NCERT Book Class 7 English Golu Grows a Nose

Golu Grows a Nose

LONG, long ago the elephant had no trunk. He had only a bulgy nose, as big as a boot. He could wiggle it from side to side, but couldn’t pick up things with it.

There was a baby elephant called Golu. He, too, had no trunk but only a bulgy nose, as small as a small boot. Golu was full of questions. He asked his tall aunt, the ostrich, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?” Then he asked his tall uncle, the giraffe, “What makes your skin so spotty?” He asked his huge uncle, the hippopotamus, “Why are your eyes always so red?” He asked his hairy uncle, the baboon, “Why do melons taste like melons?” The ostrich, the giraffe, the hippopotamus and the baboon had no answers to Golu’s questions. “Golu is a naughty baby,” they said. “He asks such difficult questions.”

One day Golu met the mynah bird sitting in the middle of a bush, and he asked her, “What does the crocodile have for dinner?” The mynah said, “Go to the banks of the great, grassy Limpopo river and find out.”

Golu went home. He took a hundred sugar canes, fifty dozen bananas and twenty-five melons. Then he said to his family, “Goodbye. I’m going to the great, grassy Limpopo river. I’ll find out what the crocodile has for dinner.” He had never seen a crocodile, and didn’t know what one looked like. He met a python and asked him, “Have you ever seen acrocodile? What does he look like? What does he havefor dinner?” The python uncoiled himself from the branch of a tree but said nothing. Golu politely helped him to coil around the branch again and said goodbye to him.

Exercise

Answer the following questions.

1. Whom does Golu ask, “Why don’t you ever fly like other birds?”

2. Which uncle of Golu had red eyes?

3. Golu’s relatives did not answer his questions because

(i) they were shy.

(ii) the questions were too difficult.

(iii) Golu was a naughty baby

4. Who advised Golu to go to the Limpopo river?

5. Why did Golu go to the river?

6. The crocodile lay on the bank of the Limpopo river. Golu thought it was

(i) a living crocodile.

(ii) a dead crocodile.

(iii) a log of wood.

7. What did the crocodile do to show that it was a real crocodile?

8. “Come here, little one, and I’ll whisper the answer to you.” The crocodile said this because

(i) he couldn’t stand up.

(ii) he wanted to eat Golu.

(iii) Golu was deaf.

9. Who helped Golu on the bank of the river?

10. Name two things the elephant can do with his trunk, and two he cannot.

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