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Correct option is A) While 

Correct option is A) off

Correct option is C) arrived

Correct option is A) do

Correct answer is  chefs

Correct option is  C) for

Correct option is B) rings

Correct option is A) were

Correct option is A) out

Correct option is C) at

Correct option is A) while

Correct option is D) are having

Correct option is A) could / would open

Correct option is D) What

Correct option is D) weren’t

Correct option is B) out

Correct option is C) from

Correct option is C) How much

Correct option is D) are /will / buy

Correct option is C) used to

Correct option is B) Where

Correct option is B) will go / will you / will come

Correct option is B) will send

Correct option is A) being sent

Correct option is B) sending

Correct option is C) sent

Correct option is D) testing

Roof is an energetic young man of Umuofia, who has come back to his village giving up a bright future in the city. People believe that he has come back to guide them in difficult times and hence hold him in high esteem. When we read about the election, the writer tells us that the village of Umuofia already belonged en masse to the People’s Alliance Party and had elected Chief the Honourable Marcus be as their representative ¡n the previous election and nobody doubted his re-election this time also. The man behind Marcus’ success is Roof.

Roof was his election campaign manager and had become a real expert in election campaigning at all levels. Having already seen a change in Marcus’ status and wealth, Roof is able to gauge the people’s mood and the change in people’s perception of Marcus Ibe and had conveyed to his leader that a radical change had come in them. This way he prepares Marcus to plan his strategy to woo the voters ¡n the coming elections.

After feasting in Marcus’ house on the day of the opening of his new house, people had realized what good things politics had showered on Marcus. They also regretted to a little extent that they had given their vote to Marcus free of charge in the previous election. Therefore, this time, they decided to demand a price for their vote. As expected, Roof, being an expert in election campaigning, comes armed with money to his whispering campaigns.

During his whispering campaigns, Roof uses a lot of political rhetoric and tells the people convincingly that PAP favours the people of Umuofia. He says, “What greater honour can a village have? Do you ever stop to ask yourselves why we should be singled out for this honour? Think of the pipe-borne water they have promised us. This way Roof manages to mesmerize the naive people into believing that Marcus Is a great man and is going to do great things for their village.

Besides, Roof satisfies their desire for a share of Marcus’ earnings by giving them four shillings each. On the day of the election, Marcus entertains the people hiring a highlife band from Umuru. He sits in an enormous car and tries to impress the people with his wealth and eminence. He coins catched slogans like ‘Vote for the car, and you will ride in it It is these strategies planned by Roof that ensures Marcus’ victory in the elections.

(a) Armenia

(b) The building had collapsed.

(c) No matter what, I’ll always be there for you.

(d) For their sons/daughters.

(e) He asked, “Are you going to help me now?”

(f) Insecure.

(g) Explosions

 (h) Armand. (i) 14.

(j) When the building collapsed, it made a wedge-like a triangle and it saved them.

Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo come face-to-face in a retired corner of a park in Madrid on a Sunday morning. The strangers soon become friends without knowing that they were lovers once. Then Gonzalo happens to tell her that he had spent his youth in Valencia city. Laura’s curiosity having been provoked, she tells Gonzalo that she also had spent several seasons in Maricela, a villa near the sea in Valencia. When Gonzalo is startled to hear the name ‘Maricela Dona Laura asks him whether the name is familiar to him. Don Gonzalo tells her that he had seen a beautiful woman Laura Llorente living there. On hearing the name Laura Llorente mentioned, Dona Laura shows her surprise. From that moment onwards, it becomes clear that both of them know who they are and intentionally conceal their identity.

When Dona Laura tells him that Laura Llorente was her best friend and she was called the ‘Silver Maiden Don Gonzalo endorses it and tells her that ‘Silver Maiden’ was her popular name in the locality. Further, he tells her that she used to stand at a particular window. Then Dona Laura endorses his statement. Inadvertently, when Don Gonzalo tells her that he spent many hours there during his youthful days, Dona Laura gives a sigh and endorses his statement and says “And in mine, too:’ Then Don Gonzalo gives a description of her beauty and expresses his admiration calling her a dream.

Then Dona Laura makes an aside remark and tells Gonzalo that if he but knew that Laura was by his side he would realize what dreams come to. This way, their conversation goes on until the end, each speaking to the other in disguise. Though they appear to be concealing their identity, they know tacitly that they arc the true lovers Laura and Gonzalo of their youthful days. In the end, before leaving the park, Laura drops the violets, and when Gonzalo stoops to pick up the flowers, Laura looks at him. Thus they come to recognize each other.

OR

The Earth houses millions of eco-systems and nurtures biodiversity. Bio-diversity ensures abundance, freedom, co-operation and mutual giving. Tagore argues that the forests have served as sources of material and intellectual regeneration since time immemorial and the culture of the forest has fueled the culture of Indian society. The culture that has arisen from the forest is nurtured by the unifying principle of life in diversity and of democratic pluralism. It is this unity in diversity that is the basis of both ecological sustainability and democracy. This is true of both nature and culture. We are united with nature through our relationship with the forest. The forest teaches us union, compassion and enoughness. No species in a forest appropriates the share of another species and every species sustains itself in co-operation with others. This unity in diversity seen in the forest should serve as a model for human society, otherwise it will lead to conflict, greed, exploitation and finally to impoverishment of our culture. Therefore, conservation of diversity ¡s crucial for the sustenance of both nature and human society.

