a) Why is the sphinx getting fixed? b) What is called restoring?

Question

Read the following passage carefully. 

The Great Sphinx is a lion with the head of person cut out of rock. It is a statue located in Egypt. Legends have been told about the Great Sphinx. Many of these stories talk about the sphinx being strong and wise. The statue is very large. The whole statue is 150 feet long with 50 feet long paws. The head is 30 feet long and 14 feet wide. Wind and sand have worn parts of the statue’s nose and some other parts of the statue away completely. These parts will be rebuilt to look as good as new. This process is called restoring.

Now, answer the following questions.

a) Why is the sphinx getting fixed?

b) What is called restoring?

c) Sphinx is located in ……… 

i) France 

ii) Egypt 

iii) America

d) How long are the paws of the sphinx? 

i) 150 feet 

ii) 50 feet 

iii) 30 feet

e) Sphinx is a statue with 

i) the head of a lion and the body of a man. 

ii) the head of a tiger and the body of a lion. 

iii) the head of a person and the body of a lion.

Answer 1

1. Wind and sand have worn out parts of the statue’s nose and some other parts of the statue away completely.

2. The process of the fixation of the worn out parts of the statue of sphinx is called restoring.

3. ii) Egypt

4. ii) 50 feet

5. iii) the head of a person and the body of a lion.