ENGLISH MATERIAL: SNAPSHOT OF A DOG

UNIT -VI

6. SNAPSHOT OF A DOG

I. Choose the correct meaning of the words given and wite it in the space provided.

1. craze : peculiarity a very strong liking for a short time

hatred madness

2. integrity : quality of being honest fearlessness

full strength bravery

3. buffeted : surrounded captured

strole re[eatedly blown up

5. prowess : bravery pride

strength cleverness

6. extravagant : miserly spending much money on friends

in the habit of wasting money

very rich

7. turmoil : peace and calm a kind of oil

disturbance trouble

8. tenacious : kind stubborn

of a fighting nature wicked

9. prowlers : people who move from place to place to make a living

persons who move about house to house with the intention of stealing

persons who roam about

person who travel often

10. mettle : interfere in another’s affair

any vessel made of metal

quality of endurance and courage

busy oneself without being asked to do so

11. disposition : taking other’s position

removing something from its position

general tendecny of character

a very low position

12. tranquil : a sedative calm and quiet

active a confused state

13. snarling : a nasty look at

showing out teeth and growling

being in a confused state

causing to be angry

14. recreation : creating a thing once more

destroying a thing that is created

a form of play or amusement

rest

15. drag : to pull along to pull across

to pull up to pull out

16. strenuous : energetic full of strength

encouraging tiresome

17. accomplish : hesitate attack

perform succesfully beat violently

18. tremendous : extra ordinary timid

truthful tiresome

19. screech : search scream in pain

rub the body sing songs

20. virgin : pure and chaste

(speech) made before getting married

in experienced first

21. vicious : spiteful or malicious boastful

cruel irritable

22. wrestler : orator patriot

fighter one who rustles

23. nondescript : a dog of no particular breed

a dog of common breed

a dog of special breed

that cannot be described

24. porch : an opening in a hall an arch-like construction

a light the entrance into a house

25. staggered : walked or moved unsteadily

turned to one side only

swing to and fro briskly

walk with great difficulty

II. Choose the alternative that vest fits in each blank and write your choice.

1. All the students in our school are eexpected to wear the ------------ pre scribed by the Management. (clothes/dress/uniform)

2. The -------------- policy of the Government has been facing bitter

criticism. (economist/economical/economic)

3. Do you know that ------------------- of gravity?

(principal/priniple/principled)

4. He wants to read my --------------------- (diary/diary/daily)

5. Picasso paints real as well as ----------------- scenes.

(imginative/imginary/imagined)

6. It is ------------------ to park your car here. (illegal/lawless/illicit)

7. I was ------------------- to hear your views on the matter.

(interesting/interested/interestingly)

8. Rex never lost his dignity, even when trying to acomplish the extrava gant --------------we used to set for him. (challenges, feats, tasks)

9. He would catch the rail and trot with great -----------

(trust, confidence, belief)

10. Rex would get a great ------------- satisfaction out of his work.

(self, rejoicing, wagging)

11. Though he was a tremendous----------------, he never started fights. (fighter, wrestler, terrier)

12. It would have been different, if he --------------- ever started fights.

(has, have, had)

13. My fried is just an ---------------- photographer.

(extravagant, extraordinary, amateur)

14. Venkat drove the ---------------- of cows in the field to graze.

(flock, herd, group)

15. My friend ----------------- the secret words in my ear.

(prattled, muttered, whispered)

16. The little girl kept a firm _________________ of her father’s hands when they walked along at the zoo. [ catch, hold, fist ]

17. They enjoyed their picnic _______________ the bad weather.

[ however, despite, inspite ]

18. After making a few unsuccessful attempts, he _________________ passed the tesst last month. [ eventually, subsequently, consequently ]

19. The new model of the car has a much more ________________ engine.

[ forceful, great, powerful ]

20. When our teacher retired, we gave her a small gift as a _________________ of our affection. [ signal, symbol, token ]

