Read the passage and answer the questions.
“ Everything suddenly looked black,” says Evelyn. But Evelyn was not going to give up. She was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music. One day she noticed a girl playing a xylophone and decided that she wanted to play it too. Most of the teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes spotted her potential. He began by tuning two large drums to different notes.
Questions:
1) Who spotted Evelyn’s potential? How did he start tutoring Evelyn?
2) Why does Evelyn say “Everything suddenly looked black”?
3) When did Evelyn decide to play a Xylophone?
4) From the extract find the synonym of (a) intent on b) capability
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Explanation:
Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name and she didn’t move. I suddenly realized she hadn’t heard,” says Isabel Glennie. For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.
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