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SECTION A- (Reading)
head the following passare carefully.
1 Caged behind thick glass, the most famous dancer in the worla
easily be missed in the National Museum, Delhi. The Dancing
Mohenjo daro is that rare artefact that even school childre
familiar with Our school textbooks also communicate the weal
our 5000 vear heritage of art. You have to be alert to her exie
there, amid terracotta animals to rediscover this bronze image.
Most of us have seen her only in photographs or sketches, there
the impact of actually holding her is magnified a million times ove
One discovers that the dancing girl has no feet. She is small, a little
over 10 cm tall the length of a human palm- but she surprises
with the power of great art - the ability to communicate across
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centuries.
A series of bangles - of shell or ivory or thin metal clothe her left
upper arm all the way down to her fingers. A necklace with three
pendants bunched together and a few bangles above the elbow and
wrist on the right hand display an almost modern art.
Answers
Answer:
a - i b - iii c - IV d- i e - i f - ii
The passage here refers to rare artefact of the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro that is caged behind a thick glass. This artefact can be easily missed as she has been kept amongst terracotta animals, though she is made of bronze. The Dancing Girl artefact is small, the size of the human palm, a little over 10 cm tall.
Explanation:
Based on the above passage the answers are
(a)The Dancing girl belongs to Mohenja Daro (option i) (as mentioned in para one of the passage, 3rd line of the passage)
(b) In the museum, she's kept among terracotta animals (option iii) (as mentioned in para one, line 6 of the passage)
(c) The information not given in the passage is that she cannot be rediscovered as she's bronze (option iv) (she can be rediscovered, as mentioned in para one, line 7 of the passage)
(d) Great Art has power because it appeals to us despite a passage of time (option (i)) (as understood in para 4 of the passage)
(e) The jewellery she wears consists of a necklace with 3 pendants and bangles in both hands, hence option (iv) is correct, since other options are wrong ( as mentioned in para 3 of the passage)
(f) She reminds us of "never-say-die" attitude of humans (option i) ( as mentioned in para, line 1 of the passage)
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