READ 2 THE WILD SAVIOUR

EXERCISE-4

◆Tick mark True or False against the following statements:

1. When Alibhai heard some faint growls, he thought it was a snow leopard. --- False

2. As the family members insisted a lot, Alibhai decided to stay with them longer. ---- true

3. The mother leopard expresses her love and care by licking and smelling the young cubs.---- true

4. Hardly had the bear appeared, when Alibhai slipped and fell

down.--- False

5. The bulky and slow bear failed to injure the mother leopard.----true

 

Exercise:-5

◆Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the brackets:

1. (to observe, traveller, travelling)

Alibhai was a _____1_____ who covered long distances on foot, in the Himalayan Mountains. He loved ____2_____ nature. He went from village to village, town to town in the mountains, selling dried apricots, herbs, and medicines and precious stones he had collected during his -----3-------

Ans: 

1.traveller 

2.to observe 

3.travelling

2.(death, protecting, lovingly)

Themother instinct of ______1_____ her young ones is very strong. She is always ready to fight unto___2___.The mother ___3____ looking at the smiling faces of Neelam and Arjun. 

Ans.

1.protecting 

2.death 

3.lovingly

 

Exercise:-6

◆Find and write the nearest meanings:

1. Explore: explain – search – exploit – exchange

2. Vanish: appear – disappear – vogue – vital

3. Scarcity: shortage – significant – empty – standing

4.Feeble: string--weak--brave--bulky

5.swift:smell--slowly--angrily--quick (fast rapid)

6.insistence:demand(request)--order--respect---breeze

7.woods.: tree,forest,bamboo,herbs

8.blessing :   boon,pray,curse, worship

9.escape:go, surrender, run away, come forward.

10.disappeared: scene ,appeared, vanished, come forward.

Ans:

1.search 

2.disappear 

3.shortage 

4.weak

5.quick(fast, rapid) 

6.demand(request)

7.forest 

8.boon

9.run away 

10.vanished.