DECEMBER EXAMINATION

                                      Answers to II term English 2013  Std X

1. When we touch the thorns, we bleed. Pain is the language of thorns.

2. The desert doesn't give any comfort. Only heat and dust, we get from the desert.

3. Cactus is strong enough to bear the difficulties of the drought.

4. Cactus makes one thorn for each drop of water.

5. Everybody wishes to be famous and a superstar.

6. Success walks hand in hand with failure./ Every dog has a day.

7. Engraved the names using cement on the Celluloid boulevard.. Concrete shows permanency of the

popularity.

8. Hard work and perseverance in the struggle for fame.

9. The boy watched the fox wedding that he shouldn't have done.

10.The boy must go and ask the forgiveness of the foxes.

11. Under rainbows

12. Disobedience / Curiosity

13. Fantasy. Foxes live under rainbows.

14.George cut the English Cherry tree.

15. His father loved that cherry tree very much.

16.George was confident on his father's forgiving nature/ George admitted his mistake.

17. His father would forgive if he was truthful.

18.Truthfulness and openness are the touchstones of human relationships.

19.Write up- Teashop as a means of narration./ Compare the characters of beggar and the servant

20.Conversation- Swami and his friend

21. Notice -Film Club

22.Letter – Stranger to his friend

23. Profile- Anton Checkout

24.Newspaper report of the Seminar

25. Diary Entry of Mr. Samual.

26.B3

27.B4 & B5

28.B2

29.B3

30.B6

31. a. Thinks( will think), b. will go, c. has, d. called

32. (a) the, (b). to ,(c). a ,(d). who

33. (a)will question him, (b) is it?, (c)How long have you been living here?,(d) that annoys the king

34. (a)turn up, (b)go through, (c)turn down, (d) put up with

35.This is Dileep who built the house., This is the house that was built by Dileep

36.The boy asked where the foxes lived./ The mother replied that they lived under the rainbows