Gopal and the Hilsa-fish — English STD 7 — Question

The main ideas of each stanza of the poem are given below. Write the number of the stanza against the matching main idea.
1. At night, the speaker imagines the train and hears its engine in the quiet.
2. The speaker feels a strong desire to take any train, no matter where it goes.
3. The speaker hears the train whistle during the day, even though the train is far away.  

Change the Voice:
Parsi clubs were funded and sponsored by Parsi businessmen.

Replace the underlined words:
Don’t go off track; we were talking about your affair. (deviate, follow, get sensitized)

Opposite word : up × _____________

Change the Voice:
He saw no one but simple people.

Replace the underlined words:
Having caught throat cancer, he gave up eating gutkhas. (hated, left, decided)

The main idea of the stanza, “The speaker hears the train whistle during the day, even though the train is far away” matches with stanza 1.
Stanza (i): away-day;

Change the Voice:
took him into the back kitchen.

solve the riddles and give the answers
I have water that you cannot drink,
People come to see how in me the Sun sinks.
I can be rough, I can be calm,
I hold within myself plenty of charm.
My depths tell a never-ending tale.
Who am I with dolphins and the whale?

Seven had been quite upset about Mr Nath's gaunt appeara (Turn into Exclamatory.)