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Read the following passage and answer

Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

Even the dogs would be given snuff. Kashtanka would sneeze, shake her head and walk away, offended. But Eel, too polite to sneeze, would wag his tail. And the weather was glorious. The air still, transparent and fresh. It was a dark night, but the whole village with its white roofs, the smoke rising from the chimneys, the trees, silver with rime, the snow-drifts, could be seen distinctly. The sky was sprinkled with gaily twinkling stars, and the Milky Way stood out as clearly as if newly scrubbed for the holiday and polished with snow….
1. How would Kashtanka react to the snuff?
2. How does the author describe the climate of the place?
3. What sights does a person see in the dark night?
4. Identify a word from the passage that means ‘to rub something hard in order to clean it’.

5. Read the sentence from the passage.

The Milky Way stood out as clearly as if newly scrubbed for the holiday. Now, write a sentence using ‘as if .

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1. sneeze , shake her head and walk away offended.
2.Glorious with the air still, transparent and fresh
3. The whole village with its white roofs, smoke rising from the chimneys, the trees silver with rime, the snow drifts/sky sprinkled with gaily twinkling stars and the clear and shining Milky Way.
4. Scrubbed
5. The sky seemed dark and cloudy as if it would rain.

Question 3 Read passage and answer

Question 3
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:

Grandad was probably standing at the gate at this moment, screwing up his eyes to look at the bright red light coming from the church windows, or stumping about in his felt boots, fooling with the servants. His rattle would be fastened to his belt. He would be throwing out his arms and hugging himself against the cold, or, with his old man’s titter, pinching a maid, or one of the cooks. ‘Have a nip,’ he would say, holding out his snuffbox to the women. The women would take a pinch and sneeze. Grandfather would be overcome with delight, breaking out into jolly laughter, and shouting: ‘Good for frozen noses!’

1. What would Grandad be doing on Christmas eve?
2. Why does he hold out the snuffbox to the servants?
3. How does Grandad express his delight?
4. Read the conversation between Grandad and the servant woman.
Grandad : Have a pinch from the snuffbox.
Servant woman : I don’t like its smell.
a. What did Grandad ask the servant woman?
b. What did the servant woman reply?

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Question 3
1. Standing at the gate looking at the bright red light from the church windows or stumping about in mhis felt boots, fooling with the servants.

2. So that they would have a nip and start sneezing.

3. Break into jolly laughter shouting that it was goodfor frozen noses.

4. a. Grandad asked the servant woman to have a pinch from the snuffbox.
b. The servant woman replied that she didn’t like the smell of that.

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

Question 2
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