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The book written by Salim Ali is ‘Indian Birds’.

Wasteland is that land which is not used at present. It includes arid, rocky areas and sandy deserts. High rugged mountains and bad lands are included in it.

1. The children were kicking a big red ball and jumping with its movement.

2. The girls started screaming on seeing the brown ball.

3. The boys started shouting at the top of their voices on seeing the brown ball.

For the next ten days, Mitra was treated like a royal guest. Everyone brought something for him. They all caressed and played with him.

1. The children lifted Mitra from Reshma’s lap and put him in the water.

2. The bird slowly started swimming in the lake.

3. The children were happy to see their friend’s happiness.

This sentence was said by Reshma to Anju.

This sentence was said by the children to Reshma.

This sentence was said by the children to Reshma’s mother.

This sentence was said by the children to Reshma’s mother.

(b) follow to catch

This was said by the children to Reshma’s mother.

The incident of the duck, the children realized how lonely Reshma must have felt because no one played with her. But now they took Reshma with them every day to the park. They would bring her back safely. So Reshma never had a reason to feel lonely again.
Discuss with your friends and present your ideas in the class.

Reshma named the bird ‘Mitra’. She took a basket and put some grass into it. It was Mitra’s bed. She kept the basket with her at night.

Reshma and her mother put breadcrumbs, nuts, fruits and grains before the bird to feed it. Then her mother mixed boiled rice, milk and sugar and fed it with an ink-filler.

1. The new ball landed in Reshma’s lap.

2. When a boy touched the new ball, it flapped its wings and flew up.

3. The children waved at Reshma and continued with the game.

After reading the play Merchant of Venice, I felt that Shylock was a cruel and selfish character.

He trapped Antonio into signing an evil bond demanding a pound of flesh. He repeatedly refused offers from Bassanio and other merchants to show mercy on Antonio.

In the end when Portia won the argument, he behaved cunningly and asked for his money instead of demanding Antonio’s flesh.

1. Reshma’s mother was happy to see the broad smile on Reshma’s face.

2. Reshma would never be lonely again because the children had become her friends now.

1. The children promised Reshma’s mother that they would take her and bring her back safely in her wheelchair.

(C) He runs away from Murdsone's wine-bottling business.

Correct answer is (C) Cruel

Correct answer is (A) Emily

Correct option is (d) Allocation management

(B) John Keats

(A) Alexander Pope

'But beauty vanishes; beauty passes' is from An Epitaph.

A plot means ‘an evil or wicked plan’. A plot ’ also means an area in a garden or some place. The poet asks how a garden ‘plot’ (one meaning of the word) can be evil and dark (the other meaning of the word)

(a) Hope is a light, delicate: Hope is the thing with thing feathers. 

(b) Hope offers comfort to that perches in the your soul soul and sings. 

(c) Hope is not wordy: And sings the tune thought, it is more like a without words. feeling, an emotion 

(d) In the most difficult: Second stanza – And times, hope offers the sweetest… so many greatest comfort warm 

(e) Hope is not easily defeated: And never stops at all 

(f) Hope has given comfort: That kept so many to many people warm

(g) Hope lives on in very hard: Yet – never – in times, even when it gets extremity, It asked a nothing from you. crumb – of me.

We are trapped on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It is a desolate, uninhabited island. We are all alone on this island. There are thick forests around us and frightening pythons and other poisonous snakes are slithering around us. Nothing can be seen except the thick forests, marshy land and vast waters of the ocean.

To convey his message, Langston Hughes has used different literary elements. He has used the extended metaphor of the noncrystal stairs to show how hard it had been for her to go ahead in life with all the tacks and splinters on the stairs. He has used the American dialect, especially used by Black Americans. Examples are a-climbin’, reachin’, goin’ ain’t, cimbin’ etc. He has also used double negatives like “ain’t been no light”, “ain’t been no crystal stair” etc.

Set down to mean sit down, and Tse been’ to mean I have been, ‘it’s kinder’ to mean it is kind of etc. are typical Black American English. The poet has also used familiar words like tacks, splinters, torn up and bare to enhance the quality of the poem and to drive the message home. The speaker is a Black American lady and she is talking to her teenage son to go forward in life with courage and determination in spite of all the hardships he may face. She had done it and he too can do.

The children promised Reshma’s mother that they would take her and bring her back safely in her wheelchair.

Mitra learnt to catch fish again.

Reshma was fourteen years old. She could not walk or button her shirt up.

1. Reshma was sitting in the balcony and watching the children playing in the park.

2. The children did not mind the strong breeze or the yellow leaves of the neem tree falling on their heads.

3. The children were enjoying their ball game.

1. A spastic is a person who has no  control over his/her hands and legs from birth

2. Reshma was fourteen years old.

3. Reshma could sit in her wheelchair and watch the life outside from her s balcony.

1. Reshma prepared Mitra’s bed with grass.

2. When Reshma woke up, she found the basket empty.

3. Mitra was near the water tub in the bathroom.

1. Reshma’s mother mixed boiled rice, milk and sugar and fed the duck.

2. When the bird ate the food, his eyes brightened and he started fluttering his wings.

The bird was a duck. Its beak was broad like a shovel. It had bright blue, white and brown feathers.

My friend was in financial problem but I was not able to help him.

Yes, the school described in the ‘old book’ did exist centuries ago, but the educational institutions were of different kinds and their methods of teaching were different.

One reason could be that they had been very young when they were marooned on the island, and this was their life now. The second reason was that they probably did not want to leave their parents alone without support.

Unlike the mechanical teacher, the teacher in old times didn’t live in the house. They went to a special building called school to teach the children who also went there. The students learnt the same things if they were in the same age group or the same class.

The County Inspector smiled at Margie s and gave her an apple. Then he took the mechanical teacher apart. He found out that the geography sector was geared a little too quick. He slowed it up to an average ten-year level.

Margie was not doing well in her s geography test. She was doing worse and worse c in each test. Her mother was greatly upset with such performance of hers. So she sent for the County Inspector.

Yes, I would like to have my own mechanical teacher if it is affordable to my family. Though my school teachers are there to guide me in my school, this mechanical teacher will help me to have individual teaching and guidance. I can prepare well in all my subjects with the help provided by the mechanical teacher.

1. B. crinkly.

2. A. stood still

3. C. The pages of the book had the same words on them when they were opened again.

4. D. All of these three

Once Tommy’s mechanical teacher had blanked out completely. To set it right, it had to be taken away for nearly a month.

1. D. Both ‘B’ and ‘C’

2. D. All of these three

3. B. in her studyroom.

4. B. quite pleasant.

1. When the children came, Reshma was feeding breakfast to the duck.

2. The children had come to Reshma’s house to see the bird.

3. The children greeted Reshma with fresh smiles.

1. After the children became friendly with Reshma, they realized that she must have felt bad because they did not play with her.

2. The children wanted to make Mitra strong so that he should be able to fly.