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The only woman in the world who, has scaled Mt. Everest twice was born in a society where the birth of a son was regarded as a blessing, and a daughter, though not considered a curse, was not generally welcome. When her mother was expecting Santosh, a travelling ‘holy man’, giving her his blessing, assumed that she wanted a son.But, to everyone’s surprise, the unborn child’s grandmother, who was standing close by, told him that they did not want a son. The ‘holy man’ was also surprised ! Nevertheless, he gave the requested blessing ………….. and as destiny would have it, the blessing seemed to work. Santosh was born the sixth child in a family with five sons, a sister to five brothers. She was born in the small village of Joniyawas of Rewari District in Haryana.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ What is the unique achievement of Santosh Yadav ?
$A.$ She was born in an orthodox society. $B.$ She scaled Mt. Everest twice.
$C.$ She was an unwanted child. $D.$ None of these three
$Q.2.$ ………………. was generally not welcomed in the society in which Santosh was born.
$A.$ Inter-caste marriage $B.$ Holy man’s blessings
$C.$ Girl child’s birth $D.$ Both $‘A’$ and $‘B’$
$Q.3$. ……………… did not want son for Santosh’s mother.
$A.$ Santosh’s father $B.$ Santosh’s mother
$C.$ Santosh’s grandfather $D.$ Santosh’s grandmother
$Q.4.$ Santosh was a sister of …………….. brothers.
$A.$ one $B.$ three $C.$ five $D.$ four

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Margie was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebooks as tommy had. He was thirteen. She said, “Where did you find it?” “In my house.” He pointed without looking, because he was busy reading. “In the attic” “What is about?” “School” margie was scornful. “School? What’s there to write about school$?$ I hate school.” Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the county inspector. He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ By now many years was margie younger than tommy$?$
$A.$ one	$B.$ Two	$C.$ Three	$D.$ They were the same age
$Q.2.$ What is mean by ‘scornful’?
$A.$ sneer	$B.$ admiring	$C.$ disrespectful	$D. $ sarcasm
$Q.3.$ Which statement is false$?$
$A.$ the teacher had been giving margie tests.
$B.$ Margie had been doing badly in the tests.
$C.$ Margie had been answering several tests in geography.
$D.$ Her mother shook margie’s head.
$Q.4.$ Why did the county inspector come to margie’s house$? ($Which one is incorrect$?)$
$A.$ margie’s mother called him.
$B.$ Margie’s had been doing badly in the geography tests.
$C.$ Margie’s mother shook her head.
$D.$ The mechanical teacher was not giving other subject tests.

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Of course I had to turn every mortal thing out now, and, of course, I could not find it. I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned. Of course, I found George’s and Harris’s eighteen times over, but I couldn’t find my own. I put the things back one by one, and held everything up and shook it. Then I found it inside a boot. i I repacked once more.When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in. I said I didn’t care a hang whether the soap was in or whether it wasn’t; and I slammed the bag shut and strapped it, and found that I had packed my spectacles in it, and had to re-open it. It got shut up finally at $10.05 p.m$., and then there remained the hampers to do. Harris said that we should be wanting to start in less than twelve hours’ time and thought that he and George had better do the rest; and I agreed and sat down, and they had a go.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ The meaning of ‘rummaged’ is ………………..
$A.$ ‘searched’. $B.$‘broken’. $C.$Tost’. $D.$‘forgot’.
$Q.2.$ The search was over when ……………..
$A.$ he rummaged the things. $B.$ he created a chaos.
$C.$ he held everything up and shook it. $D.$ he found it inside a boot.

$Q.3.$ The phrase ‘care a hang’ means …………………
$A.$ ‘take more interest in’. $B.$ ‘show no concern or interest’.
$C.$ ‘be more careful about’. $D.$ Both $‘A’$ and $‘C’$
$Q.4.$ ‘They had a go’ means ……………..
$A.$ ‘They started their journey’. $B.$ ‘They started their work’.
$C.$ ‘They went to take rest’. $D.$ ‘They finished their packing’.

