Unit-8 (Q 22-26) practice
exercises: (Correct the sentences and rewrite them)
Exercise-1:
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world
is perhaps the most outstanding. (22) I am constantly filled with wonder on the
number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are
pretty much beyond me. (23) I cannot told you the number of times that I have
gone looking for the lavatory in a cinema, for instance, and ended up standing
in an alley on the wrong side of a self locking door. (24) My particular
speciality now is returning to hotel desks two or three times a day and asking who
my room number is, I am, in short, easily confused.
(25)
I was thinking about this the last time we go en famille on a big trip. It was
at Easter, and we were flying to England for a week. (26) When we arrived at
Logan Airport in Boston and are checking in, I suddenly remembered that I had
recently joined British Airways’ frequent flyer programme.
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Exercise-2:
The zip on the bag was jammed. (22) So I pulled on it
and yanked at it, with grunts or frowns and increasing consternation. (23) I
kept this up some for minutes but it wouldn’t budge, so I pulled harder and
harder, with more grunts. Well, you can guess what happened. Abruptly the zip
gave way. (24) The side of the bag flew open and everything within – newspaper
cuttings and other loose papers, a 14-ounce tin of pipe tobacco, magazines,
passport, English money, film – were extravagantly ejected over an area about
the size of a tennis court.
(25) I watched dumbstruck as a hundred carefully
sorted documents come raining down in a fluttery cascade, coins bounced to a
variety of noisy oblivions and the now-lidless tin of tobacco rolled crazily
across the concourse disgorging its contents as it went.
(26) “I tobacco!”
I cried in horror, thinking what I would have to pay for that much tobacco in
England now that another Budget had come and gone, and then changed the cry to
“My finger! My finger!” as I discovered that I had gashed my finger on the zip
and was shedding blood in a lavish manner.
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Exercise-3:
On another occasion, I
knocked a soft drink onto the lap of a sweet little lady sitting beside me. (22)
The flight attendant came and cleaned her up, and me brought a replacement
drink, and instantly I knocked it onto the woman again. (23) To this day, I don’t
knew how I did it. (24) I just remember reaching out for the new drink and
watching helpless as my arm, like some cheap prop in one of those 1950s horror
movies with a name like ‘The Undead Limb’, violently swept the drink from its
perch and onto her lap.
(25) The lady looked
at me with the stupefied expression you will expect to
receive from someone whom you have repeatedly drenched, and uttered an
oath that started with “Oh”, finished with “sake” and in between had some words
that I have never heard uttered in public before, certainly not by a nun. (26) This,
however, were not my worst experience on a plane flight.
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Exercise-4:
I never did get my frequent flyer miles, by
the way. I never do. (22) I couldn’t finds the card in time. (23) This has
become a real frustration on me. (24) Everyone I know – everyone – are forever
flying off to Bali first class with their air miles. (24) I never get collect
to anything. (25) I must flew 100,000 miles a year, yet I have accumulated only
about 212 air miles divided between twenty-three airlines. (26) This is because
either I forget to ask for the air miles when I check in, and I remember to ask
or them but the air line then manages not to record them, or the check-in clerk
informs me that I am not entitled to them.
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Exercise-5:
I look at the flute
seller standing in a corner of the square near the hotel. (22) In his hand is a
pole with an attachment at the top from who fifty or sixty bansuris protrude in
all directions, like the quills of a porcupine. (23) They is of bamboo: there
are cross-flutes and recorders. (24) From time time to he stands the pole on
the ground, selects a flute and plays for a few minutes. (25) The sound rise
clearly above the noise of the traffic and the hawkers’ cries. (26) He plays
slow meditatively, without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares.
Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were
incidental to his enterprise. Sometimes he breaks off playing to talk to the
fruit seller. I imagine that this has been the pattern of his life for years.
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Unit-8 (Q 32-36) practice
exercises: (Rewrite the words as directed)
Exercise-1:
The zip on the bag was jammed (32). So I pulled on
it and yanked at it, with grunts and frowns and increasing (33)
consternation. I kept this up for some minutes but it wouldn’t budge, so I
pulled harder and harder, with more grunts. Well, you can guess what happened.
Abruptly the zip gave way. The side of the bag flue (34) open and
everything within – newspaper cuttings and other loose papers, a 14-ounce tin
of pipe tobacco, magazines, passport, English money, film – was extravagantly ejected
(35) over an area about the size of a tennis court.
I
watched dumbstruck as a hundred carefully sorted documents came raining down in
a fluttery cascade, coins bounced to a vareity (36) of noisy oblivions
and the now-lidless tin of tobacco rolled crazily across the concourse
disgorging its contents as it went.
32. Write a word that gives the same
meaning: __________________________________
33. Write the antonym of the word:
__________________________________
34. Replace it with a right one:
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35. Write the synonyms of the word:
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36. Write the word correctly spelled:
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Exercise-2:
This, however, was not my worst (32)
experience on a plane flight. My worst experience was when I was writing important
(33) thoughts in a notebook (‘buy socks’, ‘clutch drinks carefully’, etc.),
sucking thaughtfully (34) on the end of my pen as you do, and
fell into conversation with an attractive young lady in the next seat. I amused
her for perhaps 20 minutes with a scattering of urbane bons mots, then retired
to the lavatory where I discovered that the pen had leaked and that my mouth,
chin, tongue, teeth and gums were now a striking, scrub-resistant navy blue,
and would remain so for several days.
So
you will understand, I trust, when I tell you how much I ache to be suave. I
would love, just once in my life, to rise from a dinner table without looking
as if I have just experienced an extremely (35) localised seismic event,
get in a car and close the door without leaving 14 inches of coat outside, wear
light-coloured jeans (36) without discovering at the end of the day that
I have at various times sat on chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrup and motor
oil. But it is not to be.
32. Write the antonym of the word:
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33. Write the synonym for the word:
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34. Write the correctly spelled word:
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35. Write a word that may fit in place
of it: ___________________________________
36. Write the suitable word:
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Exercise-3:
Kathmandu
is vivid, mercenary, religious, with small shrines to flower-adorned deities
(32) along the narrowest (33) and busiest streets; with fruit
sellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards; shops selling western cosmetics,
film rolls and chocolate; or copper utensils and Nepalese antiqes (34).
Film songs blare out from the radios, car horns sound, bicycle bells ring,
stray cows low questioningly at motorcycles, street traders (35) shout
out there (36) wares. I indulge myself mindlessly; buy a bar of
marzipan, a corn-on-the-cob roasted in a charcoal brazier on the pavement
(rubbed with salt, chilli powder and lemon); a couple of love story comics, and
even a Reader’s Digest. All this I wash down with Coca Cola and a
nauseating orange drink, and feel much the better for it.
32. Write the word that gives the same
meaning: __________________________________
33. Write the antonym for the word:
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34. Write the correctly spelled word:
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35. Write the one word that replaces
the phrase: ___________________________________
36. Write the suitable word: _____________________________________
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