartment thought that Timothy was a well-fed and civilized tiger.
Answer the following questions:
(i) What did Toto do to entertain Timothy?
(ii) What did he do when Timothy lost his temper?
How did the king and the hermit help the wounded man?
Why was Gopal barred entry to the palace? How did Gopal manage to get in? What was the king’s reaction to Gopal’s deed?
According to Charlie, what lives the longest.
What happens to our body when we sleep?
How did Vijay Singh feel when he was told to go to the Haunted Deserts?
Why does the snake kill insects?
Why did the speaker find the old banyan tree exclusively his own?
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:
In Act III, Scene II of the play, The Tempest, Stephano threatens to tie Trinculo to the next tree because ______.
What is the central idea of the poem, John Brown?
When Cassius says, ‘My life is run his compass’, he means that ______.
