At birth, the child was very fair and pretty. But when she was two years old, she had an attack of small-pox. Only the eyes were saved, but the entire body was permanently disfigured by deep black
pockmarks. Little Sulekha could not speak till she was five, and when at last she learnt to speak, she stammered.
(a) The pretty girl was attacked by small pox? When she was ___old.
(b) He body was diefigured by _________.
(c) Give the noun form of ‘save’
(d) Give the opposite word for ‘permanently’.
Class 10 English Chapter 9 Reference to context – RTC 1
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(a) two years
(b) deep black pock-marks.
(c) saving
(d) temporarily