4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions: With dry lips, parched throat, and ink-stained fingers, and exhaustion on one side and exaltation on the other, Swaminathan strode out of the examination hall on the last day. Standing in the veranda, he turned back and looked into the hall and felt slightly uneasy. He would have felt more comfortable if all the boys had given their papers as he had done, ‘twenty minutes before time, With his left shoulder resting against the wall, Sankar was lost to the world, Rajam, sitting under the second ventilator, between two third-form boys, had become a writing-machine, Mani was still gazing at the rafters, seratching his chin with the pen. The Pea was leaning back in his seat, revising his answers. One supervisor was 1. Give introduction of the topie/paragraph 2. Include valuable points to explain End with a suitable conclusion estion, § (a) Fill the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write the answers in correct serial order. i ‘Suman (0) (look) out of the window. She (1) ¢eateh) sight of the board (2) (bear) the station’s name. She was so (3) (amaze) that she almost (4)__(fall) out of her ‘compartment. She was back in her home town after (5) _ (travel) for sixty or seventy kilometers, here she (6) (is) home again, She (7)____ (climb) out of the compartment slowly.(b) Fill in each blank with a suitable word: [1 (i) Bulbul waited in front the office. (Gi) The kids were told to return to their room it became dark. (Gi) He wore a new muffler wrapped his neck on his birthday. (iv) We saw a huge bird flying high ‘the North tower and disappear. (vy) Music therapy is a treatment _________ many problems (vi) The robbers ran the exit staircase and out into the garden, (ii) Mr. Rustom jumped into his van and drove as fast as he could. (iil) You should not get carry by such rumors. (©) Make one complete sentence by joining the given sentences without using But, and or so: (4) (@ The professor arrived. The lecture started. Gi) The journey was so monotonous. I fell asleep on the backseat of my car. (Gi) He was found to have all the stolen goods. He was punished.(iv) Stop talking. Leave the premises (@) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. [8] (i) She said “I saw a Snow Leopard this morning” (Rewrite using indirect speech.) i) Karan is the fastest runner in the college. (Begin: No other.. ) (ii) Suman hid her grandfather’s new spectacles. (Begin: Her grandfather's, ro (iv) Agrim was too nervous to speak in front of the audience. (Begin: Agrim was so. red (¥) As soon as the election results were out, the triumph parade started on the street. (Begin: No soomer.sssosseesesseeess) (vi) Rani prefers reading a novel to watching television, (Begin: Rani would rather...) (vii) Anuj doesn’t study sufficient, but he still stands first. (Begin: Despite.. ) (viii) If Arun practices, he will win the interschool competition, (Begin: Unless. )