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Maharashtra Board Class 10 Solutions for English Reader – Food as Love
Pre-reading Activities
Question 1:
Menu Card
You have visited a hotel with your friends. Here is a menu-card. Read it and discuss which food items you would like to order. Give reasons for it.
Why not the other food items? Give reasons.
Answer:
If I visited a hotel that provided the food mentioned in the given menu-card, I would choose veg. noodles and veg. fried rice from the ‘Our Speciality’ section, as I am a vegetarian. These dishes are not too spicy and they contain a lot of vegetables. From the ‘Deshi food’ section, I would prefer zunkabhakari, dal khichadi and bhaji bhakari because these dishes are nutritious and easy to digest. I would opt for puran poll as a sweet dish because it is my favourite. I would avoid ordering varan bhat, even though I like it, because I eat it almost every day at home. Other items made of potatoes and matki would surely be left out because they are oily and contain high amount of calories.
[Note: The above answer is given for reference. Students can take a cue from it and answer the question on their own ]
Question 2:
Food
When you look at a perfect dish, which things appeal to you? Discuss with your partner and complete the following web.
Answer:
i. aroma
ii. garnishing
iii. freshness
iv. taste
Part I
Passage 1
A1. Factual Reading
Question 1:
Read the passage and suggest one word as answer of the given sentences.
*i. Time when the narrator was hungry .
ii. The place where the mother trotted towards after waking up _______.
*iii. The dish prepared by mother .
iv. Food that cannot strum the senses and make the soul sing ________.
Answer:
i. midnight
ii. aloo paratha roll
iii. kitchen
iv. burger
Question 2:
Read the passage and fill in the blanks by selecting a proper word from the text. You can take help of the hints provided in brackets:
i. Unforgettable meal of the teenager was ______ (food)
ii. Aloo paratha was _______ (condition)
iii. Aloo paratha was ______ (taste)
iv. Aloo paratha was made with ______(emotions)
v. Aloo paratha was tastier than ______(food)
Answer:
i. piping hot aloo paratha
ii. piping hot
iii. delicious
iv. grace and love
v. burger
Question 3:
Read the passage and choose the correct alternatives.
*i. The incident of a piping hot aloo paratha is _______ for the teenager.
a. remarkable
b. forgettable
c. worst
d. memorable
Answer:
d. memorable
*ii. When the boy was hungry, his mother was _________.
a. watching TV
b. sleeping
c. singing
d. cooking
Answer:
b. sleeping
iii. The aloo paratha was made with ______ .
a. cooking oil
b. hands
c. grace and love
d. anger and irritation
Answer:
c. grace and love
iv. Our memories of meals last because they
a. strum our senses
b. satisfy our hunger
c. taste delicious
d. last longer
Answer:
a. strum our senses
A2. Understanding the Passage
Question 1:
Read the passage and find out words / phrases / sentences that provide proof for the following statements.
i. The narrator ate the aloo paratha late at night.
Answer:
It was a midnight snack, my mother dished up for me.
*ii. The narrator is a young boy.
Answer:
I, an inconsiderate teenager, shook her awake from deep sleep
*iii. The narrator got food which was very hot.
Answer:
She trotted to the kitchen and within minutes, made a piping hot aloo paratha roll.
*iv. The food prepared by the mother was tastier.
Answer:
Of course it was delicious, but more than that, it was made with such grace and love.
Question 2:
Read the passage and arrange the sentences in proper order.
i. The food was delicious.
ii. The young boy was hungry.
iii. The mother cooked aloo paratha within minutes.
iv. The mother trotted to the kitchen.
Answer:
i. The young boy was hungry.
ii. The mother trotted to the kitchen.
iii. The mother cooked aloo paratha within minutes.
iv. The food was delicious.
Question 3:
Complete the web by choosing words from the passage that describe the aloo paratha.
Answer:
i. unforgettable meal
ii. midnight snack
iii. piping hot
iv. delicious
A3. Meaning from the Text
Question 1:
Write from the passage words that mean:
i. prepared and served a meal
ii. not thinking or worrying about other people
iii. spoke very softly
iv. went hurriedly towards
Answer:
i. dished up
ii. inconsiderate
iii. whispered
iv. trotted
Question 2:
Write the opposites of the following words from the passage.
i. forgettable
ii. considerate
iii. asleep
iv. small
Answer:
i. unforgettable
ii. inconsiderate
iii. awake
iv. big
A4. Language Study
Do as directed.
Question 1:
I shook her awake. (Change the Voice)
Answer:
She was shaken awake by me.
Question 2:
I whispered, “I’m hungry.” (Rewrite in indirect speech)
Answer:
I whispered that I was hungry.
Question 3:
You had such a big dinner. (Rewrite as an exclamatory sentence)
Answer:
What a big dinner you had!
