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Smith asked Watson if he was coming from Holmes’. He also asked him how Holmes was.

1. (d) in Ms. Gervis’ apartment

2. (d) She is confused

3. (c) The windows have not been used in months

4. (d) nothing

5. (d) “And the robber certainly did not use the front door.”

6. (d) She gives them away

7. (a) Ms. Gervis will start baking cakes again

8. Yes, I do.

I like detective stories. Lena Tamilvanan and Rajesh Kumar are good detective story writers. The novels written by them are gripping and sustain the readers interest till the last page.

She said that rural life could be rough, but it was free from anxiety. Villagers might never grow rich, but they always had enough to eat. But the other woman boasted of the town life.

The charges were the murder of Victor and the attempted murder of Sherlock.

’ Review of the most interesting book I read The noodle Maker by Ma Jian The pace of change in China over the last fifteen years has been extraordinarily fast; the pace at which its literature reaches us in translation shamefully slow. Chine dissident writer Ma Jian is already known in the English-speaking world for his award-winning travel memoir of rural China in the 1980s, Red Dust. Since the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong in 1997, he has been living with his partner and translator in London.

The Noodle Maker, the first of Jian’s novels to appear in English, is set soon after the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989, already ancient history to today’s young entrepreneurs, artists, and university students. Reading The Noodle Maker now has some of the blurred effects of a timelapsed photograph- -it is a hard-hitting satire of a cultural moment that has already come and gone. Only a reviewer intimate with today’s China could judge to what extent its critique is still sharp. Perhaps this question of timeliness should be irrelevant.

The Noodle Maker is fiction, after all, constructed with a good deal of artfulness on the frame of a drunken evening shared between a professional writer and his best friend, a professional blood donor. The professional blood donor considers himself a practical man; he boasts of the excellent pay and perks he receives as rewards for being bled for the benefit of the nation.

Each Sunday he brings good food and drinks to the writer, who is, of course, a poverty-stricken idealist. Their discussion is interwoven with the stories the professional writer is crafting based on people he has known: an actress who stages her own suicide; her boyfriend, a painter with a talking three-legged dog

(the novel’s most reliable narrator); a literary editor humiliated by the success of his wife, an acclaimed novelist; a father trying to abandon his retarded daughter; an entrepreneur whose success with a musically-enhanced crematorium gives him the confidence to bum his own mother alive. Each of these characters is manipulated not only by the noodle-making hands of the professional writer, but by a ruthless society, which with its new “Open Door Policy” has imported some superficial commercial elements of Westemness, yet still maintains a stranglehold on personal freedom.

(“Imported” products as symbols of moral weakness, hypocrisy, and corruption are a satiric mantra throughout the book.) Fans of the absurdity and dark humour of Milan Kundera’s portraits of life behind the Iron Curtain will appreciate these same elements in Ma Jian’s workthough Kundera is a good deal lighter on his feet, and the clever and humorous aspects of The Noodle Makerstruck this reviewer as heavyhanded.

As fiction that comments on social and political reality, The Noodle Maker is far less emotionally engaging than Yu Hua’s Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, which tells the life of another professional blood donor, and is a characterdriven social realist novel in the old nineteenthcentury Dickensian mode, though written in a crisp contemporary style.

It tells us about China, but something convincing about people, too. For all its postmodern strands, the heart of The Noodle Maker (like all satire?) is in a kind of journalism, so that ultimately its success depends on whether or not it still tells a timely truth.

Watson goes to Mr. Culverton Smith at 13 Lower Burke Street. He finds it difficult to see his friend dying. Although Smith refuses to see anyone, Watson forces his way in. As soon as Watson explains his errand, Smith’s attitude changes drastically. He persuades him to see Holmes as he is in a dying state. Smith agrees to come to Baker Street within half an hour.

 Watson excuses himself, saying that he has another appointment and returns to Baker Street before Smith’s arrival as instructed by Holmes. Believing that they are alone, Smith is frank with Holmes. Holmes tells Smith that he will forget the happenings of Victor Savage and pleads with him to cure him. Smith denies and tells Holmes that he should have never crossed his path. Smith sees the little ivory box, which he had sent to Holmes by post containing a sharp spring infected with the illness.

Smith pockets it thinking to have removed the only evidence of his crime. He then resolves to stay there and watch Holmes die. However, Holmes asks Smith to turn the gas up full, which Smith does. Inspector Morton enters and Holmes tells Morton to arrest Culverton Smith for the murder of his nephew and also for the attempted murder of Sherlock Holmes.

‘You cannot escape from a detective’s eye.’

