Bihar Board Class 10 · English · Matric exam 2027
Bihar Board Class 10 English Question Paper 2023
The board’s 2023 question paper, set E — all 119 questions as printed; 99 objective answers from the board’s own key; full model answers for 3 written questions, how the answer begins for 17 more. Each question names its chapter, where that chapter’s most-asked questions are.
Full marks 100 · Time 3 h 15 min
Section A · Objective questions (99)
How does the koel feel ?
- (A) Satisfied
- (B) Happy
- (C) Restless ✓
- (D) Peaceful
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Who tells her stories again and again ?
- (A) Martha ✓
- (B) Lizie
- (C) Daisy
- (D) Suzia
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
A person has to be exposed to the particular ........................ for some time to become allergic to it.
- (A) symptom
- (B) antigen
- (C) protein
- (D) allergen ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
In 'The Bet', who argued that capital punishment was more humane than imprisonment ?
- (A) Journalists
- (B) Scholars
- (C) Lawyer
- (D) Banker ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The most fancy food item was the ice ........................
- (A) cake
- (B) pudding ✓
- (C) pastry
- (D) chocolate
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
What did the daughter learn from her mother ?
- (A) Her secret of laughter ✓
- (B) Her secret of sadness
- (C) Her secret of pain
- (D) Her secret of jealousy
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Deep inside the ........................ garbage bin, the germs of disease keep on growing.
- (A) grief's ✓
- (B) anger's
- (C) character's
- (D) municipality
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
When asked a question ........................ gives the wrong answer..
- (A) Krishna
- (B) Rama
- (C) Radha ✓
- (D) Vishnu
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The rich man wanted to fill the eighth pot with ........................ .
- (A) coins
- (B) rupees
- (C) gold ✓
- (D) silver
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The Koel is concealed among the ........................ leaves.
- (A) banyan
- (B) mango ✓
- (C) bamboo
- (D) banana
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Who is the writer of the poem "The Sleeping Porter" ?
- (A) Puran Singh
- (B) Laxmi Prasad Devkota ✓
- (C) Alexander Pope
- (D) Vidyapati
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The stories of Martha seemed to be told by her ........................ .
- (A) eyes ✓
- (B) hands
- (C) knees
- (D) legs
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The ........................ slid from both sides of the squirrel's mouth.
- (A) medicine
- (B) water
- (C) milk ✓
- (D) food
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
When the wise woman does not answer, the question is ........................ .
- (A) ignored
- (B) forgotten
- (C) changed
- (D) repeated ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The poet says that ........................ holds out bitter draught to all.
- (A) trees
- (B) groves
- (C) fields
- (D) life ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The happy man gets ........................ for fire from trees in the winter.
- (A) leaves
- (B) fruits
- (C) wood ✓
- (D) clothes
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The poet Walter de la Mare creates an atmosphere of ........................ in his poems.
- (A) mystery ✓
- (B) confusion
- (C) sadness
- (D) secrecy
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The porter is in deep ........................
- (A) slumber ✓
- (B) coma
- (C) thought
- (D) meditation
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Satyajit Ray composed ........................ for his own films.
- (A) script
- (B) music ✓
- (C) songs
- (D) story
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The ........................ people can today hold their heads a little higher in the knowledge that their suffering has been heard and heeded.
- (A) Indian
- (B) Burmese ✓
- (C) British
- (D) Russian
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The old woman knew that she could not help the ........................
- (A) young people ✓
- (B) old people
- (C) mad people
- (D) distracted people
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
What specially distinguishes the culture of India is its ........................ continuity.
- (A) extraordinary
- (B) unique
- (C) strange
- (D) unbroken ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Malasha put down her foot and splashed dirty water on to Akoulya's ........................ .
- (A) hands
- (B) neck
- (C) hair
- (D) frock ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Where can one find health and virtue ?
- (A) Town
- (B) Village ✓
- (C) City
- (D) State
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The prize, I feel sure, is also intended to honour all those engaged in this .................... wherever they may be.
- (A) pursuit
- (B) venture
- (C) struggle ✓
- (D) revolution
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Indian films should steer clear of ....................
