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Passage 1:
Asked if there were any plans to install a pedestrian crossing as already demanded by some
residents, the spokesman replied, ‘We have no such plans at present. However, we will be
monitoring the situation carefully, and if there seems to be a need for some from of
crossing, it will receive serious consideration, it should be pointed out, however, that such a
crossing as well as costing money, would interfere with traffic flow.’
The committee of the Beach Road Residents’ Association (BRRA) will hold and emergency
meeting tonight to discuss the situation.
(a) Indentify the text from which this passage is taken?
(b) How could the pedestrians avoid accidents in the situation described in the text?
(c) Why is the authority hesitant to install a pedestrian crossing?
(d) What does BRRA plan to do tonight?
ANSWERS
(A) This passage has been taken from the news paper article entitled Beach Road Traffic Nightmare
Residents Say ‘STOP!’
(B) Although spokesman of traffic Authorities refused to make any plan to solve the problem of building a
pedestrian crossing yet the situation would be considered carefully. If there would be a need for some form
of crossing its installation would receive due consideration. In this way the pedestrians could avoid
accidents by having installing a pedestrian crossing.
(C) According to the spokesman, the need for installing pedestrian crossing would be seriously considered
though it would cost a lot of money. Then they ignored the genuine grievances of the residents of area due
to financial difficulties. So they were hesitant because it would have costed them money as well as would
interfere with the traffic flow.
(D) The concerned Road Transport authorities promulgated new traffic arrangement in the Beach Road.
The residents of the area expressed their dissatisfaction with the new traffic condition of this area. Because
the new traffic arrangements of Beach Road was turned their life into a nightmare.
According to the contents of the article under study the committee of Beach Road Resident Association
(BRRA) has decided to hold an emergency meeting on the same night to propose their future action to have
their grievances met properly by the concerned authorities.
Passage 2:
What a libel that reputation is By nature they are gentle and inoffensive animals. They are
almost entirely vegetarian and spend their days eating leaves and juicy stems in the thick
forests of Africa. They live in family groups, each ruled by a big male who looks after and
protects his family with great care. They are, it is true, immensely strong and can rip apart
banana stems and tear off branches of trees as they need to do in order to feed. But their
strength is hardly ever used against other animals.
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(a) Identify the reading text from which the passage has been taken?
Answer
This passage has been taken from the unit-3 “Gentle Giants” written by David Attenborough a well renown
naturalist.
(b) What is the family system of gorillas?
Answer
According to the observation of the author gorillas are naturally gentle and inoffensive. They are mostly
found in the forest of Africa. They live in family groups that are ruled by a big strong giant male he looks
after all the females and the offspring with utmost care even at the cost of his life. The leader is very stout
physically strong and can tear off the branches of the trees. The gorillas do not use their strength against
other animals.
(c) What is the true nature of gorillas?
Answer
Most people believe gorillas are dangerous and aggressive. Their monstrous character has been viewed
when an American explorer published a book about him hunting gorillas in the African forests including a
drawing of a wounded gorilla ape standing above the body of the fallen hunter. In 1930, a film “King Kong”
was picturised in Hollywood in which horrible activities of a gigantic ape were shown terrorizing the entire
city of New York.
Besides this according to Attenborough gorillas are gentle and inoffensive. Further it is added that
documentary film makers of wild life have found the gorillas to be possessing gentle and affectionate
behavior with each other. They mainly eat vegetables, leaves and juicy stems. They love and protect their
families. They do not use their strength against other animals they do not attack unless they are attacked or
startled.
(d) For each of the following words/phrases find words from the passage with similar meaning :
1. False and malicious. Libel
2. Defend Protests
3. Fame. Reputation
4. One who eats no meat. Vegetarian
Passage 3:
The class numbering about 150 students was composed largely of young men from the
neighbouring towns. They were rude, boisterous and riotous beyond comparison. On several
occasions the residents of the neighborhood sent written protests to the college threatening
to have the college indicted as a nuisance if the disturbance did not cease.
(a) Identify the text from which the passage is taken?
Answer:
The extract the title of Unit-4 “The Door Swings Open” has been taken from the article “They Dared
to be Doctors” written by Mary St. J. Fancourt.
(b) What type of students did the college have?
Answer:
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An American woman Elizabeth Blackwell was determined to become a doctor. She applied in Geneva
Collage. Eventually she got the admission facing much opposition.
Elizabeth arrived at the college and shortly after words she was introduced by the dean to the students. At
that time there were 150 students in that college. The were all young men from the neighbouring towns. All
of them had a notorious reputation of being noisy in disciplined and disorderly in the college. They even did
not allow the professor to deliver their lectures who had bad reputation in the neighbor-hood.
