CLEARING IN THE SKY

KBL ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND
SCIENCES

JESS STUART
1. Jesse Hilton Stuart
2. (August 8, 1906 – February 17, 1984)
3. He was an AMERICAN WRITER, SCHOOL TEACHER, and
school administrator
4. He is known for his SHORT STORIES, POETRY, AND NOVELS
5. He faced many hardships and reflected them
1. RURAL LIFE
2. HARDWORK/HARDSHIPS
3. TRUE STORIES OF LIFE
4. SOCIAL VALUES
6. He is known non-fiction autobiographical writer
1. LYRICAL AND SIMPLE LANGUAGE
2. NARRATIVES
3. SUPPORT PROGRESS
7. He was named the poet laureate of Kentucky
SCIENCES

1. JESS’ FATHER
1. Seventy years old
2. Hardworking and determined
3. Shows his son his labour at a clearing
4. Teaches him a lesson, hard work can defeat even death
SUMMARY
KBL ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND SCIENCES

1. JESS/WRITER
1. Autobiographical narrative
2. Visits his father
3. Remember his youth/childhood
SUMMARY

1. CLEARING IN THE SKY
1. TOMATOES
2. POTATOES
3. YAMS
SUMMARY

1. HICKORY TREES
SUMMARY

1. HICKORY TREES AND SQUIRRELS
SUMMARY

1. WOODEN PLOUGHING+MISSING AT CHILDHOOD
SUMMARY

1. RICH SOIL + OAK SUMP
SUMMARY

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1. VOCATIVE NOUNS:-
• Used to call out the name of a person
• Three ways of placement
• Beginning, middle and ending
• Ali, come here.
• Focus, Ali, on your test.
• Be quiet, girls.
2. POINTING:--gesturing, indicating, hinting,
denoting,
3. CAN, CANE:--
1. The stick is made of cane
2. I can follow your advice
4. SINCE/FOR+TIME
1. Used in perfect tense and perfect
progressive
2. Existence for some time
3. Since for point of time, for is used for
the period
1. He is in the class
2. He has been in his class since 10
O clock
3. He lives here for ten months
4. He met me since his childhood
5. I am busy for the last ten years
5. USE OF TOO, TO AND VERY, TO:
1. Too, to expression is used in negative
sentences
1. She is too weak to walk
2. Very, to is used in positive sentences
1. Arfa Karim was very intelligent to get
prize
3. CORRECTION
1. She is very dull to learn a lesson
2. He is too rich to buy a car
6. WIPED:--rubbed, cleaned, erased, mopped,
7. STINGING:--hurting, biting, painful
8. SWEET, SWEAT, SWEETS:--
1. I like sweet dish
2. I bought sweets from the Gourmet
3. He is wet with sweat
9. USE OF VERB AFTER PREPOSITION:-
1. Use gerund after preposition
1. He is fond of ----------all the time
(Sleep)
2. She is absorbed in----------about it
(think)
3. He ran fast without--------himself
(notice)
10.SLIPS:--slides, glide, move,
11.SINGLE SUBJECTS OUT OF MANY
1. One of many students has/have reached
2. Everyone of girls was/were attentive
3. Any one of players is/are unfit
4. Each of two ministers doesn’t/don’t
resign

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1. NOUN CLAUSE:--
1.Used as a subject, object and object of
preposition
1.Whoever thought of that idea is a
genius
2.On weekends, we can do whatever
we want
2. WHY DIDN’T JESS WANT TO GO WITH HIS
FATHER?
1.Want to go with his father
2.Exhausted
3.Walk half mile uphill
3. CHOOSE THE RIGHT CHOICE
1.Jess didn’t wanted to go with his father
2.Jess didn’t want to go with his father
3.Jess didn’t want to went with his father
4.Jess didn’t want to go with the father
1.Jess was exhausted because he walked
half miles uphill
2.He was exhausted because he walked
half miles uphill
3.He was exhausted because he had
walked half miles uphill
5. WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF THE
WEATHER?
1.Very hot
2.Too hot to go outside
3.Perspired due to it
1.It was too hot
2.It was very hot
3.It was so hot
1.It was very hot to go outside
2.It was too hot to go outside
3.It is too hot to go outside
1.He perspired due to it
2.He is perspired due to it
3.He was perspired due to it

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1. WHY COULDN’T THE WRITER DRIVE HIS
CAR?
1.Drive his car
2.Two slips on the road
1.Jess couldn’t drive his car
2.Jess didn’t drive his car
3.He couldn’t drive his car
1.There was two slips on the road
2.There were two slips on the road
3.There were two slips at the road
4. RAISE:--bring up, nurture, grow, rear, foster
5. PAST INDEFINITE:--
1.Action happened in indefinite
timeHappening+ routine in the
past…Ago, last, previous, past year,
historical reference, action without
present routine
2.He had met me yesterday
3.She has visited his uncle last Friday
4.Forty years ago, he had been in the
meeting
5.In 9/11 incident, many people have died
6.The police starts operation in Karachi
against terrorists
7.When he had operated the machine, he
finished the task
8.The doctor had treated a girl a few
months back
1.PROTEST:--complain, object, oppose, dispute,
dissent
2.MAKE ONE’S MIND:--intend, aspire,
determine, decide
3.CRAWL:--creep, drag, slither
4.PASTURE:--meadow, grass, herbage
5.MEADOW:-- meadow, grass, herbage
6.WISP:--handful, strand, bit, tuft, bunch

