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5. The gotail is a tree that bears a fruit like a small green __________.

(a) apple (b) pear (c) berry (d) grape

B. Fill in the blanks.

1. __________ was extensively used in the United States for colouring butter.

2. The Khair trees provide a cottage industry for thousands of people in __________.

3. __________ was the first to discover Khaki dye.

4. The __________ trees produce a ruby-coloured gum used for dyeing silk of the finest quality.

5. __________ is provided with a husk that enables it to float and be carried by the ocean from
shore to shore.

C. Write T for true and F for false statements.

1. The Shisham saplings when grown, provide the best timber for furniture.

2. Kamala is a yellow-coloured powder.

3. The Kamala powder is used in India and the middle-east for dyeing wool.

4. The factory of fast dye is situated in Izatnagar.

5. Semul are pink-coloured trees.

D. Answer the following questions.

1. Why does the author call the forest nature-made?

2. What is Kamala and what are its various uses?

3. Mention the uses of Khair trees.

4. How was khaki dye discovered?

5. What is the use of dhak?

6. Which tree is the favourite of birds, parakeets, deer, and monkeys and why?

E. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Later in the year, the semul flowers will give way to large woody seedpods. When the hot winds
blow in April, these pods will explode like anti-aircraft shells and a white cloud of silk cotton (kapoc
used in life-belts), each section carrying a seed, will drift away in the wind to regenerate nature’s

garden. All seeds that are not carried from one place to another by birds or animals are provided
with buoyant material or with parchment sails or propellers, to enable the winds of heaven to
carry them from place to place.

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