UNIT - IV
4.
MOTHER TERESA
I. Choose
the correct meaning of the words given and write it in the space provided.
1. Cluster : a
flock a number of persons in a
small group
a
crowd a group of unhealthy persons
2. Xenophobia : a
living people patriotism
an
unreasonable hatred for foreigners
phobia
of dogs
3. Notorious : famous having a popularity
certified
by a notary
widely
known for something bad
4. Elucidate : explain,
make clear bring upto date
expand exclude
5. Encomiums : words of high praise words related to economics
words
related to rebuke encounter
6. charisma : power
to give pleasure because of beauty
good
physical appearance
having
smile and good character
ability
to attract large crowds of people by special charm
7. accolade : applause recognition
strong
praise and approval
blame
8. expansive : willing
to talk unreserved
making
larger spending more money
9. assiduously : continuously in a grand way
in
a haphazard manner
with
careful and constant attention
10. Congregation : a
riotous group a relgious
group
a
procession an election
meeting
11. austere : severely
moral and strict simple and plain
gaudy good looking
12. escort : abstain go with (someone)or accompany
to
be near someone hand -cuffed
13. retreat : go
back go forward
retirement relief
14. spastic : drunkard Asthma
patient
mad
person
person
suffering from a paralysis
15. homely : simple very rich
fashinable
cheerful
16. chapel : chappal
shop small church
chamber small hostel
17. leprosaria : hospitals
for lepers leper club
a
disease cure for
leprosy
18. celebrity : celebration function
famous
person service
19. providence : God’s
care provision
profit preference
20. elite : the most important people in a social group
the
great people
the fashionable people
the
wealthy and the affluent
21. vocation : calling profession
a
divine call
a
strong feeling of fitness for a particular career
22. raffle : auction compeititon
richly final test
23. abandoned : metritorieous mentally retarded
self-ruined deserted
24. notorious : well-known
for good celebrated
famous
widely known for something bad
widely known for something bad
25.
II. Choose
the alternative that best fits in each blank and write your choice in the space provided for
it.
1. The
minister made a _____________ visit to the scene of accident.
(personnel, personal, himself)
2. The
__________ interruption by the children disturbed the speaker.
(continuous,
continual, continuing)
3. There
are ___________ bodies in space.
(countless,
unaccountable, uncountable)
4. The
Government _______________ between the workers and the
employers. (menditated,
mediated, interfered)
5. Kerala
is a ________________ state as it is thickly populated.
(popular, populous, less populous)
6. The
story ended with a _____________ reunion of the family.
(hearty, heart-burning, heart-warming)
7. By
a strange _______________ we happended to abe travelling on the same train. (accidence,
coincidence, incidence)
8. The
boys ______________ their study after a brief interval.
(continued,
started, resumed)
9. That
afternoon I was with Mother Teresa on a begging _______
(affair,
mission, profession)
10. In
the cathedral church the priest addressed a large _______
(crowd, group, congregation)
11. The
Kali’s temple in Calcutta’s --------------- landmark.
(greatest,
biggest, oldest)
12. A
nun in white saree will ask you your ____________ and let you in into a courtyard. (business, profession, occupation)
13. We, the poor can beg, but the rich are too
-------- to geg.
(proud, disinterested, ashamed)
14. In
recent years Mother Teresa has gained enormous __________ for her work. (fame,
popularity, recognition)
15. The
Chief Minister conveyed his ___________ condolences to the be bereaved family. (heart-rending,
heart-felt, heart-warming)
16. The project involves _________________ work
and will need the services of many
people. [
huge, enormous, great ]
17. When I explained my problem to my father,
he spoke to me in a _____________ tone. [ slow,
mild, gentle ]
18. He wanted to comfort her; but his advice
had ___________________ the opposite
effect. [
precisely, actually, correctly ]
19. Fresh vegetables are in ______________
supply during summer.
[
small, short, little ]
20. Child marriage is ________________ in some
parts of our country.
[
usual, ordinary, common ]
III. Find
the wrongly spelt word in each of the following sets and write it correctly.
