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Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:At the corner of a big public park, there was a Banyan tree. In one of the branches of the tree, there lived a family of crows. Mr and Mrs Crow had two sons, named Kaloo and Shyam. One day, the two brothers flew far from their nest in search of food and lost their way. At last, they stopped by a compound wall. They ? were very tired and thirsty.They spotted an earthen pot inside the compound. Down they sailed and perched on the rim of the pot. They peeped into the pot, but there was very little water in it. Kaloo had! heard the story of the crow and the pot of water. He brought small pebbles in his beak, one by one, and dropped them into the pot.He thought that the water level would rise and; he would get water to drink. Shyam, however, S was cleverer than Kaloo. He flew down to the s bottom of the pot and with his beak made a hole there. The water started flowing out. He put his beak to the hole and drank his fill. Poor s Kaloo, sitting on the rim of the pot, could not < understand why the water level became less,? instead of rising.(1) How did Shyam get enough water to drink?(2) Write from the passage :(a) one word that means ‘the outer curved edge (of the pot) I and(b) one phrase that means ‘trying to find something.(3) How can you say that Shyam was cleverer than Kaloo?(4) What story about the crow and the pot of water must Kaloo have heard? |
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Answer» (1) Shyam flew down to the bottom of the pot and with his beak made a hole there. The water started flowing out. He put his beak to the hole and drank his fill. (2) (3) Both Kaloo and Shyam were thirsty and at the water pot. Kaloo brought pebbles and dropped them into the pot to make the water level come up. But before the level came up, Shyam made a hole at the bottom of the pot with his beak and managed to drink water coming out of the hole. Thus, Shyam proved himself cleverer than Kaloo. (4) Kaloo must have heard the story of a crow who dropped pebbles, one by one, into a pot of water until the level of water rose to the rim and it was able to drink its fill. |
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