The Desert.

Q.1. A camel can do without water for days together. What is the reason given in the text? Ans. Camels can do without water for days together because they sweat very little. Sweating cools the body when it gets hot. Camels can stand a high body temperature so they dont need to sweat and can, therefore, retain the water they drink for a long period of time. Q.2.How does the smaller desert animals fulfil their need for water? Ans. The smaller desert animals either eat other animals or get the water they need from the moisture in the meat or they eat plants and seeds and get the water they need from plant juices. Q.3. In a desert the temperature rises during the day and falls rapidly at night. Why? Ans. The air in desert is extremely dry. In humid climates, the moisture in the air acts as a blanket that protects the lands, from the hot rays of the sun. In desert lands, this protective covering is absent. Therefore, the land quickly heats up during the day due to the suns rays and cools down equally fast at night.

The Cop and the Anthem

Q.1. What are some of the signs of approaching winter referred to in the text? Ans. Birds flying south, people needing warm new coats and dead leaves falling are some of the signs of the approaching winter. Q.2. Write True or False against each of the following? Ans-(1)Soapy did not want to go prison. (False) (2)Soapy had been to prison several times.(True) (3)It was not possible for Soapy to survie in the city.(False) (4)Soapy hated to answer questions of a personal nature.(True) Q.3.What was soapys first plan? Why did it not work? Ans. Soapts first plan was to go and have dinner at some fine restaurant. Since he wont have any money, they would hand him over to a cop. He would be taken to the judge next day, who would sentence him three months in the prison on Blackwells Island. This plan did not work because as soon as Soapy stepped inside affine restaurant at Broadway, his shabby clothing attracted the head waiters attention and he was immediately pushed out. Q.4. But the cops mind would not consider Soapy.What did the cop not consider , and why? Ans. The cop did not consider Soapy as the mischief doer who threw a stone through the glass window of the shop. Because he thought that ,en who throw stones at shops do not stop there to talk to cops. Q.5. We have orders to let them shout. What is the policeman referring to? Ans. When Soapy started shouting outside the theatre pretending to be a drunkard, the policeman thought that he was one of those harmless college students. So he said to another man standing beside him that they had orders to let them shout.