CBSE Unseen Passage for Class 10 Question and Answer

Here in this post we have given some important Unseen Passage for CBSE Class 10 Exam. This Comprehension (Unseen) passage will help students to prepare more for exams. Class 10 Unseen Topics with Answer. English Reading Skills CBSE Unseen Topics with Solution by Writing Teacher.

Unseen 1:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

While there is no denying that the world loves a winner. It is important that you recognize the signs of stress in your behavior, and be healthy enough to enjoy your success. Stress can strike anytime, in a fashion that may leave you unaware of its presence in your life. While a certain amount of pressure is necessary for performance, it is important to be able to recognize your individual threshold. For instance, there are some individuals who accept competition in a healthy fashion. There are others who collapse into webette wrecks before an exam, or on comparing mark sheets and finding that their friend has scored better.It is a body reaction to any demands or changes in its internal and external environment.Whenever there is a change in the external environment such as temperature, pollutants, humidity and working conditions, it leads to stress. In these days of competition when a person makes up his mind to surpass what has been achieved by others, leading to an imbalance between demands and resources, it causes psycho-social stress. It is a part and parcel of everyday life.Stress has a different meaning depending on the stage of life you’re in. The loss of a toy or a reprimand from the parents might create a stress shock in a child. An adolescent who fails an examination may feel as if everything has been lost and life has no further meaning.In an adult, the loss of his or her companion, job or professional failure may appear as if there is nothing more to be achieved.Such signs appear in the attitude and behavior of the individual, as muscle tension in various parts of the body, palpitation and high blood pressure, indigestion and hyperacidity and ultimately in self destructive behavior such as eating and drinking too much, smoking excessively, relying on tranquilizers, trembling, shaking, nervous blinking, dryness of throat and mouth and difficulty in swallowing.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for True And ‘F’ for False.

i) Stress tells upon the health of a person unknowingly.

Answer –True

ii) Competition leads to psycho-social stress.

Answer –True

iii) Stress carries the same meaning for human beings of all age.

Answer –False

iv) Relying on tranquilizer is a symptom of stress.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) What role stress or pressure plays on human beings?

Answer –Stress plays certain roles on human beings. Stress depends on various factors in different age and personalities. Sometimes its necessary to perform, when taken it as a healthy fashion. But sometimes taking excessive stress beyond someone’s individual threshold can lead to mental, as well as physical breakdown.

ii) What is stress?

Answer –Stress is a form of mental and physical tension. Stress can be both, useful and harmful.Taken in a healthy fashion stress can enhance the performance of individuals. On the other hand too much stress can lead to mental and physical breakdown.

iii) What are the signs of stress on a human being?

Answer –  Sign of too much stress on a human being include muscle tension,palpitations, indigestion, high blood pressure, hyperacidity and sometimesshow some self destructive behavior such as drinking too much, smoking excessively etc.

Unseen 2:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

While there is no denying that the world loves a winner. It is important that you recognize the signs of stress in your behavior, and be healthy enough to enjoy your success. Stress can strike anytime, in a fashion that may leave you unaware of its presence in your life. While a certain amount of pressure is necessary for performance, it is important to be able to recognize your individual threshold. For instance, there are some individuals who accept competition in a healthy fashion. There are others who collapse into webette wrecks before an exam, or on comparing mark sheets and finding that their friend has scored better.It is a body reaction to any demands or changes in its internal and external environment.Whenever there is a change in the external environment such as temperature, pollutants, humidity and working conditions, it leads to stress. In these days of competition when a person makes up his mind to surpass what has been achieved by others, leading to an imbalance between demands and resources, it causes psycho-social stress. It is a part and parcel of everyday life.Stress has a different meaning depending on the stage of life you’re in. The loss of a toy or a reprimand from the parents might create a stress shock in a child. An adolescent who fails an examination may feel as if everything has been lost and life has no further meaning.In an adult, the loss of his or her companion, job or professional failure may appear as if there is nothing more to be achieved.Such signs appear in the attitude and behavior of the individual, as muscle tension in various parts of the body, palpitation and high blood pressure, indigestion and hyperacidity and ultimately in self destructive behavior such as eating and drinking too much, smoking excessively, relying on tranquilizers, trembling, shaking, nervous blinking, dryness of throat and mouth and difficulty in swallowing.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for True And ‘F’ for False.

i) Stress tells upon the health of a person unknowingly.

