English - The Mystery of the Cyber Friend NB Answers

Q- 1 Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

a) Shree gets angry. She decides to unfriend them. Afterwards, she misses them.However, before she can tell them she is sorry, she gets a new friend request. It is from a girl called Chaitra.

She is very pretty, like a film star.

Shree clicks ACCEPT. One click and they become friends.

i) Where is Shree chatting with her friends? 

Ans- Shree is chatting with her friends on a social networking website called FriendsNet.

ii) Why does Shree get angry?

Ans- Shree gets angry because her school friends tease her about her eating habits.

iii) Who sends Shree a friend request?

Ans- A girl called Chaitra sends Shree a friend request.

iv) Find a word from the extract, which means the same as 'chooses'.

Ans- decides

b)“Okay, but only if you come alone,” types Chaitra.

“Why?” types Shree.

“Because it’s our secret meeting!” types Chaitra.

“Hey Chaitra, I haven’t seen any other school near our school,” types Shree.

However, Chaitra has gone offline.

i) Where and when does Chaitra ask Shree to meet her?

Ans- Chaitra asks Shree to meet her at the railway station on Sunday when the Shatabdi Express arrives.

ii) Why does Chaitra ask Shree to meet her?

Ans- Chaitra asks Shree to meet her so that she could give Shree her old camera phone.

iii) Why does Chaitra ask Shree to come alone?

Ans- Chaitra ask Shree to come alone because it is their secret meeting.

iv) Give antonym of the word ' offline'.

Ans- online

Q-2.Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.

a) Describe Shree's family background.

Ans- Shree lives in a house in a small town called Katpadi Junction. Amma works in a jewellery shop. Appa works as a taxi driver. Shree’s aunt also lives with them. Shree calls her Athhai.

b) What does Shree use the computer for?

Ans- The computer is Shree’s friend. She uses it to find information, play games or chat with her school friends on FriendsNet, a social networking website which she joined on her thirteenth birthday.

c) How did Athhai protect Shree from the man at the railway station?

Ans-   When the man approached Shree at the railway station, Athhai quickly came with the station master and hit him with her handbag. Then she threatened him not to come near her niece.

d) How did the police catch the man? What other information did they find out about him?

Ans- A cyber-crime police officer checked the data in Shree’s computer. Within hours, the police found the man who had pretended to be Chaitra. They also found that he had been trying to befriend many young girls and boys through social media.

Q- 3. Answer the following questions in 100-120 words.

a) What did the man do in order to trick Shree?

Ans-  The man befriended Shree as Chaitra on FriendsNet. He used the film actress, Madhoo’s old photograph to pretend that he was the same age as Shree. He told her that he studied in a school near hers. He asked her to send him a selfie and her phone number. When he realised that Shree did not have a camera phone, he used that opportunity to trick Shree into meeting him by telling her that he would give her his old camera phone. When Shree complimented on the earrings on his profile picture and asked him to wear them the next day, he agreed only if she would come alone to the railway station.

b) What made Shree realise that Chaitra was lying? What did Shree do to find out if Chaitra was lying?

Ans- Chaitra told Shree that she studied in the school close to Shree’s school. But when Shree looked around for a school near her school, she didn’t find any other school. Moreover, when Athhai looked at Chaitra’s profile picture, she told Shree that the picture was of the actress Madhoo when she was in school. When Shree asked Chaitra her age, she lied to her and said that she was thirteen. That’s when Shree wondered if Chaitra was using somebody else’s picture. To find out if Chaitra was lying, Shree confided in Athhai who helped her make a secret plan to find out if Chaitra was honest or not.