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in Class 12 by kratos

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words :

Old people say that childhood is the best part of life. They look back at their childhood and remember all their happy days, the jolly games, the fun they had to school, jokes they used to play and the endless discussion they had among friends on almost every topic. Perhaps these old folks are right. They forget many things that were not so pleasant in their childhood. There is a funny story that tells of a boy who was crying because he has to go back to school after the holidays. The father scolded him and said, 'Why, I only wish I could be a boy and go to school again.' And all in a moment the father was a little boy and his son was a grown man like his father. The father, in the shape of a little boy had to go to school and I can tell you he did not like it at all. A child'* trouble may be seen small to grownups but they are very big to him.

(i) How do old people describe childhood?

(ii) When old people look back at their childhood, what do they remember?

(iii) Why did the father scold the boy?

(iv) What happened when the father wished to be a boy?

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by kratos
 
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(i) Old people describes that childhood is the best part of life.

(ii) Where old people look back at their childhood, they remember all its happy days, the jolly games, the fun they had at school, jokes they play and endless discussion they had among friends on almost every topic.

(iii) The father scolded the boy because he was not going to school after the holidays.

(iv) When the father wished to be a boy, all in a moment the father was a little boy and his son was a grown man like his father.

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