Question

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



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:

Trundle - an act of moving slowly or heavily.

The journey was just a trundle around the eastern.

Alighted - descend

A lovely swallow alighted on a branch of tree