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1. (i) After escaping from crowded London, he went to the village of Iping because he wanted to live in solitary place where he could carry out his work undisturbed.

2. (ii) His uncommon appearance attracted everybody’s attention.

3. (iii) The landlord’s wife made every effort to be friendly.

4. (iv) Mrs Hall was the landlord’s wife.

5. (i) Set all tongues wagging9 phrase in the above extract means the same as everybody started talking about him.

The final part of the training for a day would be running two full circuits at Shivaji Park with his pads and gloves on. It was a routine he would repeat right through his summer holidays and it helped him to build his physical and mental stamina.

1. (i) Griffin was a brilliant scientist as he carried on experiments for years to prove that human body could become invisible.

2. (ii) Griffin was a lawless person who was disliked by everyone. He was a selfish man who could go to any extent to make himself successful.

3. (iii) Griffin wanted to take revenge from the landlord as he was being ejected from the house. So, he set the house on fire.

4. (i) He set the house on fire and became invisible. He also took off his clothes. So, he became a homeless wanderer without clothes.

5. (i) Griffin was disliked by his landlord.

Sachin would ask his father to treat him with a special fruit cocktail. He did not realize that his parents also had to take care of the needs of his brothers and sisters. Hence this was an unreasonable demand.

• I was delighted and I must say it was an opportunity that transformed my life. 
• There was never quite enough time for the pockets to dry out completely, and for the entire duration of the camp, I played with wet pockets. 
• Winning the one-rupee coin used to give me immense satisfaction and taught me how to concentrate even when physically drained. I am quite inspired by the quotes as they tell me to utilize the opportunities that come my way, They tell me to be persevering and determined.

Wanda is a Polish girl who has settled in America with her parents. She lived in Boggins Heights. She came to school in the same faded blue dress everyday with her feet always covered with dry mud. Her last name is quite funny and difficult to pronounce for her classmates. Her appearance was not perfect to be in a higher class so all the students made fun of her and teased her after the school hours. After being teased over her tolerance she claimed to have had a hundred dresses in her closet.

Occasionally, while playing with his friends at home, Sachin would conveniently forget to go to the nets amidst all the fun.

Yes, they did. Sachin became known as the god of cricket. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the.first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, the holder ‘: of the record for the number of runs in both ODI and , A: Test cricket, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.

Sachin had only one set of cricket clothes. So he had to wash them as soon as he returned from the morning session. He repeated the same process in the evening so that he could use the same set of clothes the next day. This was the ‘system’ referred to here.

The girls planned to write their true feelings but ended up writing a formal letter. Most of us have this inbuilt ability of fear of truth. We don’t want to show our shortcomings to the world. Every time we talk about ourselves we talk about positives only. It takes lots of courage to talk about our negative aspects. To develop this level of courage requires many years. But those who learn to admit mistakes learn to take lessons from their mistakes.

Ramakant Achrekar started playing Cricket in the year 1943 when he was eleven. His most famous student is undoubtedly Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, India’s Highest run scorer in both Tests and ODIs and also the current record holder for multiple records! He has been instrumental in grooming some of the country’s most renowned cricketers like Vinod Kambli, Ajit Agarkar and Romesh Powar.

Achrekar coached young cricketers at Shivaji Park, Dadar in Mumbai. Sachin trained under him when he too was just eleven, while he was a student at the New English School, Mumbai. Later Sachin was asked to change to Shardashram Vidyamandir, Mumbai where he coached. When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours and hours in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-rupee-coin on the top of the stumps, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin

If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Such a motivational reward from the coach made Tendulkar strive and survive to win the coin. Tendulkar recalled an incident when his coach told him to play for ‘B’ team of his School. Instead of batting, he preferred sitting in the gallery and cheering for his schoolmates. In the evening, when he came across Achrekar, he was asked how many runs he had scored. Taken aback, Tendulkar told him that he was clapping and cheering up. Then came a slap which shattered his myth. He realized what a mistake he had committed. Achrekar told him firmly that he was not born to just clap for others but for others to watch him and clap for him.

Achrekar, the coach was indeed angry on Sachin when he played with his friends at home having fun and not turning up for cricket coaching giving lame excuses.

All the fame, popularity, wealth and recognition that Sachin gets today is because of his coach Achrekar. Hence he says, ‘I owe myself to him.’

Achrekar advised Sachin not to waste his time playing insane games with kids. He would say that Cricket was waiting for him at the nets and that he should practice hard to see what magic can transpire.

Achrekar was eleven when he started playing cricket in 1943 and Sachin was also eleven when he went to Achrekar for the first time. ,

Coach Achrekar’s first impression on Sachin was that he was too young to make the camp.

Initially, Ajit accompanied Sachin for the practice sessions by bus and he would talk to him about the nuances of batting. The note that Ajit gave Sachin containing some thoughts about batting served as a very personal coaching manual to him.

During the thirty-minute break, Sachin would often have a vadapav, a popular Mumbai fast food, with the money that Achrekar sir would give him.

Wanda thinks hard about not letting injustice happen to anyone. She makes vow that she would protest if anybody misbehaves with anybody. She won’t be a mute spectator the way she did earlier.

In a way the episode of Wanda’s family leaving that city works as major change agent for Maddie’s personality.

