(i) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets.
Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate
to the blank space.
Example: (0) transplanting
RPBA
IX ENGI
[4]
According to ecologist CR Babu,......... (transplant) old trees is always a risk due to stress
and shock that a full-grown tree......... (experience) when it is transplanted. "The chance
of survival for old trees is 50-50," he said, "while trees such as Peepal, Ficus, Semal and
Sheesham....2.... (be) tolerant to transplantation, trees such as Dak, Palash, Arjun, Shahtoot
and Jhilmil are not," he added.
A ditch is....3.... (dig) around the tree to be transplanted and its root system is....4....
(isolate) from the soil. The big branches are lopped off, ....5.... (leave) a few small branches
for ....6..... (regenerate). The root system is covered with wet gunny bags to protect the
roots. The trees are then sent to a nursery to acclimatise. After the roots start.....7.... (grow)
back, the tree....8.... (lower) into a ditch created in its new spot.
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