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EnglishCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 2/1/1 · 5 marks · Reading comprehension

CBSE Class 10 English 2025: question 6(a)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 2/1/1, section C, question 6(a), for 5 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q6(a) · 5 marks · Reading comprehensionCompetency-basedA Letter to God

Read the following extract and answer the questions:

Not a leaf remained on the trees. The corn was totally destroyed. The flowers were gone from the plants. Lencho’s soul was filled with sadness. When the storm had passed, he stood in the middle of the field and said to his sons, “A plague of locusts would have left more than this. The hail has left nothing. This year we will have no corn.”

That night was a sorrowful one.
“All our work, for nothing.”
“There’s no one who can help us.”
“We’ll all go hungry this year.”
(A Letter to God)

  1. (i)

    Why were there no leaves left on the trees?
    (A) The locusts ate them up.
    (B) An earthquake had occurred.
    (C) There was a hailstorm.
    (D) The animals grazed on them.

    1. (A)The locusts ate them up.
    2. (B)An earthquake had occurred.
    3. (C)There was a hailstorm.
    4. (D)The animals grazed on them.
    1 mark
  2. (ii)

    Fill in the blank with the correct word from the brackets.
    Lencho felt __________ (jubilant/devastated) when he saw his destroyed corn fields.

    1 mark
  3. (iii)

    When Lencho says, “All our work, for nothing,” what does he refer to? Explain in about 40 words.

    2 marks
  4. (iv)

    Why would Lencho have preferred a plague of locusts to a hailstorm?

    1 mark

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 2/1/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

Read the opening lines of the extract again.

Hint 2

Think about what the work was and what became of it.

Hint 3

Compare what each calamity leaves behind.

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. (i) Option (C): there was a hailstorm that destroyed the crops.

    1 mark

  2. (ii) devastated

    1 mark

  3. (iii) Lencho refers to all the effort he and his sons put into the field, ploughing, sowing and tending the crops. The hailstorm destroyed the corn, so their labour went in vain and they would earn nothing and face hunger.

    2 marks

  4. (iv) Locusts would have left a few leaves on the plants, but the hailstorm left nothing at all.

    1 mark

Answer: (i) C; (ii) devastated; (iii) all his labour in the fields was wasted as the hail destroyed the corn; (iv) locusts would have left some leaves, hail left nothing

Where the marks are

  • (i) C (1)
  • (ii) devastated (1)
  • (iii) Two points: labour wasted, crop destroyed or no income (1+1)
  • (iv) A few leaves would have remained (1)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: A Letter to God (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from A Letter to God, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2025 board paper, set 2/1/1: every question, by section.

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