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Read the given passage carefully.<br /><br />(i) The rope trick is a magical feat of ancient ancestry, said to have been performed in China, <br /><br />Central Asia, Batavia and other parts of the Orient, But popularly regarded as a specialty <br /><br />of the Hindu magician and hence known as the Indian rope trick. The Arab traveler Ibn <br /><br />Batuta (AD 1350)<br /><br />(ii) According to the legenuary account, embellished by travelers, the trick is performed in <br /><br />this way: the magician throws into the air a stout rope about thirty to forty feet in length. <br /><br />The rope remains upright and taut, its upper end vanishing out of sight into the open sky. <br /><br />The magician’s assistant, a boy of about twelve years, climbs up the rope after him and <br /><br />disappears, and refuses to come down when called. The enraged magician, taking a short <br /><br />knife between his teeth, goes up the rope after him and also disappears. In a moment <br /><br />piercing shrieks are heard from the boy, and bits of his dismembered body come hurting <br /><br />down. The magician the then descends the rope, cleans the knife and wipes his <br /><br />bloodstained hands with the satisfaction of a job done well. Then suddenly the boy is <br /><br />omitted. The magician throws up a rope, which remains suspended, and a boy simply <br /><br />climbs up to a height of ten feet or so, after which he descends and pulls the rope after <br /><br />him.<br /><br />(iii) Rewards have often been offered for the performance of the rope trick but no one has <br /><br />come forward to claim them. But in defence of the magicians it has been said that they do <br /><br />not read the papers to learn about these offers, and in any case might not be interested <br /><br />either in the money, or in the publicity and ensuing fame. It does seem that several <br /><br />eminent Europeans have witnessed the trick, including Sir Ralph Person, formerly <br /><br />Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, who declared that he and his <br /><br />wife saw it in 1900. Other observers claim to have photographed the performance and the <br /><br />plates show the boy in the act of scrutiny. Another witness took a photograph of the <br /><br />scene, which, after it was developed, showed the rope, coiled on the ground and the <br /><br />magician and the boy standing by it; the witnesses swore that at the time he took the <br /><br />photograph he actually saw the boy climbing the rope.<br /><br />(A) Complete the following sentences. Write only the answers in your notebooks against <br /><br />the correct blank numbers.<br /><br />2½x4=10<br /><br />(a)Though the Indian rope trick is regarded as the specialy of the Hindu magician, it has <br /><br />also …………………………………………………… ,<br /><br />(b) The phrase ‘embellished by travellers’ means ……………………………… ,<br /><br />(c) The people who defend the magicians believe that they don’t clam the rewards <br /><br />because.<br /><br />(d) By giving the example of the European gentleman and his wife the writer wants to say <br /><br />that ………………………………………………………….. ,<br /><br />(B) Find words in the passage that mean the following. Write only the answers in your <br /><br />notebooks against the correct blank number.<br /><br />3x2=6<br /><br />(a) Stretched tightly (para 2) ………………………………………<br /><br />(b) cut off parts of the body (para 2) ………………………………………<br /><br />(c) angry (para 2) ………………………………………<br /><br />(d) following (para 3) ……………​

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