Passage 2.
If there is a little hole or tear in our clothes, we should get it stitched in time. If we fail to do so, nine or more-stitches will be needed. What the proverb means is that a small piece of work done now may save a lot of work later. Let us examine the case of a farmer A good farmer does every thing in time. He irrigates the field. adds good fertilisers and pesticides. He knows any delay will reduce the yield. Shakespeare says, Delays have dangerous ends.'There are many students who do not stndy On the eve of examinations, they burn the midnight oil. Very often they do not get enough time in the end to finish thetr subjects. Someone hasrightly said,'Putting off easy things makes it hard, and putting off hard ones makes it impossible
Questions:
(a) What will happen if we fail to do a small piece of work now?
(b)What does a good farmer do?
(c) What happens with the students who put off studying their subjects?
(d) Find out words from the passage that are antonyms to the following
words?
(i) little (2) Safe(e)
Write suitable title to the passage
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a) If we fail to do a piece of work , it will result in dangerous end.
b) A good farmer does everything in time. He irrigates the field, adds good fertilizers and pesticides. He knows any delay will reduce the yield.
c) 'There are many students who do not study. On the eve of examinations, they burn the midnight oil.
Very often they do not get enough time in the end to finish reading and passing the examination.
d)
i] little – more
ii] Safe – Dangerous.
e) The suitable title of the passage would be – A stitch in time saves nine.
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