Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : -
Then there was the street I was standing on. It was one of those streets that look exactly like the ones they always
show on TV when they’re trying to let you know something is set in New York. Like on Law and Order. You know, the
narrow three- or four-storey brownstones with the brightly painted front doors and the stone stoops. . . .
According to my mom, most brownstones in New York City were originally single-family homes when they were
built way back in the 1800s. But now they’ve been divided up into apartments, so that there’s one—or sometimes even
two or more families—per floor.
Not Mom’s sister Evelyn’s brownstone, though. Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors of their
brownstone. That’s practically one floor per person, since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three kids,, my cousins
Tory, Teddy, and Alice.
Back home, we just have two floors, but there are seven people living on them. And only one bathroom. Not that
I’m complaining. Still, ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow-outs, it’s been pretty grim at home.
But as tall as my aunt and uncle’s house was, it was really narrow—just three windows across. Still, it was a very
pretty townhouse, painted gray, with lighter gray trim. The door was a bright, cheerful yellow. There were yellow flower
boxes along the base of each window, flower boxes from which bright red—and obviously newly planted, since it was
only the middle of April, and not quite warm enough for them—geraniums spilled.
It was nice to know that, even in a sophisticated city like New York, people still realized how homely and
welcoming a box of geraniums could be. The sight of those geraniums cheered me up a little.
Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today, and hadn’t deliberately failed to meet me
at the airport because they’d changed their minds about letting me come to stay.
Like everything was going to be all right, after all.
Yeah. With my luck, probably not.
(a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short
phrases will be accepted.
(i) grim (ii) sophisticated (iii) deliberately
(b) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words :
(i) What information had the narrator's mom given about brownstone houses ?
(ii) What contrast did the narrator find between her house and that in the passage.
(iii) What effect did the geraniums have on the narrator ? Why ?
(iv) In not more than 50 words describe the house, as seen from the outside.

Answer 1

Explanation:

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I know u r a student of st. Joseph's school khorabar gorakhpur ( class 9 th)isn't it?