Class-7 Supplementary Reader (An Alien Hand) Chapter-5, Golu Grows a Nose, Solutions with Additional Exercises / NCERT/CBSE

 

Golu Grows a Nose

गोलू की बढ़ती नाक

 

Exercises

 

Match these words with their meanings:

 

Word- Meaning

Bulgy- a buttock and thigh considered together

Haunch- having a bulge

Naughty- become or make smaller in size or amount

Wrapped – badly behaved; disobedient

Shrink- something wound or folded about

 

Answer-

Word- Meaning

Bulgy- having a bulge

Haunch- a buttock and thigh considered together

Naughty- badly behaved; disobedient

Wrapped – something wound or folded about

Shrink- become or make smaller in size or amount

 

 

 

To which animal did Golu say these words:

a.    “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”

Ostrich

 

b.    “What makes your skin so spotty?”

Giraffe

 

c.    “Why are your eyes always so red?”

Hippopotamus

 

d.    “Why do melons taste like melons?”

 

Baboon

         

Fill in the blanks with the words given:

 

Face to face, nose, needs, no, questions, Limpopo

 

1)     There was a time when the elephant had no trunk.

2)     Golu, a baby elephant with a bulgy nose, is full of questions.

3)     He goes to the Limpopo river to find out more about the crocodile’s eating habits.

4)     Golu meets the crocodile face to face.

5)     He gets the python’s help when he needs it most.

6)     Golu grows a long and useful nose.

 

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Underline adjectives in these phrases:

 

1)    his tall aunt, the ostrich

2)    his tall uncle, the giraffe

3)    his huge uncle, the hippopotamus

4)    his hairy uncle, the baboon

5)    fifty dozen bananas

6)     twenty-five melons

7)    a bulgy nose

8)    a small boot

9)    a naughty baby

10)  spotty skin

      

Answer the following questions.

 

1.   Whom does Golu ask, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”

Ans-  Golu asked his tall aunt, the ostrich, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”

 

2.   Which uncle of Golu had red eyes?

Ans- Golu’s huge uncle, the hippopotamus had red eyes.

 

3. Golu’s relatives did not answer his questions because

(i) they were shy.

(ii) the questions were too difficult.

(iii) Golu was a naughty baby. (✔)

 

3.   Who advised Golu to go to the Limpopo river?

Ans- The mynah bird sitting in the middle of a bush, advised Golu to go to the Limpopo river.

 

4.   Why did Golu go to the river?

Ans-  Golu went to the river to find out what the crocodile had for dinner.

  

6. The crocodile lay on the bank of the Limpopo river. Golu thought it was

(i) a living crocodile.

(ii) a dead crocodile.

(iii) a log of wood. (✔)

 

7. What did the crocodile do to show that it was a real crocodile?

Ans- The crocodile winked and lifted half his tail out of the mud to show that it was a real crocodile.

 

 

8. “Come here, little one, and I’ll whisper the answer to you.”

The crocodile said this because

(i) he couldn’t stand up.

(ii) he wanted to eat Golu. (✔)

(iii) Golu was deaf.

 

9. Who helped Golu on the bank of the river?

Ans- The python helped Golu on the bank of the river.

 

10. Name two things the elephant can do with his trunk, and two

he cannot.

Ans- Two things that an elephant can do with his trunk are as follows:

1)   Scoop up some mud from the bank and slap it on his head.

2)   Put out his trunk and pluck a large bundle of grass.

 

Two things that an elephant can’t do with his trunk are as follows:

1)   An elephant cannot stand on his trunk.

2)   An elephant cannot see or hear from his trunk.

 

 

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