Exercise:2

◆ Write True or False against the following statements: 

1. The machines are built to comprehend a lie.

___ False            

2. The machines are nothing more than children of our brain.
____True          

3. ‘The Secret of the Machines’ is written by George Pope Morris.
____ False  

4. Machines are not built for to comprehend a lie.
_____ True

Exercise:3

 ◆  Read the stanza and answer the questions.  

 ★ We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, 

We were melted in the furnace and the pit _

We were cast and wrought and hammered to design, 

We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit.  

1. Where do machines take birth from?   

Ans:-machines take birth from the ore-bed and the mine.

2. Which process should be done to design the machine?   

Ans:- The machines were melted in the furnace and the pit. They were cast and wrought and hammered to design them.

★ Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask, 

And a thousandth of an inch to give us play: 

And now, if you will set us to our task, 

We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!  

3. What are the humble needs of machines?  

Ans:- The humble needs of machines are some water, coal, and oil and a thousandth of an inch to give them play.

4. What assurance is given by machines? 

Ans:-Machines will serve you four and twenty hours a day. This assurance is given by machines.

★ We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! 

We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive, 

We can print and plough and weave and heat and light, 

We can run and race and swim and fly and dive, 

We can see and hear and count and read and write!  

5. What can machines do?  

Ans:-Machines can pull , haul , push , lift , drive, print , plough , weave , heat and light. They can also  run , race , swim , fly , dive,   see , hear , count , read and write.

6. How do machines serve us? 

Ans:- Machines serve us four and twenty hours a day.

Exercise:4

◆ Find and write the nearest meanings.

1. Wrought:-haul, pull, shaped, filed.

2. Filed:- gauged, smoothened, cast, served.

3. Gauged:- measured, pushed, ploughed, built.

4. haul:- mine, furnace, drag, pull.

5.vanish:- disappear, hide, brain, heaven.

Ans:-
1)shaped
2)smoothened
3)measured
4)drag
5)disappear.

 Exercise:5

◆ Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the brackets:  

【forgive, feelings, heaven, law, slip】

Machines do not have ___1____. They cannot love, pity or ___2___. If we make a ___3___ in handling them, we are sure to die. This Is the ___4__ by which they live. 

Ans:-

1)feelings 

2)forgive 

3)slip

4)law.