Answer –True

ii) Competition leads to psycho-social stress.

Answer –True

iii) Stress carries the same meaning for human beings of all age.

Answer –False

iv) Relying on tranquilizer is a symptom of stress.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) What role stress or pressure plays on human beings?

Answer –Stress plays certain roles on human beings. Stress depends on various factors in different age and personalities. Sometimes its necessary to perform, when taken it as a healthy fashion. But sometimes taking excessive stress beyond someone’s individual threshold can lead to mental, as well as physical breakdown.

ii) What is stress?

Answer –Stress is a form of mental and physical tension. Stress can be both, useful and harmful.Taken in a healthy fashion stress can enhance the performance of individuals. On the other hand too much stress can lead to mental and physical breakdown.

iii) What are the signs of stress on a human being?

Answer –  Sign of too much stress on a human being include muscle tension,palpitations, indigestion, high blood pressure, hyperacidity and sometimesshow some self destructive behavior such as drinking too much, smoking excessively etc.

Unseen 3:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

As a medium of literary expression, the common language is inadequate. Like the man of letters, the scientist finds it necessary to “give a purer sense to the words of the tribe”. But the purity of scientific language is not the same as the purity of literary language. The aim of the scientist is to say only one thing at a time, and to say it unambiguously and with the greatest possible clarity. To achieve this, he simplifies and jargonizes. In other words, he uses the vocabulary and syntax of common speech in such a way that each phrase is susceptible to only one interpretation; and when the vocabulary and syntax of common speech are too imprecise for his purpose he invites a new technical language, or jargon specially designed to express the limited meaning with which he is professionally concerned.At its most perfectly pure form, scientific language ceases the matter of words and terms into mathematics.The literary artist purifies the language of the tribe in a radically different way. The scientist’s aim, as we have seen, is to say one thing, and only one thing at a time. This, most emphatically, is not the aim of the literary artist. Human life is lived simultaneously on many levels and has many meanings. Literature is a device for reporting the multifarious facts and expressing their various significance. When the literary artist undertakes to give a pure sense to the words of his tribe, he does so with the express purpose of creating a languagecapable of conveying, not the single meaning of some particular science, but the multiple significance of human experience, on its most private as well as on its more public levels.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for True  and ‘F’ for False.

i) Common language is not a self sufficient literary medium.

Answer –True

ii) Scientific language ceases words and terms into mathematics.

Answer –True

iii) The aim of the literary artist and that of the scientist is the same

Answer –False

iv) Human life is lived at many levels with a single significance.

Answer – False

c) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) What is the aim of a scientist?

Answer – The aim of a scientist is to use common language in a such way that could lead into only one interpretation. A scientist simplifies and jargonizes to talk about only one thing at a time which he is professionally concerned.

ii) What does a scientist do to achieve his aim?

Answer – His aim is to talk about only one thing at a time and say in such a way that can lead to only one Interpretation. To do this he simplifies and jargonizes. Scientists ceases word and terms into mathematics.

iii) How does a literary artist use language?

Answer –A literary artist doesn’t use common language as medium of his expression. Heaims to tell multiple facts and their various significance. He wants his words to convey multiple significance of human experience.

