Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.
The finest asset any child can have is a happy home. Such environment will enable him to develop strength and stability of character, thereby teaching him to face the future without fear or undue anxiety. It also will give him something worthwhile to live for. If he exhibits good judgement in later years, much of the credit must go to those who trained him. If he fails, it may have been due to troubles in his home. his school or unsympathetic and hostile relatives. A great i percentage of juvenile problems can be traced to faulty home education and unwholesome influences in early childhood. Undoubtedly, there would be fewer juvenile delinquents if there were more homes where children learned to love and respect their fellow men.
Remember this: happy parents create happy homes; happy homes produce happy children happy children make happy communities and happy communities make a happier world.
(a) Give one word that could replace each of the following in the passage: (i) asset (ii) stability; (iii) worthwhile; (iv) exhibits; (v) hostile: (vi) unwholesome
(b) State in three sentences, three reasons given by the writer to support his view that a happy home is the finest asset any child can have (c) What does the writer mean by: (i) undue anxiety, (ii) juvenile delinquents?
(d) Give from the passage. one: (i) abstract noun which means honour or praise;
(ii) adverb which means certainly: (iii) verb which means make or produce
(e) In one sentence, state why you think the author uses the word happy many times in the last paragraph.
Explanation
(a) (i) asset -.inheritance, resource, gift. (ii) stability - firmness, steadiness (iii) worthwhile - deserving, good, reliable (iv) exhibits - displays, shows, points out (v) hostile - unfriendly, wicked, uncooperative (vi) unwholesome - negative, bad, unhealthy
(b)(i) A happy home helps the child to develop strong and stable character
(2)A happy home prepares or equips the child to face the future without fear.
(3)A happy home helps the child to have something to depend on or live for. (c)(0 undue anxiety — unnecessary worry, or fear of uncertainty. (ii) Juvenile delinquents - young offenders, young criminals.
(d)(i) credit (ii) undoubtedly (iii) Create. (e) The word "happy" is used several times to emphasize the importance of happiness in human society.