Class-7 Supplementary Reader (An Alien Hand) Chapter-8, The Bear Story, Solutions with Additional Exercises in Hindi / NCERT/CBSE
The Bear Story
Choose the correct option:
1)
The lady lived in an old ……..
on the border of a big forest.
a.
Shake
b.
Shop
c.
manor-house (✓)
d.
castle
2)
The bear so small and helpless that he
was brought up on
a.
Bottles (✓)
b.
Green leaves
c.
Fruits
d.
Biscuits
3)
The bear was fond of….
a.
Ripe mangoes
b.
Black berries
c.
Ripe apples (✓)
d.
Juicy strawberries
4)
The bear was put on chains every Sunday____
a.
Morning
b.
Afternoon (✓)
c.
Night only
d.
Whole day
5)
The old cook loved the bear as if he had
been her ……….
a.
Master
b.
Friend
c.
Son (✓)
d.
Daughter
6)
Who used to see that the bear’s stomach
got filled?
a.
The mistress
b.
Children
c.
Ponies
d.
The cook (✓)
Fill in the blanks with
the words given:
|
Horrified,
clumsy, roamed, temptation, resigned |
1. The bear roamed freely during the day.
2. In his young days he had been sometimes unable to resist the temptation to climb the tree and help himself to a handful of them.
3. Bears look clumsy and slow in their movements.
4. He was sorry but resigned, like a good dog, when his mistress tells him he cannot come with her for a walk.
5.
The mistress looked back
and was horrified to see the bear coming along full speed.
Underline adject ives in
these sentences:
1. He was a most friendly bear, who
loved vegetables, apples and honey.
2. He was a most amiable bear who did not dream of harming anybody, man or beast.
3. He used to sit outside his kennel and look with his small intelligent eyes most amicably at the cattle grazing in the field nearby.
4.
One Sunday, while walking through the dense
forest, the mistress found him following her.
5.
She was so angry with the disobedient
bear that she hit him on the nose with her umbrella.
State whether these
statements are true or false:
1.
The lady in the manor-house had a tiger
as pet.
2.
The bear was put on the chain at night.
3.
The lady visited her sister every
Sunday, leaving the bear on the chain the whole afternoon.
4.
But the bear was not friendly after being
hit with the parasol.
Match
these words with their meaning:
|
Word |
Meaning |
|
Parasol |
quiet, and doing what other people say
without asking questions |
|
Amiable |
to breathe quickly, for example after
running or because it is very hot |
|
Meek |
friendly and pleasant |
|
Shuffle |
to walk by sliding your feet along instead
of lifting them off the ground |
|
Panting |
Umbrella |
Answer-
|
Word |
Meaning |
|
Parasol |
Umbrella |
|
Amiable |
friendly and pleasant |
|
Meek |
quiet, and doing what other people say
without asking questions |
|
Shuffle |
to walk by sliding your feet along instead
of lifting them off the ground |
|
Panting |
to breathe quickly, for example after
running or because it is very hot |
Answer the following
questions:
Q 1. Where did the lady find the bear
cub?
Ans- The lady found the bear cub in the forest, half
dead of hunger.
Q.2 How did she bring it up?
Ans- She brought it up on the bottle.
Q.3 The bear grew up but “he was a
most amiable bear”. Give three examples to prove this.
Ans- The bear grew up but “he was a most amiable
bear”. This can be proved with following
facts:
1.
He did not dream of
harming anybody, man or beast. He used to sit outside his kennel and look with
his small intelligent eyes most amicably at the cattle grazing in the field
nearby.
2.
The children used to ride
on his back and had more than once been found asleep in his kennel between his
two paws
3.
The three dogs loved to
play all sorts of games with him, pull his ears and his stump of a tail and
tease him in every way, but he did not mind it in the least.
Q 4. What did the bear eat?
Ans- The bear ate the
same food as the dogs— bread, porridge, potato, cabbage, turnip. He had never tasted meat.
Q.5 There were two things he was not
allowed to do. What were they?
Ans- There were two things he was not allowed to do.
These were:
1.
Helping himself with ripe apples in the
orchard.
2.
Reaching to beehives for honey.
Q. 7 When was the bear tied up with a
chain? Why?
Ans- The bear was put on
the chain for two days with a bleeding nose for reaching to beehives.
Q.8 Why was bear not allowed to
accompany the mistress to her sister’s house?
Ans- The bear was not allowed to accompany the
mistress to her sister’s house because the house was on the other side of the
mountain-lake. It was not safe for the bear to wander about the forest and also,
he was a bad sailor.
Q. 9 What happened one Sunday when the
lady was going to her sister’s house? What did the lady do? What was the bear’s
reaction?
Ans- One Sunday when the lady was going to her
sister’s house, the bear joined her panting and sniffing. The lady got angry and asked him to return at
once. She had hit him on nose with parasol.
The
bear turned around and began to shuffle back the way he had come.
Q.10 Why was the bear looking sorry
for himself in the evening? Why did the cook get angry with her mistress?
Ans- The bear was looking sorry for himself in the
evening because he was sitting at his usual place for long waiting for the
mistress.
The
cook got angry with her mistress because she scolded the
bear not knowing that he had been sitting there quite still on his haunches as
meek as an angel, looking the whole time towards the gate for her to come back.
Discuss the following
topics in groups.
1. Most people keep dogs and cats as
pets. Can you think of some unusual pets that people keep?
Ans- Most people keep dogs and cats as pets. Some
unusual pets that people keep are ants, hedgehogs, skunk, tarantula spiders.
2. The second bear did not attack the
lady because he was afraid of her. Do you agree?
Ans- The bear was not afraid of
the lady. He did not attack her because he loved his mistress who brought him
up like her own baby.
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