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On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the following questions.
1. Choose the main problem pointed out as the cause of a hurdle in educating girls
among the following.

(a) lack of funds (b) lack of books
(c) lack of schools (d) lack of time
2. Choose the option that suggests how we can increase encourage education among
girls.
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
increase in low to no cost increase in decrease in female
classrooms in education for all involvement of foeticide
school MNCs in education

(a) Option (i) (b) Option (ii) (c) Option (iii) (d) Option (iv)
3. What can you infer about the issue of lack of education among girls?
(a) Girls should be provided with free books to increase education among them.
(b) Basic education at a low to no cost should be provided to resolve this issue.
(c) Providing families with money can help the girls get admissions in city schools.

(d) Girls should be allowed education even after marriage.
4. According to the figure, what is the proportion of girls out of school?
(a) 1 in 4 (b) 1 in 3 (c) 1 in 5 (d) 1 in 6
5. How many girls, according to the figure, are never going to enrol in school throughout
their lifetime?
(a) 20 million (b) 30 million (c) 12 million (d) 17 million

6. What is the superlative form of ‘high’ in the passage?
(a) highest (b) higher (c) heat (d) height
7. Select the option that makes the correct use of “enrol”, as used in the passage, to fill
in the blank space.
(a) We were glad to ____________________ his invitation.
(b) I decided to ____________________ for ‘Art for Beginners’.

(c) Riya was annoyed as Rahul did not ____________________ his mistake.
(d) Grade 10 is the best time to ____________________ which stream will help in
our career the best.

8. Every educated girl contributes to the _________________ of society in some way.
(a) finance (b) decrement (c) betterment (d) technology
9. In the sentence: ‘that education is a must for all of us’, must is a _______________
(modal verb/noun).
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