Question

ead the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
The Bora tree grew tall, her flowers bloomed and yielded large, luscious, rosy fruit. Bu
she was vain. She never even whispered to neighbouring trees and bushes. When the
butterflies and bees came for nectar, she lifted her branches and swooshed them awa
When the birds wanted to build nests in her branches she pricked them with her thorn
She saw that children loved her juicy fruit, so she angrily dropped her flowers and
yielded only a few fruit.
One day, the Great Creator came on a visit. All the trees greeted His coming and hac
joyous tales to tell. But the Bora tree tossed her head and said, "My Lord and Master
found no one who deserved what you gave to me, so I saved my strength and bore le
fruit. I sent the silly birds away because they would destroy the beauty of my branche
with their messy nest material".
The Creator shook his head. "You did a foolish thing". He said. "What about kindnes
compassion and generosity? What about service to others? Have they no meaning f
you?" Even as the Lord spoke, the Bora's fruit grew small and sour; so did the leave
The bark became rough; thorns grew in plenty. To this day we see the Bora tree thu
As the result of selfishness-she lost what she had.
Questions :
1.On the basis of your reading of the passage, complete the following
statements.
(a) The Bora tree justified her unhelpful and cruel attitude by saying that......
(b) The Bora tree dropped her flowers because
2. Find a word from the passage which means the same as 'originator'
3. Find a word from the passage which means opposite of 'lift'
4. Give a noun form of the word 'grow's
5. Answer the following questions.
(a) What is the moral of the story?
(b) What characteristics should the Bora tree have inculcated?​

Answer 1

Answer:

I am virtuoso now thank you