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IV. Read the passage carefully and answer by choosing the best options: (5x1=5)

SACRED TREES
Sacred trees form an
important part of the ecological heritage of India. Most temples, towns, villages—and sometimes even Muslim dargahs— are associated with trees. Some plants are sacred to the individual deity; others are sacred to the place… Several plants have been worshipped in India from time immemorial. Wherever the tulsi grows—from the Indo-Gangetic plains to the shores of the Indian Ocean at Kanyakumari— it occupies a position of pride in the central courtyard of the house, tended to, carefully, by the housewife.

Apart from the elaborate myths connecting it to Krishna, the tulsi plant has several medicinal properties. To protect and revere this plant with so many medicinal properties, it was designated as sacred, a fitting tribute to its role in providing invaluable healthcare. The worship of plants is an ancient phenomenon in India. It is probably the oldest form of worship. The association of a single tree with a sacred sthala or sthana is reflected in the chaitya vriksha and sthala vriksha or literature and society.

When people turned to food production, the Mother Goddess or the Earth Mother became the chief deity. Fertility, creation, and the world of plants and animals became her blessings to her devotees. The worship of the tree was the adoration of her creative abilities, symbolising fertility so essential or the survival of the early people. Spirits—good or bad—were believed to reside in trees. If the trees were worshipped, then the resident spirits were pleased. As sacred forests were replaced by agriculture, a single tree was left and was designated as ‘sacred’ tree.

The earliest temples were little more than images placed under trees. Later, the tree and the image were enclosed by a fence made of wood, followed even by stone. Numerous references are made in literature to trees as abodes of gods.

Q. On the basis of your reading of the passage given above, answer the following questions.
I.)__________ form an important part of the ecological heritage of India.

i.) Indo-gangetic plains
ii.) Mother Goddess
iii.) Sacred trees
iv.) Kanyalcumari

II. The worship of plants is an __________ phenomenon in India.

i.) ancient
ii.) invaluable
iii.) immemorial
iv.) elaborate

III. The __________ has several medicinal properties.

i.) chaitya vriksha
ii.) sthala vriksha
iii.) tulsi plant
iv.) sacred tree

IV. Tulsi was designated as sacred..

i.) to protect it
ii.) to respect it
iii.) as it has many medicinal properties
iv.) all of these

V. The most important things given by the mother Earth to us are:

i.) air and fire
ii.) creative abilities
iii.) plants and animals
iv.) spirits
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ALL THE BEST.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 . Sacred Trees

2.ancient

3.Tulsi Plant

4.All of these

5. Spirits