BUTTON, BUTTON
1. HE-------------A LETTER TO MY ADDRESS
YESTERDAY
1.Sends
2.Sent
3.has sent
4.had sent
1. LAST FRIDAY, SHE-----------------HER UNCLE WHO
WAS ILL WITH FEVER
1.Visited
2.has visited
3.would visit
4.Visits
2. THE ARABS----------------IDOLS BEFORE ISLAM.
1.Worship
2.have worshipped
3.Worshipped
4.worship
2. THE PEOPLE OF INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION------
------THE HOUSES OF BRICKS
1.Make
2.Made
3.have made
4.would be made
3. HE -------IN THE PARTY FOR TWO HOURS
1.Was present
2.has present
3.have been present
4.has been present
4. ALI -------WITH FEVER SINCE MARCH 19,2016.
1.Is ill
2.has ill
3.have been ill
4.had been ill
1. I APPRECIATED HER WHILE ----------HER WORK
1. Do
2. Did
3. Doing
4. to do
2. SHE ENCOURAGED HIM BESIDES ----------HER
WORK
1. Help
2. Helped
3. Helping
4. to help
3. THIS PRACTICE IS LIKE ----------YOUR TALENT
1. Waste
2. Wasting
3. Wasted
4. to waste
4. JABAR READ THE MANUAL BEFORE ----------- THE
SYSTEM
1. Install
2. Installing
3. Installed
4. to install

BUTTON, BUTTON
1. ONE OF THE GIRLS---------SENSELESS TO SEE A
DEATH SCENE
1. Be
2. Was
3. Were
2. ONE OF THE LABORERS -------- DIED ON THE
ROAD
1.Has died
2.Have died
3.Were dead
3.IF THEY ARRIVED AT THE HOTEL IN TIME, THEY--
--------THE EXHIBITION
1.Attend
2.will attend
3.attended
4.would attend
4.I WOULD BE THE FIRST IN THE CLASS IF I -----------
--------HARD
1.Work
2.Worked
3.had worked
4.was working

KHUDA HAFIZ
SCIENCES

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1. WHAT DID THE DOCTOR ADVISE JESS’
FATHER?
1.Advise him
2.Walk the length of a city block
3.Ask him
4.Take a taxi to get home
5.Advise him
6.Enjoy his remaining days of his life and
not to work
2. FIND THE CORRECT
1.Doctor advised Jess’ father not to walk
the length of a city block
2.The doctor advised him not to walk the
length of a city block
3.The doctor advised Jess’ father not to
walk the length of a city block
4.The doctor advised Jess’ father not walk
the length of a city block
5.The doctor advised Jess’s father not to
walk the length of a city block
3. FIND THE CORRECT
1.He asked him to take taxi to get home
2.He asked him to take a taxi to get home
3.He asked him to a take taxi to get to
home
4. FIND THE CORRECT
1.He also advised him to enjoy the
remaining days of his life and works
remaining days of his life and not to
worked
remaining days of his life and not to
work
5. BRAGGED:--boasted, exaggerated, bluster,
6. USE OF BARE INFINTIVE AFTER SENSE
VERBS
1.Related to human sense
2.Reflect to be verb
3.Seem, look, notice, taste, feel, hear,
sound
1.He saw his hand
tremble/trembling/to tremble
2.The man felt his hair
fluttering/flutter/to flutter
7. HAY:--chaff, fodder, grass
8. USE OF SUPERLATIVE DEGREE
1.Show perfection
2.Comparison between more than two
1.I found him a good/better/the best
person
2.I found him a good/better/the best
person amongst all I have met
(more than two pwersons)

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1. FARM……FORM:
1.I bought a farm house
2.She filled her admission form
2. LIVING:--livelihood, income, subsistence,
means
3. WORN OUT:--decayed, destroyed, deteriorated
4. END UP:--finish, cease, stop
5. WHAT DID THE PEOPLE THREATEN HIM IF HE
TRIED TO MAKE HIS LIVING ON THE
COUNTRY FARM??
1.Warn him
2.End up with his family
3.Try to make his living on the poor farm
of the country side
6. FIND THE CORRECT
1.The people warned him that he will end
up with his family
2.The people warned him that he would
ended up with his family
3.The people warned him that he would
end up with his family
7. FIND THE CORRECT
1.If he try to make his living on the poor
farm of the country side
2.If he tried to make his living on the poor
3.If he tries to make his living on the poor
4.If you tried to make his living on the
poor farm of the country side
8. USE OF MAKE:--
1.Used to force someone for action
2.Causative Verb
1.He made his father checked by a
doctor
2.He had his son admitted in the
school
3.He made the students speak out in
the class
4.She made her mother help her
9. BRAKE, BREAK:--
1.Don’t break the chair
2.The driver applied brakes to stop the
vehicle.

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1. BREATHE, BREATH:--
1.We breathe in the fresh air in the
morning
2.Her breath was coming faster and faster
2. USED TO:--
1.Two functions
2.Adjective (habitual)
1.He wasn't used to work/working.
2.I can study with the TV on. I am
used to watch/watching
1.Habit in past/ routine in past but no more at
present
1.I used to go/going to school in
Sukho Chak.
2.Ali used to climb/climbing trees.
3. RIPE:--.mature, grown, developed
4. FROSTS:--cold, freeze, rime
5. RUSTLE:--crackle, crunch, crinkle
6. FALL FELL:--
1.A luminous object is falling from the sky
2.The woodcutter felled a tree
7. PALE, PAIL:--
1. He put some water into a pail
2. His colour turned pale to see a lion
8. USE OF QUOTATION MARKS IN DIRECT
SPEECH:--.
1. Used in direct and indirect speech
2. "Just a moment!" she shouted.
3. "I don’t agree," I replied.
4. Shaukat replied, "No problem.“
5. "Thinking back," she said, "he didn’t
expect to win.“
9. WANT+OBJECT+INFINITIVE:--.
1. I want you to work/working hard
2. She wants her brother to get/getting
good grades in intermediate

GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1. THE PEOPLE OF PAST WERE USED TO--------- THEIR
JOBS WITH THEIR HANDS.
1.Do
2.To do
3.Doing
4.Has done
2. MY FRIEND OFTEN USED TO -------------THE
CHILDREN OF HIS VILLAGE.
1.Teach
2.To teach
3.For Teaching
4.Taught
3. I HAD MY FRIEND----------IN THE UNIVERSITY.
1.Teach
2.Taught
3.To teach
4.Have taught
4. HE MADE HIS SERVANT--------- BOOKS TO THE
LIBRARY.
1.Bring
2.To bring
3.Brought
4.Bringing
5. I MADE THE SHOPKEEPER ---------HIS SHOP.
1.Open
2.To open
3.That he should open
4.Opened
6. MY TEACHER MADE ME ----------FOR WHAT I HAD
SAID.
1.Apologize
2.To apologize
3.Apologized
4.Apologizing
7. DID SOMEBODY MAKE YOU ---------- THAT UGLY
HAT?
1.Wear
2.To wear
3.Wearing
4.Wore
8. THE BOY -----------TO LIFT THE LOAD UPWARDS
1.Made
2.Was made
3.To make
4.Was to make
9. THE PERSON WHO -----------OTHERS IS FOOLISH
1.Trusts
2.Trust
3.Shall trust
4.Trusted

GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1. I KNEW THAT THE SHIP-------- IN WATER
1.Is sinking
2.Will sink
3.Sank
4.Has sunk
2. THAT HE WAS RUNNING BUSINESS -------
ABSOLUTELY WRONG
1.Is
2.Are
3.Were
4.Have been
3. CORRECT THE SENTENCE
1.What do you think is always right
2.What you think is always right?
3.What you think is always right
4.What you think are always right
4. CORRECT THE SENTENCE
1.I liked what can I see
2.I liked what I can see
3.I liked that what I could see
4.I liked what I could see

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1. BLUFF:--cliff, peak, ridge
2. ABRUPTLY:--suddenly, promptly, immediately
3. FLAT:--leveled, plane, even, smooth,
4. RELATIVE PRONOUNS
5. USE OF WHICH
6. THINGS
1. I found a book which was printed in
English
2. He can’t use a wheel chair which is
not well manufactured
3. I have a laptop which has been
imported from Dubai
7. ANIMALS
1. There was a cow which was running
2. I have a bull which runs very fast
8. USE OF THAT
9. BOTH ANIMALS AND PERSONS
1. There were one dog and a girl that
were walking on the road
2. I observed two girls and a monkey
that were limping
10. ESSENTIAL CLAUSES
1. I want the dog that is black and
white.
2. I want a dog which is black and
white
3. Could you bring me the cup that is
on the table?
4. Could you bring me a cup which is
on the table?
5. I do not remember the day that my
cousin was born
6. I do not remember a day which my
cousin was born
7. It is the best chair that is used by
this office
8. It is the best chair in the class
which is used by this office
9. There are ten benches that are in
use by the students
10.There are ten benches in the class
room which are in use by the
students
11.The holy Quran is one those books
that are read in the whole world
12.This is the same horse that was
used by Akbar the king.
13.It is the only laptop that is used by
our boss
11.BOUGHS:--branches, shoots

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1. FONDLING:--caressing, touching, stroking,
2. SUBSTANCE:--element, entity, matter, stuff,
material
3. USE OF AS IF:--
1.Used in subjunctive clauses
2.Imaginative and unreal situation
3.Shows impossibility of action
4.Were/had been are used
1.He looks at me as if I were guilty.
(But I am not guilty.)
2.He looks as if he is poor
3.She looked as if she was absurd
4. NOUN CLAUSE AS SINGLE SUBJECT
1.What you think is/are right
2.Wherever you go has/have been reported
3.Whom you talk is/are your will
4.That you work hard doesn’t/ don’t affect
any body
5. EXTRAORDINARY:--excellent, superb,
marvelous, exceptional, peculiar
6. RUGGED:--uneven, rough, stark, rocky, hilly,
coarse
7. WILD:--desert, natural, savage
8. CLIFF:--bluff, mountain, rock, crag
9. SPECIES:--kinds, types,
10.PLURAL QUANTIFIERS
1.Many man have reached the protest
2.Several strategy have been devised
3.Different races participated in the
cultural program
4.A few goat have been sold in the market
11.HAD THE SON BEEN THERE BEFORE?
1.yes
2.Has been there many times except last
three years
3.Pass his childhood there
4.Many sweet memories there
12.FIND THE CORRECT
1.Yes, the son was there many times
before
2.Yes, a son had been there many times
before
3.Yes, the son had been there many times
before
13.FIND THE CORRECT
1.He passed his childhood there
2.He has passed his childhood there
3.He had passed his childhood there
14.FIND THE CORRECT
1.He has many sweet memories there
2.He had many sweet memories there
3.He had been many sweet memories
there

