Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
‘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. I finally stayed where I was, brooding.
(a) Whom does ‘I’ refer to in the passage?
(b) Which saying came to her mind when she was depressed?
(c) Why was she depressed?
(d) Find the words in the passage which means:
(i) tolerance (ii) thinking deeply.

Answer 1

Ans: (d) i) tolerance - patience
(ii) thinking deeply. - depressed