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1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow

(1) The story of Grace Darling has captured imaginations for over a hundred years. Grace was an ordi young woman who was boldly and unequivocally labelled a 'heroine after the events of a stormy night in 1838. Being the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and having lived in various lighthouses, Grace was used o the harsh and dangerous environment around her. However, she had never experienced real danger und the night of the 7th September 1838 -- the night that she entered the history books

(2) On the Sth September the steamship SS Forfarshire set off from Hull to Dundee. On board the vessel were 60 crew members and passengers as well as containers of valuable cargo. Disaster struck the next day when the ship's boiler began to leak and by the morning of the 7th September the engine had stopped. The Forfarshire began to drift. Suddenly at about 4am., there was a thunderous crash as the steamship collided with Big Harcar Rock. The impact was sudden and there was no time for the passengers to be called from their cabins and into smaller boats that would have taken them to safety. Within 15 minutes, the ship had broken in two. The sea waves pounded relentlessly at the fragile remnants of the ship until it had been reduced to a disintegrating wreck. The back half of the boat was swept away by

the billowing waves and was quickly overpowered. The 48 people on board lost their fight for survival and

were tragically consumed by the raging sea. (3) That night, Grace Darling and her parents were in the lighthouse. They knew a fierce storm was blowing and they watched as huge waves battered their lighthouse walls. Grace who knew the sea intimately, who, within minutes of being in the seas presence could tell the mood it was in who read the signs and predicted its behaviour, had already sensed that something sinister was brewing. Asa result, Grace stood by the lighthouse window that night and watched nervously as her long-time companion transformed into an unrecognisable and brutal force of death. It wasn't long before Grace saw some desperate and shadowy figures waving their cries inaudible above the deafening crash of the savage sea.

(4) Grace's father knew that the local lifeboat service would not be able to launch their ship because of the brutal conditions: if these people were to have any chance of survival then he and Grace were their only buye Armed with blankets to warm any survivors, William and Grace took their tiny rowing boat and went to the vast and wild sea. Each wave appeared bigger than the last and the force of the rain stung their checks

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was almost impossible to see where they were heading and the boat was being thrown off course constantly They knew the area around the Farne Islands was notorious for being ships graveyard and yet they rowed with determination towards almost certain death.

(S) As they approached the scene of the disaster, William went in to the water to attempt to pull as many survivors into their boat as possible whilst Grace rowed frantically backwards and forwards just so stie could stay in the same place and not crash into the reef. The storm whirled around her and the waves were like mountains. It was too late for many of the victims but William and Grace rescued nine people that night and rowed them back to safety. They arrived back to the lighthouse exhausted yet safely. Grace worked hard to care for the victims before they were returned to the mainland.

( within a few days of the rescue news of Grace bravery had spread across the country, Newspaper reporters flocked to the village wanting to follow her every move. Requests for her to visit different places flooded in And many artists wanted her to sit for portraits. Soch extraordinary bravery was a source of inspiration for many Queen Victoria sent her t50 and she was awarded gold medals from a number of societies. However, Grace soon became increasingly weary of all attention and the commitments that came with it. feeling that she was unable to live a normal life any more. Later in a cruel twist of fate, Grace Darling succumbed to tuberculosis a mere four years later

On the basis of year understanding of the passage, answer ANY TEN questions from the twelve that follow

(1 x 10 =10)

(1) Grace was used to the harsh and dangerous environment around her and she

(a) lived a life in the forest all her younger years

(b) was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and lived in various sea conditions

(i) used to live on the sea with her family

(d) live in the mountains in extreme conditions

() Which of the phrase/word in 2 para actually describes the motion of the waves?

(a) Pounded relentley

(c) Billowing waves

tin Choose an appropriate title for the passage. (a) Night of the Storm

(b) Grace Darling and Her Father's Journey

(c) Grace Darling the Night

she Became a Hero

(b) Begun to drift

(d) Raging sea​

Answer 1

One of the most well-known female heroes of the Victorian era was Grace Darling who bravely risked her life on September 7, 1838, to save the trapped passengers of the sinking vessel Forfarshire, a deed that forever altered her life.

• The answer of the first question is Grace was used to the harsh and dangerous environment around her and she was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and lived in various sea conditions.
• Billowing waves describes the motion of the waves as described in the given passage.
• 'Grace Darling the Night she Became a Hero' should be an appropriate title for the passage.
• Grace and William Darling used a boat known as a coble to save nine people from the sinking SS Forfarshire is a sort of boat made specifically for use in the north eastern England region's shallow waterways.

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