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At the end of the 1930's, Duke Ellington was looking for a composer to assist him-someone not only who could arrange music for his successful band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style as well in order to finish the many pieces he had started but never completed.

someone not only who could arrange music for his successful band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style as well in order to finish

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someone who could not only arrange music for his successful band, but also mirror his eccentric writing style in order to finish

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someone who not only could arrange music for his successful band, but also to mirror his eccentric style in writing

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that being someone who could not only arrange music for his successful big band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style for finishing

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The correct option is B someone who could not only arrange music for his successful band, but also mirror his eccentric writing style in order to finish
A - 'someone not only who' is awkward and grammatically incorrect
B - CORRECT.
C - 'but also to mirror' is grammatically incorrect
D - 'that being someone' is wrong - the pronoun does not have an antecedent.

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Q. Simplify the underlined part of the given sentence (if necessary):
At the end of the 1930s, Duke Ellington was looking for a composer to assist him-someone not only who could arrange music for his successful big band, but mirroring his eccentric writing style as well in order to finish the many pieces he had started but never completed.

Based on your reading of the story answer the following questions by choosing the correct option

(a) With reference to Hooper, the author says, “Every thing was going for him”. What does it imply?

(i) He had everything that a man aspires for.

(ii) People admired him.

(iii) He did what he wanted.

(iv) He was capable of playing games.

(b) Duke never jumped on Chuck again because _____________

(i) Duke was paralysed and unable to jump.

(ii) Chuck was angry with Duke for jumping at him.

(iii) Duke realized that Chuck was not well and could not balance himself.

(iv) Marcy did not allow Duke to come near Chuck.

(i) to look after Chuck.

(ii) to get Chuck on his feet.

(iii) to humour Chuck.

(iv) to guard the house.

(d) “_______ even Duke’s presence didn’t reach Chuck’’. Why?

(i) Duke was locked in his kennel and Chuck couldn’t see him.

(ii) Duke hid himself behind the bed post.

(iii) Duke had come to know that Hooper was not well.

(iv) Hooper was lost in his own grief and pain.

Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

These are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never realised. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not of much importance. He never said a brilliant or even an ill-natured thing in his life. But then he was wonderfully good-looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes. He was as popular with men as he was with women, and he had every accomplishment except that of making money. His father had bequeathed him his cavalry sword, and a History of the Peninsular War in fifteen volumes. Hughie hung the first over his looking-glass, put the second on a shelf between Ruff's Guide and Bailey's Magazine, and lived on two hundred [pounds] a year that an old aunt allowed him. He had tried everything.

He had gone on the Stock Exchange for six months; but what was a butterfly to do among bulls and bears? He had been a tea-merchant for a little longer, but had soon tired of pekoe and souchong. Then he had tried selling dry sherry. That did not answer; the sherry was a little too dry. Ultimately he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession.

To make matters worse, he was in love. The girl he loved was Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired Colonel who had lost his temper and his digestion in India, and had never found either of them again. Laura adored him, and he was ready to kiss her shoe-strings. They were the handsomest couple in London, and had not a penny-piece between them. The Colonel was very fond of Hughie, but would not hear of any engagement.

'Come to me, my boy, when you have got ten thousand pounds of your own, and we will see about it,' he used to say; and Hughie looked very glum on those days, and had to go to Laura for consolation.

One morning, as he was on his way to Holland Park, where the Mertons lived, he dropped in to see a great friend of his, Alan Trevor. Trevor was a painter. Indeed, few people escape that nowadays. But he was also an artist, and artists are rather rare. Personally he was a strange rough fellow, with a freckled face and a red ragged beard. However, when he took up the brush he was a real master, and his pictures were eagerly sought after. He had been very much attracted by Hughie at first, it must be acknowledged, entirely on account of his personal charm.

'The only people a painter should know,' he used to say, 'are people who are bête and beautiful, people who are an artistic pleasure to look at and an intellectual repose to talk to. Men who are dandies and women who are darlings rule the world, at least they should do so.’ However, after he got to know Hughie better, he liked him quite as much for his bright, buoyant spirits and his generous, reckless nature, and had given him the permanent entrée to his studio.

Adapted from ‘The Model Millionaire’ by Oscar Wilde

Choose the correct option for the questions given below:

Why was Hughie Erskine unable to marry Laura Merton?

Read the following extract and rewrite it from the point of view of Oliver:
You may begin with: I had searched for Orlando everywhere.......
Oliver told them his story. He had searched for Orlando everywhere in the forest, he said, and at last, tired and hungry, he had fallen asleep under a tree. On his way from Rosalind's cottage, Orlando had seen his brother lying asleep. A big snake had curled round Oliver's neck and was just going to bite him when it saw Orlando and slipped away into a bush. And then Orlando saw that a hungry lion was waiting under the same bush, ready to kill Oliver as soon as he woke up. Orlando thought of all his brother's unkindness to him in the past. Why should he risk his own life to save his brother who had always been cruel to him? Twice he turned away to leave Oliver, but he had a kind and noble heart and at last, decided that he could not leave his brother to die. So he fought the lion. The fierce animal tore and bit his arm, but he managed to kill it. Oliver, wakened by the noise of the fight, saw that Orlando was risking his own life to save him. He was filled with shame at all his past unkindness to his young brother, and he begged Orlando to forgive him. Orlando took his brother to the Duke, who gave him food and clothes. Orlando said nothing about the wound the lion had given him, but it had been bleeding all the time, and suddenly he fell to the ground and fainted from loss of blood.

Until the end of his first year at school, Cyril retained many of the pleasures and pursuits he had brought with

him from home, and he kept an old interest in butterflies and fossils. His grandmother had presented him with

a fine bird's eggs cabinet, but he could never bring himself to risk in climbing trees. Once or twice he dissected

dead birds from sheer determination to overcome his horror of the operation. Probably it was his envy of those

physically unlike himself that brought on a phase during which he drew massive athletes with thick necks and

square shoulders. Again he was pitying himself for what he could never be.

The reason Why Cyril made drawings of athletes was that

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