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ICSE Class X Question Bank 2024 : English Paper 1 (English Language) Grammar Practice : Filling Passage Blanks

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Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. Passage 1 Kathie Fairbanks [1] ____ (drive) the used truck she [2] ____ (purchase) that morning when suddenly the brakes failed. The vehicle [3] ____ (hurtle) along the deserted highway as Kathie pumped hard on the brake pedal. There [4] ____ (be) no response. There was a steep hill ahead, thankfully [5] ____ (go) upwards and not downwards. It was here that Kathie managed to bring the runaway truck to a [6] ____ (screech) stop. But her trouble had just begun. The cabin interior [7] ____ (fill) fast with noxious fumes and black smoke. Most people [8] ____(can) simply jumped out of the vehicle, but Kathie was a paraplegic paralysed from the waist down by multiple sclerosis. Her truck was on fire and she [9] ____ (know) she could [10] ____ (blow) up any moment. Passage 2 Example: [0] arrived After two days of long bus journeys north from Ajanta, through dusty landscapes and the transit city of Indore, I finally [0] ____ (arrive) in Mandu. I d [1] ____ (get) itchy feet while exploring the hot, dusty, flat plains of central India, and I [2] ____ (begin) to dream of lofty hill stations nestling at the feet of snow-capped Himalayas, but Mandu [3] ____ (remind) me once and for all why the arid desert areas of India [4] ____ (be) in a world of their own. Mandu is a huge fortress [5] ____ (build) by the Muslims, a combination of two of the things that [6] ____ (make) travelling worthwhile glorious landscapes and fantastic architecture. And when I [7] ____ (say) fantastic, I really mean it Mandu [8] ____ (be) spectacular. Passage 3 Example: [0] vacate Please [0] ____ (vacate) the house next month. This [1] ____ (be) a bombshell. It was as if someone [2] ____ (ask) you to vacate your own body and go elsewhere. It [3] ____ (seem) impossible, inconceivable, that you [4] ____ (go) and live anywhere else. This house was more or less [5] ____ (build) to your needs that side room for guests, the top room for the brother from Bombay whenever he [6] ____ (come), and the front hall and the veranda; the view of the margosa tree from the veranda (you [7] ____ (grow) up with the tree) and then those little creepers beside the front window. This house [8] ____ (be) part and parcel of yourself. Passage 4 Example: [0] was One day, early in the morning after one of her parents parties, when the lawn [0] ____ (be) still dotted with cigarette stubs and half-eaten snacks, Ila [1] ____ (go) out into the garden to read. She had a book with her that she [2] ____ (have) to put away the night before, when she [3] ____ (be) only twenty pages from the end because Lizzie [4] ____ (switch) off the lights in her bedroom. She [5] ____ (flop) into a deckchair beside the lilypond and in a moment she was [6] ____ (absorb) in her book. Ten pages later, still [7] ____ (engross), she heard a soft splash in the lily-pond. It was a very gentle splash, no louder than the sound of a goldfish s tail [8] ____ (flick) the surface. Passage 5 1 Example: was She [0] ____ (be) silent.In the darkness I [1] ____ (see) the shadow of Javni near me, [2] ____ (throw)by the faint starlight that [3] ____ (come) from the garden door. In the corner the cow [4] ____ (breath) hard, and the calf [5] ____ (nibble) at the wisps of hay. It [6] ____ (be) a terrible moment. The whole misery of the world [7] ____ (seem) weighing all about and above me. And yet and yet the suffering one seemed [8] ____ (laugh) at it all. Passage 6 Example: [0] knows God [0] ____ (know) what monster child [1] ____ (grow) inside her, Radha s mother-in-law said in the kitchen. Radha [2] ____ (roll) over painfully. Her body was a clumsy burden to move but if she [3] ____ (lie) too long in one position her legs became numb. In the kitchen the voices of the two women Shripati s mother and aunt went on and on, [4] ____ (gloat) in whispers, [5] ____ (let) an occasional word [6] ____ (come) out loud enough for Radha to hear. The murmur of the voices and the smell of the food [7] ____ (make) her sick. She found the smell of methiparticularly revolting and was unwise enough to [8] ____ (say) so. Naturally, methi was the vegetable most frequently cooked in their kitchen now. Passage 7 I [1] ____ (not know) when darkness crept into the room. Uncle Biren [2] ____ (has) gone a long time. Only mother was there, [3] ____ (recline) in a chair by my side silent and motionless. I did not ask for the light. I [4] ____ (like) the feeling of darkness slowly invading a room. Suddenly the memory of one particular evening [5] ____ (flit) across my mind. This was much before I fell ill. Mother [6] ____ (take) me to uncle Biren s house. Uncle Biren [7] ____ (take) aback on seeing us. He let us in at the wicket gate, looking flustered. Pono, you here? It was the first time I [8] ____ (hear) uncle Biren addressing mother by her name. Coming from his lips, her name rang strangely. Mother started laughing. I [9] ____ (not know) why, but I did not like the way she laughed. I felt [10] ____ (cramp) and a vague numbness spread over my heart. Passage 8 Example: [0] insisted Quasimodo [0] ____ (insist) on sleeping in the house; no amount of coaxing or scolding [1] ____ (get) him to inhabit the pigeon-loft I had constructed for him. He preferred to sleep on the end of Margo s bed. Eventually, however, he [2] ____ (banish) to the drawing-room sofa, for if Margo turned over in bed at night Quasimodo would wake, [3] ____ (hobble) up the bed, and perch on her face, cooing loudly and lovingly. It [4] ____ (be) Larry who discovered that Quasimodo was a musical pigeon. Not only [5] ____ (do) he like music, but he actually seemed [6] ____ (recognize) two different varieties, the waltz and the military march. For ordinary music he [7] ____ (waddle) as close to the gramophone as possible and sit there with [8] ____ (pout) chest, eyes half-closed, purring softly to himself. Passage 9 Example: [0] had 2 If the gods [0] ____ (have) a purpose for the universe, do you really think they [1] ____ (tell) us? And if they [2] ___ (do), could we understand it? No, your story [3] ____ (be) probably something out of Africa. He [4] ____ (turn) away. I [5] ____ (miss) dinner, but I wasn t hungry. I returned to the small studio I [6] ____ (share) with a dozen other art majors, pulled out a canvas I [7] ____ (prepare) weeks before, then held back while I [8] ____ (wait) for some special inspiration. Passage 10 Example: (0) were standing We [0] ____ (stand) on the bridge, trying to catch some fish for supper when a small red plane [1] ____ (fly) almost directly above our heads. We could even see the pilot s face. What on earth [2] ____ (be) he up to? I asked. I felt rather [3] ____ (annoy). I think he s in trouble, Jack said. His engine [4] ____ (make) a strange noise. Well, we [5] ____ (not do) anything, can we? I said. We can t even phone from here. We [6] ____ (be) on a boating holiday and we were miles from the nearest town. We can follow the plane down the river, Jack said. Come on! Let s go! I must admit I [7] ____ (like) the idea. There weren t many fish in that part of the river and I [8] ____ (bore). We dropped our fishing lines and ran towards our boat. Passage 11 By the time we reached Howrah station we [1] ___ (be) forty-eight hours on the train. We [2] ___ (left) Jammu right on time and [3] ___ (make) excellent progress when we [4] ___ (reach) Khanna, in Punjab. There, at an unmanned level crossing, the engine ran into a tractor and [5] ___ (go) off the rails, with four of the front carriages. Had the train not been travelling slowly at that stage many lives [6] ___ (be) lost. As it was, several passengers [7] ___ (suffer) serious injuries.The tractor [8] ___ (reduce) to scrap, though the driver was lucky to escape. [9] ___ (See) the oncoming train he [10] ___ (jump) to safety. Passage 12 Their only crime [1] ____ (be) that they [2] ____ (fall) in love and wanted to live together [3] ____ (defy) the social order but the punishment they [4] ____ (get) in return was such that they [5] ____ (have), perhaps, never expected even in their wildest dreams. A schoolgirl and her lover in Bihar [6] ____ (beat) to death and their bodies [7] ____ (burn) on the same pyre yesterday in a latest incident of honour killing which [8] ____ (alarm) the social scientists. The gruesome incident [9] ____ (take) place at Amaitha village under Wazirganj police station in southern Bihar s Gaya district on Wednesday, [10] ____ (spur) the police into action. Women together with a frenzied mob [11] ____ (burn) them to death without any sense of remorse, witnesses [12] ____ (say). Passage 13 Example: [0] had sought The Dutch animal dealer [0] ____ (seek) me out, for he [1] ____ (discover) that I had started a zoo and wondered if he [2] ____ (sell) me anything. He was soon [3] ____ (murmur) his disappointment because he had nothing I [4] ____ (want) or could afford if I had wanted it. However, being a convivial fellow, he [5] ____ (sit) up into the small hours and became even more convivial and somewhat indiscreet. 