Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std. English Unit Test Marks: 15
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Prose: - Science and Hope of Survival
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Four alternatives are given below for the each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer:- (2 x 1 = 2)
1. Everyone on the Earth lived under the threat of annihilation by .........
(a) Nuclear Weapons ` (b) Super Powers
(c) Natural Calamities (d) Earthquakes
2. The three super powers were willing to put a ban on…………..
(a) nuclear weapon test (b) nuclear war
(c) possession of ammunition (d) cold war
II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each:- (2 x 2 = 4)
3. Name the three nations, which possessed nuclear weapons. Who had summoned the writer Keillis Borok to attend the meeting?
4. Why did the U.K, U.S.S.R AND U.S.A meet in Geneva?
III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:- (2 x 3 = 6)
5. ‘The three nuclear powers were willing to come to an agreement’.
(a) Who were the three nuclear powers?
(b) What was the agreement?
6. ‘At that time every man and child on the Earth lived under the threat of annihilation’?
(a) What caused this thread?
(b) Why did everyone live under the threat?
IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each:- (1 x 3 = 3)
7. What lessons did the writer learn at the Geneva Summit?
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Academic Year: - 2017 – 18
10th Std. English Unit Test Marks: 15
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Prose: - Science and Hope of Survival
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Key Answers
I. Four alternatives are given below for the each of the following questions/ incomplete statements. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer: - (2 x 1 = 2)
1. (a) Nuclear Weapons
2. (a) nuclear weapon test
II. Answer the following question in 1 or 2 sentences each: - (2 x 2 = 4)
3. Soviet Union, United Kingdom and United States were the three nations, which possessed nuclear weapons. Summon came from the President of Russian Academy of Sciences.
4. The three nuclear powers were willing to come to an agreement, putting a ban on the nuclear weapon test. A problem arose that if any one of them violated the agreement, how could it be detected? So all technical experts were summoned to solve the problem.
III. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: - (2 x 3 = 6)
5. (a) Soviet union, united states and united kingdom.
(b) The three nuclear powers were willing to come to an agreement putting a ban on the nuclear weapon test.
6. (a) Nuclear weapons
(b) Because each super power nation seemed stronger than the other as far as nuclear weapons were concerned.
IV. Answer the following question in 4 or 5 sentences each: - (1 x 3 = 3)
7. The writer learnt many things at the Geneva Summit. The first was that there were people all around the world who think and interact the way he did. Secondly, he learnt that with those people with the same interests around him, he could never feel lonely abroad. Thirdly, he realized that science is our indispensable guardian and caretaker
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