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CBSE Solutions Class 10 English First Flight Prose
Oral Comprehension Check
Q1. What did Lencho hope for?
Answer: Lencho hoped for rains as then only he could get a better yield and thus feed his family.
Q2. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
Answer: Lencho said that the raindrops were like new coins because they were round in shape and almost of the same size. Secondly, he knew that good rain meant good crop which ultimately meant good money.
Q3. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho’s fields?
Answer: The rain changed into hailstones as a strong wind began to blow and huge hailstones began to fall alongwith the rain. All the crops in Lencho’s field got destroyed because of the weather conditions.
Q4. What were Lencho’s feelings when the hail stopped?
Answer: After the hailstones stopped, Lencho’s soul was filled with grief and dismay. He realised that everything was ruined by the hailstorm and nothing was left to feed his family for the entire year. He could visualize the bleak future of his family.
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Oral Comprehension Check
Q1. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
Answer: Lencho had faith in God. He felt that God’s eyes saw everything. He wrote a letter to God.
Q2. Who read the letter?
Answer: The postmaster read the letter since the letter had an address that was too absurd.
Q3. What did the postmaster do then?
Answer: In order to keep the writer’s faith in God alive, the postmaster decided to answer the letter. When he read that Lencho needed hundred pesos, he asked for money from his employees. He himself gave a part of his salary. He could not gather the entire amount, but managed to send Lencho a little more than half the amount. He put the money in an envelope addressed to Lencho and signed it ‘God’.
Oral Comprehension Check
Q1. Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it?
Answer: No, Lencho was not at all surprised to see the letter from God with money inside it. His confidence and faith in God was such that he had expected that God would definitely send money and help him out of this situation.
Q2. What made him angry?
Answer: Lencho became angry to see only seventy pesos instead of hundred pesos.
Thinking about the Text
Q1. Who does Lencho have complete faith in? Which sentences in the story tell you this?
Answer: Lencho had complete faith in God as he was instructed that God could see everything and helped whoever was in deep trouble. Given below are a few sentences which exhibit his faith in God:
- But in the hearts of all who lived in that solitary house in the middle of the valley, there was a single hope help from God.
- All through the night, Lencho thought only of his one hope: the help of God, whose eyes, as he had been instructed, see everything, even what is deep in one’s conscience.
- “God”, he wrote, “if you don’t help me, my family and I will go hungry this year”.
- He wrote ‘To God’ on the envelope, put the letter inside and still troubled, went to town.
- God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied Lencho what he had requested.
- It said: “God: Of the money that I asked for, only seventy pesos reached me. Send me the rest, since I need it very much”.
Q2. Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
Answer: The postmaster sends money to Lencho in order to keep
Lencho’s faith in God alive and firm as he was completely moved by it.
When postmaster reads the letter of Lencho to God, he becomes serious and does not want to shake his faith and decides to answer the letter. He gathers money with the help of his post office employees and friends on behalf of God and signs the letter ‘God’ so that Lencho’s faith does not get shaken.
Q3. Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
Answer: No, Lencho does not try to find out who had sent the money to him. This is because he had great confidence in God and never suspected that it could be someone else other than God who would send him the money. His faith in God was so strong that he believed that God had sent him the money.
Q4. Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of what is expected.)
Answer: Lencho thinks that the rest of the money has been taken by the post office officials. The irony in the situation is that the post office officials contribute money for Lencho. Yet he looks at them as ‘crooks’.
Q5. Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question.
greedy naive stupid ungrateful
selfish comical unquestioning
Answer: Humans as a civilization have always worshiped or looked upon a greater power for assistance during challenging times but Lencho’s faith was beyond comprehension. I do not think people like him exist in the world who would actually write a letter to God and demand him for money. He was very naive and unquestioning in his reasoning by displaying such blind faith in God.
Q6. There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated?
