WORKSHEET 2

Q1 Read the passage and answer the questions given below: __ (8)
1. Wolves, jackals and foxes all belong to one family, the family of dogs. They are found on all
the continents except Antarctica. They live in the forests and on the steppes, in the mountains
and on the plains in the Tundra and in the desert.
2. The legs of the animals in this family are long and well shaped. The paws have strong, blunt
claws. All the animals run fast, some at a speed of 65 kilometers an hour.
3. The hair is thick and of various shades of grey or red. Some of the animals are striped. One of
the African jackals is called the striped jackal. The African wild dog has black, white and yellow
spots. This is the only wild animal that has hair of three colours.
4. The largest and strongest animal in the dog family is the wolf. It can run so fast with a goat or
sheep on its shoulder that you can hardly catch up with it even on a good race horse. It is very
true to say that the wolf lives by its feet, sometimes it runs 60 kilometers a day in search of prey.
And not always does it find it, even running this distance. It is not easy for an animal in the wild
to find food. For this reason, when a wolf makes a good kill, it gorges itself. It can crush large
bones easily.
5. The jackal is the most cunning member of the dog family. People don’t like it because it is a
terrible thief. What cunning it shows! If a jackal wants to catch a crow or magpie, it lies down by
the road and makes it believe it is dead. When the bird sees the jackal, it comes down to peck at
the dead flesh. Up jumps the cunning jackal, and that is the end of the bird!
6. There are many tales about the cunning fox, but they are all untrue. The wolf and the jackal
are far more cunning than the fox. It is certainly not a greedy animal. It never hunts just to kill. It
feeds mainly on barn and field mice. It is a master at catching these rodents that do so much
damage to farms.
7. The fennec is the smallest relative of the dog but has the biggest ears. It is as small as a kitten,
but its ears would be suitable for a big sheep dog. These charming animals live in the hottest
place on earth, the Sahara. All day the fennecs have to hide from the blistering sun in deep and
cool burrows. Only towards evening do they all crawl out at once and sit quietly near their
burrows waiting for the day to cool off. If the sun still burns, they lie down and cover their heads
with their bushy tails, as though the tails were umbrellas. At long last it is pleasantly cool.
8. The fennec suddenly stiffens its big ears. It has heard something! It creeps to where a lizard
may have jumped. A desert lark may have stirred in its sleep. Imagine how a little noise that
would make! But the fennec hears everything. It knows exactly where the bird is hiding. It creeps
forward again like a shadow, stops, and leaps. There! It has the victim in its teeth.
(a) When a wolf finds a good kill, it gorges itself. Why? (1)
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(b) The jackal is called the most cunning member of the dog family? Why? (1)
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What is often wrongly said of the fox? (1)
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(d) How does the fox help us? (1)
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(e) How does the fennec use its tail when the sun is hot and burning? (1)
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(f) Find out the words from the passage which are opposite in meaning to the following: (3)
(i) similar/ same (Para 3) _______________________________
(ii) starves/ famishes (Para 4)____________________________
(iii) secondarily (Para 6)________________________________

2. Read the conversation given below and complete the passage that follows: (3)
Sanjay: Have you submitted your English assignment?
Prasana: Yes, I have.
Sanjay: I will submit mine tomorrow.
Sanjay asked Hemant (a) ____________________________________________.

He replied that (b) _________________________________________________.

Sanjay told him (c) ________________________________________________.

3. Rearrange the following to form meaningful sentences. (3)

(a) coloured / we saw / full of / a yellow / excited children/ bus
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(b) they were / we guessed / on their / planetarium /way / to the / that
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(c) be/ part / this / study tour / of / must / their
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4. Omission ______ (4marks)
On the banks of Ganga, where Example : of the Ganga
a) it emerges of the Himalayan Foot-hills, _____ _____ _____
b ) there are long stretches forests. There are _____ _____ _____
c) villages the fringe of the forest inhabited _____ _____ _____
d) by bamboo cutters and farmers. This area an _____ _____ _____
e) ideal hunting ground and so animals _____ _____ _____
f) are not numerous as they used to be. _____ _____ _____
g) The trees, too, have disappearing slowly _____ _____ _____
h) and as the forests recede, the animals lose food shelter. _____ _____ _____