Hindi Medium Class 10 [कक्षा १०] - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Communicative

How did the air raids disrupt the Dutch public life?

Fill in the blanks (i) - (iii) with the appropriate option from those in the brackets.

Time travel (i) _____ (ought to/should/could) become a reality in the near future, (ii) _____ (allows/allowed/allowing) human beings to experience the thrill of travelling back or forward in time. However, (iii) _____ (most/many/much) challenges must be overcome, such as ensuring safety and affordability for all potential time-travellers.

i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence.    (1)

Did you know that the lack of hydrological resources affects more than 40% of the world population?

No, I didn't. What are hydrological resources?

(i) WATER RESOURCES, / SURVIVAL / AND PLANT / TO HUMAN, / ANIMAL, / REFER TO / WHICH / ARE VITAL / HYDROLOGICAL RESOURCES

ii. Report the dialogues to complete the paragraph that follows.    (2)

The photographer told the customer that she wanted to use a drone for photographing his event. The customer exclaimed in surprise and asked (ii) ______. The photographer replied in the negative and shared that (iii) _______as his event was in an open and picturesque area.

Keeping in mind the poem, 'Snake', write out a speech for the morning assembly on the topic, Snakes - a beautiful creation of God, an object of our love and not hatred.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,

And say you do it by our permission;

…….     …….     …….    ……. 

(a) Identify the speaker. 

(b) Who is being granted permission? 

(c) What is the speaker afraid of? 

(d) What opinion do you form of the speaker? 

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

"You must make your public happier :

Give them something, sharper, snappier.

We must aim for better billings."

(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines.

(b) Who does 'we' refer to?

(c) What must be done for 'better billings' 

(d) What trait of the speaker's character is revealed through the above lines?

Write a letter to the librarian, City Library, in not more than 120 words, for purchase and addition of popular fiction and non-fiction titles in Braille and also the intake of audiobooks, to promote inclusion. You are an NGO employee, from the same city. You may use ideas from Unit 2: Education, along with your own ideas to write this letter.

You are a sports scout. Write a letter to the Governor of your region, drawing attention to the need for creating and upgrading sport facilities and following practices to enable the local/indigenous sporting talent from your city, to hone their skills. Include specific recommendations. Write the letter in not more than 120 words using ideas from Unit 1: Health and Medicine, along with your own.

* A person who uses their expertise and knowledge of the sport to identify potential talent and recruit individuals who can contribute to the team's success.

In the following paragraph, one word has been omitted in each line. In your answer sheets, remember to write the missing word along with the word that comes before and after it, as shown below. The first one has been done as an example.

Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly.

1. What can be inferred about the speaker's attitude towards nature based on the excerpt?   (1)
2. List the meaning of the phrase "burning bowels of this earth”.   (1)
3. How is the snake's arrival and departure symbolic?   (1)
4. The speaker compares the snake to the guest. Which word in the extract displays the snake’s non-guest like behaviour?   (1)

Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly.

1. How does Antony use visual imagery to make his point about the assassination of Caesar?    (1)
2. What is the significance of the mantle that Antony refers to in his speech?   (1)
3. Identify the tone of Antony's statement when he says, "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now".   (1)
4. What does Antony's reference to the Nervii suggest about Caesar's military prowess?   (1)

Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly.

1. Identify the phrase that indicates that the visit to Poleta on Sundays is significant as a routine or tradition.   (1)
2. What does the narrator's offer to drive the brothers to Poleta reveal about his character?   (1)
3. Why was there a pause after the narrator’s offer?   (1)
4. State one reason why Jacopo might have wanted a car ride despite the choice of hired bicycles?   (1)

How effective is the use of the phrase "Nothing beside remains" in conveying the theme of the transience and impermanence of power and human achievement, in Ozymandias by P.B.Shelley?

What does the writer wish to convey via the use of the metaphor for a false friend in the given line from The Letter?

...the cold used sleep to extend its sway over all things even as a false friend lulls his chosen victim with caressing smiles.

Comment on Elsie Brown’s writing style in the story, The Shady Plot.

In Patol Babu, Film Star, how is Patol Babu's character a commentary on the struggling actors in the film industry?

In the story, Virtually True, Michael said, "That's what I like about computers. The more futuristic they get, the better you can understand the past." Explain what he meant.

What is Stanley Houghton's primary purpose in employing irony in the play ‘The Dear Departed’?

Even though both, the frog from Vikram Seth’s poem, The Frog and the Nightingale and Abel's children from the play, The Dear Departed, display greed, there are differences. Elaborate, in about 150 words, how the greed of the frog and that of Abel's children differ in motivation, actions, relationship, and consequences.

Imagine that the mariner hears of Mrs Packletide’s hunt and decides to share some advice with her about the impact of wilfully killing creatures. As the mariner, write this letter, in about 150 words, to Mrs Packletide, based on the consequences following your own experience of having killed a creature intentionally.