Solution Set 9
Q.1:
(a) they explode like hydrogen bombs destroying everything
(b) will block the sunlight and destroy every living thing
(c) mankind lives in its shooting/strilcing range
(d) numerous craters on the surface of the earth
(e) remnants
(f) an asteroid impact which raised a global pall of dust
(g) comprehend
(h) destruction of a good part of modern civilization
Q.2:
(a) The traveller wanted to know how the people in the valley village were. He asked this question because he probably believed that the monk being a local person would be able to tell him.
(b) According to the traveller he was treated very badly by the people. They did not welcome him well. He was never made to feel a part of the village.
(c) The monk realised that the traveller had a negative attitude towards the people of the village. He had nothing good to say about the village. So the monk told him that the other village would be the same.
(d) The second traveller has a positive attitude. He says everything good about the same village about which the first traveller has nothing good to say.
1.2.
(a) (ii) (b) (i)
(c) (iv) (d) (iv)
Q.3 St. Tuka Ram School
Rohtak
May 6, 20xx
M/s Ma Durga Furniture Mart
Kirti Nagar, New Delhi
Subject: Order of school furniture
Sir
I am placing an order for the supply of the following items of furniture for the school. The items must conform to the specifications mentioned in your tender.
- Dual desks – 100
- Teachers’ chairs – 50
- Teachers’ tables – 40
- Science tables (for sec. laboratory) – 10
- 5. Steel chairs -20
- Benches- 40
- Sofa-sets-2
Please keep in view that the material used should be of high quality. All the wooden items should be in ‘Sagwan Wood’. The items should be delivered in the school within a month. We expect a reasonable discount. We will make a cash payment. The defective items will not be accepted at any cost.
Yours sincerely,
Surendra Nath
(Manager)
OR
High-Tech Device—Boon or Bane
The present-day high-tech gear is just part of growing up in a digital world. Nevertheless one cannot deny that all these gadgets have become a part and parcel of our daily lives. Besides we have become highly dependent on these devices. This is more so in the case of children. Their lives are completely ruled by these devices. These devices have many benefits. They have made our lives easier and more comfortable. They have made the world jump forward with a leap and built up a glittering modern world. They have also opened innumerable avenues for the growth of knowledge and have given a definite form to the wild imagination of man. They have indeed revolutionized every sphere of life. But on the other hand, the excessive interest of children in these gadgets has made parents concerned and worried. Children spend a great deal of time on these gadgets like video games, internet, cell phones, etc. The parents feel that excessive use of these gadgets will definitely lie destructive for the children. This could also cramp their academic and social development. If children are not checked. They would continue to waste time on these gadgets.
They will recline into their own high-tech shell. Thereupon it will become very difficult for parents to bring them out of this world. If these high-tech devices are used in moderation they can fulfil the purpose, for which they have been invented,
Q.4 GREEDY GOAT
There was once a goat which was greedy. She was very greedy because she wanted to eat everything she saw.
One day as she was walking along the road, she saw a sweet lying in the middle of the road. She recognized it as a sweet. She was at once tempted to have it. But she was scared too as the sweet was lying on the middle of the road. Also, there was no one to be seen around.
However, the goat could not overcome her greed. She pounced at the sweet. At that instant, suddenly a stone came whirling and hit her. Frightened she turned back her face when the `sweet’ hissed and exploded. The goat got frozen with fear. She became so panicky that she started running bleating loudly. It took a few minutes for her to calm down. She looked at the place where the sweet had been. The smoke had by now cleared away. Some boys were standing there laughing at the way they frightened the goat. All this was the mischief of the boys. They had lighted the atom bomb cracker and had kept it in the middle of the road. They had then been watching the bomb to explode and frighten any passerby, hiding behind an electric pole. Poor goat, she became a victim. But she heaved a sigh of relief as the bomb might have exploded within her mouth if she would have swallowed it.
Q.5:
(a) (ii) of
(b) (i) crept
(c)(iv) creaked
(d)(iii) pantry
Q.6
Incorrect Correct
(a) him them
(b) none no
(c) waiting wait
(d) grown grew
Q.7 :
(a)Exercise is the key to keep oneself fit.
(b)One can incorporate exercise into any activity.
(c)Exercise must be combined with a proper diet.
(d)Helen Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia.
Q.8 (a) Ausable was disturbed with his room’s balcony window.
