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#3-a-iii
immersion (line 49)
Ans : put completely into water.

#3-b
Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:

#3-b-i [2]
Why did mother not join the swimming in the beginning?
Ans : Mother did not join the swimming in the begining because she was far too old for that sort of thing.

#3-b-ii [2]
Briefly describe her swimming costume.
Ans : Mother's swimming costume was an extraordinary shapeless garment of black cloth, covered from top to bottom with hundred of frills and pleats and tucks.

#3-b-iii [2]
What did Larry think it was?
Ans : Larry thought that the swimming costume looks like a badly skinned whale.

#3-b-iv [2]
Which sentence tells you that Margo thought it was old fashioned?
Ans : Margo first said the swimming costume looks as if it was made in nineteen twenty. Afterwards she asked her mother why didn't she get something more up to date.

#3-b-v [2]
What was Leslie’s concern?
Ans : Leslie told her mother that she will have to be careful not to get water logged, with all that cloth around her.

#3-b-vi [2]
Why did mother think it was suitable?
Ans : Mother thought it was suitable because she felt that in her old age she couldn't go around in a two piece bathing suit as she didn't have the figure for it.

#3-c

#3-c-i [8]
In not more than 60 words describe what happened after mother went upstairs to
try on her costume.
Ans :

#3-c-ii [2]
Give a title to your summary in 3(c)(i). Give a reason to justify your choice.
Ans : The title is 'Mother's tent like bathing suit'.
On seeing mother clothed in voluminous black costume, Roger the dog is surprised, starts barking wildly but mother sticks to her costume and refuses to give in.

#4

#4-a [4]
Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct from of the word given in
brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase
appropriate to the blank space.
Example:
(0) He had been (0) ________ (sit) on the bank of a small irrigation canal.
Answer: sitting
He was (1)_______ (gaze) at a couple of heron (2)_______ (fish) in the muddy water,
when he (3) ________ (feel) something bumps his elbow (4) ___________(look) around, he
(5) _______ (find) at his side a little goat, jet black and soft as velvet with lovely grey
eyes. Neither her owner nor her mother (6) ________ (be) around.
She continued to (7) ________ (nudge) Mukesh, so he (8) _______ (look) in his pocket for
nourishment.
Ans :
(i) grazing
(ii) fishing
(iii) felt
(iv) Looking
(v) found
(vi) was
(vii) ludge
(viii) nooked

#4-b [4]
Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word:

#4-b-i
There was a steep rise ________ onion prices.
Ans : in