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प्रश्न
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Whose task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?
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उत्तर
The work of the machines is referred to as ‘our task’ here.
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A symbol of power and strength.
She puts her life at stake,
She's real, she's not fake!
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Why did the cricket drip and tremble?
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
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Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
Whom did the cricket want to meet? Why?
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Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
It never grows leaves,
Not in the winter, spring, summer, or fall.
It just sits there never getting small or ever-growing tall.
- What does ‘it’ refer to?
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