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Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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He outcasts were not allowed to mount the platform surrounding the well, because if they were ever to draw water from it, the Hindus of the three upper-castes would consider the water polluted. Nor were they allowed access to the nearby brook as their use of it would contaminate the stream. They had no well of their own because it cost a lot of money to dig a well in a hilly town. Perforce they had to collect at the foot of the upper-caste Hindu well and depend on the bounty of some of their superiors to pour water into their pitchers. More often than not there was no upper-caste Hindu present. Most of them were rich enough to get the water-carriers to supply them with plenty of fresh water every morning for their baths and kitchens, and only those came to the well who were either fond of an open-air bath or too poor to pay for the water-carriers’ services. So the outcasts had to wait for a chance to bring some uppercaste Hindu to the well, for luck to decide that he was kind, for fate to ordain that he had time — to get their pitchers filled with water. They crowded round the well, congested the space below its high brick platform, morning, noon and night, joining their hands in servile humility to every passer-by; cursing their fate, and bemoaning their lot, if they were refused the help they wanted; praying, beseeching and blessing, if some generous soul condescended to listen to them, or to help them.
When Sohini reached the well, there were already about ten other outcasts waiting. But there was no one to give them water. She had come as fast as she could to the well, full of fear and anxiety that she would have to wait her turn since she could see from a distance that there was already a crowd.
She didn’t feel disappointed so much as depressed to realise that she would be the eleventh to receive water. She had sensed the feeling in her brother’s soul. He was tired. He was thirsty. She had felt like a mother as she issued from her home to fetch water, a mother going out to fetch food and drink for her loved ones at home. Now as she sat in a row with her fellow sufferers, her heart sank. There was no sign of anyone passing that way who could be a possible benefactor. But she was patient. She had in her an inbred fortitude, obvious in her curious reserve, in her docile and peaceful bearing.

How did the outcasts get water?

A They had to be present at the foot of the upper-caste Hindu's well.
B They had to wait for an upper-caste Hindu to pour water into their pitchers.
C If the upper-caste Hindu was kind and had time to do the outcast the favour, only then the latter could get water.
D All of these


I did d and it's showing I did c?

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Jiya Kaur from D.P.S.R.K. Puram, NEW DELHI
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Ankur Guha from DAV Model School, I.I.T. Kharagpur, Kharagpur
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Naazim KT from Gemford World School, Manjeri
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Naazim KT from Gemford World School, Manjeri
Class : Class 6
I won 2.5 lakhs through SOF

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ADVAY Rustagi from Vidyashilp Academy , Bengaluru
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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ADVAY Rustagi from Vidyashilp Academy , Bengaluru
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Veer Jain from LPS Global, Noida
Class : Class 5
I know from class 2

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Vaishnavi from DPS , Singapore
Class : Class 5
bro SERIOUSLY

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ADVAY Rustagi from Vidyashilp Academy , Bengaluru
Class : Class 5
D

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Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Aparna Rishika Misra from AECS 4, Rawatbhata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
This is how every brain works. It thinks over worst-case scenarios, like an anxious new parent. It's just trying to keep us safe and usually does a great job at it. That same vigilant hardwiring also makes it too easy to worry about the wrong things. It clouds our thinking with fear of outcomes that will never come to pass. Learning how to better separate the good worry, which protects us, from the useless worry, which harms us, is a vital life skill.
Consider the following simple exercise to increase your insight into how much you worry needlessly. It's an experiment I did for years with the goal of better identifying and reducing my "rocking chair" fretting while better harnessing the useful kind of worry.
Begin by writing down all the major things you're currently worried about. It's not pleasant to ruminate on them, but the fact is that your brain is constantly thinking about them anyway. Just because a worry is subconscious doesn't shield you from its negative effects. I suggest two rules for making the list. First, try to make the time frame for whether they will happen within just six months. That limits you to concrete and quantifiable worries. Limit your worries to those outcomes resolved in the next 180 days.
Second, keep the number at 10. If you have more than that, pick the biggest ones. If you have fewer than 10, good for you, but challenge yourself to go deeper and find other worries of which you may be less aware.
Some of your 10 worries will be big, others small or even trivial. Some you may feel you have no control over while some you do. Don't worry about their seriousness or ranking them; just capture what's causing you any anticipatory fear. By clearing your mind of needless worry, you can home in on the real concerns you might be able to stop. And even if you can't stop them, there's value in occupying your mind with action over fear.

Choose the best title or heading for the passage.

AWorrying Makes Me Feel Alive
BWorrying is Always Good
CNo Need to Worry
DWhy No Worry At All?


why no worry at all? is better no?

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