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Students! You must have seen the picture of an old lady, hardly five feet tall, with high cheek – bones,

thin lips and a wrinked face, clad in a white saree with a blue border covering the head. This is Mother Teresa

often called ‘The Gentle Mother’ or the ‘Angel of Mercy.’

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. Her

Original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. At the age of eighteen, she renounced the world and joined the

Loreto nuns Ireland. She used to work from 4 a.m. to late at night. The dying in Kolkata, the wounded in

Vietnam, the Starving in Ethiopia – all turned to this frail looking woman for support . She always embraced the

needy and the suffering all over the world. The mission established by her is still busy in doing the same even

after her death. She received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in

1971 and the Nobel peace prize in 1979.

Answer the following questions.

1. Why was Mother Teresa called ‘the Angel of Mercy’?

2. What do you understand by the word ‘renounced’? Explain.

3. Explain the phrase ‘frail looking woman’.

4. Which awards did she get in 1971 and 1979?

5. Write five adjectives occurring in the passage.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime.