 Sushi (vinegared rice with salt, sugar, vegetables, fruit, and seafood)_________________.

 Baklava (a rich, sweet dessert made of layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts, sweetened,
and held together with syrup or honey) _______________________.

 Green Curry (curry with fresh green chilies and coconut milk) ______________________.

 Chicken Kiev (chicken cutlet of boneless chicken breast) ___________________.

 Chapter – 15

Water, Most Refreshing

1. Breathtaking in its beauty, its name; Tarangambadi (formerly Tranquebar) means the land of the
singing waves _______________________.

2. At the southernmost tip of India, you will see the Vivekananda Rock and a 133 feet high statue
of the Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar __________________________________.

3. Its name means ‘land of high passes’. A sparsely populated area, it is flanked by the Kunlun
Mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas in the south ___________________.

4. Its name is Sanskrit means ‘one hundred thousand islands.’ It is a group of islands in the
Laccadive Sea off the south-western coast of India; the archipelago is a Union Territory. This is
an aerial photograph of the aerodrome on Agatti Island.

5. The Sadu Chiru Falls is a picturesque waterfall in the foothills of Sadu Chiru Hills. It is popularly
called ‘Leimaram Waterfall’ since it is situated in a place called Leimaram, about 23 kms from
___________________, the capital of the north-eastern state of ______________________.

6. Located 60 kms from Panaji city, the name of these falls means ‘sea of milk’; it is located on the
Mandovi River on the border of _____________ and ___________________________.

7. These are the incredibly beautiful Nokhalikai Falls in the north-eastern state of
__________________. It is a tallest plunge waterfall in India.

8. The Kunchikal falls is located in the state of _______________________. The Varahi River cascades
down hundreds of rocks near Hulikal, Shimoga District.
 Chapter – 16

Think and Write – Test Your Speed

A. What is common to each set?

1. SBI, UBI, HDFC, UCO, IDBI, Federal, Canara ________________________________.

2. Violin, sitar, sarod, guitar, mandolin ____________________________.

3. Venezuela, Chile, Costa Rica, Argentina, Columbia – countries in ________________________.

4. Odissi, Manipuri, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Bharatnatyam, Kathakali _____________________.

5. Vidit Gujrathi, Harika Dronavalli, Vantika Agarwal, Nihal Sarin, Divya

Deshmukh___________________.

6. Sathish Sivalingam, Manu Bhaker, Sharath Achanta, Chirag Shetty, Rahul Aware, Neeraj
Chopra – won medals at the

7. Mahatma Gandi, John F Kennedy, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Martin Luther King, Jr. – leaders
who were ___________________________.

8. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi – web _______________________.

B. One does not belong to the set. Which one? Why?

Crimson, scarlet, vermilion, raspberry,

bottle
Exit, Backspace, Esc, Shift, Caps Lock,
Ctrl
Tennis, table tennis, squash, basketball,
golf
Tabla, bongos, mridangam, veena,
dholak
Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Ghana,
Algeria, Egypt
Paper, plain, cheese, masala, sambar,
rava
Islamabad, Dhaka, Colombo, Bangkok,
Thimphu, Kolkata
Black forest, baked Alaska, rava upma,
shahi tukda, caramel custard
This is to that, as

Gautam Buddha is to Lumbini, as Jesus

Christ is to
Rashtrapati Bhavan is to the President
of India, as the White House is to
Goa is to the Arabian Sea, as Odisha is
to the Bay of
The Tiranga is to saffron, white and
green, as the Union Jack is to
Voilence is to violent, as courage is to

1089 is to 33, as 2025 is to

Mother is to maternal, as father is to

Tim Cook is to Apple, as Satya Nadella

is to
Who or what should be added to complete each set?

Australian Open, French Open,

Wimbledon
Eggs, caterpillar (pupa), larva
Lakshamana, Bharata, Shatrughna,
Dobey, Grumpy, Bashful, Doc, Sneezy,
Sleepy,
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturm,
Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadev,
Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram,
Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland,
Meghalaya,

One does not belong to the set. Which one? Why?

eagle, owl, hawk, kite, vulture, pigeon

puma, lion, tiger, leopard, wolf, cheetah
Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,
Patna, Jharkhand, Telangana
Mosque, temple, church, museum,
synagogue, gurdwara
Mongolia, Japan, Portugal, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Pakistan
Spine, contents, index, finger, foreword,
preface, pages
Kabaddi, kho-kho, hockey, squash,
basketball
Noodles, pasta, rice, curry, spaghetti

This is to that, as…

Aqua is to water, as solar is to

IPL is to cricket, as ISL is to
Odissi is to Odisha, as Manipuri is to
Guitar is to strum, as flute is to
Defeat is to defeated, as infect is to
Intelligence is to intelligent, as tension
is to
Quadrilateral is to four, as hexagon is
to
Bajaj is to motorbikes, as BMW is to
The Story of a Book

A. Fill in the blanks to get to know more about books.

1. Stories that are not very long are called ________________stories.

2. A book that has a single story ________________.

3. A book about the life of a famous person written by someone else ___________________.

4. A book about the life of a famous person written by himself/herself _______________________.

5. An anthology is a ______________________ of poems or short stories.

6. A very long poem, like the Mahabharata or Ramayana

7. A story that is not true (did not actually take place) is a work of _________________.

8. A book that contains all the published writings of a writer is called his or her
__________________ works.

B. Tick () the correct option.

1. The company, person or organization that produces the book publisher producer

2. The person who looks into all aspects of the book, especially its structure, the use of words,
punctuation, etc. coordinator editor

3. The person who finalizes the layout of the book and decides how it should ‘look’
designer lay outer

4. A hardcover book is called a hard book hardback

5. A book with a soft cover is called a softback paperback

6. A book which is very popular and sells in great numbers bestseller box office hit