- (A) controversies
- (B) incongruities
- (C) inconsistencies ✓
- (D) ambiguity
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Preserving .................... should be a concern for everybody.
- (A) culture
- (B) environment ✓
- (C) school
- (D) house
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Jim's dog had dug up Ms. Greene's ....................
- (A) garden ✓
- (B) backyard
- (C) house
- (D) field
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Hutchinson was sure that he will score the lowest marks in any .................... test.
- (A) driving
- (B) music
- (C) sports
- (D) intelligence ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The men looked at the little girls, and were ....................
- (A) excited
- (B) happy
- (C) sad
- (D) ashamed ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
'Sawarani' and 'Rays' have been written by
- (A) Vidyapati
- (B) Mahadevi Verma
- (C) Puran Singh
- (D) Durga Prasad Panda ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
The narrator's girlfriend in 'Love Defiled' was very
- (A) stupid
- (B) irritating
- (C) jealous
- (D) intelligent ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
According to the author, intelligence tests are designed ....................
- (A) to test the mental speed ✓
- (B) to test the physical speed
- (C) character
- (D) speech
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
.................... complained that the compost smells up the whole street.
- (A) Mr. Williams ✓
- (B) The narrator
- (C) Ms. Greene
- (D) Jim
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Gillu was a tiny ....................
- (A) dog
- (B) cat
- (C) squirrel ✓
- (D) child
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Stories for Indian films have been based on ................. successes.
- (A) Tollywood
- (B) Bollywood
- (C) Hollywood ✓
- (D) Kollywood
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The poet wonders what ................. has fallen on the koel.
- (A) rain
- (B) leaves
- (C) roses
- (D) lightning ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
According to Periasamy Thooran, ................. is endless.
- (A) Anger
- (B) Journey
- (C) Greed ✓
- (D) Life
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
According to the poet, hurt causes ................. .
- (A) pain ✓
- (B) problems
- (C) wound
- (D) sadness
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Radha's ................. make a report to Lord Krishna.
- (A) enemies
- (B) friends ✓
- (C) brothers
- (D) sisters
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
What slides softly away ?
- (A) Patience
- (B) Wealth
- (C) Happiness
- (D) Years ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
According to the poet who made the town ?
- (A) God
- (B) Government
- (C) Man ✓
- (D) Angels
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The town people do not enjoy any real ................. .
- (A) drink
- (B) food
- (C) fun
- (D) scenery ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
When they banish hope, Radha's friends cease to
- (A) exist
- (B) ease ✓
- (C) cry
- (D) fight
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Slow thinkers have a disadvantage when it comes to getting a .......
- (A) car
- (B) factory
- (C) living ✓
- (D) holiday
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Jim asked Ms. Greene to keep the old papers for the school .........
- (A) Children
- (B) Pick up ✓
- (C) Function
- (D) Library
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Gillu always wanted to catch .....................
- (A) the narrator's dress
- (B) the insects
- (C) the narrator's attention ✓
- (D) the flowers
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
................ is the raw material of cinema.
- (A) Studio
- (B) Camera
- (C) Life ✓
- (D) Hall
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
The people of Burma have sacrificed their well-being, freedom and lives in the pursuit of a ................. Burma.
- (A) democratic ✓
- (B) autocratic
- (C) federal
- (D) happy
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
The old woman is ................. but wise.
- (A) ill
- (B) deaf
- (C) blind ✓
- (D) ugly
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Akoulya and Malasha took off their shoes and .................
- (A) slippers
- (B) socks
- (C) sandals
- (D) stockings ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
There were ................. even before the Aryan invasion.
- (A) people
- (B) invaders ✓
- (C) plunderers
- (D) crusaders
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Only ................. can enable one to see without pictures.
- (A) music
- (B) language ✓
- (C) sports
- (D) literature
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The Aryan invasion led to fresh infusion of the ................. with the new.
- (A) good
- (B) old ✓
- (C) bad
- (D) excellent
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The 'offended nightingale is ...................,'
- (A) confused
- (B) mute ✓
- (C) sad
- (D) happy
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
What do the trees yield to a person in summer ?
