Fast track English sjill building Exercise -10-

Fast-track your English skill building..

Q1. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words.               

An old truck was loaded with nearly 15 tons of iron ore minerals. It was heading towards a steel plant. From the opposite side, a mini truck was coming. It was loaded with some cooked food items, biscuit tins and bread baskets meant to be distributed among the flood-hit villagers. Due to some strange reason, there was a —————— (head-on, frontal, front-to-front) collision between the two vehicles. The iron ore truck was not much affected by the collision. Only its front cover was ————- (broken, dented, destroyed). On the contrary, the mini truck was very badly hit. Its driver, a young man of 20, ———————- (inflicted, hit, sustained) serious injuries. In great pain, he was ——————– (rumbling, uttering, speaking) something which no one could understand. Some local villagers rushed him to the hospital. The items carried by the mini truck were ——————– (strewn, dumped, buried) all over the place. Realizing that these were relief materials meant for hungry villagers waiting desperately for the food items, some volunteers came forward to ———————– (save, preserve, salvage) whatever food item they could find. They transported these items by auto rikshaw to the relief distribution point where hungry villagers had gathered.

In the evening, a police team arrived in the spot of the collision. They wanted to find out if this accident could have been ——————- (averted, foreclosed, avoided). The truck driver had escaped ————- (unscathed, undone, fit), where as the driver of the —————– (condemned, ill-fated, doomed) mini truck was seriously wounded. The police team blamed the driver of the larger truck for driving ————– (recklessly, irresponsibly, unmindfully). However, the driver strongly ——————- (defended, supported, reasoned) himself saying that in his 20-year-long driving career, he had not met with a single accident.

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Q2. Convert the following Active sentences to Passive form ..

1. The bull dozer razed the 2-storey building in less than an hour.
2. The scattered rubble caused great inconvenience to the pedestrians.
3. They lodged a complaint to the traffic police.
4. Within two hours three tractors carted away the rubble.
5. The building owner salvaged an old iron chest from the pile of rubbles.
6. The owner carried the iron chest on his shoulders.
7. He summoned his eldest son to the spot.
8. The son brought a motor cycle for the job.
9. The father-son duo traversed a distance of 20 kilometers in 45 minutes.
10. On reaching home, they broke open the box’s lock.

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Q3. Convert the following Passive sentences to Active form.

1. The fire was doused by the fire brigade with great effort.
2. As much as 50,000 liters of water was consumed by the fire brigade personnel.
3. Their astounding success was lauded by the local newspapers.
4. Some smoldering remains were accidentally left behind by the fire brigade.
5. Water was sprinkled on them by the villagers.
6. The catastrophic fire accident was published by almost all newspapers.
7. Photos of the flame and the billowing smoke were printed by them too.
8. A meeting was convened by the Sarpanch to seek government help.
9. A petition was drafted by two educated young women.

10.The plea for help was accepted by the compassionate collector.

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Q5. Answer these questions. Write at least 5 sentences for each question.

1. Why are frantic efforts made to retrieve the black box of an ill-fated plane that has been destroyed in an accident?
2. Why are so many Indians being evicted from the United States?
3. What plan of President Trump has caused worldwide anxiety?

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Q6. Paraphrase the following paragraphs. …

Netanyahu looked on in the White House on Tuesday as President Donald Trump delivered the most stunning US intervention in the long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The president repeatedly doubled down on his suggestion that nearly 2 million Palestinians should be relocated from battle-leveled Gaza to new homes elsewhere so that the US could send troops to the Strip, take ownership and build the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

“You build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like some place where they can live and not die, because Gaza is a guarantee that they’re going to end up dying,” Trump told reporters.

In a few words, Trump conjured up a mind-boggling geopolitical transformation of the Middle East and a political lifeline for Netanyahu – showing why the prime minister, despite their past tensions, was rooting for his host’s return to power in the 2024 election.

Netanyahu can now bill himself to right-wing factions in his coalition, which incessantly threaten his grip on power, as the unique and vital conduit to Trump. The American president’s views now parallel Israeli hardliners’ desire to see Palestinians ousted from part of what they view as the sacred land of Israel. (Sourced from CNN)-Meanwhile in the Middle East February 6,

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