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TYPE QUESTIONS:
1. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a
little boy, his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories
were printed on paper.
(a) Which book has been referred to? 1
Answer: The book found by Tommy from his attic.
(b) Why was it a surprise for them? 1
Answer: They had never seen a real book before.
(c) Pick out the word from the lines that means the same as “ancient”. 1
Answer: Old.
2. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny
to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to
– on a screen, you know.
(a) Who are ‘they’ here? 1
Answer: Tommy and Margie.
(b) What do the yellow and crinkly pages show? 1
Answer: They show that the pages were very old.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for not moving? 1
Answer: Still.
3. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie’s head. He
said to her mother, “It’s not the little girl’s fault, Mrs Jones. I think the
geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. I’ve slowed it up to an average ten-year
level.”
(a) “It’s not the little girl’s fault, ...” The
fault was that ..........................
1
Answer: Margie’s performance was worsening day by day.
(b) According to the Inspector, why was the performance of Margie worsening day by day? 1
Answer: There was some fault in the mechanical teacher.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for adjusted to a particular level? 1
Answer: Geared.
4. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
“......... Actually, the overall pattern of her progress is quite
satisfactory.” And he patted Margie’s head again. Margie was disappointed. She
had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether.
(a) Whose progress is being talked about? 1
Answer: Margie’s.
(b) Why was Margie disappointed? 1
Answer: Her teacher was not taken away as she
wished for.
(c) Which word in the passage is the antonym of
happy? 1
Answer: Disappointed.
5. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
All the kids from the whole neighbourhood came, laughing and shouting in the
schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end
of the day. They learned the same things, so they could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
(a) What is Margie thinking about? 1
Answer: Margie was thinking about her old school.
(b) How is the school under reference different from
the present ones? 1
Answer: The present schools have mechanical teachers. The schools under reference had a separate building where the children were taught together by human teachers.
(c) Which word in the passage is similar to
children? 1
Answer: Kids.
6. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
She 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.”
(a) Who is ‘she’ here? 1
Answer: Margie.
(b) Why did Tommy not look up while reading? 1
Answer: Tommy found the book so interesting that he didn’t look up.
(c) Which word in the extract is similar to
indicated? 1
Answer: Pointed.
7. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
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.
(a) Why did Margie hate her school? 1
Answer: Margie hated her school because it was mechanical and there was no fun at all.
(b) ...she hated it more than ever. What was the
reason behind this? 1
Answer: She had been performing badly in her subjects.
(c) Which phrase/word in the passage stands for
called? 1
Answer: Sent for.
8. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
That was not so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slot where she had to
put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code
they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks in no time.
(a) That was not so bad. What is that? 1
Answer: The mechanical teacher.
(b) What does ... ‘calculated the marks in no time’
imply? 1
Answer: That the mechanical teacher gives marks immediately.
(c) Which word in the extract is similar to a small
opening? 1
Answer: Slot.
9. Read
the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow :
Evelyn Glennie’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.
(a) When did Isabel Glennie realise that Evelyn was
short of hearing? 1
Answer: When she did not hear her name being
called.
(b) How old was Evelyn at that time? 1
Answer: She was eight years old.
(c) Which word in the extract is similar in meaning
to ‘hide’? 1
Answer: Conceal.
10. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
But Evelyn was not going to give up. She was determined to lead a normal life
and pursue her interest in music. One day, she noticed a girl playing a xylophone and decided that she wanted to play it too. Most of the teachers
discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes spotted her potential. He began by
tuning two large drums to different notes. “Don’t listen through your ears,” he would say, “try to sense it some other way.”
(a) Evelyn was not going to give up. Why was she not
going to give up? 1
Answer: She was not going to give up because
of her interest in music. Music was her passion.
(b) Why did her teachers not encourage her? 1
Answer: They did not encourage her because a
deaf girl could not pursue her career in music.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for found? 1
Answer: Spotted.
11. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
As for music, she explains, “It pours in through every part of my body. It
tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.” When she plays the
xylophone, she can sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By
leaning against the drums, she can feel the resonances flowing into her body.
(a) What was music for her? 1
Answer: Her passion.
(b) How did she feel when she played the
Xylophone? 1
Answer: A difficult task as deafness was a big
hurdle.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for
echoing? 1
Answer: Resonance.
12. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions.
“I’ve just got to work...Often harder than classical musicians. But the rewards
are enormous.” Apart from the regular concerts, Evelyn also gives free concerts
in prisons and hospitals. She also gives high priority to classes for young
musicians. Ann Richlin of the Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children says, “She is a
shining inspiration for deaf children. They see that there is nowhere that they cannot go.”
(a) Evelyn works harder than classical musicians.
What does it imply? 1
Answer: Classical music needs a lot of practice.
(b) “... there is nowhere that they cannot go.” Who
are they here? 1
Answer: They are deaf children.
(c) Pick out the word from the passage that means
the same as too big. 1
Answer: Enormous.
13. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
She toured the United Kingdom with a youth orchestra and by the time she was
sixteen, she had decided to make music her life. She auditioned for the Royal
Academy of Music and scored one of the highest marks in the history of the
academy. She gradually moved from orchestral work to solo performance.
(a) Evelyn was a deaf girl by birth yet she made
music her life. How? 1
Answer: Her strong determination and hard work helped her.
(b) What was her achievement at the age of 16? 1
Answer: She toured the United Kingdom with an orchestra and she auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music and scored the highest marks.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for single? 1
Answer: Solo.
14. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
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 realized she hadn’t heard,” says Isabel Glennie. For
quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and
teacher. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to
a specialist.
(a) What made
Isabel suspect Evelyn’s hearing ability?
1
Answer: Isabel
suspected Evelyn’s hearing ability when she discovered that Evelyn did not
respond despite calling her several times.
(b) Why did
Evelyn’s headmistress advise her parents to consult a specialist? 1
Answer: Evelyn’s headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist because she felt that Evelyn’s marks were deteriorating due to her deafness.
(c) Find the word/phrase in the passage which means
the same as “to hide”. 1
Answer: Conceal.
15. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
Emperor Aurangzeb banned the playing of a musical instrument called pungi in
the royal residence for it had a shrill unpleasant sound. Pungi became the
generic name for dreaded noisemakers. Few had thought that it would one day be revived.
A barber of a family of professional musicians, who had access to the royal
palace, decided to improve the tonal quality of the pungi.
(a) Why did the Emperor ban Pungi? 1
Answer: It had an unpleasant sound.
(b) Who tried to improve the tonal quality of
Pungi? 1
Answer: A barber.
(c) Which word in the passage is the opposite of the
word allowed? 1
Answer: Banned.
16. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
As a five-year-old, Bismillah Khan played gilli-danda near a pond in the
ancient estate of Dumraon in Bihar. He would regularly go to the nearby
Bihariji temple to sing the Bhojpuri ‘Chaita’, at the end of which he would
earn a big laddu weighing 1.25 kg, a prize given by the local
Maharaja.
(a) According to the passage, how did Bismillah Khan
spend his childhood? 1
Answer: He used to play gilli-danda and sing
in the temple.
(b) Why did he use to visit the temple daily? 1
Answer: He used to visit the temple daily to
sing the Bhojpuri Chaita.
(c) Which word in the passage is the antonym of
new? 1
Answer: Ancient.
17. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
When India gained Independence on August 15, 1947, Bismillah Khan became the
first Indian to greet the nation with his Shehnai. He poured his heart out into
Raag Kafi from the Red Fort to an audience which included Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who later gave his famous Tryst with
Destiny speech.
(a) Who was the first Indian to greet the
nation? 1
Answer: Bismillah was the first Indian to
greet the nation with his Shehnai on 15th August 1947.
(b) Which Raag did Bismillah Khan play? 1
Answer: Raag Kafi.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for a
welcome? 1
Answer: Greet.
18. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
His first trip abroad was to Afghanistan where King Zahir Shah was so taken in
by the maestro that he gifted him priceless Persian carpets and other
souvenirs. The King of Afghanistan is not the only one to be fascinated with
Bismillah’s music. Film director, Vijay Bhatt was so impressed after hearing
Bismillah play at a festival that he named a film Gunj Uthi Shehnai after the
instrument.
(a) Where has Bismillah Khan given his performance? 1
Answer: India and abroad.
