Read the following passage and do the activities : (10 marks)B1. Complete the web from passage : (2) [Web diagram: the centre oval reads “Parts of body”; four blank ovals are joined to it by arrows, two above and two below.]One morning in a small apa…

Q.2 (B) Read the following passage and do the activities : (10 marks)

B1. Complete the web from passage : (2) [Web diagram: the centre oval reads “Parts of body”; four blank ovals are joined to it by arrows, two above and two below.]

One morning in a small apartment in Bombay a girl of about sixteen looked up from the newspaper and said excitedly, ‘Pandit Ravi Shankar’s playing tomorrow at the Shanmukhananda auditorium’.

‘Sh-sh,’ said her mother pointing to the figure sleeping on the bed. ‘You’ll wake him up. You know he needs all the sleep and rest he can get.’

But the boy on the bed was not asleep. ‘Pandit Ravi Shankar !’ he said. ‘Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sitar maestro ? He raised himself up on his elbows for one second, then fell back. But his eyes were shining. ‘We mustn’t miss the chance,’ he said. ‘I’ve – ‘I’ve – always wanted to hear him and see him.......’

‘Lie down son, lie down.’ His mother sprang to his side. ‘He actually raised himself up without help,’ she murmured with a catch in her throat and her eyes turned to the idols on a corner shelf. The prayer, which she uttered endlessly, came unbidden to her lips.

B2. Find the reasons for each of the sentence given below from the passage : (2) (i) The mother ‘sh-sh’-ed her ........................ . (ii) The boy’s eyes were shining ...................... .

B3. Vocabulary : (2) (1) Find out two onomatopoeic words from the passage. (2) Complete the cross puzzle in the given ladders in capital letters. (The words should be from the passage only) [Crossword: a horizontal ladder of nine squares with the letter T in the middle square, crossed by a vertical ladder of ten squares with the same T as its fifth letter.]

B4. Grammar : (2) (1) He raised himself up on his elbows for one second, then fell back. (Make it simple) (2) The boy on the bed was not asleep. (Make it affirmative)

B5. Why do you think the boy’s mother’s eyes turned towards the idols kept in the corner ? (2)