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Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:“What do you think is the best thing about being disabled ?” I had asked him earlier,“I don’t think there is anything good about ] being disabled.”‘“I think,” I said, “you do discover how much kindness there is in the world.”“Yes,” he said; it was a disadvantage of i his voice synthesiser that it could convey no inflection, no shades or tone. And I could not tell how enthusiastically he agreed with me.Every time I shifted in my chair or turned my wrist to watch the time I wanted to make every one of our thirty minutes count I felt a huge relief and exhilaration in the possibilities of my body. How little it mattered then that I would never walk, or even stand.(1) What was the reply from Stephen Hawking for ‘the best thing about being j disabled’ ?(2) Why could the writer not tell the intensity of Stephen Hawking’s enthusiasm in replying his question?(3) Why did the writer look at his watch every now and then?(4) What was the writer’s feeling in the end ?

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1. For ‘the best thing about being disabled’ Stephen Hawking replied that he didn’t think there is anything good about being disabled.

2. The writer could not tell the intensity of Stephen Hawking’s enthusiasm in replying his question because the voice synthesiser could not convey any inflection, shades or tone of Stephen Hawking’s speech.

3. The writer looked at his watch every now and then to watch the time as he wanted to make every minute of the allotted time count.

4. In the end the writer felt a huge relief s and exhilaration in the possibilities of his body. Now he felt that even if he would never walk, or even stand, it did not matter to him.



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