Identify the functions used in the sentences.
1. The Taj is more beautiful than most other monuments in the world.
(A)Comparing
(B) Contrasting
(C) Habitual action in past
(D)Making supposition
2. However intelligent Rohit is, he cannot solve this puzzle.
(A)Comparing
(B) Contrasting
(C) Expressing manner of action
(D) Condition in past
3. We went to the hospital with a view to meeting my brother.
(A)Contrasting
(B) Expressing manner of action
(C) Comparing
(D) Showing purpose
4. Arvindbhai plays cricket as he is instructed.
(A)Comparing
(B) Expressing manner of action
(C) Making supposition
(D) Contrasting
5. I used to drink milk in my childhood.
(A)Expressing manner of action
(B) Habitual Past
(C)Showing time
(D) Comparing
6. If my principal had told me about this information earlier, I could have completed the task.
(A)Expressing manner of action
(B) Comparing
(C) Condition in past
(D) Contrasting
7. Aaditya explained to his father that that teacher was very intelligent.
(A)Making supposition
(B) Condition in past
(C) Habitual action in past
(D) Reporting
8. I would rather go by bus than go by taxi.
(A)Expressing manner of action
(B) Preferring
(C) Contrasting
(D) Habitual action in past
Headache has become such a confirmed habit that a huge trade has developed in proving a cure for it. Some people feel lost unless they carry a tube of some headache remedy in their pockets all the time, and opticians give glasses guaranteed to relieve headache. These are instances to show that mankind easily begins to believe in its
myths.
1) Why has a huge trade developed in proving a cure for Headache?
2) Find out a word from the extract similar in meaning to ‘a wildly held but false belief’.
→ I think I should shock mankind if I suddenly said "There is no such thing as headache or indisposition. It is all just an excuse, an elegant falsehood, for have I not seen dozens of headache cases walking or driving about gaily to be seen everywhere except where they ought to be at the particular hour!
1)When will the writer shock mankind as per his opinion?
2)Find a word similar in meaning to ‘Cheerfully’ from the extract.
→ The mother-in- law, who forswears her food on the plea of a splitting head, is clearly not on the best of terms, at least for that day with the daughter- in-law or son. The son, who pleads headache, may want to keep away not only his friends and officers but would like his wife not to press him too much to fulfill his promise to take her out; the little man who pleads headache has definitely skipped his homework, and would like the tutor to be sent away.
1) Who would like the tutor to be sent away?
2) Give two instances of excuse used by the son.
→ A man cannot say, "I am not attending the meeting today since I don't feel like it."A clerk who writes to his master, "I am not attending the office today because I am not inclined to look at any paper today," will lose his job, whereas as he quite at liberty to say that he is down with headache.
1) In what situation will a clerk lose his job?
2)‘Be willing to’ is similar in meaning to -------------
→ You cannot say, "Owing to disposition I am not taking the medicine, "whereas you can say, "Owing to indisposition I called in the doctor."What exactly is this indisposition? I have never been able to understand it except that it sounds very well in press notes or health bulletins or in messages from eminent men to gatherings to which they have been invited.
1) What have never been understood by the writer?
2) Indisposition does not sound very well in messages from eminent men. TRUE or FALSE?
→ All aches sound crude and psychological, and sensitive people would not mention them. No other ailment can be so openly mentioned with impunity? You could mention headache in the most elegant social gathering and no one would be shocked by it. The only expression which is superior to headache is indisposition.
1) Which expression is superior to headache?
2) What would be not mentioned by sensitive people?
→ Factual explanations are not always either palatable or feasible. In such circumstances, headache acts as a sort of password. I remember at school, the very first letter-writing lesson I was taught was:"Respected sir, as I am suffering from headache, I request you to grant me leave..." I always wonder what made our teacher select headache as an excuse, even in a
specimen letter.
1) In what circumstances does headache act as a sort of password?
