Unit 1 - 1.3 On Wings of Courage — English STD 10 — Question

Give one example of code-mixing (Indian word) from the passage and explain its meaning.

Fill in the blanks with words from the passage that are the opposites of the underlined words:
(1) Something that is not ______ is ________.
(2) Something that is not ______ is _______.
(3) Men who are not _________ are _______.
(4) Something that is not ______ is __________.

Fill in the blanks with the words from the brackets:
(task, menu, wondered)
(1) The ______ to rescue the flood victims was very difficult.
(2) I was thinking about buying a new vehicle and _________ if we had the money.
(3) The restaurant _________ seemed to be tempting.

From the passage, find the collocations for the following:
(a) made peace (b) took leave

Pick out from the story the word that means the following, and state if it is a Noun, Verb or Adjective:
sought after

Use the following idioms/phrases in sentences of your own:
(a) drop in (b) drop out (c) turned out to be (d) stumbled into
(a) Though I am not a member of the club. I often play tennis there as a _________
(b) I decided to _________ of karate classes as it was taking too much of my time.
(c) The advice given by our doctor friend __________ quite useful during our travel to Singapore.
(d) While surfing the net, he __________ a portal that showed only horror movies.

Make a meaningful sentence using the phrase:
in pursuit of:

Write the verbs for the following words:
(1) inspiration
(2) constraint
(3) transport
(4) different

Match the phrases with one word from the passage:

'A'	'B'
(i) which is new and inexperlenced	(a) proximity
(ii) a place provided for a particular purpose	(b) fledgling
(iii) something that causes delay or obstruction	(c) site
(iv) nearness in space	(d) roadblock

Find the synonyms for the following from the passage:
(1) Brief: ________
(ii) Likely to make someone believe something that is not true: __________