RIGHT FORMS OF THE WORDS (X CLASS ENGLISH PAPER II)

RIGHT FORMS OF THE WORDS (X CLASS ENGLISH PAPER II)

This is the key to the following exercises:

https://englishforempowerment.blogspot.com/2020/04/key-to-right-forms-of-words-x-class.html

(Though these kinds of exercises are designed for the students appearing for SSC(Class 10) Examination in Telangana, India,they are also very useful for those appearing for competitive examinations. On the whole, they are useful for the aspirants of learning English )

Exercise 1

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.                                       4 x 1/2=2 Marks

Newton’s law of gravity also tells us that the farther apart the bodies, the lesser the force. The law says that the gravitational attraction of a star is …..(29)(exact) one-quarter that of a similar star at half the distance. This law predicts the orbits of the earth, the moon, and the planets with great …..(30)(accurate). If the law were that the …..(31)(gravity) attraction of a star went down faster or …..(32)(slow) with distance, the orbits of the planets would not be elliptical; they would either spiral into the sun or escape from the sun.

Exercise 2

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

The queen said to them most …..(29) (oblige): "Sisters, I should desire nothing more, if it were in my power to make the …..(30) (choose). I am, however, obliged to you for …..(31) (you) goodwill, but must submit to what the emperor shall order on this occasion. Let your husbands employ their friends to make interest, and get some courtier to ask this favour of his majesty, and if he speaks to me about it, be assured that I shall not only express the …..(32) (please) he does me but thank him for making choice of you."

Exercise 3

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

The …..(29) (different) between Joan's case and Shakespear's is that Shakespear was not illiterate. He had been to school, and knew as much Latin and Greek as most university passmen retain: that is, for …..(30) (practice) purposes, none at all. Joan was …..(31) (absolute) illiterate. 'I do not know A from B' she said. But many princesses at that time and for long after might have …..(32) (say) the same. Marie Antoinette, for instance, at Joan's age could not spell her own name correctly.

Exercise 4

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

Her want of .....(29)(academy) education disabled her when she had to deal with such ....(30)(elaborate) artificial structures as the great ecclesiastical and social institutions of the Middle Ages. She had a horror of heretics without .....(31)(suspect) that she was herself a heresiarch, one of the precursors of a schism that rent Europe in two, and cost centuries of bloodshed that is not yet ......(32)(staunch). 

Exercise 5

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

By an unlucky chance a Fox .....(29)(fall) into a deep well from which he could not get out. A Goat passed by .....(30)(short) afterwards, and asked the Fox what he was doing down there. ‘Oh, have you not .....(31)(hear)?’ said the Fox; ‘there is going to be a great drought, so I jumped down here in order to be sure to have water by me.Why don’t you come down too?’ The Goat thought well of this advice, and jumped down into the well. But the Fox immediately jumped on her back, and by putting
his foot on her long horns managed to jump up to the edge of the well. ‘Good-bye, friend,’ said the Fox, ‘remember next time, ‘Never trust the advice of a man in .....(32)(difficult).’

Exercise 6

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

A Wolf .....(29)(accustom) to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without .....(30)(break) it, and though Father Wolf’s jaws closed right on the child’s back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs. ‘How little! How naked, and--how bold!’ said Mother Wolf .....(31)(soft). The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide. ‘Ahai! He is taking his meal with the others. And so this is a man’s cub. Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man’s cub among her .....(32)(child)?’

Exercise 7

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

He had .....(29)(hard) spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and .....(30)(anger) jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches. 

‘The Monkey-People are .....(31)(forbid),’ said Baloo, ‘forbidden to the Jungle-People. Remember.’

‘Forbidden,’ said Bagheera, ‘but I still think Baloo should .....(32)(have) warned thee against them.’

Exercise 8

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

.....(29)(Curious) enough, there was another seal who .....(30)(think) that she would put off marrying till the next year, and Kotick danced the Fire-dance with her all down Lukannon Beach the night before he set off on his last .....(31)(explore). This time he went westward, because he had fallen on the trail of a great shoal of halibut, and he needed at least one hundred pounds of fish a day to keep him in good condition. He chased them till he was tired, and then he curled .....(32)(he) up and went to sleep on the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island.

