Answer:

(Q. No. 1-10) Read the following passage from the lesson “Can’t climb trees

any more”.

She sprang up and ran across the grass, swift and sweet of limb. Soon she was

in the JACKFRUIT tree, crawling along the projecting branch. A warm wind brought

little eddies of dust along the road. Summer was in the AIR....

‘I’ve found it!’ she cried. ‘I’ve found something!’

And now, barefoot, she ran breathlessly towards him, in her outstretched hand a

rusty old medal.

He took it from her and turned it over on his palm.

‘Is it the Iron Cross?’ she asked eagerly.

‘YES’, he said, ‘this is it.’

‘Now I know why you came. You wanted to see if it was still in the tree.’

‘You may be right. I’m not really sure why I came. But you can keep the

Cross. You found it, after all.’

‘No, you keep it. It’s yours.’

‘But it could have remained in the tree for another twenty-five years if you

hadn’t climbed up to look for it.’

‘But if you hadn’t come back again....’

‘On the right day, at the right time, and with the right PERSON’, he said, getting

up and placing the medal in her hands. ‘It wasn’t the Cross I came for. It was my

youth.’

She didn’t understand that, but she walked with him to the gate and stood

there gazing after him as he walked away. Where the road turned, he looked back

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