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a - man and a - woman

1. _____ cow and _____ ox

2. _____ apple and _____ mango

3. _____ hen and _____ egg

4. _____ banana and _____ orange

5. _____ young woman and _____ old man

6. _____ umbrella and _____ stick

7. _____ pen and _____ inkpot

8. _____ Taj Mahal and _____ Red fort

9. _____ Bible _____ Quran
g2. some words are missing in the following story.
complete the story by choosing words from the
brackets.

One day a great scholar______( came, coming) to King
Akbar’s court. He _______ (knows, knew) many languages,
No one _______( knew, know) what his mother tongue was.
He challenged everyone to _______ ( find out, finds out) his
mother tongue.

Everyone _______ (tries, tried) but _______ (fails, failed) to
_______ (find out, found out) his mother tongue! Now the task
was given to Birbal. That night Birbal _______ (go, went) to the
room of the scholar. The scholar was fast asleep.

Birbal _______ (takes, took) a small feather and _______
(tickles, tickled) the scholar’s ears. The scholar _______ (cries,
cried) in fear and _______ (shouts, shouted) words in his
mother tongue.

The next day Birbal _______ (went, gone) to the court and
_______(says, said) that the mother tongue of the scholar was

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