I move    Perhaps I have wakened    This is a bed    This is a room5   And there is light . . .    Darkness!    Have I performed    The dozen acts or so    That make me the man10   Men see?    The door opens,    And on the landing    Quiet    I see nothing but the blinding pain15   The ceaseless weariness!    Stairs, banisters, a handrail,    All indistinguishable from one another    One step farther down or up    But up is harder20   And I stumble    Down, down, down to this white blur    As it gives out before me.    Me?    I extend all ways25   Flailing about    A desperate attempt to right myself    I fit into the walls and they pull me.    Light?    Light, I know it is light!30   Stillness and then    Something moves    Green, oh green, dazzling lightning    And elation    This is my room35   There are my books    There the piano    There the final bar I wrote    There the last line    And oh the sunlight!5Read these lines from the passage.I movePerhaps I have wakenedThis is a bedThis is a roomAnd there is light . . .Darkness!What do these lines convey about the narrator? A. The narrator feels weak. B. The narrator feels tired. C. The narrator feels confused. D. The narrator feels frightened.

I close my eyes and I can seeThe world that's waiting up for meThat I call my ownThrough the dark, through the doorThrough where no one's been beforeBut it feels like homeThey can say, they can say it all sounds crazyThey can say, they can say I've lost my mindI don't care, I don't care, so call me crazyWe can live in a world that we design'Cause every night I lie in bedThe brightest colours fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I seeA million dreams is all it's gonna takeOh a million dreams for the world we're gonna makeThere's a house we can buildEvery room inside is filledWith things from far awayThe special things I compileEach one there to make you smileOn a rainy dayThey can say, they can say it all sounds crazyThey can say, they can say we've lost our mindsI don't care, I don't care if they call us crazyRunaway to a world that we designEvery night I lie in bedThe brightest colours fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I seeA million dreams is all it's gonna takeOh a million dreams for the world we're gonna makeHowever big, however smallLet me be part of it allShare your dreams with meYou may be right, you may be wrongBut say that you'll bring me alongTo the world you seeTo the world I close my eyes to seeI close my eyes to seeEvery night I lie in bedThe brightest colours fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeA million dreams, a million dreamsI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I seeA million dreams is all it's gonna takeA million dreams for the world we're gonna makeFor the world we're gonna make

Then all effort ceased. I relaxed. Even my legs felt limp; and a blackness swept over my brain.It wiped out fear; it wiped out terror. There was no more panic. It was quiet and peaceful.Nothing to be afraid of. This is nice... to be drowsy... to go to sleep... no need to jump... tootired to jump... it’s nice to be carried gently... to float along in space... tender arms aroundme... tender arms like Mother’s... now I must go to sleep... I crossed to oblivion, and thecurtain of life fell.i) Choose the best option with reference to the two statements given below:Statement 1: The author tried his best to jump out of the water.Statement 2: After a while, the author was not anxious in the water.A. If statement 1 is the cause, statement 2 is the effect.B. If statement 1 is the effect, statement 2 is the cause.C. Both statements are the effects of a common cause.D. Both statements are the effects of independent causes.ii)The ‘curtain (of life) fell’ corresponds to an aspect ofA. geometryB. historyC. sportsD. dramaiii) The purpose of using ‘...’ (ellipsis) in the above passage is toA. show omissionB. indicate pauseC. shorten a dialogueD. replace an ideaiv) Which of the following options indicate that the poet lost consciousness?A. ‘It was quiet and peaceful’B. ‘Tender arms like Mother’s’.C. ‘I crossed to oblivion.’D. ‘It wiped out fear’v) Why do you think Douglas stopped attempting to come to the pool?vi) Do you think Douglas accepted his death by drowning

Sequence events. Number the events(1–9) in the order they happened.They took me to the hospital.Then the roof of the gym felldown, and I passed out.I went to the gym for my class.I have to stay for a couple ofdays, but I’m feeling much better!Then suddenly, this little robotappeared.It was snowing really hard onTuesday morning.A couple of men found me.When I woke up, I tried to move,but I couldn’t. I was scared.I heard this really loud sound

Darkness is to Lamp asOptions :Fatigue : Exercise

from The Somnambulistby George MacDonaldOne night I was sitting in my room, devouring an old romance which I had brought from the library. It was late. The fire blazed bright; but the candles were nearly burnt out, and I grew sleepy.Suddenly I found myself on my feet, listening with agony. Whether I had heard anything I could not tell; but I felt as if I had. Yes; I was sure of it. Far away, I heard a faint cry. Driven by some secret impulse, I flew, without a moment’s reflection, to the door, and stood in the great echoing hall, amid the touches, light and ghostly, of the cobwebs set afloat in the eddies occasioned by my sudden entrance.A faded moonbeam fell on the floor, and filled the place with an ancient dream-light, which wrought strangely on my brain, and filled it, as if it, too, were but a deserted, sleepy house, haunted by old dreams and memories. Recollecting myself, I went back for a light; but the candles were both flickering in the sockets, and I was compelled to trust to the moon. I ascended the staircase. Old as it was, not a board creaked, not a banister shook—the whole felt solid as rock. Finding, at length, no more stair to ascend, I groped my way on; for here there was no direct light from the moon—only the light of the moonlit air. I was in some trepidation, I confess; for how should I find my way back? At length, after wandering into several rooms and out again, my hand fell on a latched door. I opened it, and entered a long corridor, with many windows on one side. Broad strips of moonlight lay slantingly across the narrow floor, divided by regular intervals of shade.I started, and my heart swelled; for I saw a movement somewhere—I could neither tell where, nor of what: I was only aware of motion. I stood in the first shadow, and gazed, but saw nothing. I sped across the light to the next shadow, and stood again, looking with fearful fixedness of gaze towards the far end of the corridor. Suddenly a white form glimmered and vanished. I crossed to the next shadow. Again a glimmer and vanishing, but nearer. Nerving myself to the utmost, I ceased the stealthiness of my movements, and went forward, slowly and steadily. A tall form, apparently of a woman, dressed in a long white robe, appeared in one of the streams of light, threw its arms over its head, gave a wild cry—which, notwithstanding its wildness and force, had a muffled sound, as if many folds, either of matter or of space, intervened—and fell at full length along the moonlight. Amidst the thrill of agony which shook me at the cry, I rushed forward, and, kneeling beside the prostrate figure, discovered that, unearthly as was the scream which had preceded her fall, it was the Lady Alice. I saw the fact in a moment: the Lady Alice was a somnambulist.* . . .*a sleep-walker5Select ALL the correct answers.In which two ways does the author best create suspense in the story? by setting the scene late at night in a large, dark house without lights through the descriptive elements of moonlight, shadow, movement, and form through the interplay of thoughts, dreams, and memories of the narrator by suggesting the unfamiliarity of the narrator with his surroundings by focusing on the rooms of the house through which the story progresses