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GRADE 4 i? On the shelf Books are man's greatest treasure. There are various kinds of books used for different purposes. Use the clues given below and fill in the blanks. 1. A long sto...

GRADE 4 i? On the shelf Books are man's greatest treasure. There are various kinds of books used for different purposes. Use the clues given below and fill in the blanks. 1. A long story Book to study at school Book telling various things about places to visit 4. Book alphabetically listing meanings 5. Collection of maps 6. Books teaching how to do a thing Book containing all phone numbers of that place Books telling how to operate a machine Small book giving information about a company or product 10. Book in which one writes daily thoughts or programm actionary Fact bite 'de 'iary tlas Arectory he National Librqry_io hovel Arochure Kolkata is the lygesE Sandbook Äextbook library in India. 18  Brain Booster Plus Sounding same A synonym is o word having the some or nearly the same meaning as another word. Tick the correct box next to the synonym for the bold print word in each sentence. The wealthy man lived in a very' large house, a. sad Mirawent for a stroll throughthe park. a. run b. walk c. hop Mayuri was scared of the dark. a. brave b. courageous a c. tired d. afraid @ Rohan completed his homeworkon time a. erased b. finished c. hid d. de The teacher asked Riya to close the door. a. shut b. open c. push d. pull The burglar stole the diamonds and gol a. prisoner b. thief c. banker d. crim The girls were surprised when they saw the beautiful flowers the delivery boy brought. a. fast b. pretty c. yellow @ The librarian asked the children to be silent because everyone was trying to study. a. noisy o b. boring c. happy d. quiet @ The kids enjoyed the movie, but it was to long a. sticky b. lengthy c. short d. silly The college professor was wise and gave the new students9 lot of good advice. a. funny b, ordinary c, intelligent d. ugly 19  Brain Booster Plus Famous authors I. Match these books with their author. 1. Gulliver's Travely a. James Barrie 3, James Barrie 2. Robinson Crusoe b. Anna Sewell 6 R.K. Narayan peter Pan c. Jonathan Swift L. Anna Sewell 4. Oliver Twist f. Rudyard Kipling 7. Charles Dickens 5. Swami and Friends e. Lewis Carroll 6. Black Beauty f. Daniel Defoe 2 Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe 7. Jungle Book g. Charles Dickens S. 8. Alice in Wonderland h. R. K. NarayanLt. Rudyard Kipling Lewis Carroll ll. Sometimes writers use a pen name instead of his or her real name. Match these pen names with the real names. 1. Munshi Premchand a. Agatha Christie 2. Mary Westmacott b. Charles Dickens 3. Lewis Carroll c. Dhanpat Rai Srivastava.9 4. Boz d. Samuel Langhorne Clemens 5. Mark Twain e. Charles Dodgson 21  GRADE Pleasing plants lives. Sometimes they are used in our Plants and trees have a lot of significance sometimes as offerings to God. as food items, sometimesas medicinesand such plants. Fill the missing letters to find the names of and even 1. This plant is regarded as sacred by Hindus worshipped. oil 2. The open flowers of this plant face the sun. Edible can be extracted from the seeds of this plant. s 3. Spices like S N and L— V S are dried flowers. 4. The R _ E plant was believed to be brought in India by the Mughal Emperor Babar. 5. The — A _ E leaf is the symbol of Canada. 6. This tree is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists. p 7. The L __ — Y is a symbolof purity. 8. The leaves of this tree are consideredsacred and used in the worship of Lord Shiva. B 9. The wood of the W — L — W tree is used to make cricket bats. 10. T M ___R _ C is a memberof the ginger family and used as colouring agent for foods. It is also used as an antiseptic. Fact bite The Ombu Tree in Argentina is the worlds toughest tree, able to survive fire, storms' 26  Brain Booster Plus different Reod about these interesting onimols and fill in the blanks to complete their nomes. J! 1. This sea animal's blood is blue in colour. This animal eats and sleeps in an upside down position. sUoLH 3. This is the only snake that builds a nest. 4. This bird imitates the songs of forty different birds. MLCKCÆGBLRL 5. This amphibian lays eggs which have no shells. 