Extra Questions and Answers

Extract 1

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

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

  1. What does the sentence ‘Cricket does not’ refers to?

Ans. It refers that there is no specification in cricket for the size and the shape of the ground.

  1. Explain the phrase ‘nearby circular’.

Ans. It means that the Chepauk stadium in Chennai is not completely, but almost like the shape of a circle.

  1. What are two shapes that a cricket ground can be of?

Ans. A cricket ground can be almost oval or circular.

  1. A six at the Melbourne Cricket ground need to clear much more ground than it does at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. This means that

(a) Feroz Shah Kotla and Melbourne cricket ground are of same size.

(b) Melbourne cricket ground is larger than Feroz Shah Kotla

(c) Feroz Shah Kotla is larger than Melbourne cricket ground

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b) Melbourne cricket ground is larger than Feroz Shah Kotla.

  1. ‘A six’ in the above lines mean

(a) a ball touching the boundary

(b) ball crossing the boundary without touching it

(c) four runs

(d) a boundary

Ans. (b) ball crossing the boundary without touching it.

  1. What is Chepauk?

(a) Cricket stadium

(b) Cricket ground

(c) An almost circular stadium

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d) All of the above

Extract 2

Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) Read the extract given below and answer the following questions.

If you look at the game’s equipment, you can see how cricket both changed with changing times and yet fundamentally remained true to its origin in rural England. Cricket’s most important tools are all made up of natural, pre-industrial materials.

  1. Mention one protective equipment used in the game of cricket.

Ans. Helmet

  1. Write one important tool used in the game of cricket.

Ans. Bat

  1. Name the materials through which the cricket’s important tools made up of.

Ans. Cricket’s most important tools are made up of natural and pre-industrial materials.

  1. What has its origin in rural England?

(a) Equipment used in the game of cricket

(b) Most important tool used in game of cricket

(c) Game of cricket

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c) Game of cricket

  1. Pre-industrial materials refer to

(a) synthetic materials

(b) natural products

(c) materials that have been in use before the industrial evolution

(d) vulcanised rubber

Ans. (c) materials that have been in use before the industrial evolution

  1. Find one word from the above lines that means from beginning’

(a) Remained                                          (b) Pre-industrial

(c) Origin                                                   (d) Rural

Ans. (c) Origin