3 My dear Gerry, he said, for we had by that time [6] ____ (reach) the first names stage, and he was under the impression that we [7] ____ (be) blood brothers, if not twins, If you want me to, I [8] ____ (get) any animal in the world, whether it is protected or not. Passage 14 Example: [0] had Felicia Zander [0] ___ (has) a brain haemorrhage when she was six and [1] ____ (spend) more than a year in and out of hospital for x-rays, MRIs and about a dozen operations under general aesthetic. Before each visit a group of animated characters on the hospital s website described what she [2] ____ (go) through and calmed her fears. She became an avid follower of the hospital adventures of Pajette, a clown [3] ____ (wait) to get his appendix out and Ville, a 10-year-old wild boar about [4] ____ (have) a brain scan. It helped me understand better, to prepare for it .. it calmed me, she said. Having an anaesthetic [5] ____ (be) frightening but it s not actually dangerous, she added with a smile. Anaesthesia Web created by a nurse at Sweden s largest children s hospital [6] ____ (use) videos, games and cartoons [7] _____ (walk) a child through what they [8] ____ (encounter) during their stay, all the way to the well-earned ice cream in the post-operative room. Passage 15 Example: [0] slipped And then the chair [0] ____ (slip). George [1] ____ (clutch) wildly at the trout-case to save himself, and down it [2] ____ (come) with a crash, George and the chair on top of it. You [3] ____ (not injure) the fish, have you? I cried in alarm, rushing up. I hope not, said George, rising cautiously and looking about. But he [4] ____ (has). That trout [5] ____ (lie) utterly shattered in a thousand fragments of white shimmery pieces! Perhaps there laid nine hundred and ninety-nine, but I [6] ____ (not bother) to count. We thought it strange and unaccountable that a stuffed trout [7] ____ (break) up into little pieces like that. And so it would [8] ____ (be) strange and unaccountable, if it had been a stuffed trout, but it was not. That trout was plaster-of-Paris. Passage 16 Example: [0] did I [0] ____ (do) as he told me, and I [1] ____ (see) what he meant. I felt like nothing, and at the same time I [2] ____ (never feel) so big and great in all my life. I forgot all my anger and all my tears and all the blows. When I said I was better, he began [3] ____ (tell) me the names of the stars, and I particularly remembered the constellation of Orion the Hunter, though I [4] ____ (not really know) why. I [5] ____ (spot) Orion even today, but I [6] ____ (forget) the rest. Then a light [7] ____ (flash) into our faces, and we saw a policeman. We got up from the grass. The policeman said, What you doing here? B. Wordsworth said, I [8] ____ (ask) myself the same question for forty years. Passage 17 Example: [0] meant Dark black clouds in a dull sky [0] ____ (mean) one thing and one thing only: there [1] ____ (going) to be a thunderstorm. Not one of us [2] ____ (bring) an umbrella, or even a raincoat, so when Jack suggested we [3] 4 ____ (go) to a museum, we all agreed immediately. As we [4] ____ (shop) all morning and were now feeling very tired, it would be a pleasure [5] ____ (sit) down. We took a bus and arrived just as large drops of rain [6] ____ (begin) to fall. The museum was quite [7] ____ (desert) and very peaceful. We sat down in the main hall and listened to the rain [8] ____ (beat) against the windows. Suddenly there was a great disturbance at the entrance. Passage 18 Example: [0] are invited Shakespeare enthusiasts from across India [0] ____ (invite) to be part of an online project that[1] ____ (envisage) uploading and sharing of their videos reciting lines from the plays of the great Bard. It will be an online repository, where people [2] ____ (post) videos of themselves reciting Shakespeare lines. We hope [3] ____ (able) to record famous personalities as well as everyday people who [4] ____ (inspire) by Shakespeare to be part of this project, across India, says VivekMansukani, Director Arts, British Council. The repository titled All The World s A Stage , a monologue from one of the plays by the iconic writer, [5] ____ (set) to culminate in a crowd [6] ____ (source) performance and a new digital version of Shakespeare works. The project is part of a mega global celebration Shakespeare Lives to mark the iconic English poetplaywright actor s 400th death anniversary