Passage Reading and English Comprehension

When Adversity Knocks

This is story that explains how adversity is met differently by diffeent people. There was a girl named Asha who lived with her mother and father in a village. One day, her father assigned her a simple task. He took three vessels filled with boiling water. He placed an egg in one vessel, a potato in the second vessel, and some tea tea leaves in the third vessel. He asked Asha to keep an eye on the vessels for about ten to fifteen minutes while the three ingredients in three separate vessels boiled. After the said time, he asked Asha to peel the potato and egg, and strain the tea leaves. Asha was left puzzled - she understood her father was trying to explain her something, but she didn't know what it was.

Her father explained, "All three items were put in the same circumstances. See how they have responded differently." He said that the potato turned soft, the egg turned hard, and the tea leaves changed the colour and taste of the water. He further said, " We are all like one of these items. When adversity calls, we respond exactly the way they do. Now you are a potato, an egg, or tea leaves?"

Moral of the story

We can choose how to respond to a difficult situation.

On the basis of your reading of the above passage fill in the blanks with suitable words:

2274. What did Asha's father assign her?

	(a) A difficult task
	(b) A simple task
	(c) A moderately tough task
	(d) No task

2275. What did he place in three vessels which were having boiling water?

	(a) An egg
	(b) A potato
	(c) Some tea leaves
	(d) All the three above

2276. What happened to potato?

	(a) its colour changed
	(b) it turned hard
	(c) it turned soft
	(d) nothing happened to potato

2277. What happened to the egg?

	(a) it broke down
	(b) its colour changed
	(c) it turned soft
	(d) it turned hard

2278. What happened to the tea leaves?

	(a) its colour changed
	(b) it turned soft
	(c) it turned hard
	(d) it got burnt

2279. What is the moral of the story?

	(a) We can choose how to respond to a difficult situation
	(b) We can choose how to respond to any situation
	(c) We can choose how to respond to a favourable situation
	(d) All of the above

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