These are answers to the textbook activities of the chapter ‘Stephen Hawking’ (Class 10 English, Kumarbharati). They were written with AI help and checked against the textbook.
Stephen Hawking – Textbook Questions and Answers | Class 10 English
Written board papers, 40 marks and 2 hours each: Science & Technology Part 1 and 2, Algebra, Geometry and more.
Sections
| Warming Up | 2 questions | |
| Questions in the Margin | 7 questions | |
| English Workshop | 10 questions |
Chapters covered
Instructions
Solve on paper with a timer, then check against the solutions.
Warming Up
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Match the prominent personalities with the disabilities they had: (1) John Milton (2) Beethoven (3) Stephen Hawking (4) Walt Disney (5) Albert Einstein (6) Thomas Edison (7) Helen Keller (8) Sudha Chandran (9) Tanni Grey-Thompson (10) Franklin Roosevelt.
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Word building: write five examples each of (a) reduplication (b) blending (c) clipping (d) acronyms.
Questions in the Margin
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What was Hawking convinced of?
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When did Hawking first notice his health problems?
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What do Stephen Hawking’s works include?
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What remains a constant anxiety?
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In the mid 1970s what did the Hawking family do?
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Guess the meaning of: predicament.
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Why was Hawking forced to use a wheelchair?
English Workshop
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Observe the time line and prepare a chart of what happened in Hawking’s life in each year: 1942, 1969, 1970s, 1988, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2014.
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Make a list of books written by Stephen Hawking: name of the book, what’s in it (topics covered) and his contribution to the world.
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Make a list of Hawking’s physical inabilities after 1963.
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Complete the web: Stephen Hawking’s achievements. (One is given: became world famous after the publication of ‘A Brief History of Time’.)
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Explain how the life of Stephen Hawking proves the proverb ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’.
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Do you agree or disagree? Justify your answer from the text: (a) Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. (b) Hawking believed that man cannot live on other planets in the future. (c) Though Hawking lost control over his body, he wrote at a prolific rate with the help of assistants. (d) Hawking has written or co-written more than 25 books.
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Arrange the incidents in Hawking’s life in proper sequence: (a) ‘The Universe in a Nutshell’ offered an illustrated guide to cosmology’s big theories. (b) He published ‘A Brief History of Time’ that offered an overview of space and time. (c) He was unable to attend a conference in Arizona. (d) He was diagnosed with ALS while studying cosmology at Cambridge. (e) He published ‘A Brief(er) History of Time’ that contained the newest developments.
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Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the verb: (1) Mother ____ a good meal. (cook/cooks) (2) Mother and her daughter ____ a good meal. (cook/cooks) (3) The rise and fall of the Empire ____ recorded in History. (is/are) (4) Neither Ritesh nor Alok ____ well. (play/plays) (5) Either of the two ____ guilty. (is/are) (6) Everyone ____ mistakes. (make/makes) (7) That news ____ published today. (is/are) (8) Eight lakh rupees ____ a big amount. (was/were) (9) The Committee ____ approved of it. (has/have) (10) The cost of all the goods ____ risen. (has/have)
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Identify the nouns and the determiners (articles/possessive pronouns/demonstratives/quantifiers) that specify them: (1) He lost his voice for good. (2) Over the years, Hawking has written 15 books. (3) These three books articulate his search for science’s Holy Grail. (4) A few events prevented him from despondency. (5) That dream made him realize it.
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Complete the Summary Maker and prepare a summary: Title of the text; (a) name of the personality (b) age (c) books (as author) (d) field of excellence (e) achievements.