SECTION I-PROSE
0.1 A) Read the first activity. Read the extract and then do all the activities.
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But, on an unusually quiet comer, Soapy came to a standstill. Here was an old church,
guaint and rambling and gabled. Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed,
where, no doubt, the organist loitered over the keys, making sure of his mastery of the
coming Sabbath anthem. For there drifted out to Soapy's ears sweet music that caught and
held him transfixed against the convolutions of iron fence.
The moon was above, full and radiant; vehicles and pedestrians were few, sparrows
twittered sleepily in the caves of a little while the scene might have been a country
churchyard. And the anthem that the organist played cemented Soapy to the iron fence, for
he had known well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and coses and
ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars.
The conjunction of Soapy's receptive state of mind and the influences about the old
church brought a sudden and wonderful change in his soul. He viewed with rising horror the
pot into which he had tumbled, the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked
faculties and base motives that made
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his existence.
And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this strange mood. A strong
impulse moved him to battle with his desperate fact. He would pull himself out of the more
and would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had enslaved him.
There was time; he was young yet; he would resurrect his old eager ambitions and pursue
them without faltering. Those solemn but sweet organ notes has set up a revolution in him
Tomorrow he would go into the roaring downtown district and find work. A fur importer had
once offered him a place as a driver. He would be somebody in the world. He would-
Soapy felt a hand laid- on arm. He looked quickly around into the impassive face of
policeman
"What are you doing here asked the officer.
"nothing” said Soapy.
" Then come along," said the policeman.
“ Three months on the island," said the Magistrate in the Police court the next
morning
2.
A1) Choose the correct options from the following and rewrite them.
1) Soapy became transfixed against convolution of iron fence.
2) Soapy wanted to move as early as possible from the place.
3) Soapy decided to join the church prayers.
4) The anthem brought a sudden and wonderful change in his soul
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