1.
Alfred Hitchcock
2. birds from all over the world start attacking humans.
3. their training had not gone very bad
4. if as many as fifty ravens are told to perch quietly in a row on a specified spot, and if they
obey this command instantly, isn't that pretty impressive
5. perch
6. life experience
7. answer is everywhere but no one tries to grab those answers
8. no, Rhetorical questions
9. white dove is a symbol of peace and it is searching for a land in peace; but there is no such
place in the world.
10. Suffered or suppressed
11. The speaker tells that while sitting reclined on a woodland grove, his mind was filled with
several thoughts. While he finds solace in the nature’s beauty, the same beauty also
reminds him of bad thoughts. The speaker appreciates the nature for her god like abilities
of linking a human soul to her but he also feels grief while thinking about how cruelly
man has separated himself from Mother Nature. The speaker is highly appreciative of the
nature’s beauty, he finds delight in the green bowers and has faith that the beautiful
flowers enjoy every ounce of the air they breathe, they are thankful for living besides the
nature. The speaker observes the birds which sing and hop around him; he is in awe of
these creatures. Though the speaker does not understand their language and ways, he does
recognize that the birds’ are creating all these movements out of sheer pleasure and joy.
The breeze flowing is sweet and light, the twigs are spreading out as if to catch the sweet
air and all the speaker can do is gather pleasure in their existence. The speaker questions
that if this is heaven and this is the holy plan of nature then what has man made of man
that is himself and his kind, by separating from such joy.
12. I was sitting on the platform halfway up the tree. I used to read books and enjoy sights
down in the garden sitting there. One April afternoon, when everyone was indoors due to
the warm breezes of the approaching summer, I was sitting up on the tree as usual.
Suddenly I saw a huge, black cobra gliding into the garden beneath him out from a cactus
plant. At the same time, a mongoose also emerged from the bush nearby and went straight
for the cobra. Both of them came face to face in a clearing beneath the tree on which the
boy was sitting. The cobra defiantly darted his forked tongue in and out and raised three
of his six feet off the ground. The mongoose bushed its tail, and the long hair on its spine
stood up. They were ready to fight each other. Two other spectators a myna and a jungle
crow also came to the scene. The cobra tried to mesmerize his opponent into making a
false move. But the mongoose knew the trick and did not fall into the trap. The mongoose
moving forward, made a feint to one side. The cobra struck but missed the aim.
Immediately the mongoose darted on the snake and bit on its back. At the same moment,
the myna and the crow also dived at the cobra but collided themselves. The cobra started
getting weaker and weaker as the mongoose attacked him vigorously and repeatedly. In
that fight, the cobra whipped his head back and his snout thudded forcefully against the
crow’s body killing it. Then, the myna wisely refrained from anymore interferences.
Finally, the mongoose with a lightning snap had the cobra by his snout. He writhed for a
while and gradually stopped struggling. The winning mongoose, gripping its enemy’s
hood, dragged it into the bushes. The myna, with a shrill cry of congratulation, flew
away!
13. A) where did you lose my shoes?
b) aren’t you?
c) he will beat both of us.
d) wear my sneakers
e) I will wear the when you are back from school (same answer also consider)
