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प्रश्न
What is being compared to a gray overcoat?
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उत्तर
The squirrel’s body is being compared to a gray overcoat.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about the Text
Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with
the items in Column B.
| A | B |
| 1. Fear or terror | (i) Father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss |
| 2. glad sense of relief | (ii) Noise of the carriage grows fainter |
| 3. a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding |
(iii) Father comes home |
| (iv) Speaking to father | |
| (v) Going to bed when alone at home | |
| (vi) Father comforts her and falls asleep | |
| (vii) Father stretched out on the safa. snoring |
Discuss in pair and answer question below in a short paragraph (30 − 40 words.
What “horrible idea” occurred to Jerome a little later?
Now read the text
The horse was nearly life-size, moulded out of clay, baked, burnt, and brightly coloured, and reared its head proudly, prancing its forelegs in the air and flourishing its tail in a loop; beside the horse stood a warrior with scythelike mustachios, bulging eyes, and aquiline nose. The old image-makers believed in indicating a man of strength by bulging out his eyes and sharpening his moustache tips, and also decorated the man’s chest with beads which looked today like blobs of mud through the ravages of sun and wind and rain (when it came), but Muni would insist that he had known the beads to sparkle like the nine gems at one time in his life.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What was the effect of the construction of the highway?
The horse was nearly life-size, moulded out of clay, baked, burnt, and brightly coloured, and reared its head proudly, prancing its forelegs in the air and flourishing its tail in a loop; beside the horse stood a warrior with scythelike mustachios, bulging eyes, and aquiline nose. The old image-makers believed in indicating a man of strength by bulging out his eyes and sharpening his moustache tips, and also decorated the man’s chest with beads which looked today like blobs of mud through the ravages of sun and wind and rain (when it came), but Muni would insist that he had known the beads to sparkle like the nine gems at one time in his life.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Had anyone seen the splendour of the horse?
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
One Sunday morning, which the animals assembled to receive their orders,
Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy.
"From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the
neighboring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but
simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary."
(i) Why did the animals need 'certain materials'? What arrangement had Napolean made to engage in trade with the neighboring farms?
(ii) Why did Napoleon's announcement make the animals uneasy?
(iii) What did Squealer say to the animals to ease their doubts and fears?
(iv) Who was Mr. Whymper? What had the agreed to do?
Why had he entered into this agreement with Napoleon?
(v) There was a change in the attitude of humans towards Animal Farm.
Comment on this change. What were the signs and symptoms of this change?
Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.
challenge
What made Ravi feel that Lalli will never learn to play the violin?
How did the fishmongers lure the customers to buy Hilsa?
In what ways did the bear become the lady’s pet animals?
What is the moral/message of the story?
“The watch was nothing special and yet had great powers.” In what sense did it have ‘great powers’?
Write two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
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.)
What was Patrick’s wish? (3)
Make noun from the word given below by adding –ness, ity, ty or y
Bitter ___________.
Mark the right item.
Taro earned very little money because ______
When did the banyan tree become a noisy place?
What do you learn in the lesson about camels?
What are some of the particular habits of the mongoose and the camel?
Complete the following sentence by providing a reason:
In the poem, The Darkling Thrush, the poet thinks the bird had some awareness which the poet did not because ______.