which [7] ____ (fall) in 2016, and [8] ____ (coordinate) by British Council with the Great Britain Campaign. Passage 19 Example: [0] surviving The sixth of 45-year-old Shivachander s eight [0] ____ (survive) daughters [1] ____ (call) Mantod[breaker of hope]. She was so named because Shivachander and his wife s dream of having a baby boy [2] ____ (shatter). The couple, however, [3] ____ (not give) up hope. After the birth of two more daughters, a male child (4) ____ (bear) in 2009 with the blessing of Maharani Ji [village deity] who had appeared, according to Shivachander, in a dream to assure him that he [5] ____ (have) a male heir one day. In addition to the eight daughters, there were four other girls born to the couple who [6] ____ (die) in their infancy. Had they survived today, the couple [7] ____ (have) a dozen children. And it would have been more difficult for Shivachander to remember their names as even now he [8] ____ (fumble) if asked to name his eight daughters. Passage 20 Example: [0] brought The day I [0] ____ (bring) my first car home, a friend in Pune called me in Delhi just to say that I [1] ____ (give) it a name. Funny, I thought, why would I do that? A car is a car [2] ____ (be) a car. No, she said. Give it a name, it [3] ____ (help) you bond with it and your car will always be there for you. 5 Her words [4] ____ (do) come true, for my Dolly stayed faithful to me. She never broke down where help could not [5] ____ (seek); she never left me [6] ____ (strand). She forgave all my trespasses and kept me safe. And, like they say, for us humans and our animal companions, when their time [7] ____ (come), they simply disappear. So my Dolly too went away. One fine day, our 15-year bond broke. Dolly [8] ____ (steal). Passage 21 You [1] ____ (buy) old books, don t you? asked Fred, putting his parcel down on the shop counter. I ll [2] ____ (see) what you ve got before I can answer that question, the bookseller said. Business isn t so good as it [3] ____ (use). People seem to prefer to buy new books nowadays. Fred opened his parcel and [4] ____ (lay) the books out on the counter. I [5] ____ (not pretend) to know much about books, he said. I ve had these for years, and I haven t even read them. My grandfather [6] ____ (leave) them to me, as a matter of fact.But my wife never [7] ____ (stop) complaining about them. She says they make the house look dirty. So I [8] ____ (think) I d bring them in to show you, just in case there is anything of interest. Passage 22 Example: [0] I ve never [0] ____ (see) Uncle Ken running. Answer: seen But I did one day. Mohan and I [1] ____ (play) marbles in the shade of the mango grove when we [2] ____ (take) aback by the sight of Uncle Ken charging across the compound, [3] ____ (pursue) by a swarm of bees. He d [4] ____ (smoke) a cigar under a silk-cotton tree and the fumes had disturbed the wild bees in their hive directly above him. Uncle Ken [5] ____ (flee] indoors and [6] ____ (leap) into a tub of cold water. He [7] ____ (receive) a few stings and decided to remain in bed for three days. Ayah took his meals to him on a tray. I [8] ____ (not know) Uncle Ken could run so fast, I said later that day. Passage 23 Example: [0] am standing I [0] ____ (stand) outside my grandfather s house. The wall [1] ____ (raise), and the wicket-gate has disappeared. I [2] ____ (not get) a clear view of the house and the garden. The name-plate [3] ____ (identify) the owner as Major General Saigal; the house [4] ____ (has) more than one owner since my grandparents sold it in 1949. Grandfather [5] ____ (build) the house with granite rocks taken from the foothills.It [6] ____ (show) no sign of age. The lawn has disappeared but the big jackfruit tree, giving shade to the side verandah is still there. In this tree I [7] ____ (spend) my afternoons, absorbed in my Magnets, Champions and Hotspurs, while sticky mango juice [8] ____ (trickle) down my chin. Passage 24 Example: [0] passed At dusk, next day, he [0] ____ (pass) a herd of wild elephants, and some young bulls swinging around at his approach, looking at him in a [1] ____ (threaten) fashion. At the sight of them his heart [2] ____ (throb) with excitement, but a greater urge [3] ____ (drive) him northwards. So, he passed them and 6 continued on his journey. He crossed [4] ____ (babble) rivers, climbed steep hills, crossed dangerous ravines, cleaved through vast stretches of tangled thorn country where an eternal twilight [5] ____ (reign), but never once [6] ____ (be) he at fault for his direction. The blind