Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Few animals are as useful or as unpopular as the goat. From ancient times, it has supplied people with milk and mea Its skin has been made into leather and the wool of some breeds woven into soft, warm cloth. Goats are hardly creature and can live on the green reamins of a thorny bush or a poor grassland. Nevertheless, they have always had a ba reputation. Perhaps this is because the billy goats (Males) often have a bad temper and a strong, unpleasent smell. Goa also do serious damage to young trees and other plants and quickly reduce lush grazing land to barren wasteland. For it size, the goat provides man with more useful things than almost any other animal yet it often does not receive the food ani care given to other animals. The goat will try to eat anything and will put up with the most uncomfortable surroundings. But if it is well fed and carefully housed, the goat will produce much better milk, flesh and wool.
(a) How is goat a useful animal?
(b) Why do the goats have a bad reputation?
(c) What damage is caused by the goats to grazing lands?
(d) How can the goats produce better milk, flesh and wool?
Give meaning of the following words:
(i) Ancient
(ii) Barren