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प्रश्न
How long does it take for a grub to become a complete ant?
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उत्तर
After two or three weeks, a grub becomes a cocoon. After another three weeks, the cocoon breaks and a complete ant appears.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer the following question in not more than 100 − 150 words.
Compare and contrast the atmosphere in and around the Baudhnath shrine with the
Pashupathinath temple.
Working in small groups of 4−5 students, go back over the two passages on Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova and complete the table given below with relevant phrases or sentences.
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Points of Comparison/Contrast |
Santosh Yadav | Maria Sharapova |
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1. Their humble beginning |
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2 . Their parents’ approach |
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3. Their will power and strong desire to succeed |
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4. Evidence of their mental toughness |
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5. Their patriotism |
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Read the English folktale given below and fill up the blank spaces with suitable words.
There were once three tortoises – a father, a mother (a) ________. a baby (b) ________ one fine morning during Spring, they decided (c) ________ picnic. They picked the place (d) ________ they would go; a nice wood at some distance, (e) ________ they began to put their things together. They got tins of cheese, vegetables, meat and fruit preserves. In about three months, they were ready. They set out carrying their baskets (f) ________ eighteen months, they sat down for a rest. They knew (g) ________ they were already half way to the picnic place.
In three years they reached there. They unpacked (h) ________ spread out the canned food. Then, mother began to search inside the basket. She turned it upside down and shook it (i) ________ something important was missing.
“We’ve forgotten the tin-opener. Baby, you’ll have to go back. We can’t start without a tin-opener. We’ll wait for you”. .
“Do you promise (j) ________ you won’t touch a thing (k) ________ I come back?”
“Yes, we promise faithfully,” Mother and father said together.
Soon after, he was lost among the bushes.
So, they waited and waited. A year went by and they were getting hungry. They had promised (l) ________ they waited. They began to feel really hungry (m) ________ the sixth year was about to end.
Mother tortoise said, “He’d never know the difference.” “No,” said the father tortoise.
Mother tortoise said, “He ought to be back by now. Let’s just have one sandwich (n) ________ we are waiting.”
They picked up the sandwiches, (o) ________ as they were going to eat them, a little voice said, “Aha! I knew you’d cheat! It’s a good thing I didn’t start for that tin opener,” baby Tortoise said.
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:
Mr. Oliver, an Anglo-Indian teacher, was returning to his school late one night on the outskirts of the hill station of Shimla. The school was conducted on English public school lines and the boys – most of them from well-to-do Indian families – wore blazers, caps and ties. “Life” magazine, in a feature on India, had once called this school the Eton of the East.
Mr. Oliver had been teaching in this school for several years. He’s no longer there. The Shimla Bazaar, with its cinemas and restaurants, was about two miles from the school; and Mr. Oliver, a bachelor, usually strolled into the town in the evening returning after dark, when he would take short cut through a pine forest.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Which route did Mr Oliver take on his way back?
What information does Gilman give to Twisden? Why did Twisden decide to withdraw from the case ?
Answer the following question.
Name two things the elephant can do with his trunk, and two he cannot.
Chandni fought the wolf because she
On getting a gift of chappals, the beggar vanished in a minute. Why was he in such a hurry to leave?
Find in the poem an antonym (a word opposite in meaning) of the following word.
lost
What made Ravi feel that Lalli will never learn to play the violin?
Why was it necessary to train Kari to he good?
How did the other bird greet the king?
Why do you think Prem wants to tell the story of the reptiles to the people of his village?
How did Vijay Singh feel when he was told to go to the Haunted Deserts?
Answer the following question. (Refer to that part of the text whose number is given against the question. This applies to the comprehension questions throughout the book.)
How did Patrick help him? (7)
Multiple Choice Question:
The word ‘stucco’ means the same as ________
Why did the speaker find the old banyan tree exclusively his own?
Multiple Choice Question:
Such silly questions are baseless, still ______
Why does Shane Koyczan begin the poem, Beethoven, with the word “Listen”?