instinct that [7] ____ (implant) in is soul for as long as he [8] ____ (remember), guided him towards his distant goal. Passage 25 While engaged in the [1] ____ (lay) of a new railway line, I had a miraculous escape from an awful death. I lived in a small township, but my work [2] ____ (lie) some twelve miles away and I [3] ____ (to go) to the work-site and back on horseback. One day, my horse had a slight accident, so I decided to do the journey on foot, [4] ____ (be) a great walker in those days. I also knew a short-cut through the hills that [5] ____ (save) me about six miles. This short-cut went through an ostrich farm or Camp , as it [6] ____ (call). It was the breeding season. I was fairly familiar with the ways of ostriches, and knew that the male birds were very aggressive in the [7] ____ (breed) season, ready to attack on the slightest provocation, but I also knew that my dog would scare away any bird that [8] ____ (try) to attack me. Strange though it may seem, even the biggest ostrich (and some of them grow to a height of nine feet) [9] ____ (run) faster than a race horse at the sight of even a small dog. So I felt quite safe in the company of my dog, a mongrel, who [10] ____ (adopt) me some two months previously. Passage 26 On arrival at the Camp , I climbed through the wire fencing and, [1] ____ (keep) a good look-out, dodged across the open spaces between the thorn bushes. Now and then, I [2] ____ (catch) a glimpse of the birds feeding some distance away. I [3] ____ (go) about half a mile from the fencing, when up started a hare. In an instant, my dog gave chase. I tried [4] ____ (call) him back though I knew it was hopeless. Chasing hares [4] ____ (be) the dog s passion. I [5] ____ (not know) whether it was the dog s bark or my own shouting, but what I was most anxious to avoid, [6] ____ (happen). The ostriches were startled and began [7] ____ (dart) to and fro. Suddenly, I saw a big male bird [8] ____ (emerge) from a thicket about a hundred yards away. He stood still and stared at me for a few moments. I stared back. Then, [9] ____ (expand) his short wings and with his tail erect, he came [10] ____ (bound) towards me. Passage 27 It is twilight. A thick wet snow [1] ____ (twirl) around the street-lamps, and [2] ____ (lie) in thin layers on the roofs.The cab-driver, Iona Potapov, [3] ____ (look) like a ghost. He is bent double as far as a human body can bend double; he [4] ____ (seat) on his box, and never makes a move. If a whole snowdrift fell on him, he would not find it necessary [5] ____ (shake) it off. His little horse is also quite white and remains motionless; its immobility, and its straight legs, give it the appearance of a gingerbread horse worth a penny. It is, no doubt, [6] ____ (plunge) in deep thought. If you were snatched from your usual grey surroundings, and [7] ____ (throw) into this slush full of [8] ____ (uncease) noise, you too would find it difficult to bear. Passage 28 Example: [0] returned When Jackson [0] ____ (return), we set off for the museum. At the museum, the children [1] ____ (give) a final briefing. Equipped with paper and pencils, they [2] ____ (work) in groups of six or seven, 7 each group [3] ____ (pay) special attention to some aspect of Victorian dress design, material, stitchcraft, etc. We would all meet in the museum canteen at eleven o clock for a cup of tea and again at twelve, [4] ____ (return) to school. They were reminded to be quiet and not [5] ____ (touch) any of the exhibits. We met at the appointed time and over cups of tea, there [6] ____ (be) a lively discussion about the exhibits we [7] ____ (see). Fernman, whose parents worked in the clothing industry, told us that his grandmother still [8] ____ (weave) silk on her own hand loom! Passage 29 Example: [0] wandering She loves [0] ___ (wander) in the wilds. She does not even feel a hint of fear from jungle beasts. ParbatiBarua [1] ___ (be) Asia s lone woman elephant-tamer.Parbati [2] ___ (be) introduced to the wilds when she was just six weeks old and has never looked back since. Today, Parbati [3] ___ (win) several honours worldwide for her skill in capturing wild elephants, besides chasing rampaging elephant herds. It is risky and dangerous. You are not sure you [4] ___ (come) back once you go out in the wilds on a mission, she [5] ___ (say). Her father, popularly [6] ___ (know) as Lalji, was himself one of the best known elephant-trainers of the region and they had a number of elephants at home. She [7] ___ (grow) up with them and learnt everything there was to know