Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is improbable that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child. A child is pleasure in playing in the rain or in the snow. His first visit to seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains; he is not free to do what he wishers to; he is continually being told not to do things or being punished. His life, therefore, is not perfectly happy.

Questions:

(i) How is childhood?

(ii) What is the benefit of having good parents?

 (iii) What are the rewards of childhood?

 (iv) Why is the life of a child not perfectly happy?

OR

When most of us think of forests, we think of trees. True, trees are the most prominent form of life in a forest. But there is much more to a forest than the eye can see. Each forest is a growing, changing community made up of different plants and animals that interact with each other in a variety of ways. Associated with trees are thousands of other kinds of plants-shrubs. Vines, leaves, herbs and ferns. These use trees for support, for shade and for moisture to grow.

Questions:

(i) Which is the most prominent from of life in a forest?

 (ii) What is a forest made up of?

(iii) Who all are associated with trees and for what?

 (iv) Make sentences with: Community. Forest.