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Read the passage given below : 1. The hopping kangaroo is a familiar sight in every snapshot relating to Australia. Members of the Kangaroo family can be as small as a rat or as big as a man. Kangaroos are found mainly in Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. Kangaroos, which are big-footed marsupials that evolved in Australia, use their short front legs like arms. The mansized kangaroos of Australia are capable of speeding up to 88 km/hr for short distances, their means of locomotion being their powerful hind legs, which carry them over the ground in jumps of 9 m or more at a time. 2. Weighing around 70 kg, they have an average life span of around six to eight years and a maximum lifetime of 20 years. When bothered by predators, kangaroos often head for the water, standing submerged to the chest, and attempting to drown the attacker by holding him under water. Another defensive technique is to get their back to a tree and kick at their adversary with their clawed hind feet, sometimes with sufficient force to kill a man. Normally shy animals, they alert other kangaroos to danger by beating on the ground with their hind feet. This loud alarm signal carries over a long distance. 3. The tail is important for kangaroos. It holds them in balance and supports them when they sit or fight against other kangaroos. The kangaroo uses its short legs as arms. With them it scratches itself, cleans its fur and holds branches when it eats leaves. Kangaroos are marsupials and the females carry newborns in a pouch in front of their abdomens. The babies are born small and climb up into the safety of the pouch. There, for the next 225 days or so, they eat, sleep and grow. Once they reach full development, they leave the pouch. A young kangaroo that leaves the pouch is called a ‘joey’. To keep from getting too hot, the kangaroos take naps in the afternoon and do most of their grazing at night. But the best stay-cool secret of these creatures is the spit bath! Kangaroos drool and lick saliva all over their faces and bodies down. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions briefly : (a) When followed by the predators, kangaroos submerge ______________ and ______________ . (b) The powerful hind legs help kangaroos to ____________________ . (c) Kangaroos are mainly found in Australia and are ______________ . (d) They use their front legs to ________________ . (e) Kangaroos warn others of danger by ___________ . (f) The secret of kangaroos to stay cool is __________ . (g) They use their tails to ________________ . (h) Before becoming ‘joeys’, the young ones stay in the _________.

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(a) themselves in water upto the chest; attempt to drown the attacker by holding him under water. 

(b) carry them over the ground / jump more than 9 meters at a time / kick their adversaries. 

(c) big-footed marsupials / also found in Tasmania and New Guinea / capable of speeding up to 88 km/h for short distances. 

(d) scratch themselves / clean their fur / to hold branches while they eat leaves. 

(e) beating on the ground with their hind feet. 

(f) to take naps in the afternoon and do most of their grazing at night / spit bath / to drool and lick saliva all over their faces and bodies. 

(g) balance and support themselves when they sit or fight with the other kangaroos. 

(h) mother’s pouch; eat, sleep and grow there for the next 225 days.



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