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Chapter 10 - The Great Stone Face - II Exercise 136 Solution 1 1. True 2. True 3. False The Face did not answer. 4. True 5. False Only Ernest addressed the inhabitants of the valley. 6. True Chapter 10 - The Great Stone Face - II Exercise 137 Solution 1 The wise thoughts in Ernest’s mind made him different from others in the valley. Unsought for, undesired had come to him the fame which so many seek. Ernest was now well-known in his valley and had become famous even beyond the valley. College professors and even the active men of cities came from far to see and converse with him. He received them with gentle sincerity and spoke freely with them of whatever came uppermost or lay deepest in his heart or their own. Solution 2 When Ernest read his poems, he hoped that the poet was like the Stone Face. The poet had celebrated the Great Stone Face in his poems. He wa...

Chapter 9 - The Great Stone Face - I Exercise 129 Solution 1 1. False The Great Stone Face stood miles away from where Ernest and his mother lived. 2. True 3. True 4. False Gathergold was very rich. 5. True 6. False The Great Stone Face seemed to suggest that Earnest should not lose heart, but believe that the man whose face resembled the Great Stone Face would come. Chapter 9 - The Great Stone Face - I Exercise 130 Solution 1 (i)        lofty  loftiness                     (vi)       enormous  enormity (ii)      able  ability                         (vii)      pleasant  pleasantness (iii)      happy  happiness              ...

Chapter 8 - A Short Monsoon Diary Exercise 115 Solution 1 The author was not able to see Bijju because of the monsoon mist that had covered the surroundings and hence nothing is visible. Solution 2 When the mist comes up, the birds fall silent. The mist covers the hills and blankets them in silence. The forest becomes deathly still as though it were midnight. Chapter 8 - A Short Monsoon Diary Exercise 117 Solution 1 The monsoon begins in June and ends by the end of August. We prepare for the monsoons by getting our rainwear that includes raincoats, umbrellas and rain shoes ready. We also make sure that there are no leakages in the roofs of our houses and that windows close easily. We ensure that the drainage pipes from our terraces, balconies etc of our houses or buildings are all clean so that the rain water can flow through properly. Solution 2 The aut...

Chapter 7 - A Visit to Cambridge Exercise 104 Solution 1 (i) Yes, the prospect of meeting Stephen Hawking made the writer nervous. He was to meet a great  personality  and that too one who had achieved  greatness  despite  his disabilities. Clearly, it was a big moment, a great  honour for the writer. So it is not surprising that he was nervous at the prospect of meeting Stephen Hawking. (ii) Yes, he felt excited at the same time because it made him stronger to see somebody like him achieving  something  huge.  This  made  him  aware  of the  many  possibilities present before him, thereby helping him to reach out further than he ever thought he could. Solution 2 The writer might have asked the scientist if he had been brave to reach where he had. Solution 3 The writer thought that there was a choice. Stephen Hawking could have chosen to leave everything, and be sad and depressed. He could have...

Chapter 6 - This is Jody's Fawn Exercise 90 Solution 1 Jody's father had been bitten by a rattlesnake. Solution 2 The doe's liver and heart were used to draw out the poison from Penny. Solution 3 Jody wanted to bring the fawn home because he felt that they had killed the doe for their purpose and the fawn had been orphaned for no fault of its own. He kept thinking about the hungry and scared fawn out there alone. Since he was a big boy he did not need to drink milk so he could feed it to the fawn. He felt that it was their responsibility to take care of the fawn or else it would starve to death. Solution 4 Jody knew that the fawn was a male because the spots on its body were all in a line. His father had told him that on the body of a doe-fawn, the spots are in different directions. Chapter 6 - This is Jody's Fawn Exercise 91 Solution 1 Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. One reason was that if the fawn was dead or could...

Chapter 5 - The Summit Within Exercise 80 Solution 1 (iii) Standing on Everest, the writer was jubilant and sad. Solution 2 (ii) The emotion that gripped him was one of humility and a sense of smallness. Solution 3 (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) are not relevant. Chapter 5 - The Summit Within Exercise 81 Solution 1 (i) The three qualities that played a major role in the author's climb are endurance, persistence and will power. (ii)  Adventure is risky, but pleasurable. Though it presents great difficulties, man takes delight in overcoming such hurdles. Everest for example is the highest, the mightiest, and many attempts have been made to climb it. According to the author, it takes the last ounce of one’s energy to reach the summit and leads to complete physically exhausted. However when the summit is climbed, there is also the feeling of "exhilaration, the joy of having done something, the sense of a battle fought and won". There is a feeling of vict...