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Total English Class 9 ICSE Solutions Specimen Paper
Question 1.
Write a composition (300-350 words) on any one of the following:
a. Write an original story which clearly illustrates the friendship between a boy and his dog.
Answer:
When Tirath was twelve years old he had a little dog named Buddy. It was,a German shepherd. It was very warm, friendly and playful. However, outsiders often found it dangerous. This was because of its built and colour. It was vigilant and guarded his house all the time. He was a faithful dog. He used to take care of Tirath when he was little. His mother always trusted Buddy because he was never known to leave him alone or allow anyone to touch fim. Everyone in his family was fond of Buddy and treated him like a family member. They could not imagine life without him.
Long after Buddy died Tirath did not keep a pet as he felt no one could be like Buddy. And then one day he saw a two months old German shepherd pup in a pet shop. He was sleeping peacefully in a small cage. Tirath knew at once that he wanted to keep him as he was reminded of Buddy. He on that very day taught Tirath to love him unconditionally. Tirath took him home to his wife and little son.
They decided to name him Buddy in memory of Tirath’s childhood pet and friend. Buddy was so small and cute that almost everyone in the family fell in love with it as soon as Tirath brought him home. He taught Tirath to smile the minute he would lay eyes on him. Not an ear to ear smile but one of those “aww look at that face” smiles; kind of a liptrembling happy frown smile.
Dogs love babies and are very protective about them. Buddy and Tirath’s small two year old son became friends almost instantly.
One day, Tirath and his wife went out for shopping, leaving their little son under the care of Buddy. When they returned in the evening the dog ran out to greet his master. Tirath was shocked to find the dog’s mouth with blood. Alarmed for his child, he ran inside but he found the child missing.
Seeing the ground covered with blood, he concluded that the dog had killed the baby andwas about to hit him intending to kill him also when he heard the his son’s cry and rushed there. He saw the baby unhurt and lying close to the dead wolf that the dog had killed to save the child.
Tirath felt guilty for doubting Buddy and turned to find him lying on te ground badly wounded and bleeding. They rushed Buddy to the hospital where he had to undergo surgery. Buddy returned home after recovering and became an inseparable part of their lives and especially of his son’s.
Buddy was extremely gentle with the baby and would sleep next to his bed. He taught Tirath to forgive and forget. His wet slurpy greeting made all of them d melt with love for him. And Tirath always felt he could trust Buddy to keep his son safe from any danger.
b. You mistakenly went to your school on a day which was a holiday. Everything was closed and the school was empty. Write a description of what you saw and heard. What were your feelings at the end of the visit.
Answer:
There are some days when we have classes really early and I missed it many times because I wouldn’t wake up even with alarms. One of those days was the next day. So I was determined to wake up early. I woke up, got ready and caught a bus. It takes one hour sometimes.
When I came near to school I looked on the road of the school, there were no vehicles like auto, cycle, etc. I thought, “Is today vehicle strike? But cycles should also be there…”
I stopped my thinking and went to the main door of the school.
The huge school entrance door was closed.
There was a guard on the side of the door outside sitting, sleeping on a chair.
I woke him up and asked him, “can you open the door for me? I wan’t to go inside, Sorry I am late…”
He was very sleepy and asked me “Are you avisitor for the Principal?
I told, “No! I am a student of this school! Please open the door.”
Then he fully wbke up from the sleep and said me, “Why have you come? Today is a holiday. Has your teacher called you?
Then I exclaimed loudly, “IS TODAY HOLIDAY? And only then I realised that there was no sound of students in the classrooms or in the corridors. Everything was shut and only the sound of the breeze and birds could be heard. I felt embarrassed and stupid and apologised sheepishly to the gatekeeper and turned to go back home. But I felt so stupid and resolved not to tell my friends about it.
c. Your room has been untidy for a very long time and your parents have been urging you to tidy it. Narrate your experience of cleaning and tidying your room. What did this experience teach you?
Answer:
The hardest thing for a lot of youngsters is keeping a clean bedroom. It can be very intimidating to clean your bedroom, especially if its been a disaster for quite some time. My parents were fed up with the mess in my room and kept telling and even threatening me with no pocket money if I did not clean my room soon. My books are everywhere except where they should be, my clothes are strewn around and there is always a half-eaten biscuit/fruit or a splash of fruit juice on the floor.
