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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below Model 2

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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

‘Dear Grandad Konstantin Makarich,’ he wrote. ‘I am writing a letter to you. I send you Christmas greetings and hope God will send you his blessings. I have no Father and no Mummie and you are all I have left.’ Vanka raised his eyes to the dark window-pane, in which the reflection of the candle flickered, and in his imagination distinctly saw his grandfather, Konstantin Makarich, who was a night watchman on the estate of some gentlefolk called Zhivarev. He was a small, lean, old man about sixty-five, but remarkably lively and agile, with a smiling face and eyes bleary with drink. In the daytime he either slept in the back kitchen, or sat joking with the cook and the kitchen-maids, and in the night, wrapped in a great sheepskin coat, he walked round and round the estate, sounding his rattle. After him, with drooping heads, went old Kashtanka and another dog, called Eel, on account of his black coat and long, weasel-like body. Eel was wonderfully respectful and insinuating, and turned the same appealing glance on friends and strangers alike, but he inspired confidence in no one. His deferential manner and docility were a cloak for the most Jesuitical spite and malice. He was an adept at stealing up to snap at a foot, creeping into the ice-house, or snatching a peasant’s chicken. His hind-legs had been slashed again and again, twice he had been strung up, he was beaten within an inch of his life every week, but he survived it all.

1. What idea do you get about Vanka’s life from the letter?
2. Describe the appearance of Konstantin Makarich.
3. How is Eel described in the passage?
4. What impression do you get about the character of Konstantin Makarich?
i. brave and efficient
ii. fun loving and agile
iii. stubborn and adamant
5. Pick out a word from the passage that is opposite in meaning to the word ‘vaguely’.

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Answer Key
1. He was an orphan and his present life was miserable. He yearned for his grandfather.
2. Makarich was a small, lean, old man about sixtyfive years of age. He was remarkably lively and agile, with a smiling face and eyes bleary with drink.
3. Eel – black coat and long weasel-like body, wonderfully respectful and insinuating, turned an appealing glance on everyone but inspired confidence in no one, deferential manner and docility were a cloak for his spite and malice, adept at snatching chicken.
4. Fun loving and agile
5. Distinctly

 

Analysing Textual Passages

Analysing textual passages is intended to evaluate the competency of the learners to read, comprehend and critically analyse a passage. An excerpt from any of the textual passages will be given, followed by a set of 5 or 6 questions of the following
types:
• Analyse the passage
• Identify vocabulary items
• Use language elements
• Constructing discourses
This set of questions may carry 5 to 8 scores.
Analysing the passage
The questions intended to test the ability to analyse a reading passage can broadlybe categorised as questions to test level of comprehension, the ability to infer, evaluate and interpret.
Identifying vocabulary items
These types of questions aim at testing the learners’ ability to locate the right word of which the meaning is given, to identify the word opposite in meaning to the one given and to identify the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Using language elements
Questions to assess learners’ competence to use language elements like identifying syntactical patterns, reported speech, etc.
Learning Outcomes: Reads and analyses literary pieces
Uses words in meaningful contexts
Identifies the meaning of words
Uses language elements contextually


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