A Plea for India

TS 10th Class English 20th Lesson Questions and Answers A Plea for India

Section - B : Vocabulary & Grammar (Q.13 - 17):

Question(A).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

I was born into a middle - class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras State.
1. My father, Jainulabdeen, neither much formal education nor much wealth; despite these disadvantages, he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit
2. He had ideal helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma
3. I do not the exact number of people she fed every day. But I am quite certain that far more outsiders ate with us than all the members of our own family put together
4. I was one of the children - a short boy with rather looks, born to tall and handsome parents. We lived in our ancestral house, which was built in the middle of the nineteenth century
5. It was a fairly,large house , made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram. My austere father used to avoid all inessential comforts and luxuries. However, all necessities were provided for, in terms of food, medicine or clothes. In fact, I would say mine was a very secure childhood, both materially and emotionally

Answer:

1. My father, jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education nor much wealth
2. He had an ideal helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma
3. I do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day
4. I was one of the children - a short boy with rather undistlnguShed looks, born to tall and handsome parents
5. It was a fairly large pucca house, made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram

Question(B).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

Our area, being isolated, was completely unaffected by the War.
1. But soon India forced to join the Allied Forces and something like a state of emergency was declared
2. The first casualty came in the form of the suspend of the train halt at Rameswaram station
3. The newspapers now had to be bundle and thrown out from the moving train on the Rameswaram Road between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi
4. That forced my cousin Samsuddin, distributed newspapers in Rameswaram, to look for a helping hand to catch the bundles and, as if naturally, I filled the slot.
5. Samsuddin helped me to earning my first wages

Answer:

1. India was forced to Join
2. in the form of the suspension of the train halt
3. had to be bundled
4. Samsuddin, who distributed
5. helped me earn my first wages

Question©.
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. He bluntly asked the teacher either to apologize or quit the school and the island
2. Not only did the teacher regret his behaviour and the strong sense of conviction Lakshmana Sastry conveyed ultimately reformed this young teacher
3. On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of difference social groups
4. However, my science teacher Sivasubramania Iyer, though an orthodox Brahmin with a very conservation wife, was something of a rebel
5. He did his best to break social barriers so that people from varying backgrounds could mingle easy

Answer:

1. teacher to either apologize
2. behaviour but the strong sense
3. of different social groups
4. a very conservative wife
5. could mingle easily

Question(D).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. We, Indians, are proud to a strong nation, Our roots, we declare, cannot be shaken
2. Then why these fights, which leave us in plight
3. Irrespective of our region, Forget the castes, which makes us our charm
4. Lets the selfish call of each region, and listen for once to the call of the nation
5. do we spend our time bickering when so many tasks need finishing

Answer:

1. We, Indians, are proud to be strong nation, our roots, we declare cannot be shaken
2. Then why these fights, which leave us in por plight
3. Irrespective of our region, forget the castes, which makes us Ia&e our charm
4. Lets ignare the selfish call of each region, and listen for once to the call of the nation
5. Why do we spend our time bickering when so many tasks need finishing

Question?.
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. Dont we have better things to do than indulge in problems anew
2. Is all this violence needed with the people being
3. will return this only son whom she loves a ton
4. Who will track his brother whose ashes he is still to gather? Where has all the love gone
5. which in the heart of all There is no reason to be proud, and be on high cloud

Answer:

1. Dont we have better things to do than indulge in creating problems anew
2. Is all this violence needed with the people being cheated
3. Who will return this only son whom she loves a ton
4. Who will bring back his brother whose ashes is still to gather
5. which resided in the heart of all

Question(F).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. India has most races, castes, sub-castes, nationalities and communities, but the heart of India is one
2. We are all hairs to a common and rich culture
3. Our cultural heritage consists our art and literature as they flourished centuries ago
4. Our cultural heritage serves as a bond of unity between people of different faiths and creeds
5. The streams of different cultures have flow into our subcontinent to make us what we are and what we will be

Answer:

1. India has many races
2. We are all heirs
3. heritage consists of our art
4. as a bond of unity
5. cultures have flowed

Question(G).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. A significant move to project Indias cultural unity has the holding of Festivals oflndia in various parts of the world
2. The West is fast inclining towards our spiritual values include meditation and contemplation, charity and love, universal brotherhood and fear of God, piety and unselfishness, control of passions and peace of mind
3. Our cultural unity is farther exemplified by the temples of the South and of Khajuraho, the caves of Ajanta and Ellora, which areshining examples of Indias proficiency in sculpture and architecture
4. Our music has come enjoy worldwide popularity
5. Indian classical music, like the Indian dances, are built on the concept of ragas and talas

Answer:

1. has been the holding
2. spiritual values which include
3. cultural unity is further exemplified
4. Our music has come to enjoy
5. Indian dances, is built on

Question(H).
Read the following passage given below. Five sentences in the passage are numbered from 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct them and rewrite the sentences in your answer booklet?

1. Each raga regarded appropriate to a certain time of the day or the night.
2. There are believe to about 250 ragas in common use in the North as well as in the South.
3. In the modern times, people like Ravi Shankar have taken Indian music to the West and thus bridged the gap among the music of the East and the West
4. Other significance features of Indias cultural unity are the variety, colour and the emotional richness of its dances.
5. The country abounds in tribal dances, old-dances but classical dances of great virtuosity

Answer:

1. Each raga is regarded
2. There are believed to be about 250 ragas
3. the gap between the music
4. Other signìficant features
5. old-dances as well as (and) classical dances

(Q.18 - 22):

Question(A).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:wealth, interesting, so, neither, innate, popularity, ideal, spirit

My father, Jainulabdeen had neither
1.  much formal education nor much wealth
2. ; despite these disadvantages, he possessed great innate
3. wisdom and a true generosity of spirit
4. . He had an ideal
5.  helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma

Question(B).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:social, happy, realise, educational, sad, stomach, by, with, go

The new teacher could not stomach
1.  a Hindu priests son sitting with
2.  a Muslim boy. In accordance with our social
3.  ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go
4. and sit on the back bench. I felt very sad
5. , and so did Ramanadha Sastry

Question©.
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:longing, happiness, through, my, love, out of, your; are

"Your children are not your
1.  children. They are
2.  the sons and daughters of Lifes longing
3. for itself. They come through
4. you but not from you. You may give them your love
5.  but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts."

Question(D).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:removed, many, strong, shaken, destroy, region, forget

We, Indians, are proud to be a strong
1.  nation, our roots, we declare, cannot be shaken
2. . Then why these fights, which leave us in poor plight? Irrespective of our region, forget
3. the castes, which makes us lose our charm. Lets ignore the selfish call of each region
4. and listen for once to the call of the nation. Why do we spend our time bickering when so many
5.  tasks need finishing

Question?.
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:collect, do, on, gather, will return, proud, boast

Dont we have better things to do
1. than indulge in creating problems a new? Is all this violence needed with the people being cheated? Who return
2.  this only son whom she loves a ton? Who will bring back his brother whose ashes he is still to gather
3.  ? Where has all the love gone which resided in the heart of all? There is no reason to be proud
4. , and be on
5.  high cloud

Question(F).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:sought, a, achieve, are, beliefs

India, a country of many ethnic groups, is a
1.  land of myriad languages, a veritable babel of tongues and numerous modes of apparel. For the most part, the continental dimensions of the country account for these variations and diversities. Besides, there are
2.  several religions, sects and beliefs
3. . But there are certain common links and uniting bonds that people have sought
4.  to develop in order to achieve
5.  the eminently desirable goal of unity amidst diversity

Question(G).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:the, experience, common, justify, has

From his long and first-hand experienced
1.  in India, Vincent A. Smith says that the civilisation of India" has
2.  many features which differentiate it from that of the other regions of the
3.  world, while they are common
4.  to the whole country in degree sufficient to justify
5.  its treatment as a unity in the history of human, social and intellectual development."

Question(H).
Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer booklet?

Answer:come, as, recognised, but, understood

India has one hundred and fifty dialects, and twenty two recognised
1.  regional languages, but
2. Hindi, like English, has cone
3.  to stay as the lingua franca of our nation. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Mumbai to Nagaland, Hindi is now understood
4.  and is recognised as
5.  the national language of India

(Q. 23 - 27): (A) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

I was born into a middle - class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras State. My father, Jainulabdeen, had either 
1. much formal education nor much wealth; despite these disadvantages, he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit. He had an ideal helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma. I do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day, but I am quite certain 
2. that far more outsiders ate with us than all.the members of our own family put together. I was one of the children - a short boy with rather undistinguished looks, born to tall and handsome parents. We lived
3. in our ancestral house, which was built in the middle of the nineteenth century. It was a fairly large pucca house made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram. My austere
4.  father used to avoid all inessential comforts and luxuries. However, all necessities were provided
5.  for, in terms of food, medicine or clothes. In fact, I would say mine was a very secure childhood, both materially and emotionally

Question 23.
Use the right word in the place of the word underlined?

Answer: Neither

Question 24.
What is the opposite of the word underlined?

Answer: doubtful

Question 25.
Name the part of speech of the underlined?

Answer: verb

Question 26.
What is the synonym of the word austere ?

Answer: serve, stern, strict

Question 27.
Name the voice of the underlined words ?

Answer: passive voice

(B) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

One day when I am
1.  in the fifth standard at the Rameswaram Elementary School, a new teacher came to our class. I used to wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim
2. , and I always sat in the front row next to Ramanadha sastry, who wore the sacred thread. The new teacher could not stomach
3.  a Hindu priests son sitting with a Muslim boy. In accordance with our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the back bench. I felt very sad, and so did Ramanadha Sastry. He looked utterly downcast
4.  as I shifted to my seat in the last row. The image of him weeping when I shifted to the last row left
5.  a lasting impression on me

Question 23.
Write the correct form of the verb (here-be-form)?

Answer: was

Question 24.
Name the part of speech of the underlined word?

