Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
As I was looking at the imprint and questing
at the size of the animal that had made it, I saw some of the blades of grass
that had been crushed down, spring erect. This indicated that the tiger had
gone only a minute or so.............My first thought on seeing the grass
spring erect was that the tiger had seen me and moved off. But this I soon
found was not likely, for neither the rock nor the kill was visible from the
grass plot, and that he had not seen me and moved after I had taken up his
comfortable bed and gone away. The sun shining on the back of my neck provided the
answer. It was now nine O’clock of an unpleasant hot May morning, and a glance
at the sun and the tree-tops over which it had come showed that it had been
shining on the grass for ten minutes. The tiger had evidently found it too hot,
and gone away a few minutes before my arrival to look for a shady spot. (From ‘The
End of the Mohan Man Eater’: Jim Corbett)
Questions:
(1) Why did the tiger leave the grass plot?
(11) How did Corbett know that the tiger had
not seen him?
(i) “But this I soon found was not
likely................"What does ‘this’ refer to?
(iv) Make two sentences using ‘glance’ as a
noun and as a verb.
(v) Choose the appropriate meaning of the
word in italics.
Neither the rock nor the kill was visible.
- A. Far away
- B. nearby
- C. could be seen
- D. familiar
(vi) Of the following statements, only two
are true. Write out the true statements.
(a) The tiger actually saw Corbett and moved
off.
(b) Corbett was standing on the grass plot
near the place where the tiger had lain.
(c) Corbett guessed that the tiger had left
only a short while ago.
(d) By looking at the crushed grass, Corbett
knew that the tiger was very strong.