Question 4:
It was made with grace and love. (Add a question tag)
Answer:
It was made with grace and love, wasn’t it?
A5. Personal Response
Question 1:
Why does the narrator consider himself as ‘inconsiderate teenager’?
Answer:
The narrator considers himself as an ‘inconsiderate teenager’ because he woke his mother from deep sleep one midnight to tell her that he was hungry, although he had eaten a big dinner earlier.
Passage 2
Factual Reading
Read the passage and suggest one word as answer of the given sentences.
i. Roman Goddess ______.
ii. Number of processing steps of packaged products ______.
iii. Number of months the flour, made by a foreign brand, lasts.
iv. Natural forces that ancient civilizations _________
Answer:
i. Ceres
ii. 26
iii. 6
iv. rain, sun, earth
Read the passage and fill in the blanks by selecting a proper word from the text. You can take help of the hints provided in brackets.
Dr V. Shiva is ______ and ______ . (professions)
Foreign atta was not ______ and ________. (quality)
i. physicist, environmentalist
ii. natural, fresh
Read the passage and choose the correct alternatives.
i. The word ‘cereal’ comes from the Goddess of ________.
a. Greece b. Rome
c. India d. China
Answer:
b. Rome
*ii. The processed atta can be good only upto months.
a. six
b. seven
c. five
d. four
Answer:
a. six
iii. Extract your own ______ from a bowl of fresh malai.
a. ghee b. buttermilk
c. paneer d. flour
Answer:
a. ghee
*iv. Many people use food as a ______.
a. mouth filler
b. trunk filler
c. soul filler
d. tank filler
Answer:
d. tank filler
Read the passage from line (11 to 37) on page (101) of your textbook and answer the following questions.’
[Who says the field is still ________ ways to do this.]
A2. Understanding the Passage
Question 1:
Read the passage and find out words / phrases / sentences that provide proof for the following statements.
i. Dr Vandana Shiva is an important physicist and environmentalist.
Answer:
Dr Vandana Shiva, leading physicist and environmentalist, recalled a foreign flour brand was neither natural nor fresh.
ii. Homemade ghee is better than the packaged one.
Answer:
Extract your own ghee from a bowl of fresh malai and enjoy the delicious aroma that suffuses your kitchen and your heart.
iii. Food does not merely fill our stomach.
Answer:
Food was never meant to be just a tank-filler.
*iv. The rain, the sun and the Mother Earth give us plenty of food.
Answer:
Ancient civilizations worshipped the rain, the sun and Mother Earth, forces that gave them the bounty of crop.
Question 2:
Complete the web by choosing different forces of nature mentioned in the text.
Answer:
i. wind
ii. rain
iii. sun
iv. earth
Question 3:
Complete the web by choosing food-related items mentioned in the passage.
Answer:
i. Cereal
ii. Flour
iii.Grains
iv. Paneer
A3. Meaning from the Text
Question 1:
Write one word from the passage for the following meanings.
i. a professional who specialises in the study of physics
ii. located outside of our country
iii. without chemical fertilizers
*iv. the smell of delicious food ________.
v. spreads through
Answer:
i. physicist
ii. foreign
iii. organic
iv. aroma
v. suffuses
Question 2:
Write the opposites of the following words from the passage.
i. disconnected
ii. artificial
iii. native
iv. stale
Answer:
i. connected
ii. natural
iii. foreign
iv. fresh
Question 3:
Find out the Non-English words from the passage and translate them in English language.
Answer:
i. atta – flour
ii. chakki – flour mill
iii. malai – cream
Question 4:
Find out the describing word from the following sentence and use it in your own sentence.
Ancient civilizations worshipped the rain, the sun, and Mother Earth.
Answer:
Ancient – Art and literature has been known to man since ancient times.
A4. Language Study
Do as directed.
Question 1:
It had gone through 26 steps of processing.
(Rewrite in Present Continuous Tense)
Answer:
It is going through 26 steps of processing.
Question 2:
Get your atta freshly ground from a local chakki. (Rewrite as a simple sentence)
Answer:
You must get your atta freshly ground from a local chakki.
Question 3:
You can find ways to do this. (Rewrite as an Interrogative Sentence)
Answer:
Can’t you find ways to do this?
A5. Personal Response .
Question 1:
‘Homemade food is better than packaged food’. What do you think?
Answer:
Packaged food is made to last for several months in stores. Hence, it contains numerous preservatives and chemical additives like MSG, benzoic acid, flavour enhancers, excessive oil, salt, etc. It has low nutritional value and is primarily meant to please one’s taste buds. Due to all these reasons, consuming packaged food affects one’s health severely. Homemade food, on the other hand, is easier for our body to digest. It contains fresh ingredients and no preservatives, since it is not meant to last for a long time. Thus, we consume less sugar and oil when we eat home-cooked food. Besides, it is also cost effective. All these reasons make homemade food a better option than packaged food.
