Question

SECTION - A: READING (10 marks)
Read the following passage carefully -
A great German named Bismarck, once said that if he had to live a second life in this world and was
told that he could not return as a man, then he would choose to be sent back to the Earth as an ant.
This seems a queer choice. There are so many finer and beautiful creatures in the world than ants.
Dogs, horses, elephants, lions, tigers. You would think it would be better to be one of these animals
than to be an ant, yet Bismarck knew what he was talking about. He was a man who loved order. His
idea of a perfect state was one in which every person worked for the good of the whole community
This ordered form of life is found amongst ants more than any other kind of living creatures not
excepting man
A city of ants is a teeming hive where work is unending, as any one will know who has studied even
the common yellow ant of the English fields. The homes of these tiny creatures are underneath small
mounds raised a little above the surrounding fields, and inside the mounds there are chambers and
galleries filled with thousands of hurrying little creatures. The centre of an ant community is the
queen. She alone lays the eggs which will become the whole of the next generation in the ant city,
and as the queen lays her eggs the busy worker ants carry them away to the nursery. There they are
carefully watched over by the nurse ants who as soon as the grubs are hatched out of the eggs, do
everything they can to make them grow. So the grubs flourish, and as soon as they are full grown the
nurse ants carry them to the cocoon chamber where the grubs change into cocoon Whilst the nurse
ants are looking after the young, sentinel ants are mounting guard to give warning of the approach
of an enemy
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On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the following questions
briefly
(3x2 = 6)
a) Why did Bismarck want to return to the Earth as an ant?
b) What work is done by the nurse ants?
c) What do sentinel ants do ?
1.2
(2x1=2)
Choose the most suitable synonym from the options given
a) Queer
1) ordinary ii) normal 111) peculiar iv) common
b) Tiny
1) huge il) petite 111) significant iv) gigantic
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Find words in the passage which mean the same as :
1) Heap (para 3)
11) Pupa (para 3)
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Answer 1

Answer:

1) because ants worked for the good of their community

2) the young are carefully watched over by the nurse ants from eggs to grubs and cocoons to nymph.

3) they are mounting guards that give warning of the approach of an enemy

4) suitable synonym of queer is perculiar

5)suitable synonym of small is petite

6) mounds

7)cocoon