Page 2 - Home Assignment -2

Q. 3. Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:

A sparrow is a small bird which is found throughout the world. There are many different species of
sparrows. Sparrows are only about four to six inches in length. Many people appreciate their
beautiful song. Sparrows prefer to build their nests in low places-usually on the ground, clumps of
grass, low trees and low bushes. In cities they build their nests in building nooks or holes. They rarely
build their nests in high places. They build their nests out of twigs, grasses and plant fibres. Their
nests are usually small and well-built structures.

Female sparrows lay four to six eggs at a time. The eggs are white with reddish brown spots. They
hatch between eleven to fourteen days. Both the male and female parents care for the young.
Insects are fed to the young after hatching. The large feet of the sparrows are used for scratching
seeds. Adult sparrows mainly eat seeds. Sparrows can be found almost everywhere, where there are
humans. Many people throughout the world enjoy these delightful birds.

The sparrows are some of the few birds that engage in dust bathing. Sparrows first scratch a hole in
the ground with their feet, then lie in it and fling dirt or sand over their bodies with flicks of their
winds. They also bathe in water, or in dry or melting snow. Water bathing is similar to dust bathing,
with the sparrow standing in shallow water and flicking water over its back with its wings, also
ducking its head under the water. Both activities are social, with up to a hundred birds participating
at once, and is followed by preening and sometimes group singing.

(a) The chief food for the adult sparrow is _________
(b) Sparrows live wherever _________
(c) The word, ‘species’ means_________
(d) Sparrows in high places._________
(e) _________ take care of the young sparrows.
(f) Sparrows take bathe in _________
(g) Bathing for the sparrows is a _________
(h) Bathing is followed by_________ and_________

EXERCISE-4

Q-1. Describe the policeman on the beat.
Q-2. What did the man in the doorway tell him?
Q-3. How did Bob describe Jimmy
Q-4. How did the patrolman know that Bob has been doing well?

B. Answer these questions with reference to the context. :

Q-1. ‘He was a kind of plodder. Though good fellow as he was.’
a. Who said this and to whom?