Question

1 Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
The Bora tree grew tall her flowers bloomed and yielded large luscious rosy fruit. But
she was vain. She never even whispered to neighbouring trees and bushes. When the
3. Marks of each question are indicated against it
SECTION A
When the birds wanted to build
nests in her branches she picked them with her thorns
She saw th Children loved her juicy fruit, so she angrily dropped her flowers and
yielded only a few fruid
One day, the Great Creator came on a visit. All the trees greeted His coming and had a
joyous tales to tell. But the Bora tree tossed her head and said My Lord and Master
found no one who deserved what you gave to me so I saved my strength and bore less
fruit I sent the silly birds away because they would destroy the beauty of my branches
with their messy nest materia
The Creator shook his head. "You did a foolish thing". He said. What about kindness
compassion and generosity? What about service to others? Have they no meaning for
you? Even as the Lord spoke, the Bora's fruit grew small and sour so did the leaves
The bark became rough: thorns grew in plenty. To this day we see the Bora tree thus
As the result of selfishness-she lost what she had
Questions :
1. On the basis of your reading of the passage, complete the following
statements
(a) The Bora tree justified her unhelpful and cruel attitude by saying that........
(b) The Bora tree dropped her flowers because
2. Find a word from the passage which means the same as 'originator' Creator
3. Find a word from the passage which means opposite of 'lift' drep
4. Give a noun form of the word 'grow' grow
5. Answer the following questions,
(a) What is the moral of the story?
(b) What characteristics should the Bora tree have inculcated?

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Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

(a) The Bora tree justified her unhelpful and cruel attitude by saying that........

Answer 2

The answers are:

1. The Bora tree justified her unhelpful and cruel attitude to the Great Creator by saying that she had found no one who deserved what the Great Creator had given her so she saved her strength and Bore less fruit and sent the birds away from her as she felt that they would have destroyed her beauty with their messy nest material.
2. The Bora tree dropped her flowers because she saw that the children loved her fruits, so to keep them away she decided to do this.
3. The word from the passage which means the opposite of lift is "dropped".
4. The noun form of the word grow is "growth".
5. The moral of the story is that one should always have kindness, compassion and generosity for others and should not be selfish.
6. The Bora tree should have inculcated kindness, compassion and generosity and should had served others. She should not have been selfish.