Part II
Passage 3
A1. Factual Reading
Question 1:
Read the passage and state whether the following statements are True or False. Write the line no. that prompts you the answer.
i. Dr V. Shiva is against pesticide-laden imported food product.
ii. The narrator has great attraction for Indian food.
iii. According to Dr V. Shiva farmers and the nature are well respected on the earth.
iv. We should respect food.
Answer:
i. True, Line no. 1, 2, 3
ii. True, Line no. 3, 4, 5
iii. False, Line no. 9, 10, 11
iv. True, Line no. 14, 15
Question 2:
Read the passage and match the following columns.
| A | B | ||
| i. | Dr Shiva | a. | lose weight |
| ii. | Food | b. | nine seeds |
| *iii. | Navdhanya | c. | a sacred being |
| iv. | Ayurvedic tip | d. | Stolen Harvest |
Answer:
(i – d), (ii – c), (iii – b), (iv – a)
Read the passage from line (1 to 18) on page (104) of your textbook and answer the following questions.
[Dr Shiva, member, prestigious……………………… It is that simple.]
A2. Understanding the Passage
Question 1:
Read the passage again. Write the information under the proper heading.
Dr Vandana Shiva
| Particulars | Information |
| Post | |
| Loves | |
| Activity | |
| Book | |
| Quote’- |
Answer:
| Particulars | Information |
| Post | Member of the prestigious World Future Council |
| Loves | Fresh and pure Indian food |
| Activity |
Started the Navdhanya movement to promote domestic and organic farming |
| Book | Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply |
| Quote | “Food is alive; it is not just pieces of carbohydrate, protein, and nutrient, it is a being, a sacred being.” |
Question 2:
Read the passage and complete the table.
| Dr Shiva described food as | Dr Shiva described Indian food as |
| a. | a. |
| b. | b. |
Answer:
| Dr Shiva described food as | Dr Shiva described Indian food as |
| a. alive | a. fresh |
| b. a sacred being | b. pure |
Question 3:
Complete the web.
Answer:
i. those who labour
ii. those who grow food
iii. nature
iv. nature’s creatures
Complete the web by choosing the units of measurement mentioned in the passage.
Answer:
i. calories
ii. milligrams
iii. grams
iv. pounds
A3. Meaning from the Text
Question 1:
Read the passage and choose the correct alternatives to match words with their meanings.
a. enlightening
b. open an eye
c. getting up
Answer:
a. enlightening
ii. elusive
a. scattered pieces
b. difficult to understand
c. in large quantity
Answer:
b. difficult to understand
*iii. balanced diet
a. limited nutritious food
b. food that is oily and spicy
c. delicious food
Answer:
a. limited nutritious food
*iv. artificial
a. made using different art
b. face and art
c. not natural
Answer:
c. not natural
Question 2:
Write from the passage words that mean:
i. brought from a foreign land into our country
ii. without chemical fertilisers
iii. considered holy and divine
iv. traditional system of medicines for healing
Answer:
i. imported
ii. organic
iii. sacred
iv. Ayurvedic
Question 3:
Write the opposites of the following words from the passage.
i. exported
iii. dead
Answer:
i. imported
ii. little
iii. alive
iv. Simple
A4. Language Study
Do as directed.
Question 1:
We come from a poor country but we have fresh food. (Rewrite using ‘although’)
Answer:
Although we come from a poor country, we have fresh ‘food.
Question 2:
The food has taste. (Add a question tag)
Answer:
The food has taste, doesn’t it?
Question 3:
The movement promotes domestic, organic farming. (Change the Voice)
Answer:
Domestic, organic farming is promoted by the movement.
Question 4:
Why not think about food like you think about love?
(Rewrite as an Assertive Sentence)
Answer:
You should think about food like you think about love.
Question 5:
Eat only as much as you can cup in the palms of your hands. (Rewrite using ‘should’)
Answer:
You should eat only as much as you can cup in the palms of your hands.
A5. Personal Response
Question 1:
Why should we eat local food?
Answer:
We should eat local food because it is fresh and pure. It does not have artificial ingredients. Also, it does not go through various steps of processing, which makes it organic.
Question 2:
We should think of calories before we take food. Why?
Answer:
We should think of calories before we take food because our body requires only a limited diet. This diet varies from person to person. A person who does a lot of physical work requires more calories than the one who does sedentary work. If a person does not think about calories before taking food, he or she may put on weight, which in turn may lead to several health problems.
Passage 4
A1. Factual Reading
Question 1:
Read the passage and match the following columns.
| A | B | ||
| i. | ripe orange | a. | satisfaction |
| ii. | body | b. | ingredients |
| iii. | mind | c. | contentment |
| iv. | soul | d. | citrusy juice |
| e. | nourishment |
Answer:
(i – d), (ii – e), (iii – c), (iv – a)