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A passage is given with the question following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question followed out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, send and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's Universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of the world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth, beautiful in amazement; the tube would fall off!

The writer is describing her experience of which activity?

• fishing

• snorkelling

• boat ride

• long distance swimming

A passage is given with the question following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question followed out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, send and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's Universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of the world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth, beautiful in amazement; the tube would fall off!

How to avoid the mask fogging up?

• By breathing through the nose and exhaling through the mouth

• By breathing through the mouth

• By keeping one's head under water

• By looking downwards

A passage is given with the question following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question followed out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, send and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's Universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of the world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth, beautiful in amazement; the tube would fall off!

What is 'Nemo'?

• A name of an under water animal

• Name of the writer

• Name of the instructor

• Name of a type of sea cucumber

A passage is given with the question following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question followed out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, send and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's Universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of the world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth, beautiful in amazement; the tube would fall off!

The writer saw all of the following except

• canary yellow fish

• sea horses

• parrot fish

• vibrant green fish

A passage is given with the question following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question followed out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, send and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's Universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of the world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth, beautiful in amazement; the tube would fall off!

When would there be a risk of the tube falling off?

• When the mask fogged up

• When one took breathed through the nose

• When it became dark

• When the mouth was opened