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DAV Class 5 English Practice Book Solutions Pdf Chapter 14 Reading for Understanding
A. 1. Read the description given below and answer the questions that follow.
At the start of nearly every magazine you will find a ‘contents’ page. By looking quickly at this page, and thinking a little about what you read, you can often get a good idea of what type of magazine it is and what it is about. Read the contents page of a popular magazine ‘Asia’.
A.1.1. Tick (✓) the correct answer.
(i) Which word best describes what type of magazine it is?
(a) news
(b) entertainment
(c) travel
Answer:
(a) news
(ii) After reading the contents, we come to know that the magazine
(a) is fairly new
(b) has been published for a longtime
(c) neither of these
Answer:
(b) has been published for a longtime
(iii) What would you except the article on page 24 to be about? Asia’s …
(a) poverty
(b) economic problems
(c) progress
Answer:
(c) progress
A.1.2. Answer the following questions.
(i) What does the word ‘danger’ in the title ‘The Global Danger’ refer to?
Answer:
Likelihood of harm or death.
(ii) Who is the man referred to in the article on page 20?
Answer:
The man whose dream inspired the magazine’s birth. The founder of the ‘Asia’ magazine.
(iii) The experience written about in the article on page 33 is an experience of (one word)
Answer:
war.
(iv) Which section of the magazine would
- inform you about fashion?
- make you think?
Answer:
- inform you about fashion? 40
- make you think? 9.
A.2. Read the following extract.
Jules Verne was a I rent liman who was born In 1828. He was not an inventor and he was not a scientist, hut he read a great many books on science. He had a very strong im.iglnation and he loved adventures .iltlrougli he* did not have many great adventures himself. He wrote* a number of exc ding books about the things which he thought that scientists and Inventors would one day be able to do. At that time, his stories seemed like fairy tales.
Many of Jules Verne’s attempts to look into the* future?, however, were surprisingly accurate. One of his books was called I rum Earth to Moon. In this, three men and a dog made a journey around the Moon, they did this in a hollow ‘ship’ fired from a gun. After going round the Moon, they returned to Earth and splashed down into the sea not tar from where the first real Moon travellers landed in July 1969, about a hundred years later.
Jules Verne’s most famous book is Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
Jules Verne died in 1905 when he was seventy seven. Many years later, explorers really did go to the Moon and one part of the Moon was given Jules Verne’s name.
A.2.1. Tick (✓) the correct answer.
(i) Jules Verne wrote a number of books on—
(a) science
(b) comedy
(c) tragedy
Answer:
(a) science
(ii) Three men and a dog made a journey around the Moon in the book,
(а) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
(b) From Earth to Moon
(c) Around the World in Eighty Days
Answer:
(b) From Earth to Moon
A.2.2. State whether the following statements are true or false.
(i) Jules Verne was a scientist __________
Answer:
False
(ii) Jules Verne has a very __________ strong imagination.
Answer:
True.
(iii) The ship splashed down __________ into the sea not far from where the first Moon travellers landed.
Answer:
True.
A.2.3. Answer the following questions.
(i) Why was one part of the Moon given Verne’s name?
Answer:
One part of the Moon was given Verne’s name because he had made a journey around it (Moon).
(ii) Find words from the passage which mean the same as—
(a) with nothing inside it __________
(b) without any mistakes __________
Answer:
(a) hollow
(b) accurate.
A.2.4 Complete the following table.
| Name of the person | Jules Verne |
| Nationality | |
| Born in | |
| Died in | |
| Age when he died | Seventy-seven |
Answer:
| Name of the person | Jules Verne |
| Natioi ality | French |
| Born in | 1828 |
| Died in | 1905 |
| Age when he died | Seventy-seven |
A.3.Rad the extract from the book ‘Boj” written by Roald Dahi.
When I was young, I decided to slip a dead mouse into Mrs Pratchett’s jar of sweets. I told my friends, ‘When she puts her dirty hand in the jar to grab a handful of sweets, she’ll grab a stinky mouse instead.’
