Question

Q 3 Read the extract given below and answers the questions that follow: (5)

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I have never

written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be

interested in the musing of a thirteen year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn‘t matter. I feel like writing

and I have an even greater need to get all kind of things off my chest. ‗Paper has more patience than

people.‘ I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was

sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out.

(a) To whom does I refer in the given passage?

(b) ‗Paper has more patience than people‘ – Why did Anne Frank say that?

(c) Find a word in the passage that means ‗deep thought‘.

(d) Which word in the passage is a synonym of ‗lethargic‘?

(e) Find a word in the passage that means ‗eerie‘.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) ‘I’ refers to Anne Frank in the given passage.

(b) Anne Frank said that ‘Paper has more patience than people’ because one can rely on the paper to confide his/her secrets and it listens carefully and silendy.

(c) The word is ‘musing’.

(d) The word is ‘listless’.