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B. Think and answer. (reading for inference; HOTS) 1. What does the first sentence of the text indicate to its readers? 2. His piece of land never failed him. Explain the meaning of this sentence. 3. Throughout the year he worked, never thinking of rest or taking a holiday. What does this tell us about the protagonist? 4. Quote the lines from the text which show that the drought lasted for a long time? 5. And the farmers lived entirely on hope. Clarify what 'living on hope' means. How were the farmers living on hope? 6. What opinion does the writer have about the meteorological department? How do you deduce that? 7. What was the view of the old lady regarding rains and Mother Earth? How is it different from the conventional view? 8. What impression do you form about the old lady? 9. "Without the rains, there's nothing to smile about." What does this quote from the text tell us about our dependence on rains?​

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Fertilization can be defined as the union of two haploid gametes, the spermatozoa and the oocyte, hereto referred to as egg, to restore the diploid state, form a zygote through the process of egg activation, and commence a series of mitotic divisions that results in cell differentiation and embryo development.