Q.3 (B) Read the following passage and answer the following questions: 5 The next day was as hot as the previous one. Ranji felt week and lazy and not at all eager for a fight. His body was stiff and sore after the previous day’s encounter. But he could not refuse the challenge. Not to turn up at the pool would be an acknowledgement of defeat. From the way he felt just then he knew he would be beaten in another fight. But he could not acquiesce in his own defeat. He must defy his enemy to the last, or outwit him, for only then he could gain his respect. If he surrendered now, he would be beaten for all time; but to fight and be beaten today left him free to fight and be beaten again. As long as he fought, he had a right to pool in the forest. He was half hopping that the warrior would have forgotten the challenge but these were hopes were dashed when he saw his opponent sitting, stripped to the waist, on a rock on the other side of the pool. The warrior was rubbing oil on his body. He saw Ranji beneath the sal trees, and called a challenge across the water of the pool. “Come over on this side and fight!” he shouted. But Ranji was not going to submit to any conditions laid down by his opponent“Come this side and fight!” he shouted back with equal vigor. “Swim across and fight me here!” called the other. “Or perhaps you can’t swim the length of this pool?” But Ranji could have swum the length of the pool a dozen times without tiring, and here he would show the warrior his superiority. So, slipping out of his vest, he dived straight into the water, cutting through it like a knife, and surfaced with hardly a splash. The warrior’s mouth hung open in amazement.
Questions: 1. Ranji is not at all eager for a second fight. Why does he go back to the pool, then? 2. What was he partly hopping? 3. Where was his adversary? What was he doing? 4. Who was the better swimmer? How do you know it? 5. Identify one word for ‘accept quietly’.
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perhaps you can’t swim the length of this pool?” But Ranji could have swum the length of the pool a dozen times without tiring, and here he would show the warrior his superiority. So, slipping out of his vest, he dived straight into the water, cutting through it like a knife, and surfaced with hardly a splash. The warrior’s mouth hung open in amazement.
Questions: 1. Ranji
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Explanation:
Ans 1:Ranji went to the pool because he could not refuse the challenge.Though he felt week and lazy and not at all eager for a fight he didn't give up.He went because If he would surrender now then he would be beaten for all time; but to fight and be beaten today left him free to fight and be beaten again
Ans 2:He was partly hopping that the warrior would have forgotten the challenge but these were hopes were dashed when he saw his opponent sitting, stripped to the waist, on a rock on the other side of the pool.But as he saw this scene,he understood that the opponent will not forget the challenge.
Ans 3: .His adversary was on the other side of the pool sitting stripped to the waist,on a rock by rubbing oil to his body.
Ans 4:Of course Ranji.As he slipped out of his vest and he dived straight into the water, cutting through it like a knife, and surfaced with hardly a splash due to which even his adversary mouth hung open in amazement.
Ans 5:submit.