Read the following passage carefully.
Gardening! It is a hard work. It is even a dirty work. You have to dig up the hard earth and make its heart soft. Not only this. You have to plan it well. You have to lay out beds for different kinds of plants. They require great care. They must get food and water in time. All this requires hard work and it fills your body with dirt and sweat.
A Gardener is like a mother to the garden. No, good mother leaves her children to a nurse. So as a gardener your garden requires food and water, love and affection. A plant is also a living being and has feelings like a human or an animals. The beauty of flowers, the medicinal value of some plants, the utility of the branches alre all the benefits of possessing a garden. The hobby of gardening is good for health, fitness and recreation. It involves physical activities in open air. The study of plant life is very interesting.
Now answer the following questions.
1) Why should the hard earth be made soft?
2) Why is gardening a hard work?
3) Who is the mother of the garden?
a) you
b) plants
c) gardener
4) Who has feelings of pain, love, affection, etc.?
a) gardener
b) plants
c) animals
d) all the three
5) What is the study of plant life called?
a) gardening
b) biology
c) anatomy
d) plantology
d) people