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1. STEEP:--sheer, vertical, sharp, sudden
2. HALF-BREATHS:--gasping, panting,
breathless
3. SLOPE:--slant, tilt, incline, gradient, ramp
4. SAPLING:--young tree, seedling
5. BRACED:--supported, fortified, fastened
6. USE OF UNLESS AND UNTIL:--
1.Used in the subordinate clauses
2.Unless shows condition
1.I will quit my job unless I get a pay
hike.
2.Can be replaced with if
3.Until is used Up to the time of
(something happening); Before (a time).
1.You can go out and play until it
gets dark.
2.Can be replaced with since/as long
as
7. CORRECT
1.I shall help you in study until you
request me
2.They will be helpful unless you develop
good relation with them
3.She will be here unless it is 10’o clock
4.You cant succeed until you work hard
5.There will be no helper until you don’t
help others
6.We don’t value health unless we fall ill
7.Until you don’t work hard, you can’t pass
8.The boy will get his aim until he struggle
8. HEEL, HEAL:--
1.The heel of her shoes is very high
2.The wound will recover soon
9. BRING BACK:--remind, remember,
10.CURIOSITY:--keenness, interest,
inquisitiveness,
11.AROUSED:--develop, increased, excited,
instigate, spur on
12.UNFAMILIAR:--unknown, unusual, strange,
different, novel,
13.DO, DOES, DID AS MODEL VERBS:--
1.I work hard to get my goals
1.I do work hard to get mu success
2.She tried to deceive me
1.She did try to deceive me
14.STEEP:--sheer, perpendicular, vertical,
sloppy, inclined
15.LIMBLESS:--branchless
16.HEART:--centre,
17.HEART, HURT:--
1.Human heart works all the time
2.Don’t hurt other’s feeling
18.WILDERNESS:--desert, waste, wild

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1. WHAT WAS THE SIZE OF THE CLEARING?
1.No more than three fourth of an acre
2.Situated on the mountain top
3.Grow vegetables there
2. FIND THE CORRECT
1.The size of clearing was not more than
three fourth of acre
2.The size of clearing was not more than
three fourth of an acre
3.The size of a clearing was not more than
three fourth of an acre
4.The size of the clearing was not more
than three fourth of an acre
3. FIND THE CORRECT
1.It situated on the mountain top
2.It was situated on a mountain top
3.It was situated on the mountain top
4. FIND THE CORRECT
1.The old man grew vegetables there
2.The old man had grown vegetables there
3.The old man had grown vegetable there
4.He had grown vegetables there

GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1. HE LOOKS AS IF HE--------- A POOR
1.is
2.Was
3.Has been
4.Had been
2. I WISH IT --------- STILL IN USE.
1.Was
2.Has been
3.Were
4.Had
3. IF I ---------PRESIDENT, I WOULDN’T PUT UP WITH IT.
1.Have
2.Had
3.To Had
4.Were
4. I WISH I ----------- THERE TO HAVE A DRINK WITH
YOU AND DISH.
1.Have been
2.Has been
3.Was
4.Had been
5. THE BOY WAS MADE----------A LETTER .
1.Write
2.To write
3.Writing
4.Wrote
6. HE DID NOTHING BUT---------WHEN HE SAW A
SNAKE.
1.Wept
2.Weeping
3.Weep
4.To weep
7. HE --------------AGANST INDIA IN THE WAR OF 1965
1.Fight
2.Would fight
3.Had been fighting
4.Didn’t fight
8. THE TERRORISTS ---------FIA BUILDING IN
RETALIATION TO WAZIRSTAN OPERTION
1.Blow up
2.Blew up
3.Had blowed up
4.Blowing up
9. HE ALREADY----------------- THE CANDLE
1.Blow out
2.Blew out
3.Blown out
4.Had blowed out
5.Blowing out

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1. FENCE:--barrier, boundary, hedge, railing
2. STRAY:--wandering, roaming, homeless
3. CURTLY:--rudely, bluntly, tersely,
4. WHY DID JESS’ FATHER FENCE THE
CLEARING?
1. Fence his clearing
2. Avoid stray cattle entering his farm
5. CHOOSE THE CORRECT
1. The old man fence the clearing to avoid
the stray cattle entering his farm
2. The old man fenced the clearing to avoid
the stray cattle entering his farm
3. The old man fenced clearing to avoid the
stray cattle entering his farm
4. The old man fenced the clearing to avoid
the stray cattle enter his farm
5. He fenced the clearing to avoid the stray
cattle entering his farm
6. REACH DOWN:--bent, stooped
7. COORIDINATION OF DID/DOES
1. She didn’t coordinate with me and gave
me donation
2. He doesn’t stand up and move on
8. LOAM:--clay, soil, mud
9. TRIED:--tested, examined, approved,
10.WHIFFED:--smelled, inhaled, sniffed
11.INTERRUPT:--interfere, disrupt, cut short,
12.WONDERS:--amaze, surprise, astonish,
13.RAISE:--cultivate, grow, elevate
14.RIPE:--develop, grow, mature
15.USE OF TOO/ALSO/AS WELL:--
1.ALSO
1.He has also reached the class
2.TOO, AS WELL
1.He has reached the class too
2.He has gone. Can I go too?
3.TOO AS NEGATIVE
1.Negative situation
2.Shows intensity
3.I am very tired
4.I cant move, I am too tired
5.He is walking very quickly
6.He’s walking too quickly. He has
got late
16.CORRECTION
1.The weather is too pleasant
2.This film is too interesting
3.The situation is very dangerous
that I cant control it
4.It is very interesting that I cant
move my eyes
5.You job is too boring that you never
find time for recreation

