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प्रश्न
From other sources find synonyms of the following words used in the story.
strong (city)
उत्तर
strong (city) - well guarded
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Explain the use of the adjective in the following phrase:
Rickety table
Look at these sentences.
- Most snakes are quite harmless, but a few are poisonous.
- Most snakes lay eggs, but the rattlesnake gives birth to its young.
Now write five sentences like these using ‘most’ and the clues below.
1. (90% of) people are honest (10%) are dishonest.
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2. (Lots of) fruit have plenty of sugar, (some) citrus fruit are low in sugar.
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3. (Every soft drink except this one) has lots of ‘empty calories’.
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4. (The majority of) films are romances, (a few) are on other topics.
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5. (A majority of) people agree that he is a good leader, (just a few) disagree.
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Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Priya asked when are we going on a vacation ____
Fill in the blank
I play tennis ______ cricket.
Fill in the blanks using a, an and the.
______camel is the ship of ______ desert.
Read the extract from Kayal’s diary entry regarding her Nepal Trek, and fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in brackets.
DAY 1 We ______(leave) Anna International Airport in Chennai two days ago catching a direct flight to Kathmandu in Nepal. We ______(spend) a day sightseeing. Kathmandu is full of people, rickshaws and the smell of sandalwood. I’ve never ______(be) on a trip like this before. So I’m really excited.
DAY 2 It ______(rain) when we reached Pokhara, Nepal’s second largest city, and saw the snowy peaks of the Himalayas for the first time. We ______(reach) Pokhara after a hairraising six-hour bus journey along very narrow roads with a lot of hairpin bends. The bus ______(be) so full that one person had to share the driver’s seat.
DAY 3 We _______________ (begin) our trek at last. We are at about 900 metres and the weather is warm and humid. For lunch we had chips and yak cheese sandwiches. I didn’t like them very much. I’m thrilled that we ______(pitch) tents for our camps in the dense forests.
DAY 4 Yesterday a landslide ______(block) our path and we had to use ropes to get over it. This morning we walked along the river Kali Gandaki through dense forests of oak trees and we pitched our camp at Tukuche below the Annapurna mountain range. The main danger in addition to landslides, is ‘yak attack’. Yaks ______(be) not dangerous but you have to be careful if you meet a herd of them because they can push you off the sides of the mountain.
DAY 5 We met a lot of children on our trek through the villages. They ______(play) in the pool of muddy rain water as we left the place. We have already climbed 2,400 metres. Up here, it never ______(rain) and there are no trees. It ______ (be) windy and dusty and I am always thirsty.
DAY 6 Yesterday we ______(go) up to the mountainside of the township of Mukthinath, at 3,600 metres. The thin air with less oxygen there ______(leave) us breathless. We ______(feel) that we couldn’t go any further. We ______(drink) a lot of extra fluids to prevent altitude sickness.
DAY 7 We turned around today and started to descend to Jomosom. As we went down, the oxygen-filled our blood again and we seemed to ______ (fly) instead of walking.
DAY 8 We went back to Pokhara in a small plane yesterday. It was exciting when we _____(fly) between the mountain peaks. We arrived in Kathmandu this afternoon and we ______(spend) our last few hours in shopping. We leave for Chennai tomorrow. We’ve had a trip of a lifetime.
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with appropriate preposition.
The nearest hospital ______this place is ______a distance of twenty kilometers. You can reach it either ______car or ______a bicycle.
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.
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Ingredients
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Method
- First sift the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
- Add butter, sugar, salt, water, and vanilla and beat the ingredients using a whisk.
- Add the eggs and beat the batter until it is smooth
- Transfer the batter into the baking tin.
- 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).
- Close the lid (without the pressure), lower the flame, and cook for about 30 minutes.
Complete the sentence with the correct tense form of the verb in bracket.
At the moment I (think) about what course to pursue next year but I ( not make) a final decision yet.
Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.
During my student life I used to give ______ trouble to my teachers.
