English for Navodaya Vidyalaya Students

Comprehension Test 1. Name the legendary singer that sang the popular inspirational song - Oh my countrymen! Let your eyes fill with tears....... a) Sreya Goshal b) Alka Yagnik c) Lata Mangeshkar d) Asha Bhosle  2. Name the freedom fighter who appears in the second picture on page 36.  a) Babu Rajendraprasad b) Khudiram Bose c) Lala Lajpat Rai d) Bankim Chadra Chattopadhyay 3. In which century did the East India Company begin to exercise its influence and power in India? a) 16th b) 17th c) 18th d) 15th  4. Why did the Indian princes request the East India Company to help them? a) They wanted to expand their territories. b) They were not patriotic. c) The East India Company had better weapons and trained soldiers. d) The East India Company was friendly and cooperative. 5) What did they fail to realise then? a) They would have to pay a lot of money to the East India Company. b) They were helpi...

1. How does Savita's hands work? 2. What do the bangles symbolise  in the Hindu traditions? 3. How is a girl decorated for her marriage? 4. What is ironic about Savita's life? 5. What do we learn about the life of a bangle seller from the narrator's conversation with Mukesh's family? 6. What is the achievement of Mukesh's father? How is it an achievement? 7. What is the big problem that generations of bangle making families have been facing? 8. How has hard toil affect the bangle sellers? 9. How does a cooperative help them? 10. Why have the bangle sellers failed to organise into a cooperative? 11. What is the baggage that a boy from the bangle making family cannot put down? 12. What is the thing about Mukesh that cheers the writer? 13. What embarrasses Mukesh? What is he content with?

Part I 1.  Who was Ignesious? 2.  Why was he woken up at 6 a.m. by his wife? 3.  Why did he put his television on the ground? 4.    How many of his family member survived? How did the others lose their lives? 5.  Who was Sanjeev? Where did he work? 6.  Whom did he save? 7.    How did he lose his life? 8.  How old was Meghna? 9. What  did she hold on to save herself and for how long? 10.    Why did the rescue helicopters fail to save her? 11.  How did she finally reach ashore? 12.  What was her condition when she found herself on the land? 13.  Who was Almas Javed? How old was she? 14.  What did her father do? 15.  Why did they go to Nancowry island? 16.  What did Alma's father  understand when he saw the sea water receding? 17.  What happened to Alma's father and grandfather? 18.  How were her mother and aunt killed? 19.  How did Alm...