Key to the 10th Class English Worksheet 8 (Possible key - Answers) worksheet pages 10

WORKSHEET – 8

English – Class X

Subject: English

Class: X

Chapter: Personality Development

Name: __________________________

Roll No.: ________________________

Date: ____________________________

VIII. Reading Comprehension

Reading B: Every Success Story Is Also a Story of Great Failures

Read the lesson from “Failure is the highway to success…” to “Successful people don’t do great things; they only do small things in a great way” in your textbook.

A. Read each set of events carefully. Arrange the sentences in the correct chronological order as they happened in the passage.

Write the correct sequence using the letters (a, b, c, d). The first one has been done for you.

1. Life of Abraham Lincoln

a) He was elected President of the United States.
b) He lost a senatorial race at age 45.
c) He failed in business at age 21.
d) He lost a legislative race at age 22.

Answer: c → d → b → a

2. Life of Colonel Sanders

a) He got his first order.
b) He had only $100 and a beat-up car.
c) He knocked on more than a thousand doors.
d) He remembered his mother’s recipe.

Answer: d → b → c → a

3. Early life of Walt Disney

a) A minister hired him to draw cartoons.
b) He faced rejection from newspaper editors.
c) He was inspired by seeing a small mouse.
d) Mickey Mouse was created.

Answer: a → b → c → d

B. Cause, Effect and Lesson

Read the lesson from “One day a partially deaf four-year-old kid came home…” to “…a weak desire cannot produce great results.” in your textbook.

Read each cause carefully. Explain the effect and also write what lesson we learn from it briefly. The first one has been done for you.

1. Cause: Edison was called “too stupid to learn” and had only three months of schooling.

Effect: He was taught by his mother and later became a great inventor.

Lesson: Encouragement and belief can overcome criticism.

2. Cause: Edison lost his factory in a fire at the age of 67.

Effect: He saw the fire as a chance to start again and rebuilt his factory.

Lesson: We should not give up after failure; we should start again with courage.

3. Cause: Beethoven was told he had no talent for music.

Effect: He continued to work hard and became a great musician despite his difficulties.

Lesson: Hard work and determination can help us achieve success.

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