A. Read the following passage and answer the questions: With the next round of Common wealth games coming up this year, sports fans are already speculating about the likely winners from India. While chances appear bright in some sporting activities, in others the picture appears dismal. Chances of India throwing up a few surprises is always discussed among sports lovers. Most game watchers predict that while India can add more to its medals tally in the shooting events, the chances of impr oving her status in the swimming category appear slim, despite the potential of creating good swimmers in this country. One sport in the country with tremendous potential but pathetic performance is swimming. The country is flooded with talented swimmers and coaches whose potential is not fully utilised due to red tapism and bureaucratic hurdles. In spite of being a country full of rivers and canals, swimming has failed to capture the imagination of Indians at large. The Government on its part, has done ve ry little to boost the sport. All those persons, who are interested in swimming, realise that bad quality of water is one rampant problem with almost 90% of swimming pools. As for schools, it requires exorbitant sums of money and the schools cannot afford it. A handful of the privileged few, who enjoy this luxury, fall in the category of the elite. These are out of reach of the common man. Where do the Indians stand today in comparison with international swimmers? The history of swimming in India has not been too bright. International winners have excellent facilities in terms of coaching, nutrition, tactics, positive attitude and hard work. Paucity of high calibre international coaches is one setback Indians have suffered in all the arenas of sport. Than ks to the petty gains and trivial politics, the good i ones are dropped like a hot potato and the blue eyed ones taken over for participating in nternational matches. Except for the metros, the country is deprived of good Olympic size swimming pools. The g overnment and sports organisations will have to make serious efforts to transform the future of Indian sports. Till then, it is a long, long wait.
Q1) What do sports fans predict about India’s chances in the Commonwealth Games this year? Q2) What factors make for India’s potential in swimming? What are the drawbacks? Q3) What problems do interested swimmers face in India? Q4) What is India’s tally in international swimming arena?One sport of our country that passage? a) Swimming b) c) Wrestling Javelin Trained coaches has tremendous potential as per the International winners have excellent facilities. They have: a) b) c) d) Nutritional supplements The right tactics and hard work All India has the potential of creating good _______ Give the synonym of “inundated” (para 2) ____ in the country.
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* * * * * Same day, night.--We passed a happy day.
His requirements are in part met, in part drastically put off till the following day.
For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the whole island was go
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