11th Practice
11th Practice
We often (i) ........................ (go) for a morning walk. Yesterday, my younger brother also (ii)
........................... (accompany) us. He got up early in the morning and (iii) .............................. (knock) at
my door. I (iv) ................. wake up with a start and (v) ................................. started for the walk. While I
(vi) ......................... (come) out of the room I saw my grandmother coming out of her room. She (vii)
........................... (tell) us it was just three o’clock. My brother (viii) ................... (lose) count of time in
excitement.
The ailing bird is administered first-aid and then kept in an isolated cage. Often medication and proper
care is all that is needed. After the wound heals, the bird is moved to a common section with other birds
of its kind. Soon it will be healthy enough to fly-away though it may keep visiting the terrace for food and
water. The work began way back in 1929 in a small one-room structure. One Lala Lachuman Jain, along
with others, decided to start a medical facility for birds. A few years later it became increasingly difficult
to treat the large number of birds being brought in. In 1957 the present building was inaugurated.
The progress of the hospital has been slow but steady. Till 1968 only ayurvedic treatment was being
administered. Allopathy was adopted that year. And it was as recently as in 1992 that a laboratory was
set up to conduct pathological tests. Though surgery is conducted at times and doctors try their best to
save the bird’s life, it is often too late. The mortality rate is quite high: around five to six birds die every
day.
The hospital survives only on Charity. The trustees proudly claim that there is a steady flow of donations.
Rich businessmen, visitors and even tourists donate generously. Till date they have never approached
the government for funds. However, the hospital has drawbacks. It does not accept carnivorous birds
and does not admit pet birds. Moreover, the bird is subjected to a lot of stress as, being in old Delhi, the
place is not easily accessible. Since it survives on charity, it is unable to take up research work.
But work goes on. The staff says, they have received as many as 50-60 cases a day. The hospital has an
emergency ward and stays open round the clock. It spends approximately Rs. 6 lakh to Rs. 7 lakh
annually and at any given time looks after 4000 to 5000 birds.
(432 words) Adapted from an article by Savita Tambwekar in the Times of India
(a) On the basis of your reading of the passage make notes on it, using recognizable abbreviations
wherever necessary. Use a format you consider suitable. Supply a suitable title.
(b) that don’t / hallucination / about things / she is / happen / suffering / and / thinking / starts / from/
(c) telling / leave / anything / don’t\’t / avoid / serious / alone / and / her.
Mohan: I am Reeta’s brother I came here to enquire when will she fully recover from her illness?
(b) and she / for the music / will manage / a good singer / system also / in and will.
4. Rita: What a fine weather the sky is covered with thick clouds. Let us go for a picnic to Badkhal lake.
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How you can best improve your English depends on where you live and particularly on whether or not
you live in an English-speaking community. If you hear English spoken every day and mix freely with
English speaking people, that is on the whole an advantage. On the other hand, it is often confusing to
have the whole language poured over you at once. Ideally, a step-by-step course should accompany or
lead up to this experience. It will also help a great deal if you can easily get the sort of English books in
which you are interested.
To read a lot is essential. It is stupid not to venture outside the examination 'set books or the text books
you have chosen for intensive study. Read as many books in English as you can, not as a duty but for
pleasure. Do not choose the most difficult books you find, with the idea of listing and learning as many
new words as possible: choose what is likely to interest you and be sure in advance that it is not too
hard. You should not have to be constantly looking up new words in the dictionary, for that deadens
interest and checks real learning. Look up a word here and there, but as a general policy try to push
ahead, guessing what words mean from the context. It is extensive and not intensive reading that
normally helps you to get-interested in extra-reading and thereby improve your English. You should
enjoy the feeling which extensive reading gives of having some command of the language. As you read
you will become more and more familiar with words and sentence patterns you already know,
understanding them better and better as you meet them in more and more contexts, some of which may
differ only slightly from others.
Some people say that we cannot learn to speak a language better with the help of a book. To believe this
is to believe that the spoken language and the written - language are quite different things. It’s not so.
There is a very great deal in common between the two. In learning the patterns and vocabulary of the
written form, we are learning to a considerable extent those of the spoken form too. We are, in fact,
learning the language and not merely one form of the language.
(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on it, using headings and sub-
headings. Use recognizable abbreviations, wherever necessary (minimum 4). Use a format you consider
suitable. Also supply an appropriate title to it.
Q5. Fill in the blanks in the following letter with any of the following words:
Dear Sapna,
I was reaching Bhopal on 13 Sept. by the Shatabdi Express on an official trip with my father. I (i)
...................... visit you on 14 Sept. I cannot see you before as I (ii) .............................. see the ENT
specialist as I have a very bad throat. (iii) ................ you please reach Dr. Avinash’s clinic at 6 p.m.? We
(iv) ................. have additional time to discuss several things. I hope you would reach there by the
stipulated time. More when we meet,