A. Complete the following sentences.
1. The old banyan tree "did not belong" to grandfather, but only to the boy, because Grandfather, at sixty-five, could no longer climb it.
2. The small grey squirrel became friendly when it found that the boy did not arm himself with a catapult or air-gun.
3. When the boy started to bring him pieces of cake and biscuit, the squirrel grew quite bold to take morsels from his hand.
4. In the spring, the banyan tree was full of small red figs, and birds of all kinds would come there.
5. The banyan tree served the boy as a crude platform to spend the afternoon by reading books and propping himself against the tree with a cushion from the living room.
6. The young boy spent his afternoons in the tree reading books and propping against the tree.
B.Answer the following questions.
1. "It was a battle of champions."
(i) What qualities did the two champions have? Pick out words and phrases from the paragraph above this line in the text and write them down.
Ans:- Mongoose Cobra
(a) swift fighter (a) skilled fighter
(b) clever fighter (b)poisonous teeth
(c) strikes with speed of light (c)great glider
(ii) What did the cobra and mongoose do, to show their readiness for the fight?
Ans:-
2. Who were the other spectators? What did they do? (Did they watch, or did they join in the fight?)
Ans:- The other two spectators were a myna and a crow. Both of them sat on the cactus plant to watch the upshot of the fight. In the last moment of the fight, both myna and crow wanted to pick up the cobra for their meal. Cobra killed the crow and myna flew away. The mongoose dragged the dead cobra away into the bushes.
3. Read the descriptions below of what the snake did and what the mongoose did. Arrange their actions
in the proper order.
Ans:- Snake Mongoose
(i) tried to mesmerize the mongoose refused to look into the snake’s eyes
(ii) struck on the side that the mongoose pretended to attack the cobra on
Pretended to attack one side
(iii) struck again and missed sprang aside, jumped in, and hit
(iv) struck the crow grabbed the snake by the snout
(v) ceased to struggle dragged the snake into the bushes
4. (i) What happened to the crow in the end?
Ans:-In the end the crow got bitten by the cobra and died.
(ii) What did the myna do finally?
Ans:- The myna dropped to the ground, peered into the bushes from a safe distance, and flew away.
WORKING WITH LANGUAGE (page 133)
A. 1. The word 'round' usually means a kind of shape. What is its meaning in the story?
Ans:-‘Round’ in the story means the second time(course) of the fight.
2. Find five words in the following paragraph, which are generally associated with trees. But here, they have been used differently. Underline the words.
Hari leaves for work at nine every morning. He works in the local branch of the firm of which his uncle is the owner. Hari's success is really the fruit of his own labor. He is happy, but he has a small problem. The root cause of his problem is an astray dog near his office. The dog welcomes Hari with a loud bark every day.
B. The words in the box are all words that describe movement. Use them to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.
Dived, gliding, sprang, darting, whipped....back, delving
1. When he began to trust me, the squirrel began delving into my pocket for morsels of cake.
2. I saw a cobra gliding out of a clump of cactus.
3. The snake hissed, his forked tongue darting in and out.
4. When the cobra tried to bite it, the mongoose sprang aside.
5. The snake whipped his head back to strike at the crow.
6. The birds dived at the snake.
C. Find words in the story, which show things striking violently against each other.
1. The cobra struck the crow, his snout thudding against its body.
2. The crow and the myna collided in mid-air.
3. The birds dived at the snake but bumped into each other instead.
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