REGULAR 2006
Read the following passage
extracted from your text book and answer the questions that follow:
Asked if
there were any plans to install a pedestrian crossing as already demanded by
some residents, the spokesman replied, ‘We have no such plans at present.
However, we will be monitoring the situation carefully, and if there seems to
be a need for some from of crossing, it will receive serious consideration, it
should be pointed out, however, that such a crossing as well as costing money,
would interfere with traffic flow.’
The
committee of the Beach Road Residents’ Association (BRRA) will hold and
emergency meeting tonight to discuss the situation.
(a) Indentify the text from which this passage is taken?
(b) How could the pedestrians avoid accidents in the situation described in
the text?
(c) Why is the authority hesitant to install a pedestrian crossing?
(d) What does BRRA plan to do tonight?
ANSWERS
(A) This passage has been taken from the news paper article entitled Beach
Road Traffic Nightmare Residents Say ‘STOP!’
(B) Although spokesman of traffic
Authorities refused to make any plan to solve the problem of building a
pedestrian crossing yet the situation would be considered carefully. If there
would be a need for some form of crossing its installation would receive due
consideration. In this way the pedestrians could avoid accidents by having
installing a pedestrian crossing.
(C) According to the spokesman, the
need for installing pedestrian crossing would be seriously considered though it
would cost a lot of money. Then they ignored the genuine grievances of the
residents of area due to financial difficulties. So they were hesitant because
it would have costed them money as well as would interfere with the traffic
flow.
(D) The concerned Road Transport
authorities promulgated new traffic arrangement in the Beach
Road . The residents of the area expressed their
dissatisfaction with the new traffic condition of this area. Because the new
traffic arrangements of Beach Road
was turned their life into a nightmare.
According to the contents of the article under study the
committee of Beach Road Resident Association (BRRA) has decided to hold an
emergency meeting on the same night to propose their future action to have
their grievances met properly by the concerned authorities.
PRIVATE 2006
Read the
following passage from your text book and answer the question given below:
What a
libel that reputation is By nature they are gentle and inoffensive animals.
They are almost entirely vegetarian and spend their days eating leaves and
juicy stems in the thick forests of Africa . They live in
family groups, each ruled by a big male who looks after and protects his family
with great care. They are, it is true, immensely strong and can rip apart
banana stems and tear off branches of trees as they need to do in order to
feed. But their strength is hardly ever used against other animals.
(a) Identify the reading text from which the passage has been taken?
Answer
This
passage has been taken from the unit-3 “Gentle Giants” written by David
Attenborough a well renown naturalist.
(b)
What is the family system of gorillas?
Answer
According
to the observation of the author gorillas are naturally gentle and inoffensive.
They are mostly found in the forest of Africa . They live
in family groups that are ruled by a big strong giant male he looks after all
the females and the offspring with utmost care even at the cost of his life.
The leader is very stout physically strong and can tear off the branches of the
trees. The gorillas do not use their strength against other animals.
(c)
What is the true nature of gorillas?
Answer
Most people
believe gorillas are dangerous and aggressive. Their monstrous character has
been viewed when an American explorer published a book about him hunting
gorillas in the African forests including a drawing of a wounded gorilla ape
standing above the body of the fallen hunter. In 1930, a film “King Kong” was
picturised in Hollywood
in which horrible activities of a gigantic ape were shown terrorizing the
entire city of New York .
Besides
this according to Attenborough gorillas are gentle and inoffensive. Further it
is added that documentary film makers of wild life have found the gorillas to
be possessing gentle and affectionate behavior with each other. They mainly eat
vegetables, leaves and juicy stems. They love and protect their families. They
do not use their strength against other animals they do not attack unless they
are attacked or startled.
(d)
For each of the following words/phrases
find words from the passage with similar meaning :
1. False and malicious. Libel
2. Defend Protests
3. Fame. Reputation
4. One who eats no meat. Vegetarian
REGULAR 2007
Read the
following passage extracted from your text book and answers the questions that
follow:
The class numbering
about 150 students was composed largely of young men from the neighbouring
towns. They were rude, boisterous and riotous beyond comparison. On several
occasions the residents of the neighborhood sent written protests to the
college threatening to have the college indicted as a nuisance if the
disturbance did not cease.
(a) Identify the text from which the passage is taken?
Answer
The
extract the title of Unit-4 “The Door Swings Open” has been taken from the
article “They Dared to be Doctors” written by Mary St. J. Fancourt.
(b) What type of students did the college have?
Answer
An American
woman Elizabeth Blackwell was determined to become a doctor. She applied in
Geneva Collage. Eventually ( )
she got the admission facing much opposition.
(c) How did the residents react to the behaviour of the college students?
