KEY TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORDS (X CLASS ENGLISH PAPER I)
This is the key to:
Exercise IBCR 1
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(successful,history, right, success,
right,succeed,stories,)
Failure is the highway to success (18).
Tom Watson Sr. said, “If you want to succeed (19), double your
failure rate.”
If you study history (20), you will find
that all stories of success are also stories (21) of great
failures. But people don’t see the failures. They only see one side of the
picture and they say that person got lucky: “He must have been at the right (22)
place at the right time.”
Exercise IBCR 2
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(failed, elected, effort, fails, defeated,selected,congressional,congress,)
Let me share someone’s life history with you. This was
a man who failed (18)in business at the age of 21;
was defeated (19) in a legislative race at age 22;
failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart
at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional (20) race
at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort (21)to
become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and
was elected (22) president of the United States at age
52.
Exercise IBCR 3
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(lead, inventor,humiliated, failure, invention,humiliation,mislead)
This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Would you call him a failure?(18) He could have quit. But to Lincoln,
defeat was a detour and not a dead end.
In 1913, Lee De Forest, the inventor (19) of the
triodes tube, was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means
to mislead
(20)
the public into buying stocks of his company by claiming that he could transmit
the human voice across the Atlantic. He was publicly humiliated (21) Can you imagine
where we would be without his invention (22)?
Exercise IBCR 4
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(questioned, heavier, who, heavy, flight, asked, editorial)
A New York Times editorial (18) on December 10, 1903, questioned (19) the wisdom of the
Wright Brothers who (20)were trying to invent a machine, heavier (21) than air, that
would fly. One week later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their
famous flight
(22)
Exercise IBCR 5
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(than, realized, estimated, recipe, quit, then, menu, cheque)
Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 cheque (18) from social
Security, realized
(19) he
had to do something. He remembered his mother's recipe (19) and went out
selling. How many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order?
It is estimated (20) that he had
knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. How many
of us quit
(21) after
three tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and then (22) we say we tried as
hard as we could?
Exercise IBCR 6
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(cartoons, inspired, by, from, inspiration, cartoonist, seeing)
As a young cartoonist
(18) Walt Disney faced many rejections from (19) newspaper editors,
who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw
some cartoons (20) Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed
near the church. After seeing (21) a small mouse, he was inspired
(22). That was the start of Mickey Mouse.
Exercise IBCR 7
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(way, schooling, success, manner, pocket, school, Successful)
Successful (18) people don't do great things; they
only do small things in a great way (19) One day a partially deaf
four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket (20) from his
teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school
(21)" His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid
to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great
Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling (22) and
he was partially deaf.
Exercise IBCR 8
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(lucky, reverse, different, and, so, difference, failures)
Henry Ford forgot to put
the reverse (18) gear in the first car he made. Do you consider
these people failures (19)? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in
the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just
got lucky (20)
All success stories are
stories of great failures. The only difference (21) is that every
time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather
than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure and (22) keep
moving.
Exercise IBCR 9
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(insurance, factory, in, burning, factor, burnt, lifetime)
In 1914, Thomas Edison,
at age 67, lost his factory (18), which was worth a few million dollars,
on fire. It had very little insurance (19) No longer a young man,
Edison watched his lifetime (20) effort go up in smoke and said,
"There is great value in (21) disaster. All our mistakes are burnt
(22) up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of the disaster,
three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!
Exercise IBCR 10
(Questions
18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given
in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(fired, and, told, approximately, but, approximate, examples)
Below are more examples
(18) of the failures of successful people:
1. Thomas Edison failed approximately
(19) 10,000 times while he was working on the light bulb.
2. Henry Ford was broke
at the age of 40.
3. Lee Iacocca was fired
(20) by Henry Ford II at the age of 54.
4. Young Beethoven was told
(21) that he had no talent for music, but (22) he gave some of
the best music to the world.
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