The other four stared at me in wonder. They slapped me on the back. We all danced around the classroom. ‘We’ll do it todayl’they cried. ‘We’ll do it on the way home! You had the idea,’they said to me, ‘so you can be the one to put the mouse in the jar.’
Peter handed me the mouse. I put it into my pocket. ‘I’ve got a penny,’ Peter said, ‘so I’ll ask for one lollipop and a chocolate. And while she turns away to get them, you slip the mouse quickly into the jar.’
Feeling very nervous, we entered the shop. Mrs Pratchett stood behind the counter. ‘One chocolate please,’ Peter said to her, holding out his penny.
When I saw Mrs Pratchett turn her head away for a couple of seconds to look for the chocolate, I lifted the glass lid of the jar standing in front of me and dropped the mouse in. Then I replaced the jar as silently as possible. My head was thumping like mad and my hands had gone sweaty.
Tick (✓) the correct answers.
The extract is from a book written by—
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Nancy Drew
(c) Roald Dahi
Answer:
(c) Roald Dahi
(ii) Mrs Pratchett owned a—
(a) sweet shop
(b) general store
(c) medical store
Answer:
(a) sweet shop
(iii) The total number of boys who made the plan to put a dead mouse into the jar was—
(a) two
(b) four
(c) five
Answer:
(c) five
A.3.2. Write below—
(i) the sentence that suggests that the other boys admired the narrator’s idea.
Answer:
They slapped me on the back. We’ll do it today! They cried. ‘We’ll do it on the way home.’
(ii) a phrase that tells the narrator was excited while dropping the mouse into the jar.
Answer:
We all danced around the classroom.
(iii) the currency of England.
Answer:
Penny.
A.3.3. Why had the hands of the author gone sweaty?
Answer:
Because he was doing wrong.
A.4. Read the following passage.
Food Allergies
Madhav always had head aches and stomach aches. First, Madhav’s doctor gave him some medicine, but it didn’t work. Then his doctor asked him about his favourite foods. Madhav said he loved cakes and ice creams. His doctor said, ‘Stop eating sweets.’ Madhav stopped, but he still got head aches and stomach aches. Next, his doctor asked more questions about his diet. Madhav said he ate a lot of fish. His doctor told him to stop eating fish. When Madhav stopped eating fish, he felt much better.
Smriti often had a very sore mouth after eating. First, she stopped drinking milk and eating cheese, but this made no difference. Then, in the summer, the problem became really bad and it was difficult for Smriti to eat. Her doctor asked about her diet. She said she had a tomato garden, and she ate about ten tomatoes a day. Smriti’s doctor told her not to eat tomatoes. When she stopped eating tomatoes, her mouth got better.
Anand is a mechanic, but he was not able to hold his tools. His hands were swollen. First, he went to his doctor, and she gave him some medicine. The medicine did not work. He still could not hold his tools. After that, his doctor asked him about his diet. Anand told her he ate a lot of bread. She told him not to eat bread or pasta. After ten days, Anand could hold his tools again.
A.4.1. In the passage, who liked these things?
(i) tomatoes __________
(ii) cakes __________
(iii) bread __________
Answer:
(i) tomatoes
(ii) cakes
(iii) bread
A.4.2. Complete the table given below.
Answer:
| Problem | What didn’t work | What worked | |
| Madhav | head aches and stomach aches | medicine | stop eating fish and sweets |
| __________________________ | eating cake and ice cream | _____________________ | |
| Smriti | Sore mouth | stop eating cheese and drinking milk | stop eating tomatoes. |
| Anand | his hands were swollen | medicine | stop eating bread or pasta. |
A.4.3. Find out words from the passage which mean the same as these.
(i) something that you f _ _ _ r_te like over everything else
(ii) a person who treat _ o _ _ _ _ patients
(iii) food that we eat _ _ _ t everyday
Answer:
(i) favourite,
(ii) doctor,
(iii) diet.
A.5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Field Hockey
History: The game of hockey emerged from a number of ball and stick games played by the British from the seventeenth century onwards. The first rules, written in the mid-1850s, refer to a “cricket ball painted white” as the object used. The first hockey club, Blackheath, was formed on a common ground used as a golf course.The game was exported by the British to Australia and India.
