Extra Questions
Extract Based Questions
Read the following extracts carefully and choose the correct option.
1. So he did, and did he ever! Beginning in kindergarten, Ebright collected butterflies with same determination that has marked all his activities.
(i) What does ‘he did’ in the extract refer to?
(a) Richard’s habit of collecting money
(b) Richard’s habit of storing water
(c) Richard’s habit of making stories
(d) Richard’s habit of collecting various things
(ii) What else did he collect other than butterflies?
(a) Fossils
(b) Coins
(c) Rocks
(d) All of these
(iii) Find a word from the extract which means ‘resoluteness’
(a) Collected
(b) Determination
(c) Dedication
(d) Marked
(iv) What part of speech is the word ‘Beginning’?
(a) Adjective
(b) Noun
(c) Preposition
(d) Conjunction
Answer: (i) (d) Richard’s habit of collecting various things
(ii) (d) All of these
(iii) (b) Determination
(iv) (b) Noun
2. He would catch a female monarch, take her eggs and raise them in his basement through their life cycle….
(i) Who is ‘he’ in this extract?
(a) James R Wong
(b) Dr Frederick
(c) Richard A Weiherer
(d) Richard Ebright
(ii) Why did he raise butterflies?
(a) To export them to various countries
(b) To sell them
(c) To study their migration patterns
(d) To show them to his friends
(iii) Find the word which has the same meaning as the word ‘rear’ from the extract given above.
(a) Raise
(b) Cycle
(c) Foster
(d) Basement
(iv) What part of speech is ‘them’?
(a) Noun
(b) Verb
(c) Pronoun
(d) Adverb
Answer: (i) (d) Richard Ebright
(ii) (c) To study their migration patterns
(iii) (a) Raise
(iv) (c) Pronoun
3. “It was really a sad feeling to sit there and not get anything while everybody else had won something.”
(i) Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(a) Richard’s mother
(b) Richard Ebright
(c) Dr Frederick
(d) James R Wong
(ii) Where was he competing at?
(a) He was competing at a country science fair
(b) He was competing at county science fair
(c) He was competing at an international science fair
(d) He was competing at a trinity fair
(iii) Find a word from the extract which is the opposite of ‘nobody’.
(a) Everyone
(b) Somebody
(c) Everybody
(d) All
(iv) …….. has the same meaning as ‘gloomy’ from the extract given above.
(a) Bad
(b) Mad
(c) Depressed
(d) Sad.
Answer: (i) (b) Richard Ebright
(ii) (b) He was competing at county science fair
(iii) (c) Everybody
(iv) (d) Sad.
4. If the theory proves correct, it will be a big step towards understanding the processes of life.
(i) What is the theory about?
(a) How humans can read DNA
(b) How cells get to know about the neighbouring cells
(c) How cells treat their DNA
(d) How cells read their DNA
(ii) Who proposed the theory?
(a) James R Wong
(b) Richard Ebright
(c) Dr Frederick
(d) Both a and b
(iii) Which part of speech is ‘life’ as used in the given extract?
(a) Verb
(b) Adverb
(c) Noun
(d) Adjective
(iv) Which word in the extract means the same as ‘move’?
(a) Theory
(b) Step
(c) Processes
(d) Life
Answer: (i) (d) How cells read their DNA
(ii) (d) Both (a) and (b)
(iii) (c) Noun
(iv) (b) Step