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Read the following passage and answer the questions: 

The great saint Teresa wished to have a torch in her right hand and a vessel of water in her left so that with the one, she might burn the glories of heaven, and with the other, extinguish the fires of hell, and men might learn to serve God from love without fear of hell and without the temptation of heavenly bliss. 

1. Who is the paragraph about?

 2. Why did she hold a torch in her right hand?

3. What was Saint Teresa’s message to humanity?

4. There are words which are opposite to each other. Pick and write two pairs of words.

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1. The paragraph is about Mother Teresa. 

2. She held a torch in her right hand so that she could burn the glories of heaven. 

3. Mother Teresa wanted people to serve God from love without fear of hell and without the temptation of heavenly bliss. 

4. Right x left

Heaven x hell 

Burn x extinguish.

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