At the Olympics: Hockey was first contested in Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, where the hosts fielded three teams-England, Ireland and Scotland-and won the medals. It reappeared in 1920 and its unbroken run on the Olympic schedule began in 1928, when India won the first of five consecutive Olympic titles.
Women’s hockey was first contested in 1980. Perhaps the most noteworthy women’s match was Australia’s victory over South Korea in the 1988 Olympics. The Korean women had been trained virtually full-time, hoping to win the gold medal at home and were offered rich rewards, but the Australians were too good in the final.
A.5.1. Tick (✓) the correct answers.
(i) Hockey first became an Olympic sport in:
(a) 1908
(b) 1920
(c) 1960
Answer:
(a) 1908
(ii) Britain won the gold medal in hockey at the 1908 Olympic Games because they:
(a) entered more teams than any other country.
(b) Changed the rules to encourage more attacking play.
(c) had been playing the game for the longest period of time.
Answer:
(c) had been playing the game for the longest period of time.
(iii) At the 1928 Olympic Games:
(a) England, Ireland and Scotland won medals in hockey.
(b) England won the gold medal for hockey.
(c) India won the first of the five Olympic titles for hockey.
Answer:
(b) England won the gold medal for hockey.
(iv) According to the information, in 1988, the South Korean women’s hockey team:
(a) played together as a team for the first time.
(b) won its match against the Australian team.
(c) was offered incentives to win the gold medal.
Answer:
(b) won its match against the Australian team.
A.5.2. State whether the following statements are true or false.
(i) Australia and India were the first countries to play in a hockey competition. __________
(ii) The first hockey club, Blackheath, was formed on a specially designed field. __________
(iii) The game of hockey was created directly from the game of cricket. __________
(iv) Cricket and hockey initially used a similar type of ball. __________
Answer:
(i) False
(ii) False
(iii) True
(iv) True.
A.5.3. Find words from the passage which are the opposites of the following:
(i) imported (para 1) __________
(ii) defeat (para 2) __________
(iii) poor (para 3) __________
Answer:
(i) exported,
(ii) won,
(iii) rich.
A.6. Read the following Poem.
The Silver Fish
While fishing in the blue lagoon,
I caught a lovely silver fish;
And he spoke to me. ‘My boy,’ quoth he,
‘Please set me free and I’ll grant your wish;
A kingdom of wisdom? A palace of gold?
Or all the fancies your mind can hold?’
And I said, ‘O.K.’ and I set him free,
But he laughed at me as he swam away,
And left me whispering my wish
Into a silent sea.
Today I caught that fish again
(that lovely silver prince of fishes),
And once again he offered me,
If I would only set him free,
Any one of a number of wishes,
If I would throw him back to the fishes.
He was delicious!
A.6.1. Tick (✓) the correct answer.
(i) After the boy had set the fish free, the fish:
(a) laughed at the boy.
(b) said he never granted wishes.
(c) gave the boy all the wishes he wanted.
Answer:
(a) laughed at the boy.
(ii) The sea is described as ‘slient’ to suggest that:
(a) the boy had been disappointed by the fish.
(b) there were no other people fishing.
(c) the boy was only whispering and not shouting.
Answer:
(a) the boy had been disappointed by the fish.
(iii) The first time the fish was caught, the boy:
(a) laughed and set the fish free.
(b) was surprised by the size of the fish.
(c) trusted the fish.
Answer:
(c) trusted the fish.
(iv) The end of the poem is best described as:
(a) tragic.
(b) humorous.
(c) unfair.
Answer:
(b) humorous.
(v) What did the boy wish for?
(a) a palace of gold.
(b) all the fancies in his mind.
(c) the poem does not tell us.
Answer:
(c) the poem does not tell us.
A.6.2. Write words from the poem that rhyme with the following:
(i) gold
(ii) wishes
(iii) me
Answer:
(i) gold – hold
(ii) wishes – fishes
(iii) me – free.