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NCERT · Class 4 · English

Unit 4: Why? and Alice in Wonderland

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4 questions
Q1Written answer

Find one word from the story that means

(a) to walk fast h __________ . (b) to think w __________ .

(c) happy             d __________ . (d) to be seen nowhere d __________ .

(e) at once q __________ .

(f) move fast s __________ . (g) to be inquisitive  c _________ .

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(a) to walk fast – hurried. (b) to think – wondered.

(c) happy – delight. (d) to be seen nowhere – disappeared.

(e) at once – quickly.

(f) move fast – scamper. (g) to be inquisitive – curious.

Q2Written answer

Give another word for the ones given below with similar meanings and make sentences. Make sentences with each of the opposites of these describing words and make sentences with them—

                                   Opposite               Sentence

lovely              _____________ _________________________

talking            _____________ _________________________

Listening       _____________ _________________________

see                   _____________ _________________________

centre            _____________ _________________________

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Opposite                                                          Sentence

lovely               ugly                                         I saw an ugly dress.

talking               quiet                                 Keep quiet in the class.

listening   talking                                Anil keeps talking in the class.

see                be blind             The blind man was trying to cross the road.

centre                outside             Children go outside the classroom to play.

Q3Written answer

Imagine you are going on a journey to the centre of the earth. What do you think you will see? What would you feel?

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Travelling to the centre of the earth makes me feel excited and nervous. I would see tiny buildings, full of water everywhere, different kinds of soils, etc.

Q4Written answer

Alice follows the strange rabbit because she wants to know a number of things. Re-arrange the words to make the questions that Alice has in her mind and put a question-mark(?).

(а) talk rabbit a how can

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How can a rabbit talk?

(b) going he is where

Where is he going?

(c) read he can time the

Can he read the time?

(d) hurry is in a why he

Why is he in a hurry?


This chapter deals with a curious boy who is always in a dilemma and asks why? why? for questions like why wood swims, why lead and marble sink in the water, why we eat and drink, why the sun sinks behind the hills. Later he finds the reasons for all these types of questions in the story. To know how the curious boy got to know the answers, download the NCERT Class 4 English Solutions PDF free from the links provided.


This chapter is about a little girl Alice, who sees a strange white rabbit wearing a waistcoat running into a hole. Following the rabbit, the girl suddenly pops into a big hole and goes down and down. She thinks she has reached the other side of the earth and observes a beautiful garden with lovely flowers, birds, tiny beds, and fountains. This seemed like a wonderland; she wishes she could be small and be amongst them. The solutions to the questions for this chapter are readily prepared by our experts. Students can download the NCERT Solutions for free here.