Tea from Assam Passage Based Questions

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UP Board Special: Tea from Assam Passage Based Questions

Passage 1

UP Board – 2023

It was a magnificent view. Against the backdrop of densely wooded hills, a sea of tea bushes stretched as far as the eye could see. Dwarfing the tiny tea plants were tall sturdy shade-trees and amidst the orderly rows of bushes busily moved doll-like figures. In the distance was an ugly building with smoke billowing out of tall chimneys. “Hey, a tea garden!” Rajvir cried excitedly. Pranjol, who had been born and brought up on a plantation, didn’t share Rajvir’s excitement.

1.
Who is the author of this lesson?
प्रश्न: इस पाठ के लेखक कौन हैं?
Ans: The author of the lesson “Tea from Assam” is Arup Kumar Datta.
उत्तर: “टी फ्रॉम असम” पाठ के लेखक अरूप कुमार दत्ता हैं।
2.
Who was not sharing Rajvir’s excitement?
प्रश्न: राजवीर के उत्साह में कौन शामिल नहीं था?
Ans: Pranjol was not sharing Rajvir’s excitement because he had been born and brought up on a tea plantation and was familiar with the scenery.
उत्तर: प्रांजोल राजवीर के उत्साह में शामिल नहीं था क्योंकि वह एक चाय बागान में पैदा हुआ और पला-बढ़ा था और इस दृश्य से परिचित था।
3.
What was dwarfing the tiny tea plants? (2 Marks)
प्रश्न: छोटे चाय के पौधों को क्या बौना बना रहा था?
Ans: The tall, sturdy shade-trees, which were planted among the tea bushes, were dwarfing the tiny tea plants.
उत्तर: चाय की झाड़ियों के बीच लगाए गए ऊँचे, मजबूत छायादार पेड़ छोटे चाय के पौधों को बौना बना रहे थे।
4.
Find a word from the passage which means “extremely beautiful”.
प्रश्न: गद्यांश से एक ऐसा शब्द खोजें जिसका अर्थ “अत्यंत सुंदर” हो।
Ans: The word in the passage is “magnificent”.
उत्तर: गद्यांश में वह शब्द “magnificent” (शानदार) है।

Passage 2

UP Board – 2022

“Oh, this is a tea country now,” he said. “Assam has the largest concentration of plantations in the world. You will see enough gardens to last you a lifetime!”
“I have been reading as much as I could about tea,” Rajvir said. “No one really knows who discovered tea but there are many legends.”
“What legends?”
“Well, there’s the one about the Chinese emperor who always boiled water before drinking it…”

1.
Who is ‘he’ in the first line?
प्रश्न: पहली पंक्ति में ‘he’ कौन है?
Ans: ‘He’ in the first line is Rajvir, who is speaking to his friend Pranjol.
उत्तर: पहली पंक्ति में ‘he’ राजवीर है, जो अपने दोस्त प्रांजोल से बात कर रहा है।
2.
What is Assam known as? (2 Marks)
प्रश्न: असम किस रूप में जाना जाता है?
Ans: Assam is known as a “tea country” because it has the largest concentration of tea plantations in the entire world. It is famous globally for its tea production.
उत्तर: असम को “चाय देश” के रूप में जाना जाता है क्योंकि यहाँ दुनिया में चाय बागानों का सबसे बड़ा संकेंद्रण है। यह विश्व स्तर पर अपने चाय उत्पादन के लिए प्रसिद्ध है।
3.
How did Rajvir learn about the legends of tea?
प्रश्न: राजवीर ने चाय की किंवदंतियों के बारे में कैसे जाना?
Ans: Rajvir learned about the legends of tea by reading as much as he could about tea before his trip to Assam.
उत्तर: राजवीर ने असम की अपनी यात्रा से पहले चाय के बारे में जितना हो सका पढ़कर चाय की किंवदंतियों के बारे में जाना।
4.
Which word in the passage means “a very old popular story”?
प्रश्न: गद्यांश में किस शब्द का अर्थ “एक बहुत पुरानी लोकप्रिय कहानी” है?
Ans: The word in the passage is “legends”.
उत्तर: गद्यांश में वह शब्द “legends” (किंवदंतियाँ) है।

Passage 3

UP Board – Frequent Theme

An hour later the car veered sharply off the main road. They entered the Dhekiabari Tea Estate. On both sides of the gravel road were acre upon acre of tea bushes, all neatly pruned to the same height. Groups of tea-pluckers, with bamboo baskets on their backs, wearing plastic aprons, were plucking the newly sprouted leaves.

