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SSLC-2014 (ANSWER KEY) 1. The most necessary thing to do to win the game was to touch the den. 2. He had only remembered the part of hiding and trying to elude the seeker. 3. The children stood staring at him in amazement and stopped chanting and wondered at his reappearence and passion for the game. 4. Yes, bawled,wild animal howling. 5. Amazement. 6. He installed himself and his brushes amid the dung and the flies. 7. His stay in the stables helped Hankan to study the horses bodie’s keen alertness, eye sparkle, sensitive stance and graceful movement. 8. Hankan painted the emperor’s favourite horse, named “Night shining white.” 9. “whose likeness after centuries still dazzles.” 10.The father is speaking to his son. 11. The poet himself wants to be what he used to be while he was a child. 12. He wants to unlearn all the muting things and relearn his innocent laugh. 13. “my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs.” 14. A robot is a special kind of machine, that moves and follows instructions from a computer. 15. Robots help us to make things like making cars, explore dangerous places, etc. 16. The poet Homer imagined robots were made of gold who made things and cleaned things. 17. The first real robot was made in 1961, it was called ‘Unimate.’ 18. In future robots will help us to fight wars, fight fires, fight sickness, discover things and make life better. 19. Review 20. Narrative 21. Letter 22. Report
Prepared by: SUNIL J. HSA (ENGLISH), GHSS, Marayamuttom
23. Character sketch 24. Profile 25. Mo Yan 26. Seamus Heaney 27. Novel, drama, poetry, short story, memoir. 28. Kiran Desai 29. Fantasy and adventure novel 30. (a) has (b) are (c) their (d) should be submitted (e) on 31. a. What happened dear? b. He wanted my eyes. c. Would have scooped my eyes. d. Didn’t you? e. Take rest now. 32.(a) put on, (b) went for, (c) make out, (d)put up with 33.(a) The boy asked his mother why the fox had come there. (b) Mother replied that the fox had come there to give that baton. 34. a. The books can be kept both on the shelf and on the table. b. Ram is handsome but proud. c. Syam and John ate together.
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