Explanation

Passage for Reading & Comprehension: Akhtar came late from school one day. He was feeling CROSS and looked untidy. WHEN mother asked him the reason, he did not answer. Everybody was surprised to find him so. As the family sat down to lunch, the children’s favourite uncle, Mr. Inayat, came to visit them. The children were very happy to see him BECAUSE he had been to many parts of the world and always told them interesting things. Even Akhtar was not cross any more.

Akhtar’s sister Rukhsana told uncle Inayat THAT he had come home unhappy. Uncle Inayat looked at him and asked him what had happened. He said: “Uncle, WE are having the social service work at school and HAVE TO DO THE WORK OF SERVANTS AND GARDENERS. The teacher made me dust the cupboard and the desks.”

1. Akhtar came late from school one day because ______? The teacher made him dust the cupboard and the desks

2. Akhtar did not answer his mother why he had come home late because ______? He was feeling cross and looked untidy

3. “Everybody was surprised to find him so.” The above sentence refers back mainly to which of the following two words? Cross, untidy

4. The word “cross” means _____? Annoyed or quite angry

5. The word “when” appearing in the third sentence of the first paragraph is _____? Conjunction

6. The word “because” appearing in the first paragraph is _____? Conjunction

7. “Even Akhtar was not cross any more” because ______? The children’s favourite uncle, Mr. Inayat, came to visit them, and they were very happy.

8. The word “that” appearing in the first sentence of the second paragraph is a ______? Communication

9. The sentence “We have to do the work of servants and gardeners,” denotes ______ in the context. Complex

10. How many complete sentences of the passage have been written in the past indefinite tense? Nineteen