SECTION C
8. Fill in the blanks with ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’:
(a) Arunima Sinha is the first Indian amputee to climb Mt. Everest.
(b) They sell oil at 60/- a litre.
(c) He lives in a small house.
(d) Rohith is an I.A.S officer.
(e) The Himalayas are in the North of India.
(f) The Hindus read the Gita.
9. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions:
(a) Bhanu goes to school by bus.
(b) Let us meet at the restaurant at 7.00 p.m.
(c) The trees here are beautiful in summer.
(d) I prefer to travel by train.
(e) Look up the word in a dictionary.
(f) Prabhakar is on leave this week.
10. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verbs given in the brackets:
(a) In two days, I will know my result.
(b) The sun rises in the east.
(c) I was busy painting last night.
(d) Look! Andy is playing in the garden.
(e) The phone rang while I was having dinner.
11. Rewrite the sentences as directed in the brackets:
(a) Air coolers are repaired by Kiran. (Passive voice)
(b) Vasantha says that she has passed the exam. (Indirect Speech)
(c) No girl in the class is more beautiful than Asha. (Positive degree)
(d) He was too tired to walk. (Combine with "too...to")
(e) It is not very warm today, is it? (Add a question tag)
12. Rewrite the following sentences correcting the underlined part:
(a) The cow is a useful animal.
(b) Iron is a useful metal.
(c) This house belongs to my brother.
(d) She has been absent for three days.
(e) There is an institution for the blind in the city.
13. Use any THREE of the following phrasal verbs in your own sentences:
(a) break down - My car suddenly broke down on my way to work.
(b) go ahead - You can go ahead with the project if you feel ready.
(c) turn off - Please turn off the lights when you leave the room.
(You can create similar sentences for ’take off’ or ’look up’ or ’dropout’.)
14. Identify silent consonants in the following words:
(a) receipt - p is silent.
(b) laugh - gh is silent.
(c) tomb - b is silent.
(d) knight - k is silent.
(e) honest - h is silent.
(f) psychology - p is silent.
15. Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words:
(a) This house is like a palace. (Noun)
(b) Ravi runs quickly. (Adverb)
(c) Ouch! I hurt my leg. (Interjection)
(d) She was a journalist. (Noun)
(e) They sell old things there. (Adjective)
(f) Tigers are ferocious animals. (Adjective)
16. Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meanings/definitions in column ‘B’:
1. despair - (d) feeling that there is no hope
2. magistrate - (e) a judicial officer, judge
3. shatter - (a) to break suddenly into small pieces
4. corpse - (c) a dead body
5. penury - (f) the state of being very poor
6. resilience - (b) the ability to recover quickly from depression, illness, or misfortune
17. Create a pie-chart of Mr. Gowtham’s monthly expenditure:
For the pie chart, use percentages based on the expenditures given. The values will be:
- Rent: 25%
- Food: 15%
- Education: 15%
- Entertainment: 10%
- Household and other expenses: 20%
- Savings: 15%
(Create the pie chart with appropriate labels for each category.)
18. Read the following transcriptions and write any FIVE words in ordinary spellings:
a) /feIθ/ - faith
b) /sku:l/ - school
c) /’hju:mn/ - human
d) /’pi:pl/ - people
e) /frend/ - friend
(You can choose any from this list for additional words.)
19. Write the number of syllables for any six of the following words:
a) examination - 4 syllables
b) beautiful - 3 syllables
c) engine - 2 syllables
d) June - 1 syllable
e) possibility - 5 syllables
f) teacher - 2 syllables
(Optionally add any other words, like ’abroad’, etc.)
20. Complete the following dialogue:
Raghu: Can you pass me the hammer?
Prasad: It is beside you, in the tool box.
Raghu: I’m still holding the ladder, you know!
Prasad: All right, what else should I get?
Raghu: That’s it. Can you ask Mr. Suresh what we should do after this?
Prasad: Mr. Suresh isn’t at the site project right now. He’s having lunch now. But he said that we can lay
the bricks.
Raghu: Have you mixed the cement? Look! We still have a lot of cement slurry over there!
Prasad: All right then. Ouch! … I’m hurt! Let’s have our lunch first.
Feel free to ask if you need further assistance or explanations!
