(Reading) Marks : 24
I. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Most of the girls belonging to poor families do not go to schools in rural areas.
When asked, their parents would say that they want their daughters to be educated. They
stay at home because their parents believe that the kind of education is not appropriate
for their daughters, or because they feel the risks are too great. Those risks are real. Girls
are sexually harassed sometimes by their fellow students or teachers or by strangers as
they walk down to school. These pressures are central to low enrolment and retention of
girls. Poverty also plays its part. If their clothes are torn. girls from poor families will
stay at home. In such cases they are forced by the demands of modesty and propriety.
Questions :
1. Most of the poor girls do not go to school in
a) Rural areas b) Urban areas c) Desert areas d) None of these
2. Why do girls not go to school in rural areas regularly?
3. What causes harassment to the school going girls?
4. What role does poverty play in the education of girls?
Complete the following:
5. These pressures are central
6. They stay at home because
7. If clothes are torn, girls from poor families
8. In such cases they are forced
Answers
Answer:
1. rural areas
2. the girls not go to school in rural areas regularly because their parents believe that the kind of education is not appropriate for their daughters, or because they feel the risks are too great
3. girls are sexually harassed sometimes by their fellow students or teachers or by strangers as they walk down to school.
4.
5. to low enrolment and retention of girls.
6. their clothes are torn
7. will stay at home
8. by the demands of modesty and propriety.
The answers are as follows:
1. Option (a) is the answer.
2. They do not go to school in rural areas because their families do not consider it appropriate and they fear the risks and think they are too great.
3. Harassment is caused by people both strangers and ones you know. They are harassed by their teachers or strangers as they travel to school. 4. They are not able to follow the propriety enforced by society due to being poor as they have torn clothes and do not want to leave the house and their families do not think it appropriate to send them either due to their poverty.
5. to row enrollment and retention of girls.
6. Their parents believe that this kind of education is not appropriate.
7. will stay at home.
8. by the demands of modesty and propriety.
- When answering questions in a comprehension passage it is important to understand the paragraph and read through it thoroughly and to understand what message is being conveyed by the writer.
- Comprehension is a way to test the skills of a person in that particular language. To check their ability on being able to process and then present that information.
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