2) Even in a sample letter, the teacher selected headache as an excuse. TRUE or FALSE?
→ On the drill ground almost all appeared to be afflicted with "Splitting headache, Sir," and our drill instructor put an end to it by decreeing one day, "Those suffering from head ache will hold up their arms."It raised our hopes, but he added, "Since I wish to detain them for some special exercises that will cure their headache." Not one lifted his arm. At which the instructor
declared, "Now all of you take off your coats and get through the usual drill”.
1) How did the drill instructor put an end to the excuses made by the students?
2) What did the instructor declare?
The following behaviour was noticed by a scientist who was making a study of ants. A number of ants were down in a pit, where they had killed some flies and other insects for food. The ants began fetching the small beats of these insects up to their anthill.
1. What was observed by a scientist?
2. What were the ants doing?
Well, children, where is so much racket there must be something out of order. I think that 'twixt' the Negroes of the South and women at the North, all talking about rights, the white man will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?
1. Where must be something out of order?
2. Who is talking about rights?
The next morning, a gentle man knocked on the door. “I come from Maw and Meggins your son's employer”. The old lady looked surprised, “Is anything wrong?” she asked breathlessly. “Has anything happened to my son, Herbert? What is it?” The visitor looked down. “Badly hurt,” he said quietly. But he is not in any pain”.
1. Who knocked on the door the next morning?
2. explain but he is not in any pain
(B)
Sojourner Truth was a black American freedom fighter and orator. She was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York, the daughter of an African named Baumfree (after his Dutch owner) and a woman called Elizabeth.
1. What was Sojourner Truth?
2. Who were the parents of Truth?
Strike against all ordinances and laws and institutions that continue the slaughter of peace and the cruelty of war. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing scrap and gas bombs and all other tools of murder.
1. How can we stop the slaughter of peace and cruelty?
2. Which are the tools of murder?
To be free is to be intelligent but intelligence does not come into being by just wishing to be free it comes into being only when you begin to understand your hole environment the social religious parental and traditional influences that are continually closing in on you but to understand the various influences the influence of your parents of your government or society of the culture to which you belong of your bills your gods and superstitions
1. When does intelligence come into being?
2. What are the various influences closing in on us?
(C)
Sergeant showed them a dried monkey's paw which had a spell put on it. Morris said, "An old fakir put a spell on it and now it is a talisman. He was a very holy man and he wanted to show the fate ruled people's lives."
1. What did sergeant show to Mr. White?
2. What did the fakir want to prove?
During the Civil War, Truth bought gifts for the soldiers with money raised from her lectures and helped fugitive slaves find work and housing. After the war, she continued her tirade for the lord and against racial injustice. Even when old age and ill health restricted her activities to the confines of a Battle Creek, Minch, Sanatorium. She died there on November 26, 1883.
1. When did truth buy gifts for the soldiers?
2. Whom did truth help during the war?
All the machinery of the system has been set in motion. Above the complaint and din of the protest from the workers is heard the voice of authority. “Friends", it says, "Fellow workmen, Patriots; your country is in danger!"
1. What is heard the voice of the authority?
2. For whom the word "Patriots" refers to in the paragraph?
(D)
I would like to discuss with you the problem of freedom. It is a very complex problem, needing deep study and understanding. We hear much talk about freedom, religious freedom, and the freedom to do what one would like to do.
1. What is the author going to discuss?
2. Which types of freedom showed in the paragraph?
On a cold and stormy night, Mr. White and his son, Herbert, were playing chess in their small living room of villa. While Mrs. White was a sitting by the fire, knitting and talking to them occasionally.
1. Describe the atmosphere of the night.
2. What was Mrs. White doing?
After all, examinations are for that purpose; to give you a position, to make you somebody. Titles, position and knowledge encourage you to be something. Have you not noticed that your parents and teachers tell you that you must amount to something in like, that must be successful like your uncle or grandfather?
1. Why are the examinations?
2. What do the parents and teachers tell?