1.
What was the name of the tea estate?
प्रश्न: चाय बागान का नाम क्या था?
Ans: The name of the tea estate that they entered was Dhekiabari Tea Estate.
उत्तर: जिस चाय बागान में उन्होंने प्रवेश किया, उसका नाम ढेकियाबारी चाय बागान था।
2.
Describe the scene on both sides of the gravel road. (2 Marks)
प्रश्न: बजरी वाली सड़क के दोनों ओर के दृश्य का वर्णन करें।
Ans: On both sides of the gravel road, there were endless acres of tea bushes. All of them were neatly and uniformly pruned to the same height, creating a vast sea of green.
उत्तर: बजरी वाली सड़क के दोनों ओर चाय की झाड़ियों के अंतहीन एकड़ थे। उन सभी को करीने से और समान रूप से एक ही ऊंचाई पर काटा गया था, जिससे हरे रंग का एक विशाल समुद्र बन गया था।
3.
Who were the people plucking tea leaves?
प्रश्न: चाय की पत्तियां तोड़ने वाले लोग कौन थे?
Ans: Groups of tea-pluckers were plucking the newly sprouted tea leaves.
उत्तर: चाय तोड़ने वालों के समूह नई अंकुरित चाय की पत्तियां तोड़ रहे थे।
4.
What were the tea-pluckers wearing?
प्रश्न: चाय तोड़ने वालों ने क्या पहना हुआ था?
Ans: The tea-pluckers were wearing plastic aprons and carried large bamboo baskets on their backs to collect the leaves.
उत्तर: चाय तोड़ने वालों ने प्लास्टिक के एप्रन पहने हुए थे और पत्तियों को इकट्ठा करने के लिए अपनी पीठ पर बड़ी बांस की टोकरियाँ रखी हुई थीं।

Passage 4

UP Board – 2021

“Tell me another!” scoffed Pranjol.
“We have an Indian legend too. Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk, banished sleep.”
“Tea was first drunk in China,” Rajvir added, “as far back as 2700 B.C.! In fact words like tea, ‘chai’ and ‘chini’ are from Chinese.”

1.
Who was Bodhidharma?
प्रश्न: बोधिधर्म कौन थे?
Ans: Bodhidharma was an ancient Buddhist ascetic, which means he was a monk who practiced severe self-discipline.
उत्तर: बोधिधर्म एक प्राचीन बौद्ध तपस्वी थे, जिसका अर्थ है कि वह एक भिक्षु थे जो कठोर आत्म-अनुशासन का अभ्यास करते थे।
2.
Why did he cut off his eyelids? (2 Marks)
प्रश्न: उन्होंने अपनी पलकें क्यों काट लीं?
Ans: According to the Indian legend, he cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during his meditations and wanted to overcome this distraction to stay awake and alert.
उत्तर: भारतीय किंवदंती के अनुसार, उन्होंने अपनी पलकें इसलिए काट लीं क्योंकि उन्हें अपने ध्यान के दौरान नींद आती थी और वह जागते और सतर्क रहने के लिए इस व्याकुलता को दूर करना चाहते थे।
3.
Where was tea first drunk?
प्रश्न: चाय सबसे पहले कहाँ पी गई थी?
Ans: According to Rajvir, tea was first drunk in China, as far back as 2700 B.C.
उत्तर: राजवीर के अनुसार, चाय सबसे पहले चीन में, 2700 ईसा पूर्व में पी गई थी।
4.
Which words used today are derived from Chinese?
प्रश्न: आज इस्तेमाल होने वाले कौन से शब्द चीनी भाषा से लिए गए हैं?
Ans: The words like ‘tea’, ‘chai’, and ‘chini’ are derived from the Chinese language.
उत्तर: ‘टी’, ‘चाय’ और ‘चीनी’ जैसे शब्द चीनी भाषा से लिए गए हैं।

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