GRAMMAR English Kumarbharati - GRAMMAR

[A] Read the following passage and do the activities: (10 Marks)
A1. Fill in the blanks. 
(i) Dr. Alexander Fleming was born in _________
(ii) Dr. Alexander Fleming’s brother was a _________
(iii) At the age of _________ Alexander went to his brother.
(iv) While working at the hospital, Alexander did some research on _________

     Dr. Alexander Fleming was born in Britain in 1881. When he was fourteen, he went to live with his brother, who was a doctor in London. Alexander, too, decided to study medicine. He finished his studies in 1906 and then worked in a hospital in London. While he worked at the hospital, he also did some research on germs. “These germs are killing people. How can this be stopped? How can the germs be killed?” he wondered. “The human body has the power to kill many kinds of germs. But there are some other kinds that cannot be killed. I must find a substance that can be used to kill these other germs.” But the First World War broke out and Dr. Fleming had to go to France. He looked after the wounded soldiers. Wherever he went, he found soldiers dying because there wasn’t any effective medicine to kill germs. “An effective way of killing the germs must be found,” Dr. Fleming thought.

A2. Arrange the following sentences as per their sequence: 
(a) Alexander did research on germs.
(b) Alexander finished his studies in 1906.
(c) Alexander had gone to France.
(d) The First World War broke out.
A3. Match the words in column A with their synonyms in column B. 

A	B
1. wounded	(a) physician
2. wondered	(b) injured
3. kinds of	(c) surprised
4. doctor	(d) types of

A4. Do as directed. (02)
(i) He went to live with his brother. (Underline the infinitive)
(ii) He finished his studies in 1906. (Frame a ‘Wh-Question’ to get underlined part as an answer.)
A5. Personal Response
(i) How can we keep ourselves away from germs?
[b] Write the summary of the passage given for comprehension. Give the summary an appropriate title :

[A] Read the following passage carefully and complete the activities: (10 Marks) 
A1. Write if the following sentences are True or False:
(i) The stout old lady in the example given was wrong.
(ii) Sometimes personal liberty has to be curtailed to enjoy social order.
(iii) The traffic policeman in the example given is not a symbol of liberty but of tyranny. 
(iv) If personal liberties are sometimes not curtailed, there could be chaos.

   A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot-pedestrians, but she replied: ‘I’m going to walk where I like. We’ve got liberty now.’ It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the foot-pedestrians to walk down the middle of the road, then the end of such liberty would be universal chaos.Everybody would be getting in everybody else’s way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.
    There is a danger of the world getting liberty. drunk in these days, and we must remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman, say, at Piccadilly Circus steps out into the middle of the road and puts out his hand before your car, he is the symbol, not of tyranny, but of liberty. You may not think so. You may feel that your liberty has been outraged. Then, if you are a reasonable person, you will realize that if he did not interfere with you, he would interfere with no one, and the result would be total confusion at Piccadilly Circus. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality.

A2. Complete the reasons :
The old lady walking down the middle of a stret in Petrograd was wrong because ............................
A3. Write the adjective forms of the following words :
(i) chaos
(ii) peril
(iii) reality
(iv) tyranny
A4. (1) Rewrite the following sentence using 'if':
In order that the liberties of all may be preserved. the liberties of everybody must be curtailed.  
(2) Pick out the clauses in the following sentence and state their type.
You may feel that your liberty has been outraged. 
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Do you think that we in India enjoy individual liberty at the cost of other people?
[B] Write the summary of the passage given for comprehension. Give the summary an appropriate title: [5 Marks]

[A] Read the following passage carefully and complete the activities: (10 Marks) 
A1. Complete the following:
(i) The ____________ is religious.
(ii) In the ballet arranged by ____________ , both men and women danced together.
(iii) The most conspicuous figure in ____________ is Uday Shankar.
(iv) The facial expressions help to convey all ___________________ .

