TEA FROM ASSAM
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. 'Chai garam... garam chal' a vendor called out in a high pitched voice. He came up to their
window and asked, 'Chai, sa'ab'?
"Give us two cups, ' Pranjol said.
They sipped the steaming hot liquid. Almost everyone in their compartment was drinking too.
“Do you know that over 8, 00,000,000 cups of tea are drunk every day all over the world'? Rajvir
asked.
(a) Who was speaking in a high pitched voice and for what?
(b) What was ordered by Pranjol ?
(c) What information did Rajvir give?
(d) Which word in the passage means the same as 'chinked'?
2. It was a magnificent view. Against the backdrop of densely wooded hills, a sea of tea bushes
stretched as far as the eye could see. Dwarfing the tiny tea plants were tall sturdy shade-trees and
amidst the orderly rows of bushes busily moved doll-like figures. In the distance was an ugly
building with smoke billowing out of tall chimneys. 'Hey, a tea garden! Rajvir cried excitedly.
(a) What have the tea plantations been compared to?
(b) What are the dolls like figures referred to here?
(C) Why was Rajvir excited?
(d) Which word in the passage means the same as 'splendid'?
3. We have an Indian legend too. Bod bidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids
because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these
when put in hot water and drunk banished sleep.
*Tea was first drunk in China', Rajvir added, 'as far back as 2700 B.C. In fact words such as tea,
"chai' and 'chini' are from Chinese. Tea came to Europe only in the sixteenth century and was
drunk more as medicine than as beverage.'
(a) Why did the Buddhist ascetic cut off his eyelids?
(b) How was tea used in Europe?
(c) Which word in the passage means drove away"?
(d) How many tea plants grew out of the eyelids?
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a vendor for shouting in a high voice because he want to sell his tea
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what was the magnificent
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