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1. PATCH:--piece, part,
2. WHAT/WHY DID JESS’ FATHER GROW AT HIS
FARM?
1. Grow potatoes, yams and tomatoes
2. Good flavour
3. Fertile and rich
4. Want to eat pure vegetables
1. Jess’s father grew potatoes, yams and
tomatoes
2. Jess’ father grew potatoes, yams and
tomatoes
3. Jess’ father had grown potatoes, yams
and tomatoes
1. It had good flavor because the soil was
fertile and rich
2. It has good flavor because the soil was
fertile and rich
3. They had good flavor because the soil
was fertile and rich
4. They had good flavor because soil was
fertile and rich
1. Moreover, he want to eat the pure
vegetables
2. Moreover, he wanted to eat pure
vegetables
3. Moreover, he wanted to eat the pure
vegetables
6. WEED:--wild flower, shrub, grass
7. USE OF WOULD
1.IN PAST
2.I thought it would rain so I brought my
umbrella
3.FUTURE IN PAST
4.He left 5 minutes late, unaware that the
delay would save his life
5.CONDITIONAL SENTENCE
6.I wouldn't eat that if I were you
7.DESIRE OR INCLINATION
8.I'd love to live here
9.POLITE REQUESTS
10.Would you go with me?
11.OPINION OR HOPE
12.I would expect him to come.
13.WISH
14.I wish you would stay

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1. NON CONTINUOUS VERBS:--
1.we do not normally use with continuous
tenses
2.are about state, not action, and they
cannot express the continuous or
progressive aspect
3.feeling: hate, like, love, prefer, want,
wish
4.senses: appear, feel, hear, see, seem,
smell, sound, taste
5.communication: agree, deny, disagree,
mean, promise, satisfy, surprise
6.thinking: believe, imagine, know, mean,
realize, recognize, remember,
understand
7.other states: be, belong, concern,
depend, involve, matter, need, owe, own,
possess
1.I am wanting a coffee.
2.I want a coffee.
3.I am not believing you are right.
4.I don't believe you are right.
5.Is this pen belonging to you?
6.Does this pen belong to you?
7. It was seeming wrong.
8.It seemed wrong.
9.I am not hearing anything.
10.I don't hear anything.
11.A man was seeing you
12.A man was looking at you
2. STUMP—clamp, plod,
3. RIM:--border, edge, brim, verge
4. LOADED WITH:--filled, heaped, piled,
5. STALWART:--strong, stout, tenacious,
6. WINK:--blink, flash, gleam
7. CHEATED:--deceive, BEGUILED, duped,
swindled,
8. WHAT IS THE EXPECTED AGE OF MAN?
1. Seventy years according to Christianity
2. Borrowed after that age
1. The expected age of the man is seventy
years according to Christianity
2. The expected age of a man is seventy
3. The expected age of man is seventy
years according to the Christianity
4. The expected age of man is seventy
10.CHOOSE THE CORRECT
1. His time was borrowed after that age
2. His time is borrowed after that age
3. His time has borrowed after that age

GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1. HE DOESN’T WORK HARD AND --------
PRINCIPLES
1.Follow
2.Follows
3.Followed
4.To follow
2. THE SPECTATORS ARE --------- THE MATCH.
1.Seeing
2.Watching
3. THE MUSLIMS DIDN’T FINISH THEIR
DIFFERENCES AND -------------WITH ONE
ANOTHER.
1.Fight
2.Fought
3.Had fought
4.Would fought
4. I AM ----------- TO THE NEWS BULLETIN.
1.Hearing
2.listening
5. SHE ---------MY ATTITUDE IN THE CLASS.
1.Is not liking
2.Doesn’t like
3.Shall not like
6. MY FATHER SAID THAT MY PLAN---------.
1.Wont work
2.Shall not work
3.Wouldn’t work
7. THE OLD MAN --------------WORRIED AT HIS
DEFEAT
1.Was seeming
2.Seemed
3.Has been seeming
4.Will be seeming
8. WHICH IS CORRECT
1.Jess’ father cleared the land and fence it
2.Jess’ father clear the land and fenced it
3.Jess’ father cleared the land and fenced it
4.Jess’ father cleared the land and had
fenced it
9. WHICH IS CORRECT
1.Many animal in the forests have been
extinct
2.Many animals in the forests have been
extinct
3.Many animal in the forests has been
extinct
10.WHICH IS CORRECT
1.Various bird is migratory
2.Various birds are migratory

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1. WIPE:--rub, clean, mop, dap
2. WRINKLED:--lined, creased, furrowed,
crumpled
3. BANDANA:--handkerchief
4. MOTIONING:--signal, indicate, point, gesture
5. BORROWED:--uncertain, temporary, rented
6. STEEP:--sheer, vertical, abrupt, sloppy,
inclined
7. SLOPE:--incline, slant, angle,
8. ORDER, ORDERS:--c
1. Order: (V) He ordered me to leave the
class
2. Orders (N) The orders were issued for
his arrest
9. PAST PARTICIPLE AS AN ADJECTIVE:--
1. Used as an adjective
2. Shows completion
3. Followed by object
4. I use the books printed at Urdu
Bazar/which were printed at Urdu
Bazar
5. The boy punished by his teacher/who
was punished by his teacher is sad
10. FEW, A FEW, THE FEW:-
1. FEW, APPROACHING TO ZERO
2. Described with reason
3. His death is sure. He has few chances
A FEW, SMALL NUMBERS
1. He has a few friends
THE FEW, SPECIFIC
1. The few things you have are not
valuable
11. ORDER OF PRONOUN:--
1. GOOD THINGS, 231
1. You, he and I are reading our lesson
2. BAD THINGS,,,132
1. I, he and you are cheat
3. PLURAL,,,123
1. We, you and they are keen to know
1. SAME PERSON
PRONOUN…PRONOUN+NOUN
1. She and Hina are going to the café.
2. He and Dad play golf on the weekends.

