1. Boy said peggy this show she really likes. (punctuation)
2. What's the matter asked Peggy.(punctuation)
3. She has written a letter to me. ( voice)
4. Let me see your picture. (voice)
5. tears blurred her eyes and she gazed for a long time at the picture. (complex)
6. The teacher showed the class a letter she had received that morning. (simple)
7. She rubbed her eyes and studied it intently. (complex)
8. After a long long time she reached an important conclusion. (compound)
9. The teacher showed the class a letter that she had received that morning. (compound)
10. I never thought she had sense to know we were making fun of her anyway. (affirmative)
11. There was no sign of life about the house. (affirmative)
12. Maddie set up in bed and pressed her forehead tight in her hands. (negative)
Answers
Question 1.
While the class was circling the room, the monitor from the principal’s office brought Miss Mason a note. Miss Mason read it several times and studied it thoughtfully for a while. Then she clapped her hands. ‘Attention, class Everyone back to their seat.” When the shuffling of feet had stopped and the room was still and quiet, Miss Mason said, “I have a letter from Wanda’s father that I want to read to you.” Miss Mason stood there a moment and the silence in the room grew tense and expectant. The teacher adjusted her glasses slowly and deliberately.
(a) What was in the note that Miss Mason get from the principal’s office?
(b) How did Miss Mason do before reading the note and what was the reaction of class?
(c) Find out the synonym of ‘Knowingly’ used in the passage.
(d) Who wrote the note to Miss Mason?
Answer:
(a) The note that Miss Mason received from the principal’s office was a letter from Wanda’s father.
(b) Miss Mason’s reaction showed that there was something of great importance as she adjusted her glasses slowly and deliberately. Everybody in the class was silent and listened closely to the note.
(c) Deliberately
(d) Wanda’s father wrote the note to Miss Mason.
Question 2.
A deep silence met the reading of this letter. Miss Mason took off her glasses, blew on them and wiped them on her soft white handkerchief. Then she put them on again and looked at the class. When she spoke her voice was very low.
“I am sure that none of the boys and girls in Room Thirteen would purposely and deliberately hurt anyone’s feelings because his or her name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happened unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it.”
(a) What did Miss Mason do when she finished reading the letter of Wanda’s father?
(b) What did Miss Mason say to the class?
(c) Find out the word in the passage which means ‘inappropriate’.
(d) What was the reaction of Miss Mason after reading the letter?
Answer:
(a) Miss Mason put off her glasses, blew on them and wiped them on her white handkerchief and then put them on again.
(b) Miss Mason advised the class to think about the whole incident which happened with Wanda and condemned them not to repeat it.
(c) Unfortunate
(d) Miss Mason was unhappy and disappointed after reading the letter as she had known about the incidents happened to Wanda as the girls teased her in the class.
Question 3.
Goodness! wasn’t there anything she could do ? If only she could tell Wanda she hadn’t meant to hurt her feelings. She turned around and stole a glance at Peggy, but Peggy did not look up. She seemed to be studying hard. Well, whether Peggy felt badly or not, she, fvfaddie, had to do something. She had to find Wanda Petronski. Maybe she had not yet moved away. [CBSE 2014]
(a) Who does ‘she’ refer in the passage ?
(b) What does Maddie decide to do ?
(c) Find out the synonym of ‘look’ used in the passage.
(d) What was Peggy doing when Maddie looked at her?
Answer:
(a) ‘She’ refers to ‘Maddie’ in the passage.
(b) Maddie decided to find Wanda Petronski as she believed that Wanda might be at her home.
(c) Glance
(d) Peggy did not look up as she seemed to be studying hard, when Maddie looked at her.
Question 4.
I think that’s where the Petronskis live,” said Maddie, pointing to a little white house. Wisps of old grass stuck up here and there along the pathway like thin kittens. The house and its sparse little yard looked shabby but clean. It reminded Maddie of Wanda’s one dress, her faded blue cotton dress, shabby but clean. There was not a sign of life about the house. Peggy knocked firmly on the door, but there was no answer. She and