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I was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras State. My father, Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education nor much wealth despite these disadvantages; he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit. He had an ideal helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma. I do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day, but I am quite certain that far more outsiders ate with us than all the members of our own family put together.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ Who is ‘I’ in the passage?
$A.$ Ashiamma	$B. APJ$ Abul Kalam	$C.$ Jainulabdeen	$D.$ None of the above
$Q.2.$ Which is untrue about the narrator’s father?
$A.$ He didn’t have much wealth.		$B.$ He had not much formal education.
$C.$ He had wisdom.		$D.$ He was hardly generous.
$Q.3.$ Give another word in the passage which means ‘former’.
$A.$ innate	$B.$ idea	$C.$ despite	$D.$ erstwhile
$Q.4.$ What is the adjective form of ‘island’?
$A.$ insular	$B.$ islanding	$C.$ islands	$D.$ intrusion

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I didn’t jump. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out. There was no time to do any such thing. The snake slithered along my shoulder and coiled around my left arm above the elbow. The hood was spread out and its head was hardly three or four inches from my face !It would not be correct to say merely that I sat there holding my breath. I was turned to stone. But my mind was very active. The door opened into darkness. The room was surrounded by darkness. In the light of the lamp I sat there like a stone image in the flesh.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ What could the writer’s expressions have been on finding the snake on his shoulder $?$
$A.$ Jumping $B. $ Trembling $C.$ Crying out $D$. All of these three
$Q.2.$ How close did the writer find the snake $?$
$A.$ Coiled around his left arm.
$B.$ With his head three or four inches away from his face.
$C. $With his head spread.
$D.$ Both $‘A’$ and $‘B’$
$Q.3.$ What was the writer’s reaction with the snake coiled around his left arm $?$
$A.$ He sat breathless.
$B.$ The speed of his breathing increased to a great frequency.
$C.$ He went towards the door.
$D.$ Both $‘A’$ and $‘B’$
$Q.4.$ What are the words ‘a stone image in the flesh’ used for$?$
$A.$ The snake looking into the mirror.
$B.$ The writer with a snake coiled around his left arm.
$C.$ The stone image the writer was sitting in the front.
$D.$ None of these three

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Albert Einstein was born on $14$ March $1879$ in the German city of Ulm, without any indication that he was destined for greatness. On the contrary, his mother thought Albert was a freak. To her, his head seemed much too large. At the age of two-and-a-half, Einstein still wasn’t talking. When he finally did learn to speak, he uttered everything twice. Einstein did not know what to do with other children, and his playmates called him “Brother Boring.” So the youngster played by himself much of the time. He especially loved mechanical toys. Looking at his newborn sister, Maja, he is said to have said: “Fine, but where her wheels are?” A headmaster once told his father that what Einstein chose as a profession wouldn’t matter, because “he’ll never make a success at anything.” Einstein began learning to play the violin at the age of six, because his mother wanted him to; he later became a gifted amateur violinist, maintaining this skill throughout his life.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ What was unnatural from the following?
$A$. Einstein should no indication that he was destined for greatness.
$B.$ Einstein wasn’t able to talk even though he was two-and-a-half years old.
$C.$ Maja was not born with wheels.
$D.$ Einstein would never make a success at anything
$Q.2.$ Albert Einstein became a professional violinist. Is this statement true or false$?$
$A$. True		$B.$ False
$Q.3.$ Einstein wanted to see his sister’s wheel. What does this indicate his liking for$?$
$A.$ Science	$B.$ Mathematics	$C$. Mechanical Toys
$Q.4.$ Who wasn’t sure of Einstein doing much when he grew up$?$
$A.$ friend	$B.$ mother	$C.$ father	$D.$ headmaster

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Evelyn Giennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight –year-old evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realised she hadn’t heard, “ says Isabel glennie. For quite a while evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers . but by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. It ws then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage. They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf. “Everting suddenly looked black,” says evelyn.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ Who is the writer of the story$?$
$A.$ Deborah Cowley	$B.$ ruskin bond	$C.$ phonebe cary	$D.$ james kirkup
$Q.2.$ How did evelyn develop a hearing problem$?$
$A.$ Gradual depression	$B.$ Gradual nerve damage	$C.$ Servere arthritis	$D.$ Servere optic problems
$Q.3.$ When was evelyn’s deafness problem brought to the fore$?$
$i.$ When she eight year old.
$ii.$ When she was eleven and got less mars
$iii.$ When she went to a specialist.
$iv.$ When she was told to go to a school for the deaf.
$A. i, ii,$ and $iv$	$B. iii$ and $iv$	$C. ii $ and $iii$	$D.$ only $ii$
$Q.4.$ Give another word from the passage for ‘weakened’.
$A.$ Damage	$B.$ Gradual	$C.$ Conceal	$D.$ Impaired

