KEY TO RIGHT FORMS
OF THE WORDS (X CLASS ENGLISH PAPER II)
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.
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 exactly(29) 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 accuracy(30).
If the law were that the gravitational(31)
attraction of a star went down faster or slower(32)
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 obligingly(29):
"Sisters, I should desire nothing more, if it were in my power to make the
choice(30). I am, however, obliged
to you for your(31) 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 pleasure(32)
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
difference(29) 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 practical(30) purposes,
none at all. Joan was absolutely(31)
illiterate. 'I do not know A from B' she said. But many princesses at that time
and for long after might have said(32)
the same. Marie Antoinette, for instance, at Joan's age could not spell her own
name correctly.
The above are the key to
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 academic(29) education disabled her when she had to deal
with such elaborately(30) artificial
structures as the great ecclesiastical and social institutions of the Middle
Ages. She had a horror of heretics without suspecting(31)
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 staunched(32)
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 fell(29)
into a deep well from which he could not get out. A Goat passed by shortly(30) afterwards, and asked the
Fox what he was doing down there. ‘Oh, have you not heard(31)?’ 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 difficulties(32).’
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 accustomed(29) to moving his own cubs can, if necessary,
mouth an egg without breaking(30)
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 softly(31).
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 children(32)?’
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 hardly(29) spoken when a
shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could
hear coughings and howlings and angry(30)
jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches. ‘The
Monkey-People are forbidden,’ said Baloo, ‘forbidden(31) to
the Jungle-People. Remember.’‘Forbidden,’ said Bagheera, ‘but I still think
Baloo should have(32) 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.
Curiously(29) enough, there was another seal
who thought(30) 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 exploration(31). 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 himself(32) 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 hardest(29) thing in
the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with
curiosity(30). The motto of
all the mongoose family is ‘Run and find out,’ and Rikki-tikki was a true
mongoose. He looked(31) 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 boy’s(32) 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 mournful(29)
song that he made up on the spur of the minute, and just as he got to the most touching(30)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 his(31)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 spoken(32)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 spent(29)
in getting the elephants together, in walking the newly(30) 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 taking(31)
stock of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn(32) 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 certainly(29) learned
something tonight,’ said the troop-horse. ‘Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun
battery feel inclined(30) 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 driver(31)
you can trust to let you pick your own way, and I’m your(32) 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
disgraceful(29),’ 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
allowed(30) 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 friends(31).
He’s waked me up too. Who are(32)
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 orders(29)
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 hunting(30) grounds of his pack
or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later,
the arrival(31) 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 themselves(32) 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 beautiful(29) 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 beginning(30).’
Now,
Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to
compliment children to their faces(31).
It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look(31) 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 superstitious(29)
hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden(30) mist. The task of writing(31) an autobiography is
a difficult one. When I try to classify(32)
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 impressions(29) 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 poignancy(30);
and many incidents of vital importance(31)
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 interesting(32) 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 taken(29) me out of the bath-tub
and was holding me in her lap, when I was suddenly(30)
attracted by the flickering(31)
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 gone(32), 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 different(29) from other people; but I knew it before my
teacher came to me. I had noticed(30)
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 frantically(31) without result. This made me so angry(32) 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 pleasant(29).
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 conductor(30),
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 delightful(31) toy. Curled up in
a corner of the seat I amused myself for hours making funny(32) little
holes in bits of cardboard.
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