Lesson 2
Clouds
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1. Which season do you like
most? Name three objects of nature that are commonly seen in that season.
Ans:
2. From the list given below,
point out the action that you dislike the most and give reasons for your
answer:
(a) sleeping (ঘুমোনো), (b) playing (খেলা করা), (c) waiting (অপেক্ষা করা)।
Ans: I dislike 'waiting' the most because 'waiting' reveals unknown. The unknown breeds anxiety and that anxiety festers into annoyance.
A. Short Answer Type Questions
• Answer the following
questions:
1. Why did the boy wander far?
Ans: The boy wandered far in search of the clouds.
2. Whom did the boy see first turning on to the dirt track?
Ans: Turning on to the dirt track the boy first saw a grass-cutter coming from the other direction.
3. Where did the boy wander in
search of the clouds?
Ans: The boy wandered far away down winding paths and alleys in search of the clouds.
4. Why was the grass-cutter surprised?
Ans: The grass-cutter was surprised as though he had been asked the most peculiar question.
5. Whom did the boy come upon after the grass-cutter and what was he doing?
Ans: After the
grass-cutter, the boy came upon a farmer who was ploughing in his field.
6. What was the farmer's idea
about the question?
Ans: The farmer
could not make sense of the question.
7. What were compared with the boy's asking after the clouds?
Ans: Lost children were compared with the boy's asking after the clouds.
8. "But no one could give him a satisfactory answer." - Why do you think no one could give him a satisfactory answer?
Ans: No one could give him a satisfactory answer because it was the most peculiar question and no one could make sense of the question.
9. What was the question the boy had asked his mother?
Ans: The boy
asked his mother where the clouds had gone.
10. How did the question appear to Ammaji?
Ans: The
question appeared to Ammaji was an exceptionally stupid one.
11. Which question haunted the boy?
Ans: The question that haunted the boy was where the clouds had gone.
12. What did the boy see in the middle of the night?
Ans: In the middle of the night, the boy saw that the clouds were rumbling in the sky. The clouds were dense and black and there were occasional flashes of lightning. It looked as if it will be raining.
13. How did he feel as he
walked between the fields?
Ans: When he walked between the fields in the scorching heat of the sun, his body was on fire and his throat was dry.
14. What did he do after
reaching the shelter of the tree?
Ans: After reaching the shelter of the tree he splashed the cool water from the Persian wheel on his dusty feet and then he washed his hands and face and drank his fill.
15. Why was the boy surprised and saddened?
Ans: The boy was surprised and saddened because the clouds had moved across the skies without shedding a drop of rain.
16. What saddened the boy?
Ans: It saddened
the boy to think that he had fallen asleep.
17. What would have happened if the boy had stayed awake?
Ans: If the boy stayed awake, the clouds would not have
disappeared like that. It would have been the season's first rainfall.
18. What did the boy see after crossing several fields?
Ans: After crossing several fields, the boy saw a large tree under whose shade a Persian wheel turned gently.
19. What did the boy see when he looked up once again at the skies?
Ans: When the boy looked up once again at the skies he saw that the sky was clear and empty without any trace of clouds of the previous night.
20. What did the boy feel after crossing several fields?
Ans: After crossing several fields, the boy felt as if he had reached an oasis in the middle of a deseri
21. Why was the boy's body on fire and his throat dry?
Ans: The boy's body was on fire and his throat dry because of the scorching heat of the sun.
22. Why did the shade of a large tree appear as an oasis?
Ans:
23. Where did the old man sit?
Ans: The old man
sat on a wall by the Persian wheel.
24. What did the boy ask the old man?
Ans: The boy asked the old man if the clouds had come there.
25. What did the old man say about the place where he once lived?
Ans: The old man said that he once lived in a place where it had not rained for ten years.
26. How did the boy feel as he reached the mud-hut?
Ans: When the boy reached the mud-hut, he felt a nip in the air and the earth was damp underfoot.
27. What did the boy do as he stood under the jamun tree?
Ans: The boy
stood under the jamun tree and let raindrops fall on his head and face.
28. Why did the clouds shed rain in absence of the boy?
Ans: As the boy had walked so far in the dust and the sun in search of the clouds, they had come in his absence, shed their rain and gone away.
29. What did the boy see coming near the village?
Ans: When the
boy neared his village, he saw that the roads were wet.
30. Why was the boy 'open-mouthed?
Ans:
31. Why did the boy feel damp underfoot?
Ans: The boy felt damp underfoot because there was a nip in
the air.
32. Why did the boy feel a wave of happiness?
Ans:
33. What did the boy see when he got home?
Ans: When the boy got home, he saw that the rain had changed
everything.
34. How did the jamun tree stand after the fresh shower?
Ans: The jamun tree stood clean and scrubbed after fresh
shower.
