English Reading Comprehension (Set-15) - for Class 9 and 10 (#readingcomprehension)(#eduvictors)(#class10English)

English Reading Comprehension (Set-15)

The word ‘comprehension’ signifies to completely comprehend the content utilizing one's insight.  A comprehension passage is a textual content set for checking out the reader’s potential to recognise (apprehend) the meaning being implied by means of the textual content and the subject matter of that unique passage. Questions based on a passage generally appear as a chronological relationship with the passage. Usually, the first question has the answer in the initial paragraphs and so on but if the answers are inferential then the complete answer might have to be gathered from various paragraphs and for this, one has to be thorough with the entire passage.


(SQP 2019)Read the following passage carefully:

1. Few guessed that this quiet, parentless girl growing up in New York City would one day become the First Lady of the United States. Even fewer thought she would become an author and lecturer and a woman much admired and loved by people throughout the world.



2. Born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in 1884, to wealthy but troubled parents who both died while she was young, Roosevelt was cared for by her grandmother and sent to school in England. In 1905, she married her distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She and her husband had six children. Although they were wealthy, her life was not easy and she suffered several personal tragedies. Her second son died when he was a baby. In 1921, her strong athletic husband was stricken with polio, which left him physically disabled for life.

3. Eleanor Roosevelt was a remarkable woman who had great intelligence and tremendous strength of character. She never let things get her down. She nursed her husband back to good health and encouraged him to remain in politics. She then helped him to become the Governor of New York, and in 1933, the President of the United States.

4. While her husband was the President, she took a great interest in all the affairs of the country. She became her husband’s legs and eyes; she visited prisons and hospitals; she went down into mines, in scaffoldings and into factories. Roosevelt was tireless and daring. During the depression, she travelled all over the country bringing goodwill, reassurance and helped .people without food and jobs. During World War II she visited American soldiers in camps all over the world. The United States had never known a First Lady like her.

5. Roosevelt also kept in touch with the American people through a daily newspaper column called ‘My Day’. She broadcast on the radio and delivered lectures, all first for a First Lady.


Questions: On the basis of your understanding of the above passage answer the following questions: 
(a) How was Eleanor Roosevelt’s personality in contrast to what she became?

(b) Apart from being the First Lady what else did she have to her credit?

(c) What challenges did she face in her personal life but remained unfazed?

(d) Eleanor was a strong woman who helped her husband become the President of America. How?

(e) What does the statement: ‘she became her husband’s legs and eyes’ mean?

(f) What was her special contribution during the depression?

(g) How did she motivate soldiers during World War II?

(h) What did she do for the first time for a First Lady?

(i) What side of her personality is reflected in this passage?


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Answers (Hints):
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt lost her parents when she was quite young. However, she became the first lady of the USA. While her husband took a great interest in all the affairs of the country, she did a lot of social work. She visited prisons and hospitals; went down into the mines and visited many factories.

(b) Visited prisons and hospitals; went down into mines, in scaffoldings and into factories; wrote in a daily newspaper column called ‘My day’; broadcast on radio; delivered lectures

(c) her parents died when she was young; her second son died when he was a baby; the strong athletic husband was stricken with polio which left him physically disabled for life.

(d) she nursed him back to good health, encouraged him to remain in politics; helped him become the Governor of New York and then the President of the United States.

(e) visited prisons, hospitals etc.; interacted with people and brought feedback to her husband about the state of affairs; shared his responsibilities of looking after people.

(f) She travelled all over the country bringing goodwill, reassurance to help people without food and jobs.

(g) She motivated the American soldiers by visiting them in camps all over the world and empathised with them.

(h) kept in touch with the American people through a daily newspaper column called ‘My Day’; broadcast on the radio, and delivered lectures.

(i) a remarkable woman with great intelligence and tremendous strength of character