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CBSE Class 9 Reading Comprehension — practice questions — page 2

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Spot the error: 'Neither Saheb nor his friends / has any shoes / that fit them well.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the BEST rewrite of: 'Despite of his hard work, Saheb earns very less.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct active-to-passive transformation of: 'Saheb carries the steel canister.'Read the answer and worked solution →'A person who picks up rags or other waste for a living' is best described by the one wordRead the answer and worked solution →'Perpetual' in 'perpetual state of poverty' MOST nearly meansRead the answer and worked solution →The idiom 'roof over one's head' refers toRead the answer and worked solution →The expression 'slog through the day' MOST nearly meansRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'ABUNDANT'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'CANDID'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'OBSTINATE'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'METICULOUS'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'TRANSIENT'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to 'GENEROUS'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to 'OPTIMISTIC'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to 'ACCEPT'.Read the answer and worked solution →Order the events of the storyRead the answer and worked solution →True or false about the storyRead the answer and worked solution →Numbers in the storyRead the answer and worked solution →Grandmother or narrator?Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the grandmother's wordsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Spot the error: 'Neither Saheb nor his friends / has any shoes / that fit them well.'

  1. No error
  2. Neither Saheb nor his friends
  3. Has any shoes
  4. That fit them well
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Correct answer: C. Has any shoes

With 'neither X nor Y' the verb agrees with the NEAREST subject — 'his friends' (plural). So 'HAVE any shoes'. The first and third parts are fine.

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Choose the BEST rewrite of: 'Despite of his hard work, Saheb earns very less.'

  1. Despite of his hard work, Saheb earns very less.
  2. Despite his hard work, Saheb earns very little.
  3. In spite his hard work, Saheb earns very less.
  4. Despite of his hard work, Saheb earns very few.
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Correct answer: B. Despite his hard work, Saheb earns very little.

'Despite' is not followed by 'of' (unlike 'in spite of'). 'Very little' is correct for uncountable money/wages 'very less' is unidiomatic 'very few' is for countable things.

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Choose the correct active-to-passive transformation of: 'Saheb carries the steel canister.'

  1. Saheb was carrying the steel canister.
  2. The steel canister carries Saheb.
  3. The steel canister is carried by Saheb.
  4. The steel canister was being carried by Saheb.
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Correct answer: C. The steel canister is carried by Saheb.

Active 'Saheb carries X' → Passive 'X is carried by Saheb'. Tense (simple present) is preserved. The other options change the tense or invert agency.

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