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Section-A
Reading Comprehension [Seen]
Set - 1
1. Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions
that follow :
A month later a letter came for Father. After he finished reading
it, his eyes looked as if he had been crying. ‘‘Do you want to
know what became of your kite?’’ he said. Then he sat down
beside us and told us the whole story.
Father had a brother and a sister. He had quarrelled with his
brother and left home. Years afterward, he felt sorry and when
he went back, he found his brother had died and he couldn’t
find his sister. The letter father had just received was from his
sister, Aunt Esther, mother of Dick and Mimi. She was a widow
who lived hundreds of miles inland. One day when Dick and
Mimi were out in the woods, they discovered the kite on the
top of a tree and carried it home. When their mother saw the
kite patched with the letter, she turned pale. It was the very
letter she had once written to her brother. Philippa was her
mother’s name and Claude was her father’s. She knew who we
must be. So she sat down and wrote to Big Half Moon and
Father received her letter.
Next day, Father went and brought Aunt Esther and Dick and
Mimi with him. They have been here ever since. Aunt Esther is
a dear and Dick and Mimi are too jolly for words.
But the best of it all is that we have relations now!
A. Write the correct alternative to complete the following
sentences in the give spaces : 1×5=5
(i) Narrator’s father left home—
[A] after he had finished his home work.
[B] after he had seen his brother.
[C] before his brother had entered into his home.
D after he had fallen out with his brother.
(ii) A letter came for father—
A a month later [B] two months later
[C] three months later [D] fifteen days later
(iii) Dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top of a—
A tree [B] roof [C] tower [D] light past
(iv) Father went back home after—
[A] days [B] weeks [C] months D years
(v) After returning home father found his brother had—
A died [B] fainted
[C] broken his legs [D] broken his hands
B. Complete the following sentences with information from
the text : 1×3=3
(a) The name of Aunt Esther’s mother ______________________
Ans. was Philipa.
(b) Aunt Esther was the mother of _________________________
Ans. Dick and Mimi.
(c) Aunt Esther lived ____________________________________
Ans. hundreds of miles inland.
C. (a) State whether the following statements are True or False.
Write ‘T’ for ‘True’ and ‘F’ for ‘False’ statements. Provide
sentences/phrases/words in support of your answer :
2×2=4
(i) A letter came for writer’s father two months later. F
S.S. : A month later a letter came for father.
(ii) The writer had an uncle and an aunt. T
S.S. : Father had a brother and a sister.
OR
(b) Fill in the chart with information from the text : 2×2=4
Statement Reason
Dick and Mimi’s mother
saw the kite patched with
the letter.
Writer’s uncle left home.
Ans. Statement Reason
One day when Dick and
Mimi were out in the words.
He had quarrelled with his
brother.
2. Read the extract of the poem given below and answer the
questions that follow :
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sails’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) On the sea voyages the poet desires to hear the cry of—
[A] pigeon [B] crow [C] owl D sea-gulls
(ii) ‘‘.........and the blown spume’’.—the synonym of the word ‘spume’
is—
[A] bad smell [B] sweet smell C foam [D] flying water
(iii) On the sea voyages the poet liking tide—
[A] high tide [B] low tide C running tide [D] sudden tide
(iv) The poet asks for a—
[A] cloudy day [B] bright day C windy day [D] winter day
B. Answer the following questions : 2×2=4
(i) What may not be denied by the poet?
Ans. The call of the running tide is a wild call and also a clear call. It
may not be denied by the poet.
(ii) What do you meant by the ‘flung spray’?
Ans. The meaning of the word ‘flung spray’ is thrown up a cloud of
flying water drops.
Set - 2
that follow :
Gandhiji’s funeral was to take place the day after his death.
Hours in advance, people lined the route the funeral procession
was to follow. Padmasi, Mrs Naidu’s daughter, spoke for us all
when she said simply : we will walk. It is the last time we shall
be walking with Bapu.
It was an agonizing walk. Thousands silently watched the

procession. Bapu lay on an open truck covered with flowers.
Thousands of people wept, trying to touch Bapu’s feet. It was
impossible to move in the thick crowd.
As I moved forward slowly I understood I was not merely in the
midst of grieving people. This was even more than the funeral
procession of India’s beloved leader. I was among people for
whom walking with Bapu had a special meaning. We had walked
with Bapu over the rough and smooth of India’s recent history.
We could not now accept the fact that the man who had led us
over many difficult paths, was never going to walk with us again.
Bapu’s slight figure had walked, staff in hand, over a large part
of India. To walk is to make slow progress. It is to think with
clarity and closely look at all that is around you, from small
insects to the horizon in the distance. Moreover, to walk was
often the only way open to the average Indian. It required no
vehicle except his own body and cost him nothing but his energy.
Gandhiji took this necessity, as he took much that was
commonplace and transformed it into a joyful effort.
(i) Bapu lay on—
[A] an open roof of a bus [B] an open premises
C an open truck [D] an open green field.
(ii) Thousands of people were trying to touch—
[A] Bapu’s head [B] Bapu’s hand
C Bapu’s feet [D] Bapu’s body
(iii) To walk is to make—
[A] fast progress B slow progress
[C] less progress [D] no progress
(iv) Thousands of people silently watched—
[A] thick crowd [B] the beautiful nature
C the procession [D] the waves of the river
(v) Bapu’s figure was—
A slight [B] fat [C] not very slim[D] very fat

the text : 1×3=3
(a) Mrs. Naidu’s daughter Padmassi spoke simply on about Bapu’s
death _____________________________________________
Ans. we will walk. It is the last time we shall be walking with Bapu.
(b) Bapuji’s dead body lay on ______________________________
Ans. an open truck covered with flowers.
(c) The last time walking with Bapu was _____________________
Ans. an agonizing walk.
2×2=4
(i) To walk is to make quick progress. F
S.S. : To walk is to make slow progress.
(ii) Thousands of people watched the procession creating a
noise. F
S.S. : Thousands silently watched the procession.
OR
Statement Reason
Walking required no vehicle
except his own body and
cost him nothing but his
energy.
It was an agonizing walk.
To walk was often the only
way open to the average
Indian.
It is the last time we shall
be walking with Bapu.
Give but his horns the slightest touch,
His self-collecting pow’r is such,
He shrinks into his house with much
Displeasure.
Where’er he dwells, he dwells alone,
Except himself has chatells none,
Well satisfied to be his own