Answer
There were
150 young men students in the college. They were careless noisy and in
disciplined. The residents of neighbour-hood of Geneva Collage were tired of
the nuisance and disturbances created by these students. The residents of that
area had protested many times about the attitude of the college students. They
also sent written protest to the college authorities they even threatened that
if the students of college do not stop their evil behaviour then they would
have the college categorized as a public nuisance before the government
authorities and to have it closed.
(d) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage
with similar meaning:
1. Noisy : Boisterous
2. Incomparable : Beyond comparison
3. Accused :
Indicted
PRIVATE 2007
Read the
following passage extracted from your text book and answers the questions that
follow:
That first
day alone-and now I was really alone at last steadily declined in excitement
and vigour. As I tramped through the dust towards Wiltshire Downs a growing
reluctance weighed me down. Through the solitary morning and afternoon I found
myself longing for some opposition or rescue, for the sound of hurting
footsteps coming after me and family voices calling me back.
(a) Identify the text from which the passage is taken?
Answer
The
passage has been taken from the lesson “London Road” an extract from the
novel “As I walked out one mid-summer morning” written by Laurie Lee .
(b) What did the narrator of the story feel when he became lonely?
Answer
The
youth who was 19 years old and not fully matured was indeed and self contended person
who had firm believe that he would surely build good fortune by going to
London. Thus alone travelled the brave son of Adam when his village paradise
was lost. He confidently trotted on London Road
for the first day His excitement and vigour ( ) gradually deteriorated ( ) He tramped through this
dust to words the treeless hills of Wiltshire Downs.
(c) What did the desire from his family at his moment or loneliness?
Answer
Where he was leaving the village
to make his future bright his mother standing at the bank raised in farewell
and blessing her hand.
Now he was walking on foot through the treeless hills
Wiltshire on dusty road. He was overwhelmed ( ) by a strange type of
feeling of home sickness he developed a secret desire that some one should come
to rescue him and force him to return to his home country and his
sub-conscience ( ) heard
the sound of hurrying footsteps coming after him and voices of his two brother
and mother calling him back.
(d) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage
with similar meaning:
1. Unwillingness to
do something : reluctance
2. An obstacle : opposition
3. Desiring some
thing very much. : longed
REGULAR 2008
Read the
following passage extracted from your text book and answers the questions that
follow:
That image
took root in the public imagination. In the 1930’s Hollywood
built it into a nightmare with the film king Kong in which a gigantic ape was
captured and then eventually terrorized New York .
What a
libel that reputation is. By nature they are gentle and inoffensive animals.
They are
almost entirely vegetarian and spend their days eating leaves and juicy stems
in the thick forests of Africa . They live in family
groups, each ruled b a big male who looks after and protects his family with
great care. They are, it is true immensely strong and can rip apart banana stems
and tear off the branches of trees as they need to do in order to feed. But
their strength is hardly ever used against other animals.
(a) Identify the reading text from which this passage has been taken?
Answer
This
passage has been taken from unit-3 “Gentle Giants written by David Attenborough
a well renown naturalist. .
(b) How did gorillas get a bad reputation and what is their true nature?
Answer
Most people
believe gorillas are dangerous and aggressive their monstrous character had
been viewed when an American explorer published a book about hunting gorillas
in the African forests including a drawing of a wounded giant ape standing
above the body of a fallen hunter. In 1930 a film “King Kong” was picturised in
Hollywood in which horrible
activities of a gigantic ape were shown terrorizing the entire city of New
York .
Besides
this according to Attenborough gorillas are gentle and inoffensive animals
Further it is added that documentary film makers of wild life have proved the
gorillas to be possessing gentle and affectionate behavior with each other.
They mainly eat vegetables, leaves and juicy stems. They love and protect their
families. They do not use the strength against other animals. By nature they
are gentle and inoffensive animals.
(C) What is the family system of gorillas?
Answer
According
to the observation of the author gorillas are naturally gentle and inoffensive they
are mostly found in the forest of Africa they live in family groups that are
ruled by a big strong giant male he looks after all the females and the
offspring with utmost care even at the cost of his life. The leader is very
stout physically strong and can tear off the branches of the trees. The
gorillas do not use their strength against other animals.
(f) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage
with similar meaning:
1. A horrifying dream. : Nightmare
2. Causing no harm. : Inoffensive
3. False and malicious : Libel
PRIVATE 2008 and
2005
Read the
following passage extracted from your text book and answers the questions that
follow:
One
morning, unexpectedly, a lady entered the lecture room with the dean; she was
quite small of stature, plainly dressed, appeared different and retiring but
had a firm and determined expression on her face. Her entry into the bedlam of
confusion acted like magic on every student. Each hurriedly sought his seat and
the utmost silence prevailed. For the first time a lecture was given without
the slightest interruption, and every word could be heard as distinctly as
would be if there had been but single person in the room. The sudden
transformation of this class from a band of lawless desperadoes to gentlemen by
the mere presence of a lady, proved to be permanent in its effects.
