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प्रश्न
How does a tree prove to be beneficial during Summers?
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उत्तर
Tree gives cool shade during summer.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Who had these opinion about Einstein?
He was stupid and would never succeed in life.
What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
Thinking about the Poem
In stanza 1, find five ways in which we all are alike. Pick out the words.
Answer of these question in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
Santosh Yadav got into the record books both times she scaled Mt Everest. What were the reasons for this?
Complete the following statement.
From her room in Kasturba Hostel, Santosh used to _________
Discuss with your partner the similarities and differences between your dream
houses.
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
In love of home and loyalty
And far-cast thought of civic good____
His blessing on the neighbourhood,
Who in the hollow of his hand
Holds all the growth of all our land____
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is the reference to in the phrase ‘stirs in his heart’?
Some are meet for a maiden's wrist,
Silver and blue as the mountain mist,
Some are flushed like the buds that dream
On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream,
Some are aglow with the bloom that cleaves
To the limpid glory of new born leaves
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
To what are the bangles compared?
Some are like fields of sunlit corn,
Meet for a bride on her bridal morn,
Some, like the flame of her marriage fire,
Or, rich with the hue of her heart's desire,
Tinkling,luminous,tender, and clear,
Like her bridal laughter and bridal tear.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Pick a simile from the stanza.
There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. 1 will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward. But let us hope that the hostilities between us may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What hint does he give regarding the cause for the depletion of his race?
A camel can do without water for days together. What is the reason given in the text?
“...Mr. Purcell heard it no more than he would have heard the monotonous ticking of a familiar clock.” (Read para beginning with “It was a rough day...”)
(i)What does ‘it’ refer to?
(ii) Why does Mr. Purcell not hear ‘it’ clearly?
The following sentence has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in brackets.
It isn’t__________ that_________ should always be the mother of invention. (necessary)
What did the leader of the van do with the kind old man?
Before fire brigades were set out, how people tried to put out fire.
How did the mongoose oblige its master? What was the reward of his service?
The king rewarded the shepherd twice. How and why?
Answer the following question:
Why did Taro run in the direction of the stream?
What did the dog do to lead the farmer to the hidden gold?
Which of the following words does H. W. Longfellow use to describe the movement of the phantoms in his poem, ‘Haunted Houses’?