Answer: Was

Question 25.
Write the synonym of the word underlined?

Answer: tolerate; endure

Question 26.
What is the antonym of the word downcast ?

Answer: glad or happy

Question 27.
Write other forms of the word underlined ?

Answer: leave - left - left

(C) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid
1.  in terms of the segregation
2.  of different social groups. However, my science teacher Sivasubramania Iyer, though an orthodox
3.  Brahmin with a very conservative
4.  wife, was something of a rebel. He did his best to break social barriers so that people from varying
5.  backgrounds could mingle easily. He used hours with me and would say, "Kalam, I want you to develop so that you are on par with the highly educated people of the big cities."

Question 23.
Give the antonym of the word?

Answer: flexible

Question 24.
What is meant by the word underlined ?

Answer: isolation/separation

Question 25.
What is the antonym of the word?

Answer: heterodox

Question 26.
Write the synonym of the word?

Answer: holding traditional values

Question 27.
Replace the word with a suitable one?

Answer: different

(D) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

He told me as if thinking aloud, "Abul! I know you have to go away to grow. Does the seagull not fly across the sun, alone
1.  and without a nest?." He quoted
2.  Khalil Gibran to my hesitant
3.  mother, "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Lifes longing for itself. They come through
4.  you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts
5. for they have their own thoughts."

Question 23.
Write the other form of the underlined?

Answer: lonely

Question 24.
What is the meaning of the word ?

Answer: recited/repeated

Question 25.
Write the antonym of the underlined?

Answer: confident

Question 26.
What is the part of speech of underlined ?

Answer: preposition

Question 27.
Write other form of the underlined word.?

Answer: thoughtful

(E) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

India, a country of many ethnic
1.  groups, is a land of myriad languages, a veritable babel of tongues and numerously
2.  modes of apparel. For the most part, the continental dimnesions of the country account for these variations and deversities. Besides, there are several religions, sects and beliefs. But there are certain common links and uniting bonds that people have sough to develop in order to achieve the eminently desirable goal of unity among
3. diversity. It is true that superficial observers are likely to be bewildered by the astonishing variety of Indian life. They fail to invent
4.  the one in many, the individual in the aggregate; the simple in the composite. With them the whole is lost in its parts. What is needed is the superior
5.  interpretation, synthesis of the power of the mind that can give rise to a vision of thee whole

Question 23.
Write word that gives similar meaning of the underlined word?

Answer: cultural

Question 24.
Write the correct form of the word underlined?

Answer: numerous

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

Answer: amidst

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

Answer: discover

Question 27.
Write the word that opposite in meaning of the underlined?

Answer: inferior

(F) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet. (June 2018)

India has many races, castes, subcastes, nationalities and communities, but the heart of India is one. We are all heirs to a common and rich culture. Our cultural heritage serves as a bond of unity
1.  between people of a wide varity of
2.  faiths and creeds. There was
3.  Dravidians in India before the come
4.  of the Aryans and Hinduism is a blend
5.  of the cultures of the North and the South

Question 23.
Write the antonym of the underlined word?

Answer: diversity/disunity

Question 24.
Replace the underlined phrase with a suitable word?

Answer: different/many/divergent/several/multiple

Question 25.
Replace the underlined word with a correct one?

Answer: were

Question 26.
Write the correct form of the underlined word?

Answer: coming

Question 27.
Write the synonym of the underlined word?

Answer: combination/mixture/mix

(G) Some words/sentences in the following passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed in your answer booklet

The streams of difference
1.  cultures have flowed into our subcontinent to make us what, we are and what we will be. There were Dravidians in India before the coming of the Aryans and Hinduism is a blend of the cultures of the North and a
2. south. India has one hundred and fifty dialects
3.  and twenty two recognised regional
4.  languages, but Hindi, like English, has come to stay as the lingua franca of our nation. From Kashmir to Kanaya kumari and from Mumbai to Nagaland, Hindi is now understood and is recognised as the nation
5.  language of India

Question 23.
Write the correct form of the word underlined that fits in the context?

Answer: difference

Question 24.
Replace the underlined word with the correct article?

Answer: the

Question 25.
Write the word that has the similar meaning of the underlined word?

Answer: languages

Question 26.
Write the word that is opposite in meaning of the underlined word?Answer: national

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with the correct form?

Answer: national

(H) Other 

significant
1.  features of Indias cultural unity
2.  are the variety, colour and the emotion
3.  richness of its dances. The country abounds in tribal dances, old- dances as well as classical dances of great virtuosity. Throughout India, dance is regarded not merely as a
4.  accompaniment to social inter-course,but also as a mode of aesthetic expression blit
5.  spiritual realization

Question 23.
Write the word that has the similar meaning of the underlined word?

Answer: important

Question 24.
Write the opposite word of the underlined one?

Answer: disagreement

Question 25.
Write the suitable form of the underlined word?

Answer: emotional

Question 26.
Replace the underlined word with the correct article?

Answer: an

Question 27.
Replace the underlined word with a suitable one?

Answer: and