Whole treasure.
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) Give but his horns—here ‘horns’ refer to—
A a hard bony outgrowth [B] hard shell of the body
[C] upper parts of the body [D] lower part of the body
(ii) The snail shrinks when someone touches its—
[A] the body B the horns
[C] the face [D] everywhere of its body
(iii) As the snail is own whole treasure, so he is—
[A] happy [B] unhappy C satisfied [D] indifferent
(iv) The house of the snail is made of—
[A] bricks [B] leaves
[C] straw D the hard shell
(i) What is the collecting power of the snail?
Ans. When someone touches it slightly, it shrinks into his house with
much displeasure.
(ii) What is the feeling of the snail when he becomes his own
whole treasure.
Ans. The snail feels well satisfied to be his own whole treasure.
Set - 3
that follow :
‘‘When the family sits down to tea, the cat puts in an appearance
to get his share. He purrs noisily and rubs himself against the
legs of the family members. If there is a guest at the table the
cat is particularly civil to him, because the guest is likely to have
the best of what is offered. Sometimes, instead of giving him
something to eat, the guest stoops down and strokes the cat,
and says, ‘‘Poor pussy! Poor pussy!’’ The cat soon tires of that.
He puts up his claw and quietly but firmly rakes the guest in the
leg. ‘‘Ow!’’ says the guest, ‘‘The cat stuck his claws into me!’’
The delighted family remarks, ‘‘Isn’t it sweet of him? Isn’t he
intelligent? He wants you to give him something to eat.’’
The guest dares not do what he would like to do—kick the cat
out of the window. So, with tears of rage and pain in his eyes,
he affects to be very much amused, and sorts out a bit of fish
from his plate and hands it down. The cat gingerly receives it,
with a look in his eyes that says, ‘‘Another time, my friend, you
won’t be so slow to understand.’’ He purrs as he retires to a
safe distance from the guest’s boot before eating his food.
(i) The cat wants from the guest’t plate—
[A] meat B a bit of fish
[C] a piece of chicken [D] a piece of bread
(ii) If there is a guest at the table the cat is particularly—
[A] angry [B] obediant [C] civil to him [D] unhappy
(iii) The cat rubs himself against the—
[A] wall [B] hands
C legs [D] body of the family members
(iv) What the guest usually would like to do—
[A] to throw the cat
B to kick the cat out of the window
[C] to pick up the catintap [D] to take care the cat
(v) The cat takes a bit of fish—
[A] angrily [B] peacefully [C] noisily
D carefully without making any noise
the text : 1×3=3
(a) ‘‘Poor Pussy! Poor Pussy!’’ is called by ______________________
Ans. the guest.
(b) The cat keeps himself to a safe distance _____________________
Ans. from guest’s boot.
(c) To save himself from the cat’s claws, the guest usually gives him
_____________________________________________________
Ans. a bit of fish from his plate.

2×2=4
(i) When the guest wants to give the cat a bit of fish, the cat
receives it without making any noise. T
S.S. : Sorts out a bit of fish from his plate and hands it down,
the cat gingerly receives it.
(ii) Instead of giving the cat something to eat, the guest stoops
down and bite the cat. F
S.S. : The guest stoops down and strokes the cat.
OR
Statement Reason
The cat puts in an
appearance to get his share
The cat struck his claws
into the guest.
When the family sits down
to tea.
‘Owl’ says the guest.
‘‘The mountain and the Squirrel
Had a quarrel :
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig’.
Bun replied,
‘You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I’ll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.’
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) ‘Bun replied’—here ‘bun’ refers to—
[A] the mountain [B] the forest
C the squirrel [D] the river
(ii) The mountain cannot crack—
[A] stone [B] nut [C] iron [D] brick
(iii) A very pretty squirrel track is made by—
[A] the squirrel B the mountain
[C] weather [D] rat
(iv) And not half so spry—here ‘spry’ means—
[A] pretty [B] ugly [C] talent C lively
(i) What will not be denied by the squirrel?
Ans. The mountain will make a very pretty squirrel track that will not
be denied by the squirrel.
(ii) What can the mountain not do, that the squirrel can do?
Ans. The mountain can not crack a nut but the squirrel can do it.
Set - 4
that follow :
Lying in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was
Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it
was Friday. Already Monday was here. He hoped he didn’t
have to go to school.
At nine o’ clock, Swaminathan wailed, ‘‘I have a headache.’’
Mother generously suggested that Swami might stay at home.
At 9.30, when he ought to have been in the school prayer
hall, Swami was lying on the bench in Mother’s room.
Father asked him, ‘‘Have you no school today?’’
‘‘Headache,’’ Swami replied.
‘‘Nonsense! Dress up and go.’’
‘‘Headache!’’
‘‘Loaf about less on Sundays and you will be without a
headache on Monday.’’
Swami knew how strict his father could be. So he changed his
tactics. ‘‘I can’t go so late to the class.’’

(i) Swami understood by fear that it was––
[A] Tuesday morning C Monday morning
[C] Monday evening [D] Friday morning
(ii) Swami was lying in mother’s room—
[A] on the floor [B] on the mat
[C] on the bench D in bed
(iii) Swami cried aloud when it was at—
[A] 9-30 am B 9 o’ clock [C] 8-30 pm [D] ten o’ clock
(iv) Swami’s father was—
[A] careful [B] hopeful C strict [D] generous
(v) ‘‘Nonsense! Dress up and go’’—this remark was made by—
[A] Swami’s classmate [B] Swami’s mother
[C] Swami’s brother D Swami’s father
the text : 1×3=3
(a) Swami’s mother lovingly proposed ______________________
Ans. that Swami might stay at home.
(b) Swami wished ______________________________________
Ans. he did not have to go to school.
(c) Swami understood with ______________________________
Ans. a shudder that it was Monday morning.
2×2=4
(i) Swami was lying on the floor in the mother’s room. F
S.S. : Swami was lying on the bench in the mother’s room.
(ii) At five O’clock, Swaminathan cried about, ‘‘I have a
headache.’’ T
S.S. : At nine O’clock, Swaminathan cried, ‘‘I have a headache.’’
OR
Statement Reason
Swaminathan changed his
tactics.
‘‘I have a headache.’’
Swami knew how strict
his father could be.
Already Monday was here.
‘‘Once I crept in an oakwood—I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there—all knobby stick and rag.
She said : ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake—
Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) The old lady had the secret of the—
A the poet [B] the stag [C] the animals [D] the trees
(ii) The poet met an old lady in the—
[A] field [B] School [C] Premises D oakwood
(iii) The meaning of the word ‘stag’ is—
[A] male deer [B] female deer [C] colt [D] kid
(iv) The old woman had a—
[A] cane stick B stick with knots
[C] stick [D] umbrella
(i) What was the poet searching for and where?
Ans. The poet was searching for a stag in an oakwood.
(ii) When did the poet came twice awake?
Ans. When the old lady opened up her little bag, the poet came
twice awake.
Set - 5
that follow :
I was having tea at home on the evening of 30th January, 1948,
when I was called to Birla house by an urgent telephone. Gandhiji
had been shot on his way to a prayer meeting. I was numb with
shock as I got into the car.
At the Birla House, Gandiji’s relatives and followers had gathered
round his body. There was silence in the room as Gandhiji
breathed his last. Words of Bapuji’s death had spread through
Delhi like a flame fanned by wind. Sad groups of men and women
had collected around Birla House. Out of every window one
could see a brown blur of faces. They did not make a sound.
There was an unnatural silence. It was as if time stood still for
those few minutes.
The people were too stunned to speak in the beginning. Later
they clamoured wildly, shouting and crying. They jostled one
another in a stampede to break into the house. They calmed a
little when it was announced that they would be allowed to see
Gandhiji before the funeral.
(i) Gandhiji’s death was known to the poet by—
[A] a letter [B] a telegram
C an urgent telephone call [D] telecast
(ii) Gandhiji’s relatives and followers had gathered round—
A his body [B] his burial [C] his house [D] his garden
(iii) Gandhiji was shot on his way to—
[A] a political meeting [B] a public gathering
[C] the Birla house D a prayer meeting
(iv) Around Birla House, there was—
[A] a silence [B] a noise
C an unnatural silence [D] a peace
(v) The writer got into the carbing—
C numb with shock [B] paralysed
[C] hopeful [D] delightful
the text : 1×3=3
(a) By an urgent telephone __________________________________
Ans. the author was called to Birla House.
(b) The news of Bapuji’s death had spread through Delhi like _______
Ans. a flame fanned by wind.
(c) There was and unnatural silence as it _______________________
Ans. if time stood still for those few minutes.

