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Q.1 A] Read the given stanzas carefully and answer the questions based on them [08]
Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high And wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets :
Still I sat here doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand,
I then invoked the “save” command But got instead a reprimand : It read, “Abort, Retry, Ignore?”
Was this some occult illusion?
Some maniacal type intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself,
Had never faced before.
Carefully I weighed my options…..
These three seemed to be the top ones; Clearly I must now adopt one; Choose: Abort, Retry, Ignore?
With my fingers pale and trembling
Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending,
Hoping all would be restored.
Questions:
1) Which line tells you that the poetess was feeling sleepy? [1]
2) What were the choices that a poetess had to select from? [1]
3) Describing the poet’s condition while working on the computers? [2]
4) Was the poetess successful in ending her task? How do you know that? [2]
5) Identify and explain the figures of speech: [2]
(a) Once upon a midnight dreary
(b) But got instead a reprimand:
It read, “ Abort, Retry, Ignore?”
Q1. B] Read the given extract carefully and answer the questions based on it. [08] As American humorist Josh Billings (1818-85) said: “ There ain’t much fun in medicine, but there’s a heck of a lot of medicine in fun!” Billings may have made this statement in jest, but the fact remains that laughter does have a heck of a lot of medicine. Since the 1980s, research conducted worldwide shows that laughter positively impacts various systems of the body. The benefits include reduction, control or prevention of high blood pressure, heart diseases, peptic ulcers,
Once upon a midnight dreary,
Fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high And wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets :
Still I sat here doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand,
I then invoked the “save” command But got instead a reprimand : It read, “Abort, Retry, Ignore?”
Was this some occult illusion?
Some maniacal type intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself,
Had never faced before.
Carefully I weighed my options…..
These three seemed to be the top ones; Clearly I must now adopt one; Choose: Abort, Retry, Ignore?
With my fingers pale and trembling
Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending,
Hoping all would be restored.
Questions:
1) Which line tells you that the poetess was feeling sleepy? [1]
2) What were the choices that a poetess had to select from? [1]
3) Describing the poet’s condition while working on the computers? [2]
4) Was the poetess successful in ending her task? How do you know that? [2]
5) Identify and explain the figures of speech: [2]
(a) Once upon a midnight dreary
(b) But got instead a reprimand:
It read, “ Abort, Retry, Ignore?”
Q1. B] Read the given extract carefully and answer the questions based on it. [08] As American humorist Josh Billings (1818-85) said: “ There ain’t much fun in medicine, but there’s a heck of a lot of medicine in fun!” Billings may have made this statement in jest, but the fact remains that laughter does have a heck of a lot of medicine. Since the 1980s, research conducted worldwide shows that laughter positively impacts various systems of the body. The benefits include reduction, control or prevention of high blood pressure, heart diseases, peptic ulcers,