CLASS –X ENGLISH

NCERT SOLUTIONS-First Flight

A Letter to God

Answer
Page No: 5 Oral Comprehension Check

Answer1: Lencho hoped for rains as the only thing that his field of ripe corn needed was a shower.

Answer2: Lencho’s crops were ready for harvest. As raindrops would have helped in getting a
better harvest, resulting in more prosperity, so Lencho compared them with new coins.

Answer3: The rain was pouring down. But suddenly, a strong wind began to blow and very large
hailstones began to fall along with the rain.
All the crop in Lencho's fields destroyed.

Answer4: After hail stopped, Lencho's soul was filled with sadness. He could see a bleak future for
him and his family. Hew was worried about lack of food for the coming year.

Page No: 6 Oral Comprehension Check

Answer1: Lencho had faith in God. He believed that God’s eyes see everything, even what is deep in
one’s conscience. He wrote a letter to God saying that he needed a hundred pesos to sow his field
again.

Answer2: Postmaster read the letter.

Answer3: The Postmaster first laughed. But then he became serious. He was deeply moved by the
writer’s faith in God. He did not want to shake this faith. So he decided to collect the money and
send it to Lencho.
Page No: 7 Oral Comprehension Check

Answer1: No. Lencho was not at all surprised to see the letter from God with money inside it. His
confidence and faith in God was such that he had expected that reply from God.

Answer2: When he finished counting moneyhe found only seventy pesos. But he demanded
hundred pesos. He was confident that God could neither make a mistake nor deny him what he
had requested. Therefore, he concluded that the post office employees must have taken the
remaining thirty pesos.
Thinking about the Text

Answer1: Lencho had complete faith in God. The sentences in the story that show this are as
follows:
(i) But in the hearts of all who lived in that solitary house in the middle of the valley, there was a
single hope: help from God.
(ii) All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of God, whose eyes, as he
had been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
(iii) “God,” he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year.”
 this, but I don’t like the way you are should not offend or disturb the other
arguing. person: a way of being polite
This discovery will give new hope to a feeling that something good will
3. −
HIV/AIDS sufferers. probably happen
We were hoping against hope that
wishing for something to happen,
4. the judges would not notice our −
although this is very unlikely
mistakes.
I called early in the hope of speaking thinking that this would happen (It may
5. −
to her before she went to school. or may not have happened.)
Just when everybody had given up
stopped believing that this good thing
6. hope, the fisherman came back, −
would happen
seven days after the cyclone.

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Answer3:

1. I often go to Mumbai, which is the commercial capital of India.

2. My mother, who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
3. These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
4. Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
5. This man, whom I trusted, cheated me.

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Answer4:

1. The trees lost all their leaves.

Not a leaf remained on the trees.

2. The letter was addressed to God himself.

It was nothing less than a letter to God.

3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Never in his career as a postman had he known that address.

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Answer5:

Object Metaphor Quality or Feature Compared

Cloud Huge mountains of clouds The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains
Raindrops A curtain of rain The draping or covering of an area by a curtain
Hailstones The frozen pearls The resemblance in colour and hardness of a pearl
Locusts A plague of locusts The consequences (destruction) of plague
An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly
Locusts A plague of locusts
and leaves many people dead
Man An ox of a man The working of an ox in the fields (hard work)
 CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-FIRST FLIGHT (POEM)
Dust of Snow

Answer
Page No: 14
Answer1: A “dust of snow” means the fine particles of snow. This “dust of snow” changed the poet’s
mood. The poet’s mood changed from that of dismay to joy. He was holding the day in regret when
this dust of snow fell on him and this simple little thing brought him some joy.

Answer2: Frost has presented nature in quite an unconventional manner. While in other nature
poems we come across birds such as nightingales or sparrows, Frost has used a crow in this poem. A
crow can be associated with something dark, black, and foreboding. That is why other poets usually
mention singing nightingales or beautiful white doves in their poems.

Also, the poet has written about a hemlock tree, which is a poisonous tree. He has not written about
a more beautiful tree such as a maple, or oak, or pine because these trees symbolise beauty and
happiness. Frost wanted to symbolise the feelings of sadness and regret, which is why he has used a
hemlock tree.

