Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that fol

1.	Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follows: The following is how Ibn Battuta described the coconut: These trees are among the most peculiar trees in kind and most astonishing in habit. They look exactly like datepalms, without any difference between them except that the one produces nuts as its fruits and the other produces dates. The nut of a coconut tree resembles a man’s head, for in it are what look like two eyes and a mouth, and the inside of it when it is green looks like the brain, and attached to it is a fibre which looks like hair. They make from this cords with which they sew up ships instead of (using) iron nails, and they (also) make from it cables for vessels.1. Write the name of two items which held Ibn Battual’s fascination.2. How does he convey a sense that this fruit is unusual?3. What kind of comparison did Ibn Batuta presents to make people understand? Are those comparisons appropriate?
Answer» (i) Coconut and Paan. (ii) (a) The nut resembles a man’s head. (b) The fibre on the fruit which looks like human hair, is used to make cords and cables for shipping vessels. (iii) (a) Ibn Battuta compares coconuts with human head as the resembles to human head. (b) It has two eyes and a mouth and its inner part is grown, which look like the brain. (c) The fiber attached to it look like hair.

Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follows: The following is how Ibn Battuta described the coconut: These trees are among the most peculiar trees in kind and most astonishing in habit. They look exactly like datepalms, without any difference between them except that the one produces nuts as its fruits and the other produces dates. The nut of a coconut tree resembles a man’s head, for in it are what look like two eyes and a mouth, and the inside of it when it is green looks like the brain, and attached to it is a fibre which looks like hair. They make from this cords with which they sew up ships instead of (using) iron nails, and they (also) make from it cables for vessels.1. Write the name of two items which held Ibn Battual’s fascination.2. How does he convey a sense that this fruit is unusual?3. What kind of comparison did Ibn Batuta presents to make people understand? Are those comparisons appropriate?

Answer»

(i) Coconut and Paan.

(ii) (a) The nut resembles a man’s head.

(b) The fibre on the fruit which looks like human hair, is used to make cords and cables for shipping vessels.

(iii) (a) Ibn Battuta compares coconuts with human head as the resembles to human head.

(b) It has two eyes and a mouth and its inner part is grown, which look like the brain.