Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Horses are beautiful creatures. They can be of different colours, and can run quickly. People like to watch horses because they are strong and powerful. Horses are mammals. Mammals are animals that have hair or fur, are warmblooded, and usually give birth to their young ones. Horses can live up to 20 or 25 years. They generally sleep standing up, so that if a predator approaches, they can run away quickly. Horses only need about three hours of sleep per day.
Many people have horses as pets, and they ride the horses. When people first started to take horses as pets, they were just used for work. The horses would pull carriages so people could ride places, or plows so the farmers could more easily tend their fields. Horses were also used to move goods from place to place, by carrying objects on their backs. Some horses now work as therapy horses. These horses help people with disabilities to become more calm and comfortable.
Riding therapy provides disabled people with many physical and fitness gains, including balance, posture, and hand-eye coordination.
I Choose the correct answer from the options given:
a People like to watch horses because they are __________
(i) beautiful (ii) strong (iii) strong and powerful (iv)all of the above
b Mammals are animals that are _______________
(i) cold-blooded (ii) warm-blooded (iii) cold (iv) none of the above
c Therapy horses help people with disabilities to become _____________
(i)more calm and comfortable (ii) less calm (iii) more comfortable
(iv) none of the above
d Horses generally sleep standing so that ___________if a predator approaches.
(i) they can walk (ii) they can run away (iii) they can crawl (iv) none of the above
e Find one word for the following from the passage:
Come near or nearer to someone or something - ____________________
f Complete the following:
When people first started to take horses as pets, ____________________
g State whether the following statements are True or False
(i) Horses give birth to their young ones -_______________
(ii)Horses live up to 50 years. - _______________________
h How does riding therapy help people?
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II Rearrange the words given below to form a meaningful sentence:
a India/we/ need to/promote/globally/ as a/destination/tourism
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b from God/ a precious / life /is/ to/ gift/ us
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III Read the following extract and answer the questions:
“Our family beat a retreat back to the sofa as if chased by enemy soldiers.”
a Which family does the narrator refer to in the above lines?
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