Read the given passage and answer the six questions that follow.
When I was in my late teens and still undecided about which language I should write in, he told me that the language one is born into, one’s mother tongue, can be the only possible medium of creative expression. For most of his life, my father, Sripat Rai, had been a Hindi editor and critic. Off and on, he translated writings into English from Hindi. He was fond of saying that a failed writer becomes a critic. The weight of his literary expectation came, eventually, to rest on me. He seemed happy that I was showing an inclination for writing.
“She will go far,” he told my mother after reading the first story that I sent him from Melbourne. My father’s pronouncement on the mother tongue stayed with me when I later started writing fiction in Hindi. Another thing that I barely acknowledged even to myself was that I felt something like shame whenever I thought of writing in English. It seemed wrong for a granddaughter of Premchand even to be thinking so. Our family had a certain linguistic pride. I knew that Premchand was famous, but I had not at that time realised the extent of his popularity. The fact that I was the granddaughter of Premchand, followed me everywhere.
Everyone had a story to tell about their personal engagement with his fiction — the shopkeeper, the long time cook in my father’s Delhi house, a tea vendor, etc. The list was long, for there was practically no one who had not read something by him that had moved them. However, it was this very ubiquity, the reverence and love that he inspired in people, that made of him something too large for me to comprehend in the early years of my life. It led also to the strange feeling that, without having read him and just by being related to him, I had somehow inhaled his writing. The reading happened much later.
Q) When her father said, “She will go far,” he meant that ______.
Correct Answer :
she will achieve great heights in life
Solution :
The correct option is she will achieve great heights in life.
Step-by-step Explanation:
1. Analyze the context of the statement: In the passage, the narrator writes, "The weight of his literary expectation came, eventually, to rest on me. He seemed happy that I was showing an inclination for writing." Directly following this, the narrator quotes her father as saying, “She will go far,” to her mother after he read the first story she sent him from Melbourne.
2. Deconstruct the idiomatic expression: The phrase "to go far" is a common English idiom. It does not mean traveling a physical distance (which rules out "she will travel widely" and "she will settle in a far-off place") nor does it mean behaving in an extreme or unacceptable manner (which rules out "she will go too far, one of these days"). Instead, it idiomatically means to be very successful or to achieve great things in the future.
3. Connect with the father's reaction: Since the father was a Hindi editor/critic and expressed happiness and "literary expectation" regarding her writing, reading her first story prompted him to predict her future success as a writer. Therefore, "She will go far" means he believed she would achieve great heights in life through her writing.
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