Extract Based Questions: The Making of a Scientist | English Class 10 PDF Download

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Q1: So he did, and did he ever! Beginning in kindergarten, Ebright collected butterflies with same determination that has marked all his activities.
(a) What does ‘he did’ in the extract refer to?
(b) What else did he collect other than butterflies?
(c) Find a word from the extract which means ‘resolutenesss’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘Beginning’?
Ans: (a) ‘he did’ refers to Richard’s habit of collecting various things.
(b) He collected fossils, coins and rocks other than butterflies.
(c) ‘Determination’ is a word from the extract which means ‘resoluteness’.
(d) Its opposite is ‘Ending’

Q2: He would catch a female monarch, take her eggs, and raise them in his basement through their life cycle
(a) Who is ‘he’ in this extract?
(b) Why does he raise butterflies?
(c) Find a synonym for the word ‘rear’ from the extract given above.
(d) What part of speech is ‘them’?
Ans: (a) Richard Ebright is ‘he’ in this extract.
(b) He raised butterflies to study their migration pattern.
(c) ‘Raise’ is the synonym of‘rear’ from the extract.
(d) It is a pronoun

Q3: “It was really a sad feeling to sit there and not get anything while everybody else had won something.”
(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(b) Where was he competing at?
(c) Find a word from the extract which is the opposite of ‘nobody’.
(d) Write a synonym of ‘sad’.
Ans: (a) Richard Ebright is the speaker of the above lines.
(b) He was competing at a county science fair.
(c) ‘Everybody’ is the opposite of ‘nobody’ from the extract.
(d) Its synonym is ‘Gloomy’.

Q4: If the theory proves correct, it will be a big step towards understanding the processes of life. [CBSE 2012]
(a) What is the theory about?
(b) Who proposed the theory?
(c) Which part of speech is ‘life’ as used in the given extract?
(d) Give a synonym of ‘correct’.
Ans: (a) The theory is about how cells read their DNA.
(b) The theory was proposed by Richard Ebright and his friend James R. Wong.
(c) It is used as a noun.
(d) Its synonym is ‘right’.