Reading comprehension or Unseen passage is an important part of English syllabus for Class 10 in CBSE , ICSE and other state boards. CBSE has 20 marks from reading comprehension section only. It is very important for students to practice them before the exam. In this article, we have shared few unseen passage exercises for class 10 cbse English paper. Student can read them carefully, giving 4-5 mins for reading each passage, and carefully answer the questions from the unseen passage exercises.
Unseen Passage Exercise -1
Source – Tribune
India is nurturing the grand ambition of becoming a global hub of semiconductor manufacturing. The ongoing Semicon India 2024 conference in Greater Noida is showcasing the country’s semiconductor strategy and policy. PM Narendra Modi’s catchy remark — ‘the chips are never down in India’ — is an open invitation to industry stakeholders to make big-ticket investments here. Indeed, India’s growth story is worth betting on, but the government’s sustained support will be required to fulfil the PM’s promise of providing an integrated ecosystem to international players.
It is no exaggeration to say that semiconductors power the contemporary world. Chips are everywhere — be it smartphones, cars, washing machines, pacemakers or aeroplanes. That’s why this is a highly competitive field. Taiwan, which is home to thousands of semiconductor-related companies and has a robust end-to-end supply chain, is the global numero uno. Among the other leading nations are South Korea, Japan, the US and China. The Covid-19 pandemic slowed down the manufacture of semiconductors, particularly in Taiwan and China. Amid these large-scale disruptions, India got its foot in the door by launching the ISM (India Semiconductor Mission) in 2021. A critical lesson from the pandemic was that the global supply chain should be diversified.
India is eyeing a bigger piece of the pie, but the road ahead is going to be anything but easy. Even as Asian nations are wooing investors with incentives, the US is projected to triple its domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity by 2032, a decade after the CHIPS and Science Act was enacted. Beyond the optimism and hyperbole, India needs to set clear-cut timelines for achieving its goals. Ease of doing business holds the key to attracting long-term investments. India’s semiconductor ecosystem is no doubt at an early stage, and there should be no reluctance to learn from other countries’ experience.
- Question 1 – What is meant by ‘the chips are never down in India’ ?
- Question 2 – Why are semiconductors important?
- Question 3 – Who are the major nations involved in semiconductor manufacturing?
- Question 4 – Summarize the English passage in 50 words
Unseen Passage Exercise 2
Source – Reuters
Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant galaxy – the largest such jets ever spotted, extending about 140 times the diameter of our vast Milky Way galaxy.
The black hole resides at the heart of a galaxy about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). Because of the time it takes for light to travel, looking across great distances is peering back in time, with these observations dating to when the universe was less than half its current age.
Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so strong that not even light can escape. Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a large black hole at their core. Some of these shoot jets of high-energy particles and magnetic fields into space from their two poles as they devour material such as gas, dust and stars falling into them due to their immense gravitational strength.
The two jet structures documented in the new study – using the LOFAR (Low-Frequency Array) radio telescope, a network of antennas centered in the Netherlands – extend 23 million light-years from end to end.
These super-heated jets, caused by the violent events around the black hole, are comprised of subatomic particles called electrons and positrons, and magnetic fields, moving at nearly the speed of light.
The researchers have nicknamed these two jets Porphyrion (pronounced poor-FEER-ee-ahn), named after a giant from ancient Greek mythology. Porphyrion is about 30% longer than the previous record-holder for such jets.
- Question 1- What is the key astronomical phenomenon detected with respect to black hole?
- Question 2- What is black hole? What are the key features of black hole?
- Question 3- What is LOFAR and where it is located?
- Question 4- Summarize the passage in 50 words
Unseen English Passage 3
Source- Al Jazeera
While entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, in many parts of the world remains gastronomic esotericism, Singapore is one of several countries that have begun to welcome it.
Indeed, in some parts of the world, insects are served up as popular street food. But do we all need to be switching our diets to include insects?
Some of the arguments for eating insects include:
- They are environmentally more sustainable and cheaper to produce than beef.
- They are higher in protein and other nutrients than meat.
- They can be farmed without hormones.
- They may be a solution to a food-insecure, overharvested, overfished world.
- According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 60 percent of fish stocks worldwide are overfished.
Climate change is shifting our relationship with food and many believe insects are a viable, environmentally sustainable protein alternative to meat, given the high carbon footprint of livestock farming, which some peer-reviewed journals estimate produces 14.5 percent to 19.6 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2022, the World Economic Forum published a report incentivising eating bugs, citing climate change and the high protein content of insects as reasons.
- Question 1- What is entomophagy?
- Question 2- What are key benefits of eating insects?
- Question 3- What is the carbon footprint of livestock farming?
- Question 4- Summarize the passage in 50 words
End Note
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