- (A) wood
- (B) fire
- (C) fruit
- (D) shade ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
A poem addressed to a person or an object is ................... .
- (A) Satire
- (B) Ode ✓
- (C) Ballad
- (D) Elegy
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
What happens when we touch a polythene bag ?
- (A) It shrinks
- (B) It tears
- (C) It decomposes
- (D) It makes a squeaky noise ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Why is Radha hurt ?
- (A) She is missing her brother
- (B) She is missing her lover ✓
- (C) She is missing her parents
- (D) She is missing her children
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
What did the man demand from the tree ?
- (A) A pot of gold ✓
- (B) A pot of silver
- (C) A pot of bronze
- (D) A pot of copper
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Direction (61-67) : Choose the most suitable preposition : Smita is afraid ................... lizards.
- (A) from
- (B) of ✓
- (C) in
- (D) about
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
I am jealous ................... them.
- (A) of ✓
- (B) from
- (C) to
- (D) at
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Suresh confided ................... me.
- (A) about
- (B) in ✓
- (C) on
- (D) at
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
They decided ................... the black dress.
- (A) in
- (B) on ✓
- (C) by
- (D) at
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Ram is interested ................... geography.
- (A) in ✓
- (B) at
- (C) of
- (D) for
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
He is averse ....................... smoking.
- (A) on
- (B) to ✓
- (C) of
- (D) about
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
It was nice ....................... you to come.
- (A) in
- (B) on
- (C) of ✓
- (D) by
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Direction (68-71) : Choose the correct option : Synonym of 'Empathy' is
- (A) Sympathy ✓
- (B) Warmth
- (C) Apathy
- (D) Appreciation
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Synonym of 'Chaste' is
- (A) Pure ✓
- (B) Divine
- (C) Liberated
- (D) Agitated
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Antonym of 'Precious' is
- (A) Rare
- (B) Simple
- (C) Cheap ✓
- (D) Costly
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Antonym of 'Instant' is
- (A) Gradual ✓
- (B) Prompt
- (C) Diverse
- (D) Similar
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Active voice of : "The message will be passed by Rahul." is
- (A) Rahul will pass the message ✓
- (B) Passing the message by Rahul
- (C) Message be passed by Rahul
- (D) Rahul is passing the message
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Active voice of : 'I was hurt deeply by his comment.' is
- (A) Deep his comment hurted me
- (B) His comment hurt me deeply ✓
- (C) Hurted me his comment deeply
- (D) Me was hurt deeply by his comment
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Active voice of : 'The watch was stolen by him.' is
- (A) Watch is stolen
- (B) Steal his watch him
- (C) He stole the watch ✓
- (D) He stole that watch
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Passive voice of : 'Who can count the stars in the sky ?' is
- (A) By whom can the stars in the sky be counted ? ✓
- (B) By whom can be stars in the sky counted ?
- (C) By whom could the stars in the sky be counted ?
- (D) By whom could the stars be counted in the sky ?
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Passive voice of : 'I don't know his whereabouts.' is
- (A) His whereabouts are not known to me . ✓
- (B) No one knows his whereabouts
- (C) He whereabout is not knowing to me
- (D) His whereabouts had not been known to me
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Passive voice of : 'Do you imitate others ?' is
- (A) Are others being imitated by you ?
- (B) Are others imitated by you ? ✓
- (C) Have others being imitated by you ?
- (D) Were others being imitated by you ?
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Indirect speech of : He said to me, "Could you please repeat the question ?" is
- (A) He requested if I could repeat the question please ?
- (B) He requested to please repeating the question
- (C) He requested me to repeat the question ✓
- (D) He requesting if I could repeat the question
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Direct speech of : The teacher congratulated Satish and wished him success in life. is
- (A) The teacher said to Satish, "Congratulations ! Wish you success in life !" ✓
- (B) The teacher asked Satish, "Congratulations ! Wished you more success in life."
- (C) The teacher exclaimed to Satish, "Congratulations ! Get more success in life."
- (D) The teacher ordered to Satish, "Congratulations ! Wishing you success in life."
