The pace for living all questions answers class 10th english

A. Work in small groups and do the following:

1. Talk to your friends and seek their opinion on the life-style of the modern youth, Ask them:

1. (i) Do you find life leisurely or fast
2. (ii) Are you satisfied with what you see today?

Ans. (i) I talked to my friends and sought their opinion on the life-style of the modern youth. Most of my friends say that life is not leisurely or fast. Life has become very fast. All want to go ahead. All want to go higher and higher. For this they have to labour hard. No one has got time to enjoy his life. It seems modern youth has got more thirst. He has no mental peace at all. But I am not at all satisfied with what I see today.

Ans. (ii) Group A: Some of my friends answered that they are very satisfied with what they find today. They have a wide way before them to flourish. There is no care and anxiety in today's life because our life has become mechanical and we find everything easy to do with machines. Today's life needs very little efforts of ours.

       Group B: Some of my friends say that they are not satisfied today with what they see around. The life that we lead today has become very complex and fast. The machines have made them instrumental. Individual activities have been frozen. Everybody is running in a crowd to get more and more but nobody cares for the other.

 

B. Answer the following questions briefly:

Q. 1. Where did the writer watch the play?

Ans. The writer watched the play in Dublin.

 

Q. 2. Who was the chief character in the play?

Ans. The chief character in the play was an elderly com merchant.

 

Q. 3. Does the writer dislike rapid movement in every field?

Ans. No, he does not dislike rapid movement in every field. He dislikes it only where the speed is unfriendly to him.

 

Q. 4. In which situation, the writer finds himself in the cinema?

Ans. The writer finds himself in a hopeless fog. He feels so as he fails to think fast enough to keep up comfortably with the rapid changes of scenes and actions.

 

Q. 5. How does the writer classify himself as a thinker?

Ans. The writer classifies himself as a slow thinker.

 

C. 1. LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS:

Q. 1. Write a few sentences about the elderly corn- merchant.

Ans. The elderly corn-merchant was the chief character in the play in Dublin. He belonged to a small Irish town. He was a man of many anxieties. His heart was dicky. His nephew was cheating him. His wife was a spendthrift. She had the 'notion of spending £ 10 on a holiday. On the whole, the pace of his life was getting too much for him. In a nutshell, he was a heavy-hearted man as he was forced to think fast.

 

Q. 2. "They tell me there's an aeroplane now that goes at 1,000 miles an hour. Now that's too fast!" What light does the remark of the corn-merchant throw on the fast life today?

Ans. The remark made by the corn-merchant throws light on the fast life of today. Today the people want to move fast. All want to achieve more and more in lesser time. In the remark of the corn-merchant, the aeroplane symbolises the fast speed of modern life. People want to dine in London and take lunch in New York today. A slow thinker cannot compete with the fast moving men.

 

Q. 3. What sort of excitement do we have today which our ancestors lacked? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage ?

Ans. The excitement we feel today is the excitement of rapid speed of life. Today our life has become very fast. Events in our real life are as fast as the events in drama. So we, sometimes feel as if we were watching drama. This is the excitement that our ancestors have lacked. It is an advantage in the sense that modern man has conquered time and space. But it is a great disadvantage that we have lost the real pleasures of life.

 

Q. 4. Who are taken to be slow thinkers? How are the slow thinkers handicapped today?

Ans. Our ancestors are taken to be slow thinkers. Slow thinkers are more like the handicapped. The handicapped can never move fast. They cannot keep pace with the world. Modern man knows only how to move faster. Thus it is not improper to compare a slow thinker with a handicapped.

 

Q. 5. What enlightenment does the writer seek from his wife? What does it suggest about the plight of the modern man?

Ans. The writer wanted to know about a girl whether she was the same girl whom they had seen in the beginning. His wife replies in the negative. She adds that there are three girls in the film. He may call them as A, B and C. The hero is going to fall in love with girls B, C, A in that order.

         It suggests that the modern man has to think very fast to keep up comfortably with rapid changes of scenes and actions. The man who thinks slow cannot compete with the fast thinkers. Such people will lag behind. But it foretells the sad plight of man. It has disturbed the normal rhythm of life. It exerts undue pressure on men, women and children.

 

Q. 6. Summarise the central idea of this essay.

Ans. The world has changed a lot today. The modern youth believes in fast movement. He wants to achieve more and more in lesser time. He wants to obtain his goal at any cost. He has no time to look back. The new discoveries and inventions also have helped him a lot. Now he has got victory over time and space. He wants to dine in London and have lunch in New York.

             Today man's mind must be overactive. He needs a mind which must be trained to work in high gear. Only then can one compete with others. A slow thinker cannot survive in the modern fast life. He will lag far behind.

