NAME:  _______________                              R.NO:  ____                               DATE:

            CLASS:  XI                                                        WS NO: 03

Read the poem and answer the questions:

THE MAN HE KILLED

Had he and I but met

By some old ancient inn,

We should have set us down to wet

Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,

And staring face to face,

I shot at him as he at me,

And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because

Because he was my foe,

Just so: my foe of course he was;

That’s clear enough; although

 he thought he’d ‘list, perhaps,

off-hand like-just as I-

was out of work-had sold his traps-

no other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!

You shoot a fellow down

You’d treat, if met where any bar is,

Or help to half a crown.

1. Choose the correct option:

a)  the word__________ rhymes with ‘although’.

                                i.            Foe

                               ii.            So

                             iii.            Both i and ii.

b) the word ‘crown’ means____________ .

                                i.            A unit of money

                               ii.            The head dress worn by a king

                             iii.            The top part of the head or a hat.

2.  Pick out the words from the passage which mean the same as:

a)   tavern      b) enemy

3. Answer the following questions:

           i.            Why had the poet shot the man dead?

          ii.            Why does the poet think that the war is  ‘quaint and curious’?

2. Read the passage below and decide whether a, the, or no articles needed to fill each gap correctly.

Spanish is one of ------most widely spoken languages in -------world. It is spoken allover---------South America except for -------- Brazil. Like Italian and Portuguese, -------Spanish language is related to Latin. -----------recent report stated that -------number of Spanish speakers in -------United State of America will be higher than -------number of English speakers by ----------year 2090. As ----------result of this, nearly all North American schools teach Spanish.--------language with ----------most speakers in --------world is Mandarin Chinese.

3. Complete this narration using suitable determiners.

A ----months back, ------big fire broke out in our locality. It had caused a------ damage, but fortunately-------was hurt. It was a calm night and I was reading in the hall.

I smelt------burning and heard-----shouting down the road. I  saw a house on fire with ------- --- --flames leaping from one roof to another. I immediately phoned the police and fire department, and -------of us rushed out.

4.  Rearrange the words so that they are in the correct order.

1.attention. |Babies|need |constant

2.author?|Is |who|your |favourite |

3.the |team’s |the |place victory |guarantees|final. |Tonight’s

4.highlights|a|of |number|instances|The|of |injustice. |Report

5.on |contains |museum|interesting|rural |some|The |exhibits |Spanish|life

5. Use the following linking words and fill in the blanks.

(and, while, because, then, although, or, however, otherwise, so, if)

A few weeks ago, I did some ironing ______ _______ went out to do some shopping. __________ I was out, I realised that I couldn’t remember whether I had switched the iron off _________ left it on. __________I had left it on; the house might be on Fire! I was really worried _________ I ran home at once. ___________, I needn’t have worried______,________ I had left the iron on, everything was all right. It was a good thing I got home in time,_________ things could have turned out very differently.

6. Complete the following sentences with proper clauses.

1)God helps those ........................

2)You should act............................

3)She cannot convince her husband.................

4)There are many places..................

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