Question

Q.1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (8)
1.Sacred trees form an important part of the ecological heritage of India. Most temples, town, 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 south 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.
2. Apart from the elaborate myths connecting it to Krishna, the tulsi plant has several medicinal properties.
3. 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 the sacred sthala or sthana is reflected in the chaitya vriksha and sthala vriksha or literature and Society.
4. 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 for 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 word followed even by stone. Numerous references are made in Literature to trees as abodes of gods.
1. 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.
ii. The worship of plants is an ______phenomenon in India.
iii. The _____ has several medicinal properties.
iv. Tulsi was designated as sacred
To protect it
To respect it
As it has many medicinal properties
All of these
v. The most important things given by the mother Earth to us are :
(a) air and fire
(b) creative abilities
(c) plants and animals
(d) spirits
vi. All trees except one were felled down by the early people for _____.
Vii. A single tree left by the early people which was designated as______.
Viii. The worship of plants has been stated by the modern people. (True/false)​

Answer 1

Answer:

this same passage has camed in my English exam...... it's so strange

Answer 2

1. Sacred trees

2. Ancient

3. Tulsi

4. All of these

5. Plants and animals

6. Agriculture

7. Sacred tree

8.  False