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Mohhika Sharma from Delhi Public School Greater Noida, Greater Noida
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.
The going was not easy for Taro. Orphaned at a young age, he travelled from village to village, doing odd jobs for a living.
One hot afternoon, he came to a riverbank and sat down under a shady tree. As he looked around, he saw a monk sitting in deep meditation. A serene smile rested on the lips of the wizened and wrinkled face. He seemed unperturbed by the heat or the flies buzzing around him. Taro gazed in awe as he thought, "That monk is so much at peace. He has no worries. I want to be like that."
When the monk opened his eyes, his amused glance fell upon the curious young man. Taro folded his hands in greeting and said, "Revered teacher, I want to become a monk. Please accept me as your disciple."
The monk simply asked, "Why?" Taro replied, "Because I want to find God." In a flash, the monk leapt up from where he was sitting and grabbed Taro by the scruff of his neck. He dragged the youth to the river and plunged his head into the water, holding it there. Taro flailed his arms and legs to no avail. The monk was surprisingly strong.
After a minute, the monk released him. Taro's body contorted with pain as he coughed up water and desperately gasped for air. After he quietened down, the monk asked, "Tell me, what did you want most of all when you were under water?"
Taro answered, "Air!" "Very well," said the monk, "When you want God as much as you wanted air, come to me then."

Give a suitable title to the passage.

A God and Taro
B Taro Seeks God
C The Angry Monk
D Deep in the Water


I think that everyone has a different perspective of seeing the passage.They should not just decide that everyone will think the same way.This is an open-ended question.I clicked on D, deep in the water, because I think that that is the gist of the story.Please share your views with me.I would like to see what you guys thought.

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Angad Khanna from The Shriram Millenium School Gurugram, Gurugram
Class : Class 4
taro seeks god

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Angad Khanna from The Shriram Millenium School Gurugram, Gurugram
Class : Class 4

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Advaith A from Delhi Public School, Ranchi
Class : Class 4
God and Taro

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Prisha Badwe from Campus School IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Class : Class 4
taro seeks god will be the answer

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Samoana Sharma from Gyaananda School, Gurugram
Class : Class 4
Taro seeks god

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Aviyn Warshne from DPS noida, Noida
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 1

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Aviral Yadav from Geetanjali International School, Gurgugram
Class : Class 3

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from ,
Class :

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Kunal Kakaraddi from Vibgyor High Marathalli, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

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Sri Susrutha Chowdary Karnati from Vibgyor high , Bangalore
Class : Class 8
Doesn't A) Marked down and C) Marked mean the same thing ?

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Nivriti from Euro, Mumbai
Class : Class 8
marked down means to reduce the price of something,how can it be used for a human.

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Kunal Kakaraddi from Vibgyor High Marathalli, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

Read the following stories and answer the questions that follow :
A donkey and a rooster lived peaceably together in the farmyard. One day, a hungry lion passed by. His eyes brightened at the sight of the plump donkey, and he thought of the fine meal in store for him. But just as the lion was about to pounce on the donkey, the rooster began to crow. Now, it is said there is nothing a lion hates more than the sound of a cock-a-doodle-doo. Perhaps it is true, for the lion turned and fled at the sound of the rooster’s crowing.
The donkey laughed. “Why, the lion is a coward! The mighty king of beasts runs from a rooster.” And the donkey felt so bold that he began to chase the lion. He had not gone very far, however, when the lion turned. With a great roar, he leapt upon the donkey.
The rooster, watching from the farmyard, said sadly, “Alas! My poor friend did not realise what he could or could not do.”
“False confidence often leads to misfortune.”
Why did the donkey chase the lion?

A He wanted to kill the lion.
B He was confident to kill the lion.
C He had false confidence to kill the lion.
D None of these


There is nothing said here about killing the lion, so shouldn't D be correct?

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SRISANTH from Edify, Tirupathi
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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Ira Anand from Learning Tree, Chennai
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Aditya from DPS Whitefield, Bengaluru
Class : Class 4
The answer is option [C].

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Kunal Kakaraddi from Vibgyor High Marathalli, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

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Ashvik Banerjee from Mount Litera Zee School , Vasco
Class : Class 9
Yes.I agree . There is no correct (some are partially correct)answers.

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Abhay rajvanshi from Delhi Public School, Gurgaon
Class : Class 10

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Hprakash09 from Billabong high Bhopal, Bhopal
Class : Class 7
Liberal means open to other's views and ideals, which is not an option here.

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Chamanzippu from St stephens school, Punjab
Class : Class 7

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Surbhi Raul from DPS Bangalore East, BENGALURU
Class : Class 7

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Evan lovin from Vibgyor school , Bangalore
Class : Class 3
Exactly

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Arnav Nandan from ST PETERS COLLEGE AGRA, Agra
Class : Class 9
It shows generous on google, I guess it is correct then.

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Yuhaan Ali from Sat Paul Mittal School, LUDHIANA
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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Ankit Kumar Mistry from Kalyani Public School, Kolkata
Class : Class 7

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Advay from vibgyor high, pune
Class : Class 6
Not answer d guys

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Mohammed Najl from Credence high school Dubai, Dubai
Class : Class 5
Ans d

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Ankit Kumar Mistry from Kalyani Public School, Kolkata
Class : Class 7
It has told Synonym not Antonym so Synonym of innocuous is banal. Answer: A.

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lavansh Agarwal from jodhamal public school, Jammu
Class : Class 8
ans. d

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Chamanzippu from St stephens school, Punjab
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

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Pratyush Somawagol from Icon School of Excellence, Bengaluru
Class : Class 7
Delivered implies that it has alreday been arrived, I don't think it is C

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Taanvi from , Bangalore
Class : Class 9

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Chamanzippu from St stephens school, Punjab
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow :
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light, The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night. Come, let us gather our nets from the shore, and set our catamarans free, To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the seagull’s call, The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all. What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives? He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade, and the scent of the mango grove, And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love; But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray, and the dance of the wild foam’s glee; Row, brothers row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.
–Sarojini Naidu
The last line of the above poem means _______.

A where the sky touches the sea
B where the sky moves away from the sea
C where the sea embraces the sky
D where the sea ends


dont option "A" and "C" mean the same or is it just my misconception

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Atharv Deshmukh from Lexicon International School, Pune
Class : Class 7
why? simply why?

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Niharika from shishya, banglore
Class : Class 7
Technically they mean the same but the answer will be 'A'. It is written 'where the low sky mates with the sea.' That would mean that the sky touches the sea. Not the sea touches the sky (like in 'C')

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Kunal Kakaraddi from Vibgyor High Marathalli, Bangalore
Class : Class 7
Don't A and C mean the same thing?

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Atharv Deshmukh from Lexicon International School, Pune
Class : Class 7
A and C are the same

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