Answer: In the story, the conflict between man and nature is depicted by the rainfall. Lencho had been awaiting the rainfall since that morning as the corn fields were ready to be harvested and they needed a shower only before the harvest. He was very happy when it started raining. He thought that he would be able to earn a lot by selling the harvest. He went out to feel the rain. It was nature’s blessing to him. As soon as the big rain drops got converted to hail storms, he started feeling sad and gloomy because it ruined the corn harvest leaving Lencho destined to stay hungry throughout the year. The conflict among human themselves is depicted by Lencho’s unshakable belief in God. It is surprising that a human has unshakable faith in God whom he has never seen but he doubts the concerns of the fellow beings.
Thinking about the Language
Q1. There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with their descriptions below, and fill in the blanks? You may use a dictionary to help you.
gale, whirlwind, cyclone,
hurricane, tornado, typhoon
i) A violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle: _ _ c _ _ _ _
ii) An extremely strong wind : _ a _ _
iii) A violent tropical storm with very strong winds : _ _ p _ _ _ _
iv) A violent storm whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funnel: _ _ _ n _ _ _
v) A violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the western Atlantic Ocean: _ _ r _ _ _ _ _ _
vi) A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage: _ _ _ _ l _ _ _ __
Answer:
i. Cyclone
ii. Gale
iii. Typhoon
iv. Tornado
v. Hurricane
vi. Whirlwind
Q2. Match the sentences in Column A with the meanings of ‘hope’ in Column B.
| A | B |
| 1. Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. 2. I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. 3. This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. 4. We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. 5. I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. 6. Just when everybody had given up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone. | – a feeling that something good will probably happen – thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened.) – stopped believing that this good thing would happen – wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) – showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturbthe other person: a way of being polite – wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely |
Answer:
| A | B |
| 1. Will you get the subjects you want to study in college? I hope so. 2. I hope you don’t mind my saying this, but I don’t like the way you are arguing. 3. This discovery will give new hope to HIV/AIDS sufferers. 4. We were hoping against hope that the judges would not notice our mistakes. 5. I called early in the hope of speaking to her before she went to school. 6. Just when everybody had given up hope, the fishermen came back, seven days after the cyclone. | – wanting something to happen (and thinking it quite possible) − showing concern that what you say should not offend or disturb the other person: a way of being polite − a feeling that something good will probably happen − wishing for something to happen, although this is very unlikely − thinking that this would happen (It may or may not have happened.) − stopped believing that this good thing would happen |
III. Relative Clauses
Relative Clauses: Join the sentences given below using who, whom, whose, which, as suggested.
- I often go to Mumbai. Mumbai is the commercial capital of India. (which)
- My mother is going to host a TV show on cooking. She cooks very well. (who)
- These sportspersons are going to meet the President. Their performance has been excellent. (whose)
- Lencho prayed to God. His eyes see into our minds. (whose)
- This man cheated me. I trusted him. (whom)
Answer:
- I often go to Mumbai, which is the commercial capital of India.
- My mother, who cooks very well, is going to host a TV show on cooking.
- These sportspersons, whose performance has been excellent, are going to meet the President.
- Lencho prayed to God, whose eyes see into our minds.
- This man, whom I trusted, cheated me.
Using Negatives for Emphasis:
Find sentences in the story with negative words, Which express the following ideas emphatically.
Q1. The trees lost all their leaves.
____________________________________
Q2. The letter was addressed to God himself.
______________________________________________
Q3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
___________________________________________________________
Answer: 1 The trees lost all their leaves.
Not a leaf remained on the trees.
2 The letter was addressed to God himself.
It was nothing less than a letter to God.
3 The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.
Never in his career as a postman had he seen that address.
V. Inpairs
find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains. |
| Raindrops | ||
| Hailstones | ||
| Locusts | ||
| An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead. | ||
| An ox of a man |
Answer:
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains. |
| Raindrops | A curtain of rain | The draping or covering of an area by a curtain |
| Hailstones | The frozen pearls | The resemblance in color and hardness of a pearl |
| Locusts | A plague of locusts | The consequences (destruction) of plague |
| Locusts | A plague of locusts | An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead. |
| Man | An ox of a man | The working of an ox in the fields (hard work) |
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