The Little Busy Bee
C1. Answer the following questions.
1. Who is the poet speaking about?
The poet was speaking about the busy bee.
2. Why does the bee sit on the flower?
The beet sits on the flower to collect nectar and afterwards the nectar changes m to sweet honey.
3. How does the bee build her cell?
The bees are very clever and build the (hive) cell by using wax which secretes from its body. The cells are uniform and
beautiful. Bees build it skillfully.
4. ‘I would be busy too’. Who does ‘I’ refer to ?
Here I refers to the poet himself
5. What does ‘sweet food’ mean in the context ?
In the context the ‘sweet food’ means honey.
6. Who does Satan manage to work through?
Satan manages to do the work through idle hands or lazy people.
7.Why does the poet call the bee busy ?
The bee is always working from morning to evening. They collect the honey from the flowers and store it well in the hive. They are not idle and do not spend the time waste fully. So the poet calls the bee busy.
8.‘Let my first years be passed”.
1. What does ‘first years’ refer to ?
Here the’ first years’ refers to early life of the poet, means his boyhood.
2. How does the poet want to spend his first years?
The poet wanted to spend his first years by reading books, working or playing.
3. Why does he want to do so ?
He wanted to do so, because it gives fruit at the end of the life.
9.How can you say that the bee is intelligent and clever?
The bee builds its hive very skillfully. The hive is beautiful to see and it has hundreds of compartments. It is strong and made up of wax, that is secreted in its body. It converts nectar into Honey, which is sweet and healthy. So the poet says that bee is intelligent and clever.
4.What is admirable about the work of the bee?
The Bee-hive is very beautiful to see but it is very complicate to build. The skill of build¬ing the hive and convertion of nectar to Honey are admirable works of the bee.
10.Why does the poet want us to be like the bee?
The poet wants us to be like the bee be-cause the bee is useful to society We should also be helpful to society by doing good and useful work.
11.Why should we not keep ourselves idle? What will happen if we are idle?
We should not keep our selves idle because Satan finds some mischief and rums our life.
12.What is the message of the poem?
The message of the poem is ‘Kayakave Kailasa’ means we should a! way do the good and useful work.
`13.Which lines do you like the best in the poem? Give reasons for your choice.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour:
These are the best lines in the poem because the little bee is always busy and make use of its time. It builds beautiful hives and collect honey, which is useful to man. Honey never gets spoils.
14.Pick out the rhyming words in the poem and add more words to each of the rhyming pair.
The Rhyming words in the poem are shining ----opening, busy-honey, hour-flower, bee-tee, cell -well, skill- still, too-do, play-day.
C2. Pick out the best alternative for each of the following statements:
1.People like the bee because
a. it is clever
b. it sits on the opening flower.
c. it works hard
d. they get honey from it.
e. Answer: d . they get honey from it.
2.And labors hard to store it well. Here it refers to a. the bee
b. the honey
c. the wax
d. the flower
e. Answer: the honey
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