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There was a strong breeze, which is unusual during a winter night in Gujarat. The sugarcane swayed wildly under a moonless sky. I pulled my jacked around me and adjusted my binoculars.

"You won't need them. It will come right down there, next to the cow," village leader Hitesh Patel whispered in my ears I felt like asking him if it was safe on the roof where we were perched, but then Vitthal Vasava signated from the cow shed below. "It seems to be coming from the riverside, he said. "You will see it any moment. Stay still and don't make any noise or you'll invite trouble [9] Hitesh reminded me. Another couple of minutes passed, and then a leopard leaped out from behind the shed and made its way towards a cow that was chained to a tree nearby

As the leopard closed to within ten metres, it seemed there would be no escape for the cow.

However, what I saw was something else - totally baffling. As if enacting a character from Rudyard

Kipling's Jungle Book, the cat ducked under the cow's neck, stretched out lazily and began to purr

At first the cow ignored its companion but eventually gave in to the feline's playful nudges and started

licking its fur as if it was one of its calves. It started pushing the cow's belly and after a while, crept

under her neck and lay there as if resting Then it stood up and slowly walked back to the riverside

What could have caused this extraordinary behaviour? It turned out that about three years ago, a female leopard had given birth to two cubs in a sugarcane field. The villagers had spotted the family and had brought it to the Notice of the forest officials. A few months later, a female leopard was captured in the area and taken to the zoo. There was no report of the cubs. The people believed the leopard that has been frequenting the village every night and playing with the cow might be one of the two cubs. "It's possible that this leopard cub would have seen the cow, and became imprinted on it," Hitesh Patel suggested,

Question 1.

What were the men doing on the roof? (a) They were enjoying the winter night in

Gujarat

(b) They wanted to have a good view of

Vitthal Vasava

(c) They wanted to keep a safe distance from

the leopard.

(d) They wanted to look at the leopard from a

safe distance

Question 3.

Why was the writer puzzled?

(a) The leopard purred like a cat

(b) The leopard did not kill the cow

(C) The cow licked the leopard's fur

(d) The leopard pushed the cow's belly

Question 5.

Question 2.

What kind of trouble" (line 9) was Hitesh

referring to?

(a) The men falling from the roof (b) The leopard attacking the cow

(C) The men being attacked by the leopard (d) The leopard ducking under the cow's

neck

Question 4.

What was the cow's reaction to the leopard's

"playful nudges" in line 16?

(a) The cow was loving (b) The cow was pleased

(c) The cow was irritated

(d) The cow was terrified

What do you think caused the leopard to behave in such an extraordinary behaviour"? (a) The leopard had seen the cow before.

(b) The leopard enjoyed playing with the cow (C) The leopard treated the cow like its own kind Boere

(d) The leopard had been frequenting the village every night​

Answer 1

question 1 answer is option

4 is right

in question 2

option 3 is right and in ques 3 option 2 is right in ques 4 option 1 is right and in ques 5 option 3 is right

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Answer 2

Answer:

question no. 1

answer. b

question no. 3

answer. b

question no. 2

answer. b

question no. 4

answer. a

Last question

answer. c