OR

In the poem ‘Water the speaker recalls several Instances taken from the life of the dalits to highlight the disparity between the dalits and the upper caste people in their life styles. The speaker states that water is witness to the Panchama’s plight when he goes to the pond or tank to collect water. Since he does not have the right to draw a pot of water directly from a well, he waits all day near the well until a shudra arrives there and fills his pot. Next, the speaker mentions the humiliation of the wada girl, when she receives water poured from a distance. Some water falls on her body and she feels humiliated. Later, the speaker articulates the righteous indignation shown by Karamchedu Suvartamma, when she raised her vessel to ward off an attack by the Kamma youths against the dalit boy who asked them not to pollute their drinking water. These instances illustrate how the dalits were discriminated against using water from a public well.

The speaker recalls how people in the wada would thirst all day for a glass of water while the villagers had a lot of water to drink and bathe as and when they wanted. On the other hand, the people in the village enjoyed bath twice a day, because they had plenty of water, and the dalits were made to forego water on the pretext of untouchability. Next, the speaker narrates how in her childhood they walked miles and miles to collect water from the big canal and walked back carrying heavy pots of water on their heads, with the veins in their neck straining and bursting. 

Finally, the speaker recalls how several thatched huts in Malapalle were reduced to ashes for want of a pot of water to douse the fire.

The understanding between a driver and a pedestrian is very humorous as when the driver goes straight at a pedestrian, he jumps to a side and smiles at the driver and the driver also laughs back at him. It is a strange understanding.between each other. And the drivers have the habit of overtaking on either side and smile at each other. They don’t get angry but smile. The traffic on Brazilian roads is uninterrupted and so it is very difficult to cross the roads in Brazil. The way the drivers drive their vehicles, look as if they are aiming at the pedestrians.

chance gesture; get into.

Correct option is B) not to be

Mikes visited a Japanese house. He was offered a bowl of soup. While eating soup it was expected that he should make a fearful noise. He knew that if Europeans made sounds, they were considered to be ill-mannered louts.

Cycling is the way for development for rural women. It enables them to be free and work for themselves without depending on men. Women need not walk long distances to fetch water. They can take their products easily to the market and they need not have to wait for public transport. School children also need not wait for the buses. They can go on bicycles very easily. It also assures self-respect to women.

The introduction of cycling in the Pudukkottai district has brought about a tremendous change in the lives of the rural women. Cycling has offered a way out of enforced routines around male imposed barriers. The rural women in particular have gained a great deal of confidence on account of their learning cycling. Earlier, they used to be burdened with economic as well as social or familial obligations. Many young mothers had to help the menfolk in earning the family income as well as do domestic chores like tending to chiJdren and fetching water from remote places.

Even to sell theír agricultural produce in nearby villages, they had to carry their produce to the bus stop with the help of their menfolk.

Secondly, they had to come back within a fixed time to tend to little kids at home and to store or fetch water from remote places. Naturally, though they were capable of doing all these duties on their own, their immobility’ created a big hurdle. They had to walk longer distances to fetch water, and sell their produce. After learning cycling, such women became free and independent. This gave them a lot of confidence. Moreover, the ability to ride a bicycle gave them a lot of self-respect.

The available quality of water differs from area to area and so it becomes a matter of dispute. Some people get excess of water and some people do not’ get water even to drink. Water is a necessity for all the basic needs and for irrigation, for electricity and for Indus¬tries. When the required quantity of water is not available, people will have to get it from elsewhere. When they go to other areas, the people from that area protest and agitate, so wars happen. A similar fight occurred between Karnataka and Tamilnadu. People of both states destroyed each other’s property and destroyed and damaged buses just over the question of sharing water. In this way, many quarrels have happened for the sake of water.

Bowing in Japan was closely observed by Mikes. Bowing was done in an oriental and formal manner. One’s social rank and status were reflected when two persons bowed to each other. In many cases there were clear cut rules and they were observed without difficulty.

In Pudukottai, rural women feel more independent and experience freedom and mobility in their lives and get a change in their monotonous lives by cycling. It has given confidence and made them do their marketing and sales without depending on men. They feel the freedom and have emerged out of the maledominated society.’

After; as though; However; because.

In higher plants, water transportation is done by xylem tissue.

A quarter of an hour in Japan will convince you that you are among exquisitely well-mannered people. People who live on a hopelessly overcrowded island have to respect one another’s privacy or rather, would have to if they had any privacy. But they don’t. So coutesy has a double function: it is courtesy and it is substitute privacy. Take, for example, the . little red telephones in the streets, shops, halls of hotels. The instrument is situated on a table or on a counter they have no space to spare for booths. You conduct your most confidential business transactions, your intimate love-quarrels in public; yet in perfect privacy. Anybody, any passer-by, could listen-in, but nobody does. A man’s telephone-receiver is his castle.

and; in order to; However; as though.

cut in; dear life.

because; yet; but; Therefore.

or; if; But; So.