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Q.8 Extracts from the Textbook Hornbill 5 marks
Extract- 1
We lifted her off the bed and, as is customary, laid her on the ground and covered her with a red shroud. After a few hours of mourning, we left her alone to make arrangements for her funeral. In the evening we went to her room with a crude stretcher to take her to be cremated. The sun was setting and had lit her room and verandah with a blaze of golden light. We stopped half-way in the courtyard.
All over the verandah and in her room right up to where she lay dead and stiff wrapped in the red shroud, thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor. There was no chirruping. We felt sorry for the birds and my mother fetched some bread for them. She broke it into little crumbs, the way my grandmother used to, and threw it to them. The sparrows took no notice of the bread. When we carried my grandmother’s corpse off, they flew away quietly. Next morning the sweeper swept the bread crumbs into the dustbin.
Questions:
i) Who was covered with a red shroud?
(a) the grandfather (b) the grand mother
(c) the mother (d) the poet’s sister
ii) Why did the birds not eat the breadcrumbs?
(a) because they were not hungry (b) because they were mourning
(c) because they wanted to eat something else (d) because they had no time to eat
iii) Which word in the passage means ‘a dead body’?
(a) shroud (b) blaze (c) corpse (d) funeral
iv) Who is the author of the above passage?
(a) Nick Middleton (b) Khushwant Singh (c) A. R. Williams (d) Shirley Toulson
v) The birds —-
(a)ate the bread crumbs (b) did not eat bread crumbs
(c)swept the bread crumbs into the dustbin (d) chirruped loudly
Extract -2
People said that she had once been young and pretty and even had a husband, but that was hard to
believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore big
turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked
like a hundred years old.
Questions:
(i) Who is the author of the above extract?
(a)Khushwant Singh(b) James Harriot(c)Gordon Cook (d)Alan East
(ii) Who has been referred as ‘she’ in above extract?
(a)Sister of the author (b)Mother of the author (c)Grandmother of the author (d)Aunt of the author
(iii) Which word in the extract means ‘picture of face’?
(a)Turban (b)Beard (c)Portrait (d)Mantelpiece
(iv) According to the extract, how old did the grandfather look in his portrait?
(a) Hundred years(b)Less than hundred years (c)More than hundred year (d)None of the above
(v) Which of the following has not been depicted in the portrait?
(a)Beard (b)Turban(c)Clothes (d)Ornaments
Extract-3
IN July 1976, my wife Mary, son Jonathan, 6, daughter Suzanne, 7, and I set sail from Plymouth, England, to duplicate the round-the-world voyage made 200 years earlier by Captain James Cook. For the longest time, Mary and I — a 37-year-old businessman — had dreamt of sailing in the wake of the famous explorer, and for the past 16 years, we had spent all our leisure time honing our seafaring skills in British waters. Our boat Wave walker, a 23 meter, 30-ton wooden-hulled beauty, had been professionally built, and we had spent months fitting it out and testing it in the roughest weather we could find. The first leg of our planned three-year, 105,000 kilometre journey passed pleasantly as we sailed down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town.
Questions:
i) What was the occupation of the writer?
(a) a businessman (b) a sailor
(c) a doctor (d) a Navy office
ii) What does ‘seafaring’ mean?
(a) Swimming in a sea (b) trading by sea
(c) regular travelling by sea (d) None of these
iii) What was the name of their boat?
(a) Titanic (b) Voyager
(c) Wave walker (d) Avenger
iv) Which of these is similar in meaning to leisure?
(a) limited time (b) free time
(c) labour (d) difficulty
v) Two hundred years ago, a round-the-world voyage was made by Captain James Cook. True/ False
Extract- 4
That evening, Mary and I sat together holding hands, as the motion of the ship brought more and more water in through the broken planks. We both felt the end was very near. But Wave walker rode out the storm and by the morning of January 6, with the wind easing, I tried to get a reading on the sextant.
Questions:
(i) Who is Mary?
(a) wife of author (b) mother of Sue
(c) mother of Jon (d) all of the above
(ii) Why Mary and the author were holding hands of each other?
(a) They wanted to heal the hands of each other.
(b) They wanted to remain on the ship.
(c) They wanted to comfort each other.
(d) They wanted to jump in the sea together.
(iii) What is the meaning of phrase ‘rode out’ in above extract?
(a) went out (b) came out
(c) jumped out (d) dug out
(iv) What did the couple think about their situation?
(a) It will improve.
(b) It will remain the same.
(c) their end was near
(d) They could not decide anything.
(v) Sextant is used for measuring-
(a) weight (b) angle (c) speed (d) opacity
Extract-5
He was just a teenager when he died. The last heir of a powerful family that had ruled Egypt and its
empire for centuries, he was laid to rest laden with gold and eventually forgotten. Since the discovery of his tomb in 1922,the modern world has speculated about what happened to him, with murder being the most extreme possibility. Now, leaving his tomb for the first time in almost 80 years, Tut has undergone a CT scan that offers new clues about his life and death — and provides precise data for an accurate forensic reconstruction of the boyish pharaoh. An angry wind stirred up ghostly dust devils as King Tut was taken from his resting place in the ancient .Egyptian cemetery known as the Valley of the Kings*. Dark-bellied clouds had scudded across the desert sky all day and now were veiling the stars in casket grey. It was 6 p.m. on 5 January 2005. The world’s most famous mummy glided head first into a CT scanner brought here to probe the lingering medical mysteries of this little understood young ruler who died more than 3,300 years ago.