(c) How did the residents react to the behaviour of the college students?
Answer
There were 150 young men students in the college. They were careless noisy and in disciplined. The
residents of neighbour-hood of Geneva Collage were tired of the nuisance and disturbances created by
these students. The residents of that area had protested many times about the attitude of the college
students. They also sent written protest to the college authorities they even threatened that if the students
of college do not stop their evil behaviour then they would have the college categorized as a public nuisance
before the government authorities and to have it closed.
(d) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage with similar meaning:
1. Noisy : Boisterous
2. Incomparable : Beyond comparison
3. Accused : Indicted
Passage 4:
That first day alone-and now I was really alone at last steadily declined in excitement and
vigour. As I tramped through the dust towards Wiltshire Downs a growing reluctance
weighed me down. Through the solitary morning and afternoon I found myself longing for
some opposition or rescue, for the sound of hurting footsteps coming after me and family
voices calling me back.
(a) Identify the text from which the passage is taken?
Answer
The passage has been taken from the lesson “London Road” an extract from the novel “As I walked
out one mid-summer morning” written by Laurie Lee .
(b) What did the narrator of the story feel when he became lonely?
Answer
The youth who was 19 years old and not fully matured was indeed and self contended person who had firm
believe that he would surely build good fortune by going to London. Thus alone travelled the brave son of
Adam when his village paradise was lost. He confidently trotted on London Road for the first day His
excitement and vigour gradually deteriorated .He tramped through this dust to words the treeless hills of
Wiltshire Downs.
(c) What did the desire from his family at his moment or loneliness?
Answer
Where he was leaving the village to make his future bright his mother standing at the bank raised in
farewell and blessing her hand.
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Now he was walking on foot through the treeless hills Wiltshire on dusty road. He was overwhelmed
by a strange type of feeling of home sickness he developed a secret desire that some one should come to
rescue him and force him to return to his home country and his sub-conscience heard the sound of hurrying
footsteps coming after him and voices of his two brother and mother calling him back.
(d) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage with similar meaning:
1. Unwillingness to do something : reluctance
2. An obstacle : opposition
3. Desiring some thing very much. : longed
Passage 5:
That image took root in the public imagination. In the 1930’s Hollywood built it into a
nightmare with the film king Kong in which a gigantic ape was captured and then eventually
terrorized New York.
What a libel that reputation is. By nature they are gentle and inoffensive animals.
They are almost entirely vegetarian and spend their days eating leaves and juicy stems in the
thick forests of Africa. They live in family groups, each ruled b a big male who looks after and
protects his family with great care. They are, it is true immensely strong and can rip apart
banana stems and tear off the branches of trees as they need to do in order to feed. But
their strength is hardly ever used against other animals.
(a) Identify the reading text from which this passage has been taken?
Answer
This passage has been taken from unit-3 “Gentle Giants written by David Attenborough a well
renown naturalist. .
(b) How did gorillas get a bad reputation and what is their true nature?
Answer
Most people believe gorillas are dangerous and aggressive their monstrous character had been viewed
when an American explorer published a book about hunting gorillas in the African forests including a
drawing of a wounded giant ape standing above the body of a fallen hunter. In 1930 a film “King Kong” was
picturised in Hollywood in which horrible activities of a gigantic ape were shown terrorizing the entire city
of New York.
Besides this according to Attenborough gorillas are gentle and inoffensive animals Further it is added that
documentary film makers of wild life have proved the gorillas to be possessing gentle and affectionate
behavior with each other. They mainly eat vegetables, leaves and juicy stems. They love and protect their
families. They do not use the strength against other animals. By nature they are gentle and inoffensive
animals.
(C) What is the family system of gorillas?
Answer
According to the observation of the author gorillas are naturally gentle and inoffensive they are mostly
found in the forest of Africa they live in family groups that are ruled by a big strong giant male he looks after
all the females and the offspring with utmost care even at the cost of his life. The leader is very stout
physically strong and can tear off the branches of the trees. The gorillas do not use their strength against
other animals.
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(f) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage with similar meaning:
1. A horrifying dream. : Nightmare
2. Causing no harm. : Inoffensive
3. False and malicious : Libel
Passage 6:
One morning, unexpectedly, a lady entered the lecture room with the dean; she was quite
small of stature, plainly dressed, appeared different and retiring but had a firm and
determined expression on her face. Her entry into the bedlam of confusion acted like magic
on every student. Each hurriedly sought his seat and the utmost silence prevailed. For the
first time a lecture was given without the slightest interruption, and every word could be
heard as distinctly as would be if there had been but single person in the room. The sudden
transformation of this class from a band of lawless desperadoes to gentlemen by the mere
presence of a lady, proved to be permanent in its effects.