2×2=4
(i) The writer was paralysed with shock as she got into the
car. T
S.S. : I was numb with shock as I got into the car.
(ii) There was a natural silence around the Birla House. F
S.S. : There was an unnatural silence.
OR
Statement Reason
Gandhiji breathed his last.
They jostled on another in
a stampede.
There was silence in the
room.
To break into the house.
‘‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

sentences : 1×4=4
(i) The poet likes to go to—
[A] the sky B sea-voyage [C] adventure [D] village
(ii) The dawn at the sea will be appeared as grey—
A due to mist [B] due to smoke
[C] due to dust [D] due to sunlight
(iii) The tall ship will be steered by—
A a star [B] captain [C] a sailor [D] the sun
(iv) The poet wants for a ship that is—
[A] small B tall [C] big [D] oval
(v) ......a star to steer her by—Here ‘steer’ means—
[A] to drive a bus [B] to drive a car
C to direct the movement of a ship
[D] to drive a train
(i) How do you know that the poet is not going to the sea for the
first time?
Ans. The poet is not going to the sea for the first time as he says that
he must go down to the seas again.
(ii) In what time of the day does the poet express his desire to go
down to the seas?
Ans. The poet expresses his desire to go down to the seas when the
day is breaking.
Set - 6
that follow :
Some days after the funeral, a special train took Gandhiji’s ashes
to Allahabad. The compartment was decked with flowers. People
on the train sang bhajans. People did not weep anymore for
they could feel Gandhiji’s presence amid the flowers and the
songs. At every station sorrowful crowds filled the platform.
Amid song and prayer the train reached Allahabad. The ashes
were immersed in the Ganges where a huge crowd had gathered
at the bank. Afterwards we all went back to Delhi.
Back in Delhi, I felt at sea. I had not directly walked with Gandhiji,
gone to prison at his call or made any sacrifice for my country.
My sisters and I, and other young people like me, had been
merely onlookers. But still felt at sea. I felt I had grown up
within a magic circle. With Bapu’s passing away, I felt the magic
circle had vanished, leaving me unprotected.
With an effort I roused myself. I asked myself—had Bapu lived
and died for nothing? How could I so easily lose courage when
he was no longer there? My values were not so weak. Millions
of people would have been ordinary folk but for Bapu. He
brought them out of indifference and awakened them to one
another’s suffering. What if now Bapu is gone? We were still
there, young, strong and proud to bear his banner before us.
(i) The ashes were immersed in the—
[A] Bramhaputra [B] Sindhu
C Ganges [D] Damodar
(ii) With the song and the Prayer the train reached—
[A] Kolkata B Allahabad [C] Patna [D] Delhi
(iii) The compartment was decorated with—
[A] Indian Flags [B] Curtains
C Flowers [D] Pictures
(iv) People on the train song—
[A] Rabindra Sangeet [B] Classical song
C Bhajans [D] Nazrul Sangeet
(v) I had not walked directly with—
[A] Netaji B Gandhiji [C] Surya Sen [D] Khudiram
the text : 1×3=3
(a) The platform of every station was filled by __________________
Ans. sorrowful crowds.
(b) The author felt he had grown up within ____________________
Ans. a magic circle.
(c) Gandhiji’s ashes were taken to Allahabad by _________________
Ans. a special train.
2×2=4
(i) At each station mornful crowds filled the platform. T
S.S. : At every station sorrowful crowds filled the platform.

(ii) Gandhiji’s ashes were phenged in the Ganges. T
S.S. : The ashes were immersed in the Ganges.
OR
Statement Reason
People could feel Bapu’s
presence in the middle of
flowers and songs.
The compartment of the
special train was decorated
with flowers.
People did not weep anymore
for they could feel Gandiji’s
presence.
A special train took
Gandhiji’s ashes to
Alahabad.
‘‘To grass, or leff, or fruit, or wall
The snail sticks close, nor fears to fall
As if he grew there, house and all,
Together.
Within that house secure he hides
When danger imminent betides
Of storm, or other harm besides
Of weather.
Displeasure.
Where’er he dwells, he dwells alone,
Whole treasure.
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) The snail sticks to grass—
[A] loosely [B] restlessly C closely [D] helplessly
(ii) The snail hides in his house—
C securely [B] uncertainly [C] restlessly [D] joyfully
(iii) The snail shrinks into his house with—
[A] less pleasure [B] angrily
[C] peacefully C displeasure
(iv) The snail lives in his house—
[A] lonely [B] with a friend
C only himself [D] without any friend
(i) When does the snail hide in his house with secure?
Ans. The snail hides in house with secure at the period of imminent
danger i.e. storm or other harm besides of weather.
(ii) What does the snail do when it touches slightest on its horns?
Ans. The snail shrinks into his house with much displeasure when it
touchess lightest on its horns.
Set - 7
that follow :
Swami hoped that with this his father would be made to see
why he must avoid school for the day. But Father’s behaviour
took an upexpected turn. He proposed to send a letter with
Swami to the headmaster. No amount of protest from Swami
would make him change his mind.
By the time Swami was ready to leave for school, Father had
composed a long letter to the headmaster. He put it in an
envelope and sealed it.
‘‘What have you written, Father?’’ Swami asked apprehensively.
‘‘Nothing for you. Give it to your headmaster and go to your
class.’’
‘‘Have you written anything about our teacher Samuel?’’
‘‘Yes. Plenty of things.’’
‘‘What has he done, Father?’’
‘‘Everything is there in the letter. Give it to your headmaster.’’
Swami went to school feeling that he was the worst boy on
earth. His conscience bothered him. He wasn’t at all sure if his
description of Samuel had been accurate. He felt he had mixed

