10th STD. English UNIT 5 - Supplementary - A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist Textbook Questions and Answers

A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist Textbook Questions and Answers

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

 

Question 1.

Why did Francis Bennett wake up with a bad temper?

Answer:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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 color, these inordinate advertisements.

 

B. Identify the character/speaker.

 

Question 1.

As soon as he woke up, he switched on his phonotelephote.

Answer:

Francis Bennett

 

Question 2.

Well, Cash, what have you got?

Answer:

Francis Bennett

 

Question 3.

‘Photo telegrams from Mercury, Venus, and Mars, Sir.’

Answer:

Cash

 

Question 4.

‘Interesting! And Jupiter?’

Answer:

Francis Bennett

 

Question 5.

‘Not yet, Mr.Bennett.’

Answer:

Cash

Question 6.

‘No, it’s the inhabitants.’

Answer:

Corley

 

Question 7.

‘Where are we going, Sir?’

Answer:

Aero – coachman

 

Question 8.

‘Then, Sir, I shall really have discovered the absolute’?

Answer:

The young inventor

 

Question 9.

‘Are you saying you’re going to be able to construct a human being?’

Answer:

Francis Bennett’

 

Question 10.

‘I’m going to start this moment.’

Answer:

Edith

 

C. Choose the best answer.

 

Question 1.

Bennette’s wife was in …………………

(i) Germany

(ii) Australia

(iii) France

(iv) Holland

Answer:

(iii) France

 

Question 2.

The data from the stellar world was gathered by …………………..

(i) Bennette

(ii) astronomical reporters

(iii) the computer

(iv) telephote

Answer:

(ii) astronomical reporters

 

Question 3.

The food was being delivered through …………………. tubes.

(i) pneumatic

(ii) shallow

(iii) hollow

(iv) virtual

Answer:

(i) pneumatic

 

Question 4.

The wayfarers were carried from one place to another by the …………………..

(i) bullet train

(ii) jet

(iii) moving pavement

(iv) heli-taxi

Answer:

(iii) moving pavement

 

D. Fill in the story map given below.

 

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Answer:

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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

 

1. A second inventor, using as a basis some old experiments that dated from the 19th century, had the idea of moving a whole city in a single block. He suggested, as a demonstration, the town of Saaf, situated fifteen miles from the sea; after conveying it on rails down to the shore, he would transform it into a seaside resort.

 

Francis Bennett, attracted by this project, agreed to take a half-share in it. The proposals heard and dealt with, Francis Bennett went to stretch himself out in an easy-chair in the audition-room. Then, pressing a button, he was put into communication with the Central Concert.

 

After so busy a day, what a charm he found in the works of our greatest masters, based on a series of delicious harmonico- algebraic formulae during his meal, phonotelephotic communication had been set up with Paris.

 

Question 1.

In which century were the old experiments dated? And what was it?

Answer:

The old experiments were dated from the 19th century. It was the idea of moving a whole city in a single block.

Question 2.

Where was Saaf situated?

Answer:

Saaf was situated fifteen miles from the sea.

 

Question 3.

What was the proposal awaiting for Saaf?

Answer:

The proposal awaiting for Saaf was ‘that to convey it on the rails down to the shore and to transform it into a seaside resort.

 

Question 4.

How and to whom was Francis Bennett connected?

Answer:

Francis Bennett was connected with the Central Concert, by pressing a button.

 

Question 5.

Pick out any two words that refer to technology?

Answer:

 

Harmonico – algebraic formulae

Phonotelephotic communication

2. The next room, a broad gallery about a quarter of a mile long, was devoted to publicity, and it well may be imagined what the publicity for such a journal as the Earth Herald had to be. It brought in a daily average of three million dollars. They are gigantic signs reflected on the clouds, so large that they can be seen all over the whole country.

 

For that gallery, a thousand projectors were unceasingly employed in sending to the clouds, on which they were reproduced in colour, these inordinate advertisements. At that moment the clock struck twelve. The director of the Earth Herald left the hall and sat down in a rolling armchair. In a few minutes, he had reached his dining room half a mile away, at the far end of the office.

 

Question 1.

What was the next room devoted to?

Answer:

The next room was devoted to publicity.

 

Question 2.

What was the breadth of the gallery?

Answer:

The breadth of the gallery was about a quarter of a mile long.

Question 3.

How much did the gallery bring in?

Answer:

The gallery brought in a daily average of three million dollars.

 

Question 4.

How was the advertisement done here?

Answer:

A thousand projectors would send gigantic signs to the clouds and the signs would be reflected and they could be seen all over a whole country.

 

10th English Guide Supplementary Chapter 5 A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist

 

Question 5.

Where did the director of the Earth Herald sit?

Answer:

The director of the Earth Herald sat down in a rolling armchair

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