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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.                                                                                     (8) Whales are normally gentle. Jacques Coustean in his book. The Whale : Mighty Monarch of the Sea, testified to the whale's self-control. In all his years of diving, he says, "not a single man has been hurt during our sometimes hazardous whale encounters. Indeed, whales show every sign of wishing to spare man from harm." Many whales exhibit strong family ties. The young ones remain with their parents for up to15 years or more. Like reindeer and other nomadic land mammals, migrating species such as humpbacks and grey whales live in herds, or pods, and travel seasonally between feeding and breeding grounds.                                                                      In times of stress, whales look after one another. A group migrates at the speed of the slowest baby. Mother whales behave like human beings. They have been seen fondling their babies. Their" flippers are used like hands to clasp, coax and discipline. Jacques Coustean describe in his book an incident in which a mother swam after her calf and pushed it away from a ship. She then struck it several times with her flippers. "The blows had every appearance of being slaps and were obviously administered to teach the baby not to confuse a ship's hull with a mother's stomach." Section c Literature (Textbooks)    Answer the following questions.                                                                                                                                               (1 x 8 = 8) (i) What did Jacques Coustean write in his book? (ii) How long do the young whales remain with their parents? (iii) What do whales do in times of stress? (iv) Mother whales behave like whom? (v) What do whales use their flippers for? (vi) What do many whales exhibit generally? (vii) What kind of nature do whales have? (viii) Write the names of any two migrating species of whales.

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(i) He wrote that whales show every sign of wishing to spare man from harm. (ii) Young whales remain with their parents for up to 15 years or more. (iii) In times of stress, whales look after one another. (iv) Mother whales behave like human beings. (v) Whales use their flippers like hands to clasp, coax and discipline. (vi) Many whales exhibit strong family ties. (vii) Whales are gentle by nature. (viii) Humpbacks and grey whales are migrating species of whales.