ASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL GREATER NOIDA (WEST)

ENGLISH ; CLASS – III

COMPREHENSION PRACTICE WORKSHEET

Read the following passage and answer the questions given.

Many people are now saying that Pluto is no longer a planet. Are they right? Is Pluto no longer a
planet? There’s debate in the scientific world about this issue. National Geographic News says
that, according to the International Astronomical Union, a full-fledged planet is an object that
orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity.
Because Pluto doesn’t meet these standards, the (International Astronomical Union) IAU
classifies Pluto as a dwarf planet. Not everyone agree that this is a good way to decide though.
Andy Cheng, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University, says that the new rules aren’t
clear enough and asks the question, “How round is round?....
I’II still continue to maintain that Pluto is a planet,” he said. Owen Gingerich is an astronomer
and historian at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and head of the IAU
committee proposing the definition. He favoured a special distinction for Pluto. Gingerich
supported a proposal to call the big eight planets,-as opposed to just plain “planets”- as Pluto
and the others dwarf planets , so there would be two classes of planets. He believes that
reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet is not “sensitive to the historical and cultural role that Pluto
has played.” The argument continues. In the meantime, however, many people are correct-
new textbooks will list Pluto as being a dwarf planet. What do you think it is?

Answer the following questions:

1. What is a planet?
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2. What is the full form of IAU? What does it classify?
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3. Give antonyms(opposite) of the following words.

a ) new _________________________ b) big _______________________

c) correct _________________________ d) agree _______________________

e) oppose _________________________ f) large _______________________

4. Write the short forms of the following.

a) is not _________ b) there is __________ c) are not ___________

d) it is _________ e) I will __________ f) does not ___________

GRAMMAR
1. Complete these sentences filling in suitable adverbs of manner.

i) Father shouted _______________________ at the stranger.

ii) The teacher praised Jiya because she writes __________________.

iii) Don’t talk so ________________ in the hospital.

iv) The girls danced _____________________.

v) We __________________ waited for the bus.

vi) Arrange all the books ___________________.

2. Match the adjectives to the nouns.

bushy lady
round,chocolate apple
cloudy cake
juicy, red leaves
green tail
old ant
tiny, red day

WORD BUILDING

Add a prefix to complete the word and the sentence.

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a. Ruby is very ______ happy because she lost her cat.

b. It is _______possible for people to fly by flapping their arms.

c. His behavior was _______ appointing.

d. The decision, he made was _________fair.

e. We watched the plane ________appear into the clouds.

f. It is very ________polite to snatch things from others.

g. When we come back we began to _________pack our suitcase.