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Q. 1 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Two and half hours later, they found themselves at a tiny, dusty railway station. They got down and stepped outside. A large well built men wearing a white dhoti and kurta and sporting a hug turban greeted them with folded hands. He led them to a bullock cart and much to Ajit’s delight lifted and placed him on the cart. The cart trundled on for almost an hour till they finally reached the village. They alighted in front of a large brick house. An elderly man and a woman come out greeting Nanaji and fussing over the kids. They spoke in a dialect which Naina and Ajit found difficult to understand. Question a) Describe the man who greeted them at the station. 2 marks He was------------------------------------ He was wearing ------------------------- He --------------------------------- head He ------------------------------ hands. b) Find the meaning of the words from the dictionary and make a sentence of your own for each of them. 3 marks trundled; dialect; alighted

Answer 1

Answer:

2.

i. He was a large well built man/enormously structured man/gigantic man. (not men)

ii. He was wearing a white dhoti and kurta.

iii. He has a hug turban on his head.

iv. He greeted them with folded hands.

3.

Trundled: wheeled, rolled. — He is a vendor, trundles his cart out into the market every day.

Dialect: tongue, lingo; a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area,

community or social group. — He cannot give up his dialect while talking to others.

Alighted: got off, descended, exited a vehicle or animal. — All passengers have already alighted from the bus.