The crow and the hemlock tree represent sorrow. The dust of snow that is shaken off the hemlock
tree by the crow stands for joy that Frost experiences. He has, therefore, used an unconventional
tree and bird in order to contrast them with joy in the form of snow.
 CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-FOOT PRINTS
A Triumph of Surgery

Answer
Page No: 1 Read and Find Out

Answer1: Mrs Pumphrey was worried and distraught because Tricki would not eat anything. It
even refused its favourite dishes. It had bouts of vomiting. It spent all its time lying on the rug
and panting. It did not want to go for walks or do anything.

Answer2: She called the doctor to help Tricki. Yes, her decision was wise. The doctor suggested that
Tricki should be hospitalised. She swooned and wailed, but let the dog go with the doctor.
Ultimately, the doctor was successful in curing Tricki.

Answer3: In this story, ‘I’ refers to the veterinary surgeon, Mr Herriot.

Page No: 3 Read and Find out

Answer1: Though not clearly stated, there are instances in the story which suggest that the
narrator is not as rich as Tricki’s mistress, Mrs Pumphrey. While the narrator is able to provide
Tricki with a warm loose box as a bed, at Mrs Pumphrey’s house, Tricki has a day bed, a night
bed, cushions, toys, rubber rings, a breakfast bowl, a lunch bowl, a supper bowl, a whole
wardrobe of tweed coats and perhaps many more things. When he arrives to take the dog with
him, Mrs Pumphrey has her entire staff at her disposal to transfer all of Tricki’s belongings to the
doctor’s car.
On hearing from the doctor about Tricki’s gradual recovery, Mrs Pumphrey sends along two
dozen eggs at a time, along with bottles of wine and brandy—all in order to help in Tricki’s
speedy recovery. Finally, when she calls upon the narrator to take her recovered dog back home,
she comes in a chauffer-driven “thirty feet of gleaming black metal” (an obvious reference to a
limousine). All these instances point to the fact that Mrs Pumphrey lived a luxurious life.

Answer2: The doctor gave Tricki no food, but plenty of water for two days. Slowly, the dog started
showing interest in his surroundings and began mixing with the other dogs at the surgery. On
the third day, the doctor saw Tricki licking the empty supper bowls of the other dogs. Next day, a
separate bowl was kept for it and the doctor was pleased to note that Tricki had run to eat its
food with enthusiasm. From that day onwards, its progress was rapid. It did not require
medicinal treatment of any kind and recovered quite well at the end.

Answer3: Mrs Pumphrey had started bringing around eggs to build Tricki’s strength. Later, even
bottles of wineand brandy began to arrive. The narrator and his partners started enjoying the
eggs, wine and brandy meant for Tricki. According to the narrator, they were days of deep
content for them—starting with the extra egg in the morning, then the midday wine, and finally
finishing the day with brandy. This was the reason why the narrator was tempted to keep Tricki
on as a permanent guest.
 CLASS –X
ENGLISH NCERT SOLUTIONS-First Flight
Long Walk to Freedom

Answer
Page No: 18 Comprehension Check

Answer1 The ceremonies took place in the campus of the Union Building of Pretoria.
The Parliament House in New Delhi, the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, the Supreme Court of
India in New Delhi and Madras High Court in Chennai are some examples of Indian public
buildings that are made of sandstone.

Answer2: 10 May is an ‘autumn day’ in South Africa because on this day there was the largest
gathering of international leaders on South African soil for the installation of South Africa’s first
democratic, non-racial government.
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Answer3: By human disaster Mandela means to say that coloured people have suffered a lot due to
discrimination in the hands of whites. He considered it as great glorious human achievement
that a black person became the president of a country where the blacks are not considered as
human being and are treated badly.

Answer4: Mandela felt privileged to be the host to the nations of the world because not too long
ago, the South Africans were considered outlaws. He thus thanked all the international leaders
for having come to witness his investiture as President since this event could be considered as a
common victory for justice, peace and human dignity.

Answer5: Mandela set out the ideals of poverty alleviation, removal of suffering of people. He also
set the ideal for a society where there would be no discrimination based on gender or racial
origins.
Page No: 21 Oral Comprehension Check

Answer1: The highest military generals of the South African defence force and police saluted
Mandela and pledged their loyalty.
Their attitude towards blacks had taken great change. Instead of arresting a black they saluted
him.

