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UNIT - 1
‘A’ Reading - ATTITUDE IS ALTITUDE
Prepared and posted by J.Nageswara Rao, B.A.English, M.A.English (A.U), M.A.English (A.N.U)
Paper-1 : (Part - A : Comprehension and Discourses)
1.”I call it my chicken drum stick,” joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Lo
Angeles. “I’d be lost without it.”
i) What does ‘it’ refer to here (or) What is ‘my chicken drum stick’ referred to?
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2. His parents decided not to send him to a special school - a decision he said was very hard for him, which
may have been the best decision they could have made for him.
i) Who does ‘him’ in the passage refer to?
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3. His disability came without any medical explanation - a rare occurrence called Phocomelia - and Nick and
his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them.
i) Who is the person suffering from the disability?
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4.“My mother was a nurse and she did everything right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself,” he said.
i) Who said these words?
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5.”It was the best decision they could have made for me.”
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6. Nick’s father was a computer programmer and accountant and he taught his little son how to type with his
toe at just 6 years old. His mum invented a special plastic device that meant he could hold a pen and pencil.
i) What was Nick’s father?
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7.”I was deeply depressed when I was eight years old,” he said. “I went to my mum crying and told her I
wanted to kill myself.”
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8. “I felt cold and bitter. I hated God for doing this to me and was terrified of what would happen when my
parents weren’t there to look after me.”
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9. “I realized why God had made us like this - to give hope to others. It was so inspirational to me that I
decided to use my life to encourage other people and give them the courage that the article had given me.”
i) Who said these words?
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10. “The challenges in our lives are there to strengthen our convictions. They are not there to run us over,”
said Nick. In 1990 Nick won the Australian Young Citizen of the Year award for his bravery and perseverance.
i) How do the challenges help us in our lives?
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11. “And once I was in a car and a girl at traffic lights was looking at me interestingly. She could only see my
head so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. “Her face was like woooooah. What is going on?
She sped off quickly.”
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13. “No one has ever done that in the history of surfing,” he said. ‘But I have a very low centre of gravity. So
I got pretty good balance.”
i) What does the word ‘that’ in the passage refer to?
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14. “I tell people to keep on getting up when they fall and to always love themselves,” he said.
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14.What did he have to do before booking the first order for his recipe?
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7.What was the destination for the brighter students in those days?
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9.Did they have any special books or coaching to prepare for that test?
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10.What was the venue for their preparation for the IIT Entrance Test?
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11.What was the ultimate aim of Narayana Murthy and his friends?
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14.Why could not Murthy’s father send Murthy to IIT?
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16.What was the ‘bitter truth’ Murthy’s father had to tell Murthy?
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17.’The teenager was disappointed’….. Who was the teenager? Why was he disappointed?
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19.Why did Murthy not share his feelings of unhappiness and helplessness with anybody?
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22.’He was not a part of it.’ What was Murthy not a part of?
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26.How can you say that Narayana Murthy grew up in life independently?
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29.What is Narayana Murthy a pioneer of?
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UNIT - 2
‘A’ Reading : THE DEAR DEPARTED-1
1.It would never do for them to find you in colours with grandfather lying dead, upstairs.
1.Who is the speaker of the above lines?
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2.What are they coming for? They haven’t been here for ages.
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3.They are coming to talk over poor grandpa’s affairs. Your father sent them a telegram as soon as
we found that he was dead.
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2.’Your father’ refers to whose father?
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3.Who is he?
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4.I’m wondering if they’ll come at all. When you and Elizabeth quarrelled, she said she would
never set foot in your house again.
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5.She’ll come fast enough after her share of what our father’s left. You know how hard she can be
when she likes.
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3.Who is Jimmy?
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17.Are you such a dirty creature that you must do every dirty thing she tells you?
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19.Well, since you don’t want me, I’ll go to someone that does.
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UNIT - 3
‘A’ Reading - THE JOURNEY
1.After spending a leisurely Sunday at home, the very thought of returning to work place on Monday
is tiring. Lethargy creeps in if the holiday continues over an extended period. That is how I felt when
I was preparing to return to my place of work after spending six months at home.
a)Who is the speaker of the above lines?
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e)What was the speaker?
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2.Obviously I did not want to go. However, I finally did decide to go.
a)Who is the speaker of the above lines?
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3. Initially I thought of extending my leave - even taking unpaid leave. But after some dilly-dallying,
I finally decided against it because marriage had increased my responsibilities and I had got into debt.
a)What did the author first think of?
