Question 4.
Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow
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On May 29, 1953, two men reached the top of Everest, the highest mountain in the world. One was Edmund
Hillary, a New Zealander, and the other was Tenzing, who was a Sherpa, a native of the Himalayan mountains.
These two men of different races shared the honour of the hustoric climb. But that climb, in itself, is not the only
reason why I have put Tenzing in this book. I have put him in because he is the only man I can think of, in
modern times, who was born in a poor and primitive tribe, far away from civilization, and yet has won
worldwide fame. Tenzing's mother and father were the very simplest of peasant farmers. He never went to
school. When he was a small boy, his job was to look after his father's animals, which were sheep and goats
and yaks, and he never had time to learn to read and write. Yet now, the name of Tenzing is known all over the
world, and he has won his fame not just through luck, but because of his own skill and character, and because
when he was a boy, he had a single great ambition and has stuck to it all his life. His ambition was to climb the
mountains round his home, and his home was near Everest and Everest was the highest mountain he could see,
so his special ambition was to climb to the top of that mountain.
When Tenzing was a very small boy, his father used to send him out with the herds of yaks, while they were
grazing. In summer, the yake went high up the mountain sides above the flowering forests, to crop the grass
which grows just below the snow and glaciers and the vast rock walls of the high peaks. Many of Tenzing's
people believed that the mountain peaks were the homes of gods and demons, and Tenzing was half afraid of
them: yet even then, out alone with the herds, he used to dream daydreams, and imagine that one day he would
climb to the highest summits and see what was on the other side and perhaps even visit the holy cities of Tibet,
which his parents had told him lay beyond the mountains. The whole of Tenzing's life is the story of how he
made this dream come true.
He was forty when he got to the top of Everest, and after the age of forty-five, his climbing days were over, but
he saill loved the mountains more than anything, and the Indian Govemment made him the head of a
mountaineering school where he could teach young Indians to love the mountains 100. Perhaps, he has even
more than that to teach them, and to teach other people all over the world. For the boy who herded yakshas
gone a long way, and any one can leam this lesson from his life: that, if you have one great ambition and never
lose sight of it, you are well on the way to achieving it in the end.
Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short
phrases will be accepted.
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1. Primitive
ii. Daydreams
117. Summits
b. Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words.
1. Who is Sherpa? For which two reasons was Tenzing included in the book referred to in the extract [2]
ii. State two reasons why, despite hardships, Tenzing achieved fame.
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iii. When Tenzing was a small boy what particular task was he asked to undertake?
iv. What was Tenzing, as a small boy, afraid of? What did he do despite his fear?
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V. State in your own words, the two daydreams which Tenzing had in spite of his fear.
summarise the life history of Tenzing
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