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Flamingo Prose CH 3 Deep Water ENGLISH - Flamingo Prose CH 3 Deep Water

Gujarat Board (GSEB) - STD 12 Commerce - ENGLISH (GSEB - English Medium). 60 questions in this chapter.

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Q 1Read passage & select appropriate answer.[5M]5 Marks
From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the water when I was in it. This started when I was three or four years old and father took me to the beach in California. He and I stood together in the surf. I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was buried in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the overpowering force of the waves.My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while, I gathered confidence. paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.
Q.1. The writer had an intense dislike for water …………………….. .
A. since he was three or four. B. when he was in water.
C. when he was at some beach. D. Both A’ and ‘B’
Q.2. ………………………….. caused terror to the writer.
A. The beach in California B. His father’s pressure on him
C. The overpowering force of the waves D. The swimming pool
Q.3. What were the unpleasant memories for the writer?
A. Those that he had been in the surf with his father in California.
B. Those that he had learnt about the dangers of being in water in his school.
C. Those stories that he had heard from his friends.
D. All of these three
Q.4. The meaning of the phrase ‘feel at ease’ means ……………………….. .
A. ‘without any effort’. B. ‘quite relaxed’.
C. ‘comfortable’. D. Both ‘B’ and ‘C’
Q.5. What was the initial cause of the person's aversion to the water mentioned in the passage?
A. Fear of sharks in California
B. Experiencing a near-drowning incident with their father
C. A traumatic encounter with strong ocean waves
D. A negative experience at a swimming pool
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Q 2Read passage & select appropriate answer.[5M]5 Marks

I flailed at the surface of the water swallowed and choked. I tried to bring my legs up, but they hung as dead weights, paralysed and rigid. A great force was pulling me under. I screamed, but only the water heard me. I had! started on the long journey back to the bottom of the pool.I struck at the water as I went down, I expending my strength as one in a nightmare fights an irresistible force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head throbbed. I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the strategy-I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the surface.I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and thrash with my legs. Then I would get to the edge of the pool and be safe. I went down, down, endlessly. I opened my eyes. Nothing but water with a yellow glow-dark water that one could not see through.
Q.1. The meaning of the phrase ‘flailed at the surface’ is ……………………. .
A. ‘swim on the surface.
B. ‘lash out vigorously at the surface of the water in trying to come out.
C. ‘go under the surface of water.
D. None of these three.
Q.2. …………………… but only the water heard me’, means …………………….. .
A. ‘There was nobody around to hear my voice.
B. ‘The water had ears’.
C. ‘My voice could not go outside water’.
D. ‘Nobody was ready to listen to my cries for help’.
Q.3. The writer decided to go back to the bottom because …………………… .
A. he had lost all his courage to come to the surface.
B. he would spring from the bottom and come back to the surface again.
C. he had hoped that finding him at the bottom, somebody would help him come out.
D. All of these three.
Q.4. The writer could not see anything at the bottom of the pool because …………………………. .
A. The sun rays did not reach there.
B. The water there was dark yellow.
C. The water had entered the writer’s eyes.
D. Both A’ and ‘B’
Q.5. What strategy did the person plan to use to escape the predicament they found themselves in while struggling in the water?
A. To swim underwater to safety
B. To float to the surface like a cork
C. To scream for help and attract attention
D. To strike the water and expel all their strength

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Q 3Read passage & select appropriate answer.[5M]5 Marks
I used every way I knew to overcome this fear, but it held me firmly in its grip. Finally, one October, I decided to get an instructor and learn to swim. I went to a pool and practised five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor put a belt around me. A rope attached to the belt went through a pulley that, ran on an overhead cable. He held on to the end of the rope, and we went back and forth, back and forth across the pool, hour after hour, day after day, week after week. On each trip across the pool, a bit of the panic seized me. Each time the instructor relaxed his hold on the rope and I went under, some of the old terror returned and my legs froze. It was three months before the tension began to slack. Then he taught me to put my face underwater and exhale, and to raise my nose and inhale. I repeated the exercise hundreds of times. Bit by bit I shed part of the panic that seized me when my head went underwater.
Q.1. What held the writer firmly in its grip?
A. Instructor B. Pool C. His own fear D. None of these three
Q.2. The rope was connected with …………………. .
A. a pulley on an overhead cable. B. the railing of the pool.
C. a hook studded in the pool wall. D. None of these three
Q.3. What happened to the writer on each trip across the pool?
A. He had great pain. B. Fear seized him.
C. He had to go back and forth. D. His legs froze.
Q.4. What exercise did the writer repeat?
A. He had to put his face underwater and exhale.
B. He had to raise his nose and inhale.
C. He had to relax his hold on the rope.
D. Both A’ and ‘ ‘B’
Q.5. What did the instructor do to help the person overcome their fear of swimming?
A. Provided them with a flotation device
B. Gave them swimming lessons in a pool
C. Encouraged them to hold their breath
D. Used overhead cables and a pulley system
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Q 4Choose From The Given Options. {Unit}(4M)4 Marks
I used every way I knew to overcome this fear, but it held me firmly in its grip. Finally, one October, I decided to get an instructor and learn to swim. I went to a pool and practised five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor put a belt around me.