Unseen 4:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

It was bound in a rough, red cloth, now smoothened in places with the many caresses it had received over the years. Its name boldly etched in gold over its hard cover. Its spine still holding on firmly to the age old pages, much thumbed, dog-eared, yellowing pages. ItsIllustrations, lithographs by the author himself, and a frayed red ribbon placed between the pages I had read the last time. That is my favorite book.That book startled me off on a journey that inevitably took me to the book alleys that still make the three hundred year old city proud. The fact that my lane meandered through several by-lanes and reached the book alleys in less than fifteen minutes made my trips frequent and my pocket- money meagre. The narrow lanes were lined with small shops with dusty shelves. Their bespectacled shop-owners — bibliophiles in their own right — were always eager to help me find treasures in all shapes and sizes, bound in cloth or leather, some new and some which had changed several hands; others which had corners folded, many in tatters, a few boasting of an autograph or a note written in attention of a loving reader. My prized possession in those days was a book called Sita that was illustrated with paintings by the illustrious Raja Ravi Verma.Nothing gave me more pleasure than the feel of a cold spine against my palm, the weight of the pages, their slight reluctance to open spontaneously, the faint crick at the turn of each page, and the musty smell of the yellowing pages mixed with a slight whiff of the jet-black ink that filled my nostrils as I brought the book close to my face.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False. ( You need not write sentences, write only numbers)

i) The name of the book was written boldly in gold over its hard cover.

Answer – True

ii) The book led the narrator away from the book alleys.

Answer – False

iii) The books led to the gradual decrease of the narrator’s pocket money.

Answer –True

iv) The narrator’s favorite book had illustrations by Raja Ravi Verma.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) How does the narrator describe his favourite book ?

Answer – The narrator’s favorite book, Sita, had illustrations done by famous illustrator Raja Ravi Verma. He described that nothing gave him more pleasure than the feel off the book in his palm. He loved the weight of the pages and their slight reluctance to open, the faint Crick of the pages, the musty smell of yellowish pages and also the whiff of the jet-black ink.

ii) What did the book lead the narrator to ?

Answer –The book led the narrator to the book alleys that still makes the city as old as three hundred years proud. These alley had many lanes and by-lanes. There were many shops side of the lane and they hold many “treasures” as described by the narrator.

iii) How did the book prove to be a source of pleasure to the narrator?

Answer – He loved the weight of the pages and their slight reluctance to open, the faint Crick of the pages, the musty smell of yellowish pages and also the whiff of the jet-black ink.

Unseen 5:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Canada says its denial of visas to Indian security officials on grounds of human rights violations, torture and espionage is a mistake.India was hurt to the quick at the charges. The government issued an angry warning and said it would take retaliatory measures if Canada did not take corrective measures. Now that it has done so, the two countries could resume the pleasantries. But that wouldn’t after the truth. And the truth is that Indian security forces, like most other security forces in the world, routinely commit human rights violations, certainly torture and seriously play at espionage.Now, we can protest our innocence and act righteous. But we’d be deceiving ourselves.The security forces anywhere in the world will do all these. That is their job. But unlike the more civilized west, our men are not accountable. Consider the high number of custodial deaths — 127 last year alone, according to NHRC, or any number of torture cases. This is a primitive country and sees in violence a kind of catharsis. The recent baying for kasab’s public execution, preceded by chopping of limbs is a case in point.So instead of getting hot under the collar, the Indian authorities should be thanking Canada for holding up a mirror to our ugly face. It is through such diplomatic slip-ups that we know how we are really perceived in a world, at least a part of which is seriously giving a shot at evolving ethically driven societies.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ’T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False.

i) Canada accepted its mistake for denying visas to Indian security officials.

Answer –True

ii) Indian security forces never commit any human rights violations.

Answer –False

iii) If India protests its innocence, it would be deceiving ourselves.

Answer –True

iv) India being a primitive country, sees in violence its catharsis.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words: –

i) On what issue did the Indian government and Canada need to make peace?

Answer -Indian government and Canada need to make peace on the issue of visa. Canada denied visa of India due to the human rights violations, torture and espionage.

ii) How is our security forces different from that of the west?

