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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows.I had never seen a house on fire before. So, one evening when I heard fire engines with loud alarm bells rushing past my house, I quickly ran out and, a few streets away, joined a large crowd of people; but we could see the fire only from a distance because the police would not allow any one near the building on fire.What a terrible scene I saw that day! Huge flames of fire were coming out of each floor, and black and thick smoke spread all around. Every now and then tongues of fire would shoot up almost sky-high, sending, huge sparks of fire round-about.Three fire engines were busily engaged and the firemen in their dark uniform were playing the hose on various parts of the building. The rushing water form several hoses soaked the building but it did not seem to have any effect on the flames. Then the tall red ladders of the fire engine were stretched upwards and I could see some firemen climbing up with hoses in their hands. On reaching almost the top of the ladder, they began to pour floods of water on the topmost part of the building. This continuous flooding brought the fire under control but the building was completely destroyed.While fire is a blessing in many ways, it can also be a great danger to human life and property.The given passage is a:Third person narrativeSecond person narrativeFirst person narrativeAn omniscient narration

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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows.I had never seen a house on fire before. So, one evening when I heard fire engines with loud alarm bells rushing past my house, I quickly ran out and, a few streets away, joined a large crowd of people; but we could see the fire only from a distance because the police would not allow any one near the building on fire.What a terrible scene I saw that day! Huge flames of fire were coming out of each floor, and black and thick smoke spread all around. Every now and then tongues of fire would shoot up almost sky-high, sending, huge sparks of fire round-about.Three fire engines were busily engaged and the firemen in their dark uniform were playing the hose on various parts of the building. The rushing water form several hoses soaked the building but it did not seem to have any effect on the flames. Then the tall red ladders of the fire engine were stretched upwards and I could see some firemen climbing up with hoses in their hands. On reaching almost the top of the ladder, they began to pour floods of water on the topmost part of the building. This continuous flooding brought the fire under control but the building was completely destroyed.While fire is a blessing in many ways, it can also be a great danger to human life and property.The given passage is a:Third person narrativeSecond person narrativeFirst person narrativeAn omniscient narration

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Identify which of the answers is a key word in the paragraph that follows. The paragraph is about the fire at the Triangle Waist Company building that killed 146 people in New York City in 1911. A fire at the Triangle Waist Company factory, a ten-story high building, yesterday caused the deaths of one hundred and seventy-five workers. The fire, which began just after the workers stopped working, spread quickly through the top three floors used by the company, blocking access to staircases and elevators. Many of the young women and girls working there were burned in the fire, while others died after trying to escape through the windows. Few had time to escape, and instead could only watch in horror as the flames quickly approached. Source: The Jewish Daily Forward, 26 March 1911. Translated into English by Tina Lunson. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5482.Multiple choice question.staircasesworkerselevatorswindows

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