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Section A : First Flight (Prose and Poetry) FIRST FLIGHT : A. PROSE 1. A LETTER TO GOD—G.L. Fuentes, 2. NELSON MANDELA : LONG WALK TO FREEDOM—Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 3. TWO STORIES ABOUT FLYING, I. HIS FIRST FLIGHT–Liam O'Flaherty, II. BLACK AEROPLANE –Frederick Forsyth, 4. FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK —Anne Frank, 5. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-I —El Bsor Ester, 6. THE HUNDRED DRESSES-II —El Bsor Ester, 7. GLIMPSES OF INDIA, 8. MIJBIL THE OTTER —Gavin Maxwell, 9. MADAM RIDES THE BUS —Vallikkannan, 10. THE SERMON AT BENARES —Betty Renshaw, 11. THE PROPOSAL —Anton Chekhov, FIRST FLIGHT : B. POETRY 1. DUST OF SNOW —Robert Frost, 2. FIRE AND ICE —Robert Frost, 3. A TIGER IN THE ZOO —Leslie Norris, 4. HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS —Carolyn Wells, 5. THE BALL POEM —John Berryman, 6. AMANDA —Robin Klein, 7. ANIMALS —Walt Whitman, 8. THE TREES —Adrienne Rich, 9. FOG —Carl Sandburg, 10. THE TALE OF CUSTARD THE DRAGON —Ogden Nash, 11. FOR ANNE GREGORY —William Butler Yeats, Section B : Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader) 1. A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY —James Herriot, 2. THE THIEF’S STORY —Ruskin Bond, 3. THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR —Robert Arthur, 4. A QUESTION OF TRUST —Victor Canning, 5. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET —H. G. Wells, 6. THE MAKING OF A SCIENTIST —Robert W. Peterson, 7. THE NECKLACE —Guy De Maupassant, 8. THE HACK DRIVER —Sinclair Lewis, 9. BHOLI —K. A. Abbas, 10. THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH —Claire Boiko, Section C : Grammar (Reading and Writing) 1. READING SECTION, 2. GRAMMAR (Tenses, Modals, Passive Voice, Subject-Verb Concord, Reporting, Clauses, Determiners, Preposition), 3. LETTER WRITING l Sample of OMR Sheet Issued by Board