1. volunteer engineer mountaineer financeer Ans :___________
2. machinery temporary ordinary prelimnary Ans :___________
3. require enquire
aquire request Ans
:___________
4. customary dormitary temporary necessary Ans :___________
5. solution seclution promotion pollution Ans
:___________
6. acceptance importance prodidance tolerance Ans
:___________
7. prevalent malignant extrovagant reluctant Ans
:___________
8. receive deceive conceive releive Ans
:___________
9. accomodation ocasion committee assessment Ans :___________
10. confidence balance relevance entrence Ans
:___________
11. confession decission profession discussion Ans :___________
12. exellent pravalent relevant prominent Ans :___________
13. imagineable manageable changeable agreeable Ans :___________
14. servant expectant different pleasant Ans
:___________
15. suggestion creation position permition Ans
:___________
16. January September October December Ans :___________
17. procede precede concede accede Ans
:___________
18. deceive decide devine decree Ans
:___________
19. enthusiasm experience
victims obidience Ans
:___________
20. condition permition vocation dilution Ans :___________
21. commodity acommodationimmense common Ans
:___________
22. foreign obedient expereince deceive Ans
:___________
23. possession occassion passion mission Ans :___________
24. peasant eminent dominant prominant Ans
:___________
25. providence importence defence expense Ans :___________
IV. Find
the word in each of the sets below in which the underlined part of the word pronounced in the same
way as in the key word and write
it.
1. daughter : bought floor fair beach Ans:______
2. tint : alright delimit profile moonlight Ans:______
3. foot : poor look loose food Ans:______
4. judge : zoo leisure gaze generous Ans:______
5. learn : great breath swear earth Ans:______
6. looked : begged called robbed walked Ans:______
7. unique : uncle hunger super tube Ans:______
8. children : chorus church chandelier christ Ans:______
9. provision : mason possession passion erosion Ans:______
10. although : method weather thinner thorough Ans:______
11. demise : disease horses search save Ans:______
12. record : racism notice facial comfort Ans:______
13. faint : trial giant against gentle Ans:______
14. tough : ghost thought suffer although Ans:______
15. learn : rough pull bread turn Ans:______
16. suffer : brought tough dough ghost Ans:______
17. gentle : guest regard giant magazine Ans:______
18. comfort : race facial notice record Ans:______
19. rich : character church machine mechanic Ans:______
20. against : gentle giant faint paint Ans:______
V. Find
the word rhyming with the key word given in the following.
1. bare : bar spare spear beer Ans : ___________
2. floor : tour four boot doer Ans :
___________
3. trot : tract plot treat cat Ans :
___________
4. lass : baias los class glass Ans :
___________
5. hold : told bald caled mole Ans :
___________
6. pain : reign shine mean dine Ans : ___________
7. right : quiet height hate slate Ans : ___________
8. true : few cure poor screw Ans : ___________
9. machine : line shine between pine Ans :
___________
10. store : explore sour pure tour Ans : ___________
11. haste : mast beast waist caste Ans : ___________
12. dark : clerk work lurk
shreak Ans : ___________
13. rought : laugh cough staff plough Ans : ___________
14. lime : limb climb claim comb Ans : ___________
15. word : sword hard lord heard Ans : ___________
16. floor : moor poor door tour Ans : ___________
17. clerk : dark stork work perk Ans : ___________
18. food : mood wood should good Ans : ___________
19. forty : liberty frothy dirty naughtyAns
: ___________
20. pause : noise sauce gauze loss Ans : ___________
VI. In
the following passages the end of each sentence is not indicated. Decide where each sentence ends and
write the last word followed by (.)
or (?) or (!).
1. Since she was sent to India, she
assiduously indianized herself hers was
the first Catholic order to adopt the Indian sari, the Indian style of squatting crossed - legged on
the floor in the chapel, eating Indian food in
the Indian manner she taught herself Gengali which she now speaks fluently she took
Indian nationality her strength to do what she likes come from simple confictions.
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2. She
speaks with an Indian lilt in her voice like convent-bread Indians she often eends her sentence with
an interrogatory no meaning isn’t that
so her answers are very brief.
Ans:
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3. Mother
Teresa, whence this special interest in the dying I asked her it is a vocation a call nobody wants
the dying, the sick, no
Ans:
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4. The
latest Disney animated film was on I asked my father shall we go and see it he readily agreed and
took us there at the ticket counter he said
to the clerk, “ Three tickets for the beauties and one for the beast, please ”
Ans:
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VII. Puncture
and rewrite :
1. what about boks have you read anything that you consider
having
influenced
your thinking the scripture.
Ans:
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2. what
was your name before you became a nun it is not important i was subhashini
das i was the first to join the mother
Ans:
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3. mother
teresa whence this special interest in the dying i asked her it is a vocation a call nobody wants the
dying the diseased the sick the crippled
no
Ans:
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4. charles
she said we don’t have any charles in the kindergarten
Ans:
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5. what
happended to charles my husband asked
Ans:
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6. that’s
fine I said heartily didn’t charles want to do exercises.
