1. Choose the correct synonyms for the italicized words from the options given below:

a) … she thumped the sagging skins of the *dilapidated* drum

• a) old
• b) damaged
• c) destroyed
• d) ruined

b) The greatest disadvantage for me was my loss of *appetite*

• a) other Indian bright
• b) also performed exceptionally well
• c) irregularly
• d) unusually

c) … usually the correctly

• a) options given below
• b) to pray
• c) the italicized
• d) from the

2. Choose the correct Antonyms for the italicized words from the options given below:

a) We had to *persuade* her to stop avoiding overstraining.

• a) excluded
• b) manage
• c) motivate
• d) dissuade

b) … convince

• a) convince
• b) included
• c) inclusive
• d) exclusive

c) … simple reception was organized.

• a) simple
• b) illusion
• c) complex
• d) magnificent

3. Choose the suitable option to pair with the word ‘toll’ to form a compound word.

• a) entrance
• b) plaza
• c) fee
• d) lock

4. Choose the suitable suffix for the root word ‘arrange’.

• a) -ion
• b) -sion
• c) -ral
• d) -order

5. Choose the suitable tense form for the verb given in brackets:

a) India … (miss) by Zimbabwe in the first T20 match.

• a) will miss
• b) defeat
• c) pre
• d) re

b) … any have … (determine) about the exam.

• a) doesn’t
• b) many
• c) no
• d) none of these

6. Choose the correct word/phrase:

a) Aditi doesn’t have … identifier.

• a) any
• b) many
• c) a
• d) none of these

b) Oxygen is the … element present in the earth’s crust.

• a) principle
• b) principal
• c) principle
• d) principle

7. Choose the correct modal auxiliaries:

a) … I submit my fault if I were you.

• a) will
• b) would
• c) should
• d) may

b) … I admit the underlined British English with the American English word.

• a) can
• b) must
• c) may
• d) might

8. Replace the underlined word in the bread crumbs into the dustbin.

9. Fill in with suitable semi modal:

You … not buy the new dress.

• a) had better
• b) ought to
• c) would
• d) should

10. Fill in with the right me a park.

11. Answer the following questions in about 50 words each: (2 X 3 = 6)

a) Why did the grandmother return to her author to school?

b) How was the grandmother felicitated on her return to India?

12. I have already …

13. … but now they only laugh with their teeth,

14. Read the following sets of poetic lines and answer the questions that follow:

a) Whom does ‘they’ refer to?

b) Explain their cold-block eyes

c) What does ‘ice-wear’ refer to?

d) What does ‘ice-wear’ refer to?

15. … while their iced-block eyes

16. a) Mention the figure of speech for the second line.

b) Like dresses

17. a) Whom does ‘I’ refer to?

b) Most of all, I want to relax in the hare’s

18. a) What does the poet want?

b) … Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs

19. a) What does the poet want?

b) … I want to be what I used to be

20. Explain the figure of speech in the third line.

21. … Identify reference to the context:

22. Answer the following in about 150 words:

a) Describe the bond between grandmother and the narrator.

b) Compare and contrast the characters of Bob and Jimmy Wells.