35. How had the trees been standing when the boy had left in the morning? How did the trees look after fresh shower?
Ans: Trees had been standing draped in layers of dust when he had left in the morning. After fresh shower the trees looked freshly bathed.
B. Multiple Choice Questions:
• Choose the correct
alternatives:
(i) The boy was in search of-
(a) birds
(b) clouds✓
(c) the lost ship
(ii) The grass -cutter had on
his head a bundle of-
(a) hay
(b) straw
(c) grass✓
(iii) The paths, the boy
followed, were
(a) straight
(b) zigzag
(c) winding✓
(iv) The grass - cutter was
(a) surprised✓
(b) afraid
(c) worried
(v) The boy walked on until he
came upon a
(a) woman
(b) postman
(c) farmer✓
(vi) The farmer could not make
sense of the question because
(a) no one looked for the clouds in this season
(b) it was unusual for someone to go about in search of the clouds✓
(c) no one cared about the
clouds any longer
(vii) The boy was asking after
the clouds like-
(a) a shepherd who has lost a lamb
(b) a grass-cutter who has lost his sickle✓
(c) a man who has lost a child
(viii) No one could give the
boy a
(a) true answer
(b) satisfactory answer✓
(c) proper answer
ix) In the morning the boy
wanted to know about the-
(a) breakfast
(b) clouds✓
(c) dog
(x) The boy asked a
(a) personal question
(b) wise question
(c) stupid question✓
(xi) The boy washed his hands
and face
(a) angrily
(b) joyfully
(c) dejectedly✓
(xii) At midnight when the boy
awoke again the sky was
(a) dense and black✓
(b) cloudy
(c) full of stars
(xiii) In the next morning the
boy saw the clouds-
(a) pouring rain
(b) move away✓
(c) standing silently
(xiv) When the boy went to
sleep the sky was
(a) empty and dark
(b) full of clouds
(c) full of stars✓
(xv) There was no trace of
rain in the
(a) leaves
(b) ground
(c) courtyard✓
(xvi) Seeing no trace of rain,
the boy was
(a) saddened✓
(b) surprised
(c) annoyed
(xvii) It would have been the
season's first
(a) festival
(b) dry day
(c) rainfall✓
(xviii) It was like the boy
had the middle of a reached an oasis in
(a) desert✓
(b) valley
(c) town
(xix) The boy wanted to say
something but
(a) stopped
(b) hesitated✓
(c) waited
(xx) The old man once lived in
a place where it had not rained for
(a) a decade✓
(b) a century
(c) ten years
(xxi) Nearing his village, the
boy saw the roads were
(a) dry
(b) hot
(c) wet✓
Write T for
true and 'F' for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting
statements for each of your answers:
Extra for Practice:
(i) A boy was searching for
the moon.
Ans: False He (A boy)
wandered far in search of the clouds.
(ii) The paths and alleys were
straight.
Ans: False He wandered
far in search of the clouds, down winding paths and alleys ...
(iii) The boy first met a
farmer in the field.
Ans: False He saw a
grass-cutter coming from the other direction...
(iv) The boy's question was
very peculiar.
Ans: True ... as
though he had been asked the most peculiar question.
(v) The boy asked several
questions to the traveler
Ans: False He stopped
the man and asked, "Have you seen the clouds there?"
(vi) The farmer could make
sense of the boy's question.
Ans: False The farmer,
too, couldn't make sense of the question.
(vii) Everyone could give the
boy a satisfactory answer.
Ans: False But no one
could give him a satisfactory answer.
(viii) The boy saw the farmer
from a long distance.
Ans: True He walked
on until he came upon a farmer ploughing his field.
(ix) A farmer was ploughing
his field.
Ans: True a farmer was ploughing his field.
(x) The boy reached in a new
mud hut in search of clouds.
Ans: False ... till he
(the boy) reached the old mud hut.
(xi) In the morning, the boy
asked the first question to his father.
Ans: False His mother
was the first he had asked in the morning.
(xii) The boy's mother asked
him to go to school.
Ans: True "Wash
quickly, eat your breakfast and go to school."
(xiii) When the boy got up in
the morning, he saw that the sky was cloudless.
Ans: True When he got up in the morning, he was amazed. The sky was
clear and empty.
(xiv) The boy was happy to
think that he had fallen asleep.
Ans: False And it
saddened him to think that he had fallen asleep.
(xv) The boy asked an old man
about the clouds.
Ans: True Finally he asked (the old man), "Did the clouds come
here?"
(xvi) The boy walked for miles
in the heat in search of clouds.
Ans: True He walked for miles in the sun and dust.
(xvii) When the boy returned
to his village he met clouds.
Ans: False As he
neared his village, he saw the roads were wet.
