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From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the water when I was in it. This started when I was three or four years old and father took me to the beach in California. He and I stood together in the surf. I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was buried in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the overpowering force of the waves.

My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while, I gathered confidence. paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.
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Q.1. The writer had an intense dislike for water …………………….. .
A. since he was three or four. B. when he was in water.
C. when he was at some beach. D. Both A’ and ‘B’

Q.2. ………………………….. caused terror to the writer.
A. The beach in California B. His father’s pressure on him
C. The overpowering force of the waves D. The swimming pool

Q.3. What were the unpleasant memories for the writer?
A. Those that he had been in the surf with his father in California.
B. Those that he had learnt about the dangers of being in water in his school.
C. Those stories that he had heard from his friends.
D. All of these three

On the way down I planned: When my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, Come to the surface, lie flat on it, and paddle to the edge of the pool. It seemed a long way down. Those nine feet were more like ninety, and before I touched bottom my lungs were ready to burst. But when my feet hit bottom I summoned all my strength and made what I thought was a great spring upwards.
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Q.1. How did the boy plan to save himself ? a. He would make a big jump. b. He would not feel that the pool is ninety feet. c. He would come to the surface and lie flat on it. d. He would paddle to the edge of the pool.
A. a, b, c	B. b, c, d	C. a, c, d	D. All the above
Q.2. Who was the little boy ?
A. Franz	B. William	C. Joe	D. Louis
Q.3. Which word from the Passage means ‘to call’ ?
A. summoned	B. planned	C. paddle	D. seemed

On the way down I planned: When my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, Come to the surface, lie flat on it, and paddle to the edge of the pool. It seemed a long way down. Those nine feet were more like ninety, and before I touched bottom my lungs were ready to burst. But when my feet hit bottom I summoned all my strength and made what I thought was a great spring upwards.
Questions
Q.1. How did the boy plan to save himself ? a. He would make a big jump. b. He would not feel that the pool is ninety feet. c. He would come to the surface and lie flat on it. d. He would paddle to the edge of the pool.
A. a, b, c	B. b, c, d	C. a, c, d	D. All the above
Q.2. Who was the little boy ?
A. Franz	B. William	C. Joe	D. Louis
Q.3. Which word from the Passage means ‘to call’ ?
A. summoned	B. planned	C. paddle	D. seemed

It is a marked departure from a regular academic style- which is invariably depersonalised and often dry and boring. Have you consciously adopted an informal approach or is it something that just came naturally to you. Questions Q.1. Who is speaking the above lines?
A. Umberto Eco	B. Christopher Silvester	C. Mukund Padmanabhan	D. V S Naipaul
Q.2. Who Is being Interviewed?
A. Umberto Eco	B. Christopher Silvester	C. Mukund Padmanabhan	D. V S Naipaul
Q.3. What style was the specialty of the interviewee?
A. Writing in the academic manner.		B. Writing in an informal and narrative manner.
C. Writing in a depersonalized manner.		D. Writing in a dry and boring manner.

“It is his karma, his destiny,” says Mukesh’s grandmother, who has watched her own husband go blind with the dust from polishing the glass of bangles. “Can a God-given lineage ever be broken ?” she implies. Questions
Q.1. What was the old woman's belief ? A. That your destiny is chosen by you. B. That a man does what is written in his destiny and lineage. C. That destiny has no place in one’s life. D. That their destiny has always been bad.
Q.2. What suffering did the old woman witness? A. She has been making bangles from the time she was married. B. She has had a bad karma. C. Her husband did the horrible work of bangle making. D. Her husband went blind making bangles.
Q.3. Where was Mukesh from ?
A. Firozabad	B. Faridabad	C. Ferozabad	D. Faizabad

M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, Saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world - the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it, because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.
Questions
Q.1. Which of the following superlatives is not used for the French language?
A. most logical	B. most beautiful	C. clearest	D. most unforgettable
Q.2. What is the French language compared to in the Passage?
A. Key to logical thinking.		B. A guard for protection.
C. Key to their imprisonment		D. Clarity and beauty.
Q.3. When did M. Hamel speak the above words?
A. When the Prussians were attacking Lorraine.		B. During his last French lesson.
C. When Alsace was taken over by the French.		D. When he was going on a holiday.

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Sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The delicate - seeming bow and the crooked back. The evening had already blacked in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. She went to look for her brother Geoff. He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. Questions Q.1. Whom was Sophie watching near the sink?
A. Father	B. Mother	C. Geoff	D. Derek
Q.2. What is untrue about Sophie's house?
i. The kitchen was a small room.		ii. Dirty washing was piled up in a corner of the room.
iii. The kitchen was steamy from ancient fire place.		iv. The next room had a carpet.
A. iii and iv	B. only ii	C. i and ii	D. only iii
Q.3. What was Sophie's brother doing?
A. He was tinkering the carpet.		B. He was lying on the carpet
C. He was mending a part of his motorcycle		D. He was reading a book on the carpet.

Gandhi protested against the delay. He read a statement pleading guilty. He was involved, he told the court, in a 'conflict of duties'- on the one hand, not to set a bad example as a lawbreaker; on the the other hand, to render the "humanitarian and national service" for which he had come. He disregarded the order to leave, “not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience." He asked the penalty due. Questions
Q.1. What was the conflict of duties for Gandhiji?
A. He wanted to only do what was humanitarian and of national service. B. He wanted to obey the law on one hand and on the other he wanted to do humanitarian and national service. C. He was unaware of the laws of Champaran and he didn't want any violence. D. He didn't like delay and didn't want to plead guilty.
Q.2. Why did Gandhi ask for the penalty due? A. Some farmers were left to pay the taxes. B. He had to pay the fees of the farmer. C. He had forgotten to keep a lawyer. D. He was going to stay and disobey the British order.
Q.3. The adjective form of ‘example’ is ..................
A. exemplary	B. examplery	C. examples	D. explantory

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