Reading Comprehension Exercise For Class 9

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand have claimed 27 lives since Friday even as rivers continue to be in spate in Bihar. Fifteen deaths have been reported from Madhya Pradesh since Friday evening as the MET department predicted more showers and sounded heavy downpour alert for some districts on Sunday. ‘Three Indian Air Force aircraft dropped food packets and medicines in flooded areas of Rewa district,’ Collector Rahul Jain said. Seven people including a woman and four children were killed and three others were injured when a house collapsed in Rahatgarh area of Sagar district on Saturday.

Two people including an old woman were also killed and seven others were injured when a newly constructed building collapsed due to incessant rains at Maihar in Satna district. A jeep carrying two persons was swept away by the swollen Betwa river as they were attempting to cross a bridge in Raisen district. Three bodies were recovered from a nullah on Saturday in Chhattarpur district. The victims were travelling in a car that was washed away off a bridge on the flooded nullah on Friday.

In Rajasthan, five people were killed when their house collapsed in Phool Baroda village in Baran district due to incessant rains that have created a flood like situation in several parts of the state since Saturday morning. Several people are feared stranded in Chabra, Chipabarode, Kawai areas as Parvan Parwati, Ujjad and other rivers are overflowing after the rains.

Seven members of a family were killed when their house was razed to the ground by huge boulders that rolled down the hill following a cloudburst in Pauri district of Uttarakhand on Saturday. The army was called into the flood affected areas of Baran district as senior officials also rushed to the spot. At least 24 people were airlifted in Baran district and nearby areas. Several villages remained inundated after water entered buildings, houses and a private power plant in Baran.

Answer the following

1. How many lives have been lost in the heavy rain?

a) 36; b) 27; c) 72; d) None

2. How did the government help the people in flooded areas of Rewa district?

3. Why was a jeep swept away?

4. In which district does Phool Baroda village lie?

5. How many people died in Rahatgarh area?

6. Name the rivers overflowing after the rains.

7. How Baran district was affected in the heavy rain?

8. Who rescued the lives of people in Baran district?

9. Find a word which means the same as continuous (Para 2)

10. Find a word which means the same as flooded. (Para 4)

Answers

1. 27 (15 + 5 + 7)

2. The government helped by sending three Indian Air Force aircraft to drop food packets and medicines to people in flooded areas of Rewa district.

3. The jeep was swept away while it attempted to cross a bridge across the swollen river Betwa.

4. Phool Baroda village lie in Baran district of Rajasthan.

5. Seven people died in Rahatgarh area.

6. Betwa, Parvan, Parwati, Ujjad are some of the rivers overflowing after the rains.

7. In Baran district, the incessant rains created a flood like situation and five people were killed when their house collapsed.

8. The army rescued the lives of the people in the flood affected Baran district.

9. Incessant

10. Inundated