One day I was myself fed up as I could not find my earphones in the mess so I decided to clean up. I told my parents the good news at breakfast and it was a sight to see their shocked expressions.
I went to my room and assessed the damage and wondered where to Begin. My bedcover was crumpled and the covers were missing from the pillows. The bed itself was hidden underneath all sorts of junk. I could even see one cockroach trying to nibble at my last night’s sandwich. Now it dawned on me why everyone avoided my room!
I scooped some things from the floor and dumped them on the bed. I would clear it up later. I tried to scrape off something yucky from the sofa, but it was very stubborn. I realised that I would have to scrub the sofa with soapy water. I went to the terrace and filled a tub with water. I added washing powder and lifted it. BANG! It almost fell on my foot! I was reduced to dragging it all the way to the bedroom.
Then I went to find a suitable brush for scrubbing. But lo and behold! There was water in the whole room when I came back. My dragging seemed to have caused a crack in the tub, and all the soapy water had leaked out, thoroughly soaking the things on the floor, which, by the way, were many.
I made several unsuccessful attempts to stop the leaking and then finally decided to lift and take it back to the terrace. I desperately lifted the tub again, this time to drop it hard on my toe. Hopping on one foot, I dragged it back to the terrace. Trails of soapy water were left behind. Slipping and slithering over them I went back to my room.
Lifted all the clothes from my bed and stuffed them into the closet. As the door of the closet would not close I used a belt to tie up the closet handle. I turned back to the junk piled all around me. I found an old battered alarm clock and threw it unceremoniously in the wastepaper basket. After disposing some broken decoration pieces and toys, I discovered another small hidden pile of clothes which I again stuffed into the closet.
I valiantly probed into the steadily shrinking mountain of trash in my room. I was getting tired and exhausted now. Mom has to do this every day? I shuddered at the thought. Frustrated, tired and hungry, I shoved the remaining mess into a huge litter bag and, after untying the closet again, stuffed it in.
My mom came to call me for lunch and as soon as she opened the door she gasped in disbelief! She had no words to express her surprise at the clean, unlettered sight which met her eyes. Before I could stop her she tugged at the belt holding the closet handle and a second later, she was buried knee-deep in wet, smelly clothes, rotting bits of food and other rubbish.
You can imagine her anger and frustration and needless to say I was told that as punishment my pocket money was stopped and I could not step out of the house till the mess was thoroughly cleared and then inspected by my parents.
d. Express your views either for or against the statement:
“Life’s best lessons are learnt from friends.”
Answer:
For
Friends are the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of. They can lift you up when you’re feeling down or they can really whip you into shape when you need it most. Friends keep you motivated and can also give a kick in the butt to get the ball rolling again as family is often times too close to home to help get one motivated.
Friends are always there and loyalty is an important lesson one learns from them. They are there to stay in good or bad times and one can depend upon them.
Friends are important for a person’s emotional well-being because they provide emotional support. Good friends can offer advice, someone to talk to, and many other kinds of help. One learns a lot through discussions with friends as they give their honest opinion. They, teach you to share your sorrows and joys. Everything is shared from clothes to notes.
Friends are key to a happy life. They are there for you when family might not be. And while you have different opinions sometimes that makes you a great diverse group of friends. They teach you to accept people as a whole – the good and the bad.
Friends -true friends – are like the brother or sister you never had, but always prayed for. Friends see you in all moods, all quirks, all miserable – and they still love you. This is because you would do the same for the friend when he or she is experience whatever life throws at them.
In life the most important thing to remember about friends is that you can make a family of your friends. It is possible to replace family members who are mean-spirited or unkind. The most important lesson is that friends can become our family if we choose to make them part of our family. A lot of heart broken people can eventually heal their own hearts by reaching out to friends and making them part of their families.
Without friends depression comes quick, as there is no support when bad events strike. Having a close knit group of friends is vital in maintaining a positive mental attitude. The best life lesson about friends is that its quality not quantity. Because a quality friend will be there every time you are in need. And they also can return to you and get the help that they need without a doubt.
Against-
“Friends” is a word with so many definitions. In kindergarten, its anyone in the same class as you. In middle school its your neighbour that sits on the bus with you. In high school it’s the kids who enjoy your same hobbies, sports. Usually, very few of these “friends” are still in contact with us today. Young people get so wrapped up in their “friends” that they miss out on time with their family members, who will always be there throughout their lives. Family is forever, and friendships are very temporary.
