CLASS -1X

MID-TERM-1

REVISION PAPER-ENGLISH
1. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which there
is a blank. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided.

Error Correction

I first saw the leopard when I am crossing e.g. am was

the small stream. As I cross the stream and a)

begun climbing the hill, the grunting and b)

chattering increases, as though the c)

langurs was trying to warn me of some d)

hidden danger. The tiger was not look towards e)

me, but it must have sense my presence. It f)

slowly turned its head and look down at me. g)

I have disturbed the animal in its quest for h)

food and I felt sorry.

2. I entered the manager's office and sat down.

I have just lost five hundred rupees and I felt very upset. a) ______

"I leave the money in my desk," I said, b) ______

"and it is not there now". The manager was very sympathetic

but he can do nothing. "Everyone loses money these days", c) ______

he said, He start to complain about this wicked world, d) ______

but is interrupted by a knock at the door. e) ______

A girl came in and puts an envelope on his desk. f) ______

It contains five hundred rupees. "I found this g) ______

outside this gentleman's room," she said.

"Well! I say to the manager, "there is still some h) ______

honesty in this world !"

11. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs.

1. Since I __________(begin) acting, I _________________(perform) two plays, a television

commercial and a TV drama. However, I __________________( speak, never even) publicly
before I _________(come) to the Film City in Mumbai in 1985.

2. When I ____________(turn) the radio on yesterday, I __________(heard) a song that was

popular when I was in junior school. I _____________(hear,not_ the song for years and it
___________(bring) back some great memories.

3.By the time I _________(got) to the office, the meeting ___________________(begin,already)

without me.My boss _____________(be) furious with me and I ___________(be) fired

Refer to the Intergrated Exercises in Work-Book from the chapter on Tenses.