Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Her mother remembers noticing something wrong, when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. “They called her name but 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.
(i) What made Isabel suspect Evelyn's hearing ability ?
(ii) Why did Evelyn's headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist ?
(iii) Find the word/phrase in the passage which means the same as ”to hide.”
OR
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Two roads diverged in yellow wood.
And sorry l could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And locked down once as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
(i) At which point had the poet reached ?
(ii) Why was the traveller feeling sorry '?
(iii) Give the opposite to ’met at a point' from the passage ?
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(i) Isabel had a doubt about Evelyn’s hearing ability when she did not move, when her name was called to play the piano.
(ii) Evelyn’s headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist when her marks deteriorated.
(iii) Conceal.
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(i) The poet is standing at a point Where two roads diverged in the yellow wood.
(ii) The traveller was feeling sorry because he could not travel both the roads.
(iii) ’Diverged’.
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