Textual Questions & Answers of 'Smart Ice Cream' of Class-VI

 

Smart Ice Cream

Textual Questions & Answers

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Activity - 1

Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
 
1. Last week something had happened. ( 5 )
 
2. All the students are not as clever as me. ( 4 )
 
3. The narrator decided to find out what was going on. ( 6 )
 
4. At the age of three, the narrator won a prize for spelling. ( 2 )
 
5. The narrator scored full marks in Math. ( 1 )
 
6. The narrator’s friends said that the narrator was a show-off. ( 3 )
 
 

Activity - 2

Fill in the blanks with words given in the Help Boxes. (Some extra words are given)
 
I was at the top of the class. I knew that I had a sharp brain. Other kids of the class are jealous of me. Last week Jerome beat me. I became sad.
 

[ Help Box: Sharp, top, jealous, near, terrific, beat, show-off ]

 
 

Activity - 3

Answer the following question:
 
“It had something to do with that ice cream.” Why did the speaker think so?
Ans: The speaker thought so because Jerome Dadian had been eating an ice-cream the day he got one hundred for math.
 
 

Activity - 4

Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:
 
a. Mr. Peppy sold ice creams of only one flavor.
Ans: False ,    Supporting Statement: “He had every flavour ….”
 
b. The ice cream man was very unkind. 
Ans: False ,    Supporting Statement: “He was too soft-hearted.”
 
c. The purple ice cream had no effect on the boy. 
Ans: False ,    Supporting Statement: “He gave a purple ice cream to a boy with pimples, and his pimple was cured!”
 
d. The speaker believed that there was no other boy smarter than him in school. 
Ans: True ,    Supporting Statement: “I was the smartest kid in school and that’s the way I wanted to stay.”
 
 

Activity - 5

Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
 
a. What did Mr. Peppi sell?
Ans: Mr. Peppi sold ice cream of different types and flavours.
 
b. How did the speaker know that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person?
Ans: The speaker knew that Mr. Peppi was a soft-hearted person because he was always giving free ice cream to kids who had no money.
 
c. What was special about the green ice cream?
Ans: The green ice cream had the ability to make a long nose normal.
 
d. Why did the speaker want to do better than everyone else in the class?
Ans: The speaker considered himself the smartest kid in the class. As a result he wanted to do better than everyone else in the class.
 

Activity - 6

Fill in the chart with information from the text:
 

Type of Ice Cream	Special quality
(a)   Nose Ice Cream	made a long nose normal.
(b) Smart Ice Cream	helped to become smart.
(c)     Happy Ice Cream	cheered people up.
(e) Pimple Ice Cream	cured pimples.

 
 

Activity - 7

Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
 
a. What did the speaker find inside Mr. Peppi’s ice cream van?
Ans: The speaker found many tubs of ice-cream of different flavours inside Mr. Peppi’s Ice cream van.
 
b. What secret about Dadian did the speaker come to know?
Ans: The speaker came to know the secret about Dadian that he had been eating smart ice cream, thus he got one hundred for maths.
 
c. Rewrite the last paragraph in normal English with correct spellings.
Ans: It is the next day now. Something is happening to me. I don’t feel quite as smart. I have been trying to do a real hard sum. It is one and one. What does one and one make? Is it three or is it four?
 
d. Why do you think there are peculiar spellings in the last paragraph? Give reasons for your answer.
Ans: The speaker was quite smart already. Still he ate smart ice cream out of jealousy. And the ice cream made him extra smart. So he forgot the easy things he knew and started to spell some words in a peculiar manner.
 

Activity - 8 (a)

Now underline in the following sentences the words which connect the sentences to the previous cost.
 
1. I put some sand that I carried with me into every bin in the van, except for the smart ice cream. Next I looked at the smart ice cream.
 
2. Dadian had been eating smart ice cream; that’s how he got one hundred for Mahts. Thereafter, I decided to finish off the matter.
 

Activity - 8 (b)

Using the linkers from the Help Boxe, fill in the blanks:

At first a piece of open ground is to be selected. Then the soil is to be tilled. Next a seed is to be planted. Thereafter the sapling is to be watered daily. Finally green leaves appear.
 

[ Help Box: Finally, next, at first, then, thereafter ]

 
 

Activity - 8 (c) 

In each of the following sentences supply a verb in agreement with the subject:
 
i. Neither Raja nor Rani is invited to the party.
 
ii. Two thirds of the building has been completed.
 
iii. The dancer and the musician are great friends.
 
iv. Mother along with her daughters is attending the programme.
 

Activity - 9

Make meaningful sentences of your own with the following words:
 
Crept: He crept into the cave for the first time.
 
Secret: Don’t tell anyone your secret.
 
Special: My family is always very special to me.
 
Decided: I have decided to buy this flat.

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