1. Read the given passage and answer the following. You would hardly think that a big, bare room, with rows of benches and shelves and tables littered with all sorts of strange-looking jars and bottles, could be a hiding place for fairies. Yet, Marie's father, one of the wise men of Warsaw, Poland said, "The real fairies are to be found in my dusty laboratory. They are the true wonder-workers and here you may really catch then at word and learn some of their secrets." Soon, little Marie was also playing 'fairy' in the big classroom, dusting the tables and shelves and washing the glass tubes and other things that her father used as he talked to his students. "I think we might see the fairies better if I make all the glasses clear and shiny," said Marie. "Can I trust your little fingers not to let things fall?" asked her father. "Remember, my funny glasses are precious." The professor soon found that his little daughter never let anything slip - either the things he used or the things he said. With time, Marie came to learn the names of the fairies. There were the rainbow fairies - light-waves, that make all the colours we see and many more that our eyes are not to see, but which we can capture by interesting experiments. There were sound waves, too and the marvellous forces we call electricity, magnetism and gravitation. It became sound nature for her to care for her father's laboratory equipment and to help prepare the apparatus that was to be used the next day. She was all of nine years old. s to be used them Answer the following. 1. What did Marie Curie's father do? Where did they live? How did Marie's father discover that she was careful and intelligent? EIL. Describe two kinds of waves mentioned in the passage, iv. How did little Marie play "fairy' inside the laboratory? eeee
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1. ans - Marie Curie's father was a professor
2. ans- They lived in a city of Warsaw in Poland
3.ans- Marie's father discovered that Marie was careful and intelligent when he saw Marie cleaning his laboratory without letting anything fall from her hands
4.ans- The two kinds of waves mentioned in the poem are light waves that makes all the colours we see and many more that we are not able to see but which can be captured by interesting experiments and sound waves which causes a vibration or sound when in contact with a object
5. ans Marie played "fairy" in the laboratory by dusting the tables and shelves and washing the glass tubes and other things that her father used to show an experiment to his students
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