Question

A. Read the following extracts and answer the questions
that follow :
1. The house-the only one in the entire valley-
sat on the crest of a low hill. From this height,
one could see the river and the field of ripe corn
dotted with the flowers that always promised
a good harvest. The only thing the earth
needed was a downpour or at least a shower.
Throughout the morning Lencho-who knew
his fields intimately-had done nothing else
but see the sky towards the north-east.
1.1 What did the earth need?
1.2
What did Lencho do throughout the
morning?
1.3 Why had Lencho kept looking towards the
north-east?
1.4 What promised a good harvest ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.1)

The only thing the earth

needed was a downpour or at least a shower.

1.2)

Throughout the morning Lencho-who knew his fields intimately-had done nothing else

but see the sky towards the north-east.

1.3)

He saw towards North-east on seeking of rain by the earth.

1.4)

The field of ripe corn

dotted with the flowers that always promised a good harvest.

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