Johnson Borges Solutions for Exercise 1: Model Passages

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these industrials, writers, and artists, helping to bud a new India and a new world?

The second paragraph mentions 'food', 'healthy conditions of living', education', and 'opportunities of growth' as being poor in India. Which of these were denied to Ramanujan?

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows:

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

What proves that Ramanujan was a genius?

Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

What is your opinion about opportunities provided to budding students in India?

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Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

Write the word from the passage that means:

In a way that is impossible to avoid.

Directions: Read the given comprehension carefully and answer the question that follows.

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of the conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education, and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

Write down the word from the passage that means the same as the following:
that cannot be held back or controlled

Directions: Read the given comprehension carefully and answer the question that follows.

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

Everyone in the group _____ to make the newcomer feel at home.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows:

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

The poor fellow had nothing _____ except a life of poverty.

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Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This was Srinivasa Ramanujan. Born in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling over with some irrepressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky chance, he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge, and during a very brief period, there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a fellow, but he died two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe, referred to him somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century.
Ramanujan's brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how few get any education at all, how many live on the verge of starvation; of even those who get some education and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and offered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities for growth, how many among these individuals, writers, and artists, will help to bud a new India and a new world?

Explain: If life opened its gates to them.