English with Brajendra

  A Legend of the Northland [A] Comprehension Read the stanzas carefully and answer the questions based on them. 1. Once when the good ...... you know. 1. Good Saint Peter lived in the world , in the cold region of the Northland to be more precise , in ancient times. 2. He walked about the world to preach. 3. He preached. 4. 'Know' rhymes with below. 2. And being faint..... a single one. 1. Fasting made the Saint weak. 2. It was evening. 3. The saint asked the woman to give him a cake.  4. No , he didn't ask for the whole store of cakes. He asked for a single cake only. 3. Then she took .... part with that . 1. She took a tiny scrap of dough then. 2. She rolled and rolled it to make it flat . 3. She baked a cake which looked as a thin wafer . 4. No , she didn't give the wafer to the saint. 4 . And he said ...... keep you warm . 1. Here ' you ' refers to the woman. 2. The woman is too selfish. 3. She should not dwell in a human form. 4. The rhyming words are form

  Lesson 4 .The Lake Isle Of Innisfree ( Poem ) [A] Comprehension Read the stanzas carefully and answer the questions based on them. 1. I will arise........and bee-loud glade. 1. The poet will arise to go to the lake isle of Innisfree. 2. He wants to build a small cabin there. 3. He will have nine bean-rows and a hive of honey bees for food. 4. ' Honeybee ' rhymes with Innisfree. 2. And I shall have...... linnet's wings. 1. 'I' refers to the poet , W. B. Yeats. 2. Peace comes there, dropping slow. 3. Midnight is all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow there. 4. The evening is full of the pleasant sounds of linnet's wings. 3. I shall arise ..... and deep heart's core . 1. The poet hears day and night the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. 2. While thinking of going to Innisfree , the poet is standing on a roadway or the grey pavements. 3. The poet wants to go to Innisfree for always. 4. The rhyming words are day and grey , shore and core. [B] Cent

  Lesson 5 . The Snake and the Mirror [ A ] Comprehension Read the following passage and give the answers to the questions given below. It was a hot summer …… was then wearing . 1.The narrator opened the door on returning home after having his meal at a restaurant. 2. Besides the narrator , rats were there in the room. 3.The narrator took out his box of matches and lighted the kerosene lamp on the table for light. 4. The narrator's belongings were sixty rupees in his suitcase along with some shirts and dhotis and one solitary black coat which he was then wearing. 2. I went back into ….. and neat . 1.The book that the doctor opened was titled ' Materia Medica '. 2.Besides the book the table had  the lamp and a large mirror and a small comb lying on it. 3. The narrator was a great admirer of beauty and he believed in making himself look handsome. 4.He ran the comb through his hair and adjusted the parting so that it looked straight and neat. 3. I didn't jump …….. in the f

  Lesson 4 . A Truly Beautiful Mind  [ A ] Comprehension Read the following passage and give the answers to the questions given below. 1. Albert Einstein was born....... much too large. 1. Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in the German city of Ulm . 2. No . In his infancy he didn't show that he was going to be great.  3. Her mother thought that he was a freak . 4. Sign =Indication ; Seemed = Appeared . 2. But Albert Einstein..... school for good . 1. No . Albert was not a bad pupil. 2. Einstein’s family had moved to Munich when he was 15 months old.  3. He scored good marks in almost every subject . 4. Einstein hated the school’s regimentation . As a result he finally left the school for good at the age of fifteen. 3. The previous year, Albert's ...... than Munich. 1.Before moving to Milan, Albert’s parents had   left Albert with relatives. 2. Einstein wished to continue his education in German-speaking Switzerland, in a city which was more liberal than Munich. After a prolon