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Tamil Nadu Board 10th Standard English - Supplementary Unit 5: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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Unit 5: A day in 2889 of an American Journalist

A. Answer the following questions in two or three lines.

Question 1.
Why did Francis Bennett wake up with a bad temper?
Answer Key:

• Francis Bennett woke up with a bad temper because he was feeling lonely and bored. It was eight days since his wife had gone to France.

Question 2.
What was a mechanized dressing room?
Answer Key:

• It is a dressing room in which the machines in the room wash, shaves, and dresses a person. It buttons him top to toe on the threshold of his office.

Question 3.
How was food served to him?
Answer Key:

• Food was served to him through a network of pneumatic tubes. It was an expensive system, but cooking was better.

Question 4.
What was Bennett curious about astronomy?
Answer Key:

• Bennett was curious about astronomy because one astronomer had just determined the elements of the new planet ‘Gandini’. He was delighted to know about the accuracy of it.

Question 5.
Why did he visit Niagara?
Answer Key:

• He visited Niagara to see his accumulator works. Thereafter using the force of cataracts to produce energy, he sold or hired it out to the consumers.

Question 6.
How did Bennett travel?
Answer Key:

• Bennett travelled by aero-car which shot across space at a speed of about 400 miles an hour. Within half an hour, he reached his works at Niagara.

Question 7.
Give three instances of how mechanization has changed life at home in 2889?
Answer Key:

• At home through phonotelephote, vision and speech are transmitted. In two minutes, without the help of an attendant, the machine gets a person to be ready, for his office. Food can be served through pneumatic tubes.

Question 8.
How is advertising in this age different from what we have today?
Answer Key:

• The gigantic advertisement signs are reflected in the clouds so large that they can be seen all over the Country. From that gallery, a thousand projectors were unendingly employed in sending to the clouds on which they were reproduced in colour, these inordinate advertisements.

B. Identify the character/speaker.

1. As soon as he woke up, he switched on his phonotelephote.
Answer Key:
Francis Bennett

2. Well, Cash, what have you got?
Answer Key:
Francis Bennett

3. ‘Photo telegrams from Mercury, Venus, and Mars, Sir.’
Answer Key:
Cash

4. ‘Interesting! And Jupiter?’
Answer Key:
Francis Bennett

5. ‘Not yet, Mr.Bennett.’
Answer Key:
Cash

6. ‘No, it’s the inhabitants.’
Answer Key:
Corley

7. ‘Where are we going, Sir?’
Answer Key:
Aero – coachman

8. ‘Then, Sir, I shall really have discovered the absolute’?
Answer Key:
The young inventor

9. ‘Are you saying you’re going to be able to construct a human being?’
Answer Key:
Francis Bennett’

10. ‘I’m going to start this moment.’
Answer Key:
Edith

 

C. Choose the best answer.

1. Bennette’s wife was in _________.
(i) Germany
(ii) Australia
(iii) France
(iv) Holland
Answer Key:
(iii) France

2. The data from the stellar world was gathered by _________.
(i) Bennette
(ii) astronomical reporters
(iii) the computer
(iv) telephote
Answer Key:
(ii) astronomical reporters

3. The food was being delivered through _________ tubes.
(i) pneumatic
(ii) shallow
(iii) hollow
(iv) virtual
Answer Key:
(i) pneumatic

4. The wayfarers were carried from one place to another by the _________.
(i) bullet train
(ii) jet
(iii) moving pavement
(iv) heli-taxi
Answer Key:
(iii) moving pavement

 

D. Fill in the story map given below.

Answer Key: