68. Reading Skills Comprehension: Letter

LETTER

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:-

He was a very regular correspondent. There was hardly a letter calling for a considered reply which he did not answer himself. Letters from individuals, dealing with their personal and private problems, constituted a considerable portion of his correspondence and his replies are valuable as guidance to others with similar problems. For a great period of his life, he did not take the assistance of any stenographer or typist and used to write whatever he required in his own hand, and even when such assistance became unavoidable, he continued writing a great deal in his own hand. There were occasions when he became physically unable to write with the fingers of his right hand and, at a late stage in his life, he learnt the art of writing with his left hand. He did the same thing with spinning. Private correspondence, which absorbed much of his writing in this way, constituted an important and significant part of big teachings, as applied to particular problems of the ordinary man in his everyday life.

Based on your reading of the above passage, fill in the blanks with suitable words:

He answered the letters (a) —————— which needed his considered (b)—————–. Letters dealt with problems which were (c) ————- and (d) ————. He did not take the help of any (e) ————– or (f) ———. When the right hand became (g) ————– he used his (h) ——hand.