    From the earliest times the practice of dancing in India began with religlous worship. Most of the old Hindu temples provided for a course of dancing. which was full of religious meaning, as part of the worship of the gods. Many of these old dances were in danger of being forgotten, but then came a modern revival in the art of dancing, the most conspicuous figure in this being Uday Shankar. He did not confine himself only to religious dancing. but conceived the idea of an Indian ballet using the gestures and movements of Indlan dancing to express modern ideas. In olden days dancing was carried out by women and girls only, but in the ballet arranged by Uday Shankar and others. both men and women danced together.
     The origin of Indian dancing is religlous, its purpose being to put into movement the stories about the Indian gods, so as to make them easily understood by the masses. We are told that there are seventy-two hand gestures, each having a meaning of its own which is as definite as the meaning of the letters of the alphabet. There are also nine sets of facial expressions which help to convey to the audience all the emotions and feelings of human nature.

A2. Complete the following :
(i) He did not confine himself only to religious dancing.
(ii) He used the gestures and movements of Indian dancing to express modern ideas.
A3. Make your own sentences using the following phrases :
(i) confine yourself to
(ii) to convey
A4. Rewrite :
(i) There are seventy-two hand gestures. There are also nine sets of facial expressions.
(Combine using 'not only ... but also ...')
(ii) In olden days dancing was carried out by women and girls only. but in Uday Shankar's ballet. both men and women danced together.
(Pick out the clauses and state the type of sentence.)
A5. Personal Response:
(i) Do you like to dance or watch dances? If so, what type? If not, why not?
[B] Write the summary of the passage given for comprehension. Give the summary an appropriate title: [5 Marks]

Write a letter to your mother giving details about the study tour.

Write a letter to Mahesh Chick Farm, Main Road, Chhindwara- 480 001 asking permission for a two-day visit to the farm.

Following is the information about Farhees :
    Farheen stays in her school hostel and receives ₹ 4000 every month from home for her expenses. In the month of November, she spent ₹1600 to settle the canteen bills. ₹ 800 she remitted as school fee. Another ₹ 800 she paid in advance for the forthcoming school trip. She got her cycle repaired by spending ₹ 400. In November she could only deposit ₹ 400 in her savings bank account.
  Prepare a pie-chart showing the imrormation siven in the above paragraph.

In the table given below, some details about Indian women who have conquered Mount Everest as mentioned. Write a paragraph including all the information:

Name	State	Year	Special achievement
Bachendri Pal	Himachal Pradesh	1984	first woman to elimb Mt. Everest.
Santosh Yadav	Haryana	1992,1993	only woman to climb Mc. Everest   twice: first Indian to scale the   Kangshung Face
Krushnaa Patil	Maharashtra	2009	youngest Indian woman (19 years)   to climb ML. Everest
Premlata Agarwal	Jharkhand	2011	oldest Indian woman (48 years) to   scale Mt. Everest

Read the following invitation prepared by students of Std. IX for the students of Std. X. for whom they are hosting a send-off. Write a speech given by you on the occasion:

Explain the idea contained in the sloges "Save the Girl Child. Save the Nation".

Read the following quotation 'Reading maketh a full man'. Expand it in about 2-3 paragraphs.

Expand the maxim "Honesty is the best policy in about 80-100 words.

Expand the idea contained in the proverb 'Every Cloud has a Silver Lining'.

You are a witness to the collapse of such a house. Write a news report giving essential details.

Write a story based on the following points:
One hot Saturday evening, - decide to go to the seashore - cool breeze - sudden screams - 'Shark! Shark! - desperate swimmers - lifeguards - laughter and jokes - not shark but dolphin - I return home

... and decided to bury the hatchet and became good friends again. Write a story of your own, with the above sentence as the concluding sentence. Give a moral to the story.

Write a story with the following beginning: 'One day, as I was waiting at the bus stop…'. Give it the title 'An Interesting Drama'.