CBSE Board Paper Solution-2020

Class : X Subject : English Language and Literature Set : 3 Code No : 2/4/3 Time Allowed : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 80

Section - A

(Reading - 20 marks)

1. Read the following passage carefully.

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1. Cages behind thick glass, the most famous

dancer in the world can easily be missed in the National Museum, Delhi. The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro is that rare artifact that even school children are familiar with. Our school textbooks also communicate the wealth of our 5000 year heritage of art. You have to be alert to her existence there, amid terracotta animals to rediscover this bronze image.

1. Most of us have seen her only in photographs or sketches; therefore the impact of actually holding her is magnified a million times

over. One discovers that the dancing girl has no

feet. She is small, a little over 10 cm tall-the length of a human palm-but she surprise us with the power of great art-the ability to communicate across centuries.

1. A series of bangles of ivory or him thin

metal-clothe her left upper arm all the way down to her fingers. A necklace with three pendants bunched together and a few bangles above the elbow and wrist on the right hand display an almost modern art.

1. She speaks of the undaunted, ever hopeful

human spirit. She reminds us that it is important to visit museums in our country to experience the impact that a work of an art leaves on our senses, to find among all the riches one particular vision of beauty that speaks to us alone.

1.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions.

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1. The Dancing Girl belongs to:
2. Mohenjo-Daro
3. Greek culture
4. Homo sapiens
5. Tibet
6. In the museum she's kept among:
7. dancing figures.