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1.	Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:Then a buzzard rose in front of him and flapped into the air. He came into the clearing under the oaks. Buzzards sat in acircle around the carcass of the doe. They turned their heads on their long scrawny necks and hissed at him. He threw his bough at them and they flew into an adjacent tree.The sand showed large cat prints but the big cats killed fresh, and they had left the doe to the carrion birds.He parted the grass at the place where he had seen the fawn. It did not seem possible that it was only yesterday. The fawn was not there. He circled the clearing. There was no sound, no sign. The buzzards clacked their wings, impatient to return to their business.He returned to the spot where the fawn had emerged and dropped on all fours, studying the sand for the small hoof prints. The night’s ram had washed away all tracks except those of cat and buzzards.(1) What are buzzards?(2) How did Jody try to avoid buzzards?(3) What are carrion birds?(4) What ’business’ is referred to in this passage?
Answer» 1. Buzzards are large birds like vultures that eat the flesh of dead animals. 2. Jody wanted to reach the fawn near the carcass, but the carcass was surrounded by buzzards. Jody threw a small branch of a tree at them and they flew to the adjacent tree. 3. Carrion birds are carnivorous birds that feed on flesh. 4. The ‘business’ referred to here is ‘picking and eating flesh from the carcass.

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:Then a buzzard rose in front of him and flapped into the air. He came into the clearing under the oaks. Buzzards sat in acircle around the carcass of the doe. They turned their heads on their long scrawny necks and hissed at him. He threw his bough at them and they flew into an adjacent tree.The sand showed large cat prints but the big cats killed fresh, and they had left the doe to the carrion birds.He parted the grass at the place where he had seen the fawn. It did not seem possible that it was only yesterday. The fawn was not there. He circled the clearing. There was no sound, no sign. The buzzards clacked their wings, impatient to return to their business.He returned to the spot where the fawn had emerged and dropped on all fours, studying the sand for the small hoof prints. The night’s ram had washed away all tracks except those of cat and buzzards.(1) What are buzzards?(2) How did Jody try to avoid buzzards?(3) What are carrion birds?(4) What ’business’ is referred to in this passage?

Answer»

1. Buzzards are large birds like vultures that eat the flesh of dead animals.

2. Jody wanted to reach the fawn near the carcass, but the carcass was surrounded by buzzards. Jody threw a small branch of a
tree at them and they flew to the adjacent tree.

3. Carrion birds are carnivorous birds that feed on flesh.

4. The ‘business’ referred to here is ‘picking and eating flesh from the carcass.

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