Answer –Our security force just as other security force in the world commit routine violence. But the difference between them and our security force is that our men aren’t accountable. And our country is a primitive one and sees violence as a catharsis.

iii) Why should India thank Canada?

Answer –India should thank Canada for showing us that what actually we are doing. They denied our visa on the grounds of human right violation, torture and espionage. Every security force do this but our men didn’t held accountable. We are deceiving ourselves by thinking we are so righteous but Canada showed us the ugly face of ours.

Unseen 6:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Tomorrow, May 31, is when Delhi’s tongas go off the road. In one stroke, over 200tongawallahs will be left with no option but to discontinue a profession that many of themhave been involved in, for generations. It will also be the end of a way of life for manypeople in old Delhi — used to having the tonga in their midst for commuting around thearea. Or, for those who are dependent on it for their livelihood, like horse-shoe makersand cleaners. Why are tongas being phased out ? Apparently, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) decided last year that the tongas cause congestion and pose a threat to trafficsecurity. Therefore, they have to go.The alternative being provided to the tongawallahs is a tehbazaari or a roadsideshop. This shift in profession is something that most tongawallahs are not too keen about –they feel that the shops are located too far away from the old Delhi area where they live.And neither do most of them have the capital to equip the shops with goods nor do they have the inclination to let go of their horses, which inevitably, they will have to, once their tongas are gone. Is there a solution to their plight? Majority of tongawallahs that I spoke to, are keen on an idea which, if it is implemented, can be a workable solution. It is simply, to let them refurbish their tongas as buggies (carriages) and allow them to cater to tourists in areas like India Gate, Red Fort etc. Indeed, many cities across the world are doing this already – from the ‘Victorias’ operating near the Gateway of India in Mumbai to the chariots rentedout to tourist,s near the Colosseum in Rome to Fiacres, the quaint carriages that carry visitors around the old city of Vienna.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False.

i) Phasing off tongas from the roads of Delhi will not afthect any other profession.

Answer –False

ii) The MCD has offered to rehabilitate with tehbazaari.

Answer – True

iii) Most of the tongawallahs are very keen to give up their horses.

Answer –False

iv) Tongawallahs wish to change their vehicles into buggies for tourists in areas like India Gate, Red Fort etc.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) What will happen if tongas are phased off the roads of Delhi?

Answer –If Tongas phased off the roads of Delhi more than 200 tongawallahswill have to discontinue their generationalprofession. Some people of old Delhi will also be affected by it since it was a medium of commuting for them. Phasing of tongas will also effect the horse-shoe makers and cleaners.

ii) What alternative is provided to the tongawallahs?

Answer –the alternative provided to tongawallahs is a tehbaazari or a shop or a roadside shop. It is provided by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

iii) What solution do the tongawallahs offer?

Answer – Tongawallahs offered that they will refurbish their tongas as carriages and cater the tourists to the places like India gate, red fort etc. It’s done by many places in the world including Gateway of India in Mumbai and Colosseum in Rome.

Unseen 7:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Sixty years after independence, the caste question looms large in our consciousness. Far from being abolished, the caste system is at the center of many debates of the day.Whether it is the larger question of the importance of caste in electoral politics, reservations, whether caste should be part of the census or not or the outrage over the Khap panchayat’s actions, it is clear that caste is an arena of contention even today. There is a part of India which sees caste as an outdated institution that needs to be erased from all our calculations. It sees caste as a blight on modernity, a pathogen that infects us. Caste binds us to a collective rooted in the past and imposes on individuals a destiny that is not of their making. Caste hierarchy makes our future contingent on our birth, and those less fortunately born are condemned to a life more ordinary. What makes this more complex is the accelerated attempt to reverse history by the device of reservations which allocate opportunities purposively to the lower castes. This makes the distaste for caste even greater in the educated middle class, who see it as an instrument created for usespecifically against them. The advantages that have accrued to this group have beeninternalized and neutralized and only the disadvantages loom threateningly, particularly as the lower castes accumulate political power.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False.

i) The uneducated middle class see caste system as an instrument used againstThem.