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1. RAISED:--cultivate, grow,
2. EXCITEMENT:--enthusiasm, thrill,
stimulation. Pleasure
3. SHOCK:--pile, heap, collection,
4. BRAG:--boast, gloat, bluster,
5. REGARDLESS:--in spite of, despite,
6. MESS:--plenty, excessive, multitude
7. USE OF HAS TO/ HAVE TO/ HAD TO:--
1. Used for necessity
1. I have to get up early.
2. She has to get up early.
3. I had to get up early.
4. They will have to work hard.
5. I do not have to get up early.
6. She does not have to get up early.
8. VAST:--huge, enormous, big, ample,
limitless
9. SLOPE:--hill, ramp, tilt, descent, gradient
10.THIN CORN:--reduce plants
11.FURROW:--ditch, crease, channel, hollow
12.WHY DID JESS CRY AT THE AGE OF SIX?
1. Cry at the age of six
2. Lose his wooden plough
3. Make another one
4. Like the second one
13.FIND THE CORRECT
1. Jess cried at the age of six because
he lost his wooden plough
2. Jess cried at the age of six because
he had lost his wooden plough
3. Jess cried at age of six because he
had lost his wooden plough
14.FIND THE CORRECT
1. His father made another one but he
didn’t like
2. His father made another ones but he
didn’t like it
3. His father had made another one but
he didn’t like it
4. His father made another one but he
didn’t like it

GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1. THE WORKERS-------- ON THIS PROJECT HAVE
BEEN FIRED
1.Worked
2.Working
3.Have been working
4.Work
2. I HAD MY FRIEND --------- BY THE MINISTER.
1.Appoint
2.Appointed
3.Had been appointed
4.Appoints
3. THE BOOKS --------- IN THE MARKET ARE OF
LOW STANDARD.
1.Sell
2.Sold
3.Selling
4.To be sell
4. THE LION MADE THE STUDENTS-------------FAST.
1.Run
2.Running
3.To run
4.Ran
5. I AM ----------- TO THE NEWS BULLETIN.
1.Hearing
2.Listening
6. THE OLD MAN----------- FROM FEVER DIED
YESTERDAY.
1.Suffering
2.Suffered
3.Suffer
4.To suffer
7. ---------- SHE SET THE BUTTON UNIT ON THE
TABLE.
1.Opened
2.Opening
3.To opened
4.Opens
8. WHICH IS CORRECT
1.Ahmed is having a car at his house
2.Ahmed was having a car at his house
3.Ahmed had a car at his house
9. WHICH IS CORRECT
1.I, you and he have deceived our partners
2.He, I and you have deceived our partners
3.I, he and you have deceived our partners

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1. WRITE A NOTE ON THE
CHARACTER/PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF
OLD MAN
1. Red wrinkled face
2. Weak physically
3. Strong will and diligence
2. FIND THE CORRECT
1. The old man has red wrinkled face
2. The old man had red wrinkled face
3. The old man had red wrinkle face
4. The old man has red wrinkle face
3. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He was physically weak but has strong
will and diligence
2. He was physically weak but had strong
will and diligence
3. He was physically weak but was strong
will and diligence
4. WHAT WERE HIS FEELINGS AT THE AGE OF
SEVENTY?
1. Active, ambitious, diligent and nostalgic
2. Remember and visit the past places
3. Think , borrowed time
4. Complete his stay
5. FIND THE CORRECT
1. The old man was active, ambitious,
nostalgic and diligent
2. The old man had active, ambitious,
3. The old man was active, ambitious,
4. He was active, ambitious, nostalgic and
diligent
6. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He remembered and visit the past
places
2. He remembered and visited the past
places
3. He remembered and had visited the
past places
4. He remember and had visit the past
places
7. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He thought that his time is borrowed
and had completed his stay in the world
2. He thought that his time was borrowed
and has completed his stay in the world
3. He thought that his time was borrowed
and had completed his stay in the world

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1. USE OF PRESENT PARTICIPLE:
1. CONTINUOUS VERB
1. He was singing.
2. They have been walking.
3. We will be staying
2. GERUND AFTER CERTAIN VERBS
1. She went shopping.
2. I go running every morning.
3. He lay looking up at the clouds.
4. She came running towards me.
3. AS AN ADJECTIVE PHRASE
1. He saw his friend walking along
the road.
2. I can smell something burning
lightly.
3. I watched the birds flying away
towards nests.
4. AS AN ADJECTIVE
1. He was trapped inside
the burning house.
2. Many of his paintings show
the setting sun.
5. AS AN ADVERBIAL PHRASE
1. My boss spends two hours a day,
travelling to work.
2. Don't waste time,
playing computer games!
3. They've spent the whole day,
shopping.
6. AS A MODIFIER
1. Dropping the gun, she put her
hands in the air. = She dropped the
gun and put her hands in the air.
2. Putting on his coat, he left the
house. = He put on his coat and
left the house.
3. Feeling hungry, he went into the
kitchen and opened the fridge.
4. Being poor, he didn't spend much
on clothes.

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1. SAWED:--cut, divide
2. LUMBER:--timber, building material
3. VINE, WINE:--
1.There is the creeper of vine at my home
2.Drinking wine is forbidden in Islam
4. MATTED:--entangled, intertwined, knotted,
5. WHISPERED:--murmur, buzz, mutter
6. RICH:--fertile, fruitful
7. LOAM:--clay, mud
8. SIFT:--drain, filter, sieve
9. RUGGED:--uneven, coarse, rocky, rough
10.PROMISED:--pledged, assure, guarantee,
undertake
11.WOUND:--coiled, curled, circled, twirled,
twisted
12.WHY DID JESS FATHER MAKE
STEEPER/LONGER AND EASIER PATHS?
1.Old and sick
2.Climb up the mountain straight
3.Make easier and longer paths to make
climbing easier
4.Get better
5.Make the steeper paths
6.Check his improving health
13.FIND THE CORRECT
1. Jess’ father was the old and sick
2. Jess’ father was an old and sick
3. Jess’ father was an old and a sick
4. Jess’ father was old and sick
14.FIND THE CORRECT
1. Therefore, he didn’t climb up the
mountain straight
2. Therefore, he hadn’t climbed up the
mountain straight
3. Therefore, he couldn’t climb up the
mountain straight
4. Therefore, he couldn’t climbed up the
mountain straight
15.FIND THE CORRECT
1. As, he got better
2. As, he get better
3. As, he had got better
16.FIND THE CORRECT
1. He made the steep paths to check his
improving health
2. He made the steeper paths to checked
his improving health
3. He made the steeper paths to check his
improving health

