Question

Q1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly
admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that
we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day.
My daughter Kashmira knew how much I loved flowers. One day when she was of nine years,
she picked some branches from our neighbour‟s blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to
please me, I didn‟t scold her, nut chose a different approach.
“These are lovely, dear, but do you realize that if you had left them on the tree, each of these
blossoms would become a cherry?”
“No, they wouldn‟t have”, she said firmly.
“Oh, yes, they would have, each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry.”
“Well, okay, mother, if you insist,” she finally conceded, “but they were plums last
. Do as directed:
1. Find a word from paragraph 2 similar in meaning to 'flowering'
2. Find a word from the passage opposite in meaning to 'same'

Answer 1

One day when she was of nine years,

she picked some branches from our neighbour‟s blossoming fruit tree. Realising she intended to

please me, I didn‟t scold her, nut chose a different approach.