NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 1
Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 1 Solutions CBSE / NCERT Board.
NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb Chapter 1 Three Questions
Comprehension Check
(1) Why did the king want to know answers to three questions?
Ans: – The king wanted to know answers to three questions because if he knew he would never fail and be a successful king.
(2) Messengers were sent throughout the kingdom
Ans: – (iv) to announce a reward for those who could answer the questions.
Comprehension Check
Complete the following sentences by adding the appropriate parts of the sentences given in the box.
1) Many wise men answered the king’s questions,
Ans: – but this answers were so varied that the king was not satisfied.
2) Someone suggested that there should be a council of wise men
Ans: – to help the king act at the right time
3) Someone else suggested that the king should have a timetable
Ans: – and follow it strictly
4) The king requested the hermit
Ans: – to answer three questions
5) The king washed and dressed the bearded man’s wound,
Ans: – but the bleeding would not stop
Working with the Text
Answer the following questions.
(1) Why was the king advised to go to magicians?
Ans: – In order to decide the right time for doing something, it is necessary to look into future, and that only magician could do. Therefore, the king was advised to go to magicians.
(2) In answer to the second question, whose advice did the people say would be important to the king?
Ans: – In answer to the second questions, the most important for the king were his councillors, the priest. A few others suggested the doctors. And yet others said that the soldiers were the most necessary.
Comprehension Check
Complete the following sentences by adding the appropriate parts of the sentences given in the box.
1) Many wise men answered the king’s questions, ______________
Ans: – but their answer were so varied that the king was not satisfied.
2) Someone suggested that there should be a council of wise men ______________
Ans: – to help the king act at the right time
3) Someone else suggested that the king should have a timetable ___________
Ans: – and follow it strictly
4) The king requested the hermit ______________
Ans: – to answer three questions
5) The king washed and dressed the bearded man’s wound, _____________
Ans: – but the bleeding would not stop
Working with the Text
Answer the following questions.
(1) Why was the king advised to go to magicians?
Ans: – In order to decide the right times for doing something, it is necessary to look into future, and that only magician would do. Therefore, the king was advised to go to magicians.
(2) In answer to the second question, whose advice did the people say would be important to the king?
Ans: – In answer to the second question, the most important for the king were his councillors, the priest. A few others suggested the doctors. And yet others said that the soldiers were the most necessary.
(3) What suggestions were made in answer to the third question?
Ans: – The answer to his third question, some said science others suggested fighting, and yet others said religious worship.
(4) Did the wise men win the reward? If not, why not?
Ans: – No, none of the wise men won the reward. Because the king received all different answers, so he was not satisfied by them and gave them no reward.
(5) How did the king and the hermit help the wounded man?
Ans: – When the king and the hermit removed the man’s clothing. They found a large wound in his stomach. Then the king washed and covered it with his handkerchief, but the blood kept on following the king re-dressed the wound until it stopped bleeding. Later they took him to the hermit hut to rest and the king also brought fresh water and gave it to him.
(6)
(i) Who was the bearded man?
Ans: – The bearded man was the enemy of the king form others empire. He swore to revenge on him because the king his brother and seized all his property.
(ii) Why did he ask for the king’s forgiveness?
Ans: – As the king moved his life and cured him, he asked for the king’s forgiveness. The man went to take revenge from the king, but the king helped him and saved his life instead.
(7) The king forgave the bearded man. What did he do to show his forgiveness?
Ans: – He showed his forgiveness sending his servants and his own doctors to look after him. He also promised to give back the man his property.
(8) What were the hermit’s answers to the three questions?
Write each answer separately. Which answer do you like most, and why?
Ans: – The first answer to his questions given by the hermit was that there is only one time that is important and it is ‘Now’, because it is the only time we have any power to act. The answer to his second question was that the most important person in the person we are with at a particulars moment, because no one knows what happened in the future. And in answers of this third questions, he said that the most important business it to do that person good, because we were sent into this world only for that one purpose.
The answer I liked the most in the first one because we only how that one time and that is now. The time has its power to act. So we live once and that time is ‘now’.
Working with Language
(1) Match items in List A with their meanings in List B.
*The wounded man was running towards the king and the hermit.
* The man promised to be faithful with his owner.
* She has something to return me.
(2) Each of the following sentences has two blanks. Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the word given in brackets.
(i) The ______ said that only fresh evidence would make him change_____his.(judge)
Ans: – judge, judgment
(ii) I didn’t notice any serious _______ of opinion among the debaters, although they______from one another over small points. (differ)
Ans: – difference, differed.
(iii) It’s a fairly simple question to ______,but will you accept my _____as final? (answer)
Ans: – answer, answers.
(iv) It isn’t _________ that _______ should always be the mother of invention. (necessary)
Ans: – necessary, necessity
(v) Hermits are ________ men. How they acquire their ______ no one can tell. (wise)
Ans: – wise, wisdom
The committee has to make Jagdish captain of the team. The is likely to please everyone. (decide)
(vi) The committee has ________ to make Jagdish captain of the team. The ______is likely to please everyone. (decide)
Ans: – decided, decision.
(vii) Asking for _______ is as noble as willingness to _____ (forgive)
Ans: – forgivers, forgive
Speaking and Writing
(1) Imagine you are the king. Narrate the incident of your meeting the hermit. Begin like this:
The wise men answered my questions, but I was not satisfied with their answers. One day I decided to go and meet the hermit…
Ans: – who lived in a small forest and leads a simple life. He was known for his wisdom. I reached his hut alone, leaving my horse and bodyguard. The hermit was digging the bed, I went there in simple clothes and asked him to seek me answers of my three questions. But he continued digging the beds and ignored my questions. He was tired of digging so i asked to help him. He gave me his spade and I started digging. I repeated my questions again and again. But there was no response of him. Later the hermit pointed towards a bearded man coming to us.
(2) Imagine you are the hermit. Write briefly the incident of your meeting the king. Begin like this:
One day I was digging in my garden. A man in ordinary clothes came to see me. I knew it was the king…
Ans: – But I pretended to stay quiet. He same near me and asked me his three questions to answer it. I ignored his questions and continued digging the beds. He kept on asking me those questions and I did not response to him. Them I was tired of digging, seeing this, the king asked to help me by digging the beds instead to me. I handed over him the spade and he started digging. At the same time, while digging the king asked me the same questions again. But I remained calm and offered him to hand me over the spade if he was tired. He refused my offer and kept on digging the beds. Later I saw someone was approaching towards us and it was the bearded man.
NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English Honeycomb The Squirrel Poem
(1) Why does the poet sat the squirrel wore a questions mark for tail”? Draw a squirrel or find a picture of a squirrel sitting on the ground. How would you describe its tail?
Ans: – As the squirrel sits on the ground, the tail looks like a questions mark. So, the poet says that the squirrel wore a questions mark for tail.
I will describe the tail for the squirrel as the alphabet ‘S’ with is sits.
(2) Do we usually say that an animal ‘wears s tail’? What do we say? (Think: Does an animal wear a coat? Consult a dictionary if you like, and friend out how ‘wear’ is used in different ways?)
Ans: – Basically, we can say that it is the nature of God. The animals has its tail and it is the creation made up God.
(3) ‘He liked to tease and play” who is teasing whom? How?
Ans: – The squirrel liked to tease and play with the poet whenever the poet runs to catch him, he goes to the other side of the tree.
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