Some 30 years ago, a wide-eyed, impressionable girl stood beneath a
towering rocket inside one of India's earliest rocket launching stations in Kerala.The rocket was readying to be fired in a few days.The student, on a school trip to the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala, quietly relished the experience of being near a real rocket -- " fascinated "
by something she knew " little about " Today Tersy Thomas -- dubbed " agniputri " or the daughter of fire by the media-- is the project director of Agni V at the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) station in Hyderabad. She was a member of the team that developed the long range inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) -- Agni V. The missile was successfully test-fired from Wheeler Island of Odisha.
Young Tersy's life took a significant turn when after a B.Tech in Electrical
Engineering in Kerala, she applied to a postgraduate course in Guided Missile Technology. When Agni V took off, Thomas says it was " an indescribable and a great " moment.
After the launch, she visited her former boss and mentor, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam." He is the role model for all our Indian scientists. He praised us for doing a good job and gifted me his latest book of poems," Thomas says with enthusiasm. She was a junior in the DRDO when Kalam took over as its director. Kalam often cites
her case when he encourages young woman students in colleges to take up science.
[Based on an interview report in 'The Telegraph' dated 29th April 2012.
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C.Tick (✓) the most appropriate title for the text:
1. An Indescribable Moment. _______
2. Kalam, the Mentor of Tersy. _______
3. Tersy, the ' Agniputri ' _______
D. Given below are the meanings of four words which you will
find in the passage. Find out the words and write them in the
appropriate boxes:
1. a tube-shaped space craft. _______
2. enjoyed. _______
3. important. _______
4. strong feeling of excitement and interest. _______
PLEASE HElP ME I WILL GiVE YOU 5 POINTS.
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C. (3).
D. 1. ( rocket )
2. ( relished )
3.
4. ( fascinated )
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