III. Find the wrongly spelt word in each of the following sets and write it correctly.

1. breach teach scrach fech Ans : ---------------

2. pityt integritee beauty guarantee Ans : ---------------

3. whisel castle cassette gazette Ans : ---------------

4. margin vargin foreign bargain Ans : ---------------

5. metal metle kettle brutal Ans : ---------------

6. campus tremendus pompous spacious Ans : ---------------

7. quill tranquill sprinkle sparkle Ans : ---------------

8. woodden trodden broaden leaden Ans : ---------------

9. landed hammer despite aparatus Ans : ---------------

10. batalion Homeric strenuous growled Ans : ---------------

11. suggestion expretion vicious attention Ans : ---------------

12. whirlwind frighten neighbour plesant Ans : --------------- 13. baseball insisted swinging draging Ans : ---------------

14. buffeted insisted swinging draging Ans : ---------------

15. struggle reletives switch nervous Ans : ---------------

16. confidence balance extravagence prominence Ans : ------------

17. pleasant eminant adjacent frequent Ans : ---------------

18. tremendous enormus spacious numerous Ans : ---------------

19. achieve believe receive releive Ans : ---------------

20. muscular tailor jailer sailer Ans : ---------------

IV. Find the word in each of the sets below in which the underlined part of the word is pronounced in the same way as in the key word and write it.

1. detergent : elegant urgent extravagent gallant

2. zinc : music vision muster cushion

3. punch : machine chicken chemist school

4. police : release realize malice police

5. strenuous : nude null nuisance rude

6. acre : racial justice necesary record

7. first : thrust duster burst kindle 8. pony : pot monk monsoon motion

9. forge : regard stagger forget region

10. soldier : beggar dazzle mission engine 11. steal : health breath dead lead

12. moonlit : elite polite delight permit

13. safe : adorea ashame fame back

14. measure : master station size busy

15. earth : learn breath death sweat

16. vicious : chip pace machine case

17. favourite : bite light late lit

18. accomplish : race record receive racial

19. except : engine eager enter enamel

20. first : just must burst nest

VI. Find the word rhyming the key word given in the folowing.

1. trot : tract plot treat cat

2. third : hired afford heard lord

3. recite : relate insight opposite elite 4. pale : oil isle rail mile

5. class : bias chaos lass boss

6. current : resident talent torrent patent

7. muscle : castle muzzle dazzle listen

8. wine : main lion train shine

9. deer : bear share shire dear

10. shoot : foot put mute boot

11. waist : mast against latest haste

12. mark : lurk shirk work clerk

13. lied : paid made crowd hide

14. rule : prowl mole coul tool

15. mode : seclude showed loud load

16. rail : tile toil tell tale

17. light : weight white eight mate

18. cure : mere fear poor dear

19. ease : niece lease pace peas

20. catch : match watch march torch

VI. In the following passage the end of eah sentence is not indicated. Decide where each setnece ends and write the last word followed by (.) or (?) or (!)

1. Swiming was his favourite recreation I shall always remember his virgin drive how beautiful it was fun to see him battle uptream you don’t have to throw a stick into water to get him go in of course he would bring it back in no time.

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2. Good God he said you don’t mean to say that all these are threatened oh, those are only half of them. I explained.

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3. After a while he became impatiet and shouted, Are you asleep I said yes why don’t you get up I want to talk to you

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4.       How nice it would be to live in a pollution free environment you have
          heard of electric trains and electric milk floats why not electric cars
          although electric cars have been around people have been trying to find             out how to use it for road transport

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5.       While buying a ticket at the railway station a man decided to use up all
          his accumulated small change so he put a few twenty paise several ten
          paise and five paise coins on the counter and said one return ticket from
          Churchgate after counting the change the clerk looked up and said how
          wonderful tell me how long have you been saving up for this ride.

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6.       Two boys turned up at a doctor’s clinic I’ve swallowed a marble said the
          smaller boy to the doctor I see replied the doctor and is this your brother
          with you no said the other boy I own the marble

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VII. Puntuate and rewrite.

1. he died it is true but only as one of his admirers said after straight- arming the death angle for more than an hour.

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2. when the person he was waiting for did come through the gate whistling ceasing to whistle rex walked a few wabbly paces toward him touched his hand with his muzzle and fell down again this time he did not get up

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3. what is your name the man asked kiran said the girl what coincidence said the man I’m also Kiran.

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4. what is the matter I must have sounded angry or woried

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5. well-what is it Anyting asked Maxwell sharply

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6. Nothing answer the strenographer moving away with a little smile

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6.       How can I forget the first day at college It was the last class of the day A
          whitehaired professor walked in surveyed his students then he began if
          you expect me to remember all of your names please sit in the same                   seats each day After a pause he added and don’t ever change your clothes.

