Question

Be the Best

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley—but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill,

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree

If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass

But be the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,

There’s something for all of us here

There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do,

And the task we must do is the near.

If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can’t be the sun, be a star,

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail

Be the best of whatever you are!

Questions:

52. What should be our attitude towards our work ?

53. What is the message of the poem ?

54. Winning does not depend on…………………….

55. Which word in the poem means the same as “piece of work is difficult”.​

Answer 1

our attitude towards our woek will be that there is big work to do and there is lesser to do and the task we must do is the near.

the message of the poem is be the best of whatever you are and whatever you do

Around the beginning of the twentieth century the term, “piece of work,” qualified by “nasty” or “real,” was used in Britain as meaning someone difficult to deal with. Around the second half of the century the term emerged in America without the epithets, “nasty” or “real,” to mean a nasty person.

winning does not depend on size