6. This bird uses its beak to stitch its nest. TELLQRBLRD 7. It has the tail of a horse, the hair of a goat, the head of a cow and grunts like a pig. 8. This fish is different from other living beings. It has three hearts. C T T L_ E FISH 9. This is the only mammal that can fly. BAT 10. This huge mammal can eat as much as three tons of food every day, but at the same time can live without food for six months. BLUE wLAV-E Fact bite An oyster can change its gender from male to female several times in a year. 27  Brain Booster Plus Plant adaptations plants have adaptations that help them to grow in different areas. Adaptations are special features that allow a plant or animal to live in a particular place or habitat. Read about these plant adaptations and identify the plants. as hooks to cling on to other plants and its leaves have drip tips tmget riffof the rushing water. plants requirefull sun exposure and cannot grow in shaded environment.Sunlight adaptations appear within the head of the flower, which rotates or moves with the rising and setting of the sun. is a water plant. Its leaves are wide and disc shaped which allows them to float on water.Their large surface area allows them to absorb a lot of sunlight. plants usually grow in dry desert areas.-They have small and spfi leavesthat reduce evaporation of water. It also prevents loss of water. It has thick and juicy stem that stores water. plants grow in coastal areas. Its fruits has a fibrous layeft ihich_helpsit to float onwater and get dispersed to far off places. The fruit is well-protectedby the hard covering. The scientific name of this plant is 46tus Mimosa Pudica. 'Pudica' means shy. Such me not When someone touches its leaves, ebougainvillea the leaves fold inWardand shut for peactus a few seconds. It is commonly -Coconut plant. sunflower 29  GRADE 4 Human body The human body is the most amazing machine. It is made up of bones, muscles, organs and glands. Connect the body organs to their clues and name them. 1. It is the centre of the human nervous system controlling our thoughts, movements, memories and decisions. B weighs around 1.5 kg! 2. It is one of the most importantorgans in the human body, continuously pumping blood all around the body. It is located in your chest and well-protected by your rib cage. H 3. They are known as the organs of breathing. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and air takes place here. L 4. It is roughly J-shaped and is like a thick bag which stores food. S expands every time you eat a meal! 5. It is the largest gland in the body. It is situatedto the upper right side of the stomach. L 6. They are long tubes connected to our stomach. They help break down food so that the body can use it for energy. 1 7. They are hard and strong and give shape to our body. Without them you would be floppy like a bean bag! Fact bite There are four valves in the humanheart, they ensure that blood only goes one way, either in or out. Have you felt your heart beating this is knownas the cardiac style. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.The heart of an averagemanbeats approximately 70 times a minute,whereasthe averagewomanhas a heart rate of 78 beats per minute. 36  GRADE 4 29 Sobriquets the most Sobriquets are the popular names of some places or things. It describes the important quality of something. Here are some famous Sobriquets. Choose name of the place that is related to the nickname. 1. City of Skyscrapers (Cairo/New York/Tokyo) 2. Playground of Europe (Switzerland/Paris/Berlin) 3. Land of the Rising Sun (Bhutan/Japan/China 4. Land of Cakes (Cuba/Turkey/Scotland) 5. Land of Kangaroo (Canada/Australia/Africa) 6. Land of the Midnight Sun (Norway/Austria/Denmark) 7. Land of Thunderbolt (Indonesia/Bhutan/Korea) 8. Dark Continent (Australia/Antarctica/Africa) 9. Sugar Bowl of the World (Kent/Cuba/Paris) 10. Land of Lilies (France/Canada/Atlanta) 11. Land of the White Elephant (Malaysia/Sri Lanka/Thailand) Fact bite Norway is called the 'Land of the MidnightSun' because the sun does not set from mid May till the end of July. There is a long twilight during this period. 46  GRADE 4 Let's find out! Read the clues and answer these simple questions given below. 1. Which country has the second largest population in the world? 2. Name the country that was known as Ceylon until 1972. 3. In which country is the Great Pyramid of Giza found? 4. Which county is home to the Great Barrier Reef? 5. In which country Kiwi a flightless bird lives? 6. In which country is the Yangtze river found? 7. Tapas and paella are dishes that originated in which country? 8. Which country was the first to land a man on the moon? Which country has a maple leaf on their national flag? In which country would you find the cities Glasgow and Edinburgh?  GRADE 4 33 First in the world Following ore the nomes of some achievers who were first in their respective fields. Fill in the blanks by choosing the options given below. 1. First Chinese traveller to visit India. 2. First Asian to win Nobel Prize for Literature. 