Question

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: 10

On the last Wednesday of August each year, the town of Bunol, in eastern Spain,

celebrates Tomato Day. The festival climaxes with thousands of people pelting each

other with tomatoes, in the town square. Tomato pulp drip down faces and walls and

windows and the streets turn into streams of tomato juice.

The festival is believed to have originated in 1945 when during a carnival procession,

a fight broke out and some youths began to pelt another group with tomatoes from a

vegetable stall nearby. It was the peak of tomato season and the stall had just received

several crates of the luscious fruit. It was a temptation for everyone to join in – and

soon everyone did. The youngsters of the town had never enjoyed themselves much.

They commemorated the event with another tomato fight on the anniversary of the

first one .Thereafter it became a yearly event . Thus was born the festival called La

Tomatina ‘The Tomato’.

The town authorities tried to ban the tomato fight several times but in vain. In fact, it

grew in popularity year by year and the people began to come from miles around to

witness and participate in the festival.

By the 1980’s the gaiety and the novelty of La Tomatina was drawing tourists from

all over the world. Today, the very authorities who sought to ban it in its infancy make

arrangements for truckloads of tomatoes to be brought in on Tomato Day.

All those who participate in the festival have to observe 3 rules.

i) The tomatoes have to be crushed before throwing so that they don’t hurt

anybody.

ii) The hurling of the tomatoes can begin only when the signal is given.

iii) Not a single tomato may be thrown after the signal to stop has been sounded.Q.1.1 Complete the following statements appropriately:-

i) The tomato day is celebrated on ______.

ii) The festival reaches its peak when______.

iii) The town authorities could not ban the tomato festival because ______.

iv) August is the best time for this festival because ______.

v) Before throwing; the tomatoes have to be crushed so that ______.

vi) The throwing of the tomatoes can begin only after ______.

vii) Tourists from all over the world come to witness the event because of the

______ and ______ of the festival.

Q.1.2 Answer the following questions briefly:-

i) Describe the scene after thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes.

ii) How did the festival begin?

iii) How do the authorities play their role today for the success of the festival?​

Answer 1

Answer:

the last Wednesday of august each year

Answer 2

Answer:

how did the festival begin