NCERT Solutions for Class 7 English

An ant’s life is peaceful because it does it`s work with intelligence and bravery and never fights with other members of the group. Each member has a designated place to stay and a definite work to do. A soldier ant never goes out in search of food and similarly a worker never enters the zone of a soldier ant. No worker or soldier has ever harmed any grub. Each one does their duty with loyalty and diligence and relentlessly carries on with their work peacefully. They know sharing and contribution and do not interfere in each other’s work.

It takes two or three weeks for a grub to become a cocoon. After another three weeks the cocoon breaks and a complete ant appears.

Finding twigs and saplings for Kari was not an easy job. His friend had to climb all kinds of trees to get the most delicate and tender twigs. Kari was very fond of the young branches of the banyan tree which grows like a cathedral of leaves and branches. One has to have a very sharp hatchet to cut down these twigs; it took half an hour to sharpen the hatchet because if a twig is mutilated an elephant will not touch it.

Kari was like a baby. He had to be trained to be good and if you did not tell him when he was naughty, he was up to more mischief than ever.

A camel can do without water for days together because they are adaptable to the desert conditions, they sweat very little. They can withstand high body temperature. They can retain water in their hump which they drink for long period of time.

The smaller animals living in a desert fulfil their need for water by making holes or burrows under the earth during the hot. They come out at night to eat. Some of these animals eat other animals and get water needed by them from the moisture in the meat. Other animals eat plants and seeds and get the water they need from plant juices.

Soapy’s first plan was to have a dinner at a fine restaurant and then he would tell them that he does not have money to pay for the bill .He thought that by doing so the cops will arrest him and then the judge would punish him for three months in the prison on Blackwell’s Island. This plan was not successful because when the head waiter saw his broken old shoes and the torn clothes that covered his legs, he didn’t allow him to enter the restaurant. Rather the head waiter turned Soapy around and made him go out of the restaurant.

Golu asked his lofty aunt, the ostrich, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”

Golu’s gigantic uncle, the hippopotamus had red eyes.

Mr Purcell is being compared to an owl because of the large glasses which magnified his eyes and gave him the looks of a wise and amiable owl.

He ate the food which was given to the dogs and often from the same plate like bread, porridge, potato, cabbage, turnip etc. He liked to eat fruit the most. Two things which he was not allowed to do were to climb trees and touch the beehives.

He was tied up with a chain whenever he did some mischief. He was also put in chain at nights and every Sunday when his mistress went out to spend the afternoon with her married sister. This was done because it was not good for him to wander about in the forest which had all those things which could tempt so it was better to make it stay tied with a chain to keep it safe.

Abbu Khan’s goats wanted to run away because the goats in hilly regions like to roam around freely in the hilly area rather than being tied to trees or poles. They like to be free and his goats were the best hill breed. In the hills, they were killed by an old wolf who lived in the hills.

Abbu Khan changed his mind because he was dreadfully lonely and so he couldn’t live without his pets. He needs some type of company for himself.

Grandfather found the tiger cub hiding among the elaborate roots of a banyan tree.

Tilloo hoped to see the sun or the stars once he came out from his underground home.

Tilloo’s father advised him not to try to go to the surface of the planet because ordinary people cannot survive there. The air is there is too thin to breathe and temperature is very low which can make anyone freeze to death.