up the real and the imagined.
Swami stopped on the roadside to make up his mind about
Samuel. Samuel was not such a bad man after all. Personally he
was much more friendly than the other teachers. Swami also
felt Samuel had a special regard for him.
Swami’s head was dizzy with confusion. He could not decide if
Samuel really deserved the allegations made against him in the
letter. The more he thought of Samuel, the more Swami grieved
for him. To recall Samuel’s dark face, his thin moustache,
unshaven cheek and yellow coat filled Swaminathan with sorrow.
(i) Swami’s father wrote a letter to—
[A] the teacher B the headmaster
[C] the post master [D] the bank manager
(ii) Swami’s father put the letter in—
[A] a box [B] a pocket C an envelope [D] a Suit-case
(iii) Swami went to school thinking that he was—
[A] the bad boy on earth [B] the worse boy on earth
[C] the happiest boy on earth D the worst boy on earth.
(iv) Swaminathan stood on the roadside—
[A] for his classmate
[B] for his brother
C to make up his mind about Samuel
[D] to cross the road.
(v) Samuel’s coat was—
[A] black B yellow [C] white [D] brown

the text : 1×3=3
(a) Swaminathan was not fully certain _________________________
Ans. If his description of Samuel had been accurate.
(b) As a person Samuel was ________________________________
Ans. Much more friendly than the other teachers.
(c) Swami’s heart was filled with sorrow _______________________
Ans. To recall Samuel’s dark face, his thin moustache, unshaven cheek
and yellow coat.
2×2=4
(i) Swami’s father had written a short letter to the
headmaster. F
S.S. : Father had composed a long letter to the headmaster.
(ii) Swami’s head was giddy with confusion. T
S.S. : Swam’s head was dizzy with confusion.
OR
Statement Reason
Swami stopped on the
roadside.
Swami felt that he was
the worst boy on earth.
To make up his mind
about Samuel.
Samuel had a special regard
for him.
They said : ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now—now you are going to die.’
‘Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew.’
This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me.
When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) Whenever an oak tree is knocked down, the poet will plant the
number of trees is—
[A] one [B] three C two [D] four
(ii) If the poet failed to make the promise, the poet would—
[A] live B die [C] be angry [D] anxious
(iii) The colour of the bark of the oak tree is—
[A] white [B] red C black [D] green
(iv) After coming out of the oakwood, the poet’s heart was like a/
an—
[A] oldman [B] goat [C] child D tree
(i) If the poet failed to make the Promise, what would happen to
him?
Ans. If the poet failed to take an oath, the poet would die and the
black oak bark would wrinkle over the poet.
(ii) What was it which altered the poet?
Ans. The dream that the poet dreamt beneath the boughs, changed
the poet by bringing his heart close to the oak trees.
Set - 8
that follow :
As he entered the school gate, an idea occurred to him. He
would deliver the letter to the headmaster at the end of the
day. There was a chance Samuel might do something during the
course of the day to justify the letter.
Swami stood at the entrance to his class. Samuel was teaching
arithmetic. He looked at Swami. Swami hoped Samuel would
scold him severely.
‘‘You are half an hour late,’’ Samuel said.
‘‘I have a headache, sir.’’ Swami said.
‘‘Then why did you come at all?’’
This was an unexpected question from Samuel.
Swami said, ‘‘My father said I shouldn’t miss school, sir.’’
Samuel looked impressed. ‘‘Your father is quite right. We want
more parents like him.’’
‘‘Oh, you poor man!’’ Swami thought, ‘‘You don’t know what
my father has done to you.’’
‘‘All right, go to your seat.’’
Swami sat down, feeling sad. He had never met anyone as good
as Samuel.
The teacher was inspecting the home lessons. To Swami’s
thinking, this was the time when Samuel got most angry. But
today Samuel appeared very gentle.
‘‘Swaminathan, where is your homework?’’
‘‘I have not done my homework, sir.’’ Swami said.
‘‘Why—headache?’’ asked Samuel.
‘‘Yes, sir.’’
‘‘All right, sit down,’’ Samuel said.
When the bell rang for the last period at 4.30, Swami picked up
his books and ran to the headmaster’s room. He found the
room locked. The peon told him the headmaster had gone on a
week’s leave. Swaminathan ran away from the place.
As soon as he entered home with the letter, Father said, ‘‘I
knew you wouldn’t deliver it.’’
‘‘But the headmaster is on leave’’, Swami said.
Father snatched the letter away from Swami and tore it up.
‘‘Don’t ever come to me for help if Samuel scolds you again.
You deserve your Samuel,’’ he said.
(i) Swami wanted to deliver the letter to—
[A] the peon B the headmaster
[C] the class teacher [D] his father
(ii) Samuel was teaching—
[A] Bengali [B] English [C] History D Arithmetic
(iii) When Swami was entering his school, he halted—
[A] at the school premises [B] at the tea stall
[C] at the book stall [D] at the school gate
(iv) Swami was hopeful that Samuel would—
[A] thank him B scold him
[C] bite him [D] encourage him
(v) Swami said that he had a—
[A] toothache [B] bodyache C headache [D] throatache

the text : 1×3=3
(a) Samuel was teaching _________________________________
Ans. arithmetic.
(b) Swami’s thinking, this was the time ____________________