Friends and money do not mix. One is sure to lose a friend if you lend money or invest in their business.
Dishonest or untrustworthy friends, provide poor support. Infact one learns how to judge and select people from such friends.
Friends come and go but family is forever. Pretty much anywhere you go it is possible to meet new friends. At the end of the day, it is important to focus your energy on your family and work.
e. Study the picture given below. Write a short story or description of an account of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or may take suggestions from it; however there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition.
Answer: Girls education in India is most necessary for a developing country because girls also can do all thing better than boys. Girls are also the future of the country.
“more than 500 million adolescent girls are living in the developing world today. Every one of them can potentially help break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, with ripple effects multiplying across her society.”
It is said that ‘if we educate a man, we educate only one man, but if we educate a woman, then we educate the whole family’. Education plays a major role in the socio-economic development of a nation. A nation can be educated in the true meaning of this word, when its entire population is educated. Most people think that the contribution of men in society is more than women.
But now women have shared equal responsibility in every area of society. Therefore, women’s education is important for the progress of all sections of the country. If we want democracy to succeed, then the woman should be educated. They are the real builders of happy homes.
Women’s education is very important because women are the first teachers of their children. Children receive the first lesson in their laps, so if they are educated, they can make their sons and daughters more responsible citizens. French ruler Napoleon said, ‘The progress of the nation is impossible without trained and educated mothers. If half of the people of my country are not educated then almost half will be ignorant’.
Education enhances the intellectual, social and emotional development of women and enables them to fulfil their, basic needs of daily life. It helps in reducing inequalities in society. An educated mother will have high hopes for the educational success of children and will encourage them to develop their own high expectations.
An educated mother is more likely to have health related information to ensure that her children get proper vaccines for their health and provide healthy meals, which are beneficial to nutrition.
Apart from this educated women help in reducing the population of a nation. They also help in reducing child and maternal mortality rates. Then there is possibility of reducing the risk of domestic abuse and give confidence to an educated woman and help her in making the right decisions. It all contributes in a positive manner to society and the country.
However, still much of the women education in many parts of India has not been given importance. For some reasons dowry, child marriage, caste system and Parda system are popular in society. Many people in the rural areas believe that a girl is a ‘problem’ and money will be required during the marriage given in the form of dowry.
Thus, investing money for their education is considered as garbage Another reason for the lack of education of a girl is child marriage. It is a great belief amongst people in India that instead of getting education for a girl it is more important for her to be talented in domestic work. This forces the girl to focus on the work of the house. In many places, the caste system is so strong that the lower caste girl is not allowed to go to schools where high caste girls are studying.
If you look at the percentage of educated people, there is a big difference between the male and female literacy rate in India. Female literacy rate is highest in Kerala and Mizoram, respectively at 91.98 % and 89.40 %, whereas Rajasthan has the lowest female literacy at 52.66 %.
The Government of India had initiated various programs and policies to ensure that a girl will get all chances of getting education.
The educated girl can take care of any kind of responsibility. Women like Kalpana Chawla, Kiran Bedi, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj and so on, everyone of them has earned a name for themselves. Education of a girl means that the next generation is well educated, full of d qualities, free from useless superstitions, capable of doing good for faith and family, for society and for the whole country. Today’s girl is tomorrow’s mother.
A girl should be given the necessary education, as while ignoring her and making her illiterate, we are creating an illiterate and ignorant generation. Therefore, it is absolutely right that educating a girl’s child means educating the family. Unless the right instruction is given to the girls in the right direction, the development cannot be accelerated. Swami Vivekananda has rightly said, “Educate your women first and leave them, they will tell you what is needed for reforms”.
Question 2.
(Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.)
Select one of the following:
(a) You have behaved very rudely to a friend. Write a letter to him/her apologising for the rude behaviour. Explain what happened and tell him/her what you plan to do to make amends.
Answer:
15-A,
Mahatma Gandhi Road
Bhatinda, Punjab
3rd August, 2021
Dear Durgesh
Hope this letter finds you in your usual good humour and optimism. Well, I have written to you to apologize for last week’s altercation. It was very bad and rude on my part to have a heated argument with you and insult you. It has kind of frozen the warmth of our friendship. Actually in the heat of the discussion I forgot our deep friendship and made some rude remarks.
