A MUSICAL CURE, Pablo Pedro Sacristan
WORD MEANING:
1. fabulous – amazing, very good
2. proportions
– sizes
3. slim –
thin
4. delicious
– tasty
5. prefer
– choose
6. fantastic
– wonderful, amazing
7. strange
– unknown
8. contained
– having
9. crashing
– hit
10. prairies
– huge grasslands
11. enourmous
– very big
12. assured
– confirmed
13. provoked
– influenced, disturbed
14. ugly –
bad look
15. interpret
– describe
16. raised
– grown
17. impressed
– affected, influenced
18. generated – created, made
A.2 ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
a. Why did people wonder who Anna had taken after?
Unlike her parents, who were very fat, Anna, who ate
almost nothing, was slim and fit girl. So people wonder who Anna had taken
after.
b. What do you think is the role of the machine later
in the story?
The strange machine had the ability to interpret the
signal received mentally from food and generate the sound of source from where
the food was born and raised.
A.3 TEXT READING:
Why do you think the doctor was so interested in
Anna’s case?
Anna had been very fussy about food and was not eating
much. She did not even know what was going on with her. When this problem was
shared, the doctor was very interested in her case.
Why was the volume much lower for Anna’s parents?
The volume was much lower for Anna’s parents as they
had not paid much attention to it.
Do you know what immunity is?
Immunity is the ability of our body to protect us from infections and illnesses with the help of certain specific substances present in our blood.
A. 8 Add suitable
prefixes and suffixes to the words in brackets.
Rashmi and my ____friendship
(friend) goes back a
long way. She always talks about ____mindful (mind) eating. It is the ____maintenance (maintain) of
in-the-moment ____awareness (aware) of the food and drink you put
into your body. It is the ____acknowledgement (acknowledge) and ____acceptance (accept) of how
food makes you feel and the signals your body sends. She says you must be ____appreciable (appreciate) of
what it takes to bring the food to your plate rather than being ____restricted (restrict). It
also helps you make your own decisions regarding what and when to eat. Thus, it
is a ____powerful (power) tool to regulate your diet and
to stay ____healthy (health).
A. 9 Match the words
with the sounds mentioned in the story.
A. 10 Choose the
correct options
The machine started making more lively
sounds; the sound of farm animals, crying and calling across fields and
prairies… When he set the dish down, the machine seemed to break down, and
instead of some beautiful sound, out came a horrible din, like some accident is
a shipyard.
a. The author describes the
sound as lively. This shows that the sound was
iii. energetic
b. Choose the correct
option with reference to sentences 1. and 2.
1.
The sound of the plateful of fish was livelier than that of the plateful of meat.
2.
A plateful of fish has more nutritional value than a plateful of meat.
ii. 1 is false but 2 is true.
c. Which of these is the
correct meaning of ‘break down’ as used in the story?
iv. to stop working
d. Select the sentence which
uses the same figure of speech as used in out came a horrible din, like some
accident in a shipyard.
ii. Rita’s attitude was as sour as vinegar.
e. Anna had always been
very picky about food. Choose the sentence which correctly exemplifies the ‘picky’.
i. Some dogs can be choosy. They reject the
food that they don’t like.
A. 11 ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY:
a. What exactly did the ‘strange machine’ do?
What changes did it bring in Anna and her parents?
The strange machine had the ability to interpret the
signal received mentally from food and generate the sound of source from where
the food was born and raised.
This changed their food habit. From that day Anna and
her parents replaced pizzas, burgers, puddings and ice-creams with fruit,
vegetables and fish.
b. … they all provoked sounds which were
equally as ugly as that of the pizza. Explain why the sound was ugly.
The machine had the ability to interpret the signal
received mentally from food and generate the sounds of source from where the
food was born and raised. Pizza being fast and junk food, machine made its
corresponding sound of the source which was ugly and horrible din.
c. What is your opinion on Mr. and Mrs.
Camis’ reaction on Anna’s condition? Do you think she required the opinion of a
doctor?
Mr. and Mrs. Camis were not able to understand what
was going on with Anna. They were surprised to see Anna so picky about food.
So, they took her to a doctor.
Yes, she required the opinion of a doctor to
understand the secret of her mind which could interpret the sound of different
food. It also helped her to know what kinds of food she liked the most.
d. Comment on Mr. and Mrs. Comis’ change in
attitude towards food in the story.
When Mr. and Mrs. Camis learned that they too could
generate the sound of food source; they paid more attention to the music they
heard inside when seeing food. From that day they replaced pizzas, burgers,
puddings and ice-creams with fruit, vegetables and fish that generated splendid
sounds.
A. 12 ANSWER IN
DETAILS:
a. There is a relation between the type of
food kept in front of Anna and the sound she hears. Justify this statement with
examples from the text.
The food kept in front of Anna generated in her mind the
sound of source from where the food was born and raised. Hence, fish would
create the sound of water, river and seas; fruit and vegetables would create
the sound of trees, birdsongs etc.; pizza would make horrible din of bakery.
b. Swathi made a list of top five unhealthy
food. She found that many of her friends eat them quite often. Swathi wants to
create awareness among er peers.
i.
What values are exhibited by Swathi?
ii. Give suggestions to Swathi to make her effort more effective.
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