Rapid Reading- The Daisy

                          Rapid Reading 

1. Q.5. (A)  Read the following extract and do the activities that follow it :                (4)

  The poor bird was lamenting: its lost liberty and betting it's wings against the wires: and the little busy could not speak or utter consoling  word, much as it would have liked to do so. So the forenoon  passed."I have no water", said the captive lark. "they have all gone out and forgotten to give me anything to drink".  My throat is dry and burning. I feel as if I had fire and ice within me and the day and the year is so oppressive. Alas! I must die,  and  part with the warm  sunshine; the fresh  green meadows, and all the beauty that God has created," And you trust its beak into the piece of grass, to refresh itself a little. Then it noticed  the little dizzy and nodded to it,  and kissing with its beak and said:  "You must also fade in here, poor little flower. You and the piece of grass are all they have given me in exchange for the whole world, which I enjoyed outside. Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant  flower. Alas!  You only remind me of what I have lost".

    "I wish I could console the poor lark". thought the  daisy. It could not move one of its leaves but the fragnance of its delicate petals streamed forth, and was much stronger than such flower usually have;  the bird notice it, although it was dying with thirst, and its pain tore uo the green blades of grass, but did not touch the flower.

A1:  Choose the most appropriate statements related to the theme of the extract.(2)

 i) This extract is about sacrifice for true love.

ii)  It is about the bird and the cage.

iii) It is about sunshine and the beauty of the nature.

iv)  it is about love between lark and daisy

A2:  Provide a different ending to the extract in about 50 words.

                 Answers

A1: i) This extract is about sacrifice for true love

iv) It is about love between lark and  daisy

A2: The bird and the daisy remained speechless. The bird was on the brink of death. Partying with daisy was against the will of the bird. Though  the bird was dying it kissed  the flower  The daisy was helpless so It couldn't move forward and give out  fragrance to console the bird. It is an ideal story based on spiritual love.

   Relevance, novelty  and creative writing -  1 mark 

Use of language, vocabulary 1 mark 

Total- 2  marks

                        Compiled by- Prof.D.S. Rathod

                                                    [Moderator]

                   Mpl. J. College of Arts & Science,
                           Malkapur Di-Buldana 

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