Read the and given passage and answer the questions that follows
Nepal lies between India and Tibet, among the Himalayan Mountains. The tallest
mountain in the world, Mount Everest, is in Nepal, and there are several mountains nearly as
high. When mountaineers try to climb Mount Everest, they take the help of the Sherpa’s, the
strong and hardy people who live in these mountains, to carry heavy loads and to act as
guides.A long time ago, the Sherpa’s crossed over the mountains from Tibet and made their
homes along the southern slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal. Some Sherpa families have three
houses, one house in the lower hills, one a little higher, and one further up. The houses are in
small village groups of about forty or fifty. Round each group of houses there are cultivated
fields, usually built in the shape of terraces right up the hillsides. In the highest fields the
Sherpa’s grow potatoes; In the lower fields they grow barley; and turnips, garlic and other
vegetables in the lower ones. They also graze their yaks on the higher mountain slopes in the
summer and on the lower slopes in the winter. Yaks are very hardy, large cattle with thick,
hairy blackish-brown coats and long horns. The Sherpa’s use them for almost everything they
need. They ride them, plough with them, and use them to carry their goods. The hairy wool
of these animals is made into cloth and their skins into leather boots and tents. The yaks also
provide milk, fat and meat. Their dung is dried and used as fuel instead of wood or coal.
Answer the questions by choosing the best alternatives: 5x1=5
Q (i). What is the situation in Nepal?
a) Between Mount Everest and Tibet
b) Between Tibet and India
c) Between Tibet and Himalaya
d) Between Tibet and Mount Everest. Q (ii). Sherpa’s are not known for:
a. Their strength and hardness
b. For cunningness
c. Their carrying heavy loads
d. Acting as guides.
Q (iii). Where do the Sherpa’s have their houses?
a. On the lower hills
b. On a little higher
c. Another a little higher up
d. All the three above.
Q (iv). These things Sherpa’s do not grow on the lower fields:
a. Potatoes
b. Turnip and Garlic
c. Other vegetables
d. Barley.
Q (v). What are the things for which yaks are not used?
(a) For sports
(b) Wool of these animals is made into cloth
(c) Their skins into leather boots and tents
(d) To carry their goods.
Answers
Read the and given passage and answer the questions that follow:
Answer the questions by choosing the best alternatives: 5x1=5
Q (i). What is the situation in Nepal?
a) Between Mount Everest and Tibet
b) Between Tibet and India (answer)
c) Between Tibet and Himalaya
d) Between Tibet and Mount Everest.
Q (ii). Sherpa’s are not known for:
a. Their strength and hardness
b. For cunningness (answer)
c. Their carrying heavy loads
d. Acting as guides.
Q (iii). Where do the Sherpa’s have their houses?
a. On the lower hills
b. On a little higher
c. Another a little higher up
d. All the three above. (answer)
Q (iv). These things Sherpa’s do not grow on the lower fields:
a. Potatoes
b. Turnip and Garlic
c. Other vegetables (answer)
d. Barley.
Q (v). What are the things for which yaks are not used?
(a) For sports (answer)
(b) Wool of these animals is made into cloth
(c) Their skins into leather boots and tents
(d) To carry their goods.
Answer:
Q.1. Write the given passage in your fair copy. Make table containing 8 columns for different
parts of speech and tabulate the given passage in the specific columns.
It was Katia's 20th birthday and she was looking forward to seeing her friends. They were
meeting at Mamma Mia's, her favourite Italian restaurant, for a special birthday dinner. Katia
was excited and got to the restaurant at exactly 7 o'clock, the time they had arranged to meet.
She looked around for a familiar face, but no one had arrived yet. So she decided to wait
outside and stood patiently in the warm evening sunshine.
The restaurant quickly filled up with customers, but none of them were Katia's friends. 'Where
are they?' she thought. At half past seven she was still waiting, so she called her best friend Isa.
'Why doesn't she answer her phone?' Katia asked herself. Then she called Jonty, Alex and
Yoko, but they didn't answer either. 'What's going on?' she wondered.
At 8 o'clock Katia went home. Her friends had forgotten her birthday and she felt lonely and
miserable. She opened the front door and walked into the dark house. The living room door was
closed. 'How strange,' she thought because she always left it open. Nervously, she opened the
door. Suddenly the lights went on and all her friends jumped up and shouted 'Surprise!' So they
hadn't forgotten and in the end it was the best birthday ever.
Katia really enjoyed the party and said "Wow! what a lovely day."