MODEL PAPER -II
SUB : English, Clas: X
Time : 2 hours 45 min Marks : 40
Instructions:
i) This question paper contains three sections (section A, B and C) with questions from 1-34
ii) 15 minutes time is allotted exclusively for reading the question paper and 2 hours 30 minutes for answering the question.
iii) All the answers are to be written in the answer booklet for rough work, if necessary, while answering the questions under section-C?
Section-A (Reading Comprehension)
Q (1-5) : Read the following Passage carefully
Speech is a blessing bit it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our friends; it can also, if we use it carelessly, male our attitude completly misunderstood. A slip of tounge, the use of an unusual word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend, again, different classes of people use diffrebnt vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated man as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listener from what it does mean to men of our own class. Thus speech is not gift to use lightly without thought, but one whi ch demands careful handling. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and conditions of men.
Q (1-3) Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or(D) in your answer booklet. (3x1=3marks)
1. According to the passage, speech is a blessing because ...... ( )
A) it makes our attitude completly misunderstood
B) it helps us to reveal our intentions and desires
C) it hurts other
D) it helps us to express ourselves alike to all
2. The expression ‘slip of toung’ means ....... ( )
A) something said carefully
B) something said to make ourselves pompous
C) something said without giving a proper thought
D) something misunderstood
3. According to the passage, one can win a friend by ... ( )
A) avoiding ambiguity in speech
B) using high vocabulary
C) using irony in speech
D) giving scope to misunderstanding
Q. (4-5) Answer the given questions in one or two sentences each.
(2x1=2 Marks)
4. Speech can also be a curse Explain with examples.
5. Why do we change the style of our language according to the context?
Q(6-10) Read the following poem carefully. (2x1=2marks)
Merry merry sparrow
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow
Seek your cardle narrow
Near my bosom
Pretty, Pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing
pretty, pretty robin
Near my bosom
William Blake
Q (6-7) Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2x1=2marks)
6. ‘cradle narrow’ refers to ..... ( )
A) a small room B) a huge building
C) a big garden D) a tiny nest
7. ‘Pretty robin, pretty robin’ - this is associated with.... ( )
A) affection B) attraction
C) happiness D) responsibility
Q(8-10) Answer the given questions in one or two sentences each
(3x1=3 Marks)
8. what is the central idea of the poem?
9. Do you think the poet, the sparrow and robin are happy? Explain.
10. How would you feel if you were in that garden?
Q (11-15) Read the following passage carefully
Advertising is a close companion of market economy, yet it is unpleasant features of modern life. It costs heavily to one’s pocket and one’s life too. An innocent student tried to imitate acrobatics of a young man in an advertisement and lost his life. indeed advertising has invaded every aspect of human esistence, which includes sponsoring of events like sports like sports. Advertising sells goods and ideas too. Good ideas, like national integration and communal harmony are spread through advertising. In addition to commercial advertising, we have social advertising, which deals with social issues. Social advertising aims at masses who can be educated about issues like health, family welfare, national security etc. It is true that even the government falls back upon social advertising to highlight issues of immediate and national concern.
Q (6-7) Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3x1=3 Marks)
11. according to the passage advertising is close companion of market economy because.... ( )
A) it regulates market economy
B) it monitors market economy
C) it enhances marketing
D) it evalutes marketing
12. ‘Advertising sells ideas too’ - this can be understood as .... ( )
A) ideas need advertisement
B) idea can be spread through advertising
C) advertising is compulsary
D) advertising is necessary for market
13. Social advertising is necessary because....
A) the government falls back upon it
B) society falls back upon it
C) it aims at the economy of the people
D) it aims at the welfare of the people
Q (14-15) Answer the following questions in one or three sentences each
(2x1=2 Marks)
14. What are the two types of advertising refferred in the passage? How are they different?
15. Do you think advertising really costs one’s life? what can be done to avoid this?
Q (16-8) Read the following passage focusing the parts that are underlined and numbered .
(3x1=3 Marks )
stories of dolphins saving human lives have been told throughout history. The latest incident happened in january when (16) a dolphin saved the life of an Australian surfer. ‘I an in the middle of the sea. I am reallyexhausted’, said the surfer. (17) ‘I have seen a dolphin coming near to me’ he said, ‘and in a moment I have been showed ashore by the dolphin’. (18) Indeed dolphins are lovely animals.
16. The life of an Australian surfer ...........
17. He said that ....................................
18. Dolphins are lovely animals, ................ (question tag)
Q(19-22) Complete the passage choosing right words from those fiven below. Each blank is numbered and has four choices (A), (B), (C), and (D) choose the correct answer and write in your answer booklet 4x1/2= 2 marks
James simpson was brn in 1811 in scotland in a baker’s family. Right ..... 19 his childhood he was good at studies. his father ..... (20) him to pursue higher studies. Hw joined..... (21) university of Edinburgh at the age of fourteen. He choose to study medicine and by the time he was twenty one years of age he was a ..... (22) doctor.
19. A) of B) about
c) For D) from
20. A) encourage B) encourages
c) encouraged D) encouraging
21. A) a B) the
c) an D) one
22. A) qualify B) qualifying
c) qualified D) qualifies
Q (23-28) Read the following passage and in the blank choosing the correct words given in the brackets. write the answer in your booklet (6x1/2=3 Marks)
is said that the character of a city is ....... (23) (responded/ reflected) in the manner its traffic....... (24) (move / moves). If that is the ...... (25) (example / case), Delhi could top the charts. Recent stata stics ..... (26) (released / release) by the traffic police reveal that mindless.... ..... (27) (drive / reason) behind the increasing number of ......... (28) (events / accidents)
Q 29-32) Complete the following passage with right forms of words given in hte brackets. Write the answer in your booklet (4x1/2=2 Marks )
Vegetarianism promotes a (29) (nature) way of life, yet it has not spread as it should have. This may be because it (30) (usal) in an inwatd- looking habit and is best (31) (cultivate) in the mind. Indeed leading a vegetarian way of life (32) (help) the animal kingdom to co-exist with man.
Section C (Creative writing
33. You are aware of the ill- effects caused by the adulteration of food and the unfair methods adopted.
Now write a essay on ‘How adultrated food is affecting our lives’ use the hints given. (10 marks)
- chemicals are used in junk food
Toxic materials are used in food
Poisonous meterials are used in the artificial ripening of fruits.
May lead to cancer and other diseases.
or
Your school is organising a sports meet next month.
prepare a compering script for the pr ogramme
33. We have been listening about a lot of accidents on the road now-a days. Make a poster on the ‘safety rules to followed while driving’
(5 marks)
- Mrs.PRATHIMA
EnglishTeacher
The Mother’s Integral School, O.U Road,
Hyderabad
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