Answer –True

ii) Even after sixty years of independence caste system remains at the center of many debates.

Answer –True

iii) A part of India wishes to erase caste system.

Answer –True

iv) As the lower class accumulates political power, the disadvantages of caste system loom threateningly.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) How does the cast issue prove its importance on Indian society even sixty years after independence?

Answer –Cast system issue is a center of debate even after sixty years of independence. Because some peoplewishes to erase caste system, some people thinks that it as an instrument used against them, some people uses it as an political tool and some people really needs it. Different ideology and motive plays a large part on the importance of cast issue in India.

ii) Why does a part of India see caste as an outdated institution?

Answer –Some part of India see caste as an outdated institution because they think caste is drawback to the modern society, it binds us to the past and tells us to follow a destiny that isn’t our own making. Caste system makes our life depended on the caste hierarchy we were born.

iii) What happens when caste system is viewed as an accelerated attempt to reverse History?

Answer–To accelerate to reverse History, the reservation system was implicated to provide opportunities for the lower caste. But this system made the distaste for caste even bigger among educated middle class. They think it is used as an instrument against them.

Unseen 8:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :

Auguste Rodin first exhibited his celebrated sculpture ‘’Gates of Hell” in 1900. Monumental in scale Rodin’s masterpiece opened up a new world for art. What VanGogh, Gaugin and Cizanne did for painting, Rodin single-handedly did for sculpture. TheInspirations he drew from are the Renaissance, and above all from Michaelangelo, flows through his own work to fertilize the work of generations to come. Rodin had once stated,“The most remote antiquity is my habitat’. I want to link the past to the present; to return toMemory, judge it and contrive to complete it. Symbols are the guidelines of humanity. TheyAre no lies”. Truth and man’s moral stature, these were Rodin’s concerns. During the dayHe earned his living as a plasterer, at night he worked on his own sculptures.

a) State whether the following are True/False. Write ‘T’ for True and ‘F’ forFalse.

i) Gates of Hell is the name of a painting by Rodin.

Answer – True

ii) According to Rodin modernity is habitat

Answer –False

iii) Rodin earned his living as a plasterer.

Answer –True

iv) “Gates of Hell” was Rodin’s masterpiece.

Answer – True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words.

i) What did Robin say about symbols?

Answer –According to Rodin the symbols are guidelines of humanity.

ii) From where did Rodin derive his inspiration?

Answer –Rodin derived his inspiration from the Renaissance and above all from Michelangelo.

iii) What are Rodin’s primary concerns?

Answer –Rodin’s primary concerns were truth and man’s moral.5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Unseen 9:

As a medium of literary expression, the common language is inadequate. Like the man of letters, the scientist finds it necessary to “give a purer sense to the words of the tribe”. But the purity of scientific language is not the same as the purity of literary language. The aim of the scientist is to say only one thing at a time, and to say it unambiguously and with the greatest possible clarity. To achieve this, he simplifies and jargonizes. In other words, he uses the vocabulary and syntax of common speech in such a way that each phrase is susceptible to only one interpretation; and when the vocabulary and syntax of common speech are too imprecise for his purpose he invites a new technical language, or jargon specially designed to express the limited meaning with which he is professionally concerned.At its most perfectly pure form, scientific language ceases the matter of words and terms into mathematics.The literary artist purifies the language of the tribe in a radically different way. The scientist’s aim, as we have seen, is to say one thing, and only one thing at a time. This, most emphatically, is not the aim of the literary artist. Human life is lived simultaneously on many levels and has many meanings. Literature is a device for reporting the multifarious facts and expressing their various significance. When the literary artist undertakes to give a pure sense to the words of his tribe, he does so with the express purpose of creating a languagecapable of conveying, not the single meaning of some particular science, but the multiple significance of human experience, on its most private as well as on its more public levels.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for True

and ‘F’ for False.

i) Common language is not a self sufficient literary medium.

