English: Choose the appropriate synonyms for the italicised words. 1. It is a 55 foot sailing vessel built indigenously in India. (a) artificially (b) beautifully (c) naturally (d) badly
2. The young bird kept calling her mother plaintively. (a) sadly (b) happily (c) vainly (d) joyfully
3. No one visits me, he said in an unperturbed manner. (a) disturbed (b) undisturbed (c) confused (d) undivided
Choose the appropriate antonyms for the italicised words. 4. Scraping his beak now and again to whet it. (a) blunt (b) harden (c) brighten (d) smoothen
5. Nothing he said, gruffly, but he was, in colour, a light green. (a) unhappily (b) happily (c) sadly (d) worriedly
6. The disabled face challenges of access, acceptance and inclusion. (a) induction (b) intuition (c) exclusion (d) extension
7. Choose the correct plural form of ‘radius’. (a) radio (b) radii (c) radious (d) radie
8. Form a derivative by adding the right prefix to the word ‘nutrition’. (a) fall (b) fell (c) mal (d) call
9. Choose the correct expansion of the abbreviation ‘HDMI’. (a) Hide Dimension Metro India (b) High Dimension Media Institute (c) High Definition Multimedia Interface (d) High Definition Medieval India
10. Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate phrasal verb given below. Priya felt happy to __________ the neighbours in the new locality of California. (a) get along with (b) get on (c) get away (d) get together
11. Choose the suitable option to pair it with the word ‘traffic’ to form a compound word. (a) bus (b) car (c) jam (d) post
12. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate preposition given below. I reached M. Hamel’s garden, all out __________ breath. (a) on (b) of (c) by (d) with
13. Complete the following sentence using the most appropriate tense form of the verb given below. I had such a shock when the dying man bolted the door and __________ it. (a) locked (b) lock (c) had locked (d) have locked
14. Choose the most appropriate linker from the given four alternatives. We are on our way to Kolkata __________ Chennai. (a) by (b) from (c) of (d) with
Answer any three of the following questions in a sentence or two: 15. What prompted the young seagull to fly finally ? 16. Mention the special features of INSV Tarini. 17. What did Aditya offer Sanyal ? 18. What was the doctor’s warning to Tom ?
Read the following sets of poetic lines and answer any three of the following. 19. Let us learn to walk with a smile and a song, No matter if things do sometimes go wrong,
(a) What does the poet expect everyone to learn ? (b) What should we do when things go wrong sometimes ?
20. It never grows leaves, Not in the winter, spring, summer or fall. It just sits there never getting small or ever growing tall.
(a) What does ‘it’ refer to ? (b) In what way is the tree a mystery ?
21. “Not I! My heart was so light That I sang day and night, For all nature looked gay”.
(a) Who does “I” refer to ? (b) What was the nature of the cricket ?
22. Rumors are constantly being made, And each day the house just begins to fade. What happened inside that house ?
(a) Does the house remain the same everyday ? (b) Why does the poet consider the house to be a mystery?
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