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1.	Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:The rains have heralded the arrived of some seasonal visitors – a leopard, and several thousand leeches.Yesterday afternoon the leopard lifted a dog from near the servants’ quarter below the school. In the evening it attacked one of Bijju’s cows but fled at the approach of Bijju’s mother, who came screaming imprecations.As for the leeches, I shall soon get used to a little bloodletting everyday.Other new arrivals are the scarlet minivets (the females are yellow), flitting silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees, these brightly coloured birds cannot conceal themselves, although, by remaining absolutely silent, they sometimes c contrive to go unnoticed. Along come a pair of drongos, unnecessarily aggressive, chasing the minivets away.(1) Who were the seasonal visitors ? Why are they called so?(2) How were Bijju’s cows saved ?(3) What will the writer get soon used to ?(4) Why do minivets sometimes contrive to go unnoticed?
Answer» 1. A leopard, and several thousand leeches were the seasonal visitors. They are so called because they come out only in the rainy season. 2. Bijju’s mother came screaming curses at the leopard and it ran away without attacking Bijju’s cows. 3. The writer will get soon used to a little bloodletting by leeches every day. 4. Minivets sometimes contrive to go unnoticed as they are aggressively chased by drongos.

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:The rains have heralded the arrived of some seasonal visitors – a leopard, and several thousand leeches.Yesterday afternoon the leopard lifted a dog from near the servants’ quarter below the school. In the evening it attacked one of Bijju’s cows but fled at the approach of Bijju’s mother, who came screaming imprecations.As for the leeches, I shall soon get used to a little bloodletting everyday.Other new arrivals are the scarlet minivets (the females are yellow), flitting silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees, these brightly coloured birds cannot conceal themselves, although, by remaining absolutely silent, they sometimes c contrive to go unnoticed. Along come a pair of drongos, unnecessarily aggressive, chasing the minivets away.(1) Who were the seasonal visitors ? Why are they called so?(2) How were Bijju’s cows saved ?(3) What will the writer get soon used to ?(4) Why do minivets sometimes contrive to go unnoticed?

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1. A leopard, and several thousand leeches were the seasonal visitors. They are so called because they come out only in the rainy season.

2. Bijju’s mother came screaming curses at the leopard and it ran away without attacking Bijju’s cows.

3. The writer will get soon used to a little bloodletting by leeches every day.

4. Minivets sometimes contrive to go unnoticed as they are aggressively chased by drongos.