NCERT Solutions for Class 7th English: Ch 10 The Story of Cricket Honeycomb
Ramachandra Guha
Page No: 143
Comprehension Check
1. Cricket is originally a/an
(i) Indian game.
(ii) British game.
(iii) international game.
Mark the right answer.
Answer
2. “There is a historical reason behind both these oddities.” In the preceding two paragraphs, find two
words/phrases that mean the same as ‘oddities’.
Answer
curious characteristic.
3. How is a cricket bat different from a hockey stick?
Answer
In early days, cricket bat and hockey stick had very slight difference. Now, hockey stick is made of single piece of wood and curved at bottom while cricket bat is flat and straight and made up of two pieces, the blade and the handle.
Page No: 146
Comprehension Check
Write True or False against each of the following sentences.
(i) India joined the world of Test cricket before Independence.
(ii) The colonisers did nothing to encourage the Parsis in playing cricket.
(iii) Palwankar Baloo was India’s first Test captain.
(iv) Australia played its first Test against England as a sovereign nation.
Answer
(ii)True
(iii) False
(iv)False
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Comprehension Check
1. A ‘professional’ cricket player is one who makes a living by playing cricket. Find the opposite of ‘professional’ in the last paragraph.
Answer
Amateur
2. In “the triumph of the one-day game”, ‘triumph’ means the one-day game’s
(i) superiority to Test cricket.
(ii) inferiority to Test cricket.
(iii) achievement and success over Test cricket.
(iv) popularity among viewers.
Mark the right answer.
Answer
(iv) popularity among viewers.
3. “...the men for whom the world is a stage”.
(i) It refers to the famous cricket fields in the world.
(ii) It means that there are many cricket playing countries in the world.
(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.
Mark the right answer.
Answer
(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.
Answer
Amateur
2. In “the triumph of the one-day game”, ‘triumph’ means the one-day game’s
(i) superiority to Test cricket.
(ii) inferiority to Test cricket.
(iii) achievement and success over Test cricket.
(iv) popularity among viewers.
Mark the right answer.
Answer
(iv) popularity among viewers.
3. “...the men for whom the world is a stage”.
(i) It refers to the famous cricket fields in the world.
(ii) It means that there are many cricket playing countries in the world.
(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.
Mark the right answer.
Answer
(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.
Working with the Text
1. Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of.
Answer
Hockey, Cricket, Baseball, Polo, Billiards are the few games.
2. The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket. Why?
Answer
The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket as they were in close contact with the British because of their interest in trade and the first Indian community to westernise.
3. The rivalry between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana had a happy ending for the former. What does ‘a happy ending’ refer to?
Answer
4. Do you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer.
Answer
Definitely, cricket owes its present popularity to television. It helps in expansion of its audience as well as popularity to different countries and even in small towns and villages by broadcasting services. Matches played at one place can be viewed worldwide which resulted in its popularity as well as finance.
5. Why has cricket a large viewership in India, not in China or Russia?
Answer
Cricket is popular mostly in the colonial countries of British empire not the sovereign countries. India was only the part of the British empire not the China or Russia. Therefore, Cricket has large viewership in India, not in China or Russia. Moreover, TV companies have created a global market for cricket in India.
Answer
Cricket is popular mostly in the colonial countries of British empire not the sovereign countries. India was only the part of the British empire not the China or Russia. Therefore, Cricket has large viewership in India, not in China or Russia. Moreover, TV companies have created a global market for cricket in India.
6. What do you understand by the game’s (cricket) ‘equipment’?
Answer
The things which are necessary for playing the game are game’s (cricket) ‘equipment’. Like in cricket, ball, bat, wicket, helmets, gloves, pads are the requires things to play the match.
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7. How is Test cricket a unique game in many ways?
Answer
8. How is cricket different from other team games?
Answer
9. How have advances in technology affected the game of cricket?
Answer
10. Explain how cricket changed with changing times and yet remained unchanged in some ways.
Answer
Working with Language
1. Wordsearch
• Twelve words associated with cricket are hidden in this grid.
• Six can be found horizontally and the remaining six vertically.
• Two words have been found for you.
Clues to the hidden words are given below.
Horizontal : six deliveries, four runs, attacked while out of arena, no result, stumps, fielder to the off
side of the wicketkeeper
Vertical : stumps flying, back to the pavilion, a lofty one, mid-air mishap, not even one out of six,
goes with bat
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2. Add -ly to the italicised word in each sentence. Rewrite the sentence using the new word. See the examples first.
• He runs between wickets as if his legs were stiff.
He runs between wickets stiffly.
• Why did the batsman swing the bat in such a violent manner?
Why did the batsman swing the bat so violently?
(i) It is obvious that the work has not been done in a proper way.
Answer
2. Add -ly to the italicised word in each sentence. Rewrite the sentence using the new word. See the examples first.
• He runs between wickets as if his legs were stiff.
He runs between wickets stiffly.
• Why did the batsman swing the bat in such a violent manner?
Why did the batsman swing the bat so violently?
(i) It is obvious that the work has not been done in a proper way.
► It is obvious that the work has not been done properly.
(ii) He made the statement in a firm manner.
► He made the statement firmly.
(iii) The job can be completed within a week in an easy way.
► The job can be completed within a week easily.
(iv) You did not play in a serious manner, or else you would have won the match.
► You did not play seriously, or else you would have won the match.
(v) She recited the poem in a cheerful manner.
► She recited the poem cheerfully.
as a matter of fact
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we had better
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see to it
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by accident
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as well
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(i) Actually, I didn't intend to come to your place. I reached here without planning.
► Actually, I didn't intend to come to your place. I reached here by accident.
(ii) Sunil, there's a letter for you in today's post. There's one for me also.
► Sunil, there's a letter for you in today's post. There's one for me as well.
(iii) Everybody thought I had composed the poem. The truth is my younger sister did it.
► Everybody thought I had composed the poem. As a matter of fact, my younger sister did it.
(iv) The doctor told the patient to make sure that he took his pills on time.
► The doctor told the patient to see to it that he took his pills on time.
(v) It will be better for us to plan our trip before setting out.
► We had better plan our trip before setting out.