Question

Q. 1.Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (1X10=10)

1. A bookshop is not something you find in every street or market these days. Books, which

were once a staple diet for youngsters in their formative years, are fading out of their list of

managements.

2. Ask any youngster which is the latest book he has read and he will be baffled. Apart from a

few consistent readers, others just befool themselves with a best-seller’s name or lament the

curriculum load for justifying themselves, like this seventeen year old school goer who says,

“I just read my physics book.”

3. Television has been blamed much for this calamitous situation, which is producing square-

faced people and a bookless society. Furthermore, today’s children are under pressure to be

smart and popular, to succeed on a social level. Moreover, the computers, video games,

Internet, swimming lessons, cricketing and every youngster’s passion for hour long tete-a-tete

or telephone with friends eat up all their leisure time.

4. A child who is constantly under pressure to live up to his parent’s expectations, at time

unreasonable, does not like to throw himself into another set of books after the laborious

school work unless the child comes from a family of readers where intoxicating works of

Shakespeare and Dickens are just a matter of pulling them out from the shelves.

5. Many parents also believe that today’s children, who are in their formative years, have

become aware and demand logical reasoning for everything. They can no longer be fooled by

fairy tales or animal stories, as they have seen no fairies, no animals except for those old tired

ones in the city zoo.

1.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, choose the correct option to answer the

following questions:

a. Today’s child is mostly interested in _________________________.

(i) being smart and popular (ii) playing outdoor games

(iii) reading the latest books (iv) fairy tales and animal stories.

b. The reason for being in such a situation is _____________________.

(i) best sellers (ii) internet

(iii) books (iv) parents

(c) When a youngster is asked to name the latest book that he has read,

(i) he feels confident (ii) he blames his parents

(iii) he tells the name of his text book

(iv) he tells the name of a best seller’s name to avoid embarrassment​

Answer 1

Answer:

11. a. (i) being smart and popular.

b. (ii) internet.

(c) (iv) he tells the name of a bestseller's name to avoid embarrassment.