SSC Papers for Practice English Maharashtra Board
SECTION A:
READING SKILLS,
GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Q.1. (A)
Read the following passage and do the activities given: 10
1. Complete the following by selecting the correct alternative
from the ones given in the brackets: 2
(a) The writer was going to leave on ______________
(Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning. Tuesday afternoon, Monday morning)
(b) The writer
grabbed ten ties of different ______________ (sizes, shapes, colours, styles)
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On Monday, lunch lasted the whole afternoon. Then it was
Tuesday morning, time to leave. It was
only when I saw our airport bus waiting outside the hotel that I remembered
the tie. I told the group to go on. I
would get a taxi to the airport. And so I went in search of a nearby
shop where I had seen ties. But I couldn't find it. I walked further
down the street—one, two, three blocks—~all in vain. Back at the hotel, a bit anxious now, I took my
suitcase, got a taxi and asked the driver to rush to the street where I had seen them. The driver stopped at each shop we passed
so I could look from the taxi window. The stores had all sorts of ties, but not the kind I was
looking for. When I finally thought I
had located the right shop, I decided to go in and check. The driver refused to wait. Parking was prohibited, he
said. I promised to double the fare, jumped out and ran into the shop. Was I going to miss the plane
just for a damned tie? The salesman
was unbearably slow. When I realized that the smallest change I had was a
ten dollar note, I grabbed ten ties of
different colours so I wouldn't have to wait for change. I rushed out
with the ties in a paper bag. On the street I looked around. The taxi had
vanished, taking my suitcase. What is more, I was going to miss the plane. I ran to the corner, and hope flared up
again: the taxi was waiting in the next street. Quick, to the airport! As I settled down inside the taxi.
I sighed with relief. Gilson was going to have enough initialized ties to last him, lifetime.
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2. (a) Why did the
driver refuse to wait? 1
(b) Where did the writer find the taxi waiting? 1
3. Pick a word
(a) Pick out a word from the passage containing a prefix and a
suffix. 1
(b) Which of these are compound words:
suitcase,
prohibited. Refuse, airport. 1
4. Rewrite
(a) But I couldn’t find it. (Rewrite as an interrogative
sentence beginning with: Could I…………… 1
(b) Parking was prohibited. (Rewrite using the word ‘allowed’
without changing the meaning) 1
5. What,
do you think, would the writer have done, if the taxi had really vanished? 2
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