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Reading With Understanding – 8
Chapter: 22
ENGLISH
TEXTUAL QUESTION & ANSWER
Intext Question 22.1
Q. 1. Complete the sentences below with the phrases given in box below:
| meeting place for the people in the village the Banyan treesends down roots from its branches sit under it and transact businessreaches its full sizeShibpur, Calcuttaoval and shining |
(a) A well – known variety of the fig tree is called ____.
Ans: banyan tree.
(b) The tree is a ____.
Ans: meeting place for the people in the village.
(c) It was called ‘Banyan’ because Hindu merchants or Baniyas used to ____.
Ans: sit under it and transact business.
(d) It is a big tree, and spreads over a great area, because it _____.
Ans: sends down roots from its branches.
(e) When it grows in open places in the village it ____.
Ans: reaches its full size.
(f) The leaves are _____.
Ans: oval and shining.
(g) There is a big Banyan tree in ___.
Ans: Shibpur, Calcutta.
Q. 2. Put T against the statements that are correct and Against the ones that are incorrect:
(a) The banyan tree grows near sea.
Ans: F.
(b) Villagers enjoy sitting in the shade of the tree.
Ans: T.
(c) The tree was called ‘the Banyan Tree’ by the Americans.
Ans: F.
(d) It is a small tree.
Ans: F.
(e) It grows well in towns.
Ans: F.
(f) Usually there are temples and shrines near it.
Ans: T.
Q. 3. Words and phrases from the passage are given below. Select words from the box that mean the same, and write. them down side by side.
| Variety | ordinary |
| common | provide |
| shrine | talk |
| rallying point | readily |
| gossip | places of worship |
| afford | bag |
| enormous | meeting place |
| slender | thin |
| pouch | big different |
Ans:
| Variety | different |
| common | ordinary |
| shrine | places of worship |
| rallying point | meeting place |
| gossip | talk |
| afford | provide |
| enormous | big |
| slender | thin |
| pouch | bag |
Q. 4. Give passage a tittle.
Ans: History of the Banyan tree.
Intext Question 22.2
1. Vertebrate’ animals are those that:
(a) have warm blood.
(b) have a back bone.
(c) walk on two legs.
Ans: (b) have a back-bone.
2. Fishes, frogs and reptiles are those creatures:
(a) which have no blood
(b) the temperature of whose blood changes with that of the outside atmosphere.
(c) the temperature of whose blood remains the same at all times.
Ans: (b) the temperature of whose blood changes with that of the outside atmosphere.
3. Mammals have:
(a) feathers.
(b) hair on their bodies.
(c) scales.
Ans: (b) hair on their bodies.
4. Birds can
(a) bear live young.
(b) adopt the young of other species.
(c) lay eggs and hatch them.
Ans: (c) lay eggs and hatch them.
5. All birds eggs
(a) lay
(b) fly
(c) build nests
Ans: (a) lay eggs.
Q. 2. Write T against the statements that
are correct and F against the ones that are incorrect:
(a) All birds are small
Ans: F.
(b) The ostrich is a very tall bird
Ans: T.
(c) Vultures eat everything
Ans: C.
(d) All birds build nests
Ans: F.
(e) Same birds build very complicated nests
Ans: T.
(f) All birds can fly
Ans: F.
(g) All birds like to live with human beings
Ans: F.
(h) Birds are warm blooded
Ans: T.
Q. 3. The antonyms (words with opposite meaning) of the following words are given in box. Write them together.
| Vertebrate | cold |
| warm | invertebrate |
| former | unaffected |
| affected | latter |
| live | low |
| High | wild |
| elaborate | dead |
| domestic | simple |
| unable | advance |
| retreat | able |
Ans:
| Vertebrate | Invertebrate |
| warm | cold |
| former | latter |
| affected | unaffected |
| live | dead |
| High | low |
| elaborate | simple |
| domestic | wild |
| unable | able |
| retreat | advance |
