Madhyamik ABTA English Page- 489

 Madhyamik ABTA English Page-489

READING COMPREHENSION (SEEN)

A. Write the correct alternative:

A. (ii) six people live on the Big Half Moon Island.

B. (iii) Kite.

C. (i) Claude's father.

D. (iv) Frozen.

E. (i) Winter.

B. Complete the sentences:

(i) People always pitied the narrator and her brother when the time came for them to return because they thought the narrator and Claude would be lonesome on the island without other children.

(j) Claude and the narrator would have liked to have someone to play with them because it was hard to play games like running pirate caves with only two people.

(k) The absence of relations used to puzzle Claude and the narrator.

C. State whether true or false:

(i) False

a. Supporting Sentence: “Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us.”

(j) False

a. Supporting Sentence: "Father did not seem to have......

READING COMPREHENSION (SEEN POEM)

A. Tick the correct alternative:

A. (i) Displeasure.

B. (iv) Shell.

C. (iv) Any of them.

D. (iii) Alone.

B. Answer the following:

(1) The snail reacts to imminent danger by hiding securely inside his shell.

(2) When someone touches the snail, it shrinks into its shell with displeasure.

READING COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)

A. Tick the correct alternative:

(1) (ii) At the rear.

(2) (iv) West Bengal.

(3) (iii) In the morning.

(4) (i) The station master.

(5) (ii) 13174.

(6) (i) After.

B. True or False:

 False

 Supporting Sentence: “The automatic signalling system... was defective.”

 False

 Supporting Sentence: “...stopped between Ranipatra railway station and Chattar Hat due to automatic signalling failure.”

 False

 Supporting Sentence: “The Railway Board... pegged the overall death toll at five.”

C. Answer the following:

 The automatic signalling system was reported to be defective between Ranipatra Railway Station and Chattar Hat Junction on 17 June.

 The station master issues written authority (TA 912) to allow trains to cross red signals when the automatic signalling system fails.

 Kanchanjungha Express stopped due to the failure of the automatic signalling system.

 When the goods train hit Kanchanjungha Express, it caused derailment of several coaches and resulted in fatalities.

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

4. Fill in the blanks:

 Collection.

 Received.

 Became.

5. A. Fill in the blanks:

 A.

 To.

 With.

B.

 1. Police said that the driver of the goods train had violated the signal.

2. Gitanjali was translated into English by Rabindranath.

3.I prefer a boiled egg when I have breakfast.

C. Choose the correct phrasal verb:

 Take off.

 Turn off.

 Call in.

6. Word meanings:

 Automatic.

 Defective.

 Authority.

 Violated.