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(c) playing (d) sitting

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12. Fill in the blank with most appropriate preposition given below.

Rahul will return ________ 7 o’ clock.

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Call me ________ you need money.

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Section – III

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35. Read the following stanza and answer the questions given below:

We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive

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Section – IV

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Children’s Park in your locality.

42. Look at the following picture and express your views on it in above five sentences.

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to the magnitude of his greed. As man drifted away from Nature, his problems increased and his heart became hard

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And now there came both mist and snow, The ice was here, the ice was there,
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