Sophie day dreams about $ ..........$
- AGeoff
- ✓Danny Casey
- CJansie
- DTom Finney
Answer: B.
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View full solution →She waited, measuring in this way the changes taking place in her. Resignation was no sudden thing. Now I have become sad, she thought. And it is a hard burden to carry, this sadness. Sitting here waiting and knowing he will not come I can see the future and how I will have to live with this burden. They of course will doubt me, as they always doubted me, but I will have to hold up my head remembering how it was.
Already I envisage the slow walk home, and Geoff’s disappointed face when I tell him, “He didn’t come, that Danny.” And then he’ll fly out and slam the door. “But we know how it was,” I shall tell myself, “Danny and me.” It is a hard thing, this sadness.
Questions :
Q.1. One of the following sentences is true. Pick it out.
A. Geoff has planned the meeting between Sophie and Danny.
B. Sophie herself has fixed the meeting with Danny.
C. That Danny will come to see her there was Sophie’s romantic illusion.
D. Geoff also believed that Danny will turn up to see Sophie.
Q.2. What makes Sophie downhearted?
A. That if Danny doesn’t come, she will never be able to prove to others that they were wrong in doubting her.
B. That Danny ‘was not supposed to come.
C. That Geoff was misguiding her.
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Q.3. ‘Resignation was no sudden thing’. This sentence means ……………………………. .
A. ‘She will not surrender without prior information.
B. ‘She will not lose the hope so soon’.
C. ‘She had decided to resign well in advance.
D. None of these three
He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. He was almost grown up now, and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing, about which he never spoke. He said little at all, ever, voluntarily.
Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground. And she was jealous of his silence-. When he wasn’t speaking it was as though he was away somewhere, out there in the world in those places she had never been. Whether they were only the outlying districts of the city or places beyond in the surrounding country – who knew?-they attained a special fascination simply because they were unknown to her and remained out of her reach.
Questions:
Q.1. Passage 1 reads that Sophie is …………………… .
A. greatly angry. B. terribly irritated.
C. extremely happy. D. quite thoughtful.
Q.2. The untidy scene/s in the room was/were ………………….. .
A. the heavy-breathing man at the table.
B. the dirty washing piled up in the corner.
C. the steam from the stove.
D. Both A’ and ‘B’
Q.3. ‘Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground’. This sentence shows ……………….. nature of Geoff.
A. outspoken B. shy
C. reticent D. indifferent
| Here I sit, she said to herself, wishing Danny would come, wishing he would come and sensing the time passing. I feel the pangs of doubt stirring inside me. I watch for him but still there is no sign of him. I remember Geoff saying he would never come, and how none of them believed me when I told them. I wonder what will I do, what can I tell them now if he doesn't come? But we know how it was, Danny and me - that's the main thing. How can you help what people choose to believe? But all the same, it makes me despondent, this knowing I'll never be able to show them they're wrong to doubt me. Questions Q.1. Who is 'I' in the passage? | |||
| A. Jansie | B. Casey | C. Sophie | D. Melissa |
| Q.2. Who as penned the story? | |||
| A. Alphonse Daudet | B. William Douglas | C. Louis Fischer | D. A R Barton |
| Q.3. Why does she feel despondent? A. She couldn't show people that they were wrong in doubting her. B. She couldn't face her family anymore. C. She would be made fun of by Jansie all the more. D. She wanted to show her father that she too had contacts. | |||
| Sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the incongruity of the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The delicate - seeming bow and the crooked back. The evening had already blacked in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. She went to look for her brother Geoff. He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. Questions Q.1. Whom was Sophie watching near the sink? | |||
| A. Father | B. Mother | C. Geoff | D. Derek |
| Q.2. What is untrue about Sophie's house? | |||
| i. The kitchen was a small room. | ii. Dirty washing was piled up in a corner of the room. | ||
| iii. The kitchen was steamy from ancient fire place. | iv. The next room had a carpet. | ||
| A. iii and iv | B. only ii | C. i and ii | D. only iii |
| Q.3. What was Sophie's brother doing? | |||
| A. He was tinkering the carpet. | B. He was lying on the carpet | ||
| C. He was mending a part of his motorcycle | D. He was reading a book on the carpet. | ||
| On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to watch United. Sophie and her father and little Derek went down near the goal - Geoff, as always, went with his mates higher up. United won two-nil and Casey drove in the second goal, a blend of innocence and Irish genius, going round the two big defenders on the edge of the penalty area, with her father screaming him to pass, and beating the hesitant goalkeeper from a dozen yards. Sophie glowed with pride. Afterwards Geoff was ecstatic. Questions Q.1. What is the title of the story? | |||
| A. Lost Spring | B. Going Places | ||
| C. On the face it | D. We too are human beings | ||
| Q.2. What game is being spoken about? | |||
| A. hockey | B. baseball | C. football | D. ice hockey |
| Q.3. Casey belonged to which country? | |||
| A. Ireland | B. Scotland | C. England | D. Finland |
| Error | Correction | |
| Their father had washed then he came in and his face and arms | ||
| were shiny and pink but he smelled of soap. | ||
| He switched on the television, tossing one of little Derek’s shoes from his chair onto the sofa, |
| Error | Correction | |
| When I saw whom it was, I said, “Excuse me, but | ||
| aren’t you Danny Casey?” And he looks sort of surprised. | ||
| And he said, “Yes, that’s right.” And I knew it would be Him since |
| Error | Correction | |
| Q.1. Their father had washed then he came in and his face and arms | ||
| Q.2. were shiny and pink but he smelled of soap. | ||
| Q.3. He switched on the television, tossing one of little Derek’s shoes from his chair onto the sofa, |
| Error | Correction | |
| Q.1. When I saw whom it was, I said, “Excuse me, but | ||
| Q.2. aren’t you Danny Casey?” And he looks sort of surprised. | ||
| Q.3. And he said, “Yes, that’s right.” And I knew it would be Him since |
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