Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. [4x1 = 4 marks]

But Evelyn was not going to give up. She was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her

interest in music. One day she noticed a girl playing the xylophone and decided that she

wanted to play it too. Most of the teachers discouraged her, but percussionist Ron Forbes

spotted her potential He began by tuning two large drums to different notes. “Don’t listen

through your ears,” he would say, “try to sense it some other way.” Says Evelyn, “Suddenly I

realised I could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist

down.” Forbes repeated the exercise, and soon Evelyn discovered that she could sense certain

notes in different parts of her body. “I had learnt to open my mind and body to sounds and

vibrations.” The rest was sheer determination and hard work.

a. What made Evelyn think to play the xylophone?

b. Who noticed her potential?

c. Find the word from the passage similar in meaning to disheartened.

d. How did Ron Forbes help Evelyn listen to music?

e. How did Evelyn sense music?​

Answer 1

Is the paragraph from starting??

Answer 2

a) when she saw a girl playing xylophone she determined to play it

b) Ron Forbes

c) discouraged

d) he began to tune big drums to different notes

e) she could sense certain notes in different parts of the body