The two women discussed about town life and village life. Both of them were sisters. The elder one spoke in praise of town life. The younger one praised country life.

Inspector Morton arrested Smith. The charges against Smith were the murder of Victor and the attempted murder of Sherlock Holmes.

Correct answer is False

Dr. Watson is called to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare tropical disease, Tarpaunli fever, contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Mrs. Hudson says that Holmes has neither eaten nor taken any liquids in the last three days. Holmes forbids Watson to go near him because the illness is highly infectious. In fact, he refutes Watson and insults his abilities. Although Watson wishes to examine Holmes himself or send for a specialist, Holmes demands that Watson wait several hours before seeking help.

While Watson waits, he examines several objects in Holmes’s room. Holmes is angered when Watson touches things on his table stating his dislike for people fidgeting his things. At six o’clock, Holmes asks Watson to turn the gaslight on, but only halffull. He then instructs Watson to bring Mr. Culverton Smith from 13 Lower Burke Street to see Holmes but to make sure that Watson returns to Baker Street before Smith arrives. Watson goes to Smith’s address. Although Smith refuses to see anyone, Watson forces his way in.

Once Watson explains his duty on behalf of Sherlock Holmes, Smith’s assertiveness changes significantly. Smith agrees to come to Baker Street within half an hour. Watson excuses himself, saying that he has another appointment, and returns to Baker Street before Smith’s arrival. Believing that they are alone, Smith is frank with Holmes. It soon appears, to the hiding Watson’s horror, that Holmes has been sickened by the same illness that killed Smith’s nephew Victor.

At the end, Holmes calls for Watson to come out from behind the screen, to present himself as another witness to the conversation. Holmes explains his illness was feigned as a trick to induce Smith to confess to his nephew’s murder. Starving himself for three days and claiming to be suffering from a deadly infectious disease was to keep Watson from examining him and discovering the ruse, since, as he clarifies, he has every respect for his friend’s medical skills.

‘A detective’s perspective traps the criminal.’

Mr. Culverton Smith is the man who has the knowledge of the disease, Holmes was suffering from. He is a planter. He lives in Sumatra, now visiting London.

A school is a place where we get to know about different activities for the first time. Participating in these activities is always memorable and exciting. My favourite school event is “Mental Maths Competition”. This event is held once a year. One student is selected from each section of a class. Then they are teamed up with other students to form three teams.

This competition is basically to enhance mental skills. Students have to answer these questions in a time span of seconds. Questions are not repeated at all and students have to be very quick in understanding the questions, in calculations and then answering it. Last year I was also selected as one of the finalists. Our team A and team C reached the final rounds. The winning round lasted for thirty questions as both teams were not ready to give up. In the end, team C couldn’t answer a question and we answered it to win the event.

We were highly appreciated and were given certificates and shields. Winning is always exciting and encouraging. I would always like to participate in this event again because this event helps me in enhancing my mental skills and to speed up my mental calculations.

Review of Super Deluxe Movie I saw Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe opens with a shot of Vaembu (Samantha) lying beside someone on a bed. The camera slowly moves around the room, pulling you in the direction it travels. Soon you realise that it’s not the camera, but the director Thiagarajan Kumararaja who has lured you into his world.

And this world has eccentric characters like Arputham (Mysskin), who believes that he is god’s right hand because he was the only one who survived the Tsunami when millions died. Kumararaja doesn’t stop there. His thoughts are out-of-the- world (literally), outlandish, and outstanding.

There are 4 parallel plots taking place at the same time, involving the lives of Shilpa (Vijay Sethupathi), Leela (Ramya Krishnan) and Arputham (Mysskin), Vaembu (Samantha) and Mugil (Fahadh Faasil), and another one involving four boys. The best part about the writing is that these plotlines don’t merge at one poi

One sub-plot becomes an influencing factor in another, but after that, they part ways. The way the events unfold is interesting and makes the movie more engrossing. The trademark qualities NalanKumarasamy and Mysskin’s writing is seen at a lot of places. A lot of humourous portions belong to Nalan’s ‘crazy’ world. Who else can write a scene where a man dies while having sex? On the other hand, towards the end, there a sequence involving Mysskin, set in a subway, with green lighting.