Exercise 9

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

It is the .....(29)(hard) thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with .....(30)(curious). The motto of all the mongoose family is ‘Run and find out,’ and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He .....(31)looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the small .....(32)(boy) shoulder.

Exercise 10

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

So he sang a very .....(29)(mourn) song that he made up on the spur of the minute, and just as he got to the most .....(30)(touch) part, the grass quivered again, and Rikki-tikki, covered with dirt, dragged himself out of the hole leg by leg, licking his whiskers. Darzee stopped with a little shout. Rikki-tikki shook some of the dust out of .....(31)(he) fur and sneezed. ‘It is all over,’ he said. ‘The widow will never come out again.’ And the red ants that live between the grass stems heard him, and began to troop down one after another to see if he had .....(32)(speak) the truth.

Exercise 11

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

The next few days were .....(29)(spend) in getting the elephants together, in walking the .....(30)(new) caught wild elephants up and down between a couple of tame ones to prevent them giving too much trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in .....(31)(take) stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been ......(32)(wear) out or lost in the forest.

Exercise 12

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

‘Well, I’ve .....(29)(certain) learned something tonight,’ said the troop-horse. ‘Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel .....(30)(incline) to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?’
‘About as much as we feel inclined to sit down and let men sprawl all over us, or run into people with knives. I never heard such stuff. A mountain ledge, a well-balanced load, a .....(31)(drive) you can trust to let you pick your own way, and I’m .....(32)(you) mule. But— the other things—no!’ said Billy, with a stamp of his foot.

Exercise 13

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

‘‘It’s .....(29)(disgrace),’ he said, blowing out his nostrils. ‘Those camels have racketed through our lines again—the third time this week. How’s a horse to keep his condition if he isn’t .....(30)(allow) to sleep. Who’s here?’
‘I’m the breech-piece mule of number two gun of the First Screw Battery,’ said the mule, ‘and the other’s one of your .....(31)(friend). He’s waked me up too. Who ....(32)(be) you?’

Exercise 14

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

The Law of the Jungle, which never .....(29)(order) anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the .....(30)(hunt) grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the .....(31)(arrive) of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches. Then everybody in the jungle suffers. The reason the beasts give among .....(32)(they) is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. They say too—and it is true —that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.

Exercise 15

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

‘All thanks for this good meal,’ he said, licking his lips. ‘How .....(29)(beauty) are the noble children! How large are their eyes! And so young too! Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the .....(30)(begin).’
Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their .....(31)(face). It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf .....(32)(look) uncomfortable.

Exercise 16

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a .....(29)(superstition) hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a .....(30)(gold) mist. The task of .....(31)(write) an autobiography is a difficult one. When I try to .....(32)(class) my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Exercise 17

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

The woman paints the child's experiences in her own fantasy. A few .....(29)(impress) stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their .....(30)(poignant); and many incidents of vital .....(31)(important) in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries. In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most ....(32)(interest) and important.

Exercise 18

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

They tell me I walked the day I was a year old. My mother had just .....(29)(take) me out of the bath-tub and was holding me in her lap, when I was .....(30)(sudden) attracted by the .....(31)(flicker) shadows of leaves that danced in the sunlight on the smooth floor. I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them. The impulse .....(32)(go), I fell down and cried for her to take me up in her arms.

Exercise 19

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

I do not remember when I first realized that I was .....(29)(difference) from other people; but I knew it before my teacher came to me. I had .....(30)(notice) that my mother and my friends did not use signs as I did when they wanted anything done, but talked with their mouths. Sometimes I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips. I could not understand, and was vexed. I moved my lips and gesticulated .....(31)(frantic) without result. This made me so .....(32)(anger) at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted.

Exercise 20

(Questions 29-32): Complete the following passage with the right forms of the words given in the brackets. Write the answers in your answer booklet.

The journey, which I remember well, was very .....(29)(please). I made friends with many people on the train. One lady gave me a box of shells. My father made holes in these so that I could string them, and for a long time they kept me happy and contented. The .....(30)(conduct), too, was kind. Often when he went his rounds I clung to his coat tails while he collected and punched the tickets. His punch, with which he let me play, was a .....(31)(delight) toy. Curled up in a corner of the seat I amused myself for hours making .....(32)(fun) little holes in bits of cardboard.

The following is the key to the above exercises;
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