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Q.1-10. Read the following passages carefully and answer the given questions.
PASSAGE-1
If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you cannot, you cannot. Think negatively and you will get a negative result because by your thoughts you create a negative atmosphere which is hospitable to negative results. On the contrary, think positively and you create a positive atmosphere which makes positive results a certainty.
To cultivate positive thinking, speak hopefully about everything. Then feed your mind with good, nourishing and wholesome thoughts. Keep good company of friends who are optimistic. Read scriptures which will cast away your negative thoughts. Lastly, pray a great deal and count the blessings that God has given you. Thus you can overcome negative thoughts of failure and cultivate positive thoughts of success.
Q1. Think negatively and you will get
(a) bad result
(b) immediate result
(c) negative result
(d) positive result
Q2. If you want to cultivate positive thinking
(a) you should think and speak hopefully
(b) you should speak boldly
(c) you should speak softly
(d) you should speak loudly
Q3. The passage is on
(a) Pessimism
(b) Optimism
(c) Tourism
(d) Naturalism
Q4. What will cast away your negative thoughts?
(a) Newspapers
(b) Magazines
(c) Books
(d) Holy books
Q5. Which of the following statements is not true?
(a) Good friends elevate our thoughts.
(b) Prayer helps us to keep our mind clean.
(c) It is not possible to change a pessimist into an optimist.
(d) For cultivating optimism, we should always speak hopefully.
PASSAGE-2
Bill Sikes was determined to make one last effort for his life by dropping into the creek, and endeavouring to creep away in the darkness and confusion.
Close by him was a chimney. He set his foot against it, fastened one end of the cord tightly round it, and with the other made a strong running loop. He could let himself down by the cord to within a few feet of the creek then cut it there and drop.
He had his knife ready in his hand, but at the very instant that he brought the loop over his head, something seemed to make him turn. He stared behind him on the roof, and threw his arms above his head and uttered a yell of terror. "The eyes again!" he cried.
Staggering as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. The noose was on his neck. It ran up with his weight and tightened. He fell for five-and-thirty feet. There was a sudden jerk - and there he hung, with the open knife still clenched in his stiffening hand.
Q.6. Why did Bill Sikes utter a yell of terror?
(a) He saw a ghost.
(b) He saw a gun pointed at him.
(c) He saw the haunting eyes.
(d) He saw the police.
Q.7. What was found close by Bill Sikes?
(a) A chimney
(b) A stack of cards
(c) A cup of tea
(d) A cake
Q.8. Where did Bill Sikes want to drop?
(a) Into a creek
(b) Into the chimney
(c) Into a sewage pit
(d) Into the river
Q.9. Why did he tumble over the parapet wall?
(a) He lost his balance.
(b) It rained hard.
(c) A title broke away.
(d) The wall was slippery.
Q.10. Why did Bill Sikes keep a knife in his hand?
(a) To cut a fruit
(b) To cut the rope
(c) To threaten his pursuers
(d) None of these
Answers:
Q1. (c)
Q2. (a)
Q3. (b)
Q4. (d)
Q5. (c)
Q6. (c)
Q7. (a)
Q8. (a)
Q9. (a)
Q10. (b)