3. First person to reach South Pole. 4. First woman to climb MountEverest twice. 5. First test tube baby. 6. First European to visit China. 7. First woman Prime Ministerof a country. 8. The first woman to cross seven importantseas of the world by swimming. 9. First speaker in Hindi at the U.N. 10. The first batsman in the world to score centuries against all other eight test playing nations. Fact bite Christian Barnard was the first surgeonto perform the successful humanheart transplant. Santosh Yadav Amundsen Fahein Atal BihariVajpayee Bula Choudhury Louise Joy Brown Steve Waugh Sirimavo Bandaranaike Marco Polo Rabindranath Tagore 50  GRADE 4 Indian institutions When you grow up you may join some educational institutionfor higher studies. Try to answer the following questions and learn more about such institutions. 1. Where is the All India Institute of Medical Sciences situated? 2. If your brother was studying Economics at St. Stephen's College, in which city would he be residing? 3. These institutions are better known as IIM-A-IIM-B-IIM-K. What does 11M stands for? 4. This university was established in 1985, caters to promote open university programs and distance education in the country. Name the university. 5. Shantiniketan established by Rabindranath Tagore was converted into a university in 1918 and renamed. What was the new name of this university? 6. If you wanted to enter the film line, you would join the FTII at Pune. What does FTII stands for? 7. Where is the National Defence Academy situated? 8. Which is considered to be the most ancient universityof India? Fact bite City Montessori School, Lucknow is the largest school in the world in terms of pupils.  GRADE 4 Nobel laureates Year 1913 Year 1979 Subject: Literature Subject: Peace Year 1930 Year 1998 Subject: Physics Subject: Economics Year 1968 Year 2001 Subject: Medicine Subject: Literature Year 1983 Rabindranath Tagore MotherTeresa Subject: Physics Prof.Amartya Sen C.V. Raman Dr.Hargovind Khurana V.S.Naipaul Subramanyam Chandrashekhar Fact bite In 1979 when Mother Teresa was awardedthe Nobel Peace Prize, she refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates and asked that $192000 funds be given to the poor in India.  Brain Booster Plus the fields Agricultureis the backbone of India's economy. India produces differenttypes ofcropslike Rabi crops, Kharif crops and Cash crops. Some more facts about agricultureare given below. Tick (v) the correct option. 1. These are winter crops sown in October/Novemberand reaped in March/April. a. kharif crops b. rabi crops c. cash crops 2. This state is known as the 'Sugar Bowl' of India as it is the largest producer of sugarcane. a. Madhya Pradesh b. Punjab c. Uttar Pradesh 3. This place is the leading producer of saffron. a. Jammu & Kashmir b. Himachal Pradesh c. Punjab 4. This crop grows best in black soil and requires warm, moist and even c) climate. a. rice b. cotton c. sugarcane 5. This state is known as the 'Spice Garden of India'. a. Tamil Nadu b. Andhra Pradesh c. Kerala grown in 6. India is the largest producer of this cash crop. It is mainly Assam and West Bengal. b. tea c. rubber a. coffee 7. Artificial silk or rayon is prepared from b. bamboo c. wood pulp a. paper of the people of Punjab, Haryana 8. It is a rabi crop and the staple food and U.P. b. pulses c. rice a. wheat cocoons leavesof castor plant and it produces thread. whichwhen boiled give us the silk 1-  Brain Booster Plus O Famous Indian buildings Indiais known for some famous and historic buildings spreadacross the country. Built several years ago, they still serveas important landmarks, reminding us of the past. 1. It was built to commemorate the royal visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Mumbai in the year 1911. The central dome is 48 feet in diameter and 83 feet in height. 2. Formerly known as Victoria Terminus Station in Mumbai,this building is an outstanding landmark of Mumbai. Its remarkable stone dome, pointed arches and grand size makes it look like an Indian palace. 3. Located on the western end of Rajpath in New Delhi, this building is the official residence of the President of India. The building was planned by famous architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. 4. Also known as Kala Pani, it is a famous prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It was used by the British to imprison political prisoners. 5. It is a circular building designed by the British architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker in 1912-1913. It is also known as the Sansad Bhawan. Rashtrapati Bhawan Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Cellular Jail Parliament House Gateway of India 61