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7.       One evening the company manager telephoned a customer a youngster
          picked up the phone is your father at home asked the businessman yet
          but he’s busy the boy whispered your mother then asked the manager
          my sister but she’s busy as well said the boy what are they all doing
          asked the manager we’re playing hide and seek and they’re all looking
          for me said the boy.

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8.       I remember the first time I saw Freddie he was standing in his play-pen
          at the adoption agency where I work he gave me a toothing grin what a
          beautiful baby I thought his mother gathered him into her arms will you
          be able to find a family for Freddie she asked then I saw it Freddie had
          been born without arms.

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VIII. Read the sentene (a) and then complete the sentence (b) by using the ideas in (a).

1. a. He was the most daring and tenacious jumper I had even seen.

b. i) He was more -----------------------------------------------------------------

ii)No other jumper ------------------------------------------------------------

2. a. He was a tremendous fighter but never started fights.

b. i) Though -------------------------------------------------------------------------

ii)In spite of ----------------------------------------------------------------------

3. a. Aparna is too young to read big books.

b. Aparna is so ------------------------------------------------------------------------

4. a. ‘Macbeth’, the famous english play, was written by William Shakespeare.

b. William Shakespeare ------------------------------------------------------------

5. a. The child could not find his mother in the crowd. He started crying.
b. Not finding --------------------------------------------------------------------------

6. a. They insisted that we get rid of Rex.

b. They said, “ --------------------------------------------------------------------------

7. a. Rex was too tenacious to give up the fight.

b. Rex was so ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

8. a. You must work hard. Otherwise you can’t pass.

b. Unless --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

9. a. Sulochana was osting the letter. I saw her.

b. I saw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

10. a. Kavitha did not prepare for the exams. So she failed.

b. If Kavitha had -----------------------------------------------------------------------

11. a. It is very expensive to run a car these days.

b. Running ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

12. a. “Don’t ever do that again,” said my father.

b. My father warned -----------------------------------------------------------------

13. a. He was very learned. But he behaved foolishly.

b. Though ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

14. a. My son was disobedient and so I punished him.

b. I punished --------------------------------------------------------------------------

15. a. She was in bad helath, so she did not go to collge.

b. Owing to ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

16. a. He fared well in the interiview. He got the job.

b. Having ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

17. a. Susila is singing a nice song

b. A nice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

18. a. Who has eaten my fruits?

b. By whom ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

19. a. “I can solve any problem,” said the boy to me.

b. The boy told me ------------------------------------------------------------------

20. a. Balu can sing better than Mano.

b. Mano -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

16. a. Some people have been affected by floods. They have been removed to
safe places.

b. People who --------------------------------------------------------------------

17. a. Rajesh was sitting in one of the rear seats; he escaped unhurt.

b. Rajesh who --------------------------------------------------------------------

18. a. Some people smoke a lot. They are likely to get lung cancer.

b. People who --------------------------------------------------------------------

19. a. Arundhati Roy wrote the novel ‘God of Small Things’. She has won
the Booker Prize.

b. Arundhati Roy who -------------------------------------------------------------

20. a. N.T. Rama Rao spent most of his life acting in films. He later became
the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

b. N.T. Rama Rao who -------------------------------------------------------------

21. a. You are very lazy, so you can not finish the work in time.

b. If you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

22. a. I do not have time, so I cannot accept this work.

b. If I ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

23. a. Unless you work hard, you cannot get I class.

b. If -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

24. a. You did not have enough sense so you made such a silly mistake.

b. If ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

25. a. You were very care less that’s why you failed in the exam.

b. If ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

26. a. I showed you a new house yesterday. It belongs to a film star.

b. The new house ----------------------------------------------------------------

27. a. “Would you like to persuade your friend to accept the offer?” said the
Manager to Diana.

b. The Manager asked Diana --------------------------------------------------------
28. a. People celebrate Diwali all over the country.

b. Diwali ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

29. a. You woke me up. So I didn’t sleep long.

b. If you ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

30. a. We were late; so we decided to eat out.

b. Since ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

IX. Identify the pat of speech of each underlined word.

1. I am glad Rex never saw a trained police dog jump.