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4. In fact, carrying the trunk should not have been such a worry for me except that my education had made
me shun physical labour. After all, I was a government officer and the idea of people seeing me carry my
own luggage was not at all amusing.
a)What prevented the author from carrying his own luggage?
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5. Finally, my father came up with a solution. ‘Don’t worry. I myself will see you off at Dirang.’
a)Whose father came up with a solution?
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d)Which phrasal verb in the lines means ‘to bade good bye to someone?’
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6. I protested. How could I allow father to carry my trunk? What would people think? What would
they say? But I failed to dissuade him. It was decided that father would carry the chest.
a)Who protested? What did he protest?
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7.”You are late. Would you like to rest for some time?”
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8. His eyes fell on the can of home-made wine that I was carrying. Wetting his lips with his tongue he
said in a matter-of-fact manner, ‘I am thirsty’.
a)Whose eyes fell on the can of home-made wine?
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9. We were walking up a narrow hilly road, and neither of us uttered a word as if we were strangers
who spoke different languages.
a)Who does the word ‘we’ refer to?
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10.From time to time it crossed my mind that it was improper for me to let father carry the luggage. I
wanted to tell him that I would like to carry the trunk myself, but my guilt and shame did not allow me
to do so.
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11.It was through me that they had earned a greater degree of admiration and respect from the villagers.
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12.Father appeared tired. I felt sorry for him but couldn’t bring myself to say anything.
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13.I looked at father’s bare feet. Never having worn shoes, his feet had developed cracks and somehow
resembled those of an elephant.
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15.”Simultaneously our journeys started in two opposite directions, with me seated in the luxurious seat
of a bus and father walking back with a weary legs on the pebble-strewn road.”
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e)What do you mean by ‘laugh with hearts and laugh with eyes?’
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c)What kind of things does he want to unlearn?/ What are the muting things he wants to unlearn?
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b)Why does the father ask his son like that?
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3.What did the housewife start doing when her husband said, “Ammadu, this is your home.”
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43.What is ‘Chitrabani’?
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6.What had the director and the producers of Maya Bazaar not imagined when they produced it?
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7.When was Maya Bazaar released?
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9.What is the source for making ‘Maya Bazaar’? (or ) Where was the theme of Maya Bazaar taken from?
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19.On what issue did Krishna and Balarama have difference of opinion?
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22.What does Sashirekha view on it?
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33.What do you do if an NRI asks you to explain about Telugu language, customs and culture?
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5.Why did she have a little difficulty to enter the film field?
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6.At what age was Savitri offered her first role in films? In which film?
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29.Pick out the idiom which means ‘major part of one’s life/career:
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1.What is environment?
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7.What is to be done to provide the rural people with the basic needs?
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14.What is the reason for conflicts? (or) Why are people engaged in conflicts?
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18.Which phrase in the passage means ‘the plants and the animals of an environment’?
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19.What were the ill effects of growing exotic plants in the African villages?
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20.When and where was the first U.N. Conference for women held?
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27.What two aspects did the Green Belt Movement teach the rural women?
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29.What three kinds of transformations were Movement teach the rural women?
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30.What was the influence of the Green Belt .Movement on the rest of Africa?
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34.How can you justify the statement ‘When we plant a tree, we plant hope’.
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12.What were unloaded from the lorries?
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23.Did the Govt. take any action to take the drums away from the village?
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6.Why did the children throw the dust fallen from the nuclear plant at each other?
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12.How much amount would Kalam earn by selling the tamarind seeds collected in a day?
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14.What would Kalam do to ascertain his selling the tamarind seeds collected in a day?
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29.What role would Kalam’s family play during the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony?
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31.What stories would Kalam’s mother and grandmother tell the children every night?
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45.Who served food to Kalam when he visited his teacher’s house the next week.
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14.Who are being cheated?
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18.Pick out the phrase meaning ‘having strong feelings of happiness or satisfaction’
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‘C’ Reading : UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN INDIA
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6.What helps us understand the fundamental unity of India beneath its manifold diversity?
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19.What the are features of our spiritual values?
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20.Name two historic tourist places in South India (or) What are the symbols of our sculpture and architecture
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23.Who bridged the gap between the music of the East and the West?
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25.What is the best medium of ‘aesthetic expression’ and ‘spiritual realization’ in India?
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26.Who is considered ‘the Cosmic Dance’? How is he depicted in Indian sculpture and poetry?
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30.What are Indian heirs to? (or) What are the Westerns attracted by today?
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31.What should not the younger generation of India get dazed by?
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