Questions 1-6 Read the Passage given and answer the questions that follow:
When I learned that my 71-year-old mother was playing chess against herself, I knew I had to do something. Who's playing? I asked one day when I saw a half finished game on the table. My right hand versus my left. Ex- cuse me? I said. Well, your father doesn't dread defeat. Still, I want to keep my mind sharp.
My husband suggested we give her a computer to play against. We packed up our old PC and delivered it to my parent's home. And thus began my mother's adventure in the world of computers.
It also marked the beginning of an unusual teaching assignment for me. I've taught children all these years but never thought I would be teaching my mother to do anything. De- spite the look of horror on her face when! she first saw or gift my mother was eager to get started. She sat mesmerized as the screen lit up and the various icons presented them- selves. Slowly, but steadily, my mother caught on, making notes in a little spiral note- book. I wondered how she would fare with- out me. But thereafter, he only spoke about her game on the computer to me. She even forgot to ask her stock question, what did you have for supper? instead she talked about RAM, ROM and the CPU - terms spilled out effortlessly from her mouth. My mother had acquired a new mother tongue. I am learning that no matter how old you are, a willing spirit is capable of anything.
1. What lesson did the narrator ultimately have, learn from the above episode?
(A) Child is the father of man
(B) If there is a will there is away
(C) Necessity is the mother of all inventions
(D) Familiarity breeds contempt
2. Pick out the word that means, 'fearing 'from the above passage
(A) dreading
(B) delivering
(C) mesmerizing
(D)faring
3. How did Mother play chess against herself?
(A) by taking turns at both sides of the table
(B) by using both the hands
(C) by just imagining
(D)by placing a doll on the opposite side
4. Why did the narrator describe her experience as an unusual teaching assignment?
(A) She found the experience very challenging
(B) Her Mother was unwilling to learn
(C) Her father was against the teaching
(D)Teaching one's own mother happens rarely
5. What did the narrator realize when she saw her mother playing chess against herself?
(A) Mother should be given company
(B) She should ask father to play with Mother
(C) She should do something urgently to help Mother
(D)to gift Mother a computer
6. What was the narrator's husband's suggestion?
(A) to gift Mother a computer
(B) to play chess online
(C) to give her further coaching in playing chess
(D)to equip father to play chess
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