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1. Dolphin; 2. Rafflesia; 3. Bamboo; 4. Leopard; 5. Cocoa; 6. Raffia
Palm; 7. Ant; 8. Beetroot.
Chapter 1
I. 1. Wildebeest; 2. Hyena; 3. Cheetah; 4. Gorilla; 5. Koala; 6.
Otter; 7. Armadillo; 8. Jackal; 9. Gharial; 10. Wild boar; 11.
Walrus; 12. Spider monkey.
II. 1. (a); 2. (c); 3. (b); 4. (b); 5. (b); 6. (b); 7. (b); 8. (c); 9. (a); 10. (a)
Chapter 2
1. Sea Urchin; 2. Dolphin; 3. Great White Shark; 4. Giant squid; 5.
Sea Lion; 6. Cuttle fish; 7. Manta ray; 8. Jellyfish; 9. Beluga
whale; 10. Sea turtle.
Chapter 3
1. Cuttlefish; 2. Sloth; 3. Bat; 4. Anaconda; 5. Eel; 6. Platypus; 7.
Crab; 8. Opossum.
Chapter 4
I. 1. Butterfly; 2. Housefly; 3. Cricket; 4. Bug; 5. Mosquito; 6.
Locust.
II. 1. termite; 2. ants; 3. apiary; 4. locusts; 5. flea; 6. silverfish; 7.
tsetse fly; 8. painted lady; 9. bees; 10. firefly.
Chapter 5
1. Kiwi; 2. Pelican; 3. Peregrine Falcon; 4. Lyrebird; 5. Whip PoorWhill.
Chapter 6
1. Lion-tailed Macaque; 2. Howler monkey; 3. Diana monkey; 4.
Pygmy Marmoset; 5. Colobus monkey; 6. Mandrill; 7. Proboscis
monkey; 8. Capuchin monkey.
Chapter 7
1. spring; 2. trees; 3. Carbon dioxide; 4. flowers; 5. bonsai; 6.
Grapes; 7. shrubs; 8. autumn.
II. 1. apex; 2. midrib; 3. margin; 4. lateral vein; 5. lamina base; 6.
petiole (leaf stalk); 7. leaf base.
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Chapter 8
1. grapes; 2. apple; 3. papaya; 4. banana; 5. lychee; 6. watermelon;
7. tomato; 8. mango; 9. amla; 10. guava; 11. orange; 12. pear.
Chapter 9
1. Pitcher plant; 2. Bladderwort; 3. Sundew; 4. Venus Fly Trap; 5.
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Chapter 10
1. Coco de mer; 2. Gingko; 3. Joshua tree; 4. Raffia Palm; 5.
Dwarf Willow; 6. Prickly Cedar.
II. 1. (c); 2. (c); 3. (b); 4. (c)
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Chapter 11
A. 1. Water pollution; 2. Air pollution; 3. Soil pollution; 4. Noise
pollution.
B. 1. Industrial waste; 2. Yamuna; 3. Delhi; 4. Hydrocarbons and
pesticides; 5. 85 decibel.
Chapter 12
1. Plantation; 2. Field; 3. Garden; 4. Vineyard; 5. Jungle; 6. Grove;
7. Nursery; 8. Orchard; 9. Glasshouse.
Chapter 13
1. Conserve; 2. smokeless; 3. trees; 4. garden; 5. Compost; 6.
polythene bags; 7. transport; 8. recycling; 9. paper and garbage;
10. Urge.
Chapter 14
A. 1. Maruti; 2. Bajaj; 3. State Bank of India; 4. Tata; 5. LG; 6.
Reliance; 7. Motorola; 8. Pepsi.
B. 1. Linux; 2. Air transport; 3. 5; 4. LIC of India.
Chapter 15
1. 17; 2. watermarked; 3. Reserve Bank of India; 4. Mahatma
Gandhi; 5. Governer (RBI); 6. tiger; 7. Lion Capital of Ashoka; 8.
Bharat in Hindi and RBI; 9. `.
Chapter 16
1. 7; 2. 10; 3. 24; 4. 1,000; 5. 86,400; 6. 100; 7. 29; 8. 52; 9. 60; 10.
100; 11. 100; 12. 10,00,000
Chapter 17
A. 1. (e); 2. (a); 3. (d); 4. (g); 5. (b); 6. (c); 7. (f)
B. 1. Cashew; 2. Wheat; 3. Rabi-Wheat and Kharif-Maize; 4.
Asparagus.
