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Saturday, 19 March 2022

Reading for Comprehension

March 2022 Board Exam
Std 12 English
Section 1 Prose 
Q 1 A 
At a corner of sixth revenue....................... walked down the street.

Al. True/False :

(2)

Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements and rewrite them.

(a) Soapy broke the glass of the shop window.

(b) Nobody heard the breaking of the glass window. 

(c) The policeman chased Soapy.

(d) Soapy did not run away from the place.

Ans : (a) Soapy broke the glass of the shop window. True

(b) Nobody heard the breaking of the glass window. False

Correct Statement: A police man and some people came running hearing the breaking of the glass window.

(c) The policeman chased Soapy. False
Correct Statement: The police man chased another man who was running to catch a car. 

(d) Soapy did not run away from the place. True

A2. Rearrange:

Rearrange the following statements in order of their occurrence in the extract. 

(a) The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.

(b) Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass.

(c) "Now, get busy and call a cop," said Soapy.

(d) Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along twice unsuccessful.

Ans : (A) Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass. 
(B) The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.
(C) Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along twice unsuccessful.
(D) "Now, get busy and call a cop," said Soapy.



A3. Guess : Read the following sentences and write down what it means.

(a) "Don't you think that I might have had something to do with it ?"

(b) He told the waiter the fact that the minutest coin and himself were total strangers.

(a) Soapy indicates that he should be arrested for breaking the glass. Police should consider him culprit. 
(b) After consuming eatables , Soapy had not seen any coin since long. He was unable to pay the bill. 

A4. Personal response:

(2)

Suppose you are a manager of a hotel, a poor boy has taken dinner in the hotel and then he found, he has not enough money to pay the bill. Describe how you will react in the situation.

(2)

AS. Language study:

(i) On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant

of no great pretensions.

(ii) Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police. (Make the above sentences simple)

A6. Vocabulary:

Match the following words in column 'A' with their meanings in column 'B'.

Column 'A'               Column 'B'

(a) gibberish.                      (i) magic

(b) enchantment.              (ii) meaningless speech

(c) arrest.                           (iii) threw

(d) pitched.                        (iv) nab


Ans : (a) gibberish -          (ii) meaningless speech
           (b) enchantment -      (i) magic
           (c) arrest.      -               (iv) nab
           (d) pitched.    -             (iii) threw








B1. Grammar /Language Study (Non-Textual Grammar) — Do as directed: (3)

(i) We can accept our life gracefully. (Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing 'compulsion')
Ans : (i) We must accept our life gracefully.

(ii) As I entered the post office, the Post Master presented me with a telegram.

(Begin the sentence with "No sooner........)
No sooner did I enter the post office than the Post Master presented me with a telegram.

(iii) The mother looks after her child. (Make it a rhetorical question)
Ans : Doesn't the mother looks after her child?


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