RUTHERFORD
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Ernest Rutherford was the son of a Scot emigrant to New Zealand. His parents had 12 children, of whom Ernest was the fourth. His education was in a state primary school from which children at the age of 13 could get grants of scholarships to secondary schools and to the universities. Rutherford had no intention of following an academic career. He was no book-worm. He was good in any rough-and-tumble and a keen football player. But he was good at Latin and he had a passion for ‘music and a mechanical bent of mind. At Nelson College, a state boarding school, he was an outstanding pupil, he sat for a scholarship to Canterbury College and this was because his masters expected it of him, and he won it. There, Rutherford as a student was fascinated by Hertz’s work on radio waves and he began to conduct his own experiments in the clock room of the college, where the students, hung their gowns.
1. Rutherford was his parent’s
(a) last
(b) only
(c) fourth
(d) second
2. Nelson College was a
(a) state boarding school in New Zealand
(b) college in England
(c) school in Scotland
(d) school in the United States
3. Rutherford sat for a scholarship test because
(a) he was an outstanding student.
(b) he was a bookworm.
(c) he thought of following an academic career.
(d) his masters wanted him to do that.
4. Rutherford carried out his own private experiments in
(a) some corner of the cloakroom of Nelson College
(b) some corner of the cloakroom of Canterbury College
(c) a corner of the room allotted to him in the boarding house
(d) in the laboratory of Nelson College
5. The phrase ‘mechanical bent’ suggests that Rutherford
(a) was quite mechanical
(b) was devoid of human warmth, emotion, feeling, intelligence etc.
(c) did things and lived as thoughtlessly as a machine
(d) had an aptitude for the science of machinery
ANSWERS:-
1. (c)
2. ( a)
3. (d)
4. (b)
5. (d)
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