Answer2: On the day of the inauguration, two national anthems were sung, one by the whites, and
the other by the blacks. This symbolized the equality of blacks and whites.

Answer3: (i) In the first decade of the twentieth century, the white-skinned people of South Africa
patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned
people of their own land, thus creating the basis of one of the harshest and most inhumane
societies the world had ever known.
 and certain needs as a young man. Gradually, he realized that he was selfish during his boyhood.
He slowly understands that it is not just his freedom that is being curtailed, but the freedom of
all blacks. It is after attaining this understanding that he develops a hunger for the freedom of his
people.

Answer5: Mandela realized in his youth that it was not just his freedom that was being curtailed,
but the freedom of all blacks. The hunger for his own freedom became the hunger for the
freedom of his people. This desire of a non-racial society transformed him into a virtuous and
self-sacrificing man. Thus, he joined the African National Congress and this changed him from a
frightened young man into a bold man.

Thinking about Language

Answer1:
Noun Verb
Rebellion Rebel
Constitution Constitute
Formation Form
Government Govern
Obligation Oblige
Transformation Transform
Discrimination Discriminate
Deprivation Deprive
Demonstration Demonstrate
Oppression Oppress
Imagination Imagine

Answer2: Martin Luther King’s contribution (contribute) to our history as an outstanding leader
began when he came to the assistance (assist) of Rosa Parks, a seamstress who refused to give
up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. In those days American Blacks were confined to
positions of second class citizenship by restrictive laws and customs. To break these laws would
mean subjugation(subjugate) and humiliation (humiliate) by the police and the legal system.
Beatings, imprisonment(imprison) and sometimes death awaited those who defied the System.
Martin Luther King’s tactics of protest involved non-violent resistance (resist) to racial
injustice.
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Answer2:
1. This means that Mr Singh regularly invites famous personalities such as Amitabh Bachchan
and Shah Rukh Khan to his parties.
2. This means that Madhuri Dixit is compared to a landmark in acting in the form of legendary
actress Madhubala.
3. This means that history is not only the story of the great fighters and leaders such as
Alexander, Napoleon and Hitler, but also of ordinary people.

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 CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-FIRST FLIGHT (POEM)
Fire and Ice

Answer
Page No: 15 Thinking about the Poem

Answer1: Yes I believe that this world will end some but when nobody knows. Whether the sun
gets hot or it gets colder in both the situations end of this world is sure.

Answer2: ‘Fire’ stands for greed, avarice, lust, conflict and fury. ‘Ice’ stands for cruelty, intolerance,
rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference and hatred.

Answer3: The rhyme scheme of the poem is: a, b, a, a; b. c, b, c, b.

The contrasting ideas of ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ are presented using this rhyme scheme. He mentions that
both fire and ice are probable ends of this world. While he talks about how fire represents desire
and can therefore be a cause of the end of the world, he also mentions ice in between to symbolise
that the coldness and indifference towards one another will also be enough to end the world. In the
second stanza, he says that he knows of enough hate in the world to be sure that even destruction
through ice would be sufficient to bring about the end of the world.
 CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-FOOT PRINTS
The Thief’s Story

Answer
Page No: 8 Read and Find Out

Answer1: In this story, ‘I’ refers to the thief.

Answer2: He was “a fairly successful hand” at stealing and robbing people.

Answer3: When Hari asked Anil if he could work for him, Anil said that he could not pay him.
Finally, the agreement was that if he would cook, then Anil would feed him. However, Anil soon
found out that he did not know how to cook. Therefore, he taught him how to cook and later,
how to write his name. He promised he would teach him how to write whole sentences and how
to add numbers. Apart from this, when Hari went out to buy the day’s supplies, he would make a
profit of a rupee a day.

Page No: 10 Read and Find Out

Answer1: The thief thought that on discovering the theft, Anil’s face would show a touch of sadness.
The sadness would not be for the loss of money, but for the loss of trust.

Answer2: In his short career as a thief, he had made a study of men’s faces when they lost their
goods. He said that the greedy men showed fear; the rich men showed anger and the poor men
showed acceptance.