(xviii) When the boy got home,
he saw that the rain had changed everything.
Ans: True When he got
home, he saw that the rain had changed everything.
(ix) In the boy's presence,
clouds have shed rain and gone away.
Ans: False... in his
absence they (the clouds) had come, shed their rain and gone away.
(xx) The boy stood beneath the
tree and raindrops fell on his head and face.
Ans: True He stood beneath the tree and let them (raindrops) fall
on his head and face.
• Re-arrange the following
sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
1.(i) He saw the grass-cutter
coming from the other direction.
Ans: →(4)
(ii) The grass-cutter was
surprised.
Ans: →(6)
(iii) He reached the old mud
hut.
Ans: →(2)
(iv) He wandered in search of
the clouds.
Ans: →(1)
(v) He asked the grass-cutter
if he had noticed the clouds.
Ans: →(5)
(vi) He turned onto the dirt
track.
Ans: →(3)
Extra for Practice:
2. (i) In despair he washed
his hands and face.
Ans: →(2)
(ii) It looked as if it will
be raining.
Ans: →(5)
(iii) His mother was the first
he had asked the question.
Ans: →(1)
(iv) The sky was clear and
empty.
Ans: →(6)
(v) The question still haunted
him.
Ans: →(3)
(vi) He remembered what he had
seen the night before.
Ans: →(4)
3. (i) His body was on fire,
his throat dry.
Ans: →(4)
(ii) The month of rains was
slipping away.
Ans: →(1)
(iii) The sun beat down on his
head.
Ans: →(2)
(iv) He had reached an oasis
in the middle of a desert.
Ans: →(5)
(v) He walked between the
fields.
Ans: →(3)
(vi) He washed his hands and
face and drank his fill.
Ans: →(6)
4. (i) When he got home, he
saw that the rain had changed everything.
Ans: →(5)
(ii) He walked for miles in
the sun and dust.
Ans: →(1)
(iii) As he neared his
village, he saw that the roads were wet.
Ans: →(3)
(iv) He felt a nip in the air.
Ans: →(2)
(v) Raindrops were still
rolling off the leaves of the jamun tree.
Ans: →(6)
(vi) He felt a wave of
happiness.
Ans: →(4)
Complete the following
sentences with information from the text:
1. (a) The grass-cutter had a
bundle .
Ans: (a) of freshly cut grass balanced on his head.
(b) He was disappointed to see
.
Ans: That the grass-cutter was still mystified.
(c) The farmer could not .
Ans: make sense of the question.
(d) He was asking for the
clouds like
Ans: a man who has lost a child.
Extra for Practice :
2. (i) The boy saw a grass -
cutter coming .
Ans: (i) from the other direction, a bundle of freshly cut
grass balanced on his head.
(ii) No one could give
.
Ans: The boy a satisfactory answer.
(iii) When the boy went to
sleep .
Ans: The sky was clear and full of stars.
(iv) When the boy awoke again .
Ans: He had no idea of the time.
(v) All the boy knew was that
.
Ans: It was the middle of the night.
(vi) When the boy got up in
the morning, .
Ans: He was amazed.
(vii) Had the boy stayed awake
.
Ans: The clouds would not have disappeared like that.
(viii) After crossing several
fields, the boy saw .
Ans: A large tree in whose shade a Persian wheel turned
gently.
(ix) Suddenly the boy realized
.
Ans: How late it was.
(x) The boy walked for miles .
Ans: In the sun and dust.
(xi) The boy felt .
Ans: A nip in the air and the earth was damp underfoot.
(xii) As the boy neared his
village, .
Ans: He saw the roads were wet.
(xiii) The boy wanted to see
.
Ans: How fresh and clean the jamun tree in his courtyard
looked.
(xiv) When the boy got home,
he saw that .
Ans: The rain had changed everything.
(xv) In the boy's absence .
Ans: The clouds had come, shed their rain and gone away.
Underline the verbs that
denote actions which will be in progress at a time in the future
(i) I shall be reading a book
next week.
Ans: shall be reading
(ii) You will be going to
school tomorrow.
Ans: will be visiting
(iii) They will be visiting
our house next month.
Ans: will be going
Underline the verbs that
denote actions that will be completed in the future:
(i) I shall have written the
story by then.
Ans: shall have written
(ii) He will have left before
you go to see the doctor.
Ans: will have left
(iii) You shall have gone to
the fair.
Ans: shall have gone
• Write the antonyms of the
underlined words by using the prefixes from the Help Box:
(a) It is possible for
him to lift the chair.
Ans: impossible
(b) His handwriting is legible.
Ans: illegible
(c) Their claim is not
reasonable.
Ans: unreasonable
(d) He believes his
friend.
Ans: disbelieves
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