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6. The important purchasing areas include Dubai, the major Indian cities, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Tokyo. India, Incidentally, is the world's largest consumer of gold, but does
not produce much gold of its own. In fact, the ever-increasing domestic demand for the
precious yellow metal has fuelled a multimillion-dollar gold smuggling racket Major
manufacturing countries include Italy, the United States and Turkey
1. On the basis of your reading of the above passage fill in the following blanks with
appropriate words/phrases.
a Gold has retained its importance through ages because
b. Major manufacturing countries...
c. Gold has been considered The most effective means of raising cash because
d Gold smuggling racket has prospered in India because....
2. Answer the following questions:
1. How is gold useful in modern medicines?
2 How do communication satellites depend on gold?
3. Which country is the world's largest consumer of gold?
4. How does gold meet an investor's expectations?
3. Find the meaning of the word Time of difficulty/danger' as used in the passage (para3)
(1)
4. Find the opposite of the word "Conventional'as used in the passage (para 4)
5. Choose the word which is SIMILAR in meaning to the word given below as used in the
passage.
(1)
'Firmness or solidity
(a) Porous 6) hollow (C) stable (d) wobbly
6. Choose the phrase wnich is OPPOSITE in meaning to the phrase given below as used in
the passage
'Tide over
(a) Carry over (6) Stay in place (c) Keep going (d) Run on
2 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
A Bird came down the Wak-
He did not know I saw
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow raw,
And then, he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass -
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass -
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers,
And rowed him softer Home -
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.
Answer the following questions by choosing the right options.
(6)
What is the poem about?
a A normal occurrence in nature of a bird searching for its food and its interaction with a
human
b. A fight between a bird and a poet
C. A bird eating a beetle.
d. A bird teaching others how to eat a worm.
1. Why has the poet caled the grass convenient?
a. Because the bird could see the beetle in the grass.
6. Because grass is greener on the other side.
c Because it was easy for the bird to have dew from
d. Because the bird could see the worm in the grass.
fu. How do you explain the plashless' in the last line?
a. The poet tels us that the bird cannot swim.
6. Since the bird does not have oars it could not splash in the water.
c Since dew was on the grass the bird did not make a splash
d. The poet compares the flight of the bird as though it was a "swim in the air without
the accompanying splashes on water.
iv. Which of the following is a metaphor?
a. A bird came down the wak.
b. He stirred his Velvet Head.
c. He bit an angle-worm in halves.
d. And then hopped sideways to the wall
v They looked like frightened Beads - What figure of speech is found here?
vi. The word 'cautious' is used in reference to which character in the poem?
Vil Find antonyms for the following from the poem
(2)
a careless
b. courageous
He glanced with rapid eyes,
Thal hurried all abroad
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought
He stirred his Velvet Head. -​

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