Comprehension
Direction: You have four passages with 5-10 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question, out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Today perhaps your only association with the word ‘polio’ is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty-five years ago, this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and the spinal cord, causes stiffening and weakening of the muscles, crippling and paralysis — which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with a huge 23-year gap between the first and the last. I was told that, unlike the others, I was so fair and brownhaired that I looked more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
brood : a large family of children
- What made the narrator look like a foreigner?
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He was fair and brown-haired
Correct Option: B
He was fair and brown-haired
- Polio, the dreaded disease, mainly affects the
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brain and spinal cord
Correct Option: B
brain and spinal cord
- The narrator was the seventh child in a family that had
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eight children
Correct Option: C
eight children
- To say something about the future is to
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predict
Correct Option: C
predict
- The narrator of the passage is a patient of
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polio
Correct Option: C
polio