General Instructions :

(i) Question Nos. 1 – 4 are compulsory.

(ii) Attempt either question 5 or 6.

(iii) Your answers should be to the point. Stick to the given word limit.

 

1. (A) Read the passage given below and complete the statements that  follow : 10

 

1 Elephants are prone to many diseases. In the Ramayana there are references to elephants gripped by fever. They are susceptible to enteric fever, pox and foot-and-mouth disease. They also may get rabies when bitten by rabid dogs. The intense heat of north India does not suit elephants. In

February 1962, a party of sadhus camped with their elephant outside a city. They could not provide either covering or shelter for the night and the animal just froze to death.

 

2 If an elephant catches a chill, he may get pneumonia or pleuropneumonia. When the body of an elephant is heated up through exertion in kheda, it is not wise to let him drink cold water or to bathe him. He may catch pneumonia or get colic pain. However, the practice in South India is just the opposite

of this. There they give a newly-captured elephant plenty of water to drink so that he may cool down.

 

3 When wild elephants invade human habitations, they eat up anything they come across flour, jaggery, even tobacco.

 

Sometimes from overeating or from eating things that do not agree with them, they become ill with digestive disorders. Elephants have been known to have become so sick as to remain sprawled on the ground for days, being unable to move. In the Khara forest in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, once a