10 Most Important Comprehension Passages Flamingo 12th Exams

10 Most Important Comprehension Passages Flamingo 12th Exams will help to score 5 marks in the class 12 English examination. 10 Most Important Comprehension Passages Flamingo 12th Exams will provide you with an easy understanding of the book Flamingo. Revise question number 7 from 10 Most Important Comprehension Passages Flamingo 12th Exams of BSEH and CBSE.

10 Most Important Comprehension Passages Flamingo 12th Exams

1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow The Last Lesson :

For a moment I thought of
running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so
warm, so bright! The birds were chirping at the edge of the
woods, and in the open field back of the sawmill the
Prussian soldiers were drilling. It was all much more
tempting than the rule for participles, but I had the
strength to resist and hurried off to school.

Think of the meaning of Important words in the paragraph of Indigo:

1. running away: not attending
2. chirping: the sound of birds
3. drilling: parade
4. tempting: attracting

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1. What is the name of the chapter?
2. Who is ‘I’ here?
3. Why did the author not want to attend the school?
4. What were the birds doing?
5. What were the soldiers doing?
6. Why did the author hurry up for the school?

Answers:

1. The name of the textbook is “The Last Lesson.”
2. I represent the author.
3. The author didn’t want to attend school as it was a very warm day.
4. The birds were chirruping.
5. The soldiers were drilling.
6. He hurried up as he was late for the school.

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The Last Lesson Reading Comprehension of important paragraphs Class 12 English Flamingo

The Last Lesson’s reading comprehension of important passages.

2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :

When I passed the town hall there was a crowd in
front of the bulletin board. For the last two years all our
bad news had come from there — the lost battles, the draft,
the orders of the commanding officer — and I thought to
myself, without stopping, “What can be the matter now?”

Think of the meaning of Important words in the paragraph of Indigo:

1. bulletin-board: notice board

1. Where did the author come from?
2. Who was standing in front of the bulletin board?
3. What were they doing in front of the bulletin board?
4. What was the bad news?
5. What was the matter that day?

Answers:

1. The author was crossing the town hall.
2. The villagers were standing in front of the bulletin board.
3. They were reading the news.
4. The loss of battle to the Germans.
5. It was the last day of the teacher, M. Hamelin, at the school.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Savita, a young girl in a drab pink dress, sits alongside an elderly woman, soldering pieces of glass. As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the
sanctity of the bangles she helps make. It symbolizes an Indian woman’s suhag, auspiciousness in marriage. It will dawn on her suddenly one day when her head is draped with a red veil, her hands dyed red with henna, and the red bangles rolled onto her wrists. She will then become a bride.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter from which the above lines have been taken.
(ii) Name the author of the chapter.
(iii) What is Savita wearing?
(iv) What sanctity is attached to bangles?
(v) What job is Savita doing?

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :

I remember a story a man from Udipi once told me. As a young boy, he would go to school past an old temple, where his father was a priest. He would stop briefly at the temple and pray for a pair of shoes. Thirty years later I visited his town and the temple, which was now drowned in an air of desolation. In the backyard, where lived the new priest, there were red and white plastic chairs. A young boy dressed in a grey uniform, wearing socks and shoes, arrived panting and threw his school bag on a folding bed. Looking at the boy, I remembered the
prayer another boy had made to the goddess when he had finally got a pair of shoes to let me never lose them” The goddess had granted his prayer. Young boys like the son of the priest now wore shoes. But many others like the ragpickers in my neighborhood remain shoeless.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What was the young boy’s father?
(iii) Who is “I” in the first line of the passage?
(iv) What did the boy pray for?
(v) Find words from the passage which mean the same as :
(a) Ruin

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Saheb too is wearing tennis shoes that look strange over his discolored shirt and shorts. “Someone gave them to me,” he says in the manner of an explanation. The fact that they are discarded shoes of some rich boy, who perhaps refused to wear them because of a hole in one of them, does not bother him. For one who had walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole are a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
Q. (i) Name the chapter from which the above lines have been taken.

Ans. Lost Spring
Q. (ii) Name the author of the chapter.

Ans. Anees Jung
Q. (iii) What looks strange?

Ans. Tennis shoes look strange.
Q. (iv) Why did some rich boy discard the shoes?

Ans.  The rich boy discarded the shoes due to a minor hole.
Q. (v) What does a dream come true for Saheb?

Ans. A dream became the truth when Saheb got shoes.