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Pearlin Christina S from GRD Public School, Coimbatore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Srushti Deepak Soni from Vibgyor , Vadodara
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Ananya Ojha from Delhi Public School, Noida
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Neel from DPS sec-45, Gurgaon
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SS from meridian, hyderabad
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

Read the passage and answer the question that follow.
The Land of the Vikings
Who has not heard of the Vikings—the dauntless sea-rovers, who in the days of long ago were the dread of Northern Europe? We English should know something of them, for Viking blood flowed in the veins of many of our ancestors. And these fierce fighting men came in their ships across the North Sea from Norway on more than one occasion to invade England. But they came once too often, and were thoroughly defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, when, as will be remembered, Harald the Hard, King of Norway, was killed in attempting to turn his namesake, King Harold of England, off his throne.
Norwegian historians, however, do not say very much about this particular invasion. They prefer to dwell on the great deeds of another King Harald, who was called “Fairhair”, and who began his reign some two hundred years earlier. This Harald was only a boy of ten years of age when he came to the throne, but he was determined to increase the size of his kingdom, which was then but a small one, so he trained his men to fight, built grand new ships, and then began his conquests. Norway was at that time divided up into a number of districts or small kingdoms, each of which was ruled over by an Earl or petty King, and it was these rulers whom Harald set to work to subdue. He intended to make one united kingdom of all Norway, and he eventually succeeded in doing so. But he had many a hard fight; and if the Sagas, as the historical records of the North are called, speak truly, he fought almost continuously during twelve long years before he had accomplished his task, and even then he was only just twenty-one years of age.
They say that he did all these wonderful things because a girl, named Gyda, whom he wanted to marry, refused to have anything to say to him until he had made himself King of a really big kingdom. He made a vow that he would not comb or cut his hair until he had conquered the whole country.
He led his men to victory after victory, and at length fought his last great battle at Hafrsfjord (to the south of Stavanger). The sea-fight was desperate and long, but Harald’sfleetsucceededinoverpoweringthat of the enemy, and Sulki, King of Rogaland, as well as Erik, King of Hardanger, were slain. Then Harald cut and dressed his hair, the skalds composed poems in honour of the event, and for ever after he was known as Fairhair. He was truly a great Viking, and he did not rest content with the conquest of Norway alone; for he brought his ships across the North Sea and conquered the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Shetlands, and the Orkneys, and he lived to the age of eighty-three.

Harold neither cut nor combed his hair because________.

Athe war was long and fierce
Bof his love for Gyda and his unwillingness to displease her
Cof the war which was fought in the sea
Dof his oath to refrain from doing so until he had conquered the land


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Leveyrm from Our own high school, Al warqa, Dubai
Class : Class 6
i selected D

Ans 2:

Agnish Mukherjee from DPS, Hyderabad
Class : Class 6
Well, but the correct option is D, not A, because there is a line in the passage which says, "He made a vow that he would neither cut nor comb his hair until he conquered the whole country." So the correct option is D) Harold neither cut nor combed his hair because of his oath to refrain from doing so until he had conquered the land.

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manya from DPS, banglore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Hafsah M I from Orison Academy, Coimbatore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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Mihika Hivarekar from Global Indian International School, Pune
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Shivansh Raut from R.N. Podar School, Mumbai
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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Arnav Nandan from ST PETERS COLLEGE AGRA, Agra
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

Read the passage and answer the question that follow.

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.

Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.

Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough -- so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share in the glory that was Multivac’s.

For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth’s poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.

But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact. The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.

Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
The Last Question by Issac Asimov

Which sentence best describes the humans on May 21, 2061?

AMultivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting.
BOn May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact.
CAny single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.
DMultivac had no intention, originally, of disturbing humans.


The sentence in the paragraph should mean that no human could understand everything about the computer, however the option doesn't make any sense

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