(a) Identify the reading text from which this passage has been taken?
Answer
This
is an extract from Unit-4 “The Door Swings open” from the article entitled
“They Dared to be Doctors” written by Mary St. J. Fan court.
(b) What changes in the behavior of the students took place at the entry of
a lady?
Answer
A dramatic
change occurred when Elizabeth Black well joined Geneva Collage. Her admission
acted as a magic. All the male students met a woman of short structure, plainly
dressed with a deffered retiring appearance.
Each
student hurriedly sought his seat and continued their studies under calm and
quiet atmosphere the lecture was given without slightest interruption, and the
silence was so great that it was very easy to hear a single word of what the
dean said. It was plenty the effective inspiration of a lady student that they
had ceased disturbance and began to behave well in the class room
It is true
that “Change is the law of life” which occurred in Geneva
college.
(c) How long did this transformation last?
Answer
With the entry of a single
woman in the Geneva College
(d) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage
with similar meaning:
- Scene of uproar : Badlame
- Fond of being alone : retiring
- A group of reckless persons : band of lawless desperadoes
2009 REGULAR
Read the following passage
extracted from your text book and answers the question that follow:
The
vagrants were those for whom capping had not worked properly. Their minds had
refused to accept the conditioning of the Tripods and in refusing had been
broken. They wandered from place to place, never resting long, and were looked
after but pitied and disliked by normal capped men and women. Now, I found
myself more interested in them, particularly in the one who called himself
Ozymandias, a big, red haired, red bearded man who sang strange songs, and
spoke lines of poetry, and mixed sense and nonsense when he talked. Defying my
parents. I invited him to come to the den which Jack and I had made just
outside the village.
(a) Identify the text from which the above passage has been taken?
Answer
This
passage has been taken from a ficticous story “The Tripods” which is written by
Jhon Christopher.
(b) Who were the vagrants?
Answer
The
vagrants were the ones for whom capping had not worked properly. Their minds
had refused to accept this in human domination of the Tripods. They wondered
place to place wearing a false cap.
(c) What did ‘normal’ people feel about them?
Answer
Being
brain washed the capped men and women thought themselves to be a normal and
even perfect and superiors to the vagrants. So they pitied and disliked them
thinking them to be imperfect and not having any settled life.
(d) Give a description of Ozymandias?
Answer
Ozymandias
was a big red bearded man. He was a romantic man interested in poetry and
singing songs. He was not very intelligent and could not differentiate between sense
and non-sense. In true sense he posing as vagrant so that he could freely
travel through the land without being challenged. He wore a bogus cap to cheat
the people.
(e) Explain the meaning of the following words:
- Defying : Disobey
- Wandered : Roomed aimlessly
- Tripods : Footed creature
2009 PRIVATE
Read the following passage and answers the questions given
below:
In the 1930’s Hollywood
built it into a nightmare with the film King Kong in which a gigantic ape was
captured and then eventually terrorized New York .
What a libel that reputation is. By nature they are gentle and inoffensive
animals.
They
are almost entirely vegetarian and spend their days eating leaves and juicy
stems in the thick forests of Africa . They live in
family groups, each ruled by a big male who looks after and protects his family
with great care. They are, it is true immensely strong and can rip apart banana
stems and tear off the branches of trees as they need to do in order to feed.
But their strength is hardly ever used against other animals.
(a) Write the title of the text from which the above passage has been
taken?
Answer
This
passage has been taken from the text titled “Gentle Giants” written by David
Attenborough a well renown naturalist.
(b) How did gorillas get a bad reputation?
Answer
Most people believe gorillas are dangerous and
aggressive. Their monstrous character had been viewed when an American explorer
published a book about hunting gorillas in the forests of Africa
including a drawing of a wounded giant ape standing above the body of a fallen
hunter. It lips were pulled back in a fearsome roar bending a rifle with its
bear hands in 1930’s a film “King Kong was pictured in Hollywood in which
horrible activities of a gigantic ape were shown terrorizing the entire city of
New York. It is how gorillas got a bad reputation.
(c) What is the writer’s own belief about gorillas?
Answer
According to author’ own belief gorillas by nature
are gentle and inoffensive animals. In addition to eat documentary film makers
of wild life hove proved the gorillas to be possessing gentle and affectionate
behavior with each other. They mainly eat vegetables, leaves and juicy stems.
They love and protect their families. They do not use their strength against other
animals.
(d) Explain the meaning of the following words:
1.
Nightmare : A
horrifying dream.
2.
Inoffensive : Causing
no harm
3.
Vegetarian : Eating plants only.
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