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    The document is a comprehension passage and questions about a sighting of tigers in Ranthambore National Park in India. [1] The speaker saw a tiger walk near their jeep and enter the trees. [2] They then witnessed a fight between the tigress Machli and another tiger, with Machli emerging victorious and justifying her title as "Queen of the Jungle". [3] The guide proudly watched Machli, familiar with the animals in the park.

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    The document is a comprehension passage and questions about a sighting of tigers in Ranthambore National Park in India. [1] The speaker saw a tiger walk near their jeep and enter the trees. [2] They then witnessed a fight between the tigress Machli and another tiger, with Machli emerging victorious and justifying her title as "Queen of the Jungle". [3] The guide proudly watched Machli, familiar with the animals in the park.

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    VELAMMAL VIDHYASHRAM MAMBAKKAM

    GRADE 5
    CW OF THE LESSON—A BATTLE IN JUNGLE
    New words with meanings
    1. scrambled—moved hurriedly
    2.bibs—here, marks around the bird’s necks
    3.yelp—here, a high,short cry of alarm
    4.flicking—moving quickly and suddenly
    5.camouflaged--- here,disguised
    6.ripped—tore
    7.clearing—an open space in a forest
    8.bounded—ran with leaps
    9.merging—mixing
    10.wrestled—here,fought to throw each other to the ground

    Answer the following questions.


    Q1.How did the speaker reach the Ranthambore National Park?
    A1.The speaker reached the Ranthambore National Park by Maharaja Express .
    Q2.Why was Raju driving the jeep up the hill and around the corner? What did
    they see when they reached there
    A2.Raju drove the jeep up the hill and around the corner so that the passengers in
    his jeep could have a better sight of the tiger who had just walked into the trees,
    half-hidden by the tall grass.Just as the jeep turned the corner, the passengers
    saw the tiger stop in its track.He turned to look directly at them.Then ,he calmly
    jumped on the road, walked on the road,walked around the back of the jeep and
    then walked into the trees.
    Q3.How did Machli justify the title of the Queen of the Jungle?
    A3.Machli and the other tiger sprang at each other, meeting mid-air, and sank
    teeth and claws into each other’s necks.They fought standing on the their hind
    legs,snarling and growling.All of a sudden, Machli slashed her claws across the
    other tiger’s face very fiercely.Surprised by the attack, and injured,
    the other tiger withdrew and limped away to lick his wounds. Machli growled
    once more to announce her victory and then went and sat under a tree. Thus, she
    justified the title, ‘ Queen of the Jungle’.
    Q4. Why do you think the two tigers did not pay any attention to the human
    beings watching them?
    A4. The two tigers were used to seeing human beings in the national park. So,
    they did not pay any attention to them.
    Q5. Our guide watched her with a proud smile on his face. What do you think this
    statement means?
    A5. This statement indicates that the jungle and all the animals living there were
    very familiar to the guide. He felt attached to each one of them. So, when Machli
    won the fight, he smiled proudly.

    Read these lines from the text and answer the questions:
    1”..a yelp echoed in the silence of the forest”.
    a. Which forest was the speaker in?
    A.a) The speaker was inside the Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan.
    b. Whose yelp' did the speaker hear?
    A.b) The speaker heard the ‘yelp’ of a deer.
    c. What was the significance of the 'yelp'? Who explained it?
    A.c) The guide explained that the ‘yelp’ indicated that the deer had spotted a
    tiger.

    2. “He had spotted something.”


    a. Who does the line refer to?
    A.a) The line refers to the tiger that the speaker and her co-passengers had seen
    walking away.
    b. How did the speaker know that 'he' had spotted something?
    A.b) The tiger had lowered his head and raised his paw. This posture indicated
    that he had spotted something.
    c. What had 'he' spotted?
    A.c) The tiger had spotted Machli, a fifteen-year-old tigress and the most famous
    tiger of Ranthambore, hidden among the trees.

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