Read the passage and answer the questions:
There is terro only in the fear of death, as Roosevelt new when he said, "all we have to fear
is fear itself." Because I had experience both the sensation of dying and the terror that fear of
it can produce the will to live somehow grew in intensity. At last I felt released - free to walk
the trials and climb the peaks and to brush aside fear.
Questions:
1. Who is 'I' in the passage?
A. Jack B. Roosevelt C. William D. Colin
2. Explain - 'The will to live somehow grew in intensity.'
A. The writer didn't want to think of death.
B. The writer was afraid to face death.
C. The writer wanted to live a long life.
D. The brighter had faced death and had built the courage to live.
3. What hold real fear?
A. There is real feel from our childhood.
B. There is real fear when we are about to lose something
C. There is real fear in the fear of death.
D. There is real fear of not able to get up in the morning.
4. What is the noun from of 'dying'?
A. death B. die C. dead D. deadly
Answers
Answer:
Deep Water Summary
The story has been taken from the author’s autobiography- ‘Of Men and Mountains’.
In this piece he tells about his fear of water and how he conquered it by determination and will power.
As a child, when he was 3 or 4 years old, he would go to the beach in California with his father. He would get scared by the might of the huge waves which swept over him and it instilled a fear in his sub – conscious mind.
A few years later, in his eagerness to learn swimming, he joined a swimming pool where an incident further increased his terror. He was pushed into the pool by another boy and experienced death closely.
Many years after that incident, he stayed away from water but the desire to go fishing and swimming in nature was strong enough to motivate him to overcome his fear.
He learned swimming with the help of an instructor who ensured that William knew swimming well enough to be able to swim in huge lakes and waterfalls also.
Still, when he would swim, the fear from his childhood experiences, embedded in his sub-conscious mind would grip him over and over again. He wanted to conquer that fear.
He faced it sarcastically, thinking that now, as he knew how to swim, what harm could it do to him. He challenged his fear in the face of it and finally it would vanish.
It was a baseless fear instilled in his sub-conscious mind. This experience was valuable for him. He had experienced terror and death. He overcame it and finally conquered it.
William realized that death is peaceful and it is the fear of death that is terrorizing. His will to live life grew intensely as he had overcome his fear and started living fearlessly.