3] Read the passage given below and do the activities that follow.
Time is running out, and the parents are worried with just 10 days left
for the schools to reopen after homework. Since the children have
enjoyed their vacations, if is their parents who are surfing the internet,
painting the charts and preparing science models. Some busy parents
who are well off but can not spare time are compelled to send their
wards to the “holiday homework special” classes.
Sumitra, who holds classes for completing the children’s homework,
says that she charges anything between fs. 1000 and 5000 per child,
depending on the class and volume of homework. Many school give
away prizes for the best homework or add the marks in internal
assessments. This makes it almost imperative for parents to gethe best
quality. The majority of parents complain that the level of homework is
so high that their children are clueless about how to do it.
In spite of all the troubles, all parents agree that holiday homework is
essential for the children. Some of them opined that homework helps
establish and strengthen bonds between them and their children as it
brings them close toeach other. Some other think that holiday homework
keeps the children in touch with their studies when they are not going to
school.
A] Write the synonyms words of the following.
i) Finishing