Language-I — Summer 2022

Answer the following questions: 1) What do ‘the roads’ stand for in the poem? 2) What does ‘her’ in line “No time to wait till her mouth can” suggest? 3) How does Tagore describe ‘heaven of freedom’? 4) Why is the air in grandmother’s house described as frozen? 5) In the poem “The Road Not Taken”, who is the traveler? Why he feels sorry?

Answer the following questions:05 1) Where did Baldeo’s family live? Why did Baldeo consider himself lucky to have got the job of Khalasi? 2) What difference the writer see in mother’s nature, and in his grandmother’s?

Do you agree that our earth will be hotter in 2050 based on the text “a warmer earth or a colder earth”. Justify your answer.

Do as directed: 1) What does the poet mean by the phrase ‘stand and stare’? Pick out the correct answer. ‘stand and stare’means …….. i. Looking at the things unblinkingly. ii. Looking at beauties of nature and enjoying it. iii. Lost in thought looking at nothing. 2) “To lie behind my bedroom door like a brooding dog” means that ….. i. The memories will always remain with the poet. ii. The memories will lie uncared in a corner. iii. The memories are as unimportant as a dog. 3) What does the poet man by “where knowledge is free”? 4) In the poem ‘Leisure’ the line “till her mouth can enrich that smileher eyes began” means: (Tick the correctanswer.) i. a rich woman smiles with hereyes ii. eyes and mouth smiletogether iii. Beauty’s smile begins from the eyes and spreads to herlips. 5) What drove the scorpion inside the house?

How did Gavsakar’s family members help him to become a good cricketer?

From the text “A Case of Suspension”, was the doctor right in turning Evans out in the cold? Justify your answer

What message does the author of text “Father, dear father” want to convey? What, according to you, is more important wisdom or knowledge? What should education do for us?

1) Give three reasons why Tembu was not afraid of anything? 2) Who according to Aradhana’s grandmother should tell her truth? How did she learn the truth?

Draw a pen picture of Madan in the text “Big Brother”.

Look at words and phrases given below. Rearrange it to form meaningful sentences. i. That/all/and/difference/made/has ii. Aradhana/an embarrassed/around/her/ threw/ glance iii. his/it was/that/the lamp/was/duty/to see/burning iv. Make it/together/ world/ abetter v. look/ hear/I/ forward/ soon/ you/to.

Write question tags for the following sentences: 1. He is an honest person. 2. They have been to the museum last year. 3. This question is not very easy. 4. Rakhesh and Mahesh are playing under the tree. 5. The pen is not on the table.

Read the following passage and answer the question. Change is essential but continuity is also necessary. The future has to be built on the foundations laid in the past and in the present. To deny the past and break with it completely is to uproot ourselves and sapless, dry up. It was the virtue of Gandhiji to keep his feet firmly planted in the rich traditions of our race and our soil and, at the same time, to function on the revolutionary plane. Above all, he laid stress on truth and peaceful means. Thus he built on old foundations, and at the same time, oriented the structure towards the future. Living is a continual adjustment to changing conditions. The rapidity of technological change in the last half-century has made the necessity of social change greater than ever, and there is a continual maladjustment. The advance of science and technology makes it definitely possible to solve most of the economic problems of the world and, in particular, to provide the primary necessities of life to everyone all over the world. The methods adopted will have to depend upon the background and cultural development of a country or a community. -Aspeech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Describe in about five sentences Nehru’s talk on necessity of change, its impact in various areas and its role in development.

Desk Design Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad requires a person for the post of computer operator. The candidate should have minimum one year experience is good command in data entry and basic skills required for the post. Draft a job application based upon job advertisement published in newspaper.

Do as directed: 1. He has done his work in time. (Chang the voice) 2. You should visit that city once. (Chang the voice) 3. We did not go out. It was raining. (Join the sentence using ‘because’) 4. Your English is very fluent. Iwish Icould speak ___ you. (as/like) 5. They went to Rahul’s house that day. (Make interrogative using ‘when’)

Write a letter to the ABC Computers, Bharuch asking for price, features, offers for the latest version in laptops of well-known brands available.

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