Chapter 18
1. The Andes; 2. Mt. Fujiyama; 3. The Alps; 4. Kanchenjunga; 5.
Mt. Kilimanjaro; 6. Pakistan and Afghanistan; 7. The Aravallis; 8.
Satpura Mountain Ranges; 9. Nepal; 10. Mt. Mckinley.
Chapter 19
1. (b); 2. (g); 3. (e); 4. (c); 5. (q); 6. (f); 7. (d); 8. (h): 9. (n); 10. (p); 11. (o);
12. (l); 13. (i); 14. (k); 15. (j); 16. (m); 17. (s); 18. (t); 19. (a); 20. (r).

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Chapter 20
1. Speedometer; 2. Photometer; 3. Crescograph; 4. Cardiograph; 5.
Lactometer; 6. regulating; 7. Cooling device; 8. Disk drives; 9.
Dynamo; 10. Amplifier; 11. Transistor; 12. Electometer
Chapter 21
1. Scissors; 2. Key; 3. Knife; 4. Fork; 5. Compass; 6. Needle; 7.
Hammer; 8. Axe; 9. Screwdriver; 10. Hoe.
Chapter 22
A. 1. Jupiter; 2. Earth; 3. Pluto; 4. Mars; 5. Venus; 6. Sun; 7.
Neptune; 8. Saturn; 9. Mercury.
B. 1. Dust and gases; 2. Venus; 3. A small meteor moving rapidly,
burns on entering Earths atmosphere. These appear like
shooting stars; 4. Venus.
Chapter 24
1. daisy; 2. twice-told tale; 3. snow; 4. feather; 5. sin; 6. day; 7.
ditchwater; 8. glass; 9. thunder; 10. needle; 11. nails; 12.life
Chapter 25
1. whizzing; 2. chiming; 3. twanging; 4. ticking; 5. tinkling; 6.
popping; 7. pattering; 8. clapping; 9. creaking; 10. rustling; 11.
swishing; 12.clattering; 13. rumbling; 14. cracking.
Chapter 26
1. Jonathan Swift; 2. Kalidas; 3. Bana Bhatt; 4. Jawaharlal Nehru;
5. Rabindranath Tagore; 6. Sharat Chandra Chattopadhya; 7. Gabriel
Garcia Marquez; 8. William Shakespeare; 9. Sunil Gavaskar; 10.
Jules Verne; 11. E.M. Forster; 12. Jim Corbett; 13. Thomas Hardy;
14. Rudyard Kipling.
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A. 1. Global; 2. Classified; 3. Global; 4. Business; 5. Sports.
Chapter 27
1. Arundhati Roy; 2. R.K. Narayan; 3. Rudyard Kipling; 4. Charles
Dickens; 5. Ruskin Bond; 6. Mark Twain.
Chapter 28
1. (c); 2. (n); 3. (i); 4. (h); 5. (a); 6. (l); 7. (k); 8. (j); 9. (d); 10. (m); 11.
(b); 12. (e); 13. (g); 14. (f)
Chapter 29
1. (d); 2. (c); 3. (a); 4. (b)
Chapter 30
1. No; 2. Yes; 3. No; 4. No.

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Chapter 33
1. Suraj Kund Mela; 2. Kumbh Mela; 3. Sonepur; 4. Ganga Sagar
mela; 5. Pushkar Fair; 6. Jaisalmer Festival.
Chapter 34
1. Somnath Temple; 2. Chittor Fort; 3. Fatehpur Sikri; 4. Jama
Masjid; 5. Khajuraho Temples; 6. Nalanda University; 7. Konark
Temple; 8. Meenakshi Temple.
Chapter 35
1. (f); 2. (e); 3. (c); 4. (d); 5. (h); 6. (k); 7. (j); 8. (l); 9. (i); 10. (b); 11.
(a); 12. (g); 13. (m); 14. (o); 15. (p); 16. (n)
Chapter 36
I. l. (l); 2. (a); 3. (k); 4. (g); 5. (e); 6. (j); 7. (c); 8. (f); 9. (h); 10. (b);
11. (d); 12. (i)
II. 1. Mudumalai national park; 2. Dachigam national park; 3.
Ranthambor national park.