Answer3: Yes, Anil had realized that he had been robbed. He knew this probably because all the
notes were wet and damp from the rain. However, he did not say anything to the thief and
behaved normally.
Page No: 13: Think about It

Answer1: Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education change over time. When
he started living with Anil he wanted to be literate so that he could become a more cunning
cheat. Later on there is a change in his heart. He wants to earn respect in life. Probably he is
influenced by the calm in Anil’s life. Although, both of them depend on irregular sources of
income, but Anil seems to be more satisfied. Hari Singh develops a desire to be part of the
civilized society.

Answer2: Anil does not hand the thief over to the police because he has put the money back at its
place. It shows that he realized his fault. He wants to make amends for his ways. He must have
felt guilty with himself. Anil wants to give him one more chance and therefore forgives him. No,
in today’s world most people would not have done so. Although it must be done but such sort of
patience and compassion are rarely found now a days in this human world.

Talk about It
Answer5: Probably, it was the narrator’s own self that helped him through the storm. There was no
other plane in the storm as the woman at the control centre could see only his plane on the
radar. Also, no other plane was flying that night. In his fear, he might have been hallucinating. He
was a good pilot, and it might have been his own self that came to his help.

Thinking about the Language

Answer1:
1. The meaning of ‘black’ in this sentence is that the face and hands are dark with dust and heat.
2. Here, ‘black’ refers to an angry look.
3. Here, ‘blackest’ refers to the darkest and cruellest crime against humanity.
4. Here, ‘black’ refers to dark and gloomy comedy.
5. The meaning of ‘black’ in this sentence is that the shopkeepers sell the described goods ‘at a
higher price’.
6. Here, ‘black’ means that the criminal suffered excessive beating at the hands of the villagers.

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Answer2:

A B
1. Fly a flag − Display a flag on a long pole
2. Fly into rage − Become suddenly very angry
3. Fly along − Move quickly/suddenly
4. Fly high − Be successful
5. Fly the coop − Escape from a place

Answer3: The words which have the same or nearly the same meaning as ‘fly’ are as follows:
swoop, flit, float, dart, soar, hover, sail skim, glide, flutter
order to conserve several endangered species. These places provide protection as well as natural
surroundings to these species. They can roam about freely in their habitats and are safe too. The
public can visit these parks and get educated about the animals and their lifestyles. The parks
and sanctuaries are run using a strict set of rules, the most prominent being the ban on hunting.
Since the animals are in the open, visitors would not be able feed them and would not misbehave
or try to play with them as they are under strict guidance. Such incidents have been recorded in
zoos where people irritate and tease the animals. Hence, a wild life sanctuary is a good
alternative for animals to be safe as well as in their natural surroundings.
 CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-FOOT PRINTS
The Midnight Visitor

Answer
Page No: 14 Read and Find Out

Answer1: Ausable was different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He had a small
room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor and it was
scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. Inspite of living in Paris for
over twenty years, he spoke French and German only passably and had an American accent.
Instead of getting messages slipped into his hands by dark-eyed beauties, he got only a
telephone call making an appointment. In these ways, he was different from the conventional
notion of a spy.
Answer2: Fowler was a writer and he had come to meet Ausable. Fowler’s first authentic thrill of
the day came when he saw a man in Ausable’s room pointing a pistol towards Ausable and
himself.
Page No: 15 Read and Find Out

Answer1: Max had got into the room with a passkey or a master key.
Answer2: Ausable said that he thought Max had got into the room through the balcony. He said that
it was the second time in a month that somebody had got into his room this way.

Page No: 18 Think about It

Answer1: Secret agents in fiction are projected like ideal men, ‘Tall dark and handsome’. They are
usually well built and keep have beautiful women for company. They would always smoke pipe
or cigar and do death defying stunts. James Bond is a very famous character by Ian Fleming.
Movies based on James Bond show hi-tech gizmos whch assist the detective in countering
villains. There are some exceptions as well. There is a character named Feluda which was
created by Satyajit Ray, the famous Bangla Filmmaker. Feluda was typical bhadralok by
appearance.
Answer2: Ausable tells Max that someone entered his room through the balcony before also. He
also told him that he had asked police to give him protection as he had some important papers
with him. On listening Max became nervous and just wanted to escape from police, as a result
without noticing he jumped out of the window and fell down. Ausable’s ability to think quickly
and calmly, in a situation of panic makes it convincing.
Answer3: No, I don’t think that he had worked out his plan in detail. He took advantages of the
event as they happened. Ausable made a story of the balcony outside the room and as there was
a knock at the door, he told it would be police, all this events threatened Max. In such a hurry, he
became restless and without seeing jumped out of the window.