              But this craze for fast speed hurts the normal rhythm of life. Man has lost his mental peace. He has no time to enjoy the beauties of nature. He travels so fast that he fails to look at the beauty of flowers and rivers. Moreover, this fast life exerts undue pressure on men today.

 

C. 2. GROUP DISCUSSION:

Discuss the following in groups or pairs:

1. Life has become too fast today.

Ans. Today man's life has become too fast. The world has changed a lot. Men have adopted new methods. All believe in fast speed. They want to achieve more and more. They know only how to obtain their goal. They think less about the means they adopt for success. All have become materialistic. They think less of their real pleasures. Nobody has time to enjoy the beauty of nature. They have forgotten the real meaning of life.

 

2. The fast life of the western society is compelling the westerners to turn to India.

Ans. India is a country of moral values and ethics. Here people believe in morality. The Indians are not fully materialistic Unlike Indians, the western people are more materialistic. They do not believe in metaphysics. So eat, drink and be merry is their goal. They believe only in body not in soul.

               But now they have come to realise that money is no everything. Wealth cannot give the real pleasures. Materialism cannot provide mental peace and contentment. They are fully desperate now. Today they are in search of real pleasures and mental peace. They know it well that they can achieve all these only in India. The life-style and the philosophy of India have attracted them. So the western people are coming to India in large numbers They come and seek the blessings of religious gurus and saints.

 

C.3. COMPOSITION 

2. As the secretary of the Drama Society of your school write a notice to invite the students to watch a play in Hindi. Mention the title of the play, its writer, the venue and the time.

Ans.

NOTICE

All the students of this school are invited to watch a Hindi play 'Aaj Ka Aadmi', written by our respected principal Dr. A. K Sinha which is going to be staged in the school hall on the 29th March, 2014 at 3 p.m.

 

E. GRAMMAR:

Ex. 1. Use the Verbs as gerund given in brackets:

(i) Tom stopped (work).

(ii) My father doesn't enjoy (go) to a doctor.

(iii) (See) is (believe).

(iv) I like (swim) in this river.

(v) (Fly) planes is not an easy job.

vi) I like (watch) games.

(vii) I don't like (wait) here for an hour.

Ans.

(i) Tom stopped working.

(ii) My father does not enjoy going to a doctor.

iii) Seeing is believing. (

(iv) I like swimming in this river.

(v) Flying planes is not an easy job.

(vi) I like watching games...

(vii) I don't like waiting here for an hour.

 

Ex. 2. Correct the following sentences using capital letters wherever necessary:

1. I went to delhi and stayed there for three days.

2. I spoke to rajan about my visit to mysore.

3. We went to delhi university via aruna asaf ali marg.

Ans.

1. I went to Delhi and stayed there for three days.

2. I spoke to Rajan about my visit to Mysore.

3. We went to Delhi University via Aruna Asaf Ali Marg.

Ex. 3. Correct the following sentences, using capital letters wherever necessary:

(a) I said to John, "do you see films ?"

(b) John said to me, "my brother is ill."

(c) Mohit said to his father, "please get me a new shirt."

d) Rajindra said to his brother, "do not waste your time in idle gossiping."

(e) Sanjay told his mother, "in delhi I will buy a handbag."

Ans.

(a) I said to John, "Do you see films?"

(b) John said to me, "My brother is ill."

(c) Mohit said to his father, "Please get me a new shirt."

(d) Rajindra said to his brother, "Do not waste your time in idle gossiping."

(e) Sanjay told his mother, "In Delhi I will buy a handbag.

 

Ex. 5. Change the following statements into indirect form of speech:

1. My mother said, "It may rain."

2. I said, "I can do it."

3. The culprit said to the judge, "I am innocent."

4. Mukul said to me, "You don't help me."

5. Vinayak said to Amar, "You will play tomorrow."

6. Rajan said, "You are doing well."

7. My teacher said to me, "You are doing well."

8. "We shall help the poor," Arif said to Lata.

9. "He does not sing well," the teacher said to the Principal.

10. She said, "He has not seen the Taj Mahal."

11. My teacher said, "The sun rises in the east."

Ans.

1. My mother said that it might rain.

2. I said that I could do that.

3. The culprit told the judge that he was innocent.

4. Mukul told me that I did not help him.

5. Vinayak told Amar that he would play the next day.

6. Rajan said that he was doing well.

7. My teacher told me that I was doing well.

8. Arif told Lata that they would help the poor.

9. The teacher told the principal that he didn't sing well.

10. She said that he had not seen the Taj Mahal.

11. My teacher said that the sun rises in the east.

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