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1. WHAT IS THE MORAL LESSON OF THE
STORY?:
1.Importance of hard work
2.Key to success
3.Polish our physical and mental abilities
4.Keeps us healthy and confident
2. FIND THE CORRECT
1. A story teaches us the importance of
hard work
2. The story teaches us the importance of
hard work
3. The story teach us the importance of
hard work
3. FIND THE CORRECT
1. It is key to success
2. It is a key to success
3. It is the key to success
4. FIND THE CORRECT
1. It polishes our physical and mental
abilities and keep us healthy and
confident
2. It polish our physical and mental
abilities and keeps us healthy and
confident
3. It polishes our physical and mental
abilities and keeps us healthy and
confident
5. WHY HAD THE OLD MAN PLANTED HIS
SECRET GARDEN?
1.Plant his secret garden
2.Active and mentally strong
3.Want to sit idle
4.Follow the doctors
5.Taste the sweet flavour of vegetables
6.Remain near natural beauty
6. FIND THE CORRECT
1. The old man has planted his secret
garden
2. He has planted his secret garden
3. The old man had been planted his
secret garden
4. The old man had planted his secret
garden
7. FIND THE CORRECT
1. Because, the old man was active and
mentally strong
2. Because, he was active and mentally
strong
3. Because, he was active and strong
mentally

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1.Want to sit idle
2.Follow the doctors
3.Taste the sweet flavour of vegetables
4.Remain near natural beauty
1. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He didn’t want to sit idle and follow the
doctors
2. He didn’t wanted to sit idle and follow
the doctors
3. He didn’t want to sit idle and followed
the doctors
4. He didn’t want to sit idle and follow the
doctors
2. FIND THE CORRECT
1. Moreover, he wasted to taste the sweet
flavour of vegetables and remained near
natural beauty
flavour of vegetables and remains near
natural beauty
flavour of vegetables and remain near
natural beauty
3. WHERE DID THE OLD MAN TAKE HIS SON?
1.Take his son to the clearing
2.Locate on the mountain top
3.Cultivate vegetables there
4.Show him his diligence and courage
4. FIND THE CORRECT
1. The old man took his son to the clearing
2. He took his son to the clearing
3. The old man took his son to clearing
5. FIND THE CORRECT
1. It located on the mountain top
2. It is located on the mountain top
3. It was located on the mountain top
4. It was located on mountain top
6. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He cultivates vegetables there
2. He has cultivated vegetables there
3. He cultivated vegetables there
4. He had cultivated vegetables there
7. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He wanted to show his son his diligence
and courage
2. He wants to show his son his diligence
and courage

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1. WHY DIDN’T THE OLD MAN FOLLOW THE
DOCTORS’ ADVICE?
1.Strong will power and resolution
2.No trust
3.Believe his strength and valour
4.Want to sit idle
5.Raise the family of five children
2. FIND THE CORRECT
1. The old man didn’t followed the doctor’s
advice because he had strong will
power and resolution
2. The old man didn’t follow the doctor’s
advice because he has strong will
advice because he had a strong will
advice because he had strong will
3. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He has no trust on doctors
2. He was no trust on doctors
3. He had no trust on doctors
4. FIND THE CORRECT
1. He believed his own strength and valour
2. He was believed his own strength and
valour
3. He had believed his own strength and
valour
5. FIND THE CORRECT
1. Moreover, he didn’t wants to sit idle
2. Moreover, he didn’t wanted to sit idle
3. Moreover, he didn’t wants to sit idleness
4. Moreover, he didn’t want to sit idle
6. FIND THE CORRECT
1. And had to raise the family of five
children
2. And has to raise the family of five
children
3. And had to raised the family of five
children

GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1. THIS WAS NOT THE LAND THAT ONE------
- TO BUILD UP
1.Has
2.Have
3.Had
2. THE DOCTORS ADVISED THE OLD MAN
TO SIT STILL AND ------- WITH HIS
FAMILY
1.Remained
2.Remain
3.To remain
3. THE PEOPLE OF THE PAST WERE USED
TO------- SIMPLY
1.Live
2.Living
3.Lived
4. MY FRIEND USED TO------ CIGARETTE
1.Smoke
2.Smoked
3.Smoking
5. SHE ----- IN THE CONCERT IN 1930
1.Participate
2.Had participated
3.Partcipated
6. THE OLD MAN----- A FEW YEARS AGO
1.Die
2.Had died
3.Died
4.Has died
7. THE PRIME MINISTER---- IN DUBAI
SINCE 02 MAY 2019
1.Has
2.Had been
3.Have been
4.Was
8. SHE IS INTERESTED IN--- A SHOP
1.Opening
2.To open
3.Open
4.Opened
9. THE CATTLE--- IN THE PASTURE
1.Is grazing
2.Are grazing
3.Has been grazing
10.THE FAMILY--- DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE
1.Is
2.Are
3.Has been
4.Was

