Question

Read the following passage :
We often talk of lower animals and higher animals. Man, we say, is the highest animal. If you have noticed an interesting difference in the behaviour, of various forms of animals, you'll at once understand why we put some animals in the lower groups and others in the higher.
You will have noticed that simple animals like fishes lay eggs and leave them. They lay thousands of eggs at a time but do not look after them. The mother does not care for the children at all. She simply leaves the eggs and never comes back to them. As there is no one to look after them, most of these eggs die and only a few of them develop into fishes. Is this not a terrible waste? As we go up and examine the higher animals, we find that their eggs or children are fewer but they look after them better.
The hen, for example, also lays eggs but she sits upon them and so hatches them. And when the little chicks come out, she feeds them for some time. When they grow up, the mother does not care much for them.
But a great change comes in the higher animals - we call them mammals. These animals do not lay eggs but the mother keeps the egg inside her and gives birth to the fully-developed baby animal, like dogs or cats or rabbits. And afterwards the mother suckles, or gives milk to her young. The mother thus looks after her babies a great deal. Even here, however, you find that there is a great deal of waste. The mother rabbit gives birth to a large number of baby rabbits every few months and many of these die. But a higher animal like the elephant gives birth to only one baby elephant and looks after the baby well.
So we see that as animals develop, they do not lay eggs but bear develop young ones like themselves, only smaller. And the higher animals usually give birth to one baby at a time. You will also notice that the higher animals have some affection for their young ones. Man is the highest animal so, you find that the mother and the father love and take care of children a great deal.
(A) On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following questions in about 30-40 words.
(a) Man is called the highest animal. Why ?
(b) What is the major difference between a fish and a hen, though both lay eggs ?
(c) How do the mammals look after their young ones ?
(d) How are we benefitted by man being the highest animal ?
(B) Find the words which are the same in meanings :
(a) cause to come out of an egg
(b) extremely bad
(c) a warmblooded animal that bears young alive
(d) feed milk to young

Answer 1

(A)
 (a) The higher animals usually give birth to one baby at a time. Man is called the highest animal as man has greater affection for his children than any, other animal.
(b) Fishes lay thousands of eggs at a time but do not look after them. The mother does not care for the children at all. The hen, too, lays eggs and she sits upon them. Later, she feeds her chicks for sometime.
(c) The mammal mother keeps the egg inside her and gives birth to the fully developed baby animal. Afterwards, she suckles her young ones. She looks after her babies a great deal.
(d) Among all the higher animals, man is the highest. The mother and the father love and take care of their children a great deal.
(B)
 (a) hatch
(b) terrible
(c) mammal
(d) suckle.