about them. Elephant-taming was something she chose [8] ___ (do) for a living. Passage 30 Example: [0] felt Suddenly he [0] ____ (feel) hungry. Stooping, he [1] ____ (draw) from his knapsack a piece of bread and [2] ____ (bite) off a morsel. But after a few mouthfuls, he [3] ____ (have) enough of it. The bread [4] ____ (be) hard and had a bitter taste. No fresh bread [5] ____(be) given until the next morning s distribution. The remembrance of former breakfasts [6] ____ (come) to him, when he [7] ____ (seat) himself by a window on the ground floor of the Cafe'-Anglais and be served with a cutlet or buttered eggs. That [8] ____ (be) a good time, and he would never become accustomed to this life of wretchedness. Passage 31 Example: Our house was a pit stop for our mailman. My mother [0] ____ (have) a meal ready for him when he arrived (on his bicycle). Example: [0] would have He [1] ____ (leave) his heavy mailbag inside our front door and retire to the kitchen to eat and drink his fill. In the meantime, my brother and I were checking the bag to see if it [2] ____ (contain) a brown paper sleeve over a bright yellow magazine, which [3] ____ (be) on its way to the home of a gentleman farmer two miles further on. 8 Very carefully we would slip the magazine from its cover and [4] ____ (feast) our eyes on pictures of Africa or Alaska and other exotic places. Never once did the mailman [5] ____ (catch) us in the act . Or if he [6] ____ (do), he never let on. Probably, like us, he would [7] ____ (consider) it an educational peek at worlds beyond our reach. We carefully replaced the cover not feeling any guilt at all, our young heads [8] ____ (fill) with dreams of faraway places. Passage 32 Example: (0) to blame At first, the question was, Who s (0) ____ (blame)? But then, when we learned more, we started (1) ____ (think), What should we do? It happened late Friday night. That morning, no one (2) ____ (suspect) anything. I sent my son to school; my husband went to the barber s. I (3) ____ (prepare) lunch when my husband came back. There s some sort of fire at the nuclear plant, he said. They re saying we are not (4) ____ (turn off) the radio. I forgot to say that we lived in Pripyat, near the reactor. I (5) ____ (can) still see the bright-crimson glow it was like the reactor was glowing. This wasn t any ordinary fire, I (6) ____ (never see) anything like it even in the films. That evening people (7) ____ (spill) out onto the streets to look. And these were people who (8) ____ (work) at the reactor engineers, workers, physics instructors. They stood in the black dust, talking, breathing, wondering at it. Passage 33 Example: [0] was Our first impression on entering the grounds [0] ____ (be) that the whole thing [1] ____ (look) like a fairyland. The vast space [2] ____ (decorate) in bright and gay colours, men and women in their best clothes [3] ____ (be) moving from corner to corner, admiring the beauty of all the stalls. These stalls [4] ____ (be) like small shops and they had on sale a variety of foods. While the stalls [5] ____ (make) a very interesting sight, what [6] ____ (attract) us most was the children s corner. It [7] ____ (surround) with boys and girls. All types of amusements [8] ____ (see). Passage 34 Example: [0] came I [0] ____ (come) here with the new moon and it [1] ____ (be) five days old now. The slender crescent has put on more substance and nightly it [2] ____ (grow) fuller. I was arrested the day after Diwali and [3] ____ (bring) here from Allahabad. The next day after my arrival [4] ____ (be)Id, the great Muslim festival [5] ____ (end) the Ramzan fast. So in feasting and rejoicing I came here, or [6] ____ (bring) here. My trial lasted two days and today I [7] ____ (be) sentenced. There were three counts on three speeches I [8] ____ (deliver) a month ago in Gorakhpur district and on each charge I was sentenced to a year and four months rigorous imprisonment, each sentence [9] ____ (run) consecutively, that [10] ____ (be) four years in all. That is the biggest sentence I [11] ____ (have) so far had in my longish experience, but then I suppose this was only proper as I [12] ____ (grow) in years and presumably in importance. 