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Indirect speech of : He told her, "I want to meet your father." is
- (A) He told her that she wanted to meet his father
- (B) He told her that he wanted to meet her father ✓
- (C) He told her that I want to meet your father
- (D) He told her that he wanted to meet your father
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Direct speech of : I asked him why he was working so hard. is
- (A) I said to him, "Why are you working so hard ?" ✓
- (B) I enquired, "Why you work so hard ?"
- (C) I asked, "Why you were working so hard ?"
- (D) I said, "You work so hard, why ?"
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Direct speech of : He exclaimed that it was a very cold day. is
- (A) He says, "What is a cold day !"
- (B) He said, "What a cold day it is !" ✓
- (C) He saying, "It is a cold day !"
- (D) He is saying, "What cold day it is !"
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Direct speech of : The captain commanded his men to stand at ease. is
- (A) The captain will say, "Do stand at ease."
- (B) The captain says, "Stand at ease please."
- (C) The captain said to his men, "Stand at ease." ✓
- (D) The captain had said, "Do stand at ease please."
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Direction ( 84-86 ) : Choose the most suitable translation :
- (A) The naughty boys will be expelled from the school ✓
- (B) The naughty boy expel from the school
- (C) Boys naughty are expelled in the school
- (D) School expels naughty boys
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
कुत्तों को पीटा गया ।
- (A) The dogs beat up
- (B) The dogs were beaten up ✓
- (C) Beat the dogs
- (D) The dogs beaten
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
क्या वह स्टेशन नहीं पहुँच चुका होगा ?
- (A) He not reached station ?
- (B) Have he reached station not ?
- (C) Will he not have reached station ? ✓
- (D) Reached station is he not ?
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Direction ( 87-93 ) : Choose the correct form of verb : I ..................... a good film yesterday.
- (A) see
- (B) saw ✓
- (C) seen
- (D) seeing
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
The girl was ..................... when I entered the room.
- (A) sing
- (B) sang
- (C) sung
- (D) singing ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Are you ..................... to go to America ?
- (A) plan.
- (B) planning ✓
- (C) plans
- (D) planned
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
He twisted his ankle while he was ..................... .
- (A) jumping ✓
- (B) jump
- (C) jumped
- (D) has jumped
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
He was ..................... the journal.
- (A) read
- (B) reading ✓
- (C) will read
- (D) had read
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
He always .................... to the supermarket alone.
- (A) going
- (B) go
- (C) goes ✓
- (D) will go
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
She .................... in school all day.
- (A) has been ✓
- (B) been
- (C) be
- (D) being
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Direction ( 94-100 ) : Choose the correct spelt word :
- (A) Apparent ✓
- (B) Apperent
- (C) Aparent
- (D) Aparrent
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Choose the correct spelt word :
- (A) Sufficient ✓
- (B) Sificient
- (C) Suficient
- (D) Sueficent
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Choose the correct spelt word :
- (A) Questionaier
- (B) Questionnair
- (C) Questionnaire ✓
- (D) Quistionere
Answer (the board’s key): (C)
Choose the correct spelt word :
- (A) Humoras
- (B) Humorous ✓
- (C) Himerious
- (D) Humeros
Answer (the board’s key): (B)
Choose the correct spelt word :
- (A) Privilege ✓
- (B) Privillage
- (C) Privleg
- (D) Privileg
Answer (the board’s key): (A)
Choose the correct spelt word :
- (A) Convence
- (B) Convience
- (C) Conevence
- (D) Convince ✓
Answer (the board’s key): (D)
Section B · Written questions (20)
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : A reason why students at school read books is to please their teacher. A number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three may genuinely like it, and be grateful to the teacher. However, many will not honestly like it, but are unable to say so. This does a great deal of harm to them. They would put off the idea of reading the book or they will feel guilty about it. Only when students read books voluntarily for their own pleasure, they can get knowledge and be benefitted. Questions : i) Why do many students buy and read books at school ? (1) ii) Why would some be grateful to the teacher ? (2) iii) Why would some people feel guilty ? (2) iv) When can students be benefitted ? (2) OR An intellectual