ITS A comprehension help me answer it
((1) It was at Gunupur, a sleepy little town in Koraput, that I had gained my first acquaintance
with any river. It was the Vamsadhara. It remained shallow and as transparent as glass almost all
through the season that I was there. Numerous tiny fish swam with or against its placid current
and played hide and seek amidst the pebbles at its bottom.
(2) Gazing at them for hours on end, sitting on the sandy river bank, was a great help to me. I
could wash away my anguish and disgust over life. The anguish and disgust were caused by
my guardians. They insisted on my taking to as irrational an occupation as learning how to read
and write. I had already lived five long years without facing the slightest challenge to my
existence on account of my innocence of reading and writing. What was their relevance then?
Would the sweetmeats taste sweeter if I could read? Would the rainbow or the hills or the river
look more charming if I could write?
(3) I had gained a delightful acquaintance a few days earlier. He was Appu. We talked on
several vital issues such as how a little imp residing in an old, abandoned well behind Appu’s
hut popped up from time to time at night with the sole purpose of making faces at Appu, or
how a shooting star which had fallen on the hilltop was still smouldering when Appu’s father
went up and Lighted a bidi from the last flame coming from it, and so on and so forth, in the
course of which I asked him, ‘Have you Learnt the alphabet?’
‘Which son of a father in this wide world would dare to make me do that sort of thing ?‘ he
challenged his arms akimbo. The next moment he shouted, ‘Runaway boy, escape with your
dear Life!’ and sprinted off like a shooting star.
(4) Surprised, I looked in every direction. There was no sign of any wolf or tiger or demon or
ghoul anywhere around. The only living soul, birds and a few animals apart, was a tall, fair and
heavily moustached man. Holding something like a sword, he walked through the bushy
meadow beyond the sand. He took no notice of me and entered a solitary one-room house with
a tin roof, surrounded by shrubs.
(5) Appu, back in a few minutes, enlightened me about the stranger. Inside that little house
detached from the locality, the man engaged in the strange act of butchering goats; once in a
while, for a change, he caught hold of a boy and dragged him in and finished him off in a trice.
Appu stared and caressed his neck while passing on the last bit of information in a whisper.
One day at noon, Appu and I proceeded towards that dreadful cabin. We practically rolled all
the way on the ground so that nobody saw us. The door was ajar. We peeped in, the floor was
swampy with a thick plaster of blood. The sight and smell were depressing. Who knew how
much blood had flowed from the goats, and how much from the missing boys?)
Questions
1. On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions briefly:-
a) How old was the narrator?
(b) What was the reason for his anguish and disgust?
(c) What do you think ‘a little imp’ is?
(d) Write the phrase in para 3 that tells that Appu was a friend of the narrator whose company
made him happy.
2.Complete the following sentences:
(a) The narrator was able to see numerous tiny fish playing hide and seek inside the river
because_________________
(b) He spent hours_____________________
3. Find words/phrases that mean the same as:
(a) Calm, undisturbed
(b) With the hands on the hips and elbows bent outwards
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Answers
Explanation:
(b)The anguish and disgust were caused by
my guardians. They insisted on my taking to as irrational an occupation as learning how to read
and write
(c)residing in an old, abandoned well behind Appu’s
hut popped up from time to time at night , or
how a shooting star which had fallen on the hilltop was still smouldering .
(d) I had gained a delightful acquaintance a few days earlier.
Q2 (a) river remained shallow and as transparent as glass.
Q2 (b) He spent hours sitting near the river by watching the fishes playing hide and seek .
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Explanation:
1.five years old
2.he was caused by his guardians
3.The phrase is a delightful acquaintance
4.a tiny creature with magical power
2.a The water was transparent and shallow
b. a gazing at numerous tiny fish in the river
3.a. Placid
b akimboo