A Kite - Workshe

 CBSE Worksheet 01

A Kite

  1. How is the kite like a ship?

  2. How does the kite look in the sky? [A Kite]

  3. When does a kite become ugly?

  4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow by choosing the best option from among the given ones.
    Of a gust and pulls,
    Then seems to rest
    As windfalls
    When string goes slack
    You wind it back
    And run until
    A new breeze blows
    And its wings fill
    And up it goes!

    1. The poem is about 
      1. the wind
      2. string
      3. kite
      4. gust and pulls
    2. Seems to rest' here means that it his still
      1. on the ground 
      2. in the sky 
      3. in water 
      4. in the tree
    3. The string is wound when 
      1. it goes slack
      2. the kite is flying high
      3. the wind blows 
      4. the kite is torn
    4. Until the new wind blows
      1. it is very hot 
      2. the string is being unwound
      3. the string is slack
      4. the string is wound 
    5. The opposite of the word 'falls' is
      1. rises 
      2. gets up
      3. blows
      4. winds

  5. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow: (1×3=3)
    Of wind, it rides,
    Climbs to the crest
    Of a gust and pulls,
    Then seems to rest
    As windfalls.
    When string goes slack
    You wind it back.

    1. What happened to the string attached to the kite?
    2. Who tries to roll back the string of the kite?
    3. When does the kite climb?

  6. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow by choosing the best option from among the given ones.
    How bright on the blue
    Is a kite when it's new!
    But a raggeder thing
    You never will see
    When it flaps on a string
    In the top of a tree.

    1. The blue' in the passage means
      1. blue colour
      2. blue kite
      3. the sky
      4. the sea
    2. The 'bright' refers to 
      1. the blue
      2. the kite
      3. a string
      4. a tree
    3. A kite becomes a rag when 
      1. it is on a string
      2. it is on the blue
      3. it is stuck in a tree
      4. it is above the tree
    4. The kite flaps on a string when 
      1. it is stuck 
      2. it is in the sky
      3. it is torn
      4. it is new
    5. The word 'flaps' means the same as
      1. flares 
      2. flies 
      3. frees 
      4. flutters

CBSE Worksheet 01
A Kite

Solution

  1. The ship sails on the waves of the sea; similarly, the kite soars on the gusts of the wind.

  2. The kite looks bright in the clear blue sky.

  3. The poet says that the kite becomes a ragged thing when it flaps on a string in the top of a tree, it gets totally torn and ugly.

  4. i. (c), ii. (b), iii. (a), iv. (d), v. (c)

    1. The string attached with the kite becomes loose and it could not fly high up in the sky.
    2. The master of the kite rolls back the string when it slackens. He/she takes the kite in the line quickly enough to keep the line in taut as it enables to control the kite.
    3. The kite climbs after going up and down in the air.

  6. i. (c), ii. (b), iii. (c), iv. (a), v. (d)