Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 128 to 135) by selecting the correct/most appropriate option.
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies (grasslands) with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon from many miles afar. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cooking stove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar — except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trapdoor in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the ploughed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of long blades until they were the same gray colour to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
Which of the following statements are true (T) and which ones are false (F) ?
A. The fear of a cyclone loomed large on the family.
B. They had built a shelter for protection against wind and rain.
C. Around the house there was nothing to reduce the impact of a storm.
D. Their drawing room had only three or four chairs.
Choose the correct option :
Correct Answer :
T F T F
Solution :
The correct option is T F T F.
Let's analyze each statement based on the given passage:
A. The fear of a cyclone loomed large on the family. (True - T)
The passage mentions that they had a "cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path." This confirms they prepared for and feared severe cyclones/whirlwinds.
B. They had built a shelter for protection against wind and rain. (False - F)
The cellar was specifically built as a protection against violent cyclones/whirlwinds that could crush buildings, not as a general shelter for routine wind and rain.
C. Around the house there was nothing to reduce the impact of a storm. (True - T)
The passage states, "Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions." Without trees or other structures nearby, there was nothing to act as a windbreak or reduce storm impact.
D. Their drawing room had only three or four chairs. (False - F)
The house consisted of only "one room" that contained everything (stove, cupboard, table, chairs, beds). There was no separate "drawing room".
Therefore, the correct evaluation of statements A, B, C, and D is T F T F.
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