Answer –True

ii) Scientific language ceases words and terms into mathematics.

Answer –True

iii) The aim of the literary artist and that of the scientist is the same

Answer –False

iv) Human life is lived at many levels with a single significance.

Answer – False

c) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) What is the aim of a scientist?

Answer – The aim of a scientist is to use common language in a such way that could lead into only one interpretation. A scientist simplifies and jargonizes to talk about only one thing at a time which he is professionally concerned.

ii) What does a scientist do to achieve his aim?

Answer – His aim is to talk about only one thing at a time and say in such a way that can lead to only one Interpretation. To do this he simplifies and jargonizes. Scientists ceases word and terms into mathematics.

iii) How does a literary artist use language?

Answer –A literary artist doesn’t use common language as medium of his expression. Heaims to tell multiple facts and their various significance. He wants his words to convey multiple significance of human experience.

Unseen 10:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

It was bound in a rough, red cloth, now smoothened in places with the many caresses it had received over the years. Its name boldly etched in gold over its hard cover. Its spine still holding on firmly to the age old pages, much thumbed, dog-eared, yellowing pages. ItsIllustrations, lithographs by the author himself, and a frayed red ribbon placed between the pages I had read the last time. That is my favorite book.That book startled me off on a journey that inevitably took me to the book alleys that still make the three hundred year old city proud. The fact that my lane meandered through several by-lanes and reached the book alleys in less than fifteen minutes made my trips frequent and my pocket- money meagre. The narrow lanes were lined with small shops with dusty shelves. Their bespectacled shop-owners — bibliophiles in their own right — were always eager to help me find treasures in all shapes and sizes, bound in cloth or leather, some new and some which had changed several hands; others which had corners folded, many in tatters, a few boasting of an autograph or a note written in attention of a loving reader. My prized possession in those days was a book called Sita that was illustrated with paintings by the illustrious Raja Ravi Verma.Nothing gave me more pleasure than the feel of a cold spine against my palm, the weight of the pages, their slight reluctance to open spontaneously, the faint crick at the turn of each page, and the musty smell of the yellowing pages mixed with a slight whiff of the jet-black ink that filled my nostrils as I brought the book close to my face.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False. ( You need not write sentences, write only numbers)

i) The name of the book was written boldly in gold over its hard cover.

Answer – True

ii) The book led the narrator away from the book alleys.

Answer – False

iii) The books led to the gradual decrease of the narrator’s pocket money.

Answer –True

iv) The narrator’s favorite book had illustrations by Raja Ravi Verma.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) How does the narrator describe his favourite book ?

Answer – The narrator’s favorite book, Sita, had illustrations done by famous illustrator Raja Ravi Verma. He described that nothing gave him more pleasure than the feel off the book in his palm. He loved the weight of the pages and their slight reluctance to open, the faint Crick of the pages, the musty smell of yellowish pages and also the whiff of the jet-black ink.

ii) What did the book lead the narrator to ?

Answer –The book led the narrator to the book alleys that still makes the city as old as three hundred years proud. These alley had many lanes and by-lanes. There were many shops side of the lane and they hold many “treasures” as described by the narrator.

iii) How did the book prove to be a source of pleasure to the narrator?

Answer – He loved the weight of the pages and their slight reluctance to open, the faint Crick of the pages, the musty smell of yellowish pages and also the whiff of the jet-black ink.