Talk about It
Answer1: This story is reference to the play ‘If I were you’. Gurrad was captured by a criminal and
the criminal pointed gun towards him but he treated the criminal as a guest and trapped him in
his confidence. He achieved the criminal to run away as police is behind him. He told the criminal
to run through the exit door, which was actually a cupboard door. The criminal exited through
the door and was caught in the cupboard.
and other reason that nothing can be done about the inherited traits.

Answer3: Mr. Keesing was a strict teacher. However, he was not rigidly strict. He expected
discipline and silence in his class while he was teaching, which is acceptable. He punished Anne by
asking her to write an essay on ‘A Chatterbox’. When Anne wrote a convincing essay on it, he
received it with a good laugh. However, when Anne continued with her talking, he punished her
again by asking her to write another essay; this time the topic was ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’. Even
after this when she kept talking, he asked her to write on the topic ‘Quack Quack Quack, said
Mistress Chatterbox”. He was trying to play a joke on her. However, she came up with a brilliant
poem, and he read this poem in the class, acknowledging its content. Therefore, in regard of these
events, Mr. Keesing cannot be entirely labelled as a strict teacher. He was fun-loving too.

Answer4: Anne was able to justify her talkative nature every time she was punished by Mr. Keesing.
On three occasions, as punishment, he gave her topics to write essays on. However, on each occasion
he was impressed by the manner in which she presented her arguments. Finally, Mr. Keesing
accepted the fact that Anne would always be that way. Hence, she was allowed to talk in class.

Thinking about the Text

Answer1: No, Anne was not right when she said that the world would not be interested in the
musings of a thirteen-year-old girl.

Answer2: Anne’s diary was originally written in Dutch. Her diary is different from the others in
many aspects. She had named her diary ‘Kitty’. She thought of it as her only true friend whom she
could confide in. She treated it as another person who was listening to her daily accounts. She wrote
all her stories in it. She started by writing ‘Dearest kitty’ and ended the account by writing, ‘Yours,
Anne’. Her diary was a lot more personal than other diaries.

Answer3: Anne Frank claims that paper has more patience than people. She usually sits depressed
and all alone .She claims of having no real friend .This lends the reader the perception that there
isn’t anybody to take care of Anne Frank. To clear the clouds of doubt , Anne Frank gives the sketch
of her adorable father, compassionate mother, kind grandmother, and loving sister.
She treated Kitty as an insider because she called it her best friend and was ready to confide in it.

Answer4: Anne felt that her father was the most adorable father she had ever seen.
Anne remembered her grandmother even after her death. She wrote in her diary that no one knew
how often she thought of her grandmother and still loved her.
In the sixth form at the Montessori nursery school, her teacher was Mrs Kuperus, who was also the
headmistress. At the end of the year, they were both in tears as they said a heartbreaking farewell.
Mr Keesing was her Maths teacher. He was annoyed with her because she talked too much.
However, Anne was able to justify her talkative nature every time she was punished by Mr. Keesing.
On each occasion he was impressed by the manner in which she presented her arguments.
All these incidents show how lovable and smart Anne was. Everybody was attached to her, and even
Mr Keesing could not help but laugh at her essays and acknowledge her smart mind.

Answer5: In her first essay, titled ‘A Chatterbox’, Anne wanted to come up with convincing
arguments to prove the necessity of talking. She began thinking about the subject. She wrote three
 6. Daydream - think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present
7. Breakdown - an occasion when vehicles/machines stop working
8. Output - something produced by a person, machine or organisation

Answer2. (II): (i) plunge in − go straight to the topic

Since no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I’d better
provide a brief sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.
(ii) kept back − not promoted
The reason, of course, is the forthcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll move up to
the next form and who’ll be kept back.
(iii) move up − go to the next grade
The reason, of course, is the forthcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll move up to
the next form and who’ll be kept back.
(iv) ramble on − speak or write without focus
Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with
convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.
(v) get along with − have a good relationship with
I get along pretty well with all my teachers.
(vi) calm down − make (them) remain quite
Even G.’s pleading advances and my angry outbursts can’t calm them down.
(vii) stay in − stay indoors
I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at
home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out.
(viii) make up for − compensate
This birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for the other.
(ix) hand in − give an assignment (homework) to a person in authority (the teacher)
I handed it in, and Mr Keesing had nothing to complain about for two whole lessons.