Chapter 37
1. (a); 2. (b); 3. (b); 4. (d); 5. (a); 6. (b); 7. (a); 8. (a); 9. (a)
Chapter 38
1. Char Minar; 2. Sanchi Stupa; 3. Jantar Mantar; 4. Hawa Mahal;
5. Ranthambhor Fort; 6. Gol Gumbaz.
Chapter 39
A. 1. India; 2. Bhutan; 3. Bangladesh; 4. Myanmar; 5. Nepal; 6.
Srilanka; 7. USA; 8. China; 9. Canada; 10. Egypt; 11. Germany;
12. France; 13. Belgium; 14. Russia; 15. Spain; 16. United
Kingdom; 17. Australia; 18. South Africa.
B. 1. U.K.; 2. 24; 3. Union Jack; 4. Maple.
Chapter 40
1. Italy; 2. China; 3. France; 4. UK; 5. Afghanistan; 6. India; 7.
Hungary; 8. Mexico; 9. Turkey.
Chapter 41
1. Japan; 2. Norway; 3. Bhutan; 4. Thailand; 5. Finland; 6. Punjab;
7. Australia; 8. Canada; 9. Holland; 10. Egypt; 11. Tibet; 12. Rome;
13. Huang-ho River; 14. Switzerland; 15.Stockholm; 16. Damoder
River; 17. Chicago; 18. New York; 19. Jerusalem; 20. Beijing.
Chapter 42
1. Angkor Wat; 2. Mount Rushmore; 3. Taj Mahal; 4. Great

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Pyramid; 5. Christ the Redeemer; 6. Big Ben; 7. Opera House; 8.
Leaning Tower (Pisa); 9. Eiffel Tower.
Chapter 43
1. Hiuen Tsang; 2. Francois Bernier; 3. Megasthenes; 4. Ibn
Battutah; 5.Marco Polo.
Chapter 44
1. Socrates; 2. Galileo; 3. Michelangelo; 4. Abraham Lincoln; 5.
Leo Tolstoy; 6. Dalai Lama.
Chapter 45
1. Court; 2. Ring; 3. Court; 4. table; 5. court; 6. table; 7. course; 8.
Board; 9. Pitch; 10. Ground; 11. Pool; 12. Court.
Chapter 46
1. (g); 2. (a); 3. (f); 4. (b); 5. (e); 6. (c); 7. (d); 8. (i); 9. (h).
Chapter 47
1. Saina Nehwal; 2. Sushil Kumar; 3. Ian Thorpe; 4. Serena
Williams; 5. Rafael Nadal; 6. Cristiano Ronaldo; 7. Lewis Hamilton;
8. Chris Gayle; 9. Magic Johnson
Chapter 48
1. ; 2. ; 3. ; 4. ; 5. ; 6.
Chapter 49
1. No; 2. No; 3. No; 4. No; 5. No; 6. Yes; 7. No.
Chapter 50
1. ; 2. ; 3. ; 4. ; 5.
Chapter 51
1. pilot; 2. sea; 3. knee; 4. cube; 5. T.V; 5. speedometer; 7. drawing;
8. cloth; 9. soft; 10. salary; 11. executive; 12. client; 13. lady; 14.
volcano; 15. teeth.
Chapter 52
I. 1. XX00000; 2. 20; 3. 16; 4. 23; 5. 32
II. 1. five; 2. sunita; 3. twelve; 4. third; 5. remove g; 6. 183
Chapter 53
I. 1. Francois Bernier; 2. Rudyard Kipling; 3. Cristiano Ronaldo.
II. 1. (d); 2. (c); 3. (a); 4. (b)
III. 1. F; 2. T; 3. T; 4. T
IV. 1. Lewis E. Waterman; 2. Photometer; 3. Zoroastrians; 4. Tapti.
V. 1. Sloth; 2. Climbers; 3. 60 years; 4. Pushkar.

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Chapter 54
I. 1. Beluga Whale; 2. Opossum; 3. Venus flytrap.
II. 1. (a); 2. (d); 3. (c); 4. (b)
III. 1. (T); 2. (F); 3. (T); 4. (F)
IV. 1. lactometer; 2. Kadambari; 3. Seine river; 4. Samudragupta.
V. 1. Razia Sultan; 2. London; 3. Megasthenes; 4. Squid.
Chapter 55
1. Charminar; 2. Angkor Wat; 3. Hawa Mahal.
II. 1. (c); 2. (d); 3. (b); 4. (a)
III. 1. (F); 2. (F); 3. (F); 4. (F)
IV. 1. lice; 2. anaconda; 3. shrubs; 4. plantation.
V. 1. Mt. Kilimanjaro; 2. Electrometer; 3. R.K. Narayan; 4. Sawai
Raja Jai Singh II.