Prepared by : Vinay Sir (Edwise Coaching Classes)
MADHYAMIK TEST SERIES
- 2021
SECTION - A
READING COMPREHENSION
(SEEN)
1. Read the passage
carefully and answer the questions that follow :
Swami hoped that with
this his father would be made to see why he must avoid school for the day. But
Father's behaviour took an unexpected turn. He proposed to send a letter with
Swami to the headmaster. No amount of protest from Swami would make him change
his mind, By the time Swami was ready to leave for school, Father had composed
a long letter to the headmaster. He put it in an envelope and sealed it.
"What have you
written, Father?" Swami asked apprehensively.
Nothing for you. Give
it to your headmaster and go to your class."
"Have you written
anything about our teacher Samuel?"
"Yes. Plenty of
things."
"What has he done,
Father?"
"Everything is
there in the letter. Give it to your headmaster."
Swami went to school
feeling that he was the worst boy on earth. His conscience bothered him. He
wasn't at all sure if his description of Samuel had been accurare.
He felt he had mixed up
the real and the imagined. Swami stopped on the roadside to make up his mind
about Samuel. Samuel was not such a bad man after all. Personally he was much
more friendly than the other teach ers. Swami also felt Samuel had a special
regard for him.
Swami's head was dizzy
with confusion. He could not decide if Samuel really de served the allegations
made against him in the letter. The more he thought of Samuel, the more Swami
grieved for him. To recall Samuel's dark face, his thin moustache, unshaven
cheek and yellow coat filled Swaminathan with sorrow.
A. Write the correct
alternative to complete the follwing sentences :
1x5=5
(a) Father's behaviour
was -
(i) pleasant (ii)
stange (iii) not expected (iv) gentle
(b) While going to
school Swami was bothered by-
(i) conscience (ii)
headache (iii) ailment (iv) fever
(c) Samuel was not a/an
-
(i) bad man (ii) good
man (iii) honest man (iv) happy man
(d) The colour of
Samuel's coat was -
(i) black (ii) green
(iii) white (iv) yellow
(e) Swami's head was
dizzy with-
(i) shame (ii) sorrow
(iii) confusion (iv) tension
B. Complete the
following sentences with information from the text : 1x3
(i) Father informed
Swami that he had written --------about Samuel.
(ii) His conscience
bothered him because -
(iii) In the letter father
made allegations
C. Answer the following
questions:
2x2=4
(i) How did Samuel look
like ?
(ii) What did Swami fail to decide about Samuel ?
