Read the following passage and do the given activities : (10 marks)B1. Who said to whom : (2) [Table with three columns — Sentence, Who said, To whom — and two rows : (i) “I’ll do better than that.” (ii) “You are quite a humorist.”]“Are you still hun…
Q.2 (B) Read the following passage and do the given activities : (10 marks)
B1. Who said to whom : (2) [Table with three columns — Sentence, Who said, To whom — and two rows : (i) “I’ll do better than that.” (ii) “You are quite a humorist.”]
“Are you still hungry ?” I asked faintly.
“Oh, no, I’m not hungry. You see, I don’t eat luncheon. I have a cup of coffee in the morning and then dinner, but I never eat more than one thing for luncheon. I was speaking for you.”
“Oh, I see.” Then a terrible thing happened. While we were waiting for the coffee, the head waiter came up to us bearing a large basket full of huge peaches. But surely peaches were not in season then ? Lord knew what they cost! I knew a little later, for my quest going on with her conversation, absentmindedly took one.
“You see, you’ve filled your stomach with a lot of meat,” my one miserable little chop “and you can’t eat any more. But I’ve just had a snack and I shall enjoy a peach.”
The bill came and when I paid it I found that I had only enough for a quite inadequate tip. Her eyes rested for an instant on the three francs I left for the waiter and I knew that she thought me mean. But when I walked out of the restaurant I had the whole month before me and not a penny in my pocket.
“Follow my example,” she said as we shook hands, “and never eat more than one thing for luncheon.”
“I’ll do better than that,” I retorted, “I’ll eat nothing for dinner tonight.”
“Humorist!” she cried gaily, jumping into a cab.
“You’re quite a humorist!”
But I have had my revenge at last. I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the gods take a hand in the matter it is understandable to observe the result with satisfaction. Today, she weighs twenty-one stone.
B2. Read the passage and put the following events in correct order : (2)
(1) The narrator walked out of the restaurant. (2) The narrator paid the bill but the tip was inadequate. (3) The quest jumped into the cab. (4) The head waiter came with the basket full of peaches.
B3. Match the words in Column A with their meanings in Column B : (2) [Column ‘A’ — (i) inadequate, (ii) terrible, (iii) vindictive, (iv) mean; Column ‘B’ — (a) revengeful, (b) unkind, (c) unpleasant, (d) insufficient.]
B4. Do as directed : (2) (i) Add a question tag and rewrite the sentence : I don’t eat luncheon. (ii) Rewrite as an affirmative sentence : I’ll eat nothing for dinner tonight.
B5. Personal response : (2) ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ – Explain the concept.