Sachin was eleven when he started to train under Achrekar.

Achrekar knew that Sachin was a promising cricketer the world would one day look at with awe. Therefore, he punished Sachin.

Yes I think that the zealous practice made by Sachin at Shivaji park made him a great and real cricketer. He practiced from 7.30 am to 10.30 am in the morning and in the afternoon he practiced till late evening. His dedication and hard work made him to do so

At Shardashram Vidyamandir, where Achrekar Sir was the cricket coach, all his excess energies were getting channeled into cricket, which acted as a kind of safety valve for Sachin.

In order to own the one-rupee coin kept by Achrekar on top of the stumps, Sachin had to avoid getting out and bat continuously with some sixty to seventy boys fielding. So he had to hit the ball along the ground. It taught him how to concentrate even when physically drained. It also gave him immense satisfaction.

Achrekar first thought that Sachin was too young to attend the camp

1. d. Maddie has a sick feeling at the bottom of her stomach because she felt bad that Peggy had been mocking at Wanda.

2. a. Maddie had not enjoyed Peggy’s asking Wanda about her dresses.

3. b. Maddie thought that Peggy’s making fun of Wanda was all wrong.

4. c. Maddie thought that she would find out Wanda and feel sorry before her.

5. d. The first period was a study period.

(a) Achrekar Sir punished Sachin once when he bunked the daily evening practice. 

(b) It helped him to practice hard every day and become a world-renowned cricketer.

After the thorough practice in cricket, Sachin had to run two full circuits of Shivaji Park with his pads and gloves on. This routine throughout the summer holidays helped him to build up his physical and mental stamina.

When Sachin had to stand inside the bus with the kitbag on his back, he often took the space of another passenger. So sometimes he was asked by the conductors to buy two tickets.

All his excess energies were channeled into playing cricket and Sachin considered this as a safety valve.

1. d. Maddie thought about Wanda and her faded blue dress and her little house.

2. a. At last, Maddie sat up in bed and pressed her forehead tight in her hands and really thought about the matter.

3. b. Thinking was the hardest thing she had ever done.

4. c. On that night, Maddie decided that from now onwards she would not make anybody unhappy again.

5. d. Maddie thought of the glowing picture those hundred dresses made-all lined up in the classroom.

Sachin had practice sessions every morning and evening at Shivaji Park which was 40- minute bus ride from his home. After practice, Sachin would be thoroughly exhausted. So he felt that the schedule of the camp was a rigorous one.

The nervousness in a child is vivid in Sachin. He has never batted in the nets and feels somewhat overawed with so many people around him when Aj it takes him to be trained under Achrekar Sir. When he is asked to bat, he is not at all comfortable since he is very childish and not career oriented. With Sir watching him so closely, he fails to make an impact in his future coach. His nervousness takes a sixer, with his coach pretending to be engaged with other things and manages to impress Achrekar sir.

Even though Sachin loved cricket, there were occasions when playing with his friends at home was more fun for him than going for practice. He would conveniently forget going to the nets. He would be engrossed in a melee with his friends. Just as a kid would give excuses, he too would give umpteen number of lame excuses. He would sometimes bunk his daily evening practice to just watch an inter-school cricket match not realizing that he needs to practice for the whole world to watch him play

Sunil Gavaskar and the West Indian legend Viv Richards were Sachin’s favourite players.

Ajit requested Achrekar to give Sachin one more chance. He wanted Sir to pretend to go away and watch him bat from a distance.

Only if Sachin was really serious about playing cricket, his father was ready to change his school.

Occasionally, Sachin’s father took him home. Sachin would always ask his father to treat him to a special fruit cocktail at a juice centre near the club. Though it was a little unreasonable, his father would give him what he wanted, just to see him happy.

Sachin’s father made Sachin understand that he could change school only if he was serious about playing cricket.

Sachin played cricket with his colony friends. He loved watching cricket on television. While playing cricket he tried to imitate his favorite players, Sunil Gavaskar and Viv Richards.

Soaps, fertilizers, cement, gypsum, epsom, plaster of paris, phenol are the materials.

Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P) and Potassium (K) are the three important nutrients among the various nutrients needed for plant growth. These three are called as Principal Nutrients

1. Loving water molecules. 

2. Hating water molecules.

Organic fertilizers:

1. Plant (or) animal based materials synthesized by micro-organisms 

2. Prepared easily. 

3. Economical 

4. Example : Vermicompost, Compost

Inorganic fertilizers:

1. Natural elements by making them undergo chemical changes.

2. Prepared complicated 

3. Not economical 

4. Example : Urea, Super phosphate, Ammonium Phosphate.

Earthworms take organic wastes as food and produce compost castings. So earthworms are known as Farmers’ Friends because of the multitude of services they provide to improve soil health and consequently plant health.

1. Propanethial s-oxide 

2. animal fat 

3. Earthworm 

4. Organic 

5. Starch dissolved in water

1. Organic fertilizer.

2. Starch dissolved in water.

A paste like material which is used to join two components together is called adhesive.

Gypsum is added to control the setting of cement.

1. Sodium Chloride.

2. Soaps.

3. Super phosphate.

4. Epsom.

5. phenol.

Correct answer is (c) Reinforced cement