Ans. when Samuel got most angry.
(c) Father snatched the latter away from ____________________
Ans. Swami and tore it up.
2×2=4
(i) Swami thought that he would deliver the letter to the
Headmaster at the end of the night. F
S.S. : He would deliver the letter to the headmaster at the end
of the day.
(ii) Samuel was teaching geomatry. F
S.S. : Samual was teaching arithmetic.
OR
Statement Reason
Swami told Samuel that
his father said he should
not miss school.
Swami could not deliver the
letter to the Head Master.
Why did you come at all?
He found the room locked.
‘‘I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.’’
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) The Poet wants to hear a story of—
A gay [B] sad [C] horrible [D] painful
(ii) The poet asks for a story from—
[A] a farmer [B] a story teller
C a sad fellow-rover [D] an old woman
(iii) The poet wants to spend the life of a gypsy which is—
[A] busy [B] bright C vagrant [D] smooth
(iv) The wind has been compared to a—
[A] blunt knife [B] wood cutter C whetted knife [D] spare
(i) What does the poet ask for after the long trick?
Ans. The poet wants to quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the
long tricks over.
(ii) What type of life does the poet ask for?
Ans. The poet asks for the vagrant life of a gypsy.
Set - 9
that follow :
‘‘It is always lovely on the Big Half Moon in summer. When it is
fine, the harbour is blue and calm, with little wind and ripples.
Every summer, we had some hobby. The last summer before
Dick and Mimi came, we were crazy about kits. A boy on the
mainland showed Claude how to make them, Back on the island
we made plenty of kites. Claude would to around to the other
side of the island and we would play shipwrecked mariners
signalling to each other with kites.
We had a kite that was big and covered with lovely red paper.
We pasted gold tinsel stars all over it and had written our names
full on it—Claude Leets and Philippa Leete, Big half Moon
lighthouse.
One day there was a grand wind for kite-flying. I’m not sure
how it happened, but as I was bringing the kite from the house,
I tripped and fell over the rocks. My elbow went clear through
the kite, making a big hole.
We had to hurry to fix the kite if we wanted to send it up before
the wind fell. We rushed into the lighthouse to get some paper.
We knew there was no more red paper. We took the first thing
that came handy—an old letter lying on the bookcase in the
sitting room. We patched the kite up with the letter, a sheet on
each side and dried it by the fire. We started out, and and up
went the kite like a bird. The wind was glorious and it soared.
All at once—snap! And there was Claude, standing with a bit of
cord in his hand, looking foolish. Our kite had sailed away over
to the mainland.
(i) One day there was a—
[A] little wind [B] storm
C grandwind [D] heavy storm
(ii) The kite was—
[A] small [B] neither big nor small
[C] so tiny [D] big
(iii) The Big Half moon is always lovely in—
[A] Winter [B] Spring C Summer [D] Autumn
(iv) The author was bringing the kite from—
A house [B] shop
[C] market [D] roof of the house
(v) The kite was covered with lovely—
[A] brown paper [B] black paper
C red paper [D] blue paper
the text : 1×3=3
(a) The torn kite was repaired with ___________________________
Ans. an old letter.
(b) I stumbled and ________________________________________
Ans. fell over the rocks.
(c) We ran quickly into the light house to get ___________________
Ans. some paper.
2×2=4
(i) It is never ugly on the Big Half Moon in Summer. T
S.S. : It is always lovely on the Big Half Moon is summer.
(ii) The writer’s big kite was covered with ugly yellow paper.
F
S.S. : We had a kite that was big and covered with lovely red
papper.
OR
Statement Reason
The writer’s elbow went
through the kite.
The writer and her play-
mates rushed into the
lighthouse.
Making a big hole.
To get some paper.
This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me.
When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
sentences : 1×4=4
(i) When the poet came out of the oakwood, his heart was that of
a—
[A] stag [B] human child [C] old man D tree
(ii) The dream of the poet had—
[A] made the poet happy [B] made the poet unhappy
C changed him [D] moderestless
(iii) The poet dreamt—
[A] in a house [B] under a tree
[C] in a cottage D beneath the boughs
(iv) After coming out of the oakwood, the poet’s walk was the walk
of a/an—
[A] young man B human child [C] old man [D] boy
(i) What was the changing of the poet when he came out of the
oakwood?
Ans. At that time, the poet returned to human company. The walk of
the poet was the walk of a human child and his heart was that
of a tree.
(ii) What did the poet felt in his dream?
Ans. The feeling of the poet was that he dreamt beneath the boughs
and the dream changed him also.
Section-B
Reading Comprehension [Unseen]
Set - 1
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions below :
Background [edit]
The construction for the 2.2 kilometre (1.4 mi) Vivekananda
flyover was constructed in 2008 and the work began in 2009.
IVRCL, a construction firm based in Hyderabad, won the bid for
the project. The company was given an 18 month deadline by
Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee to complete
the flyover by February 2016 and allocated a budget of nearly
165 crore (US$25 million) but only about 60 percent of the
work was completed. As of March 2015, IVRCL had a debt of
4055 crore (US$600 million) and reported losses of 672 crore
(US$100 million). In December 2015, a consortium of banks
that had lent to the company took over and the company had
been banned from doing business in Uttar Pradesh and several
others states.
On 30 March 2016, one day before the collapse, concrete was
laid on the bridge and hours before the collapse, construction
workers had heard the cracking noise of nuts in the cantilever.
Incident [edit]
At 12:40 pm IST on 31 March 2016, a 150 m (490 ft) span of
steel of the bridge collapsed, trapping many pedestrians and
vehicles underneath. The incident took place at the busy
Rabindra Sarani— K K Tagore road crossing. 27 people were
killed and at least 80 others were injured. More than 90 people
had been pulled from the rubble, but as of 1 April, over 100
people were still unaccounted for. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) volunteers worked in Kolkata flyover collapse relief
operations with police, NDRF and other security personnel and
the photographs of it have gone viral on various social media
platforms.
Aftermath [edit]
On 1 April 2016, the construction company IVRCL was charged
with murder, under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The
police detained five IVRCL officials in Kolkata and two in
Hyderabad and sealed off IVRCL’s local office in Kolkata. The
firm called the collapse an ‘‘accident’’, while one IVRCL official
described it as an ‘‘act of god’’. The shares of the company fell
11.7% the day after the disaster. Sixty-two families living in
buildings near the accident site were asked to vacate temporarily
for the safe removal of collapsed debris. In a letter sent to BSE,
IVRCL claimed that the design of the flyover was done by a
reputed consulting firm of Kolkata.
Reaction [edit]
The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, rushed to
oversee the post-crash relief and rescue operation, and made a
statement blaming the previous left-wing government for the
disaster. The previous state government, headed by the CPI(M),
alleged that the portion of the bridge that collapsed was built
during the current Government’s tenure. Minister of State for
Urban Development, Babul Supriyo remarked that the
construction work of the flyover was carried on in an unscientific
manner and ‘‘the state administration did not take any lesson
even after the collapse of Ultadanga flyover three years ago.’’
The legal advisor to IVRCL, Sheela Peddinti said, ‘‘The glass was
shattered. It could have been a blast.’’ The vice-president of the
Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi visited the injured and
the site of accident. He refused to make any political statements.
Later, he incidentally raised the issue at rallies and accused the
ruling party, Trinamool Congress of negligence.’’
[An extract from the Times of India]
sentences : 1×6=6
(i) The construction for the Vivekananda flyover was constracted
in—
[A] 2009 B 2008 [C] 2010 [D] 2016
(ii) The construction work for the flyover was started in—
[A] 2010 B 2009 [C] 2008 [D] 2015
(iii) The incident took place—
[A] at 11:40 am on 30th March 2016
[B] at 12:30 pm on 31 March 2016
C at 12:40 pm on 31 March 2016
[D] at 10:40 am on 31 March 2016
(iv) The Chief Minister of W.B., Mamata Banerjee gave the

