Reading Comprehension || RC PRACTICE SET - 23 || CAT 2021 || 5 JUNE

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain word (s) are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.

Hedgehogs seem to be the stuff of picture books from Britain or characters from American animation films, but they are living, breathing mammals and three different species of hedgehogs inhabit the Indian subcontinent alone. Of these, the Madras Hedgehog is very poorly studied, said an ecologist and conservationist who is working to save this endemic species from obscurity, even possible oblivion. The researcher recalled his first sighting of the spiny animal, resembling “a small bunch of twigs arranged with utmost care”, as it ambled about in the scrub looking for food.

The ecologist studies the Elvira Rat, a rodent of the Eastern Ghats. As part of his efforts to save the Madras Hedgehog, the conservationist has brought out a comic book in the local dialect for children in Tamil Nadu, who live in and around the hedgehog’s habitat.

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 2011, he went to Tirunelveli for a celebration, where the locals asked him about the mull-eli (thorny rat), a tiny creature that often ends up as roadkill. This was his first introduction to the Madras Hedgehog. These mammals, endemic to South India, were recorded in scientific literature way back in 1851.

Even today so little is known about the behaviour of these, solitary, nocturnal and elusive animals. Perhaps, the hedgehogs in Tirunelveli come out to sun themselves on tar roads. The hedgehogs cannot scurry away to avoid the traffic. He soon began gathering data about the distribution of hedgehogs in Tamil Nadu. The work which was formally launched in 2012 covered 16 districts in the state.

Local newspapers that reported sightings turned out to be a surprisingly good resource. They networked with local conservation groups like the Nellai Nature Club, and people reported sightings from camera traps. He drew up a questionnaire to document people’s perceptions about hedgehogs across their known range and had nearly a thousand respondents. At the end of the five-year-long study, they got a clearer picture of the distribution of these hedgehogs and about the threats to their survival. In 2018, they published a detailed paper in Mammalia, based on their findings.

As an ecologist, he was shocked to see that the children in the hedgehog’s homeland were growing up ignorant of this tiny mammal. So, he worked to create a 20-page Tamil comic book Mullikkaattu Ithigaasam. The plot is like this: two schoolchildren rescue a little hedgehog from an unlicensed, misinformed practitioner of medicine. Most of its siblings have already ended up as roadkill and the mother is delighted to be reunited with her little one.
Source: https://scroll.in/article/988577/with-a-new-comic-book-an-ecologist-has-stepped-up-his-efforts-to-save-the-elusive-madras-hedgehog