The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions.
1.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions :
Right from the beginning, I wanted to become a batsman and I hated losing
my wicket. This became such an obsession with me that, if the rest of the
boys ever get me out, I would fight and eventually walk home with the bat
and the ball. This would bring the game to an abrupt end; since nobody had
a ball or a bat. The boys cursed me and call me names, but the tension did
not last long and we generally got on very well. Among these early comrades
with whom I played were the Ambaye brothers, the Mandrekar brothers and
several others who made up our team.
(My First Step)
(1)
Who do you think is the 'I mentioned in the passage ?
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(ü) What did the narrator want to be ?
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(iii) When would the narrator walk home with the bat and the ball ?
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(iv) Who were the early comrades of the narrator with whom he played ?
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Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
SET – 1
Read the following passage carefully and answer the
questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to
help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
The Reserve Bank of India‘s decision to keep the policy interest
rate unchanged, and reaffirm its ―neutral‖ policy stance, clearly
indicates that policymakers at the central bank are singularly
focussed on their primary remit of ensuring price stability while
supporting economic growth. That the RBI‘s Monetary Policy
Committee has chosen to do so in the face of clamour for a rate
cut, and Consumer Price Index data and the bank‘s own survey of
households‘ inflation expectations appearing benign, points to the
MPC‘s determination to reassert the central bank‘s independence,
especially in the rate-setting realm. Laying out its reasoning for
opting to remain ―watchful‖, the RBI has raised pertinent questions
relating to the outlook for price stability, the foremost being
whether the ―unusually low momentum in the reading for April will
endure‖. It posits that the easing trend in inflation, excluding food
and fuel, may be transient given its vulnerability to rising rural
wage growth and strong consumption demand. And the elephant in
the room, in the MPC‘s opinion, is the real prospect of inflationary
spillovers from the rising risk of fiscal slippages caused by farm
loan waivers — Uttar Pradesh has set the stage, and
Maharashtra‘s government has vowed to come up with the State‘s
largest-ever. Observing that inflation has fallen below 4% only
since November 2016, the RBI has reiterated its commitment to
keeping the headline reading close to that figure on a ―durable
basis‖
Answer:
iv
Explanation:
he wanted to become a batsman