Unseen Passage with Answers for Class 10 English

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👉 Examination Style Unseen Passage for Class 10 English

In the modern times, with the coming of the motor cars and the aeroplanes, the desert may be said to have been conquered as far as travel is concerned. There are still special dangers for the car, including breakdowns, but an aeroplane can fly over a desert as easily as anywhere else. However the journey is made, wireless messages can be sent out if help is needed.

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Yet in other ways, the desert has not yielded. It is the enemy and never the friend of man. Just as the sea, year after year, gradually eats away the land, so the sand of the desert, blown by the winds, advances yard by yard over the cultivated fields. The remains of the old towns and villages, half - buried in the sand show that men once lived and grew their crops where there is no life today. One of the problems of the present century is how to stop this continuous extension of sandy wastes and save food - producing districts from destruction.

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Word-meanings :

1. breakdown - ख़राब हो जाना 
2. yielded - आत्मसमर्पण किया 
3. cultivated - (खेत) जुते हुए 
4. extension - फैलाव। 

👉 Revision Notes for Class 10 S.St

Questions :

1. What has happened to deserts with the coming of motor cars and aeroplanes ?
2. What does the author think about the desert ?
3. What happens, in the case of a desert, with the blowing of the wind ?
4. What do the remains of the old towns and villages indicate ?
5. What is the problem of the present century ?
6. Find from the passage words which mean the same as : (i) won over (ii) admit defeat

👉 NCERT Solution for Class 10 S.St

Answers :

1. With the coming of the motor cars and the aeroplanes, the desert may be said to have been conquered as far as travel is concerned.
2. The author thinks that the desert is an enemy and it can never be a friend of man.
3. The desert starts swallowing up cultivated lands.
4. The remains of the old towns and villages indicate that once men lived and grew their crops where there is no life today.
5. The problem is how to stop the continuous extension of sandy wastes and save food - producing districts from destruction.
6. (i) conquered (ii) yield

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