Question

I. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:


1. Harry and Annie lived a mile from town, but they went there to school every day. It was a pleasant walk

down the lane and through the meadow by the pond. I hardly know whether they liked it better in summer or

in winter.


2. They used to pretend that they were travellers exploring a new country and would scatter leaves on the

road so that they might find their way back again. When the ice was thick and firm, they walked across the

pond. But their mother did not like to have them do this unless someone was with them. Don’t go across the

pond today, children, she said as she kissed them and bade them goodbye.


3. One morning it is beginning to thaw. “All right, mother,” said Harry, not very good-naturedly because he

was very fond of running and sliding on the ice. When they came to the pond, the ice looked hard and safe.

“There”, said he to his sister. “I knew it hadn’t thawed any”. Mother is always afraid we will drown.


4.. Come along, we will have a good time sliding. The school bell will not ring for an hour at least. But you

promised mother, said Annie. No, I didn’t I only said; All right and it is all right. I didn’t say anything, so I can do

as I like said Annie.


5. So they stepped on the ice, and started to go across the pond. They had not gone far before the ice gave

way, and they fell into the water. A man who was at work near the shore heard the screams of the children

and plunged into the water to save them.


6. Harry managed to get to the shore without any help, but poor Annie was nearly drowned before the man

could reach her. Harry went home almost frozen and told his mother how disobedient he had been.
He
remembered the lesson learned that day as long as he lived.


1.1 On the basis of above passage give answer of following questions.


(a) Harry and Annie used to pretend that they were travelers exploring a new country because they felt that

their pleasant journey:


(i) down the lane and through the meadow by the pond, will lead them to their dreamland.


(ii) to their school through the meadow by the pond, is the source of their untold happiness.


(iii) is more important to them than going to school every day.


(iv) explores a new way to go to a new school.
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Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

1. Harry and annie lived a mile from town,they went there to school every day.

2.Mother told Harry and annie that don't go across the pond today.

3.This is because roads are almost frozen.

4.No. they abide by their mother's wedding.

5.They had gone near the pond also after mother's warning.

6.They fell in the pond when they stepped on the ice

7.A man who was working near the shore saved

saved their life

8.They got drunk in the pond