Question

A.2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given:
(10 Marks)
In 1962, the year I turned ten, my grandmother retired upon the age of
sixty. She had taught in Girls High School since 1936. When she had first
joined the school she had only fifty pupils and the premises had consisted
of two sheds with tin roofs. During the monsoons she had often to teach
in ankle-deep water-once, she claimed, it had beenso bad that a girl had
actually managed to spear a fish with a compass during ageometry lesson.
But over the next two decades the school had grown into a large.
successful institution and had acquired a big building near Deshpriya
Park. For the last six years before she retired. my grandmother had been
its Headmistress. She had been looking forward to her retirement although
she had grown very attached to the school in the twenty seven years she
had spent there. But she no longer had the stomach for staff room
problems and battles with the Board, she would tell my parents: she was
growing old, she had earned her resi. And besides, my father's career was
going well, so she had no real worries left.
a) In the passage the writer tells us what
i) He saw at school
ii) He read in a book
11) He remembers about his grandmother
iv) He was told by his father
b) The grandmother once had to stand in ankle-deep water because
1) The city was flooded by monsoon rain
in) She enjoyed doing so
iii) The girls found it interesting
iv) The school had no proper classrooms
c) over the next two decades' means
i) forty years
ii) ten years
111) twenty years iv)two years​

Answer 1

Answer

a) In the passage the writer tells us what he remembers about his grandmother

b) The grandmother once had to stand in ankle-deep water because The school had no proper classrooms

c) over the next two decades' means twenty years

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