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Laboriously, with double cotton, the little girl stitched three sides. But what to fill it with? That was the question. The grandmother was out in the garden, and she wandered into mother’s bedroom to look for scraps. On the bed-table she discovered a freat many sheets of find paper, gathered them up, tore them into tiny pieces and stuffed her case, then sewed up the fourth side. That night there was a hue and cry in the house. Father’s great speech for the port authority had been lost. Rooms were searched, serveants questioned. Finally, mother came into kezia’s room, “Kezia, I suppose you didn’t see some papers on a table in our room?” “Oh yes,” she said, “I tore them up for my surprise,” “what!” screamed mother. “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.”
Questions:
$Q.1.$ Kezia knew very well that papers on the table were important papers for her father.
$A.$ True		$B.$ False
$Q.2.$ .................. told kezia that a gift to father would be appropriate.
$A.$ mother	$B.$ Alice	$C.$ Grandmother	$D.$ Mr. Macdonald
$Q.3.$ Find the odd one out : kezia’s surprise gift.
$A.$ double cotton	$B.$ three sides	$C.$ Port Authority	$D.$ case
$Q.4.$ “Come straight down to the dining-room this instant.” Identify the combination of correct statements
$(i)$ Mother wanted to inform father of what had happened to the papers.
$(ii)$ Mother wanted to punish her in father’s presence.
$(iii)$ Kezia had to be questioned about the papers.
$(iv)$ Kezia had no idea what was going to happen.
$A. i, iii$ and $iv$	$B. i$ and $ii$	$C. i$ and $iii$	$D. i, ii, iii$ and $iv$

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Thereafter, Santosh went on an expedition every year. Her climbing skills matured rapidly. Also, she developed a remarkable resistance to cold and the altitude. Equipped with an iron will, physical endurance and an amazing mental toughness, she proved herself repeatedly. The culmination of her hard work and sincerity came in $1992$, just four years after she had shyly asked the Aravalli mountaineers if she could join them. At barely twenty years of age, Santosh Yadav scaled Mt Everest, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve the feat.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ Which qualities of a skilled mountaineer did Santosh build up? (Which one is incorrect?)
$A.$ physical endurance	$B.$ Iron - will	$C.$ communication	$D.$ resistance to cold
$Q.2.$ What made Santosh get global recognition?
$A.$ She became the first woman who built Iron will and mental toughness.
$B.$ She became the youngest woman in the world to scale the Mt. Everest
$C.$ She was the first woman to scale the Mt. Everest.
$D.$ She was the first Indian to scale the Mt. Everest.
$Q.3.$ When did Santosh think of becoming a mountaineer?
$A.$ When she went on an expedition every year.
$B.$ When she shyly asked the Aravalli mountaineers if she could join them.
$C.$ When she build resistance to cold and altitude.
$Q.4.$ Which word in the above passage means ‘result’?
$A.$ remarkable	$B.$ expedition	$C.$ resistance	$D.$ culmination

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The Macdonalds lived next door. They had five children. Looking through a gap in the fence the little girl saw them playing ‘tag’ in the evening. The father with the baby, Mao, on his shoulders, two little girls hanging on to his coat pockets ran round and round the flower beds, shaking with laughter. Once she saw the boys turn the hose on him – and he tried to catch them laughing all the time.
Then it was she decided there were different sorts of fathers.Questions:
$Q.1.$ Mr Macdonald was ………………..
$A.$ a sports teacher
$B.$ a sportsman
$C.$ Kezia’s neighbour
$D.$ All of these three
$Q.2.$ The extract shows that Mr Macdonald was a …………….. father.
$A.$ kind
$B.$ loving
$C.$ strict
$D.$ Both $‘A’$ and $‘B’$
$Q.3.$ Mr Macdonald make the evening for …………… his children.
$A.$ pleasant
$B.$ boring
$C$. miserable
$D.$ stressful
$Q.4.$ After watching Mr Macdonald playing cheerfully with his children, Kezia derived that …………….
$A.$ some fathers are cruel.
$B.$ some fathers are active.
$C.$ all fathers are not the same.
$D$. no father is strict.

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