Question

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 signaled 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 [16] 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 [20]? 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.

Questions –

a) What were the men doing on the roof?

b) They were enjoying the winter night in Gujarat

c) They wanted to have a good view of Vitthal Vasava

d) They wanted to keep a safe distance from the leopard.

e) They wanted to look at the leopard from a safe distance.​

Answer 1

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★They were enjoying the winter night in gujarat.

Answer 2

Answer:

They wanted to look at the leopard from a safe distance .

Explanation:

as the writer wants to see the tiger safely from the roof