Integrated Exercises

1. EDITING TASK
1.1 ERROR CORRECTION

been edited. There is

o n e error in each
The following passages have not
correction against the correct questinn
the incorrect word and the have supplied. One is done as exa
Remember to underline the word you
1. The Portuguese began to explore a west coast e.Ba
the
of Africa. Year after year they sent out ships when (a)
sailed along the coast, every daring a little (b
further south. At first when they landed they find (
that anything was made hot and dry by d
the burning winds which blowing off the (e
Sahara Desert. They thought of the stories they have
heard, that the sun would black burn their faces
2. Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi went to England to e.g. to
higher studies at the age of 19. His mother is apprehensive
about young men go astray in western
society. But her fears were allayed that
(b)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi swore not for
touch meat, wine and woman. He faces a
lot of difficulties due to their (e
but fulfilled his vow vegetarianism,
3. There are some
resolutely.
people that are afraid e.g. that
of failures and sometimes Wh
they are afraid to
themselves, that they avoid take any (a)
risks or committing a
mistake and taking (b)
a wrong
step. They abstain entirely for
some
attempt and endeavour. They looked (
down upon themselves and (e
believe that
is possible for them. something
4. Children are
fond to coconut. It is
the
biggest of all the nuts, and are indeeda e.g. to
fruit. It grows on a tall wonderful (a
palm tree and is
find
in
tropical countries round a
seashore. The (b)
name was
giving to it by thePortuguese because, (
with the three marks
and eye-spots at the end, (
it look
something like a monkey's íace, and 'coco
is a
Portuguese word for a
bugbear or a
distorted mask.
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 is Braille, on 1825, developed a special
e.g. on in
5 for the blind. It has known as
script (a)
Braille script. The letters in it are formed with
a
dots on thick paper. Blind (b)
raised

dots by running his

people might (
these
read

fingers (
lightly to hem, across the page. Today,
thousands of books in almost every (e)
subject are available in Braille. )
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 1.2 OMISsION OF WORDS
In the following passages one word has been omitted in each line. Write.
word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes af
e
afte t. En
the imiasing
that the word that forms your answer is underlined as shown in
n exa
example:it. Ensure
1. The use of water as agent in the treatment e.g. as an agent
of disease is known hydrotherapy. The beneficial (a)
effects of water be used in the treatment of (b)
disease. Water is one of heaven's choicest blessing.
The Egyptian and Roman heating cooling baths (
were used various treatments. Water acts (d
on the body in various ways according its (e
temperature. It helps to remove toxins the body. f)
2 Mammals are vertebrates animals with
e.g. vertebrates or
backbones. They large brains and a (a) animal
nals
keen awareness of surroundings. (b
They warm-blooded and have their skin
covered hair. The young are born alive
and suckle milk the milk
(d)
glands (e)
of female. You be surprised to know
that many animals which are otherwise very different
from another come under this
one
category.
3./ Soon after Gandhiji's return South
Africa, e.g. return from South Afirca
a
meeting of the Congress held in Bombay.
Kaka Saheb Kalelkar went there (a
One day Kaka Saheb found
help Gandhiji. (b)
Gandhiji searching (c
something his desk. "What's the matter?
What are looking for?" Kaka (c)
Saheb asked.
"Ive lost my (e
small pencil".
pencil," Bapu answered. It was very
There was dense forest. A stream
flowed
gently softly in it. There was a e.g. was a dense
tree on its bank in large (a
a dove lived.
the foot the trunk of At
the tree, there (b)
lived ant in a hole. The (c
ant and the
dove fast friends.
When they had no
they sat
together the work, (e)
shade of
the tree.
They talked together and
5. Man's practice increases passed their time in fun.
Ifhe does not it, his hard work.
C.8. increases by hard
suffers. The practice
lawyer
cases he wins.
is
judged the (a)
The writers (b
success examined
of the readers by the opinion (c
the typist's
critics;
whereas
efficiency
and the accuracy of his
is tested
by speed (e)
work.

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 2. SENTENCE REORDERING
Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful
sentences as show in example:
1 For example: the/Indian/English/exploited/the/farmers
The English exploited the Indian farmers.
( pay/the/had to/poor farmers/high times/very
(b) natural disasters/farmers/share of taxes/even/pay/their/in times of/the/had
to
also/cultivate/they/asked them to/had to/those/which/crops/the English

INTEGRATED ExERCISES 433

 For example: on/camel/has/hump/its/a/big/back
Camel has a big hump on its back.
(a) storehouse/this/of/hump/fats/is/a
(b) uses/this/a source of energy/long journey/as/in the desert/during /fas
the/camel
fat its
( two flask-shaped bags/inside/for/it/storing/belly/its/has/water
For example: elephant/land animal/present/largest/is/day/the/of/the
Elephant is the largest land animal of the present day.
(a) mild/peace loving/is/animal/it/a/and
(b) more easily/ that is why/domesticated/be/can/and/it/trained
(c weigh up/elephant/an/to/can/5 tons
For example: Mother Teresa/greatest/missionaries/one of the/was/time /ofi
our

Mother Teresa was one of the greatest missionaries of our time

me.
(a) dedicated/ the poorest of the poor/entire life/she/to/her/the/service/of
(b) she/apostle/was/of/unwanted/the/an
(c Mother Teresa/Calcutta/foreigner/and/home/settled/though/in/made/a/it/
her
5. For example: spread/healthy carriers/some/of/diseases/are/germs/spread/
by
Some diseasesspread by healthy carriers of germs.
are

(a) healthy person/germs/a/ carry/may/ of/in/body/ typhoid/his/ cholera/

dysentery/etc.
(b) person/does not/such/usually/a/disease/suffer/the/from
( people/however/who/into contact/carrier/come/with/are/
the/catching/
danger/the/disease/in/of
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