Question

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
In spite of all the honours that were heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said remained simple at heart. Perhaps, the imagery of his boyhood days when he drew the familiar scenes of his birth place, and his longingness to be a great artist, never wholly left him.
In truth, he did become a great artist, though after his sixteenth year, he abandoned the brush forever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole soul and energy into his work and it was this very energy that in the end wore him out. For to him, each sufferer was something more than just a case that has to be cured. He looked upon the fight against hydrophobia as a battle and he was absorbed in his determination to win.
The sight of injured children particularly moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he would not deny himself a share in their suffering. His greatest grief was when sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work. But even then in that pain he loved to see his former pupils and it was then he would reiterate his life's principles; 'never cease to work'. So well had he kept his precept that he began rapidly to sink from exhaustion.
Finally, on September 27, 1895, when someone leaned over his bed to offer him a cup of milk, he said sadly "I cannot". With a look of perfect resignation and peace, he seemed to have fallen asleep. He never again opened his eyes to the cares and sufferings of the world, for which he had done so much to relieve and to conquer. He was within three months of his seventy-third birthday.
Answer the following questions briefly :
(a) How did Pasteur view those who suffered from disease ?
(b) What tells us that he wanted to become an artist ?
(c) Elaborate the phrase, "I cannot", in context of the article.
(d) What was his greatest grief ?
Answer the following questions briefly :
(e) What is meant by 'whole soul and energy' ? (Para 2)
(f) What is meant by "to give up" ? (Para 3)
(g) Find the word opposite in meaning to 'float'. (Para 30)
(h) Find the word opposite in meaning to 'weakness'. (Para 2)

Answer 1

(a) Pasteur viewed those who suffered from diseases as not just cases that had to be cured. He was always absorbed in his determination to win against diseases.
(b) It is obvious by the fact that Pasteur never wholly forgot the imagery of his boyhood days when he drew the familiar scenes of his birth place and his longingness to be an artist.
(c) The phrase "I cannot", in context with the article, implies that Pasteur could not take the pain/exhaustion of being bedridden anymore and he did not want to live like that anymore.
(d) His greatest grief was when sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work.
(e) hard work/complete dedication
(f) to abondon
(g) sink
(h) determination

Answer 2

Explanation:

1. Pasteur did not view those who suffered from diseases just as cases that had to be cured but as something much more than that.
2. The fact that Pasteur never wholly forgot the imaginary of his boyhood days, when he drew the familiar scenes of his birthplace and when he longed to be an artist.
3. The phrase "I cannot" in context with the article /implies that Pasteur could not take the pain and exhaustion of being bedridden anymore and he did not want to live like that anymore.
4. His greatest grief was when sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work.
5. Hard work /complete dedication
6. to abandon.
7. sink.
8. determination.

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