Reading Comprehension / Unseen Passage for Class 10

The word ‘comprehension’ means to fully understand the text using one’s intellect. A comprehension passage is a text set for testing the reader’s ability to comprehend (understand) the meaning being implied by the text and the theme of that particular passage.

Questions based on a passage generally appear as a chronological relationship with the passage. Usually the first question has the answer in the initial paragraphs and so on but if the answers are inferential then the matter might have to be collected from various paragraphs and for this, one needs to be familiar with the entire passage.

Scoring maximum marks in comprehension passages is a skill which can be mastered by constant practice. Before answering the question, a student must read the passage carefully and then try to find the answer from the passage itself by focusing mainly on what is required in the answer. Answers must be written in one’s own language and not copied verbatim from the text.

Types of Comprehension Passage

• Factual Passages: As the name suggests, factual passages give some facts, be it historical or about the achievements of a particular person. They can also provide instructions. They can be reports or even descriptions of something.
• Discursive Passages: These kinds of passages involve an opinion. They have a logical flow and are argumentative in nature.
• Literary Passages: These are the extracts from a literary piece.

Reading Comprehension

1. Unseen Passage: A Purpose in Life
2. Unseen Passage: Advertising
3. Unseen Passage: Ancient Tree Practices
4. Unseen Passage: Artificial Glaciers
5. Unseen Passage: Challenges of Film Industry
6. Unseen Passage: Choices We Make
7. Unseen Passage: Classes Inside Railway Carriage
8. Unseen Passage: Coffee
9. Unseen Passage: Communication Skills
10. Unseen Passage: Concentration
11. Unseen Passage: Conservation Dogs
12. Unseen Passage: Convocation Address by C. V. Raman
13. Unseen Passage: Dal Lake
14. Unseen Passage: Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro
15. Unseen Passage: Development of the System of Justice
16. Unseen Passage: Evelyn Glennie
17. Unseen Passage: Even a Dead Snake Can Be of Use
18. Unseen Passage: Extraction And Purification Of Drinking Water
19. Unseen Passage: Failing is Educational
20. Unseen Passage: Falling Down
21. Unseen Passage: Family and Decision Making
22. Unseen Passage: Gandhiji as a Fund Raiser
23. Unseen Passage: Generation Gap
24. Unseen Passage: Gift
25. Unseen Passage: Globalization
26. Unseen Passage: Good Health
27. Unseen Passage: I was Born
28. Unseen Passage: Invention of Computers
29. Unseen Passage: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
30. Unseen Passage: J. K. Rowling
31. Unseen Passage: Kangaroo
32. Unseen Passage: Kausani
33. Unseen Passage: Keep Your Watch Accurate
34. Unseen Passage: Kiwi Fruit
35. Unseen Passage: Learning
36. Unseen Passage: Little Girl and the Pine Tree
37. Unseen Passage: Long Summer Breaks
38. Unseen Passage: Maggie, Golden Doodle
39. Unseen Passage: Magnificent Cats
40. Unseen Passage: Medical Tourism
41. Unseen Passage: Milkha Singh
42. Unseen Passage: Mind Your Thoughts
43. Unseen Passage: Mirrors
44. Unseen Passage: Money
45. Unseen Passage: Mt. Everest
46. Unseen Passage: Music
47. Unseen Passage: Newspaper
48. Unseen Passage: One Would Imagine
49. Unseen Passage: Orangutans
50. Unseen Passage: Overconfidence
51. Unseen Passage: Overpowering Prey
52. Unseen Passage: Oxygen for Breathing
53. Unseen Passage: Press – A Pillar of Democracy
54. Unseen Passage: Ramos-Horta
55. Unseen Passage: Rice
56. Unseen Passage: River Ganga
57. Unseen Passage: Roadkill
58. Unseen Passage: Sacred Trees
59. Unseen Passage: Sahara Desert
60. Unseen Passage: Sifting through the Sands of Time
61. Unseen Passage: Somnathpur Temple
62. Unseen Passage: Sparrow
63. Unseen Passage: Subhash Chandra Bose
64. Unseen Passage: Success in Life
65. Unseen Passage: Sustainable Tourism
66. Unseen Passage: The Camera Can Lie
67. Unseen Passage: The Face of Village India
68. Unseen Passage: The Power of Thoughts
69. Unseen Passage: The Road to Success
70. Unseen Passage: Tree Worshiping
71. Unseen Passage: Urge to Go to the West
72. Unseen Passage: Walt Disney
73. Unseen Passage: White Tiger
74. Unseen Passage: Youngster Quit Facebook