is one who is enlightened. Being an enlightened person, he has to give light to others who are in need of it. In every society we find intellectuals who have a great responsibility towards the society. They have been guiding humanity to the path of felicity and amity. The intellectuals should come out of their ivory tower and try to elevate others to their level. In this way the society would be benefitted largely. Intellectuals have a responsibility towards the society whereby they should inspire people and ensure collective upliftment of the society. Questions : i) Who is an intellectual ? (1) ii) What should an enlightened person do ? (2) iii) Why should an intellectual come out of his ivory tower ? (2) iv) What is the responsibility of intellectuals towards the society ? (2)
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Model answer · Unseen passage, reading books
- 1.Many students buy and read books at school to please their teacher. (OR) An intellectual is one who is enlightened.1 mark
- 2.Two or three students genuinely like the book the teacher has suggested, so they are grateful to the teacher for it. (OR) An enlightened person has to give light to others who are in need of it and guide them to the path of felicity and amity.2 marks
- 3.Many students do not honestly like the book but are unable to say so to the teacher. So they either put off reading it or feel guilty about it. (OR) An intellectual should come out of his ivory tower and try to elevate others to his level, because in this way the society would be benefitted largely.2 marks
- 4.Students can be benefitted only when they read books voluntarily, for their own pleasure; then they get knowledge and gain from it. (OR) Intellectuals have a responsibility to inspire people and to ensure the collective upliftment of the society.2 marks
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : Exports are done of either raw materials or manufactured goods. Raw materials are products of the land, such as cotton, timber or rubber. Some raw materials such as iron come from mines. These raw materials are often exported by the countries that they produce to other countries where they are made into manufactured goods. A country which produces manufactured goods is known as an industrialised country. Questions : i) What are the two kinds of things exported ? (1) ii) What are 'raw materials' ? (2) iii) Where are these raw materials sent and why ? (2) iv) What is an 'industrialised country' ? (2) OR Faith is a powerful medicine. Why does faith appear to have such a powerful effect ? Experts offer several possible explanations. Doing religious services guarantee contact with the people. Faith gives a sense of hope and controls our stress. Commitment to a system of beliefs enables people to better handle traumatic illness, suffering and loss. Questions : i) Why is faith effective ? (1) ii) What does faith give us ? (2) iii) What happens when we do religious services ? (2) iv) What does commitment to a system of beliefs enable us to do ? (2)
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Model answer · unseen passage, exports
- 1.The two kinds of things exported are raw materials and manufactured goods. (OR) Faith is effective because it is a powerful medicine: it gives us a sense of hope and controls our stress.1 mark
- 2.Raw materials are products of the land, such as cotton, timber or rubber. Some raw materials, such as iron, come from mines. (OR) Faith gives us a sense of hope and controls our stress.2 marks
- 3.Raw materials are often sent by the countries that produce them to other countries, where they are made into manufactured goods. (OR) Doing religious services guarantees contact with the people, so we do not feel alone.2 marks
- 4.A country which produces manufactured goods is known as an industrialised country. (OR) Commitment to a system of beliefs enables us to better handle traumatic illness, suffering and loss.2 marks
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Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow : I live in a town, in a street It's crowded with traffic, and feet. There are buses and motors, and trams. I wish there were meadows and lambs. The houses all wait in a row. There is smoke everywhere I go. The First Day of school I've got a brand-new lunch box. My shoes are shiny clean I've got a cool, new book bag. And a pencil box that's green. But I don't know my teacher. Or where my desk will be I don't know if I'll like the kids. Or if they'll play with me. i) Where does the poet live ? ii) What does the poet wish ? iii) What does the poet see all around ? (i) What does the poet has with him ? (ii) What would be the colour of his pencil box ? (iii) What does the speaker not know on the first day ?
