Read the following passages and answer the questions given below :
It was an event that surprised the scientific world. It was an undreamed of thing. Here was a man who had built a unique instrument-an instrument that could measure the growth of plants. Here was a man who had proved with this wonderful machine that plants have hearts and can feel. The machine showed that plants have sight and a sense which tells them that a stranger is approaching. “Your instrument is a wonderful thing,” said the great man who had come to the Paris Congress of Science, 1900. They were amazed as the inventor showed them how to use the machine.
1. Write name of the lesson from which the above passage has been taken.
2. Name the event that surprised the scientific world.
3. This was a unique instrument because
4. The instrument revealed some new facts. They were,…………….
5. Find words from the above passage which mean :
(i) Rare (ii) Coming near
