Question

1. Read the passage given below and complete the sentences using a single word: (1X5=5 Marks)

A chimpanzee is one of the great apes and the nearest in intelligence to man. Scientists have examined its

mental capacities and sent it into space in anticipation of man. Chimpanzees need little description. Being

apes and not monkeys, they have no tails. Their arms are longer than their legs and they normally rim on all

fours. They can also walk upright with toes turned outwards. The hair is long and coarse, black except for a

white patch in some cases. The face, ears, hands and feet are bare and except for the black face, the flesh is

coloured.

Chimpanzees exhibit great concern for each other. When chimpanzees meet after having been apart they greet

each other in a very human way by touching each other or even clasping hands. Chimpanzees have amazing

social discipline. When a dominant male arrives, the rest of the chimpanzees hurry to pay respect to it. The

dominant male is not allowed to wrest food from his inferiors. The members of a party also spend

considerable amount of time grooming each other and themselves. Mothers go through the fur of their babies

for any foreign particles, dirt, and ticks and they aid each other when they are injured.

i) Chimpanzees are as………as men.

ii) Chimpanzees greet each other by…….. each other.

iii) A dominant male gets a lot of ……… in the herd.

iv) Chimpanzees show care by……….. each other.

v) Give the synonym of ‘display’ from the extract.​

Answer 1

i) equal

ii) touching or clasping hands

iii) respect

iv) grooming

v) exhibit

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