SECTION A: READING
Q1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:
A good book may be the best of friends. It is the same today that is always was and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companion. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness, amusing and instructing us in youth and comforting and consoling us in age. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best thoughts of which that life was capable for. The world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus, the best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts which are remembered and cherished, and become our abiding companion and comforters.
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples crumble into ruin, pictures and status decay, but books survive.
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.
A. On the basis of your reading the passage answer the following questions:
Complete the following sentences:
i) Books always receive us with_______________________.
ii) Books possess an__________________________.
iii) The best books are____________ and golden thoughts
Find the word which means the same: (2marks)
i) One that accompanies another____________.
ii) The quality or state of being immortal_____________.
Q2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:
Emma was struck with polio when she was just four years old. It was 1952 and there was a sudden increase in the number of polio victims in America. Previously healthy children woke up one day unable to walk. Frantic but ignorant parents advised their children to play less during the summer and not to run outside where they thought the virus was.
As scientists were shocked with what was happening to the children and even the adults, more and more were prone to the virus. Victims were treated in hospitals. Those who were worse off had to live the rest of their lives in the hospital wards in iron lungs after contracting polio. For Emma, she could only see her family from behind a glass screen for seven months. At such a young age, she had to undergo daily therapy to ensure that her legs would one day be able to function normally again. For the next nine years, Emma underwent yearly surgeries to reposition her muscles and reattach the tendons in her legs.
A hard to accomplish search for the vaccine began during the early part of the twentieth century. Scientists met with disappointments and a wrong diagnosis of the virus resulted in the deaths of hundreds of children. Today, polio is a compulsory vaccination for babies. In poor countries, the vaccine is even free to the children.
B. On the basis of your reading the passage answer the following questions:
A. Circle the correct answer:
a) Emma was struck with_____________
I) polio ii) cancer iii) influenza IV) cold
b) Parents advised their children to ______________
I) play less during summer ii) drink more water during summer.
iii) Not to disturb them iv) to healthy food
c) Polio is a _________vaccination for babies.
i) compulsory ii) temporary iii) permanent iv) unnecessary
d) She could only see her family from behind a glass screen for _________.
Find the word which means the same:
i) One that accompanies another____________.
ii) The quality or state of being immortal_____________.
Q2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:
Emma was struck with polio when she was just four years old. It was 1952 and there was a sudden increase in the number of polio victims in America. Previously healthy children woke up one day unable to walk. Frantic but ignorant parents advised their children to play less during the summer and not to run outside where they thought the virus was.
As scientists were shocked with what was happening to the children and even the adults, more and more were prone to the virus. Victims were treated in hospitals. Those who were worse off had to live the rest of their lives in the hospital wards in iron lungs after contracting polio. For Emma, she could only see her family from behind a glass screen for seven months. At such a young age, she had to undergo daily therapy to ensure that her legs would one day be able to function normally again. For the next nine years, Emma underwent yearly surgeries to reposition her muscles and reattach the tendons in her legs.
A hard to accomplish search for the vaccine began during the early part of the twentieth century. Scientists met with disappointments and a wrong diagnosis of the virus resulted in the deaths of hundreds of children. Today, polio is a compulsory vaccination for babies. In poor countries, the vaccine is even free to the children.
B. On the basis of your reading the passage answer the following questions:
A. Circle the correct answer:
a) Emma was struck with_____________
I) polio ii) cancer iii) influenza IV) cold
b) Parents advised their children to ______________
I) play less during summer ii) drink more water during summer.
iii) Not to disturb them iv) to healthy food
c) Polio is a _________vaccination for babies.
i) compulsory ii) temporary iii) permanent iv) unnecessary
d) She could only see her family from behind a glass screen for _________.
i) 7 months ii) 10 months iii) 3 months iv) 9 months
e) In 1952 there was a ________ increase in the polio victims.
i) sudden ii) gradual iii) fast iv) slow
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