A rope attached to the belt went through a pulley that, ran on an overhead cable. He held on to the end of the rope, and we went back and forth, back and forth across the pool, hour after hour, day after day, week after week. On each trip across the pool, a bit of the panic seized me.

Each time the instructor relaxed his hold on the rope and I went under, some of the old terror returned and my legs froze. It was three months before the tension began to slack. Then he taught me to put my face underwater and exhale, and to raise my nose and inhale. I repeated the exercise hundreds of times. Bit by bit I shed part of the panic that seized me when my head went underwater.
Questions:
Q.1. What held the writer firmly in its grip?
A. Instructor B. Pool C. His own fear D. None of these three

Q.2. The rope was connected with …………………. .
A. a pulley on an overhead cable. B. the railing of the pool.
C. a hook studded in the pool wall. D. None of these three

Q.3. What happened to the writer on each trip across the pool?
A. He had great pain. B. Fear seized him.
C. He had to go back and forth. D. His legs froze.

Q.4. What exercise did the writer repeat?
A. He had to put his face underwater and exhale.
B. He had to raise his nose and inhale.
C. He had to relax his hold on the rope.
D. Both A’ and ‘ ‘B’

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Q 5Choose From The Given Options. {Unit}(4M)4 Marks
I flailed at the surface of the water swallowed and choked. I tried to bring my legs up, but they hung as dead weights, paralysed and rigid. A great force was pulling me under. I screamed, but only the water heard me. I had! started on the long journey back to the bottom of the pool.

I struck at the water as I went down, I expending my strength as one in a nightmare fights an irresistible force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head throbbed. I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the strategy-I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the surface.

I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and thrash with my legs. Then I would get to the edge of the pool and be safe. I went down, down, endlessly. I opened my eyes. Nothing but water with a yellow glow-dark water that one could not see through.
Questions:
Q.1. The meaning of the phrase ‘flailed at the surface’ is ……………………. .
A. ‘swim on the surface.
B. ‘lash out vigorously at the surface of the water in trying to come out.
C. ‘go under the surface of water.
D. None of these three.

Q.2. …………………… but only the water heard me’, means …………………….. .
A. ‘There was nobody around to hear my voice.
B. ‘The water had ears’.
C. ‘My voice could not go outside water’.
D. ‘Nobody was ready to listen to my cries for help’.

Q.3. The writer decided to go back to the bottom because …………………… .
A. he had lost all his courage to come to the surface.
B. he would spring from the bottom and come back to the surface again.
C. he had hoped that finding him at the bottom, somebody would help him come out.
D. All of these three.

Q.4. The writer could not see anything at the bottom of the pool because …………………………. .
A. The sun rays did not reach there.
B. The water there was dark yellow.
C. The water had entered the writer’s eyes.
D. Both A’ and ‘B’

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Q 6Choose From The Given Options. {Unit}(4M)4 Marks
From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the water when I was in it. This started when I was three or four years old and father took me to the beach in California. He and I stood together in the surf. I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was buried in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the overpowering force of the waves.

My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while, I gathered confidence. paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.
Questions:
Q.1. The writer had an intense dislike for water …………………….. .
A. since he was three or four. B. when he was in water.
C. when he was at some beach. D. Both A’ and ‘B’

Q.2. ………………………….. caused terror to the writer.
A. The beach in California B. His father’s pressure on him
C. The overpowering force of the waves D. The swimming pool

Q.3. What were the unpleasant memories for the writer?
A. Those that he had been in the surf with his father in California.
B. Those that he had learnt about the dangers of being in water in his school.
C. Those stories that he had heard from his friends.
D. All of these three

Q.4. The meaning of the phrase ‘feel at ease’ means ……………………….. .
A. ‘without any effort’. B. ‘quite relaxed’.
C. ‘comfortable’. D. Both ‘B’ and ‘C’


