English Confluence By CL Gautam

Class Test -20 The Last Leaf 🌿   Q1.Passage 1 Read the extract and answer the questions  A.He was a sixty-year-old painter. His lifelong dream was to paint a masterpiece but that had remained a dream. Sue poured out her worries to Behrman .4m ( a) 'He' refers to……… (b) His lifelong dream was to…….. (c) Sue poured out her worries about…… to Behrman. (i) Johnsy's illness (ii) Johnsy's lack of will to live (iii) both (1) and (ii) (iv) Johnsy's dreams (d) He could never achieve his lifelong dream.(True/False) B.Read the extract and answer the questions  Johnsy woke up next morning. In a feeble voice she asked Sue to draw the curtains. Sue was nervous. She drew back the curtains very reluctantly. 4M ( a) Johnsy wanted Sue to draw the curtains because…….. (b) Sue was nervous because (c) After Sue had drawn back the curtains, they saw that………. (d) Select the word from the passage which means 'weak'. (i) Feeble (ii) Voice (iii) Nervous (iv) Reluctantly Q2..Answer a...

Ch-8 Going Places by AR Barton  Extract 1 - He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. He was almost grown up now, and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing, about which he never spoke. He said little at all, ever, voluntarily. Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground. (a) Whom does 'he' stand for in the first line? (b) What work is Geoff into? (i) Workshop (ii) Apprentice mechanic (iii) Motorcycle shop (iv) None of the above (c) Where was Geoff's workplace? (i) In the next lane from his house (ii) 4 kms away (iii) In the far side of the city (iv) Near Sophie's school (d) Give an antonym of 'spread. (e) 'Voluntarily' means. (f) Who is the author? Extract 2 And she was impatient. She was conscious of a vast world...