In my own city of Allahabad or in Haridwar, I would go to the great bathing festivals, the Kumbh Mela, and see hundreds of thousands of people come, as their forebears had come for thousands of years from all over India, to bathe in the Ganges. I would remember descriptions of these festivals written thirteen hundred years ago by Chinese pilgrims and others, and even then these meals were ancient and lost in unknown antiquity. What was the tremendous faith, I wondered, that had drawn our people for untold generations to this famous river of India?
2) Kumbh Mela is a modem event. Say true of false.
1) What is the phrase used in the passage to mean Kumbh Mela ?
3) When did Chinese pilgrims write about this festival?
4) Can we say when exactly the festival began?
5) What draws people to this famous river festival for so many years?
6) Write the word used in the passage to mean festival, fair.
7) Write the synonym (from the passage) of ancestors.
8) Write the noun form of describe.
ANSWERS
1) the great bathing festivals
2) false
3) thirteen hundred years ago
4) No.
5) The tremendous
faith
6) mela
7) forebears
8) description-noun