(1 to 5) Read the passage given and answer the following questions choosing from the options given.
Our friends and relatives always have fantastic |stories to tell about snakes, "This one can sting with its tail" or "That one strikes at people's eyes and pecks them out." Those who don't know very much about snakes easily believe such stories. But when they learn the actual facts about snakes, they realize how ridiculous such stories are.
For instance, many people believe that snakes drink milk. At snake parks visitors sometimes bring jugs of milk for the snake - which only goes into the staff cafeteria! A very thirsty snake may take a sip of milk, but it is not the natural food of snakes. Where would snakes get milk in bushes and jungles?
These myths do a lot of harm to snakes. The easily tamed kindly-looking vine snake is feared everywhere, because it is supposed to have the habit of pecking out people's eyes. There is a kind of tree snake which very rarely bites and certainly is not poisonous. But there is an absurd belief that after biting someone this snake climbs a high tree nearby and waits to see the funeral of the victim. Even educated people tell such stories. The snake cannot think beyond finding its food, resting and avoiding enemies, all this it does, not by thinking, but by instinct.
It is therefore wrong to think that they can have feelings such as revenge and jealousy. Snakes have only small, simple brains which tell them such things as when to chase a rat and where to find water, nothing more.
1. What, according to the speaker, usually happens to the milk brought to the snake parks?
(A) Snakes drink it all by themselves.
(B) It is used by the employees.
(C) It is given as natural food to snakes.
(D) It is not taken for any use at all.
2. The befitting title to the passage given above can be:
(A) An encounter with snakes
(B) Snakes and men
(C) Myths about snakes
(D) Snake the harmless creature
3. The myth about tree snakes is that:
(A) They wait to see the funeral of the person they bite.
(B) They climb on trees
(C) They have the habit of pecking out people's eyes.
(D) They are easily tameable and kIndly-looking.
4. Pick out the incorrect statement from the following based on your reading of the passage.
(A) Milk is not the natural food of snakes.
(B) Many people believe that snakes drink milk.
(C) A very thirsty snake may take a sip of milk.
(D) Snakes usually get milk in bushes and jungles.
5. According to the speaker, the people who believe stories about snakes are those who:
(A) are our friends and relatives.
(B) are the visitors of the snake parks.
(C) believe that snakes drink milk.
(D) don't know very much about them.
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