Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The first time I saw Boris, he was playing tennis. He didn't look the kind of
kid who played tennis: he had a round face, which his hair - a kind of ponytail-
made even rounder. He was overweight-baby fat of course- with legs like a
piano, by which I mean shapeless legs, with a lot of fat and no muscle.
Boris was nine years old.
He played a strange kind of tennis- he didn't use his feet. He threw himself
towards the ball like a goal-keeper and raged when he didn't get it. A
remarkable kid. I stopped and watched him. His knees were grazed, his arms
sore
What that kid's name?' I asked.
'Becker,' they said, 'Boris Becker.'
That was in Biberach. More than 50 youngsters were playing in front of
trainers of the German Tennis Association, to see who should be given further
individual training, paid courses, and invitations to international tournaments.
The Association holds trials like this every year of young talented German
tennis players.
Boris failed
At that time, I was only deputy national trainer, I hadn't been in Germany for
long, and I was only along as an observer. I could say what thought, but it
wouldn't count for much. I seem to remember talking about Boris's eyes. The
trainers were going by a checklist: running, technique, many individual tests.
There was nothing on the list about 'eyes' or 'concentration.
When I think back today to that clumsy kid (in that 30- metre sprint, he was
one of the last to waddle past the post), all I can see is his eyes. He didn't look
like the other kids. He stared at each oncoming ball so hard that I thought:
“That's impossible in a kid'. How could a kid look so hard at the ball? Most
kid's attention wanders all over the place, to whatever catches their attention: a
car horn, a fly, laughter on the next court.
Off the tennis court, Boris was like any other kid, but as soon as he had the
racket in his hand and the ball was coming over the net, he changed. His way
of looking, the way his eyes worked, this overconcentration was not something
he learnt from me.
I have been living with Boris for three years. His parents entrusted me with
their son when he was fifteen; later at my suggestion, Ion Tiriac took over as
his manager. Boris is on the way to being the number one in tennis. He has
become a kind of world phenomenon. People cheer him everywhere in
America, Japan, Great Britain. At seventeen, he won at Wimbledon; and while
I am finishing this book about him, I can hear his car starting below. We live
next door to one another Monte Carlo. I get out of the balcony and look down,
and there is Boris, eighteen years old, threading his new car into the traffic.
It's the middle of July, last week he won Wimbledon for the second time.
*Don't drive too fast!' I yell down.
He grins up at me, knows I'm on the balcony.
(From Boris by Gunther Bosch-Willow Books)
(a) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.
One word answers or short phrases will be accepted. 131
raged
(ii)
count for much
(iii) threading
(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.
(1) What distinguished Becker from all other boys of his age? [1]
(ii) Who noticed this spark? What could his trainers give him? [2]
(iii) What were the impressions the narrator formed of Boris Becker the first
time he saw him?
[2]
(iv) What in your opinion were the reasons why Boris failed in his trials?
[2]
(v) What do you find amazing about Becker's success and what would you
attribute it to 121​

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