Question

Section 'A' Reading
[05 Marks]
1. Read the following passage carefully:
The Ajanta caves, we were told, lay in the side of a ravine in wild and desolate country some 350 miles
to the northwest, at the extreme tip of Hyderabad state where it touches the Bombay Province.
Properly speaking they were not caves at all/but temples which had been excavated from the living rock
by Buddhist monks. These monks had first come to the ravine somewhere in the second century before
Christ and they had begun by hacking out the rock by hand and hurling it down into the river below.
Then/ probably with large mirrors to reflect the sunshine from
the ravine outside/ they set about the decoration of the walls/ the doorways and the ceilings. They
continued for the next eight hundred years/ always painting and sculpturing Lord Buddha/ but setting
him against an idyllic background of folk tales and the everyday life of their own time. In much the same
way as in the Italian Renaissance which over a thousand years later the work was subsidised by the
wealthy merchants and the Princes of the surrounding countryside.
On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions:
() Who came to the ravines in the second century before Christ? [1]
(11) What did the monks use to reflect light into the caves? [1]
(11) What did the caves depict? [1]
(iv) Who subsidised the monk's work? [1]
(v) Give the adjective form of reflection'. [1]
Section 'B' Writing
[10 Marks]
2. write a story about 'A treasure hunt in not more than 150 words. Using the given outline.
This story is about captain William Phillips and his search.
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3. Mr. Akshay Khurana wants to sell his Nikon camera which has 26 megapixels, a storage of 256 GB and
three lenses. He will sell it for 12000 rupees. Write a sale notice for a newspaper and create this
advertisement. 5
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Answer 1

Answer:

monks cames to the ravines in secondary contury