What more do we need to figure out that this has been written by Mysskin himself? PS Vinod and Nirav Shah’s visuals have an everlasting effect on us. The wise usage of ffamewithin-frame shots through doors, windows, and alleys creates a sense of being trapped, and this has been used for all major characters. The wise usage of vintage tracks of Ilayaraja falls on point

Yuvan Shankar Raja makes sure we feel the heat and soul of the scenes through his brilliant background scores and apt silences. The walls on all the houses and a police station, “the make-shift flower pot on one of the apartments, the borders of sarees, the costumes of the characters, are all blue in colour. While this is supposed to create a stable feel, the characters are all unstable. This irony has been effectively used to elevate our cinematic experience. Vaembu and Mugil’s story become melodramatic after a point of time

And the biggest issue with the film is that they have the maximum screentime. Even the way their conflict gets resolved looks implausible. But, the way the terrific FahadhFaasil and Samantha act, these issues are covered up. Shilpa’s characterization brings out the best in Vijay Sethupathi, but not Vijay Sethupathi. Apart from the main leads, BhagavathiPerumal and Master Aswanth, have done their job well and scored in their plot points. On the flipside, the second half could have been a bit more crisp, due to the three hours runtime.

Correct option is (iii) Smith

(d) a sharp spring.

Holmes’ pretended illness was all a trap laid for Mr. Smith. In order to look ill, he did not eat for three days. He also applied a little make-up on his face. He also talked deliriously.

Holmes pleaded with Smith to cure him of his disease.

Watson was a doctor by profession

(ii) an ivory box

Holmes didn’t let Watson examine him by telling that he was suffering from a deadly and contagious disease. In fact Holmes was acting as if he was a sick person. If Watson examined him, he would know that Holmes was not ill.

Watson found a small black and white ivory box with sliding lid, on the mantelpiece.

Holmes starved for three days without food and water to look really sick.

(a) come to Holmes’ house

Correct answer is True

1. (b) floating

2. (d) obey

3. (d) health

4. (a) safe

5. (b) retreating

6. (b) well- informed

7. (a) dissuade

8. (c) strong

9. (a) reassured

10. (d) superficially

11. (d) appear

12. (c) ordered

13. (b) unsuccessful

14. (d) unnatural

15. (b) noise

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Holmes’ show of rudeness was a dramatic necessity. It was necessary to make Watson believe that Holmes was really critically ill and at the point of death.

Dr. Watson was stopped by the butler who appeared at the doorway to Smith’s room.

1. (b) deteriorating

2. (c) dim

3. (d) lean

4. (a) closed

5. (d) infectious

6. (d) jerked

7. (b) uninformed

8. (d) sweet

9. (b) depression

10. (b) urge

11. (d) incoherent

12. (b) weak

13. (b) alarmed

14. (a) feigning

15. (c) bring

16. (b) begged

17. (c) indictment

18. (a) actually

19. (c) heal

20. (b) whined

Watson felt horrified when he heard of Holmes illness because he had hot heard about it before.

From some Chinese sailors.

(i) Chinese sailors

According to Smith, Holmes got the disease from the spring in the ivory box, that drew blood.

Holmes’ eyes had the brightness of fever. There was red flush on his cheeks. His thin hands were twitching all the time.

Mrs. Hudson was the landlady of Sherlock Holmes. She was worried because Holmes was very sick.

Holmes warned Watson against touching his things because he disliked others touching his things and the box was an important evidence. Watson sat down silently.

Correct option is (c) 6 o’clock

Correct answer is Dr Watson

He was asked to stay in there till 6 o’clock.

Holmes got the illness from some Chinese sailors. He got it when he was working on a case at a place near a river. But as we know, it was all a made-up story.

Gillian told the lawyers falsely that he had lost the thousand dollars on the races. Thus he lost his right to the other five thousand dollars. But he was not at all sorry for it. Rather he was happy that the money would go to the lady he loved so much.

Miss Lotta was an actress. She did not welcome Gillian’s coming. She was not happy with Gillian’s offer. She wanted a much costlier pendant.

Gillian accepted the suggestion to give a diamond pendant to Miss Lotta. He phoned for a cab, and asked the driver to take him to the Columbine Theatre.

The others who got the money were the butler, the housekeeper and Miss Hayden who was the ward of Robert’s uncle. Each of them got ten dollars.

The lawyer asked Bobby to spend the one thousand dollars and then give an account of how he had spent it. Only then the full contents of the will could be shown to him.

He had written that if Robert had spent the money wisely, he would get another five thousand dollars. Or else, this amount would go to Miss Hayden.

He wrote that he had paid one thousand dollars to the best and dearest woman on earth. He added that it would give him eternal happiness.

Gillian next talked to a blind man, who was selling pencils. He wanted to know from him what he would do if he had a thousand dollars.

Bobby Gillian was the only heir of his uncle’s property. This property was worth half a million dollars. But Bobby got only one thousand out of it. Naturally, he was not happy.