Question

A1)Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

I know poverty and misery and I quite appreciate by personal experience what it is to be poor, what it is to have no clothes, what it is to have no books, what it is to struggle through life, what it is to walk through the streets without an umbrella, without conveyance along miles on dusty roads. I have been through it all and I can understand the difficulties that most of you graduates have to face today. I am speaking from a long experience of 60 years. Please do not imagine that all the 60 years are milk and roses. To be able to accomplish something, I want to tell you that you have to go through such experiences.
I admit success in life is not always to be intelligent or be strong, and it is to some extent a bit of a gamble, but those who got their minds right and those who know their job sooner or later, will sooner perhaps than later make their way in life. But they should not be disappointed if they do not, they have to face up life and take it as they find it.
What I say is that the great things in life are not really great things in life. What I love is to enjoy the common things of life. I am happy that I am still able to sleep at night provided I have three miles walk in the evening. I am still able to enjoy a good lunch or a good dinner. I am still able to look at the blue sky and like it. I still like to walk in the open fields and like the smell of the Ragi or the Jowar.
We think that happiness consists of going to pictures and seeing thrilling films and technicolor dramas. Not at all, the great things in life are the God-given things which cost nothing. What you need is the desire to appreciate them. If you have your minds and hearts open, you have around your things which give you joy. There is the butterfly jumping about in flourishing colors on all sides. Look at the wonderful thing that God has given for our enjoyment.
We have to love nature and appreciate nature and appreciate her wonderful gifts, of nature’s marvelous ingenuity, its resourcefulness, and infinite variety. It is the same thing that has inspired me all my life.


How had C.V. Raman’s childhood been difficult?
1.)He had lived life as a poor
2.)He had access to books only
3.)He had to run on the streets
4.)He never drank milk as a child
2.)Why has life been termed as a gamble?
1.)It disappoints you always
2.)Life is good to only hardworking people
3.)Even an intelligent or strong person is unsure of success
4.)C.V. Raman has lost money in this gamble
4.)How does C.V.
Raman’s speech inspire us?1.)He told us easy ways to enjoy life
2.)He told us one needs to be poor to succeed in life
3.)He told us to work day and night
4.)He told us that life is never easy
4.)What according to C.V Raman consists of happiness?
1.)Seeing thrilling films and technicolor dramas
2.)Things that cost money
3.)God-given gifts which cost nothing
4.)A graduate student’s life
5.)According to the text, what should we love?
1.)Life
2.)Gamble
3.)C.V Raman
4.)Nature
6.)Which smell did he like in the fields?
1.)Butterflies in fields
2.)Ragi and Jowar
3.)Dinner
4.)Dusty Roads
7.) What has inspired C.V Raman all his life?
1.) Gamble
2.) Family
3.) Nature
4.) Films
8.) How many years of experience does C.V Raman have?
1.) 6 years
2.) 60 years
3.) 16 years
4.)66 years​

Answer 1

The answers to the questions are as follows:

• The childhood of C.V. Raman had been difficult because he had lived life as a poor.
• Life has been termed as a gamble because even an intelligent or strong person is unsure of success.
• C.V. Raman's speech inspires us because he told us easy ways to enjoy life.
• According to C.V. Raman God-given gifts which cost nothing consist of happiness.
• We should love nature.
• He liked the smell of Ragi and Jowar in  the fields.
• Nature has inspired C.V. Raman all his life.
• C.V. Raman had 60 years of experience.

Answer 2

Answer:

The childhood of C.V. Raman had been difficult because he had lived life as a poor.

Life has been termed as a gamble because even an intelligent or strong person is unsure of success.

C.V. Raman's speech inspires us because he told us easy ways to enjoy life.

According to C.V. Raman God-given gifts which cost nothing consist of happiness.

We should love nature.

He liked the smell of Ragi and Jowar in  the fields.

Nature has inspired C.V. Raman all his life.

C.V. Raman had 60 years of experience.

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