Q.1. (C)
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below :
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Frank's vision of hope gave my husband and me the courage to become parents. We
had two sons, Ethan and Jeese. My trip to Switzerland was the first time I had
been away from them. The train was slowing. The conductor announced the stop
and the doors flew open. I looked into the crowd and saw a man with a straight
back and rugged face. Snow-white hair surrounded a balding head. A tall,
elderly man, still strong and handsome. It was really him. Otto Frank.
"Cara!
At last!" he said warmly. I was actually hugging him. A real bearhug.
Thank God. No formal handshakes or polite hellos. Suddenly a little shy, he put
his arm in mine. Fritzi linked my other arm, and we walked off.
When I
stepped into the Frank's house, I felt that I was home. Otto took me into their
little study. A pile of fresh mail lay stacked on his desk. He showed me
wall-to-wall notebooks bursting with letters. Then Otto brought out another
notebook. "These are your letters, Cara. I saved them all." I
couldn't believe it. I was facing myself through twenty years of letters. I saw
my twelve year old's scrawl evolve into an adult's script and then change to
typewritten pages. Masses of exclamation points and underlinings, outpourings
of feeling. Then Otto said, "You are not the only one to write all these
years."
Smiling,
he told me about some of the others. There was Sumi from Japan, who had lost
her father. She read Anne's diary and was moved to write to Otto. She told him
that she would like to become his "Letter-daughter" and signed all
her letters "Your daughter, Sumi." Otto advised her through the
years. Then there was John Neiman who, as a college student, reread Anne Frank
: The Diary of a Young Girl and wrote to Mr Frank. Otto told him, "If you
want to honour Anne's memory and the people that died, do what Anne wanted so
very much-do good for other people."
Questions
:
1.
Besides Cara, whom did Otto write to?
2. How
did Otto greet Cara?
3. Why
had Otto saved all of Cara’s letters?
4. (a)
Otto advised her through the years. (Change the underlined word into a noun
form the sentence)
(b) It
was really him. (Make it Interrogative)
5. (i)
Write two compound words from the passage. (ii) Make sentences : (a) brought
out (b) stacked on
6. How would you have felt in Cara’s place?
Answers
1.
Besides Cara, Otto wrote to Sumi from Japan and John Neiman, a college student.
2. Otto
greeted Cara with a lot of warmth and eagerness and gave her a real bearhug.
There were no formal handshakes or polite hellos as Cara had feared.
3. Otto
had saved all of Cara’s letters as each person who wrote to him was significant
to him.
4. (a)
Otto gave her advice through the years. (b)
Wasn’t it really him?
5. (i)
(a) letter - daughter, (b) snow – white (ii)
(a) brought out - The lawyer brought out all the documents, as evidence before
the jury. (b) stacked on - Old newspapers were stacked on the sofa and all
across the room.
6. I would have felt on the top of the world, absolutely elated on receiving such a warm welcome from Otto. It would have been like a father-daughter re-union. In Indian style, I would have touched Otto Frank’s feet as a mark of respect for an elder
