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Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by choosing the most appropriate option.
He changed the world!
Six dots. Six bumps. Six bumps in different patterns, like constellations, spreading out over the page. What are they? Numbers, letters, words? Who made this code ?
None other than Louis Braille, a French twelve-year-old boy, who was blind, and his work changed the world of reading and writing forever.
Louis was from a small town near Paris. He was born on 4th January, 1809. Louis became blind by accident, when he was three years old. He was playing in his dad's workshop with a sharp tool that accidentally hurt his eye. The wound got infected, and the infection spread, and soon, Louis was blind in both the eyes.
Now Louis needed a new way to learn. He studied at his old school for two more years, but he couldn't learn everything just by listening. Things became better when Louis got a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, when he was ten. But even there, most of the teachers just talked to the students. The library had fourteen huge books with raised letters but they were very difficult to read.
In 1821, a former soldier named Charles Barbier visited the school. Barbier shared his invention, called 'night writing', a code of twelve raised dots that let soldiers share top-secret information on the battlefield without even having to speak.
Unfortunately, the code was not easy for the soldiers.
The young Louis Braille quickly realized how useful this system of raised dots could be, provided it was simplified.
Louis trimmed Barbier's twelve dots into six, and improved the system by the time he was fifteen. He published the first-ever Braille book in 1829. But did he stop there? No way! In 1837, he added symbols for maths and music. Louis Braille eventually became a teacher in the school where he had been a student.
Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by choosing the most appropriate option.
He changed the world!
Six dots. Six bumps. Six bumps in different patterns, like constellations, spreading out over the page. What are they? Numbers, letters, words? Who made this code ?
None other than Louis Braille, a French twelve-year-old boy, who was blind, and his work changed the world of reading and writing forever.
Louis was from a small town near Paris. He was born on 4th January, 1809. Louis became blind by accident, when he was three years old. He was playing in his dad's workshop with a sharp tool that accidentally hurt his eye. The wound got infected, and the infection spread, and soon, Louis was blind in both the eyes.
Now Louis needed a new way to learn. He studied at his old school for two more years, but he couldn't learn everything just by listening. Things became better when Louis got a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, when he was ten. But even there, most of the teachers just talked to the students. The library had fourteen huge books with raised letters but they were very difficult to read.
In 1821, a former soldier named Charles Barbier visited the school. Barbier shared his invention, called 'night writing', a code of twelve raised dots that let soldiers share top-secret information on the battlefield without even having to speak.
Unfortunately, the code was not easy for the soldiers.
The young Louis Braille quickly realized how useful this system of raised dots could be, provided it was simplified.
Louis trimmed Barbier's twelve dots into six, and improved the system by the time he was fifteen. He published the first-ever Braille book in 1829. But did he stop there? No way! In 1837, he added symbols for maths and music. Louis Braille eventually became a teacher in the school where he had been a student.
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