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Comprehensive Passage With Answers
Comprehensive Passage With Answers
wrote in or the notes we passed. But not anymore. Now it’s all about writing.
Learning your QWERTY is almost as important as learning your ABCs.
But that doesn’t mean one should get rid of computers. Children should be
taught to type from the beginning. Learning is aided by the physical act of
writing. Authors often write their first draft by hand. If it has to do with the
rhythm of thought, or some kind of stimulation that the physical act has, we
don’t know. But it is a fact.
The French would no doubt agree. They love their letter. Teachers in France
believe that fluency with a pen ‘unblocks the mind’ and spend more time
writing than reading between the ages of three and eight.
We teach children the formation of letters and the proper joining strokes. But
after a few years we leave them to their own devices, just as the writing
workload begins to increase. That’s when bad habits set in.
But as proper handwriting becomes more rare, spending some time improving
your handwriting is a wise investment. In the future, sending a handwritten
letter will be a display of wealth and class, which is why the sale of fountain
pens is reviving.
It is such a currency that does not exist in physical form, but with the help of it
you can buy any product, and also invest and trade. When a transaction is
made, it is monitored through powerful computers, which is called mining
cryptocurrencies in another language.
Read the following poems carefully and answer the questions given below
them :
Question 1.
Have you seen a little dog anywhere about?
A raggy dog, a shaggy dog, who’s always looking out
For some fresh mischief which he thinks he really ought to do.
He’s very likely, at this minute, biting someone’s shoe.
If you see that little dog, his tail up in the air,
A whirly tail, a curly tail, a dog who doesn’t care
For any other dog, he meets, not even for himself,
Then hide your mats, and put your meat upon the topmost shelf.
If you see a little dog, barking at the cars,
A raggy dog, a shaggy dog, with eyes like twinkling stars,
Just let me know, for though he’s bad, as bad as can be;
I wouldn’t change that dog for all the treasures of the sea!
Questions :
(1) What has happened to the poet’s dog? How do you know that?
(2) How shall we know that the dog belongs to the poet if we see it on the
road?
(3) What does the poet instruct others to do to avoid damage to be done by
his dog?
(4) In spite of all his naughtiness, what does the poet say about his dog? Why?
Answer:
1. The poet’s dog is missing. The poet is asking others if anybody has seen his
raggy, shaggy dog.
2. The poet, in this poem, makes the identity of his lost dog very clear. He says
that the dog looks raggy and shaggy. Its eyes are like twinkling stars. It is
mischievous. Its tail that always keeps up is whirly and curly. The dog had a
habit of biting someone’s shoe and barking at the cars. On the basis of these
details, we can identify the dog and say that the dog belongs to the poet.
3. The poet says that his dog is very mischievous. He would chew away mats
and eat up meat if left unattended. So he instructs others to hide their mats
and put their meat upon the topmost shelf.
4. In spite of all his naughtiness, the poet says that though his dog is bad, he
wouldn’t change that dog even if he is given offered all the treasures of the
sea. He says so because he loves his dog rather too much.