Unseen 11:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Canada says its denial of visas to Indian security officials on grounds of human rights violations, torture and espionage is a mistake.India was hurt to the quick at the charges. The government issued an angry warning and said it would take retaliatory measures if Canada did not take corrective measures. Now that it has done so, the two countries could resume the pleasantries. But that wouldn’t after the truth. And the truth is that Indian security forces, like most other security forces in the world, routinely commit human rights violations, certainly torture and seriously play at espionage.Now, we can protest our innocence and act righteous. But we’d be deceiving ourselves.The security forces anywhere in the world will do all these. That is their job. But unlike the more civilized west, our men are not accountable. Consider the high number of custodial deaths — 127 last year alone, according to NHRC, or any number of torture cases. This is a primitive country and sees in violence a kind of catharsis. The recent baying for kasab’s public execution, preceded by chopping of limbs is a case in point.So instead of getting hot under the collar, the Indian authorities should be thanking Canada for holding up a mirror to our ugly face. It is through such diplomatic slip-ups that we know how we are really perceived in a world, at least a part of which is seriously giving a shot at evolving ethically driven societies.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ’T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False.

i) Canada accepted its mistake for denying visas to Indian security officials.

Answer –True

ii) Indian security forces never commit any human rights violations.

Answer –False

iii) If India protests its innocence, it would be deceiving ourselves.

Answer –True

iv) India being a primitive country, sees in violence its catharsis.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words: –

i) On what issue did the Indian government and Canada need to make peace?

Answer -Indian government and Canada need to make peace on the issue of visa. Canada denied visa of India due to the human rights violations, torture and espionage.

ii) How is our security forces different from that of the west?

Answer –Our security force just as other security force in the world commit routine violence. But the difference between them and our security force is that our men aren’t accountable. And our country is a primitive one and sees violence as a catharsis.

iii) Why should India thank Canada?

Answer –India should thank Canada for showing us that what actually we are doing. They denied our visa on the grounds of human right violation, torture and espionage. Every security force do this but our men didn’t held accountable. We are deceiving ourselves by thinking we are so righteous but Canada showed us the ugly face of ours.

Unseen 12:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Tomorrow, May 31, is when Delhi’s tongas go off the road. In one stroke, over 200tongawallahs will be left with no option but to discontinue a profession that many of themhave been involved in, for generations. It will also be the end of a way of life for manypeople in old Delhi — used to having the tonga in their midst for commuting around thearea. Or, for those who are dependent on it for their livelihood, like horse-shoe makersand cleaners. Why are tongas being phased out ? Apparently, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) decided last year that the tongas cause congestion and pose a threat to trafficsecurity. Therefore, they have to go.The alternative being provided to the tongawallahs is a tehbazaari or a roadsideshop. This shift in profession is something that most tongawallahs are not too keen about –they feel that the shops are located too far away from the old Delhi area where they live.And neither do most of them have the capital to equip the shops with goods nor do they have the inclination to let go of their horses, which inevitably, they will have to, once their tongas are gone. Is there a solution to their plight? Majority of tongawallahs that I spoke to, are keen on an idea which, if it is implemented, can be a workable solution. It is simply, to let them refurbish their tongas as buggies (carriages) and allow them to cater to tourists in areas like India Gate, Red Fort etc. Indeed, many cities across the world are doing this already – from the ‘Victorias’ operating near the Gateway of India in Mumbai to the chariots rentedout to tourist,s near the Colosseum in Rome to Fiacres, the quaint carriages that carry visitors around the old city of Vienna.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False.

i) Phasing off tongas from the roads of Delhi will not afthect any other profession.

Answer –False

ii) The MCD has offered to rehabilitate with tehbazaari.

Answer – True

iii) Most of the tongawallahs are very keen to give up their horses.

Answer –False

iv) Tongawallahs wish to change their vehicles into buggies for tourists in areas like India Gate, Red Fort etc.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) What will happen if tongas are phased off the roads of Delhi?

Answer –If Tongas phased off the roads of Delhi more than 200 tongawallahswill have to discontinue their generationalprofession. Some people of old Delhi will also be affected by it since it was a medium of commuting for them. Phasing of tongas will also effect the horse-shoe makers and cleaners.

ii) What alternative is provided to the tongawallahs?

Answer –the alternative provided to tongawallahs is a tehbaazari or a shop or a roadside shop. It is provided by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

iii) What solution do the tongawallahs offer?

