A Mild Attack of Locusts

A Mild Attack of Locust

11th English

Synonyms:                                                                                   10

1.       Over the rocky levels was a streak of rust coloured air, Locusts.

(a) line                    (b) army                  (c)  spot                  (d) covering

2.       The farm was ringing with the clamour of the gong.

(a) workers             (b) calamity             (c) noise                 (d) tears

3.       The labourers come pouring out of the compound.

          (a) fighting              (b) shouting             (c) yelling               (d) streaming

4.       Around each patch drifted up thick clouds of smoke.

          (a) declined             (b) rose                   (c) herd                   (d) disappeared

5.       People were throwing wet leaves on fire to make it more acrid.

(a) sour                   (b) clear                  (c) mild                   (d) beam

6.       Margaret looked low cloud advancing still swelling forward.

(a) setting                (b) expanding          (c) moved away           (d) destroying

7.       The sun was blazing like the darkness of a veldt fire.

(a) thirst                  (b) stuffy                 (c) tampered           (d) forest

8.       The sunlight comes down distorted a thick hot orange

(a) glared                (b) flasfied              (c) flashed              (d) reached

9.       Behind the reddish veils the main swarm.

(a) crisis                  (b) soar                   (c) roar                   (d) covering

10.      All the trees were clotted with insects.

(a) accumulated       (b) reflected            (c) flew away           (d) altered

11.      The sun was blotted out with a fresh onrush

(a) dust                   (b) smoke                (c) assault                (d) darkness

12.      Through the hail of insects a man came running

(a) shower               (b) break                 (c) limb                   (d)  alight

13.      The man said emphatically that they were finished.

(a) happily              (b) doubledly           (c) accidently            (d)  definitely

14.      Locusts were going to be like bad weather always imminent.

(a) impending          (b) desired               (c) devastated           (d) relished

15.      If this mangled countryside was not rain, well, what was rain?

(a) prosperous         (b) sprout                (c) spoiled               (d) plantation

MCQs                                                                                           5

1.       How many patches of bared soil were there? 

(a) three                  (b) five                    (c)  seven                (d) eight

2.       Who were giving orders?

(a) Richard and Stephen                         (b) Margret and Stephen

(c) Richard and Margret                         (d) Richard, Stephen and Margret

3.       How did the Locusts attack the crops?

          (a) one by one         (b) in formation       (c) in swarms           (d) in intervals

4.       How much sky was darkened?

          (a) full                    (b) one third            (c) half                   (d) one fourth

5.       From where will be the locusts coming down once the have started?

(a) East                   (b) North                 (c) West                  (d) South

q  Punctuation:-

He picked a stray locusts off his shirt and split down with his thumbnail it was clotted inside with eggs imagined that multiplied by Trillions hopper on March well your lucky