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Model answer · unseen poem comprehension
- 1.(i) The poet lives in a town, in a street. The street is crowded with traffic and feet.1 mark
- 2.(ii) The poet wishes there were meadows and lambs in place of the crowded town street.1 mark
- 3.(iii) The poet sees buses, motors and trams all around. The houses stand in a row, and there is smoke everywhere he goes.1 mark
- 4.(i) The poet has a brand-new lunch box, shiny clean shoes, a cool new book bag and a green pencil box.1 mark
- 5.(ii) The colour of his pencil box would be green. It is new, like his lunch box, book bag and shoes.1 mark
- 6.(iii) On the first day, the speaker does not know his teacher or where his desk will be. He also does not know if he will like the kids or if they will play with him.1 mark
- Answer each question in a full sentence, and take the words from the poem, such as "meadows and lambs" and "smoke everywhere".
- When a question asks what the poet has, name every item the poem lists: lunch box, shoes, book bag and pencil box.
- For the last question, write all the things the speaker does not know: his teacher, where his desk will be, if he will like the kids and if they will play with him.
Marks split from a structure derived from past papers (checked twice); not Bihar Board’s official scheme
What is Jim's advice to Mr. Williams ?
How the model answer begins
1. Jim advises Mr. Williams not to burn the leaves in his backyard because burning them is bad for the air and bad for ecology.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →Why does the writer call the two little girls, "Dear little souls" ?
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1. Akoulya's old grandmother calls them 'dear little souls' because the two girls had already forgotten their quarrel and were playing happily together again, while their elders were still fighting over them.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →How does Humayun define culture ?
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1. Humayun Kabir defines culture as a tolerant and rational outlook towards life and the environment.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →What made the young people laugh ?
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1. In 'Once Upon a Time', the young people asked the blind old woman, "Is the bird I am holding living or dead?" She did not answer, and her long silence made them laugh.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →What is the mother searching for ?
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1. In the poem 'The Sleeping Porter', the mother is searching for nettles and vines.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →Does the happy man realise that time is passing ?
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1. No, the happy man does not realise that time is passing. He is blest, who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, which shows that he is unaware of the passage of time.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →How did the rich man work ?
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1. In 'The Empty Heart', the rich man, driven mad by the demon Desire to fill the eighth half-full pot of gold, worked day and night: he rose before cock-crow and worked till past midnight.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →How did the children feel when Martha's story progressed ?
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1. As Martha's story progressed, the children were completely absorbed and spellbound by it. They lolled on their elbows and stared at ease, listening to her voice and her grave small lovely head, which seemed to carry…
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →What did the lawyer say about capital punishment ?
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1. The young lawyer said that the death sentence and imprisonment for life are equally immoral.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →What was Mr. Gessler's complaint against big firms ?
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1. Mr. Gessler complained that big firms attract customers through advertisements but do not pay attention to quality. He felt that big firms got customers only by advertisement and not by work, and that they were taking…
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 60-70 words : i) Water cycle ii) Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav iii) A Rainy Day iv) A Scene at Bus-stand v) The early bird catches the worm.
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1. The title and opening line state the main idea: early rising brings success and benefits.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →You are Akshay, the Secretary of the Debating Society. Write a notice in about 60-70 words inviting entry for inter-class debating competition.
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1. The top of the notice has the institution name 'XYZ High School' and the word 'NOTICE' written clearly, enclosed in a box.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →Write a report on your visit to the flood affected area.
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1. The title 'A Visit to the Flood-Affected Area' and the date line 'Date: ........' are written at the top before the body begins.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →Write an application to the Principal of your school requesting him for online classes.
How the model answer begins
1. The piece opens with 'To, The Principal' followed by the school name, address and a blank date line, giving the correct formal address.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →Write a letter to your married sister to come over for the Rakhi festival.
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1. The sender's address block and the blank date line 'Date: ........' are written at the top before the salutation.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →You are Vinay. Write a speech in about 60-70 words on 'Precautions During Rainy Season'.
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1. The speech opens with 'Respected Principal, teachers and my dear friends' and introduces the topic, with the speaker naming himself as Vinay.
The full answer from Medha Ma’am →You are Sakshi: Write a message in about 30-40 words to your teacher regarding your absence from the class due to the ongoing practice for the cultural festival.
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1. The piece opens with the word 'Message' followed by the date and time line, giving the required format.
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