company—
[A] 12 month deadline [B] 13 month deadline
[C] 16 month deadline
D 18 month deadline to complete the flyover
(v) The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee allocated a budget of
nearly—
[A] 60 crore B 165 crore [C] 186 crore [D] 672 crore
(vi) This fatal incident took place at the—
[A] busy Shyambazar road crossing
[B] Rabindra Sarabar road crossing
C busy Rabindra Sarani—K K Tagore road crossing
[D] Jatin Das Park road crossing.
B. Each of the following sentences is either ‘True’ or ‘False’.
Write ‘T’ for ‘True’ and ‘F’ for ‘False’ in the right hand side.
Also pick out suitable line from the text in support of your
answer : (1+1)×3=6
(i) Hours before the collapse, the pedestrians had heard the cracking
noise of nuts in the cantilever. F
S.S. : Hours before the collapse, construction workers had heard the
cracking noise of nuts in the cantilever.
(ii) RSS came forward for relief operations. T
S.S. : Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteers worked in Kolkata
flyover collapse relief operations with police.
(iii) The collapse was called a natural disaster by the firm. F
S.S. :
C. Answer the following questions : 2×4=8
(i) What was happend one day before and hours before the
collapse of the flyover?
Ans. On 30 March 2016, one day before the collapse the concrete
was laid on the bridge and hours before the collapse,
construction workers had heard the cracking noise of nuts in
the cantilever.
(ii) What was happend on the 1st April 2016?
Ans. On 1 April, 2016 the construction company IVRCL was charged
with murder, under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
(iii) What was written in a letter sent to BSE?
Ans. In a letter sent to BSE, IVRCL claimed that the design of the
flyover was done by a reputed consulting firm of Kolkata.
(iv) What was stated by Babul Supriyo on the account of the
collapse of flyover?
Ans. Babul Supriyo remarked that the construction work of the flyover
was carried on in an unscientific manner and the state
administration did not take any lesson even after the collapse
Ultadanga flyover three years ago.
Set - 2
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that
follow :
Six persons including a child were killed and over 70 wounded
in Manipur in an earthquake at 4.35 this morning, which tremors
were felt in Calcutta as well as Dhaka.
Five persons were killed in Bangladesh. Two persons died in
Murshidabad in Bengal and one in Bihar, taking the total toll in
India and across the border to 14.
The quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale, had its epicentre
at Noney in Tamenglong district, 40 km from Imphal.
The worst impact was felt in the twine districts of Imphal, East
and West, where five of the deaths occurred and many buildings,
including government offices, either collapsed or developed
cracks. The six death was reported from sadar Hills of Senapati
district.
When the termor struck, the market complexes of Imphal city
had already opened and some buyers had turned up. ‘‘I was
bargaining over a kilo of cabbage when I felt the tremor. I sat
down and saw people running here and there in panic. It was
really scary,’’ said Mr. Ratan Singh, an early buyer.
Imphal city police, Sudhir Kumar Singh, said he was standing
under the Bir Tikendrajit flyover near the vegetable vendors
when he first felt the tremor. ‘‘I tried to calm the terror stricken
vendors and shoppers. However there was complete chaos at
that time.’’ the officer said.
People had a tough time regulating the traffic with many people
turning up to see the cracked market building later in the day.
The damage was muchless because of the depth, about 40km
below the earth’s surface, at which there could be said to be a
fault dislocation because of stress. Had it occurred at a depth of
18-20km, such a high intensity quake would have resulted in
more damage.
The government announced the closure of all educational

institutions in Manipur for a week, beginning today, to ensure
student’s safety. Government offices, barring emergency services,
have also been shut down for two days from tomorrow in case
these are more aftersocks.
A 65 member National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team
has arrived in the state. One of the teams, along with a team of
Geological Survey of India, will visit Noney tomorrow to survey
the area. (adopted from the Telegraph, dated 5th Jan, 16)

sentences : 1×6=6
(i) The quake, measuring on the Richter scale—
[A] 5.4 B 6.8 [C] 9.5 [D] 7.8
(ii) The epicentre of this earth quake was—
[A] at Nanur B at Noney [C] at Patiyala [D] at Munger
(iii) When the tremor struck Imphal, the market had already—
A open [B] close [C] lonely [D] crowded
(iv) Sudhir Kumar Singh was—
A a police inspector [B] civic police
[C] guard [D] shopkeeper
(v) In Manipur an earthquake strucks at—
[A] 5.35am [B] 4.40am C 4.35am [D] 6pm
(vi) The government announced the closure of all educational
institutions in Manipur for—
[A] one month [B] fifteen days
C a week [D] two months
answer : (1+1)×3=6
(i) The worst effect was felt in the thrice districts of Imphal. F
S.S. : The worst impact was felt in the twine district of Imphal.
(ii) Mr. Ratan Singh was early visitor. F
S.S. : Mr. Ratan Singh, an early buyer.
(iii) The epicentre was at Nanur in Tamenglong district, 40 km from
Imphal. F
S.S. : The quake had its epicentre at Noney in Tamenglong district
40 km from Imphal.
(i) How many people were killed in Bangladesh, Murshidabad and
in Bihar?
Ans. Five persons were killed in Bangladesh, two died in Murshidabad
and one in Bihar.
(ii) Describe the worst effect in Imphal.
Ans. The worst impact was felt in the twin districts of Imphal, East
and West, where five of the deaths occurred and many buildings,
including government offices either collapsed or developed
cracks.
(iii) What was the situation of market when the tremor struck?
Ans. When the tremor struck, the market complexes of Imphal city
had already opened and some buyers had turned up.
(iv) Give an account of the experience of the earthquake according
to Mr. Ratan Singh?
Ans. Mr. Ratan Singh said, ‘‘I was bargaining over a kilo of cabbage
when I felt the tremor. I sat down and saw people running here
and there in panic. It was really scary.’’
Set - 3
follow :
Ahmedabad : A Buddha tourist circuit in Gujarat was among the
high points of the meeting between Chinese President XI Jinping
and Prime Minister Narendra Modi here in September 2014.
But recent constructions around the 4th century Buddhist cave
in Khambalida, in Jetpur taluka of Rajkot, are an eyesore for
heritage conservationists.
The facade of the ancient Buddhist cave has been hidden behind
a fibreglass shield. Inside the floor has been plastered with freshly
laid stone tiles. These are the interventions of the Gujarat
archeology department, which seems to have got the basics of
conservation wrong.
The reason offered for constructing the grotesque canopy is
constant see page from cracks during monsoon, which was
dissolving the facade of the limestone cave. However,
conservationists say there were better ways of protecting the
monument which has braved the vagaries of nature for over
1,600 years—than covering it with artificial material.
Ajanta caves had faced a similar problem and were reinforced

