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Read the passage given below careful'. GRAN[)FATHER'S POND

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I had never realized them was much to be found in the rain water pond behind our house except for lia.rge! quantities of mud and sometimes a water buffalo. lfwas !;;Jrandfatherwho introduced me to the pond's variety of life. To show his 'pond world' grandfather one day told me to sit under the shade of an old peepul tree with him near the pond. For the first ten minutes we saw nothing. Then a small black mass of shining shadow could be seen. We touched this mass with the end of a stick and' it soon became alive. / Thousands of !:ttle black tadpoles / wriqqled into life, pushing and hustling each other. Soon another black blob /' J' appeared i:1 the middle of the pond. / This time it was a frog's head, its great. / eyes staring hard at us. He did net know if W6WE!re friends or enemies and kept his body out of sight. After all a bird called a heron his enemy mighl be waiting to make him into a tasty. meal. When he made sure we were not herons he informed his friends and , neighbours and soon there Vlere. several big heads and eyes above the ' water's surface.' The air was soon' filled with the sound of wurk, wurk, ;fi. wurk.

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"Their croaking would certainly drive graj:'~;.l~)ther crazy," I said. All the sarne I took home a number of frogs in ~'~:::t a whole dozen and placed them in a large glass jar and leftil ui~~:nthe window sill in my bedroom. At five in the rnorninq the entire he: "::et"lold was woken by a' lanJe andfeartulnoise. My grandpa_rents, aucs and servants gathered
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on the verandah. They were furious when they discovered that my frogs were the c:aUSE~ of the noise. SE~eingthat dawn was breaking the frogs had in one voice begun croaking their morning song. Grandmother . . wanted to throw the frogs, bottle and all, including me out of the window. It was grandfather who got peace by giving the jar a good shaking and the fro:g::;stayed quiet. VVhile everybody went 'back to bed I was obliged to stay awake and shake the bottle whenever the frogs showed signs of demonstrating their singing ability and breaking into a song.

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1.

Complete the filJrlloVling sentence,

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What did the writer do with about a dozen frogs from the pend? . 1

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What was the

. awakened at five in the mornfng?

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Find words in the passage which mean the same as the foUc.wing. 1
a) . b) a roundish mass or shape found 'especially (para 2)' ) .. extremely angry
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6.

Give the deqrees of adjective for the following word

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takerifrom thle passage, .

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III.

Do ~(IOUsometimes think of all the wonderful things that you would like to do someday';' Here is a.poem about just that. Read it carefully. OIVlE DAY

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Somnday, I'll buy a rocket And zoom to outer space, I'll visit Venus, Jupiter and Mars. I'll make stopovers at every planet I see To check If I can find new undiscovered stars. Someday I'll dive to the bottom of the sea, To hunt for mermaids with long green tails On my way down, I'll swim with dolphins, And listen for sin9ing humpback whales

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Someday. I'll fly one hundred kites Up into the blue sky, all at once! ' As they flutter and leap and dance, I'll make them perform, the most incredible stunts! Someday I'll own a thousand pets} For I'll adopt every creatu ra , who rolls a friendly eye at me: Gosh! As you read all these things On my wonderful list, Can't you see What fun some day is going to be

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Sanf'hini Govindiim 1. Give'n below is a tsummary of; the' poem. Com,plete the summary by fiUing tnothe blanks with asujtablewol~d taken " from thepc;>em: ,,' ,\ " ,'," , .3
People all over th~world,'~~re generally in thefJ~bit of making, lists " of Clrd,fr,tary everycfay matters. I too do so on~~';i~ ~awhile, though in

different

manner.

For instance I plan one day to go 'out into

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and visit planets and find stars which are as yet

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. ThE:! bottom, of the sea would be a good place to

to and hunt for mermaids. The -

of the hump back whales would be good to' iisten to also. One day I also plan to send up _ kites into the sky. I'll also ,fill _

up my house with pets which I will _,_\

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There Is one error or mistake each of the sentences given below under Section Aand they do not match the information in the poem. Corrlec'tthe error and rewrite the sentences in the epaee gmvenunder Sectic)n B. \ 2

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IPh:l(out the elmllar !!i~:>unding word from the line given below and w,ito it down alculg with its different spellinq too. 1 I,And listen for singing humpback whales'

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GU'v,e a blrief account of somethlnq you would really like to do in your 'someday list' and why? 2

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:2. S0l1a!1 and Monal are discussing plans 'for a surprise birthday party for their mother. Both however can't agree on the type of cake to order. Sanall prefers a chocolate one while Monal prefers a Black lFore!st cake, VVrite the conversation both of them have in the speech bubbles given below. 4 (Nota.- Please ensure each speech bubble does not contain only one word or sentences.
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ThE~rE! is one error or mistake in each 'of the sentences below.

and write the correct word in -the blank 3

Underline the error

alonqslde using its adverb 'form. a)

As a tour operator my father has to travel extensive all over the world, ---,--,---The traveller walked weary along the dusty road.

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The rich man boastful spoke about all the money he had.

Read about Mici<y, the tiny mouse and complete the 2. paragraph by filling in the blanks with the correct prepositions taken from the brackets. .

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door. Micky ran and found another hole' near Sometimes he is joined by Mini Mouse

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(after/along) to play with him. If Tom the cat sees them ever (before / in front) of him he runs after them,
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:3.CompletEt the sentences wlth simple past or past continuous tense e.f the verb giVE!" in the bracket. 2 a) . We ___ . ourselves in the park when suddenly dark clouds . in the sky.(enjoy, appear) I was in a rocket.

b) Last night I had a dream. I (imaqlne, fly)

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few things. How is the weather in November?

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U9t. me know so that I

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Why did the white elephant decide to live in a distant cave

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3.

In whiat manner were Daddy and Mother Dickens very unlike each other?

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the lines given questions which follow?

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'Here . is a child wno clambers and scrambles , All by himsett gathering brambles" a)

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VVhat excuse did Daddy Dickens give for not doing the work.

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