| Comprehension: | ||
| Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. In a world of naval supremacy, aircraft carriers may be the largest naval ships to sail the seas, but arguably a submarine the size of nearly two football fields is a little more intimidating. The typhoon class submarines of the Russian navy are the largest submersible ships that have ever been built. More specifically, a Russian submarine known as Dmitriy Donskoy, TK-208, is the world’s largest submarine. Measuring in at 175 metres, nearly 600 feet, the submarine has been in commission since 1980, with a few periods of significant refurbishment in its history. In addition to the submarine’s impressive length, it’s also 25 metres wide, giving it quite the presence in the water. The displacement of the ship is 48,000 tons and is operated with a crew of just 160 men. The ship was first launched in 1980, but in 1990 it entered an extensive dry dock period to bring it up to modern standards. It was there for over a decade until in 2002 the ship was fully fitted with the latest hardware and relaunched into service. The Dmitriy Donskoy left drydock from the Russian city of Severodvinsk at this point and has been serving the Russian navy ever since. It contains 20 launchers for the RSM-56 Bulava ballistic missile. This weapons system is known around the world as one of the most advanced submarine-launched missile systems ever built. In 2005, the world’s largest submarine launched its first Bulava missile on 27 September. In order to do so, the sub had to surface and the missile was fired from the White Sea. By December of the same year, the crew was ready to try the first firing of a Bulava missile from underwater. They succeeded in doing so on 21 December, hitting a target on the Kera Test Range. Notably, the crews of the submarine fired many other tests of the Bulava missile, including one failed test in 2009 and a successful one in 2010. All of the ship’s sister submarines have been decommissioned at this point, so the Dmitriy Donskoy is easily the largest submarine still in active service today. | ||
| SubQuestion No : 24 | ||
| Q.24 | “Arguably a submarine the size of nearly two football fields is a little more intimidating.” The word ‘intimidating’ here means: | |
| Ans | 1. unnerving | |
| 2. disheartening | ||
| 3. terrorising | ||
| 4. encouraging | ||
Correct Ans: 1
