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Read the lines from the poem and answer to following questions :

I saw a snake and ran away some snakes are dangerous, they say,

But mother says that kind is good

And eats up insects for his food.

Questions:

(a) What does the child's mother say about snakes?

(b) Why do the snakes kill insects?

(c) Why are snakes dangerous?

(d) Why did the child run away on seeing the snake?

OR

Read the lines and answer the following questions:

Cricket does not. Ground can be oval like the Adelaid Oval or nearby circular like Chepauk in Chennai. A six at the Melbourne Cricket ground need not to clear much more ground than it does at Feroze Shah Kotia in Delhi.

Questions:

(a) What does the sentence 'Cricket does not mean?

(b) Name an oval stadium mentioned in the passage.

(c) Name two Indian Cricket Stadiums mentioned in the passage.

(d) Give antonym of word 'clear'.

Answer:

(a) The child?s mother tells him that all the snakes are not dangerous. The kind of the snake that he saw was not so dangerous. It lives on insects only and does no harm other creatures and human beings.

(b) Snakes kill the insects because they want to eat them as food.

(c) Snakes are dangerous because some of them look very dangerous and some of them are poisonous too.

(d) The child ran away on seeing snake because the snake was a very dangerous creature and its fear is instilled in everybody from their very childhood. Human beings are always afraid of snakes.

OR

(a) ?Cricket does not? means that there is no specification in cricket for the size and shape of the ground.

(b) Adelaid Oval

(c) (1) Chepauk in Chennai, (2) Feroze Shah Kotla in Delhi.

(d) unclear.