Question

Every morning a shepherd took his flock of sheep out in the fields to graze. He would sit by watching – as the sheep lazily munched on fresh grass. After they had eaten, he would round them up and walk back home. Sometimes while watching his flock, he would curl up in a quiet corner and go off to sleep. One day, the shepherd saw a wolf which entered the field with hits eyes on his sheep. However, it was some distance away and it made no effort to come nearer. The shepherd as first stood on guard against the wolf, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over its movements. But the wolf did not do anything. When the shepherd herded the sheep and headed home with his flock, the wolf quietly followed them at a distance This continued for many days. By and by the shepherd stopped worrying about it. In fact, he now began to actually look forward to the wolfs presence as a guardian of his flock. One day, while grazing his sheep, the shepherd was called back home urgently. Leaving the sheep entirely in charge of the wolf he left. When he came back, he found that the wolf had eaten most of his flock with only a few sheep wandering about. Carcasses of the dead sheep lay around everywhere. The shepherd sat down in shock after witnessing the slaughter. “Serves me right”, he moaned to himself, “after all, I entrusted the welfare of my clock to a wolf”.
Questions
(iii) Why did the shepherd keep a watch on the wolf? 1

(iv) How did the wolf manage to eat the sheep? 2

(v) What lesson did the shepherd learn from the incident? 1

(vi) Pick out the word which means the same as ‘the body of a dead animal’. 1



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Answer 1

Answer:

(iii) A wolf is a carnivores animal that prey's on other animals for food.

(iv) The wolf managed to eat the sheep since the shepherd wasn't present and the wolf was trusted enough by the shepherd for him to be left alone with his prey.

(v) The lesson learned by the shepherd was to never trust someone who was meant to cause danger/damage

(vi) Carcasses

Explanation:

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