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Q 7Choose From The Given Options. {Unit}(4M)4 Marks
A mass of yellow water held me. Stark terror took an even deeper hold on me, like a great charge of electricity. I shook and trembled with fright. My arms wouldn’t move. My legs wouldn’t move. I tried to call for help, to call for mother. Nothing happened.
Questions
Q.1. Where did the incident take place ?
A. In a pool B. In a lake C. In the sea D. In a river
Q.2. What is meant by ‘stark terror’ ?
A. unlikely co-ordination B. horrible feeling C. naked thoughts D. utter fright
Q.3. How is the force of the water described by the boy ?
A. Like a mass of yellow water B. Like a great charge of electricity
C. Like stark terror D. Like shaking and trembling stuff
Q.4. Who has penned the story ?
A. Jack Finney B. Louis Fletcher C. William Douglas D. Colin Dexter
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Q 8Choose From The Given Options. {Unit}(4M)4 Marks
On the way down I planned: When my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, Come to the surface, lie flat on it, and paddle to the edge of the pool. It seemed a long way down. Those nine feet were more like ninety, and before I touched bottom my lungs were ready to burst. But when my feet hit bottom I summoned all my strength and made what I thought was a great spring upwards.
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Q.1. How did the boy plan to save himself ? a. He would make a big jump. b. He would not feel that the pool is ninety feet. c. He would come to the surface and lie flat on it. d. He would paddle to the edge of the pool.
A. a, b, c B. b, c, d C. a, c, d D. All the above
Q.2. Who was the little boy ?
A. Franz B. William C. Joe D. Louis
Q.3. Which word from the Passage means ‘to call’ ?
A. summoned B. planned C. paddle D. seemed
Q.4. Which of the following words doesn’t denote ‘a movement ?
A. jump B. spring C. paddle D. burst
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Q 9Fill in the blanks with approprite option.[5M]5 Marks
(terror, crawl, meadow, itself, island, conquered, bottomless, stripped, west, shore)
So I went to Lake Wentwofth in New Hampshire, dived off a dock at Trigg’s ______, and swam two miles across the lake to Stamp Act Island. I swam the ______, breast stroke, side stroke, and back stroke. Only once did the terror return. When I was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but _____ water. The old sensation returned in miniature. I laughed and said, “Well, Mr Terror, what do you think you can do to me?” It fled and I swam on. Yet I had residual doubts. At my first opportunity I hurried ______, went up the Tieton to Conrad Meadows, up the Conrad Creek Trail to Meade Glacier, and camped in the high_______ by the side of Warm Lake. The next morning I _______ dived into the lake, and swam across to the other ______ and back - just as Doug Corp used to do. I shouted with joy, and Gilbert Peak returned the echo. I had _______my fear of water. The experience had a deep meaning for me, as only those who have known stark _______ and conquered it can appreciate. In death there is peace. There is terror only in the fear of death, as Roosevelt knew when he said, “All we have to fear is fear _____”
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Q 10Fill in the blanks with approprite option.[5M]5 Marks
(refused, terror-stricken, exhale, scare, dive off, gradually, satisfied, panic, exhale, swimmer)
Then he taught me to put my face under water and _____ and to raise my nose and inhale. I repeated the exercise hundreds of times. Bit by bit I shed part of the ______ that seized me when my head went under water. Next he held me at the side of the pool and had me kick with my legs. For weeks I did just that. At first my legs _____ to work. But they ____relaxed; and finally, I could command them. Thus, piece by piece, he built a ______. And when he had perfected each piece, he put them together into an integrated whole. In April he said, “Now you can swim. ______and swim the length of the pool, crawl stroke.” I did. The instructor was finished. But I was not finished. I stifi wondered if I would be _______ when I was alone in the pooi. I tried it. I swam the length up and down. Tiny _______of the old terror would return. But now I could frown and say to that terror, “Trying to ______ me, eh? Well, here’s to you! Loold” And off I’d go for another length of the pool. This went on until July. But I was still not ______
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Q 11Fill in the blanks with approprite option.[5M]5 Marks
(oblivion, limp, gently, around, electricit terror, jump, awful, sucked, strangely)
The water was still _______ me. I looked for ropes, ladders, water wings. Nothing but water. A mass of yellow water held me. Stark terror took an even deeper hold on me, like a great charge of________ I shook and trembled with fright. My arms wouldn’t move. My legs wouldn’t move. I tried to call for help, to call for mother. Nothing happened. And then, ________, there was light. I was coming out of the _____yellow water. At least my eyes were. My nose was almost out too. Then I started down a third time. I ________for air and got water. The yellowish light was going out. Then all effort ceased. I relaxed. Even my legs felt _______; and blackness swept over my brain. It wiped out fear; it wiped out ______. There was no more panic. It was quiet and peaceful. Nothing to be afraid of. This is nice.., to be drowsy... to go to sleep... no need to jump______... too tired to jump... it’s nice to be carried ______ to float along in space... tender arms around me... tender arms like Mother’s... now I must go to sleep... I crossed to _______, and the curtain of life fell.
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Q 12Fill in the blanks with approprite option.[5M]5 Marks
(flailed, nothing, strategy, panicky, thrash, screamed, nightmare, suffocating bottom, hung)
I opened my eyes and saw ______but water - water that had a dirty yellow tinge to it. I grew _______ I reached up as if to grab a rope and my hands clutched only at water. I was ________. I tried to yell but no sound came out. Then my eyes and nose came out of the water - but not my mouth. I _______ at the surface of the water, swallowed and choked. I tried to bring my legs up, but they ______ as dead weights, paralysedand rigid. A great force was pulling me under. I ________, but only the water heard me. I had started on the long journey back to the _______of the pool. I struck at the water as I went down, expending my strength as one in a ________ fights an irresistible force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head throbbed. I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the _______ - I would spring from the bottom of the pooi and come like a cork to the surface. I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and ______with my legs.
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Q 13Fill in the blanks with approprite option.[5M]5 Marks
(surf, aping, drowning, skinny, treacherous, unpleasant, however, gradual, buried, beach)
The Yakima River was_______ Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each _______ in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe. It was only two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was nine feet deep at the other, the drop was _________. I got a pair of water wings and went to the pool. I hated to walk naked into it and show my _________ legs. But I subdued my pride and did it. From the beginning_______ , I had an aversion to the water when I was in it. This started when I was three or four years old and father took me to the _______ in California. He and I stood together in the _____. I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was _____in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed; but there was terror in my heart at the overpowering force of the waves. My introduction to the Y.M.CA. swimming pool revived _______ memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by _____ them.
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Q 14Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Option4 Marks
(strategy, irresistible, thrash, nightmare, throbbed, struck, expending, surface)
I _____________________ at the water as I went down, _____________________ my strength as one in a _____________________ fights an _____________________ force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head _____________________I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the _____________________ -I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the _____________________I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and _____________________ with my legs.