(a) Identify the reading text from which this passage has been taken?
Answer
This is an extract from Unit-4 “The Door Swings open” from the article entitled “They Dared to be
Doctors” written by Mary St. J. Fan court.
(b) What changes in the behavior of the students took place at the entry of a lady?
Answer
A dramatic change occurred when Elizabeth Black well joined Geneva Collage. Her admission acted as a
magic. All the male students met a woman of short structure, plainly dressed with a differed retiring
appearance.
Each student hurriedly sought his seat and continued their studies under calm and quiet atmosphere the
lecture was given without slightest interruption, and the silence was so great that it was very easy to hear a
single word of what the dean said. It was plenty the effective inspiration of a lady student that they had
ceased disturbance and began to behave well in the class room
It is true that “Change is the law of life” which occurred in Geneva college.
(c) How long did this transformation last?
Answer
With the entry of a single woman in the Geneva College all the students were transformed into a group of
responsible and polite gentlemen this transformation lasted throughout her stay in the class.
(d) For each of the following words, find word / phrases from the passage with similar meaning:
Scene of uproar : Badlame
Fond of being alone : retiring
A group of reckless persons : band of lawless desperadoes
Passage 7:
The vagrants were those for whom capping had not worked properly. Their minds had
refused to accept the conditioning of the Tripods and in refusing had been broken. They
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wandered from place to place, never resting long, and were looked after but pitied and
disliked by normal capped men and women. Now, I found myself more interested in them,
particularly in the one who called himself Ozymandias, a big, red haired, red bearded man
who sang strange songs, and spoke lines of poetry, and mixed sense and nonsense when he
talked. Defying my parents. I invited him to come to the den which Jack and I had made just
outside the village.
(a) Identify the text from which the above passage has been taken?
Answer
This passage has been taken from a ficticous story “The Tripods” which is written by Jhon
Christopher.
(b) Who were the vagrants?
Answer
The vagrants were the ones for whom capping had not worked properly. Their minds had refused to
accept this in human domination of the Tripods. They wondered place to place wearing a false cap.
(c) What did ‘normal’ people feel about them?
Answer
Being brain washed the capped men and women thought themselves to be a normal and even
perfect and superiors to the vagrants. So they pitied and disliked them thinking them to be imperfect and
not having any settled life.
(d) Give a description of Ozymandias?
Answer
Ozymandias was a big red bearded man. He was a romantic man interested in poetry and singing
songs. He was not very intelligent and could not differentiate between sense and non-sense. In true sense
he posing as vagrant so that he could freely travel through the land without being challenged. He wore a
bogus cap to cheat the people.
(e) Explain the meaning of the following words:
Defying : Disobey
Wandered : Roomed aimlessly
Tripods : Footed creature
Passage 8:
In the 1930’s Hollywood built it into a nightmare with the film King Kong in which a gigantic
ape was captured and then eventually terrorized New York. What a libel that reputation is.
By nature they are gentle and inoffensive animals.
They are almost entirely vegetarian and spend their days eating leaves and juicy
stems in the thick forests of Africa. They live in family groups, each ruled by a big male who
looks after and protects his family with great care. They are, it is true immensely strong and
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can rip apart banana stems and tear off the branches of trees as they need to do in order to
feed. But their strength is hardly ever used against other animals.
(a) Write the title of the text from which the above passage has been taken?
Answer
This passage has been taken from the text titled “Gentle Giants” written by David Attenborough a well
renown naturalist.
(b) How did gorillas get a bad reputation?
Answer
Most people believe gorillas are dangerous and aggressive. Their monstrous character had been
viewed when an American explorer published a book about hunting gorillas in the forests of Africa including
a drawing of a wounded giant ape standing above the body of a fallen hunter. It lips were pulled back in a
fearsome roar bending a rifle with its bear hands in 1930’s a film “King Kong was pictured in Hollywood in
which horrible activities of a gigantic ape were shown terrorizing the entire city of New York. It is how
gorillas got a bad reputation.
(c) What is the writer’s own belief about gorillas?
Answer
According to author’ own belief gorillas by nature are gentle and inoffensive animals. In addition to
eat documentary film makers of wild life hove proved the gorillas to be possessing gentle and affectionate
behavior with each other. They mainly eat vegetables, leaves and juicy stems. They love and protect their
families. They do not use their strength against other animals.
(d) Explain the meaning of the following words:
1. Nightmare : A horrifying dream.
2. Inoffensive : Causing no harm
3. Vegetarian : Eating plants only.
