Question

Read the given passage and answer the following questions.

I was the kid who sat on the sidelines and watched others having a good time splashing about

in the sea, wishing I could swim. Eventually, I learned how to, the hard way. My brothers

threw me into the water. As I floundered and nearly drowned, it didn’t occur to me then that

my brothers had taught me two important skills: survival and independence. These skills were

gifts that I relied on numerous times over as an adult. As a child, I was game for anything.

Nothing fascinated me more than the chance to try something new. If nothing else, my

curiosity was fuelled by the desire to test my limits. I was sixteen when I climbed my first

mountain. It was Gunung Ledang in Johor, Malaysia, in 1980. It was a horrible experience. I

found the heat and thickness of the jungle overwhelming. The night spent on the summit was

cold and lonely. As I lay in my tent, with my knees curled to my chin, I vowed that I would

never climb another mountain.

And yet, ironically, I was one of the two climbers from the first Singapore Mount Everest

Expedition who summitted Mount Everest in May 1998.Answer the following questions:

(a) Why did the writer consider his childhood average?

(b) Why did the writer say that ‘the ability to swim comes almost naturally to any kid growing

up in Port Dickson’?

(c) The writer learnt to appreciate the skills his brothers taught him that day at the sea when

he……………………

(d) What made the writer vow never to climb again after his Gunung Ledang trip?

(e) The writer made it to the top of Mount Everest when he was…………

(f) Find out the synonyms of: (a)Struggle………………. (b) Power…………………​

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