Question

A. Reading and Comprehension :-

But there was the boy, his grandson. It was good that Mehmood's son worked close by, for it gladdened the old man's heart to watch the small boy play in the winter sunshine, growing under his eyes like a young and well- nourished sapling putting forth new leaves each day. There is a great affinity between trees and men. We grow at much the same pace, if we are not hurt or starved or cut down. In our youth we are resplendent creatures, and in our declining years we stoop a little, we remember, we stretch our brittle limbs in the sun, and then, with a sigh, we shed our last leaves.

Questions:-
a.) Why is the small boy called a 'well nourished sapling' ?

b.) What does the phrase ' shed our last leaves' mean with reference to the story?

c.) Use the phrase 'with a sigh' in a sentence of your own.

d.) How does the extract describe trees?

e.) What do you learn about Mehmood from the extract above?



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Answer 1

Answer:

a) It glanddend the old man's heart to watch the boy at play in the winter sunshine, growing under his eyes like a young and well-nourished sapling