9 Passage 35 Example: [0] was coming The storm [0] ____ (come) nearer at every moment, and the heavy clouds overhead [1] ____ (shed) an unnatural darkness over the scene. The laurel bushes round the White Cottage [2] ____ (rustle) together in the fidgety wind that [3] ____ (precede) a downpour. Jerry and the constable carried the [4] ____ (faint) girl through the wicket-gate and stumbled down the path with her. As they came up to the front door it [5] ____ (throw) open and a grey-faced, horror-stricken girl came running out into the porch. Jerry hardly recognized her as the same one he [6] ____ (set) down at the gate less than ten minutes before. All the light and youth seemed [7] ____ (to draw) from her face and her blue eyes were wide. Oh, I m glad you ve come! she said breathlessly. Something horrible [8] ____ (happen). Come in at once. Passage 36 Example: [0] to have I m sorry [0] ____ (have) [1] ____ (talk) like this, Mr. Christensen, but did nothing the dead man ever said to you [2] ____ (suggest) that there was some sort of well intrigue [3] ____ (go) on? The man in the invalid chair [4] ____ (pause) for a moment before replying, and an expression of loathing and contempt passed over his face. The dead man [5] ____ (be) the most despicable wretch on the face of this earth! he said. Sometimes I [6] ____ (think) he must be mad then I forgave him a little. There was silence in the room after he [7] ____ (speak), and the echo of his words seemed to cling and hang about the atmosphere, although they [8] ____ (not speak) in anything approaching a loud voice. Passage 37 Example: [0] knew I [0] ____ (know) who it was even before I went to the door. Miss Krishna always stabbed at the bell as though it [1] ____ (be) a serpent, coiled and ready to spring, if she [2] ____ (keep) her finger there too long. She had a nervous, slightly frenetic appearance, which her clothes did nothing [3] ____ (diminish). I [4] ____ (sigh), put away my papers and typewriter and went to the door. She was always pathetically eager to see me, full of apologies as she [5] ____ (come) in and took up her favourite position on the divan. I knew I [6] ____ (not come) in the morning, she said, her voice high and rapid. I know I shouldn t be disturbing you when you [7] ____ (write), but I just felt I had [8] ____ (see) you today. Passage 38 Example: [0] Tom [0] ____ (find) out soon after his arrival that the place was ideal for his adventure. Answer: had found It [1] ___ (be) a holiday. Tom [2] ____ (get) out early in the morning, and had not yet returned home. Midday [3] ____ (pass), and Aunt Polly was very worried. She called him many times, and looked for him everywhere in and around the house, but he was not [4] ____ (to see) anywhere. She called him loudly once more. There was no reply but she [5] ____ (hear) a slight noise behind her. She quickly turned round and [6] ____ (seize) a little boy by the pants. It was Tom, who [7] ____ (come) out of the storeroom quietly. What [8] ____ (you do) in there? asked Aunt Polly. 10 Passage 39 [0] Let the patient [0] ____ (come) in, he said. Answer: come The man who [1] ____ (enter) appeared to belong to the best class of society. His pale face and nervous demeanour betrayed physical suffering. His right hand [2] ____ (tie) up in a sling and, although he [3] ____ (control) his features, a painful groan escaped from his lips now and again. I [4] ____ (not able) to sleep for a week. There is some trouble with my right hand. I [5] ____ (not make) out what it is. It may be cancer or some other terrible disease. At first it [6] ____ (not bother) me much, but since lately, I [7] ____ (not have) a moment s relief. It [8] ____ (pain) me terribly. I want you to burn it out or cut it out or do something with it. The surgeon reassured the patient by declaring that it was perhaps not necessary to operate. No, no, the man insisted. It [9] ____ (will) to be operated on. I came purposely to have the diseased part cut out. Nothing else [10] ____ (help). Passage 40 [0] Seven years [0] ____ (be) a long time to be away from one s clan. A man s place was not always there, waiting for him. Answer: was As soon as he left, someone else [1] ____ (rise) and filled it. The clan was like a lizard; if it [2] ____ (lose) its tail it soon grew another. Okonkwo knew these things. He knew that he [3] ____ (lose) his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice in the clan. He [4] ____ (lose) the chance to lead his warlike clan against the new religion, which, he [5] ____ (tell), [6] ____ (gain) ground. He had lost the years in which he [7] ____ (may) taken the highest titles in the clan. But some of these losses [8] ____ (be) not irreparable. He was determined that his return [9] ____ (shall) marked by his people. He [10] ____ (return) with a flourish, and regain the seven wasted years. 11

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