Section:-A (Reading) 10M
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully: (1x10=10M)
1 Then all the windows of the grey wooden house (Miss Hilton used to live here. She expired last week.), were
thrown open, a thing I had never seen before. At the end of the day a sign was nailed on the mango tree : FOR
SALE
2 Nobody in the street knew Miss Hilton. While she lived, her front gate was always locked and no one ever saw
her leave or saw anybody go in. So even if you wanted to, you couldn't feel sorry and say that you missed Miss
Hilton.
3 When I think of her house I see just two colours. Grey and green. The green of the mango tree, the grey of the
house and the grey of the high Iron fence that prevented you from getting at the mangoes.
4 If your cricket ball fell in Miss Hilton's courtyard you never got it back. It wasn't the mango season when Miss
Hilton died.
But we got back about ten or twelve of our cricket balls.
5 The house
was sold and we were prepared to dislike the new owners even before they came. I think we were
a little worried
6 Already we had one resident of the street who kept on complaining about us to our parents. He complained
that we played cricket on the pavement; and if we were not playing cricket he complained that we were making
too much noise anyway.
7 One afternoon when I came back from school Pal said, " There is a man with a woman. She is pretty, but he is
ugly like hell". I didn't see much. The front gate was opened, but the windows were shut again, I heard a dog
barking in an angry way.
8 One thing was settled pretty quickly. Whoever these people were they would never be the sort of people to
complain that we were making noise and disturbing their sleep.
9 A lot of noise came from the house that night. The radio was going at full volume until midnight when the
radio station closed down. The dog was barking and the man was shouting. I didn't bear the woman.
Answers
Answer:
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Section: A [Reading]
Read the passage given below.
(10 Mark)
1. Like Bunny and me, perhaps you too are beginning to think twice before having people over
for lunch or dinner. Soaring food prices of everything from tomatoes to tapioca, from
potatoes to pumpkins, are part of the problem, but only part.
2. The real problem is diet. Many, if not most, of the people, you known, gender and age no
bar, are on some sort of diet. To further complicate matters, everyone's on a different die
from everyone else's. In a middle-class India, everyone is becoming health-conscious, diet
are the latest fad and going on a special designer diet is even more fashionable than
snapping selfies with your latest model customized iphone.
3. There's one diet, called the Atkins diet, in which people will eat only proteins (meat, fish
eggs) and veggies, but no cereals or crabs, as carbohydrate are referred to in diatese, the
special language in which dieters speak to each other.
4. Then there are people who'll eat all carbs but won't eat wheat be use wheat has gluten in it.
There are diehard non-vegetarians who become venetians on Tuesday or during certain
phases of the moon. There are vegans who are not only pure vegetarians but won't eat any
animal products, like cheese or Paneer, thought food cooked in ‘asli ghee' is presumably
exempt
5. There's even something called the paleo diet or caveman's diet, in which you are only
allowed to eat what our prehistoric ancestors ate before they invented agriculture. So,
and berries and
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