Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:-
Nature's bounty is boundless. If you try to list the millions of things all around you.
there will be no end to it. Everything in nature is a marvel in itself. Even the simplest
colourful, pretty flowers and enjoyed the sweetness of various fruits. Imagine, it is the
things which you take for granted are not really simple. For example, you have seen
soil that helps the plants create such riot of colours and variety of tastes.
There is scientific explanation involving genes and chromosomes-behind the
evolution of every living thing. Yet the sight of green-covered, red-fleshed watermelon
There are thousands of other things in nature's treasure trove. Have you ever heard
of an entire range of high hills smoking fumes in the air for years together, or about a
city in England having received frog rain', or of a reptile that can actually walk on water.
Even a child knows an elephant, but how many of you know that an elephant's trunk
comprises of more than forty thousand muscles. Such intriguing facts make the study of
or fragrant bright rose growing makes you
nature interesting.
Questions
(a) The adjective of bounty is :
(i) bounteousness (ii) bountiful (iii)bountihood
(iv) bountifulness.
(b) Choose the opposite of 'destroy' from the paragraph.
(c)1. The meaning of treasure trove' is :
museless things
(i) useless things (ii) which has a value
(iii) precious (iv) invaluable
2. Give a title to the passage.
(d) What kind of fascinating varieties
of nature you can think of ?
(e) How can you say that nature's bounty is boundless ?
(f) What helps plants to create colours and variety of tastes ?
(g) What things in nature make you think?
(h) What facts make the study of nature interesting ?
Q.2 Read the following carefully and answer the questions given below :-
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk
exposing your true self.
To place ideas and dreams before a crowd
is to risk being called native.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
Answers
The answers to the given questions are as follows:-
(a) The adjective of bounty is : (ii) bountiful
(b) Choose the opposite of 'destroy' from the paragraph. : create
(c)1. The meaning of treasure trove' is : (iii) precious
2. Give a title to the passage.
Marvels of nature
(d) What kind of fascinating varieties of nature you can think of?
The colourful and pretty flowers, the sweetness in the different kinds of fruits, everything is a fascinating variety in nature.
(e) How can you say that nature's bounty is boundless?
We can say nature's bounty is boundless because if we look around us, we can list a million things that contain nature's marvel in it. From the simplest thing to the laws of evolutions, everything is nature's bounty.
(f) What helps plants to create colours and a variety of tastes?
The soil helps the plants to create colours and a variety of tastes. This has scientific reasoning behind it which involves genes and chromosomes.
(g) What things in nature make you think?
Simple things are not supposed to be taken for granted. There is scientific reasoning behind the genetic evolution of living things. Such things in nature make you think.
(h) What facts make the study of nature interesting?
Facts like an entire range of high hills smoking fumes in the air for years together, or a city in England having received frog rain or a reptile that can actually walk on water or that an elephant's trunk comprises more than forty thousand muscles; these make the study of nature interesting.
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what triggers. your curosity to known more? give one example