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Q.10. Do as Directed. (Any five)
i. The officer said to me, "How old are you?"
(Change into indirect Narration)
ii. He confessed his sin. (Make complex Sentence)
iii. Why did Susant Singh commit suicide ?
It is a mystery. (Make complex sentence)
iv. As soon as Raina saw me, she called her father. (Get rid of as soon as
and use No sooner...
..Than in place of it. )
V.
The sun is too hot to go out. (Use So ......... That)
vi. It you do not invite her, She ,won't come (Use Unless in Peace of If)
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:Answer the following questions:
1. At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentions “an extraordinary
human disaster”. What does he mean by this? What is the “glorious
human achievement” he speaks of at the end? 3 marks
2. What made Mr Keesing stop punishing her? 2 marks
3. Paper has more patience than people’. Explain with reference to “From
the Diary of Anne Frank”.
)Value based question) 5 marks
4. EXTRACTS:
5. .My father, the most adorable father I’ve ever seen, didn’t marry my
mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. My sister, Margot,
was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926. I was born on 12 June 1929. I
lived in Frankfurt until I was four. My father emigrated to Holland in 1933.
My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in
September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our
grandmother. Margot went to Holland in September, and I followed in
February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for
Margot. 5 marks
(i) How old were her parents when they got married?
(ii) When and where was Margot born?
(iii) Where did she live until she was four?
(iv) Pick out a word from the passage which means same as ‘sat down
hurriedly’.
(v) Where did they live afterwards?
6. To the assembled guests and the watching world, I said:
Today, all of us do, by our presence here… confer glory and hope to new
born liberty. Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster
that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be
proud. We, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the
rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. We
thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take
possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common
victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. 5 marks
(i) The extraordinary human disaster that Mandela has mentioned in the extract
is the policy of ____________
(ii) The speaker wished to refer to the victory as a common victory for …………
for peace, for human dignity.
(iii) The speaker called the victory as a common victory because the entire world
was against the policy of Apartheid. (True/False)
(iv) Give an antonym of ‘common’ from the extract.
(v ) The Africans were considered as __________ before independence.