(b) What did Vijay Bhatt do after listening to
Bismillah Khan? 1
Answer: He named a movie after the instrument used by Bismillah Khan.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for costly? 1
Answer: Priceless.
19. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
The young boy took to music early in life. At the age of three, when his mother
took him to his maternal uncle’s house in Benaras, Bismillah was fascinated by watching his uncle practising the Shehnai. Soon Bismillah started accompanying
his uncle, Ali Bux, to the Vishnu temple of Varanasi where Bux was employed to play the Shehnai.
(a) Who is the young boy? 1
Answer: Bismillah Khan.
(b) When did he take an interest in music? 1
Answer: He started taking interest in music when
he was only three-year-old.
(c) Which is the word similar in meaning to
‘impressed’? 1
Answer: Fascinated.
20. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
To the little girl, he was a figure to be feared and avoided. Every morning
before going to work he came into her room and gave her a casual kiss, to which
she responded with “Goodbye, Father”. And oh, there was a glad sense of relief
when she heard the noise of the carriage growing fainter and fainter down the long road!
(a) What kind of a person was Kezia’s father? 1
Answer: Strict person.
(b) How did she feel when her father left for
office? 1
Answer: Had a sigh of relief.
(c) Pick out the word from the passage that is same
as reacted. 1
Answer: Responded.
21. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
But the child never forgot. Next time she saw him, she quickly put both hands
behind her back and a red colour flew into her cheeks. 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.
(a) What did the child never forget? 1
Answer: The punishment given by her father.
(b) What did she wish? 1
Answer: Her father to be like Macdonald.
(c) Which is the word in the passage that means the same as an opening? 1
Answer: Gap.
22. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
“Oh, a butcher — a knife — I want Grannie.” He blew out the candle, bent down
and caught up the child in his arms, carrying her along the passage to the big
bedroom. A newspaper was on the bed – a half-smoked cigar was near his
reading-lamp. He put away the paper, threw the cigar into the fireplace, then carefully tucked up the child. He lay down
beside her.
(a) Where was the butcher? 1
Answer: The butcher was in her dream.
(b) What does her father’s behaviour in the passage
show? 1
Answer: He was a caring father.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for
grandmother? 1
Answer: Grannie.
23. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
She never stuttered with other people — had quite given it up — but only with
Father, because then she was trying so hard to say the words properly.
“What’s the matter? What are you looking so wretched about? Mother, I wish you
taught this child not to appear on the brink of suicide... Here, Kezia, carry
my teacup back to the table carefully.” He was so big — his hands and his neck,
especially his mouth when he yawned. Thinking about him alone was like thinking about a giant.
(a) Why did Kezia stutter before her father? 1
Answer: Because she was scared of him.
(b) Why was she scared of her father? 1
Answer: Because his appearance was such that thinking about him alone was like thinking about a giant.
(c) Pick out a word from the passage that means the
same as to kill oneself. 1
Answer: Suicide.
24. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
He also felt a special interest in a fellow student, Mileva Maric, whom he
found to be a “clever creature”. This young Serb had come to Switzerland
because the University in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could
get degrees. Einstein saw in her an ally against the ‘Philistines’ — those
people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds.
The couple fell in love.
(a) Why did Mileva Maric come to Switzerland? 1
Answer: She came to study at the university.
(b) What was special about the University of Zurich? 1
Answer: It was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for a friend? 1
Answer: Ally.
25. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
While Einstein was solving the most difficult problems in physics, his private
life was unravelling. Albert had wanted to marry Mileva right after finishing
his studies, but his mother was against it. She thought Mileva, who was three
years older than her son, was too old for him. She was also bothered by
Mileva’s intelligence. “She is a book like you,” his mother said. Einstein put
the wedding off.
(a) Why did Einstein’s mother oppose his marriage
with Mileva? 1
Answer: Mileva was three years older than him and very intelligent.
(b) Why did Einstein put the wedding off? 1
Answer: Einstein put his wedding off because his mother was against the marriage.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for cancelled? 1
Answer: Put off.
26. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow :
Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. This time he wrote
a public missive to the United Nations. In it he proposed the formation of a
world government. Unlike the letter to Roosevelt, this one made no impact. But
over the next decade, Einstein got ever more involved in politics — agitating
for an end to the arms build-up and using his popularity to campaign for peace
and democracy.
