CBSE Class 10 English Communicative Sample Paper 2014 Set N

Q1. Read the following passage carefully: (5 marks)

We enjoy winter only because we have ways of keeping our body warm. But this season is not a comfortable one for many animals. If they did not have enough fur or feathers, they could not have borne the cold. Their body temperature drops in winter and they keep alive by hibernating. Animals that are cold blooded, like frogs, toads, lizards, snakes and turtles sleep through the winter and are stirred into activity only when the environment gets comfortably warm. Warm-blooded animals go through phases of sleep and wakefulness. They sleep through most of the winter, but get up once in a while to feed or find some food, which is usually stored up in their winter home. Hedgehogs, badgers, bears, bats and squirrels are some warm blooded hibernators.

A number of insects die in winter while many others survive the cold by hibernating in the form of eggs, larva or pupa. Adult insects like butterflies, moths, house flies and mosquitoes hibernate in storehouses, holes in the ground, caves or other sheltered places.

Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options from the ones given below:

(a) Human beings can‟t enjoy winter unless:

(i) we didn‟t have ways to keep us warm.

(ii) we don‟t have ways to keep us warm.

(iii) we have ways of keeping our body warm.

(iv) we hibernate like animals.

(b) What would have made winter uncomfortable for animals ?

(i) absence of feathers.

(ii) presence of feathers. 

(iii) extreme cold.

(iv) varying body temperature.

(c) Which of the following animals doesn‟t drop its body temperature ?

(i) frog

(ii) badgers

(iii) lizards

(iv) snakes

(d) Warm blooded hibernators wake up once in a while to :

(i) mate

(ii) drop temperature

(iii) feed

(iv) expose their body to the sun.

(e) Find the word in the passage that mean „not exposed to rain or wind‟.

(i) stirred

(ii) sheltered

(iii) store

(iv) hibernate

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