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Read the following passage and answer the questions based on it : It could be a scene straight out of a horror film. Only it was reality in suburban Mumbai. Rain lashed on the ground. A hundred children wailed in terror in a cramped, dark hall. Water gushed in from all sides and inched up. The inmates of Additional Bal Griha of the Children's Aid Society mostly terrified children, sang their daily prayer : "Itni shakti humme dena data". Asma, however, was the odd one out. She started calculating how soon the children will start drowning. "I could only think of one thing. That I couldn't bear to see the smaller ones drown. I am their didi." She picked up two of the smaller kids and jumped into the water nearly five feet of dirty, black liquid. "I don't know how to swim. So, slowly. I moved across the slippery ground, keeping my head up to keep the water from getting into my mouth and nose." She made over a dozen such trips, carrying nearly 40 kids on her shoulders to safety. Wasn't she scared ? "Nothing scares me." she says. Why didn't any of the other inmates join her ? "Oh, well, I'm the tallest!" The girl doesn't know who or where her parents are ("Kya pata" she says). Nor does she care to know about her life history from the orphanage files. But Asma certainly knows more about parenting than most. She loves to watch TV serials. 1. The natural calamity that the passage mentions is : (1) Floods (2) Heavy rains (3) Electricity failure (4) Waterfall 2. The most courageous act of Asma was : (1) Rescuing the children. (2) Taking care of small kids (3) Plunging in water to save kids though she could not swim (4) Being of help to others 3. The incident happened in : (1) A hallway (2) An orphanage (3) A school (4) A TV serial 4. In what sense was Asma the 'odd one' out ? (1) She could not swim (2) She did not know who her parents were (3) She was not scared (4) She ventured in the water to save younger kids while others just watched 5. Which word in the passage means 'cried in a low pitch' ? (1) Wailed (2) Cramped (3) Terror (4) Inmates |
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Answer» 1. (2) Heavy rains 2. (3) Plunging in water to save kids though she could not swim 3. (2) An orphanage 4. (4) She ventured in the water to save younger kids while others just watched 5. (1) Wailed |
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