Class - VIII
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1. Read the following text given below and answer the questions:
Subject - English
READING (SEEN)
It was a battered old book
, bound in red leather. When Mortimer was twelve
pears old, he found the book in his father's library. When the rest of his large,
old house was covered in darkness, he took the book to his bedroom to read by
candle light. The clock ticked in the hall below and the sea roared outside.
Mortimer was fascinated by the battered old book. It contained a story called
the Midnight Express. There was an illustration on page fifty, which
threatened him for some unknown reason. The illustration showed an empty
railway platform at night lit by a dull
, yellow lamp. A single man stood under
the lamp, his face turned towards the black mouth of the tunnel. Mortimer never
read beyond page fifty.
Many years passed after that. Mortimer was now a young man. One day around
midnight
, he was waiting for a train in a dark, empty junction
A. Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the
number in the given boxes: -
1. As a young man Mortimer was waiting for a train.
2. Mortimer found a battered old book.
3. He started to read the story by candle light.
4. Mortimer stopped at page fifty while reading the story.
5. The illustration of the story frightened Mortimer every
6. Mortimer was fascinated by the battered old book.
B. Find the words from the above passage which mean: -
(1) Damaged -
(2) Attracted -
(3) Picture -
(4) 12 at night
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time.
Answers
Answer:
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1. Read the following text given below and answer the questions:
Subject - English
READING (SEEN)
It was a battered old book
, bound in red leather. When Mortimer was twelve
pears old, he found the book in his father's library. When the rest of his large,
old house was covered in darkness, he took the book to his bedroom to read by
candle light. The clock ticked in the hall below and the sea roared outside.
Mortimer was fascinated by the battered old book. It contained a story called
the Midnight Express. There was an illustration on page fifty, which
threatened him for some unknown reason. The illustration showed an empty
railway platform at night lit by a dull
, yellow lamp. A single man stood under
the lamp, his face turned towards the black mouth of the tunnel. Mortimer never
read beyond page fifty.
Many years passed after that. Mortimer was now a young man. One day around
midnight
, he was waiting for a train in a dark, empty junction
A. Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the
number in the given boxes: -
1. As a young man Mortimer was waiting for a train.
2. Mortimer found a battered old book.
3. He started to read the story by candle light.
4. Mortimer stopped at page fifty while reading the story.
5. The illustration of the story frightened Mortimer every
6. Mortimer was fascinated by the battered old book.
B. Find the words from the above passage which mean: -
(1) Damaged -
(2) Attracted -
(3) Picture -
(4) 12 at night
000000
time
Answer:
The battered old book cotained