with compatible material. Khambhalida has three caves.
The entrance of the central cave, ‘Chaitya’ is flanked by two
large sculptures of Avalokiteshvara Padmaponi and
Avalokiteshvara Vajrapani—both forms of Buddha. These are
the only depictions of Avalokiteshvara in a Gujarat cave. The
cave features prominently in a book Buddha circuit brought out
by the government in 2010.
The former director of Gujarat state archeology department, Y S
Rawat, said, ‘‘There was no other way. This was a limestone
cave which was fragile. The fibreglass on top prevents limestone
from dissolving due to seepage. The complex is also sinking as a
whole due to weakening and had to be supported by pillars.’’
[An extract from the Times of India, 24th Sep. 2015]
sentences : 1×6=6
(i) The meeting between XI Jinping and Narendra Modi was held in—
[A] October 2016 B September 2014
[C] 5th September 2014 [D] 20th September 2014
(ii) The former director of Gujarat state archaeology department is—
[A] R K Narayan [B] S Bhenkat Swami
C Y S Rawat [D] Narendra Modi
(iii) The facade of the ancient Buddhist cave has been hidden behind a—
[A] glass shield [B] metal shield
[C] plastic shield D fibreglass shield
(iv) The place of the meeting between Chinese President XI Jinping
with Narendra Modi was—
[A] Bombay [B] Canada [C] Ahmedabad [D] New Delhi
(v) Ajanta caves had faced a—
[A] minor problem [B] great problem
C similar problem [D] critical problem
(vi) Khambhalida has—
[A] two caves [B] four caves [C] three caves [D] six caves
answer : (1+1)×3=6
(i) The W. B. Government brought out the cave features prominently
in a book Buddha circuit. F
S.S. : The cave features prominently in a book Buddha circuit brought
out by the government.
(ii) Recent constructions around the 4th century are a coldsore for
heritage conservationists. F
S.S. : But recent constructions around the 4th century Buddhist cave
in Khambalida, in Jetpur taluka of Rajkot, are an eyesore for
heritage conservationists.
(iii) The floor of the Buddhist cave has been plastered with freshly-
laid cement tiles. F
S.S. : Inside the floor has been plastered with freshly-laid stone tiles.
(i) How is the enbrance of the central cave ‘Chaitya’ flanked by?
Ans. The entrance of the central cave, ‘Chaitya’ is flanked by two
large sculptures of Avalokiteshvara Padmapani and
Avalokiteshvara vajrapani—both forms of Buddha.
(ii) What are the two forms of Buddha mentioned in the text?
Ans. Avalokiteshvara Padmapani and Avalokiteshvara Vajrapani both
are the two forms of Buddha.
(iii) What is the reason offered for constructing the grotesque
canopy?
Ans. The reason offered for constructing the grotesque canopy is
constant see page from cracks during monsoon, which was
dissolving the facade of the limestone cave.
(iv) Which are the interventions of the Gujarat archaeology
department?
Ans. The facade of the ancient Buddhist cave has been hidden behind
a fibreglass shield. Inside, the floor has been plastered with
freshlylaid stone tiles. These are the interventions of the Gujarat
archaeology department.
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Section-C
Grammar and Vocaublary
Set - 1
A. Choose the correct forms of verbs to fill in the blanks :
1×3=3
(i) Thousands of people wept, (tried/were trying/will try/
trying) to touch Bapu’s feet.
(ii) He (purred/is purring/purrs/purr) as he retires to a
safe distance from the guest’s boot before eating his food.
(iii) We (will live/live/lived/lives) on the Big Half Moon
island.
B. Fill in the blanks with appropriate article and prepositions :
1×3=3
I must go down (of/for/to/into) the seas again.
(for/of/on/to) the call of (a/an/the).
C. Do as directed : 1×6=6
(i) When their mother saw the kite patched with the letter, she
turned pale. (Split up the sentence)
Ans. (a) Their mother saw the kite.
(b) The kite was patched with the letter.
(c) She turned pale.
(ii) They jostled one another is a stampede to break into the house.
(frame a question with ‘why’)
Ans. Why did they jostle one another in a stampede?
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(iii) He purrs noisily. (Turn into negative)
Ans. He does not purr without noise.
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(iv) ‘‘Do you want to know what became of your kite?’’ he said
(N.C.)
Ans. He asked if they wanted to know what had became of their kite.
N.B. (i) ≤ÃŸ¿ˆÏÓyôÜ˛ ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒÓ˚ Narration change •ÄÎ˚yÓ˚ çöƒ reporting verb
tense xö%ÎyÎ˚# asked •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(ii) ≤ÃŸ¿ ‘Do’ operator !òˆÏÎ˚ ¢%Ó˚% •ÄÎ˚yÓ˚ çöƒ ‘Linker’ !•§yˆÏÓ if ÓˆÏ§ˆÏåÈ–
‘if’ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õˆÏÓ˚ ‘you’ ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ •ˆÏÎ˚ ‘they’ •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(v) The ashes were immersed in the Ganges. A huge crowd had
gathered at the bank. (Join into complex sentence)
Ans. The ashes were immersed in the Ganges where a huge crowd
had gathered at the bank.
(vi) I ask a windy day. (Turn into nagative)
Ans. I do not ask a windless day.
N.B. Negative sentence-~ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ §üÎ˚ finite verb-~Ó˚ tense xö%ÎyÎ˚#
~Ü˛!ê˛ ‘Do’ support !öˆÏÎ˚ not Ó§yˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ ~ÓÇ ò%Û~Ü˛!ê˛ ¢ˆÏ∑Ó˚ ‘opposite
word’ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
D. Given below are the meanings of four words which you will
find in Unseen Set-2 (Page-40). Find out the words and write
them in the appropriate boxes on the right hand side.
2×4=8
(i) suitable : compatible
(ii) carving : sculpture
(iii) not natural : artificial
(iv) rainy season : monsoon
Set - 2
1×3=3
(i) Swami (stands/is standing/stood/stands) at the
entrance to his class.
(ii) Swami (hopes/hoped/has hoped/had hoped) Samuel
would scold him severely.
(iii) Gandhiji’s funeral was (took/to take/taken/had taken)
place the day after his death.
1×3=3
When (a/to/the/at) family sits down (to/
for/ over/the) tea, the cat puts in (an/the/a/for)
appearance to get his share.
(i) My grandfather lives in a big house. The house is by the river.
(Join into a complex sentence)
Ans. My grandfather lives in a big house which is by the river.
N.B. Ó› !ÓˆÏ¢£Ï (house) ~Ó˚ ˛õˆÏÓ˚ ‘which’ ‘Pronoun’!ê˛ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ Adjective
clause-~ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ complex sentence-~ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(ii) The call of the running tide is wild. (Shorten the sentence)
Ans. The running tide calls wildly.
N.B. ~áyˆÏö ‘wild’-~Ó˚ ‘Adverb’ form ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ˆÏÜ˛ ‘shorten’ Ü˛Ó˚y
•ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(iii) Samuel said, ‘‘You are half an hour late.’’ (Turn into indirect
speech)
Ans. Samuel said that he was half an hour late.
N.B. (i) Assertive sentence-~Ó˚ Narration change •ÄÎ˚yÎ˚ Reporting verb
‘said’ x˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ Ó˚ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(ii) ~Ü˛!ê˛ ‘that’ linker ÓˆÏ§ˆÏåÈ– ‘you’ ‘he’ÙÈˆï˛ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– Reporting
verb ‘said’ simple past-~ ÌyÜ˛yÎ˚ ‘are’ ‘was’ •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(iv) As he entered the school gate, an idea occured to him. (Split

