Question

I was standing in front of a river flowing along a great plain. An ancient temple was situated on its bank.

Most of the area around the temple looked serene and divine. I thought of going inside the temple to

offer my prayers. When I started walking towards it, I saw a woman keenly looking at me.

“Do you know me?” I asked her when she continued looking at me.

“You looked like my little brother who drowned to death in this river.”

She said looking at the river.

I was shocked to hear her words.

“Don’t get embarrassed,” she said and produced an old photograph. I looked at it and my

embarrassment increased because the face of the boy in the photograph exactly looked like mine.

1. Who was looking at the speaker? 2

2. What did the woman show the speaker? 2

3. Write the opposites of the words “ancient’ and ‘increase’ 1

4. Match the following words with their meanings:- 2

a. Keenly - calm

b. Drown - make uncomfortable

c. Embarrass - go down

d. Serene - keenly

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Answer 1

Answers:

A women was keenly looking at the speaker.

The women showed the speaker a photograph of her dead brother who drowned death to  a river nearby.

Ancient-Modern

Increase-Decrease

Keenly-eager(you did not give this option but I think this was it)

Drown-go down

Embarrass- make uncomfortable

Serene- calm

Answer 2

Answer:

1. the woman

2. She showed him a photograph

3. Ancient opposite : modern , current , new

increase opposite: decrease, reduce

4. embarrass - make uncomfortable

Drown - go down

serene - calm