PARAGRAPHS
1. PARAGRAPHS
1.I did not want to go with him. I had just
finished walking a half mile uphill from my
home to his. I had carried a basket of dishes
to Mom. There were two slip in the road and
I could not drive my car. And I knew how hot
it was. It was 97 in the shade. I knew that
from January until April my father had gone
to eight different doctors. One of the
doctors had told him not to walk the length
of a city block. He told my father to get a
taxi to take his home. But my father walked
home five miles across the mountains and
told Mom what the doctor had said.
2.“Oh, yes,” he said. “Early last spring, I could
not climb straight up the steep path. That
was when the doctor did not give me a week
to live. I made a longer, easier path I would
not have to do so much climbing, then, as I
got better, he explained. “I made another
path that was a little steeper, and as I
continued to get better, I made steeper path.
That was one of knowing I was getting
better all the time”.
3.Only twice did my father stop to wipe the
sweat from his eyes as he climbed the
second steef bluff toward the fingers of the
pines. We reached the limbless trunks of
these tall straight pines whose branches
reached toward the blue depth of sky, or the
white cloud which was now gone. I saw a
clearing, a small clearing of not more than
three-fourth of an acre in the heart of this
wilderness right on the mountain top.
4.I didn’t want to go with him. I had just
finished walking a half mile uphill from my
home to his. I had carried a basket of dished
to Mom. There are two slips in the road and
I could not drive my car. And I knew how hot
it was. It was 97 in the shade. I knew that
from January until April may father gone to
eight different doctors. One of the doctors
had told him not to walk the length of a city
block. He told my father to get a taxi to take
him home.
5.I looked at the vast mountain slope where
my mother and father had farmed. And I
could remember, years later, when they
farmed this land. It was on this steep slope
that my father once made me a little wooden
plough. That was when I was six years old
and they bought me to the field to thin corn.
I lost my little plough and I cried and cried
until he made me another plough. But I
never loved the second plough as I did the
first one.

PARAGRAPHS
1. PARAGRAPHS
1.“Remember when we used to come here to
hunt fox squirrels? Remember when we sat
beneath these hickories and squirrels threw
green hickory shells down at us? The
morning wind just at the break of day in
August was so good to breathe. I cannot
forget those days. And in October when the
rabbits were ripe and the frost had come
and the hickory leaves had turned yellow
and the October winds blew they rustled and
the big leaves from the trees and they fall
like yellow rain drops to the ground!
Remember”.
2.I could not protest to him now. He had made
up his mind. When he made up his mind to
do a thing, he would do it even he had to
crawl. He didn’t care if it was 97 in the
shade or 16 below zero. I wiped more sweat
from my face as I followed him down the
little path between the pasture and the
meadow.

PARAGRAPHS
1. QUESTIONS
WHY DID NOT THE OLD MAN FOLLOW THE ADVICE
OF THE DOCTORS?
He did not act upon the advice because he did not
believe in doctors and he wanted to work hard to
bring up his family of five children.
WHAT HAD THE DOCTOR TOLD THE OLD MAN? OR
WHAT DID THE DOCTOR ADVISE JESS’ FATHER?
The doctor advised the old man to take rest and
enjoy his remaining life. He told that his life was
short and he shouldn’t even walk the distance of a
city block.
WHERE DID THE OLD MAN TAKE HIS SON?
Jess’ father took his son to the top of the
mountain to show him the clearing. He had
cultivated potatoes, tomatoes and yams there.
HAD THE SON EVER BEEN THERE BEFORE?
Yes, his son had been there many times except
last three years. He had passed his childhood
there. He had many memories there.
WHAT WERE THE NAMES OF VEGETABLES THE
OLD MAN GREW ON HIS FARM?
The old man grew potatoes, yams and tomatoes
on his farm. The vegetables had special flavor
because of rich land.
WHY DID THE OLD MAN TAKE THE STEEP PATH?
OR WHY DID OLD MAN ADOPT DIFFERENT WAYS
TO REACH CLEARING?
He was ill, so he couldn’t climb up the mountain
straight. He made longer and easier paths to make
climbing effortless. As he got better, he made
steeper paths. In this way, he came to know that
he was getting better all the time.
WHY DID THE SON AT THE AGE OF SIX CRY? OR
HOW DID THE SON REMEMBER HIS CHILDHOOD?
Jess often remembered his past days spent in the
farm. He cried because he had lost his wooden
plough in a furrow. He cried until his father made
him another one. But he didn’t like the second one.
WHAT WERE THE FEELINGS OF THE OLD MAN AT
THE AGE OF SEVENTY?
He thought that he had completed his life period of
70 years according to the Good Book and his time
was borrowed. He remembered his old days and
places. He was energetic and active even at that
age.
WHY HAD THE OLD MAN PLANTED HIS SECRET
GARDEN? HOW MUCH BENEFIT/GRAINS DID OLD
MAN GET FROM THE LAND?
He had planted his secret garden to grow tasteful
vegetables. The land was fertile and he got barrel
of grains from each shock.
WHAT WAS THE APPEARANCE OF OLD MAN?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PERSONALITY
OF OLD MAN?
He was an old man of seventy years with wrinkled
face. He was a brave, hardworking, committed and
determined person.

PARAGRAPHS
1. QUESTIONS
WHAT IS THE MORAL LESSON OF THE STORY?
The moral lesson of the story is that old men
become nostalgic in their old age. Secondly
determination, will power and hard work can
defeat even death.
WHY DID OLD MAN REMEMBER
WOODS/CLEARING? OR WHY DID OLD MAN WANT
TO VISIT CLEARING?
He remembered the clearing to refresh his youth
and old memories. The man in old age often
remembers his past days.

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