Questions:
(i) What is the Cemetery of Tut called?
(a) valley of the kings(b) Tut’s resting place(c) resting peace (d) valley of flowers
(ii)When was Tut’s body taken for CT scan after being found?
(iii) How did Tut die?
(a) It is a mystery.(b) due to heart attack(c) due to Cancer (d) during a war
(iv)Tut was laid to rest, laden with-
(a)platinum(b) aluminium(c) gold (d) silver
(v) When did Tut die?
(a) 22000 years ago(b) more than 33000 years ago(c) 10000 years ago(d) 16000 years ago
Extract-6
Archaeology has changed substantially in the intervening decades, focusing less on treasure and more on the fascinating details of life and intriguing mysteries of death. It also uses more sophisticated tools, including medical technology. In 1968, more than 40 years after Carter’s discovery, an anatomy professor X-rayed the mummy and revealed a startling fact: beneath the resin that cakes his chest, his breast-bone and front ribs are missing. Today diagnostic imaging can be done with computed tomography, or CT, by which hundreds of X-rays in cross section are put together like slices of bread to create a three-dimensional virtual body. What more would a CT scan reveal of Tut than the X-ray? And could it answer two of the biggest questions still lingering about him — how did he die, and how old was he at the time of his death?
Questions:
(i)What does CT scan stand for?
(a) Computed Telegraphy(b) Computed Tomography Scan(c) Car Topology(d) Computer Technology
(ii) What facts were revealed when the mummy was X-Rayed in 1968?
(a) his several possessions were missing
(b) his hip bone was missing
(c) his breast bone and front ribs were missing
(d) his feet bone was missing
(iii) How has archaeology changed through the decades?
(a) focusses more on treasure
(b) focusses more on physical findings
(c) focusses on time factors more
(d) focusing less on treasure and more on the fascinating details of life and mysteries of death.
(iv) The word decade means-
(a) a period of five year(b) a period of ten years(c) a period of twenty years (d) a period of fifty years
(v) What can CT scan reveal about Tut?
Extract-7
The Jijamata Express sped along the Pune- Bombay route considerably faster than the Deccan Queen.
There were no industrial townships outside Pune. The first stop, Lonavala came in forty minutes. The
ghat section that followed was no different from what he knew, The train stopped at Karjat only briefly
and went on even at greater speed. It roared through Kalyan.
Questions:
(i) From which lesson the above extract has been taken?
(a)Silk Road (b)The Portrait of a Lady(c) The Adventure(d)The Ailing Planet
(ii) Who is the author of the above lines.
(a)Nani Palkhiwala (b) Kushwant Singh (c)Jayant Narlikar (d)Nick Middleton
(iii) Who was travelling by the Jijamata Express?
(iv) Which of these has the similar meaning to ‘roared’?
(a) trembled (b) thundered (c) shivered (d) none of these
(v) Which was the first stop of the Jijamata Express?
Extract-8
By making a transition, you were able to experience two worlds although one at a time. The one you live in now and the one where you spent two days. One has the history we know, the other a different
history. The separation or bifurcation took place in the Battle of Panipat. You neither travelled to the
past nor to the future. You were in the present but experiencing a different world. Of course, by the
same token there must be many more different worlds arising out of bifurcations at different points of
time.”
Questions:
(i)Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(a)Professor Gaitonde(b)Librarian(c) Vinay Gaitonde(d) Rajendra Deshpande
(ii) Who made transition to a different world?
(a) Professor Gaitonde (b) Librarian (c) Rajendra Deshpande (d) Vinay Gaitonde
(iii) How many worlds did Gangadharpant experience?
(iv) Which of these has the similar meaning to ‘bifurcation’?
(a) whole (b) divide (c) unity (d) none of these
(v)From which lesson the above extract has been taken?
Extract-9
We passed nomads’ dark tents pitched in splendid isolation, usually with a huge black dog, a Tibetan
mastiff, standing guard. These beasts would cock their great big heads when they became aware of our approach and fix us in their sights. As we continued to draw closer, they would explode into action,
speeding directly towards us, like a bullet from a gun and nearly as fast. These shaggy monsters, blacker than the darkest night, usually wore bright red collars and barked furiously with massive jaws. They were completely fearless of our vehicle, shooting straight into our path, causing Tsetan to brake and swerve. The dog would make chase for a hundred metres or so before easing off, having seen us off the property. It wasn’t difficult to understand why ferocious Tibetan mastiffs became popular in China’s imperial courts as hunting dogs, brought along the Silk Road in ancient times as tribute from Tibet.
Questions:
(i)Who are nomads?
(a)one who roams around (b) one who has no home(c) one who pitches tents here and there (d) all of
these
(ii) Who guards nomads?
(iii) Tibetan mastiffs had become popular as-
(a) black dogs (b) guard dogs (c)hunting dogs (d) none of these
(iv) Which of these has the similar meaning to ‘swerve’?
(a) to sleep (b) to enjoy (c) to turn sharply (d) none of these
(v)From which lesson the above extract has been taken?