Rush hour crowds jostle for position on the underground train platform. A slight girl, looking younger than her seventeen years, was nervous yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the approaching train.
It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish farm. But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most; she was profoundly deaf.
Evelyn Glennie's loss of hearing had been gradual. Her mother remembers noticing something was wrong when the eight-year-old Evelyn was waiting to play piano. "They called her name and she didn't move. I suddenly realised she hadn't heard," says Isabel Glennie.
For quite a while Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.
It was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage. They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf. "Everything suddenly looked black," says Evelyn.
Questions :
(i) What did Evelyn's mother notice when she was waiting to play the piano?
Ans : Evelyn's mother noticed something was wrong when Evelyn was waiting to play the piano. When her name was called, she didn't move.
(ii) What was told by Evelyn's Headmistress to Evelyn's parents to do? Why did the Headmistress tell?
Ans : Evelyn's Headmistress told her parents that they should take her to a specialist.
By the time, she was eleven years old, her marks had deteriorated. So, the Headmistress told to take her to a specialist.
(iii) What happened when Evelyn was eleven years old?
(a) Evelyn started weeping.
(b) She should be taken to a specialist.
(c) The Headmistress asked Evelyn's
parents to take her to a specialist.
(d) Evelyn's treatment should start.
Ans: (c) The Headmistress asked Evelyn's
parents to take her to a specialist.
(iv) What was the result when the specialist examined Evelyn?
(a) She was deaf.
(b) Her hearing had gone worse.
(c) She couldn't hear.
(d) She could be cured of her deafness.
Ans: (b) Her hearing had gone worse.
(v) The word "deteriorated" means
(a) got bad
(b) was worse
(c) went sour
(d) grew worse
Ans : (d) grew worse
(vi) What Evelyn wanted was to
(a) take more interest in music
(b) lead a normal life
(c) get herself cured
(d) lead a normal life and take more
interest in music.
Ans: (d) lead a normal life and take more interest in music.
(vii) Who went to the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London?
Ans: Evelyn Glennie went to the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London.
(viii) Find a word in the passage that means "hide".
Ans: Hide - Conceal
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