Ans:
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7. Mummy can I buy Batman T-shirt said the
boy
Ans:
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8. Mother said why do you want to buy someone
else’s T-shirt
Ans:
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9. Oh no I am buying a new one said the boy
Ans:
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VIII. Read
the sentence (a) and then complete the sentnece (b) using the ideas in (a). Keep sentence (b) as
close in meaning as possible to sentence
(a).
1. a.
He is poor, but he is generous.
b.
Though
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2. a.
The landlord finnally said that he would gift part of his prperty to the landless peasants.
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3. a.
Swamy did not take the medicines regularly. So he fell ill again.
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4. a.
I felt very tired. I went to bed without eating my dinner.
b.
Feeling
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5. a.
It was raining heavily. Still we decided to go out shopping.
b.
In spite of
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6. a.
A young boy met us yesterday at the staion. he is my cousin.
b. The young boy who
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7. a.
“Are you free this afternoon?” he asked.
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He asked me ------------------------------------------------------------------------
8. a.
They marketed the first video disc in the U.S.A. in 1980.
b.
The first
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9. a.
You did not invite me; so I didn’t attend your birthday party.
b.
If you
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10. a.
Let us not reject it. They have brought it all the way from Calcutta.
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Now that ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
11. a.
Murali cannot attend college. He is suffering from a fever.
b.
As
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12. a.
He works very hard; yet he earns a little.
b.
Though
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13. a.
“I will buy a new saree tomorrow,” she said to him.
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She told ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
14. a.
Nothing can be attained in hurry.
b.
We
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15. a.
Sagar is the highest earthen dam I have ever seen.
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16. a.
She was late to school. So the teacher punished her.
(Express the reason using a for -
phrase.)
b.
The teacher _______________________________________________________
17. a.
Let us not reject it. He has brought it all the way from Mumbai.
(Express
the reason using now that ............)
b. Now
that __________________________________________________________
18. a. Denied
permission to go for a movie, Raju refused to have his dinner.
(Make
the reason less formal using because.)
b. Raju
______________________________________________________________
19. a. David’s
servant had not come; so he decided to go to the post office himselt.
(Express
the reason by a clause beginning with since.)
b. Since
_____________________________________________________________
20. a. I didn’t spend any money because I didn’t have any.
(Question
the reason.)
b.
___________________________________________________________________
21. a. She said, “Who is going to wash the
dishes?”
b. She
asked _______________________________________________________
22. a. He said, “Where are you going?”
b. He asked
me ___________________________________________________
23. a. She
said, “How interesting!”
b. She
exclaimed _________________________________________________
24. a. “Is
it raining?” she said
b. She
asked _____________________________________________________
25. a. “Aren’t
you listening to the cricket commentary?” I said to him.
b. I
asked him ___________________________________________________
IX. Identify
the part of speech of each underlined word:
1. I
gave the child a chocolate. She took it and smilled sweetly.
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2. He
had returned to the hospital because he had a malignant
tumour of the bone.
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3. I
have been living in Hyderabad for ten years.
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4. The
man took the last draw of his cigarette, then he dropped
it on the path.
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5. She
let a gentle smile come over her face.
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6. This
vow means that we cannot work for the rich.
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7. There
is a kind of austere severity about the white saree.
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8. Mother
works on with her accounts and answers her letters.
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9. Pull
the rope and a bell will ring on the other side.
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10. There
are usually a few jeeps, a van or a mobile clinic.
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X. Rewrite
the following setences making the necessary corrections.
1. Why
are you not liking this book?
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2. Tell
me why are your not understanding the problem?
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3. I
shall meet your brother when I will go to Madras again.
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4. Ramu,
along with his brother and sister were present at the party.
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5. I
cannot understand why is he sad?
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6. William
Shakespeare not only was a dramatist but also a poet.
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7. We
look forward to meet you at the station itself.
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8. Before
I stepped on to the platform the train went away.
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9. As
soon as the teachers entered into the class-room than all the pupils stood up.
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10. The
mother is not liking her younger son, but she is not hating him.
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XI. Rewrite
the following passages making improvements you think are necessary.
1. This book contains many stories. They are
short. They are interesting. Then
are delightful. All people like this book. The hildren like this book in particular. The children
like this book because there are stories about
animals.
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2. The use of tobacco is one of the most
widely spread bad habits. Tobacco is now smoked. It is chewed. It is mostly smokied or chewed
by men. It is often used by
women and tobacco is used even by children. Tobacco is used not merely in one country or the other. But Tobacco
is used almost all over the
world.
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3. The elephant is the only animal with a trunk.
The elephant uses its trunk in
many ways. The elephant pulls leaves of trees. It pulls them with its trunk. Then it puts them into
its mouth. The elephant can use its trunk even
to pull up trees. It pulls up trees when it wants to make a path through
the jungle.
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