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EXERCISE-1
Read the passage given below and then answer the questions that follow :-
When Alexis and Peter were but half a mile from home a great gaunt*
wolf sprang out of the trees bordering the road, and with great strides came
leaping after the sledge "Drive on fast," shouted Alexis, seizing his gun and
aim at the wolf who was now no more than a few yards from the back
of the sledge. Alexis pulled the trigger. There was a click but no report: the
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powder was damp. Dropping the useless gun Alexis fumbled for his knife,
for the wolf was almost upon him. But it was too late to draw the knife.
With a fierce snarling howl the wolf sprang into the air and hurled himself
upon Alexis. As the great gaunt body shot through the air, Alexis flung his
thick sheepskin up over his head, and catching the wolf in its clinging folds 10
hugged the astonished beast to his breast with his mighty arms. The wolf
struggled and bit into the sheepskin. The frightened horses sped onward
like the wind. “Drive on, drive like fury!" roared Alexis, tightening the grip
of his iron arms about the heaving, twisting body of the wolf. Swaying and
rocking from side to side the sledge burst into the village with the horses 15
smothered with foam and Peter shouting and cracking his whip, while
Alexis, not tiring from his efforts, roared, "A wolf! Help! A wolf ! Help!
Stop the horses!"
Give the meanings of the following:
(a) (i) report (ii) clinging (iii) smothered.
(b) Answer the following questions : (i) How far were Alexis and Peter from the
village? (ii) What did they see? (iii) What surprised the wolf ? (iv) Why did
Alexis want Peter to drive fast? (v) Describe what the villagers saw. (vi) How
did the horses run ?
(c) Describe the fight between Alexis and the wolf within 60 words.
Ang half a mile
Answers
Answer:
But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Burmans who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
Answer:
a 1.an account given of a particular matter
2. holding on tightly
3. killing by covering the nose or mouth so that they suffocate
b 1. Alexis and Peter ware half a mile from the village.
2. they show wolf sprang out the trees bordering the road.
3. the wolf was surprised when Alexis flung thick sheepskin up over his head and caught in its clicking fold 10