Undoubtedly, each one of us has the freedom and right to stick to our guns that does not mean we should allow our relationship to be affected by it. That day during the group discussion we had a difference of opinion. You were giving arguments to support your point and I was supporting mine. That was just a group discussion. Both of us behaved rudely to each other.
We should not have taken our differences out of the discussion room. We must not forget we have been bosom-pals since our 5 th class. I have been missing talking to you since we stopped talking to each other. I express my apologies if I have hurt you and request you to let bygones be bygones and make up and be friends again. The rest is fine. Give regards to uncle and aunt. Looking forward to hearing from you!
Your apologetic friend
Ganesh
b. You are in charge of the Nature Club of your locality. Write a letter to the Secretary of the Sports Club in the neighbourhood requesting permission to hold a Nature Fest inthe club grounds nearby. Give details of your plans for the event.
Answer:
Avinash Rastogi
Incharge Nature club
Shivaji Enclave
Aurangabad
8 February 2021
The Secretary
Aurangabad Sports club
Sir
I am in charge of our locality’s nature club and would like to get your permission for using your club ground to hold a nature festival on 16 March 2021 from 10 am to 1 pm .
The details of the plan are as follows:
1. Poster competition on saving earth.
2. Slogan Competition on deforestation.
3. Expert practical demonstration on planting bonsai trees.
4. Tree plantation by children.
We will bring with us all the needed materials and I would be greatly obliged if you could give us the needed space. Waiting to get a positive reply from you!
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
Avinash Rastogi
Question 3
(a) Your school is hosting an Inter -school music competition. Write a notice to be put up in your school informing the students about the event and inviting them to participate in the Inter-school music competition.
Answer:
Springdale Public School
Notice
Inter-School Music Competition
25th April 2021
All the students are hereby informed that an Inter-School Music Competition is going to be organised in our school on 15 May 2021 at 10 am in the school auditorium. All the teachers are requested to prepare the list of the students, who would like to participate, from their respective sections. The interested participants will have to practise with their respective music teachers and then a selection round will be held on 9th May 2021 in the school auditorium. The winners in this selection round will be eligible to participate in the final Inter- School Music Competition which is being sponsored by Shubam Radios. For more information, you are requested to contact the undersigned.
Cultural Society Head
Amit Tandon
b. Write an e-mail to the principal of a neighbouring school informing him/her about the event and requesting him/her to send a team to participate in the competition.
Answer:
To: [email protected]
Sub: Request to send Team
Sir/Madam
Springdale Public School is organising an inter-school Music Competition on15th May, 2021. You are requested to forward the names of participants from your respective school
for taking part in the Inter-School Music Competition. The event will be held in the school
d auditorium on 15th May 2021 at10 am . The participants should reach the venue at least half an hour ahead of the scheduled time.
Thanking you
Amit Tandon
Cultural Society Head
Question 4.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
With dry lips, parched throat, and ink-stained fingers, and exhaustion on one side and exaltation on the other, Swaminathan strode out of the examination hall on the last day.
Standing in the veranda, he turned back and looked into the hall and felt slightly uneasy. He would have felt more comfortable if all the boys had given their papers as he had done, twenty minutes before time. With his left shoulder resting against the wall, Sankar was lost to the world.
Rajam, sitting under the second ventilator, between two third-form boys, had become a writing-machine. Mani was still gazing at the rafters, scratching his chin with the pen. The Pea was leaning back in his seat, revising his answers. One supervisor was drowsing in his chair; another was pacing up and down with an abstracted look in his eyes. The scratchy noise of active nibs, the rustle of papers, and the clearing of the throats, came through the brooding silence of the hall.
Swaminathan suddenly wished that he had not come out so soon. But how could be have stayed in the hall longer? The Tamil paper was set to go on till five o’clock. He had found himself writing the last line of the last question at four-thirty. Out of the six questions set, he had answered the first question to his satisfaction, the second was doubtful, the third was satisfactory, the fourth he knew was clearly wrong (but them, he did not know the correct answer).
The sixth answer was the best of the lot. It took only a minute to answer it. He had read the question at two minutes to four-thirty, started to answer a minutes to four-thirty, started to answer a minute later, and finished it at four-thirty.
He had found it hard to kill time. Why wasn’t the paper set for two and a half hours instead of three? He had looked wistfully at the veranda outside. If only he could pluck up enough courage to hand in the paper and go out – he would have no more examinations for a long time to come – he could do what he pleased – roam about the town in the evenings and afternoons and mornings – throw away the books – command Granny to tell endless tales.
He had seen a supervisor observing him, and had at once pretended to be busy with the answer paper. He thought that while he was about it, he might as well do a little revision. He read a few lines of the first question and was bored. He had to pretend that he was revising. He set his pen to work. He went on improving the little dash under the last line indicating the end, till it became an elaborate complicated pattern.
He had looked at the clock again, thinking that it must be nearly five now. It was ten minutes past four-thirty. He saw two or three boys giving up their papers and going out, and felt happy. He briskly folded the paper and wrote his name.
The bell rang. In twos or threes the boys came out of the hall. It was a through contrast to the preceding three hours. There was din of excited chater.
a. Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted.
i. Pacing (line 9)
(a) running
(b) walking steadily
(c) moving
(d) exercising
Answer:
Pacing – walk at a steady speed, especially without a particular destination and as an expression of anxiety or annoyance.
ii. wistfully (line22)
(a) pensively
(b) cheerfully
(c) eagerly
(d) avidly
Answer:
wistfully- with a feeling of vague or regretful longing
iii. din (line 39)
(a) silence
(b) stillness
(c) noise
(d) quiet
Answer:
din- a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise.
b. Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:
i. Why did swami feel slightly uneasy as soon as he came out of the examination hall?
Answer:
It was the last day of the examinations. Swami came out of the examination hall twenty minutes earlier. His friends were still at work, and so Swami felt more uneasy and restless. He felt it was a mistake to have come out so early.
ii. Why did he think he had answered the sixth question best of all?
Answer:
Swami thought he had answered the sixth question the best of all because it took him only a minute to answer it.
iii. What did he plan to do with his books once the exams were over?
Answer:
He planned to throw away te books.
iv. Which word in the passage tells you that Swami used to bully his grandmother?
Answer:
The word ‘command’ used in the passage in reference to his grandmother tells us that Swami bullied his grandmother.
v. Why do you think Swami drew an elaborate complicated pattern after his last answer?
Answer:
Swami had to pretend that he was revising so he set his pen to work and improved the dash under the last line. This ultimately became an elaborate complicated pattern after his last answer because he kept on drawing to while away the time.
c. In not more than 50 words, describe what Swami’s classmates and supervisors were doing in the examination hall.
Answer:
Shankar was sleeping while leaning against the wall. Rajam was only writing. Pea was revising his paper while Mani was looking at the ceiling of the room. One supervisor was walking aimlessly in the examination hall in a confused manner, while the other one was sitting in his chair half asleep.
Question 5.
(a) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.
Suraj …..0….. (look) out of the door.
He ….1….(catch) sight of the board …..2…..(bear) the station’s name. He was so …3…(astonish) that he almost …4…(fall) out of the compartment. He was back in his home town! After ….5….(travel) for forty or fifty kilometres, here he …6….(is) home again. He ….7….(can) not understand it. He …..8….(climb) out of the compartment slowly.
Answer:
Suraj looked out of the door.
He caught sight of the board bearing the station’s name. He was so astonished that he almost fell out of the compartment. He was back in his home town! After travelling for forty or fifty kilometres, here he was home again. He could not understand it. He climbed out of the compartment slowly.
b. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word.
1. Bobby waited in front ______ the school.
Answer:
Bobby waited in front of the school.
2. The children were told to return home ______ it became dark.
Answer:
The children were told to return home before it became dark.
3. He wore an old muffler wrapped ______ his neck.
Answer:
He wore an old muffler wrapped around his neck.
4. He saw the bird fly high ______ the tower and disappear.
Answer:
He saw the bird fly high over the tower and disappear.
5. Music therapy is a cure ______ many ills.
Answer:
Music therapy is a cure for many ills.
6. The thief ran ______ the staircase and out into the yard.
Answer:
The thief ran down the staircase and out into the yard.
7. Mr Roy jumped into his car and drove ______ as fast as he could.
Answer:
Mr Roy jumped into his car and drove off as fast as he could.
8. Please do not get carried ______ by these rumours.
Answer:
Please do not get carried away by these rumours.
c. Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.
Question 1.
The teacher arrived. The class started.
