Chhattisgarh State Class 7 English Lesson 4 Solution
Chhattisgarh State Board Class 7 English Textbook Solution Lesson 4 Hard to Believe Exercise Questions and Answers.
Hard to Believe Chapter Solution – Lesson 4 – CG Board
CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 7 English Lesson 4 Hard to Believe Exercises Questions and Answers.
Hard to Believe-
Reading Comprehension
1) Put a tick ( ✓ ) mark to choose the correct word or phrase to get a true statement.
(i) Mummy handed a booklet / a puzzle /a packet of detergent / to Monty.
(ii) Monty’s gift was a book of interesting facts / painted pictures / poems.
(iii) One / two / three/ presentations were on the school display-board.
(iv) The Mud-Mania festival is organized in the month of January / June / July.
(v) Elephants stuff their bells / trunks / necks with mud.
(vi) The hen lived by eating grains / eggs / chicks.
2) Complete the information asked for in the table about the selections on the display board. Notice that each selection talks about two facts. One of them is done for you :
Who | What (festival/events) | Where (place) | |
1)
2)
3) |
a. Parrot
b. Hen
a. Francesco Lentini
b. Liew Thow Lin
a. people
b. Elephants |
In the Court
Eating her own eggs.
Soccer player with three legs
Magnet Man
Mighty Mud Mania
Stealing banana |
New Delhi
Gainesville, Georgia
Italy
Malaysia
Scottsdale, Arizona
Myanmar |
3) Look at the title of the selections on Monty’s school display-board. Now answer the following questions.
(i) Title : THE MUDDY SCENE
(a) Do you like it ?
Ans – Yes, I like it. It is very fun to watch kids sling muds.
(b) What is common in the festival and elephant under the title ?
Ans – You have to be very clever to do this.
(ii) Title : THE WINGED VICTORIES
(a) What does the word ‘winged’ stand for ?
Ans – The “winged” stands for the word brave. They both were brave and clever to find their real owner and survive.
(b) What were the victories? :
Ans – One found it’s real owner by repeating it’s owner’s children’s name and another one survives for many days just by eating her own egg.
(iii) Title : MIRACLE MEN
(a) Who are the miracle men ?
Ans – They are the men who can do some miracle work which normal people can’t do.
(b) What is miraculous in them ?
Ans – One is a good soccer player with three leg. And another one is a magnet man. Normal people can’t do stuff like that.
4) Mention the paragraph numbers which contain the following facts / ideas.
1) People of all ages slip and slide over mud in the month of July)- 10
2) A large quantity of mud is required for the Mud-Mania festival.
Ans – 10
3) Stuffed bells help elephants in stealing bananas.
Ans – 11
4) No other bird could have known the names of a client’s children.
Ans – 6
5) If the hen had not eaten its eggs, it would have died.
Ans – 7
6) The magnetic ability of Lin was passed on to the next
generations.
Ans – 9
7) Lentini played football.
Ans – 8
8) Monty won a book of amazing facts as the mystery gift
Ans – 3
Vocabulary
1) Given below are sentences that describe some actions)Choose the words from the box that match the descriptions and write them in the space provided.
Ans –
1) He always threw the keys to me from a distance)- slinged
2) I used rough cotton and pieces of cloth to fill in the
rabbit that mother stitched for me)- stick
3) No one had seen Bittu taking out sweets from the kitchen)- steal
4) The fire men saved two children from the top storey of the building on fire)- rescued
5) It was easy to snatch at the chain of the watch that hanged
out from grandpa’s pocket)- dangled
6) Do not paste advertisements on the walls of the school
building – stuffed
2) Match the two columns to make compound words.
Ans –
Mud – Filled
Forty – Seven
Magnetic – Fields
Three – Legged
Display – Board
Head – Mistress
Railway – Station
Cassette – Player
Quiz – Contest
Detergent – Powder
3) Give one word related to the following family of words that occur in the text. The first one is done for you.
(a) screw-drivers, hammer, saw – Tools
(b) witness, judge, client
– Court
(c) take away quietly without permission – Steal
(d) competition, prize, win – Contest
(e) name, house number, village – Address
(f) soiled, dirty, rain – Muddy
4) Francesco Lentini lived in the 1930s (Ninteen thirtees). The period between 1930-1939 is called the 1930s. Now, complete the following information.
(i) 1960-1969 — 1960s
(ii) 1990-1999 — 1990s
(iii) 1950–1959 — 1950s
(iv) 1890–1899 — 1890s
(v) 1840–1849 — 1840s