TRANSLATION - FIRST YEAR ENGLISH GUESS PAPER

DAY THIRTEEN
Important Paragraphs for Translation

Paragraph No. 1

     They went into the living room and Mr. Steward sat in Norma's chair. He reached into an inside coat-pocket and withdrew a small sealed envelope. "Inside here is a key to the bell-unit dome," he said. He set the envelope on the chair side-table. "The bell is connected to our office."

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Paragraph No. 2

     While she was stacking dishes, she turned abruptly, dried her hands, and took the package from the bottom cabinet. Opening it, she set the button unit on the table. She stared at it for a long time before taking the key from its envelope and removing the glass dome. She stared at the button. How ridiculous, she thought. All this furore over a meaningless button.

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Paragraph No. 3

     Only twice did my father stop to wipe the sweat from his eyes as he climbed the second steep bluff toward the fingers of the pines. We reached the limbless trunks of these tall straight pines whose branches reached the blue depth of the sky, or the white cloud was now gone. I saw a clearing, a small clearing of not more than three-fourth of an acre in the heart of this wilderness right on the mountain top.

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Paragraph No. 4

     "Twenty times in my life," he said, "a doctor has told me to go home and be with my family as long as I could. Told me not to work. Not to do anything but to live and enjoy the few days I had left with me. If the doctors have been right," he said, winking at me, "I have cheated death many times! Now, I've reached the years the Good Book allows to man in his lifetime upon this earth! Three score years and ten!"

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Paragraph No. 5

     "Oh, yes," he said. "Early last spring, I couldn't climb straight up the steep path. That was when the doctor didn't give me a week to live. I made a longer, easier path so I wouldn't have to do so much climbing. Then, as I got better, he explained. "I made another path that was a little steeper. And as I continued to get better, I made steeper paths. That was one way of knowing I was getting better all the time!"

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Paragraph No. 6 

     For a long time there was only the sound of the wind in the late afternoon. Alone, thought Bittering. Only a thousand of us here. No way back. No way. No way. Sweat poured out from his face and his hands and his body; he was drenched in the hotness of his fear. He wanted to strike Laura, cried, "No, you're lying! The rockets will come back!" Instead, he stroked Laura's head against him and said, "The rockets will get through someday."

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MORAL STORIES - FIRST YEAR ENGLISH GUESS PAPER

Moral Story No. 1

A Slave and a Lion 

     Once a slave ran into a jungle to get rid of the cruelties of his master. There he saw a lion crying with pain. He noticed that there was a thorn in his paw. The slave took pity on him and pulled out the thorn. The lion gratefully licked his hands and went away. After some days, the slave was arrested. He was thrown before a hungry lion as his punishment. But the people were surprised to see that the lion began to lick his hands. In fact, it was the same lion whom the slave had helped in the jungle. 

Moral

(i) Do good, have good.

(ii) Kindness never goes unrewarded.  

Moral Story No. 2

A Farmer and His Sons

     Once an old farmer had three quarrelsome sons. He was much worried about them. Once he fell ill seriously. He sent for his sons. He asked them to bring a bundle of sticks. When the bundle was brought, he asked them to break it one by one. They all tried their best but failed to break it. Then the farmer untied the bundle and asked each son to break a single stick. They broke all the sticks easily. Thus the farmer advised them that they would be strong when united and weak when separated. 
Moral
(i) Union is strength. 
(ii) United you stand, divided you fall. 

Moral Story No. 3

A Woodcutter and the Angel

     Once a woodcutter was felling a tree on the banks of a river. By chance, his axe fell into the water. He became upset. Suddenly an angel appeared there. Having heard his sad story, the angel dived into the river and brought out a golden axe. The woodcutter refused to take it because it was not his axe. The angel dived again and brought out a silver axe. It was also refused by the same reason. The angel dived again and brought out the woodcutter's iron axe. The woodcutter accepted it happily. Impressed by his honesty, the angel also gifted him the other two axes. 
Moral
Honesty is the best policy.

Moral Story No. 4

Two Friends and a Bear

     Once two friends set out on a journey. While passing through a jungle they saw a bear coming towards them. One of them climbed up a tree but the other could not. However, the later knew that the bear did not eat the dead. So he lay down and held his breath. The bear sniffed him and went away considering him dead. The selfish friend climbed down the tree and asked what the bear had said in his ears. The later said that it had advised me to beware of selfish friend. So he said him good-by and continued his journey alone. 
Moral
A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Moral Story No. 5

A Foolish Stage

     Once a stage was drinking water at a stream. He happened to see his reflection in the water. He felt proud of his beautiful horns but despised his thin legs. Suddenly he saw a pack of hounds at a distance. He ran as fast as his legs could help him. Soon he left the hounds far behind. He had to pass through a thick forest of bushes. His horns got caught in a bush. He tried hard to pull his horns out of it but all in vain. By now the hounds came up. They fell upon him and tore him to pieces.
Moral
(i) Pride hath a fall.
(ii) All that glitters in not gold

Moral Story No. 6

Three Friends and a Bag of Gold

     Once three friends set out on a journey to seek a job. While passing through a jungle, they found a bag full of gold coins. They decided to divide them equally among themselves. After sometime, they felt hungry. One of them went to fetch food. He decided to kill the other two. He bought some poison and mixed it in their food. The other two were even greedier. When the man arrived there, they fell upon him and killed him. As they were hungry, they began to eat the food. As soon as they ate it, they fell senseless and died.
Moral
(i) Greed is a curse.
(ii) As you sow, so shall you reap.