(a) The class started with the teacher’s arrival.
(b) As soon as the teacher arrived the class started.
(c) When the teacher arrives the class started.
(d) The teacher having arrived the class started.
Answer:
(b) As soon as the teacher arrived the class started.
Question 2.
The drive was so tedious. I fell asleep on the back seat.
(a) I fell asleep on the back seat as the drive was too tedious.
(b) I fell asleep on the back seat when the drive became so tedious.
(c) The drive being tedious I slept on the back seat.
(d) The drive has been quite tedious for I fell asleep on the back seat.
Answer:
(a) I fell asleep on the back seat as the drive was too tedious.
Question 3.
He was found in possession of the stolen goods. He was punished.
(a) He was punished for keeping the stolen goods.
(b) He was punished as he kept the stolen goods in his possession.
(c) He was punished because the stolen goods were found in his possession.
(d) He was punished for having the stolen goods.
Answer:
(c) He was punished because the stolen goods were found in his possession.
Question 4.
Stop talking. Leave the classroom.
(a) Stop talking or leave the classroom.
(b) Leave the classroom to stop talking.
(c) Stop talking to leave the classroom.
(d) If you don’t want to stop talking you can leave the classroom.
Answer:
(a) Stop talking or leave the classroom.
d. Choose the correct option to rewrite the following according to the instructions given after each sentence.
Question 1.
“I saw a panther this morning”, he said modestly. (Rewrite using indirect speech.)
(a) He said modestly that he had seen a panther that morning.
(b) He said modestly that he saw a panther this morning.
(c) He said that he has seen a panther this morning.
(d) He said that he has seen a panther that morning.
Answer:
(b) He said modestly that he saw a panther this morning.
Question 2.
Kiran is the fastest runner in our school. (Begin with: No other…)
(a) No other runner in our school is fastest as Kiran.
(b) No other runner can run as fast as Kiran in our school.
(c) No other runner in our school is as fast as Kiran.
(d) No other runner in our school is faster to Kiran.
Answer:
(c) No other runner in our school is as fast as Kiran.
Question 3.
Susan hid her grandmother’s spectacles. (Begin with: Her grandmother’s…)
(a) Her grandmother’s spectacles hid by Susan.
(b) Her grandmother’s spectacles were hidden by Susan.
(c) Her grandmother’s spectacles got hid by Susan.
(d) Her grandmother’s spectacles was hidden by Susan.
Answer:
(b) Her grandmother’s spectacles were hidden by Susan.
Question 4.
Ali was too embarrassed to speak clearly. (Begin with: Ali was so…)
(a) Ali was so embarrassed to speak clearly.
(b) Ali was so embarrassed for him to speak clearly.
(c) Ali was so embarrassed with himself to speak clearly.
(d) Ali was so embarrassed that he could not speak clearly.
Answer:
(d) Ali was so embarrassed that he could not speak clearly.
Question 5.
As soon as the election results were out, the victory procession started.
(Begin with: No sooner…)
(a) No sooner the results were out the victory procession started.
(b) No sooner the results were declared that the victory procession started.
(c) No sooner did the election results were out than the victory procession started.
(d) No sooner have they declared the election results than the procession started.
Answer:
(b) No sooner the results were declared that the victory procession started.
Question 6.
Ranji prefers reading a book to watching a movie. (Begin with: Ranji would rather…)
(a) Ranji would rather read a book than watch a movie.
(b) Ranji would rather prefer to read a book to watch a movie.
(c) Ranji would rather not read to a book but watch a movie.
(d) Ranji would rather read a book than watching a movie.
Answer:
(a) Ranji would rather read a book than watch a movie.
Question 7.
Anu does not study enough, but she still stands first. (Begin with: Despite…)
(a) Despite studying enough, Anu did not stand first.
(b) Despite studying much, Anu stood first.
(c) Despite not studying enough, Anu stood first.
(d) Despite not being able to study, Anu stood first.
Answer:
(c) Despite not studying enough, Anu stood first.
Question 8.
If Aruna practises, she will win the competition. (Begin with: Unless…)
d (a) Unless Aruna practices for the competition she will win it.
(b) Unless Aruna wins the competition she has to practice.
(c) Unless Aruna practices, she will not win the competition.
(d) Unless Aruna practices, she will win the competition.
Answer:
(c) Unless Aruna practices, she will not win the competition.