‘He increased the power of man’, reads the epitaph on Watt’s grave. No better words can summarise the importance of the work done by James Watt, the father of steam-power. His invention of the steam-engine greatly enhanced the speed of transportation besides paving the way for other types of energy that were to follow soon. In short, it marked the opening of the industrial revolution. James Watt was born on 19 January 1736, in Greenock, near Glasgow, in Scotland. His father was a master craftsman and merchant engaged in the shipping trade. Young James thus found himself surrounded by his father’s tools right from childhood. He took to them like a fish to water and revelled in constructing things with his own hands. His delicate health made his parents reluctant to send him to a formal school. This provided him greater opportunities for self-learning. His skills and inventiveness became evident at an early age. The story of James Watt observing the lid of a kettle being lifted up by steam and inferring the power of steam thereupon is probably apocryphal. But there is no doubt about his ability, since an early age, to come up with startling improvements on any machine that he chose to study. He was to leave his mark of creativity even on fields not connected with engineering. Question: Which part of the sentence contains an error? ‘She found it difficult (a) / to cope up with (b) / the volume of work (c) / assigned to her (d).’

1. (c)
2. (d)
3. (b)
4. (a)