3rd Class

      Passage - 2   Read the passage carefully and answer the following question: India is a land of rivers and mountains. There are many rivers in India. The Ganga is one of them. The Ganga arises from the mighty Himalayas and ends into the Bay of Bengal. She is one of the longest rivers of India. Many big and small cities are situated on the banks of this river. The water of Ganga is considered holy by many. It is used for irrigation and also as a means of transportation. Boats and ships move in river Ganga.               The passage is about which river? (A) Gomti                                                            (B) Son (C) Kosi                                                                 (D) Ganga (E) Narmada     Answer: (D) Explanation: This passage is about the more...

     Passage - 1   Read the passage carefully and answer the following question: The Taj Mahal was built by one of the greatest Mughal emperor Shahjahan in the memory of his queen Mumtaz. The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful monuments in the world. It is made of white marbles. It looks very beautiful and wonderful if seen in the full moon night. It took almost twenty two years to complete the making of the Taj Mahal. About twenty thousand men worked to complete this building. The Taj Mahal is a great gift of love from a husband to his wife.           Who built the Taj Mahal : (A) Shahjahan                                                   (B) Akbar (C) Jehangir                                                        (D) Aurangzeb (E) Ashoka     Answer: (A) Explanation : more...

     Introduction   Comprehension means 'Understanding'. In comprehension, you are given a passage and few questions to answer from that passage.         Answering questions to a given passage depends on the following abilities of a student: (i) How good you are in understanding the meaning of the entire passage; (ii) How good you are in finding the answers in the passage; (iii) How good you are in writing error free.         Points to keep in mind while doing comprehension

• Read the given paragraph carefully and underline important points,
• Read the questions one by one and try to find the answers in the passage.
• Write answers in your own words.
• Do not add unnecessary and extra information.

     Clip Art     Clip Art is a collection of readymade graphic images. These are available from many sources and range from simple symbols to elaborate drawings. By using Paint Brush you can create your own clipart images which can be used later.              To insert a Clip Art into your drawing perform the following steps:

• Click Edit menu.
• Select the Paste From option in the Edit menu.
• Click the name of the graphic you want from the list of Clip Art.
• Select OK. (The Clip Art appears in the top left corner of the screen).
• Move the pointer onto the Clip Art.
• Click and drag it to the position you want on the screen.
• To fix the Clip Art, click the more...

   Use of More   Tools In addition to the tools used till now, Paint Brush offers some more tools and facilities which will improve the appearance of your drawing. Let us discuss then.         Colour Pencil Use the Pencil tool to draw thin, free form lines or curves. The pencil is always set at a width of one pixel that is you cannot change the thickness of the drawing using the pencil.          Steps:

• Click Pencil.
• Clicka a colour in the Colour box.  
• Drag the.pointer in the picture to draw. To draw using the background colour, right-click while you drag the pointer.  

       Filling an Area or Object with Colour Use the Fill with Colour more...

    The Colour Palette     The colour palette can be seen under the main window of the Paint Brush application. The two squares set apart from the rest at the left end of the palette show the active colours, i.e. those which are presently in use. When you click on a colour in the palette with the left mouse button, the colour will be the primary or foreground colour (shown as pink in the example above). The colour you click on with the right mouse button will be the secondary or background colour.              Fill in the blanks:                                                        1. The colour palette can be seen _______ the main window of the Paint Brush application.                                                    2. Apart from different palette on the colour palette, the_______ set more...

  Printing     A copy of your drawing can be printed, either as a full image or as a section of the image. (See Figure 3.9.13)             To print an image performs the following steps:  

• Select the Print option from the File menu.
• The Print dialog box appears. Select the options you want (such as the number of copies and whole or partial image) and then select OK.

  The image will be printed automatically if your printer is switched on and connected to the computer                                                                 more...

     Saving a Drawing     You must save your picture frequently to ensure that you do not accidentally lose your work. To do that, on the File menu, click Save. This saves all of the changes you made to the picture since the last time you saved. The very first time that you save a new picture, you need to give your picture a file name.              The steps are the following:

• On the File menu, click Save.
• In the Save as type box, select the file format you want,
• In the File name box, type a name.
• Click Save.  

           Given below are the more...

     Copying Parts of a Drawing     In case you are making a drawing of a garden, you need lots of flowers in it. After taking one flower, you can create copies of it to make a large number of flowers   Steps to copy part of a drawing are the following:  

• Select the Pick tool. Move the cursor into the drawing area.
• Press and hold down the left mouse button to anchor one corner of the flexible box.
• Drag the cursor until the box encloses the area you want to define (the dotted border shows the selected area).
• Release the mouse button after enclosing the area.
• Select the Copy option from the Edit menu.
• Then select the Paste option from the Edit menu.

A copy of the selected part appears in more...

         Cutting Parts of a Drawing     Sometimes, you may decide that you do not want some parts of the drawing and those should be removed. The Pick tool defines a rectangular cutout to perform this action. Once the tool has been selected, the shape can be 'picked out' and then cut.               To cut out a regular shaped part of a drawing perform the following steps:

• Select the Pick tool.
• Move the cursor into the drawing area.
• Press and hold down the left mouse button to anchor one corner of the flexible box.
• Drag the cursor until the box encloses the area you want to define (the dotted border shows the selected area).
• Release the mouse button.
• Select more...