Section-A
I. Comprehension
The fish hawk, or osprey, is not as large as the eagle, but he has a hooked bill and sharp claws like the eagle.
His is a dark brown in color with black and white spots, and he is from twenty to twenty-two inches long. His breast is mostly white. His tail and wings are long.
The fish hawk is often found sitting upon a tree over a pond, lake, or river. He is also found by the seaside.
He watches the fish as they swim in the water beneath him, and then he darts down suddenly and catches one of them.
When he catches a fish in his sharp, rough claws, he carries it off to eat, and, as he flies away with it for his dinner, an eagle sometimes meets him.
The eagle flies at him fiercely with his sharp bill and claws and compels the hawk to drop the fish.
Then the eagle catches the fish as it falls and carries it off.
The poor fish hawk, with a loud cry, timidly flies away. He must go again to the water and catch another fish for his dinner.
So you see that the eagle is a robber. He robs fish hawks, whose only mode of getting a living is by catching fish.
Questions:
1. Where do fish hawks live?
2. Why does the fish hawk let the eagle take its fish?
3. How are fish hawks and eagles alike?
4. Why do you think fish hawks live where they do?
II.Write a summary on what is considered good telephone etiquette
Ladies and gentlemen,
Let me first congratulate you and welcome you to the company. We are indeed happy to have you here with us. JJ Sdn Bhd has been around for many years and we pride ourselves in excellent customer service. So, as Head of Customer Service, let me give you a few pointers on what we must and mustn't do when dealing with our customers, especially over the telephone.
When the telephone rings, we must by all means try and pick it up by the third ring. Do not allow the phone to ring for too long or customers would think we are too busy or not interested in them. As soon as you pick it up, inform the caller who you are and mention the company's name. Ask for the caller's name and his or her intentions for calling. Please note down this information. We are after all human and we tend to forget things, so it's pertinent to take down the information or message on a piece of paper. If, however, you are unable to take a call and you are required to call back, then return the call promptly. Do not wait for days. In fact, you should return calls within 24 hours. Most importantly, be polite when talking on the phone. Even if the caller is demanding or rude, you must keep your cool at all times.
I think telephone etiquette is nothing new. Of course we are required to practice this in the office, but I think it also applies in our private phone calls.
With this, ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for your time and look forward to working with you in the company.
Your summary must :
* not be more than 60 words, including the 10 words given below
* be in continuous writing ( not note form )
* be written in one paragraph
Use your own words as far as possible without changing its original meaning.
Begin your summary as follows :
To practice god telephone
etiquette, you .....
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Section-B
I.Write an Article for the following topics.
1. Fire
2. Your school
3. Hobbies
II. Write a book review.
1.Charlie and the Chocolate factory
2. Rapunzel
3. Snow white and the seven dwarfs
III. Write a new ending for each story.
1. Hungry Wolf.
Once, a wolf was very hungry. It looked for food here and there. But it couldn't get any. At last it found a loaf of bread and piece of meat in the hole of a tree.
The hungry wolf squeezed into the hole. It ate all the food. It was a woodcutter's lunch. He was on his way back to the tree to have lunch. But he saw there was no food in the hole, instead, a wolf.
On seeing the woodcutter, the wolf tried to get out of the hole. But it couldn't. Its tummy was swollen. The woodcutter caught the wolf and gave it nice beatings.
2.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Once upon a time there lived a lion in a forest. One day after a heavy meal. It was sleeping under a tree. After a while, there came a mouse and it started to play on the lion. Suddenly the lion got up with anger and looked for those who disturbed its nice sleep. Then it saw a small mouse standing trembling with fear. The lion jumped on it and started to kill it. The mouse requested the lion to forgive it. The lion felt pity and left it. The mouse ran away.
On another day, the lion was caught in a net by a hunter. The mouse came there and cut the net. Thus it escaped. There after, the mouse and the lion became friends. They lived happily in the forest afterwards.
3.
The Cunning Fox and the Clever Stork
Once upon a time, there lived a very cunning and mischievous fox. He used to speak to other animals sweetly and gain their trust, before playing tricks on them.
One day the fox met a stork. He befriended the stork and acted like a very good friend. Soon, he invited the stork to have a feast with him. The stork happily accepted the invitation.
The day of the feast came, and the stork went to the fox’s house. To her surprise and disappointment, the fox said that he could not make a big feast as promised, and just offered some soup. When he brought the soup out of the kitchen, the stork saw that it was in a shallow bowl!
The poor stork could not have any soup with its long bill, but the fox easily licked the soup from the plate. As the stork just touched the soup with the tip of its bill, the fox asked her, “How is the soup? Don’t you like it?”
The hungry stork replied, “Oh it is good, but my stomach is upset, and I can’t take any more soup!”
“I’m sorry for troubling you,” said the fox.
The stork replied, “Oh dear, please don’t say sorry. I have some health problem and cannot enjoy what you offer.”
She left the place after thanking the fox, and inviting him to her house for dinner.
The day arrived and the fox reached the stork’s place. After exchanging pleasantries, the stork served soup for both of them, in a narrow jar with a long neck. She was able to have the soup very easily with her long bill, but the fox obviously could not.
After finishing hers, the stork asked the fox if he was enjoying the soup. The fox remembered the feast he himself had given the stork, and felt very ashamed. He stammered, “I…I’d better leave now. I have a tummy ache.”
Humiliated, he left the place running.
Section-D
At bed time
Every evening,
Dinner time,
A bath to wash away the grime;
Story read,
Cover raised,
Curtain parted, eyes starglazed;
Eyelids heavy,
Fighting sleep,
Soon give in to slumber deep.
DIRECTIONS: Read the poem aloud. Answer the questions
1. During what time of day does the poem take place?
2. Does the speaker in the poem want to go to sleep? Write the line or lines from the poem that support your answer.
3. Does every line in the poem have a rhyme?
4. Draw a box around the lines in each stanza that rhyme.
5. Read the poem again. What is the effect of the two short lines at the beginning of every stanza?
Section- C
I.Writewhether the sentence is declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory
1.Watch out for the squirrel!
2.My great grandmother came to America as an immigrant from Russia.
3.You need some deodorant!
4.Quit being so cautious!
5. Go get my screwdriver out of the workshop for me.
6.Make sure you pay your bills on time.
7.I was confident on the line because free-throw shooting is my strong side.
8.The tiny sailboat overturned in the gale.
9. Do you like coconut milk?
10.Jan read the barometer every 15 minutes before the storm.
III.Fillin the blanks with appropriate forms of verb. Choose the answers from the options given in the brackets.
1. One of my friends has gone to France.
2. Neither of the contestants was able to win a decisive victory.
3.Oil and water do not mix.
4.No prize or medal was given to the boy, though he stood first in the examination.
5.Neither the Minister nor his colleagues have given an explanation for this.
IV.Arrange the adjectives( whichis in bold )in order.
1. Iwas offered ------( an unusual gold) ring by my husband.
2.My grandmother has knitted a------(woollen new nice )pullover for me.
3.It may rain ! There are ------(black big )clouds floating in the air.
4. It was such ------(a sunny lovely)day that we decided to go out for a walk.
5.Last week, I visited a ------(old lovely little ) village in a remote place.
6.The gallery exhibited mainly ------(old strange French ) paintings.
7.It started to rain so I opened ------(an red enormous yellow) umbrella
8.I came into a ------(old picturesque) house built in 1860.
V. Prefixes and suffixes.