(b) He complained of strangers entering through the window into his rooms.
(c) Ausable confused Max by framing a story about a balcony under his window. He told Max that it was being used by people for entering his room secretly.
(d) Ausable thought the plan when he encountered Max in his room. He showed a little surprise but he was not scared.
OR
(a) Maximum awards and medals have been bagged by them.
(b) They are full of valour and courage.
(c) General Cariappa was the first Coorgi to become the chief of the Indian army.
(d) Coorg regiment is the most decorated in the Indian army.
Q.9 a. Bholi was sent to school because the Tehsildar compelled Ramlal to send one of his daughters to school, so that it may prove a role model for other girls. She was a slow learner and stammered while speaking and all the children in the school made fun of her. But her teacher encouraged her and made all efforts to make her the most learned in her village. She was impressed by her soft and soothing voice. She felt comfortable and stopped stammering. Now she was full of confidence and learned all the syllabus taught by her teacher.
b. The children’s book transformed his life as he had to leave his kin and evacuate the entire planet. He had to go Alpha Centauri, a hundred million miles away to save his life.
c. A large freshwater fish abound in these waters. Kingfishers dive for their catch. Squirrels and langurs drop partially eaten fruit W enjoy the splash and ripple effect. Elephants enjoy bathing in the river.
d. When Maxwell opened the box, Mijbil in out and disappeared at high speed Own the aircraft. He caused a great hue and cry n the aircraft. There were sounds of shrieks across the flight.
e. On her return journey, Valli saw a dead cow lying in the middle of the road. It was lying sprawled in a pool of blood, legs spread out, and lifeless eyes staring a horrible scene. She felt sad and this made her lose all the enthusiasm.
f. Buddha asked Gotami to bring a handful of mustard seeds from a house where no one had died.
Q10. The dragon had big sharp teeth, and spikes on top of him and scales underneath but everyone laughed at him as he always cried for a safe cage whereas everyone boasted about their bravery. But when the pirate entered, all were scared and ran away and disappeared except Custard who faced him boldly, attacked him, hit him hard with his forceful tail and gobbled every bit of him. All of them later felt obliged to Custard for saving their lives.
OR
Chubukov was thinking that Lomov had come to borrow money from him but when he told him that he had come to propose to his daughter he was overjoyed and even shed a tear. He kissed and embraced Lomov. He told Lomov that he was hoping it for a long time. He also told Lomov that he loved him as his own son.
In fact, Chubukov, secretly wished Lomov to marry his dither as he knew that Lomov was a rich and prosperous farmer and his only daughter could lead a comfortable life with him. No wonder, he was overjoyed to know that Lomov was there to propose to his daughter.
Q11. Success is the fruit of failure. It never comes straight but through failure. This can be seen in the life of Richard Albright. Although he earned top grades in school, on everyday things he was just like every other kid. He faced many failures in his life but every failure strengthened his will to succeed. When he was in seventh grade he participated in County Science Fair with his slides of frog tissues. But he could not win a prize. This made him determined to win the prize and in his eighth grade, he again participated in the science fair with the experiment of viral disease in monarch caterpillars and won the prize. The very next Year he participated with his experiment of whether viceroy butterflies copy the monarch butterflies in order to save their life from the birds and this project won Albright, third prize in overall county science fair.
His experiment regarding gold spots of monarch liar which he built a device that showed. That the spots produced hormones necessary for the full development of butterflies won third prize in international science and engineering fair.
Next year his advanced experiments on the monarch pupa won him first place at the international science fair. Thus, for Richard Albright, we can say that success is failure turned inside out.
OR
Naturally, it was a fight between two secret agents belonging to two different organisations. The bone of contention was the all-important report concerning some new missiles. It was with Ausable, and Max wanted to take it away by the use of his gun. The report was so important that several men and women had risked their lives to get it. Someday that report might well have affected the course of history.
No doubt, Max had come prepared. When Ausable switched on the light, he found Max standing halfway across the room with a small automatic pistol in his hand. Ausable had to use his presence of mind and fertile brain to outwit Max. His cooking up of two stories related to the balcony below his window and the police were his masterstrokes. In his simple way, Ausable succeeds in convincing Max that both the stories were true. Actually, there was no balcony below his window. He wanted to unnerve Max by planting the false story that the loud knockings at the door were of the police. In desperation, Max jumped out of the window and Ausable got rid of his crafty rival forever.
