Cycle Test English

 CYCLE TEST-7. SUBJECT -English M.M-10

Q1. Reference to the context (3)

It was on a walking tour through Cambridge that the guide mentioned Stephen 

Hawking, ‘poor man, who is quite disabled now, though he is a worthy successor to 

Issac Newton, whose Chair he has at the University.’ and started, because I had 

quite forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, the 

author of A brief History of Time. 

Read the questions and answer it…

1. Where was the walking tour taking place?

2. Who did the guide mention as a worthy successor to Isaac Newton?

3. What is the name of the famous book written by Stephen Hawking mentioned 

in the passage?

Q2. Choose the correct answer ..(5)

a. What can be seen at the bottom of the pool?

(i) Dirt and dust

(ii) Harsh rock

(iii) Smooth round Pebble

(iv) None of these

b. The boy considered even looking at something in the Bazaar a sin because

i) He was poor

ii) The Bazaar did not have anything good to eat

iii) The sellers at the Bazaar used to cheat him

iv) He got so much at home

c. The writer was in which standard 

i) Eighth 

ii) Fifth

iii) Fourth 

iv) Sixth

d. Where had Ranji settled less than a month before?

 i) Kanpur

 ii). Jharkhand

 (iii) Raipur

 (iv) Rajpur

e. The meaning of ‘Cascading’ –

i) Going up

ii) Below down

iii) Underground

iv) Coming up

Q3. What is the scientist ‘s message for the disabled? (2)

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