SECTION A(READING)
Q.1 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Dr Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non- violence, shared the following story:
1. I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the Institute my grandfather had founded in South Africa. We were deep in the country and had no neighbours, so my two sisters and I always looked forward to going to town.
2. One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all- day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of several pending chores. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, “I will meet you here at 5 p.m and we will go home together. You get the car serviced and finish the pending chores.”
3. After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre and got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. By the time I hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was 6 O’ clock. I quickly said, “The car wasn’t ready, so I had to wait,” not realizing that he had already called the garage.
4. When he caught me in the lie, he said: “There’s something wrong in the way I
brought you up that didn’t give you the confidence to tell me the truth. I will walk home 18 miles to figure out where I went wrong with you.” He began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads. Watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered, I decided never to lie in my life. That is the power of non-violence.
A On the basis of your reading the above passage choose the most appropriate option and complete the sentences:
i) The speaker in the above lines is _________________
a) M.K. Gandhi
b) Dr Arun Gandhi
c) Mahatma Gandhi
ii) Who do you think is the grandfather mentioned in the passage?
a) Rajiv Gandhi
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Dr Arun Gandhi
B. State whether the following statements are True or False:
i) The speaker was 16 years old when this incident took place.____________
ii) The speaker’s father scolded him for telling a lie. __________
C. Complete the following sentences:
i) The speaker’s father decided to walk home in order to_________________________
ii) The speaker’s mother gave him_________________________________________
D. Find words from the passage that mean the following:
i) small jobs (para 2)- ____________________
ii) extreme pain (para 4) -_____________________
E. Answer the following questions briefly:
i) Why was the speaker late in meeting his father?
ii) Why was the speaker happy to drive his father to town?
iii) What was the similarity between the speaker’s father and grandfather?
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