9. Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow in a word or a sentence each.
Three elderly brothers, all very short-sighted, lived in a large house on the outskirts of a city, in China. One day the youngest brother suggested that he should take charge of the finances. “Elder brother’s sight is so bad, he cannot see how much money he’s receiving or giving,” he said, “and people take advantage of his disability.”
1) Where did the three brothers live?
2) What did the youngest brother propose one day?
3) How did the youngest brother support his claim?
4) How would people take the eldest brother’s short-sightedness, according to the youngest brother?
5) Was the youngest brother sincere in his suggestion?
6) Their sight problem was negligible. Is it true or false ?
7) Give the synonym of edge from the passage,
8) Write a set of antonyms you find in the passage as good is the antonym of bad.
ANSWERS
1) in a large house on the outskirts of a city, in China.
2) that he should take charge of the finances.
3) That his eldest brother’s sight was so bad that he couldn’t see how much money he was
receiving or giving
4) People would take advantage of the eldest brother’s disability.
5) No.
6) False. They were all very short-sighted.
7) outskirts
8) receiving X giving
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10. The tablet has a flowery border.” The second brother went away very pleased with himself. Hardly had he gone when the third brother arrived there. He too enquired about the inscription and on being told what it was, asked if there was any other writing on it.” “Only the donor’s name, Wang Lee, at the bottom,” said the monk.
1) What did the tablet have for its decoration?
2) Who answered the question about its decoration?
3) Who was very happy to know about that decoration?
4) When did the third brother reach the monastery?
5) What did the youngest brother want to know particularly?
6) Where was the donor’s name mentioned?
7) Why was the second brother happy with himself?
8) Write the antonym of departed from the passage.
ANSWERS
1) a flowery border.
2) the monk.
3) the second brother.
4) hardly when the second brother had gone away from the monastery.
5) if there was any other writing on the tablet.
6) at the bottom of the tablet.
7) as he thought he alone learnt about the inscription and the flowery decoration.
8) arrived
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11. The monk they had talked to the previous evening came out of the monastery just then and walked towards the short-sighted brothers.
“Oh, you’ve come to see the inscription,” he said. “So sorry. We couldn’t put it up yesterday evening. We are going to put it up today.”
The short-sighted brothers realised their follies.
1) When did they all talk to the monk?
2) Did each brother know that the others also had talked to the monk?
3) Where did the monk go?
4) Why did the monk say sorry?
5) What does the word it refer to ?
6) When were they going to put it up?
7) What did the brothers realise?
8) They didn’t put up the inscription as originally scheduled. How did it help the brothers?
ANSWERS
1) The previous evening
2) No.
3) The monk went towards the short-sighted brothers.
4) Because the monk couldn’t put the tablet up the previous evening.
5) The word ‘it’ refers to ‘the tablet’.
6) They were going to put up the tablet that day.
7) They realised their follies.
8) It helped the brothers realise their follies.
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12. “I have my doubts about that, “said the eldest brother. “Let’s settle this once and for all. I’ve heard the monastery is putting up a tablet inscribed with a saying, above the main doorway, tonight. Let’s go there tomorrow and test our vision. Whoever can read the inscription with the least will get charge of our money. Agreed?”
1) Name the story from which this passage is taken.
2) Who does “I” in the paragraph refer to ?
3) What did the speaker want to settle once and for all?
4) What did the speaker come to know of?
5) Where should they go to get their vision tested, the following day?
6) Who would get the charge of their money, according to the proposal?
7) When was the monastery putting up a tablet above their doorway?
8) Write the word that is used in the passage that means a place where monks live.
ANSWERS
1) The Short-sighted Brothers.
2) the eldest brother.
3) as to who among the three brothers had a better sight.
4) of the monastery putting up a tablet inscribed with a saying, above the main doorway, that night.
5) to the monastery.
6) the one who could read the inscription with the least strain.
7) on that night (when this discussion in the story was going on)
8) monastery.