PASSAGE 25

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 brown-haired that I looked more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.

1. In this passage, the word ‘brood’ refers to
A) polio victims
B) foreign children
C) children in the family
D) Indian children

2. In his childhood, the narrator said – more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. This was because he was
A) a foreign child
B) a very healthy boy
C) tall and smart
D) fair and brown-haired

3. The narrator was the seventh child in a family of
A) 8 children      B) 16 children
C) 23 children      D) 4 children

4. In this passage, the narrator is a patient of
A) heart disease      B) polio
C) paralysis      D) nervous weakness

5. In his childhood, the narrator was
A) a weakling      B) very healthy
C) tall and slim      D) short and stout

Answer Key

Solution with explanation

3. Option ‘A’. 1 pair = 2, so 4 pairs = 8

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