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ila Your teacher reads a story. listen to it. Then answer the fol-
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lowing questions :

1. Name any one trick which the magician says he can perform.
2. Usually how does a magician play a trick?
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3. Do you think a magician can grow many kinds of mangoes on
a single tree?

iRa Read the following and answer the questions given below.
1. In the photo you see haji Kalimullah Khan

from Mallihabad, U.P. He has grown 300
different kinds of mangoes on a single tree.
Recently he won the Padmashri award for this
and he also finds his name in the Limca Book
of Records. He talks so lovingly about his
orchard and his trees as if he were talking about
his own children.
2. Khan’s prized tree is about 100 years
old. He has been growing different varieties haji Kalimullah Khan
of mangoes on it since 1987. Recently he has
developed five more new varieties of mangoes on the same tree.

3.The craft developed by him has become a mystery for researchers
and agriculturists alike. They are immensely surprised by his work.
One of his precious creations is a tree in the Moghal Garden at the
Rashtrapati Bhawan, flowering 54 kinds of mangoes. The ten feet tall
tree was brought from his garden to Delhi in 1999 as a present to the
President.

Questions :
1. What is Haji Kalimullah Khan’s main achievement?

2. How has the Government recognised his achievement?

3. Say which words are used to mean the following :

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