Answer – Tongawallahs offered that they will refurbish their tongas as carriages and cater the tourists to the places like India gate, red fort etc. It’s done by many places in the world including Gateway of India in Mumbai and Colosseum in Rome.

Unseen 13:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:-

Sixty years after independence, the caste question looms large in our consciousness. Far from being abolished, the caste system is at the center of many debates of the day.Whether it is the larger question of the importance of caste in electoral politics, reservations, whether caste should be part of the census or not or the outrage over the Khap panchayat’s actions, it is clear that caste is an arena of contention even today. There is a part of India which sees caste as an outdated institution that needs to be erased from all our calculations. It sees caste as a blight on modernity, a pathogen that infects us. Caste binds us to a collective rooted in the past and imposes on individuals a destiny that is not of their making. Caste hierarchy makes our future contingent on our birth, and those less fortunately born are condemned to a life more ordinary. What makes this more complex is the accelerated attempt to reverse history by the device of reservations which allocate opportunities purposively to the lower castes. This makes the distaste for caste even greater in the educated middle class, who see it as an instrument created for usespecifically against them. The advantages that have accrued to this group have beeninternalized and neutralized and only the disadvantages loom threateningly, particularly as the lower castes accumulate political power.

a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for TrueAnd ‘F’ for False.

i) The uneducated middle class see caste system as an instrument used againstThem.

Answer –True

ii) Even after sixty years of independence caste system remains at the center of many debates.

Answer –True

iii) A part of India wishes to erase caste system.

Answer –True

iv) As the lower class accumulates political power, the disadvantages of caste system loom threateningly.

Answer –True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:-

i) How does the cast issue prove its importance on Indian society even sixty years after independence?

Answer –Cast system issue is a center of debate even after sixty years of independence. Because some peoplewishes to erase caste system, some people thinks that it as an instrument used against them, some people uses it as an political tool and some people really needs it. Different ideology and motive plays a large part on the importance of cast issue in India.

ii) Why does a part of India see caste as an outdated institution?

Answer –Some part of India see caste as an outdated institution because they think caste is drawback to the modern society, it binds us to the past and tells us to follow a destiny that isn’t our own making. Caste system makes our life depended on the caste hierarchy we were born.

iii) What happens when caste system is viewed as an accelerated attempt to reverse History?

Answer–To accelerate to reverse History, the reservation system was implicated to provide opportunities for the lower caste. But this system made the distaste for caste even bigger among educated middle class. They think it is used as an instrument against them.

Unseen 14:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :

Auguste Rodin first exhibited his celebrated sculpture ‘’Gates of Hell” in 1900. Monumental in scale Rodin’s masterpiece opened up a new world for art. What VanGogh, Gaugin and Cizanne did for painting, Rodin single-handedly did for sculpture. TheInspirations he drew from are the Renaissance, and above all from Michaelangelo, flows through his own work to fertilize the work of generations to come. Rodin had once stated,“The most remote antiquity is my habitat’. I want to link the past to the present; to return toMemory, judge it and contrive to complete it. Symbols are the guidelines of humanity. TheyAre no lies”. Truth and man’s moral stature, these were Rodin’s concerns. During the dayHe earned his living as a plasterer, at night he worked on his own sculptures.

a) State whether the following are True/False. Write ‘T’ for True and ‘F’ forFalse.

i) Gates of Hell is the name of a painting by Rodin.

Answer – True

ii) According to Rodin modernity is habitat

Answer –False

iii) Rodin earned his living as a plasterer.

Answer –True

iv) “Gates of Hell” was Rodin’s masterpiece.

Answer – True

b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words.

i) What did Robin say about symbols?

Answer –According to Rodin the symbols are guidelines of humanity.

ii) From where did Rodin derive his inspiration?

Answer –Rodin derived his inspiration from the Renaissance and above all from Michelangelo.

iii) What are Rodin’s primary concerns?

Answer –Rodin’s primary concerns were truth and man’s moral.

Updated: February 24, 2022 — 12:24 pm

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *