Q-1 Read the paragraph and give answer: (આપેલ ફકરો વાંચીને જવાબ લખો.)
[1] Rivers are the lifeline for mankind. There are many great rivers in our country, India. The Ganga is thee most important and the greatest river among them. The Ganga is 2480 kilometers long. The source of the Ganga is in the Himalayan mountains. It comes down through the hills and flows into the Bay of Bengal.
The Ganga is a holy river. There are many stories of how the river Ganga came down to the earth.
Would you like to know one of them?

1. __________are the lifeline for mankind.
(A) Seas
(B) Ponds
(C) Rivers
(D) Streams
Answer:
Rivers

2. Which is the most important and the greatest river in lndia?
Answer:
The Ganga is the most important and the greatest river in India.

3. The Ganga is ________ kilometres long.
(A) 2480
(B) 2804
(C) 8420
(D) 4208
Answer:
(A) 2480

4. The Ganga flows into the _________.
(A) Indian Ocean
(B) Arabian Sea
(C) Bay of Bengal
(D) Bay of Cambay
Answer: Bay of Bengal

5. Where is the source of the Ganga?
Answer:
The source of the Ganga is in the Himalayan mountains.

6. The Ganga is a holy river. (True or False)
Answer:
True

[2]
Long ago, there was a king. His name was Sagara. He had a beautiful horse. He wanted to give his horse as a present to the gods.
One day, a thief took away the horse. The king was very unhappy.
He sent all his sons to search for it. But he asked one of his sons named Bhagirath to stay with him. Sagara's sons searched for the horse all over the land. but they could not find it anywhere. So they decided to search it inside the earth. They dug a deep, deep hole. At last, they came to a great sea. There, they saw a very old man. Sagara's sons disturbed that old man. So, he became very angry. He became so angry that he burnt Sagara's all sons to ashes.

1. Who wanted to give his horse as a present to the gods?
(A) Bhagirath
(B) Sagara
(C) Shiva
(D) Bhima
Answer: (B) Sagara

2. What did the king want to do with the horse?
Answer:
The king wanted to give the horse as a present to the Gods.

3. Which of the following words means 'gift'?
(A) beautiful
(B) search
(C) present
(D) stay
Answer:
(C) present

4. Sagara was unhappy because.
(A) his beautiful horse ran away.
(B) a thief took away his horse.
(C) an old man took away his horse.
(D) Bhagirath took away his horse.
Answer:
(B) a thief took away his horse.

5. Bhagirath and his brothers went to search the horse. (True or False)
Answer:
False

6. Who stayed with the king?
Answer:
Bhagirath stayed with the king.

7. Sagara's sons could not find the horse _________.
(A) inside the earth 
(B) on the land
(C) in the sea
(D) in the sky
Answer:
(A)on the land

8. Sagara's sons ________ the old man.
(A) disturbed
(B) did not disturb
(C) talked to
(D) woke up
Answer:
(A) disturbed

9. The old man became _________ when Sagara's sons disturbed him.
(A) happy
(B) angry
(C) sad
(D) unhappy
Answer:
(B) angry

10. Why did the old man become angry?
Answer:
The old man became angry because the king's sons disturbed him.

11. What did the old man do?
Answer:
The old man burnt Sagara's all sons to ashes.

[3] Now, only the water of the Ganga could give them a new life. But, at that time, Ganga was not on the earth. She was in the heaven. Bhagirath was alone at home. He prayed to the river Ganga to come down on the earth and bring his brothers to life again. The Ganga was happy to be on the earth, but she was afraid that her fall from heaven to earth would break the earth. Bhagirath requested Lord Shiva to held the Ganga. Lord Shiva agreed. He asked the Ganga to flow down to the earth through his long hair. In this way, the Ganga could come down gently to the earth. The Ganga flowed over ashes of Sagara s sons and they all came to life again.
Bhagirath prayed to the Ganga to flow on the earth. So she is also known as ‘Bhagirathi’.

1. What could give Sagara's sons a new life?
Answer:
The water of Ganga could give Sagara's sons a new life.

2. The Ganga was __________.
(A) on land
(B) inside the earth
(C) in the heaven
(D) in the sky
Answer:
(C) in the heaven

3. _________ prayed to the Ganga.
(A) Bhagirath
(B) Sagara
(C) The sons
(D) All of these
Answer:
(A) Bhagirath

4. What did Bhagirath pray to the Ganga?
Answer:
Bhagirath prayed to the river Ganga to come down on the earth and bring his brothers to life again.

5. The Ganga was happy to be __________.
(A) in the heaven
(B) on the earth
(C) in the sea
(D) in the sky
Answer:
(B) on the earth

6. Ganga was afraid that her fall from heaven would break the ________.
(A) land
(B) Himalayas
(C)sky
(D) earth
Answer:
(D) earth

7. Bhagirath requested ____________ to hold the Ganga.
(A) Lord Brahma
(B) Lord Vishnu
(C) Lord Shiva
(D) Lord Ganesh
Answer:
(C) Lord Shiva

8. What did Lord Shiva ask the Ganga to do?
Answer:
Lord Shiva asked the Ganga to flow down to the earth through his long hair gently to the earth.

9. The Ganga came down _________ to the earth.
(A) gently
(B) forcefully
(C) quickly
(D) slowly
Answer:
(A) gently

10. The Ganga is also known as _________.
(A) Bhagirath
(B) Yamuna
(C) Bhagirathi
(D) Reva
Answer:
(C) Bhagirathi

Q-2 Choose the right option and complete the sentences: (સાચો વિકલ્પ પસંદ કરી વિધાન પૂર્ણ કરો.)
1. The Ganga's source is in __________________________.
(A) the Bay of Bengal
(B) high up in the Himalayan mountains
(C) the hills
Answer:
(B) high up in the Himalayan mountain

2. The angry old man burnt __________________________.
(A) all the king's sons, except Bhagirath
(B) all the king's sons
(C) Bhagirath
Answer:
(A) all the king's sons, except Bhagirath

3. King Sagara sent _______________________ to search for his horse.
(A) Bhagirath
(B) all his sons, except Bhagirath
(C) all his sons
Answer:
(B) all his sons, except Bhagirath

4. At the end of the story, the Ganga was a river _______________.
(A) only in heaven
(B) only on the earth
(C) on the earth as well as in the heaven
Answer:
(B) only on the earth

5. Give another name for the river Ganga - ______________.
(A) the Revati
(B) the Saraswati
(C) the Bhagirathi
Answer:
(C) the Bhagirathi

6. __________ asked the Ganga to flow down to the earth through his long hair.
(A) Lord Vishnu
(B) Lord Shiva
(C) Lord Brahma
Answer:
(B) Lord Shiva