Question

SECTION 'A' READING
Q-1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows:-
After lunch without waiting to get permission from their parents the two boys set off to explore
the part of the beach which lay beyond the headland, They persuaded their younger siste to
stay behind saying that the long walk would be too tiring for her. Once they pased behind the
headland, the beach stretched away endlessly in front of them it was like discovering a new
world and what exciting they half expected to come across smugglers hiding; there were
innumerable pools among the rocks, full of small fishes and other Sea-creatures, and
scattered along the beach, there were all those strange, yet commonplace objects which are
washed up and and left by the tide. The after noon passed quickly and the sun was already
beginning to go down when the two boys reluctantly decided to turn back and make their way
homewards. Long before they reached the headland, however they could see that the tide
had come in sofar that they were now cut off from the other part of the beach. They looked at
each other in dismay, it was useless to go on, since clearly there was no way to way of getting
beyond the headland, if on the other hand they went back the way they had just come, the tide
would come inlong before they reached the end of the beach. There only chance of escape
was to fine a way up the cliff, which is some places was not very steep. At least they might be
able to climb high enough to be out of reach of the waves, which were coming close all the
time.
In less than twenty minutes they found a narrow path which semed to lead all the way to the
cliff top. But their troubles were not yet over, half way up, the path was blocked by a large rock,
which they could not climb over, the two at once began shouting at the top of their voices, of
the rock. He told them not to move until he came back. In a short while he appeared with two
policemen, one of whom climbed down a rope which was lowered over the rock. The two boys
were then pulled up to safety. At the top of the cliff they found their anxious mother and their
younger sister. She had told he her parents were they had gone and thus saved them from
spending a wet night on the cliff.
(a) How did the two boys convince their younger sister? / (b) Their troules were not over.
Explain?
(c) Why were the boys dismayed/
(d) Give antonmys for-
(0) Reluctantly
(i) Safety
(e) What awaited the two boys once they had passed beyond the headland?
(1) Give a suitable heading to the paragraph
g) How did their younger sister come to their rescue?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)stay behind saying that the long walk would be too tiring for her