Reading for Understanding, DAV English Practise Book, Class VII, The Best Solutions

12 READING FOR UNDERSTANDING

12.1 Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.

(a) Which season of the year is it?

winter

summer ✔️

autumn

spring

(b) Which of the following does not describe the city?

people

traffic

litter

rivers ✔️

(c) Which of the following is not a bird?

swallow

hawk

lark

hover ✔️

(d) What does the poet want to do?

swim in the river

lie in silence ✔️

push people

grow flowers

(e) Which word among the following means the same as-‘musical

composition’?

sonatas ✔️

unlovely

toiling

dreary

12.2 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

Do Touch

On the basis of your reading of the above passage, complete the following statements.

(a) The NBRI has developed a garden for the visually-challenged people to
 facilitate their enjoyment of floral beauty and help them come close to Nature.

(b) To ensure that the visitors do not slip in the park during rainy season,
 footpaths are made with chequered tiles at zero-level elevation.

(c) The visually-challenged visitors can sense whether a plant is a herb, a shrub or a tree by
 feeling the general appearance and texture of the plant and its parts.

(d) Plants with fragrant flowers have been planted in this garden so that
 visually-challenged people can identify them by their fragrance.

(e) The visitors can learn the names of several plants and other details about them by
 reading signs written in Braille.

(f) In all, there are
 six
such gardens for the visually-challenged people in the world.

(g) These gardens for the visually-challenged people will be modernised by adding
 ultramodern sound/audio facilities
that will enable the visitors
 to hear recorded information about plants by operating a button.

12.3 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Powerful Future

1. On the basis of your reading of the given passage, complete the following statements.

(a) German scientists have proposed to make
 synthetic fibres that will
 generate electricity when exposed to light.

(b) List three things that can run on power generated by synthetic fibre:
(i)  MP3 player
(ii)  Mobile phone
(iii)  Palmtop computer

(c) One advantage of solar synthetic fibre:
 It has ten times longer life than ordinary fabric.

(d) The colour of the fibre can be changed by
 adjusting the thickness of a transparent protective coating.

2. Find words from the passage which mean the following:

(a) to change completely:  revolutionise
(b) increased:  inflated
(c) to produce:  generate

12.4 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Shy Sea Monster

1. Write T for True and F for False statements:

(a) Besides having a good eyesight, octopi have a highly developed sense of hearing.  F
(b) Octopi do not forget things easily.  T
(c) Most stories we have heard about octopi may be imaginary.  T
(d) The cloud of purple-black ink produced by an octopus is highly dangerous.  F

2. On the basis of your reading of the given passage, complete the following statements.

(a) The octopus is generally thought to be dangerous because
 of the false stories about it attacking sailors and ships.

(b) Besides using their eyes, octopi can explore things around them through
 their sense of touch.

(c) The octopus can be called a blue-blooded animal because
 its blood contains hemocyanin, a bluish-copper pigment.

(d) The octopus saves itself from its enemy by
 releasing a cloud of purple-black ink and using jet propulsion.

(e) Octopi generally change their colour to
 blend with their surroundings.

3. Find words from the passage which mean the following.

(a) to find/know more:  explore
(b) to vacate:  evacuate
(c) quickly:  rapidly

12.5 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Kegling, Anyone?

1. On the basis of your reading of the given passage, complete the following statements.

(a) German monks started bowling as a
 religious ceremony
for
 encouraging people to attend Church.

(b) A kegel is
 a large bottle-shaped club.
People carried it with them for
 protection.

(c) German people participated in the bowling ceremony so that
 they could symbolically knock down the devil and be free of sin.

(d) Rules for bowling were first of all made in the year
 1500
by
 Martin Luther and a group of bowling enthusiasts.

2. Complete the following table by filling the blanks with information about the balls used in the bowling game in the years mentioned below.