Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

24. What does the word HOVER in the text mean?

A) stay in one place in the air B) move straight up in the air C) fly sideways D) go backwards in the air

Indira Nehru was born on November 19. 1917, in Allahabad, India. While she was growing up, her family was active in the nonviolent resistance movement led to Mahatma Gandhi against Great Britain`s colonial rule of India. At the age 12 she joined movement by convincing thousands of Indian children to do odd jobs to aid the adults who were working independence. Indira`s education was irregular. She attended school in India and Switzerland for short periods. More often she studied at home. In 1934, she studied art and dancing at the university at Santiniketan. Later she attended Oxford University in England. In March 1942, Indira Nehru married Feroze Gandhi, a friend from her student days in England. A few months later they were arrested after she spoke at a public meeting defiance of a British law. She was imprisoned for 13 months.