Question

1.Readthe extract given below and answer the following questions: The solidest joy of Leh is seeing its palace from every angle and in every light; from below, as it stands in the full dazzle of the morning sun; from the side, in the afternoon from the roof of my hotel, as one of its sheer sides ignites slowly in the dusk; from behind, on the road to Leh from Shankar, as it rears, ghostly in the moonlight, hardly distinguishable from the massy dark rock it is built on. you are haggling for vegetables in the market at sundown, and suddenly you look up and see the last sun catch the top of one of its balconies; you are talking to a friend in the evening, walking up the main street, and as you talk, you see that the moon has risen above the palace, and seems to be wearing it like a vast earring; you turn a corner of one of Leh’s innumerable labyrinthine streets and for a moment a whole flank of the palace stands in front of you, bare and stark as the mountains that surround it. The Queen and her family now live in the smaller palace at stock, ten miles away; the Palace of Lah is empty and crumbling. When you walk through its large vacant rooms, fat tame mice come out of the dark corners to be fed. I Answer the following questions. a) What is the greatest pleasure of Leh? b) How does the palace appear in the moonlight? c) Where does the queen live with her family? II Vocabulary: a)Find the word from the passage opposite in meaning to ‘foe’. b) Give the noun form of ‘surround’. c) Find the word from the passage which means ‘heavy’. d) Give the adjective form of ‘family’

Answer 1

Hey mate!

a) The sodiest joy of Leh is seeing it's palace from every angle and in every light.

b) The palace appears in the moonlight as from behind, on the road, to Let from Shankar, as it rears ghostly in the moonlight.

c) The queen and her family now live in the smaller palace at stock, ten miles away.

a) friend

b) surroundings

c)

d)

Hope it helps you

please mark it as brainliest