Question

Read the following passage carefully, complete the statements that follow :
(1) The 'Little Tramp, the unforgettable character Charlie Chaplin invented, was born purely by accident in 1915. While rushing to a film shoot in California, he grabbed clothes which other people had left behind in the changing room. And when he emerged, he found he had created a personality everybody loved. A little guy in a bowler hat, a dose-fitting jacket, a cane, oversized shoes and a brush-like moustache!
(2) Long Before, Chaplin found himself a star. That puzzled him, for he saw himself essentially as a shy British Music hall comedian. The U.S. acknowledged him as its king of silent film comedy. Soon, so did the crowds all over the world.
(3) But life wasn't always a laugh for Charles Spencer Chaplin. Both his parents were Music Hall artists, who separated when Charlie was very young. His childhood was very sad, for his mother never earned enough to look after Charlie and his older brother, Sydney. Sometimes, Chaplin had to sleep on the streets and forage for food in the garbage.
(4) Charlie took his first bow on stage when his mother made her last appearance. It happened when her voice broke during a song. Her son stepped on stage and sang a popular song. That's when a star was born.
(5) Through all these years of success, Charlie never forgot his troubled childhood. It made him recall a Christmas when he was denied two oranges and his bag of sweets for breaking a rule at the orphanage he went to, after his mother's death. The incident would have broken his heart, if the other children had not offered him a share of theirs. Spontaneously, the adult Chaplin gifted the orphanage with a motion picture machine and insisted that each child should have as many oranges and sweets as they pleased.
(A) Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words : (a) Which unforgettable character did Charlie Chaplin invent?
(b) Describe the personality created by Charlie, whom everybody loved.
(c) What did Charlie see himself as ?
(d) Give two reasons to show that his early life was very sad.
(B) Do as directed : (e) The word that means 'to search for food' is (para 3) (i) stepped (ii) forage
(iii) emerged (iv) orphanage
(f) What is meant by the word 'invented' ? (para 1) (i) created (ii) wrote
(iii) struggled (iv) laughed
(g) Find the word in the passage opposite in meaning to 'bold' ? (para 2)
(i) found (ii) shy
(iii) silent (iv) puzzled
(h) Find the word opposite in meaning to 'failure' ? (para 5)
(i) troubled (ii) share
(iii) motion (iv) success

Answer 1

(a) The 'tittle Tramp'.

(b) A little guy in a bowler hat, a close-fitting jacket, a cane, oversized shoes etc. and a brush like moustache.

(c)  As a shy British Music hall comedian.

(d) His parents separated when he was young-his mother could not earn enough-had to sleep on the street-forage for food. (Any two)

(e)  forage

(f)  created

(g)  shy

(h) success.

Answer 2

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