ENGLISH REVISION TERM 1 PART 2

One day back there in the good old days when I was nine and the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream

Why does the narrator call his childhood 'good old days'

• because life was full of imagination

• because life was a delight

• because there were no worries of life

• all of the above

it wasn't morning yet .but it was summer and with daybreak not many minutes around the corner of the world it was light enough for me to know I wasn't dreaming.My cousin Mourad was sitting on a beautiful white horse .I stuck my head out of the window and rubbed my eyes .

Why did the narrator rubbed his eyes ?

• because he couldn't believe hat he saw

• because he was feeling sleepy

• because his eyes were itching

• because he had been crying all night

The opening line of the extract depict.......

• the beauty of white horse

• the beauty of life

• the beauty of childhood

• the beauty of summer morning

'Mourad ,who was considered crazy' is an example of

• a belief

• an opinion

• a myth

• a fallacy

Before him was our uncle Khosrove .an enormous man with a powerful head of black hair and the largest moustache in the San Joaquin Valley,a man so furious in temper ,so irritable,so impatient that he stopped anyone from talking by roaring.it is no harm ;pay no attention to it.

in the given extract ,the narrator is talking about

• the honesty that runs in their family

• the poverty that afflicts their family

• the crazy streak that runs in their family

• the famous personality of their family

By' roaring' the author does not indicate

pompousness

short temper

impatience

irritation

• 1 and 4

• 1 and 3

• 2 and 3

• 2 and 4

choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below

Statement 1- The reference to Khosrove is to highlight Mourad's Personality

Statement 2 Unlike Khosrove, Mourad is calm in all situations

• statement 1 is true but 2 is false

• statement 1 is false but 2 is true

• both statements 1 and 2 can be inferred

• both statements 1 and 2 can not be inferred

. In his defence , Carter really had little choice. If he hadn’t cut the mummy free, thieves most certainly would have circumvented the guards and ripped it apart to remove the gold. In Tut’s time the royals were fabulously wealthy, and they hoped — they could take their riches with them. For his journey to the great beyond, To separate Tut from his adornments, Carter’s men removed the mummy’s head and severed nearly every major joint. Once they had finished, they reassembled the remains on a layer of sand in a wooden box with padding that concealed the damage, the bed where Tut now rests.

ASSERTION: Carter cut the mummy since he was negligent enough .

REASON In Tut’s time the pharaohs were fabulously rich and they thought they could take their riches with them.

• Assertion is false but reason can be inferred

• Assertion is true and reason cannot be inferred

• Assertion is validated by the reason

• ) Both assertion and reason are false

Statement 1: King tut was a lavish pharaoh of his time so his mummy was laden with all the valuable adorns.

Statement 2:The people all over the world were attracted to mummy due to it being the mummy of King Tut the most lavish teen aged pharaoh of his times.

Statement 3: King Tut was a powerful pharaoh ,last of his dynasty so his mummy was decorated with so much of gold.

Statement 4: The people of Egypt believed in the concept of life after death.

• ) FACT- (i),(iii) OPINION-(ii),(iv)

• FACT-(ii),(iv) OPINION-(i),(iii)

• FACT-(iii),(iv) OPINION-(i),(ii)

• FACT-(i),(ii) OPINION-(iii),(iv)

According to the author, when do we take cognizance of the things in the house?(the Address)

• out of sight out of mind

• . absence makes the heart grow fonder

• we know the price of everything but value nothing

• . the simplest things can have the highest value