Question

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
1. All along a 450-mile stretch of west coast America is the home of the tallest trees in to
Once, in this narrow hinterland of the Pacific Coast, from central California to southern
were two million acres of these trees, the Coast Redwood. Today there are just a few hu
acres of them in Redwood Belt's scattering of State Parks, protected forest reserves am
are stands of the giants.
2. About 25 miles due south of San Jose and the heart of Silicon Valley is one of the sm
these stands, just 40 acres in the midst of the 4650-acre Henry Cowell Redwoods State -
there I found myself one morning not so long ago peering up to spot the tops of trees th
to be touching the skies. All I got was a crick in the neck. A tip for other Escapists': Stick
at the thick and rough-barked trunks.
3. But even looking at a trunk when you try to grab a view of The Giant's trunk from clo
quite a challenge. The Giant, the star of the Park, has a trunk with a circumference of o
and a diameter of 17 feet. Maybe you can, but I couldn't take it all in Nor could I como anyw
near taking in the whole 275 foot of the Giant's height
. Once the tallest Rodwood, it lost its
when a storm several years ago knocked down 75 foot of its top to bring it to its present hele
I'll need the mother of all storms for its record of being the oldest treo in the park - an estim
2000-plus years old -- to be knocked down
4. You wonder at such a giant growing from a tiny sood: 100,000 seeds to a pound will give
idea
of how tiny! You wonder too about the marvel of a root system that sinks only six to two
holding up such giants will the Range you are talking to explain that the roots spread laterally
intertwine with the roots of other Redwoods to create a carpet.
Read the given questions and write the answer in a sentence.
(a) How many acres were covered by Redwood trees? How many are left now?
(b) Why are these forests protected?
(c) How do the Redwood trees appear?
(d) Why does the writer advice visitors not to raise their neck?
(e) What does the author mean by 'Star of the Park'?
( How had the giant tree lost some of its height?
(g) Mother of all storms means
(h) How do the roots of the tree hold it together?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

Answer:

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