Tag: english grade 12
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Lesson 11: First Year at Harrow
Sir Winston S. Churchill Q. The writer says that the examiners ask questions which students cannot answer and not those that they can answer. Is the complaint just? A. The complaint is fairly just. The examiners try to expose the ignorance of students rather than knowing their knowledge. Q. What sort of questions are asked…
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Lesson 10: The Jewel of the World
Philip K. Hitti Q. Give an account of the early career of Abd-al-Rahman I, his dramatic escape and his adventures in Africa. A. Abd-al-Rahman I belonged to the Umayyad family. When the Abbasids came to power, he and his younger brother escaped to the Euphrates River. The two dashed into the river. The younger brother…
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Lesson 8: China’s Way to Progress
Galeazzo Santini Q. Why has the world changed its attitude towards China? A. Because of the significant progress China has made, the world has to change its attitude towards it. Q. Discuss the Chinese agricultural system. A. Chinese agriculture runs through the system of communes with subdivisions into production brigades and teams. Still, the greater…
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Lesson 7: My financial career
Stephen Leacock Q. What light do the following expressions throw on Leacock’s state of mind when he entered the bank: ‘looked timidly round,’ ‘shambled in’? A. These expressions imply that the writer was hesitating and behaved in a silly manner in confusion. Q. Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful…
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Lesson 6: The man who was a hospital
Jerome K. Jerome Q. How did Jerome K Jerome come to suspect that his liver was out of order? What were the diseases he thought he was suffering from on reading a book on the treatment of diseases? A. On reading various symptoms from a liver pill circular, he found that his liver was out…
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