Question

Rend the passage given below and answer the questions that follow
1. The orchard stood quietly in the sunlight. The apples were red and enticing. Our gaze was fixed on them. Without
(12 Marks)
losing a moment, the small thieves rushed at the fruits, but the bigger and riper ones were higher up and out of
reach. I promptly told the children to fetch a broken table and a piece of wire from the rubbish dump. Then,
showed them how to fashion the wire into a hook, Tive of the taller kids stood on the table, one pulling and the
second picking the fruits. The others passed them down busily enjoying themselves.
2. The small thieves admired my ingenuity, 'Auntic, you are really great'. They ran around everywhere in
excitement. They screamed and yelled. In the midst of the commotion, the children's father suddenly
appeared out of nowhere and caught us unawares. The small thieves fled, leaving me, the gang chief neatly
cornered
3. "So, you have turned into a petty thief", my brother joked. "What if you are arrested?" "Arrested? Me? Do !
look like a thief to you?" I sat up in my wheelchair and, feigning innocence, said. "Am I capable of such an act,
considering my physical condition?" Laughing, my brother pushed me home. I was not really after the apples.
What I was trying to steal was that quality called childhood.
2.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any four of the following questions in about 30-40 words
each:
(2 * 4 = 8 Marks)
(1) Where did the orchard stand?
(ii) How did the apples look?
(ii) Who were small thieves?
(iv) Where did the small thieves rush at?
(v) What did Auntie tell the children?
2.2 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any four of the following: (1 x 4 = 4 Marks)
(1) The bigger and riper apples were out of ....
(a) our height
(b) our size
(c) our reach
(d) on tree
(ii) My
was liked by the small thieves.
(a) size
(b) talks
(c) stories
(d) tricks
(iii) In paragraph no. 1, 'a fruit garden' is the same as
(a) garden
(b) orchard
(c) arcade
(d) herbarium
(iv) In paragraph no.2, the synonym of 'noise' is.........
(c) commotion
(b) 'screamed
(a) admired
(d) appeared
(v) I was pushed home by
(c) my father
(b) my mother
(d) my brother
(a) my sister
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Answer 1

Explanation:

1 - stood in sunlight

2 - red and enticing

3 -anutic you are really great

4 -everywhere in excitement

2.2

1 - our height

2 -

Answer 2

Answer:

the orchard stood quietly in the sunlight.

the apples were red and enticing

the small theives were some childen

they rushed at the fruits

Explanation:

it is the answer of starting four question