Read the following passages and answer the questions given below:
As I was looking at the imprint and
guessing 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 been 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 hill was visible from the grass plot,
and that he had not seen me and moved after I had taken up his track I was
quite certain. Why then had he left 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 unpleasantly hot May morning, and a glance at the sun and the treetops 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.
Questions:
(i) Why did the tiger leave the grass plot?
(ii) How did Corbett know that the tiger had
not seen him?
(iii) “But this I soon found was not likely” — What does ‘this’ refer to?
(iv) Maeke 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. near by
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 locking at the crushed grass, Corbett
knew that the tiger was very strong.
