Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
For quite a while, Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness from friends and teachers. But by the time she was eleven, her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. It was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage. They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school of the deaf.
1. Why did headmistress urge her parents to take her to the specialists?
2. At what age were symptoms of deafness noticed in Evelyn?
3. Trace the word that means “damaged”.
1. Evelyn’s school’s headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist because she had a hearing problem.
2. At the age of eleven the symptoms of deafness were noticed in Evelyn.
3. Impaired.