Std - 9th English Comprehensive Reading Skill

Thursday

7th January, 2021

Comprehensive Reading Skill

Textual Passage

(Text Page No. - 91 and 92)

Read the passage carefully and do the activities.

Faraday became a celebrity scientist overnight. Nobody now cared about his social status or education; this young man had just created a revolution.

One would think, as a teacher Davy was happy at his ouoil's achievement.

But in reality he was jealous. People started telling Davy that of all his  discoveries, the best was  Faraday himself; this made him even more jealous. An angry Davy gave Faraday  an impossible task to keep him out of his way.

He handed him a piece of a Bavarian glass, which was used in the lenses in telescopes and microscopes, and asked him to reverse engineer it. Bavarian glass was manufactured by a secret complicated process and Davy knew that with the equipment available in the lab Faraday would never be able to accomplish the task. This peace of glass became a significant thing in his life.

Faraday had a never-give-up attitude and  he respected Davy. So he accepted the assignment, despite knowing that it would be very difficult. He toiled for four years, with no help from Davy, and, as expected, failed.

Faraday never learned the secret, and this remained his first failure  as a scientist.

To remind himself of these difficult times, he kept a single glass brick on his shelf as a souvenir. This would inspire him during g difficult times.

A1. Complete the following statements.

1)   Being a celebrity scientist, Faraday's 

      .............. and ......... did not matter for        any one.

2) Many people would think Davy as                Faraday's teacher would be ............

     ..................................... .

3) Davy was more jealous after listening        to people's reaction as Faraday ..........

    ............................... .

4) Faraday had  ..................... approach.

A2.  Match the pairs.

            A                                   B

a) Angry Davy            a) a memento to                                                   inspire in difficult

                                         times

b) Bavarian glass      b) respected Davy

c) Faraday                  c) used in lenses in

                                        telescopes and

                                        microscopes.

d) A single glass       d) gave Faraday an

    brick                             impossible task

A3.  Write the Noun forms of -

   a)  accepted -

   b) expected -

   c) failed -

   d)  inspire -

A4.  Do as directed.

   1)  This would inspire him in fifficult                 times.

        ( Add question tag and rewrite.)

   2)  Davy handed Faraday a piece of                   Bavarian glass.

        ( Rewrite beginning with Faraday.....)

A5.  Do you like learning science? Why?

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