Question

Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and solve the questions given below.
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The Origin of Kite Flying
The kite was originally called Zhiyuan in North China, and Yaozi in South China. In the
early dynasties, a man named Li Ye made kites and flew them in the imperial court. He
once attached a whistle made of bamboo to the kite. So a sound was let out when the kite
was flying, and the kite was named after Zheng, a kind of Chinese music instrument.
Then it was named Fengzheng, and it is called so even today. The earliest kite in the
world was made by Mo-tse, a famous Chinese philosopher who lived 2300 years ago, for
military purposes. He spent three years making an eagle and managed to fly it. The Eagle
was later regarded as the first kite in the world.
Kite flying became a recreation probably from the Tang dynasty when the royal family
and aristocrats became addicted to it. It was said that the Emperor Xuanzong of the
Tang dynasty was very addicted to a kite named Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea.
The invention of paper made kites less costly and the hobby of kite flying quickly spread
among the common people.
As time went on, kite flying spread to various countries in the world. Dr Needham,
a well-known British scientist, described kites as an important scientific invention in his
papers on the Chinese civilisation. He mentions that this invention had spread to
Europe from China. The invention of kites aroused the desire to fly in humans and led
to the invention of the aeroplane.

A) Write whether the sentences are True or False
1) Kite was originally called Zhiyuan in Southern China. F
11) Zheng is a kind of chinese music instrument. T.
III) Yaozi was regarded as the first kite in the world.
MV) The invention of paper made kites costless.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) False

2) True

3) False

4) False