(a) What did Einstein propose in his public missive
to the United Nations? 1
Answer: The formation of a world government.
(b) How did Einstein spend his last years of life? 1
Answer: In politics.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for protesting? 1
Answer: Agitating.
27. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
At the urging of a colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to the American
President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on 2 August 1939, in which he warned: “A
single bomb of this type... exploded in a port, might very well destroy the
whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.” His words did not
fail to have an effect. The Americans developed the atomic bomb in a secret
project of their own and dropped it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in August 1945.
(a) Why did Einstein write a letter to the American
President? 1
Answer: To warn against the misuse of atomic energy.
(b) What did he think about the atom bomb? 1
Answer: The atom bomb would destroy the whole part with the surrounding territory.
(c) Choose the word from the passage which means the
same as area. 1
Answer: Territory.
28. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
That forced my cousin Samsuddin, who distributed newspapers in Rameswaram, to
look for a helping hand to catch the bundles and, as if naturally, I filled the
slot. Samsuddin helped me earn my first wages. Half a century later, I can
still feel the surge of pride in earning my own money for the first time.
(a) Why had the newspapers to be thrown out of the
moving train? 1
Answer: The newspapers had to be thrown out of the moving train because of the suspension of the train halt at the station.
(b) Why does Kalam still remember that work? 1
Answer: Because it was his first work when he had earned his own money.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for space? 1
Answer: Slot.
29. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I
inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness and so did my three brothers and
sister. I had three close friends in my childhood — Ramanadha Sastry, Aravindan
and Sivaprakasan. All these boys were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families.
(a) Mention a virtue of Kalam’s father. 1
Answer: Honesty/Self-discipline.
(b) What kind of nature did his mother have? 1
Answer: She was very kind.
(c) Write the synonym of orthodox. 1
Answer: Conservative.
30. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
A day’s collection would fetch me the princely sum of one anna. My
brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would
later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani. Our area, being isolated,
was completely unaffected by the War.
(a) Who is the speaker in the passage? 1
Answer: Abdul Kalam.
(b) What was the name of the newspaper? 1
Answer: Dinamani.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for separated? 1
Answer: Isolated.
31. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
During the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony, our family used to arrange
boats with a special platform for carrying idols of the Lord from the temple to
the marriage site, situated in the middle of the pond called Rama Tirtha which was near our house.
(a) How did Abdul’s family contribute during the
annual Shri Sita Ram Kalyanam ceremony?
1
Answer: Idol.
32. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
I used to wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim, and I always sat in the front
row next to Ramanadha Sastry, who wore a sacred thread. The new teacher could
not stomach a Hindu priest’s son sitting with a Muslim boy. In accordance with
our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the backbench.
(a) Why did the speaker wear a cap? 1
Answer: It was a traditional wear of Muslims.
(b) Why was the speaker asked to sit in the last
row? 1
Answer: He was a Muslim boy.
(c) What is the synonym of holy as used in the
passage? 1
Answer: Sacred.
33. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
After school, we went home and told our respective parents about the incident.
Lakshmana Sastry summoned the teacher, and in our presence, told the teacher
that he should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal
intolerance in the minds of innocent children. He bluntly asked the teacher to either apologise or quit the school and the
island.
(a) What was the incident that took place in school? 1
Answer: The teacher asked Kalam to sit on the last bench as he was a Muslim boy.
(b) Write a characteristic of the new teacher. 1
Answer: He tried to spread the poison of communal intolerance.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for called in? 1
Answer: Summoned.
34. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of different social groups. However, my science teacher Sivasubramania Iyer, though an orthodox Brahmin with a very conservative wife, was something of a rebel. He did his best to break social barriers so that people from varying backgrounds could mingle easily. He used to spend hours with me and would say, “Kalam, I want you to develop so that you are on a par with the highly educated people of the big cities.”
(a) How was Sivasubramania’s wife different from her
husband? 1
Answer: She was an orthodox Brahmin.
(b) What did Sivasubramania want? 1
Answer: Sivasubramania wanted all social barriers to be broken, all people from different religions to mingle easily and Kalam to grow at par with educated people.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for one who
believes in old tradition? 1
Answer: Orthodox.
35. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
One day, he invited me to his home for a meal. His wife was horrified at the
idea of a Muslim boy being invited to dine in her ritually pure kitchen. She
refused to serve me in her kitchen. Sivasubramania Iyer was not perturbed, nor
did he get angry with his wife, but instead, served me with his own hands and sat down beside me to eat his meal.
(a) Why did Sivasubramania invite Abdul for a meal? 1
Answer: He wanted to change the attitude of his wife.
(b) Why did Mrs Iyer refuse to serve Abdul in her
kitchen? 1
Answer: She did not want to serve a Muslim.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for disturbed? 1
Answer: Perturbed.
36. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow.
As we watched the fallen animal, we were surprised to see that the black fur on
its back moved and left the prostrate body. Then, we saw it was a baby bear
that had been riding on its mother’s back when the sudden shot had killed her.
(a) Who is the fallen animal under reference? 1
Answer: A female bear.
(b) Who are ’we’ here? 1
Answer: The author and his friends.
(c) Which word appearing in the extract is similar
in meaning to fallen and lying on the ground?
1
Answer: Prostrate.
37. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
One day an accident befell him. I put down poison (barium carbonate) to kill
the rats and mice that had got into my library. Bruno entered the library as he
often did, and he ate some of the poison. Paralysis set into the extent that
he could not stand on his feet.
(a) How did Bruno meet with an accident? 1
Answer: Bruno ate poison by accident.
(b) What happened to Bruno? 1
Answer: Bruno ate barium carbonate and got paralysed.
(c) Which word in the passage is the opposite to
exit? 1
Answer: Enter.
38. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
Out came his medical books, and a feverish reference to index began: “What poison
did you say, sir?” “Barium carbonate.” “Ah yes – B-Ba-Barium Salts–Ah! Barium
carbonate! Symptoms– paralysis–treatment–injections of......Just a minute, sir, I’ll bring my syringe and medicine.”
(a) Who is I in the last line? 1
Answer: The vet.
(b) Who ate the poison? 1
Answer: Bruno, the bear, ate the poison accidentally.
(c) What is the meaning of the word ‘feverish’? 1
Answer: Excitement.
39. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
Friends had conjectured that the bear would not recognise her. I had thought so
too. But, while she was yet some yards from his cage, Baba saw her and recognised her. He howled with happiness.
(a) What did the author’s friends guess? 1
Answer: The bear would not recognise the author’s wife.
(b) Did the author’s friends’ guess prove right? 1
Answer: No, Bruno recognised author’s wife instantly.
(c) Which word appearing in the passage is similar
in meaning to imagined? 1
Answer: Conjectured.
40. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
We all missed him greatly; but in a sense, we were relieved. My wife was
inconsolable. She wept and fretted. For the first days, she would not eat a
thing. Then she wrote a number of letters to the curator. How was Baba?
Answer: Bruno, the bear.
(b) What was the reaction of the author’s wife? 1
Answer: She was missing him badly.
(c) Give one appropriate word which expresses the
condition of the author’s wife? 1
Answer: Inconsolable.
42. Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
Once home, a squad of coollies were engaged for special work in our compound.
An island was made for Baba. It was twenty-feet long and fifteen feet wide and
was surrounded by a dry pit, or moat, six feet wide and seven feet deep.
(a) Why was an island made for Baba? 1
Answer: He had grown in size and could not be kept inside the house.
(b) Why was Bruno taken care of? 1
Answer: Author’s wife had a bond of love with him and wanted to keep him at home only.
(c) Which word in the extract is similar to get on work? 1
Answer: Engage.
43. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
A wooden box that housed fowls, was brought and put on the island for Baba to
sleep in at night. Straw was placed inside to keep him warm, and his ‘baby’,
the gnarled stump, along with his ‘gun’, the piece of bamboo, both of which had
been sentimentally preserved since he had been sent away to the zoo, were put back for him to play with.
(a) Why was the special arrangement for Bruno being
made? 1
Answer: A wooden box, made comfortable with straws and Baba’s baby and the gun were also kept to make him feel special.
(b) What does putting a lot of toys inside the
island by the family show? 1
Answer: The author’s wife was emotionally attached to the pet and treated him like her own kid.
(c) Which word in the passage stands for to keep
safe? 1
Answer: Preserve.
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