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Q 15Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Option4 Marks
(wits, swallowed, paddle, surface, landed, frightened, tossed, planned)
With that, he picked me up and _____________________ me into the deep end. I _____________________in a sitting position, _____________________water, and went at once to the bottom. I was _____________________ but not yet frightened out of my _____________________ On the way down I _____________________; when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, come to the _____________________ lie flat on it, and _____________________to the edge of the pool.


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Q 16Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Option4 Marks
[through, decided, attached, used, practiced, firmly, overhead, overcome]I (a) ............. every way I knew to(b) ............ this fear, but it held me (c) ............ in its grip. Finally, one October, I (d) .............. to get an instructor and learn to swim. I went to a pool and (e) ............. five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor put a belt around me. A rope (f) .............. to the belt went (g) ........... a pulley that ran on an (h) ........... cable.
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Q 17Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Option4 Marks
[tossed, landed, frightened, sitting, picked, frightened, swallowed, went]With that he (a) .............. me up and (b) .............. me into the deep end. I (c) .............. in a(d) .......... position, (e) ..............water, and (f) ............ at once to the bottom. I was (g) ................, but not yet (h) ............ out of my wits.
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Q 18Fill In The Blanks With Appropriate Option4 Marks
[lying, blackness, curtain, effort, vomiting, relaxed, crossed, wiped]Then all (a) ............. ceased. I (b)............. . Even my legs felt limp; and a (c) .............. swept over my brain. It (d) ...........out fear. I (e) ............... to oblivion, and the (f) ................ of life fell. The next I remember I was (g) ........... on my stomach beside the pool, (h) .............
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Q 24Rectify The Errors.4 Marks
ErrorCorrection
Q.1. With that, he picked me up but tossed me
Q.2. Into the dip end. I landed In a sitting position,
Q.3. swallowed water, and went at once to the bottom.
Q.4. I was frightened, but not as frightened out of my wits.
   

   

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Q 25Rectify The Errors.4 Marks
ErrorCorrection
Q.1. From the beginning, though,
Q.2. I had an aversion from the water when I was in it.
Q.3. This started where I was three or four years old
Q.4. and the waves knocked me down and sweep over me.
   

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Q 26Punctuate The Following Passage.2 Marks
Thus piece by piece he built a swimmer and when he had perfected each piece he put them together into an integrated whole in April he said now you can swim dive off and swim the length of the pool, crawl stroke
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