Beauty - Worksheets

 CBSE Worksheet 01

Beauty

  1. Is there any difference in the beauty of an object in different times? [Beauty]

  2. What is beauty?

  3. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow by choosing the best option from among the given ones.
    Beauty is heard
    In the night,
    Wind sighing, rain falling,
    Or a singer chanting
    Anything in earnest.

    1. The passage describes the beauty of
      1. the dark
      2. the day
      3. inside
      4. nature
    2. The poet is thinking of the beauty of
      1. the soul
      2. the sounds
      3. nature
      4. people
    3. The phrase “wind sighing’ shows that the wind is
      1. unhappy
      2. passing through the trees
      3. blowing in the dark
      4. not blowing
    4. The song’s music is beautiful when the singer sings
      1. on instruments
      2. without instruments
      3. with feelings
      4. loudly
    5. The noun form of ‘sighing’ is
      1. sight
      2. slight
      3. sighed
      4. sigh

  4. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow: (1×3=3)
    Beauty is heard
    In the night,
    Wind sighing, rain falling,
    Or a singer chanting
    Anything in earnest.

    1. Can you hear the beauty in the atmosphere?
    2. What do you mean by ‘anything in earnest’?
    3. What were the actions of the wind and rain?

  5. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow: (1×3=3)
    Beauty is seen
    In the sunlight
    The trees, the birds,
    Corn growing and people working
    Or dancing for their harvest.

    1. Can you see the beauty in and around your surroundings?
    2. Why did people start dancing in the poem?
    3. What was being grown on the field?

CBSE Worksheet 01
Beauty

Solution

  1. Yes, there can be a difference, e.g. everyone feels happy when it is sunlight during winter but it becomes unpleasant during summers.

  2. Beauty is a feeling of great pleasure and admiration produced in the heart when one sees something beautiful.

  3. i. (a), ii. (b), iii. (b), iv. (c), v. (d)

    1. Yes, we can hear the beauty in the atmosphere such as when the rain falls down and the wind sighs.
    2.  'Anything in earnest; means there is beauty in any activity which has been done with eagerness, full dedication and firm determination.
    3. In the above lines, the wind was sighing while the rain was falling.
    1. Yes, we can see the beauty in and around our surroundings such as in birds, trees, sunlight, ripened crops and the people dancing while  harvesting them.
    2. People were dancing for their good harvest as they worked very hard on their fields.
    3. Corn was being grown on the field.