NCERT Solutions Class 7 English (The Alian Hand Supplementry)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 7 English (The Alian Hand Supplementry) Chapter – 10 An Alien Hand has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Chapter – 10 (An Alien Hand)
Comprehension Check
1. How does Tilloo manage to find his way to the ‘forbidden passage’?
Answer – Tilloo managed to find his way to the ‘forbidden passage’ one day while his father was taking a nap. He used his father’s security card to enter the passage.
2. What did Tilloo hope to see once he emerged from his underground home?
Answer – After emerging from his underground home, Tilloo hoped to see the sun or the stars.
3. Why did Tilloo’s father advise him not to try to reach the surface of the planet?
Answer – Tilloo’s father advised him not to try to reach the surface of the planet. He told him that he would not be able to survive in the thin air and low temperature existing on the surface of the planet.
4. What changes had occurred, which forced people to live in underground homes?
Answer – The sun turned hostile. The air became too thin to breathe. The temperature became so low that human beings could freeze to death.
Comprehension Check
1. Why was everyone in the Control Room greatly excited?
Answer – Everyone in the Control Room was greatly excited because they got to know that two spacecrafts were approaching their planet.
2. Was the spacecraft manned or unmanned? How do you know it?
Answer – As per the reports of the Central Bureau, the spacecraft was unmanned. It only had instruments.
3. What did Number One and Number Two suggest should be done about the alien spacecraft?
Answer – Number One and Number Two suggested non-interference and passive observance in matters of the alien spacecraft.
Comprehension Check
1. What do you think the mechanical hand was trying to do?
Answer – The mechanical hand was trying to dig out the soil from the surface of the planet for examination.
2. Tilloo pressed the red button and “the damage was done”. What was the damage?
Answer – By pressing the red button, Tilloo made the mechanical hand from the spacecraft cease to work.
3. Where had the spacecraft come from?
Answer – The spacecraft had come from the planet Earth.
4. On which planet do Tilloo and his parents live?
Answer – Tilloo and his parents lived underground on the planet Mars.
Exercises
Discuss the following topics in groups.
1. If you had to live in a home like Tilloo’s, what parts of life would you find most difficult? What compensations might there be?
Answer – The parts of life that I would find most difficult are that there would be no fresh air to breathe, no stars or sun or moon in the sky, no rain, no winter, no summer, no animals, no plants and no natural environment. It would be so dull and artificial.
The compensation that might be there would be the controlled temperature and air.
2. What, if anything, might drive mankind to make their homes underground?
Answer – If the conditions on the surface of the planet are not good enough to survive, mankind might get driven to make their homes underground.
3. Do you think there is life on other planets? Can you guess what kind of people there may be on them? In what ways are they likely to be different from us?
Answer – It is possible that there may be life on other planets. The kind of people will depend on the kind of environment there. They are likely to be quite different from us because every planet seems to have its unique environment.
