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DAV Class 3 English Practice Book Solutions Pdf Chapter 10 Reading for Understanding
DAV Class 3 English Practice Book Chapter 10 Worksheet 1 Solutions
Question 1.
Read the following poem:
The Wind
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by. —Christina Rossetti
(a) Answer the following questions.
(i) Has the poetess seen the wind?
(ii) How does the poetess know that the wind is passing by?
Answer:
(i) No, poetess has not seen the wind.
(ii) When the leaves hang trembling.
the trees bow down their heads.
(b) Match the following with their correct meanings:
Answer:
(i) leaves shake because of wind
(ii) leaves become dry and fall.
Question 2.
Read the following passage:
Most of us know that plants have life. But very few of us Know that plants can hear tool In 1960 an Indian scientist working on plants found that plants responded to music and grew taller and stronger than plants that grew without any music. The scientist noticed that rice growing in paddy fields grew strong, healthy and produced more when Indian music was played to them. In most cases harvests went up between 25 and 60 per cent! Later, a scientist in the USA tried to find out what kind of music plants prefer. To her surprise, she found that the plants did not like rock music at all. In fact all her plants died when a shrill rock number was played. On the other hand, her plants loved classical music, especially Indian classical, and some plants even flowered when soft jazz music was played.
(a) Write (T) for true and (F) for false statements.
(i) Plant can hear.
Answer:
True
(ii) Plants that grew with music did not seem to be any different from those that grew without music.
Answer:
False
(iii) A scientist in the USA found that her plants preferred rock music.
Answer:
False
(iv) Some plants flowered when Indian music was played to them.
Answer:
True
(b) Answer the following questions.
(i) What happened to the rice in the paddy field when music was played to it over a period of time?
(ii) What kind of music did the plants like?
Answer:
(i) They grew strong, healthy and produced more.
(ii) Classical music, especially Indian classical, some plants even like soft jazz music.
(c) Choose and tick (✓) the most appropriate title for the passage.
(i) Indian Music
(ii) Plant
(iii) I Can Hear You!
(iv) Music for Plants
Answer:
(iv) Music for Plants
Question 3.
Read the following poem.
The Cow
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart.
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;
And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers. —R. L. Stevenson
(a) Tick (✓) the correct option.
The colour of the cow is ______
- black and white
- red and white
- brown and white
Answer:
red and white
(ii) The poet gets ______ from the cow.
- apple-tart
- apples
- cream
Answer:
apple-tart
(iii) The cow has for its food ______
- cream
- meadow flowers
- meadow grass
Answer:
meadow flowers.
(b) Match the words with their meanings.
| (i) might | making a low noise |
| (ii) wander | to lose way |
| (iii) lowing | power |
| (iv) stray | to move here and there |
Answer:
(i) power
(ii) to move here and there
(iii) making a low noise
(iv) to lose way.
(c) Fill in the blanks:
The poet finds the cow to be a ______ creature. He enjoys the cream from its milk with ______. He feels that the cow ______ here and there in all kinds of weather but does not ______. The cow enjoys the open air and the pleasant ______. It even bears the blowing and also get wet in the ______. But in spite of all this, the cow continues to walk in the ______ eating the ______.
Answer:
friendly; apple-tart; wanders; stray; light; wind; showers; meadow grass; meadow flowers.
Question 4.
Read the following passage.
The Chameleon
The chameleon is a strange looking lizard that moves very slowly. But this slow movement is only to befool its prey. It can actually catch and swallow its prey in one twentyfjfths of a secondi The chameleon is also famous for changing its colour according to the background, making it impossible for people to spot it. It changes its colour with the help of special colour cells on its skin. These cells can help it look green, brown or beige, according to the surroundings. Another surprising feature of this creature is that it can move its two eyes independently in any direction. And when it spots an insect, its tongue, which is almost as long as its body, shoots at an amazing speed and catches the prey and pulls ¡t into its mouth in less time than it takes us to blink!
(a) Answer the following questions.
(i) Why does the chameleon move very slowly?
Answer:
The chameleon moves very slowly to fool its prey.
(ii) Pick lines from the text that suggest that the chameleon can hunt its prey very fast.
Answer:
It can actually catch and swallow its prey in one twenty-fifths of a second.
(iii) Why is it difficult to spot a chameleon?
Answer:
Because it changes its colour very fast.
(iv) What is special about the chameleon’s eyes.
Answer:
It can move its two eyes indepen-dently in any direction.
(b) Find words from the passage which mean the opposite of the following:
(i) fast — ______
(ii) possible — ______
(iii) ordinary — ______
(iv) short — ______
Answer:
(i) slow
(ii) impossible
(iii) special
(iv) long.
(c) Match the words in Column A with their correct meaning in Column B.
Answer:
(i) to spot
(ii) feature
(iii) speed.
Question 5.
Read the following story.
The Geese and the Tortoise
Two geese and a tortoise were good friends, They lived in a small lake in 3 jungle. But as summer approached, the lake started drying up The three friends were worried as they could not live Without water We must leave this place and go to some other lake, said the first goose I know there a lake at the other orner of the jungle Let us go there’ replied the seir goose. But the tortoise was upset after listening to this and said, ‘I cannot fly like you. How will I go there?’ The geese loved the tortoise as a true friend and immediately thought of a plan. ‘We will hold a stick ¡n our beaks from the two sides. You hold it in your mouth from the centre. And then we can all fly together.’ ‘But remember,’ warned the first goose, ‘you must not open your mouth or speak anything or else you will fall and die.’ The tortoise agreed. So the geese and the tortoise flew up in the sky as planned. On the ground below, some people saw this sight and started making fun of the tortoise hanging on a stick. The tortoise got angry and opened its mouth to speak something. But before ¡t could realise, it fell down to the ground and died. The geese were saddened by the loss of their friend due to its foolishness.
(a) Tick (✓) the correct option.
(i) Where did the geese decide to go?
- to another jungle
- to another lake
- to a village
Answer:
to another lake
(ii) How did the geese hold the stick?
- with their beaks
- with their claws
- on their wings
Answer:
with their beaks
(iii) Why did the tortoise fall down?
- the stick broke
- the geese left the stick and flew away
- the tortoise opened its mouth
Answer:
the tortoise opened its mouth.
(b) Answer the following questions.
(i) Why did the geese and the tortoise have to leave their lake?
(ii) What was the plan proposed by the geese?
(iii) What did the first goose warn the tortoise against?
(iv) Why did the tortoise open its mouth?
Answer:
(i) The geese and the tortoise had to leave their lake because it was drying up.
(ii) They planned that they would hold the stick with their beaks and the tortoise would hold it in his mouth. Thus they could fly together.
(iii) The first goose warned the tortoise against opening its mouth.
(iv) The tortoise opened its mouth to say something to the people who were making fun to see them.
(c) The following words have two meanings each. Use them in sentences of your own to show that you understand the two meanings.
(i) leave ____________________________
____________________________
(ii) fly ____________________________
____________________________
(iii) stick ____________________________
____________________________
Answer:
leave
- Today I am on leave.
- He wants to leave now.
fly
- The fly is a small insect.
- The plain is flying now.
stick
- Stick the ticket here.
- This stick is not long.