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Answer3. (i): (i) Our entire class is quaking in its boots. Shaking with fear and nervousness
(ii) Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart. Not to lose hope
(iii) Mr. Keeping was annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much. Since a long time
(iv) Mr. Keeping was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous subject, but I’d make sure the
joke was on him. He was outwitted by her

Answer3. (ii): (i) caught my eye

A small red car passing by caught my eye.
(ii) he’d had enough
Tom had a hard time raising enough money build the orphanage he'd promised to build.
(iv) laugh ourselves silly
One girl said something funny, and we laughed ourselves silly.
(v) can’t bring myself to
I can’t bring myself to eat anything but chocolates.

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 CLASS –X ENGLISH
NCERT SOLUTIONS-First Flight
Glimpses of India

Answers
Page No: 86 Oral Comprehension Check

Answer1: The elders in Goa were nostalgic about the good old Portuguese days, the Portuguese,
and their famous loaves of bread.

Answer2: Yes, bread-making is still popular in Goa. The author has described about the existence of
time-old furnaces and their still burning fire. The Goan society is still having moulders, bread mixers
and bakers.

Answer3: The bakers are known as pader .

Answer4: The baker came twice every day, once when he set out in the morning on his selling
round, and then again, when he returned after emptying his huge basket. The children ran to meet
him not because of their love of the loaf, which was bought by the maid-servant of the house. They
actually longed for the bread-bangles, which they chose carefully. Sometimes, it was a sweet bread
of special make.

Page No: 87 Oral Comprehension Check

Answer1:
(i) as marriage gifts? - sweet bread called bol
(ii) for a party or a feast? - bread
(iii) for a daughter’s engagement - sandwiches
(iv) for Christmas - cakes and bolinhas

Answer2: (i) In the Portuguese days, the bakers had a peculiar dress known as the kabai. It was a
single-piece long frock reaching down to the knees.
(ii) When the author was young, he saw the bakers wearing a shirt and trousers, which were shorter
than full-length ones and longer than half pants.

Answer3: Anyone who wears a half-pant which reaches just below the knees invites the comment
that “he is dressed like a pader”. This was so because the bakers were known as pader and they
wore such half pants.

Answer4: The monthly accounts of the baker were recorded on some wall in pencil.

Answer5: A ‘jackfruit-like appearance’ means a plump physique. Such a physique was linked to the
bakers because they never starved. Baking was a profitable profession. The baker, his family, and
his servants always looked happy and prosperous and had a ‘jackfruit-like appearance’.

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Answer4: (i) keep many visitors away
(ii) as one story goes
(iii)are more than willing to recount
(iv) the most laidback individuals become converts to
(v) draws support from
(vi) keep a watchful eye

Thinking about the Language

Answer1:
(i) culture : unique culture, ancient culture
(ii) monks : serious monks
(iii) surprise : unique surprise, terrible surprise, unforgettable surprise
(iv) experience : unique experience, terrible experience, unforgettable experience
(v) weather : terrible weather
(vi) tradition : unique tradition, ancient tradition

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Answer2: From the text

(i) tales of valour
(ii) coastal town
(iii) a piece of heaven
(iv) evergreen rainforests
(v) coffee plantations
(vi) rope bridge
(vii) wild elephants
Other than the text
(i) tales of morality
(ii)coastal food
(iii)a piece of cake
(iv)evergreen hero
(v)crop plantations
(vi)sturdy bridge
(vii)wild beasts

Page No: 96 Thinking about the Language

Answer1: (i)A heavy downpour has been forecast due to low pressure in the Bay of Bengal.
(ii)Rakesh will undergo major surgery tomorrow morning.
(iii)My brother is responsible for the upkeep of our family property.
(iv)The dropout rate for this accountancy course is very high.
(v)She went to the Enterprise Company to attend a walk-in interview.

Answer2: (i) The Army attempted unsuccessfully to overthrow the Government.

(ii) Scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough in cancer research.
(iii) The State Government plans to build a by-pass for Bhubaneswar to speed up traffic on the main
highway.
(iv) Gautama’s outlook on life changed when he realized that the world is full of sorrow.