Rita loved her dog Sheroo. Every day, Sheroo would go out of the house and come back himself. But one day he did not come home. Rita looked everywhere for him. Tears rolled down her cheeks. Sheroo was lost. He was nowhere to be found. Rita was crying when she reached home. She got into her bed. All of a sudden something jumped on her. Can you guess who it was? Rita was very happy.

Give the opposites of the words in blue.

Q. Rita is a young teenager living with her parents and an older brother. Her parents provide her with food and make her go to school every day. She lives in a spacious house in a good locality in Thiruvananthapuram. She uses social media but does not have a habit of posting pictures of herself or her friends and family.

What kind of a life do you think Rita is leading?

Q. Smita had been working as an assistant manager with 'Johnson Enterprises' for the last ten years. She was very popular amongst her colleagues because of her commitment and dedication towards the work. When the manager senior to her retired, all her colleagues thought that now Smita would be promoted. But to everyone's surprise the vacant post was filled by an outsider, Mrs. Rita. Smita felt demoralized and her performance started declining. She would abstain herself often and could not meet her targets. Mrs. Rita was a good leader, who would not only instruct her subordinates but would also guide and inspire them. She noticed Smita's behavior and felt that her performance could be improved. She started involving Smita in decision making-issues related to the organisation and made her a part of high level joint-management committee. Smith was now punctual in office and her performance started improving.
(i) Identify the function of management being performed by Rita.
(ii) Name the element of the above function of management which helped Rita to improve Smith's behaviour.
(iii) State any three features of the element identified in above.

Q. S1: She was born into a poor family of labourers and died because poverty could not let her live.
S6: So, while the world was celebrating International Women's Day, Rita's mother, Mrs. Veena, spent the day trying to get her daughter justice, which eluded her in life.
P: She died not because she was ill, but because she had been allegedly beaten by her husband and in-laws for not bringing in sufficient dowry.
Q: At the young age of twenty, Rita breathed her last at J.P. Hospital on February 20.
R: Ironically, however, no one paid heed to Rita's woes when she used to cry for help.
S: The police have not taken any action either till date.

Q. I saw Rita as I was cycling along the road. I shouted _____ her but she did not hear me.

Q.

The old lady was glad to be back at the block of flats where she lived. Her shopping had tired her and her basket had grown heavier with every step on the way home. In the lift, her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest but when she got out at her own floor, both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open. She was thinking that she must reprimand her maid the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence, when she remembered that she had gone shopping after her maid had left and she had turned both the keys in their locks. She walked slowly into the hall and at once noticed that all the room doors were opened, yet following her regular practice she had shut them before going out. Looking into the drawing room, she saw a scene of confusion over by her writing desk.

It was as clear as daylight then that burglars had forced an entry in her absence. Her first impulse was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves, but then she decided that at her age it might be more prudent to have someone with her, so she went to fetch the porter from the basement. By this time her legs were beginning to tremble, so she sat down and accepted a cup of very strong tea, while she telephoned the police. Then her composure regained, she was ready to set-off with the porter’s assistance to search for any intruders who might be still lurking in her flat.

Q. She decided to take someone along with her to look around the rooms because