Choose and copy the correct answers from the brackets to complete the given text. (Rewriting the text is not compulsory.) A tortoise, lazily basking…
SEE Class 10 English · 2081 · Solved Question with Answer
Choose and copy the correct answers from the brackets to complete the given text. (Rewriting the text is not compulsory.)
A tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to (a) ........... (a/ an/ the/ nothing) sea-birds of her hard fate that no one would teach her (b)........ (for/ at/ in/ to) fly. An eagle hovering near, heard her lamentation, (c) .......... (didn't he, don't he, doesn't he, did he)? The eagle demanded (d) ....... (when/ what/ why/ how) reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. "I will give you", she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea". The Eagle said that (e) .... (he will teach / I would teach / I would have taught / he would teach) her to fly. The tortoise (f)..... (carries/ was carried/ is carried/ had been carrying) to the sky by the eagle. While flying in the sky, suddenly, he let her go. (g) ...... (Because/ In spite of/ So/ In order to) she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death, "I (h) ...... (has/ have/ had/ having) deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?"
If men had all they wished, they (i) .... (will be often ruined/ will have often been ruined/ would be often ruined/ would often ruined). This story has made us (j)........ (realize/ to realize/ realizes/ have realized) that we should be content with the things we have.