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SECTION A
(READING :20 marks)
Read the passage given below and complete the statements that follow:
Vasu Sojitra loves climbing snow-covered peaks on foot and skiing down at
adrenaline-pumping speeds. As the 23-year-old who lives in Connecticut, US whizzes down
the white slopes, everyone watching tends to forget that he does it all with only one leg,
His story of grit and sheer love for the sport, told in a short film 'Vasu Sojitra : Out on a Limb,
transfixed the audience at the recently held Banff Mountain Film Festival's India tour in Delhi.
Sojitra was all of nine months old when his right leg was diagnosed with septicemia. His leg
was amputated to save his life. But even a prosthetic leg couldn't stop him from doing what
he loved. "I played soccer, hockey and skateboarded in school. My parents never treated me
any differently from my brother," he says. But a hard fall at the age of 10 meant he had to give
up the artificial limb too.
Moving about on crutches, he took a liking to skiing at 15 on a trip to Vermont. The training
courses weren't equipped to deal with his challenge. So Sojitra taught himself. "I would watch
videos and do it over and over again, unit I finally could," he says. After a year, he adapted
his gear too to his unique balance equation. Apart from using a single ski, the ski poles he
uses - called outriggers - double up as crutches with little skis attached at the bottom. They
prop him up as he climbs and help him steer as he glides. Sojitra admits it's harder with the
disability, but that doesn't stop him from doing it all unassisted.
The grace in his glide belies his disability. Or maybe it's his attitude that does it. "Disability is
a myth," Sojitra say. "Having one leg isn't a big issue, it's just a hiccup." A mechanical
engineer by qualification, his day job is that of an assistant director for adaptive sports
programmes for the disabled. A frequent visitor to his ancestral home in Uplata near Rajkot,
Gujarat, Sojitra hopes to replicate his work there someday.
Vasu's feat of climbing up and coming down the peaks is a marvel as he does it all
with
(b) A hard fall at the age of 10 led to the boy's
too going away.
Vasu enjoy climbing snow covered mountain peaks on foot and
at great
speed.
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Answer 1

Answer:

hard fall at the age of ten meant he had to give up the artificial limb too