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PART A: LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION (15 Marks)

Passage 1 — Q1–8
The monsoon is not merely a season in India; it is an emotion, a lifeline, and sometimes a destroyer. For centuries, farmers have looked skyward, waiting for the first dark clouds that promise prosperity... hope and joy persist even in uncertainty.
1. What is the central idea of the passage?
2. The phrase “cracks the earth like pottery left too long in the kiln” is an example of
3. According to the passage, why do farmers look skyward?
4. Which word in the passage means “unpredictable”?
5. The author’s tone in the last sentence is
6. Antonym of "Devastating"
7. Antonym of "Uncertainty"
8. Antonym of "Persist"
Passage 2 — Poetry (Q9–15)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — lines from Robert Frost.
9. The poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by
10. The rhyme scheme of the stanza is
11. “My little horse must think it queer” – here 'queer' means
12. The poet stops in the woods because
13. “fill up with snow” means
14. “The darkest evening of the year” refers to
15. The horse shakes his harness bells to

PART B: GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY (9 Marks)

16. Identify the part that has an error: “Although he is intelligent, / but he lacks / common sense.”
17. Fill in: “If I _____ enough money, I would have bought that house.”
18. Active to Passive: “Someone has stolen my bicycle.”
19. Choose the correct idiom: “She passed the exam with flying _____.”
20. One-word substitution: Fear of heights
21. Spelling – Select the correctly spelt word
22. Narration: She said, “I am going to the market.”
23. He is afraid _____ dogs.
24. The minister was accompanied _____ his secretary.

PART C: PEDAGOGY OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (6 Marks)

25. According to Vygotsky, the gap between what a child can do alone and with help is called
26. The best way to teach phrasal verbs to Class VII students is through
27. A child writes “I goed” instead of “went”. This error is
28. In a multilingual classroom, the most effective strategy for teaching English is
29. “Remedial teaching” is given to
30. Which is NOT a feature of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)?