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C Test I ': I
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The instructions below are to be displayed at each place given. Wiite,the correct letter of the exarniners'
place in,rthe cage given against each instruction. The use only
first one is do'ne for you.
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fnstructions
(1) tsonow two books at a,ltime.
|.!J (2) Wait in the queub for your rurn. '|-J
(3'r Keep the classroom neit and tidy. I I (4) Do not smell or rasre chemicalsi
(5} Do irot bring pen drives into
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ihe computer room.
C, Test 2
FilX in the blanks in the following dialogue using the words given in the box. Write the
letter
of i:he correct word-in the space given. The first one is done for you.
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Siva Is this your album? I'm sure this is you in the first
(1) .........
q (a) holidays
Fathirna grandparents' house on the (b) early
used to spend a few days
(c)Jte,to
\ (d) also
there during schooi (3) ...
(e) beach
Siva Wow! f'm sure you would have enjoyed a (4)
(O lot
Fathima Yeah. We always had a great time. Every day we used to
get up (5) ... i and walk along the beach
collectins seashells.
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Siva Hey! I (6) ......t..... collected seashells when
Iwas small.
Fathima Really! We all have had same hobbies, haven't we?
Sivd Yes, of course. Isn't it great?

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C Test 3 l"raminers
Study rhe picrure and fill in the blanks in the paragraph using the words given in the box.
Write
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letter of the corect word in the blank. The first one is done Jor you.

(a) memorable
(b) busy
; (c) me4Js
(d).woman

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(g) bullock
(h) sje€dri'
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(i) too
O carrying
(k) road

I recently visited a village and this is the picture that I drew for an art
competition recollectingl u ,..r" of my visit' This is a paddy field during the harvesting
(1) ......h....... . Two men and a woman are working (2) .-. ""' ' Two men are
(3) . , .... with winnowing paddy. The (4) ........,
. . ' '.... is helping them by

collecting paddy into gunny bags. Another woman is bringing their (5) .'...... in
a reed box kepr on her (6) ... ..... . A little girl is walking ahead of her. She is also Q.3

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A illan in a (9) .. cart is passing the paddy field

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the (10) nearby. It is really a (11) scene. Many who

came for the exhibition appreciated my drawing.

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Underlinc thP rnost suitable word given within bracl:ets to lill in each blank. The first one is
uune JUt you.
done for )uu.
ln a city, there,lived a girl of 'about five and she had only her mother. They
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ipent, spends) their lifq,'happily though they (2) --...i... (have, having, had)
many hardships. The mothep who (f) ...:.....(worked, work, works) in a hospital eamed only
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a small amount of money.\fr"ry rupee she (4) ........' (earn, eaming, earned) was carefully f';-l
spenr to (5).......... (fed, feed, feeds) her child and for all other needs. One day, while they
(6) ....... (were travelling, was travelling, travelling) in a bus, the little girl bought a lottery
ticket and wished that she would win the f,rst prize.
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use only
,-i) A young wolnar) \,t'as travelling in Italy. She was irr a sheet in F-lorcnce, adnLiring some lealher h
in a shop window. Sudrienly, an old \voman touchecl her ann and said in Italian, 'Excuse me. Miss.'
'Yes'?'aslced thc young wornan, wondering what this oitl wornan u,anted.
'Isi there someole in your family, maybe your urolher, called Jer:nifer'l'
(O 'Yes', said (he young \volnan.'My motlrer's name is Jcnnifer. Why? How did you know that?'
'Because you look cxactly like the lady who taught nle English when I was living in Boston in 1950"
replied the old woman.
'That's strange' said the yolurg woman. 'I come from Boston. But no one in my family is a teacher.'
'Are you sure?' asked the stranger. 'Pretty sure,' she said, but feelir-rg doubtful.
QQt That night back at the hotel, the young woman phoned her parents' home in Boston and she tolcl her
mother rvhat had happened that day. Her mother told her that for about five years in the 1950s she
had volunteered to help fcrreign students to learn English. N{any of them had come to America from
Italy.
Underline l"he correct ans\ver.
(1) What was the young woman doing in the street'?
(a) talking to people
(b) helprng older people
(c) rvatciting handbags in shops
(2) Who n'as Jennifcr?
(a) the olcl rvoman (b) the young wollan's nrother (c) the young woman
(3) l'he old wontan was talking about her
(a) rnother. (b) teacher. (c) sister.
(4) 'Ihe word 'them' in line 12 refers ro
(a) the y()ung wonlan and her mother"
(b) foreign students.
(c) Jenniler and her students.
(-5) Which sentence is correct according to the story?
(a) A yoLrng woman meets an old woman who had taught her English.
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(b) The l/oung rvotnan's mother had taught English to the old woman in Boston.
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(c) 'fite )/oung womarl in the story looks exactly iike the olci woman. Ii.-l sl
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Wlite a parrtgraplt on any one of the following topics. flse about 50 to 60 words.
(a) How r.l,e should look after the elderly people
(b) d' television progralnme I watched

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