up the sentence)
Ans. (i) He entered the school gate.
(ii) An idea occured to him.
(v) I have not done my homework. (Change the voice)
Ans. My homework has not been done by me.
N.B. ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ Present perfect TenseÈÙÈ~ Ó˚ˆÏÎˆ˚ ÏåÈ– ï˛y•z !öÎ˚ü!ê˛ •°ÈÙÙÙÈsubject+have
3
been/has been+v +by+object.
2×4=8
(i) An annual financial estimate of government. : budget
(ii) one journeying on foot. : pedestrian
(iii) calamity : disaster
(iv) sudden broke down : collapsed
Set - 3
1×3=3
(i) Swami (was stopped/stopped/had stopped/stops) on
the road side to make up his mind about Samuel.
(ii) Swami’s head (is/had/was/will be) dizzy with
confusion.
(iii) I was (called/being called/calling/call) to Birla house
by an urgent telephone.
1×3=3
They jostled on another (in/for/into/of) a stampede
(for/to/on/of) break into (a/an/the/for)
house.
(i) They did not make a sound. (Turn into affirmative sentence)
Ans. They were soundless.
N.B. ‘did not’ í˛z!ë˛ˆÏÎ˚ !òˆÏÎ˚ tense xö%ÎyÎ˚# were Ó!§ˆÏÎ˚ ‘sound’ÙÈ~Ó˚ synonym/
opposite word ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(ii) Swami changed his tactics. (change the voice)
Ans. His tactics were changed by Swami.
3
N.B. Subject+was/were/+v +by+object ‘change’ verb !ê˛ past
indefiniteÈÙÈ~ ÌyÜ˛yÓ˚ çöƒ Passive Auxiliary ‘were’ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(iii) Bapu had died but his India would continue to live in his
children. (Replace the underlined word with phrasal verb)
Ans. Bapu has passed away but his India would continue to live in his
children.
(iv) Father asked Swami, ‘‘Have you no school today?’’ (Change
the narration)
Ans. Father asked Swami if he had no school that day.
N.B. ≤ÃŸ¿ ‘Have’ Auxiliary !òˆÏÎ˚ ¢%Ó˚% •ÄÎ˚yÎ˚ Linker !•§yˆÏÓ if ÓˆÏ§ˆÏåÈ– Repoting
verb ≤ÃŸ¿ˆÏÓyôÜ˛ ÓyÜ˛ƒ •ÄÎ˚yÎ˚ ‘asked’-•z Ó˚ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈñ ÓyÜ˛# §Ó•z Narration
change-~Ó˚ !öÎ˚ˆÏü •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(v) I was numb with shock. I got into the car. (Join into simple)
Ans. Being numb with shock, I got into the car.
N.B. ~Ü˛•z Ü˛ï≈˛y ò%!ê˛ !Ü ˛Î˚y ˛õÓ˚˛õÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏ° xyˆÏàÓ˚ !Ü ˛Î˚yÓ˚ §ˆÏAà ‘ing’ ˆÎyà •ˆÏÓ–
‘was’, ‘be’ verb-~Ó˚ xhsˇû%≈˛=˛ •ÄÎ˚yÎ˚ ‘being’ •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(vi) When the bell rang for the last period at 4-30, Swami Picked
up his books and ran to the headmaster’s room. (Split up the
sentence)
Ans. (a) The bell rang for the last period at 4-30.
(b) Swami picked up his books.
(c) He ran to the headmaster’s room.
2×4=8
(i) distinct : several
(ii) assigned : allocated
(iii) a bracket from wall to support balcony. : cantilever
(iv) enter into any service of one’s own free will. : volunteer
Set - 4
A. Choose the correct forms of verbs to fill in the blanks : 1×3=3
(i) We had a kite that was big and . (iscovered/covered/
will cover/had covered)
(ii) He (will rub/is rubbing/rubs/had rubbed) himself against the
legs of the family members.
(iii) He (gave/is giving/will give/has given) them the
privilege of boarding him while he enjoys life in his own way.
1×3=3
One day when Dick and Mimi were (in/out/on/to) in
(a/an/the) woods, they discovered the kite
(on/of/in/over) the top of a tree and carried it home.
(i) Most of the people think that the cat is not an unintelligent
animal. (Turn into affirmative)
Ans. Most of the people think that the cat is an intelligent animal.
N.B. ~áyˆÏö Negative ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ Affirmative-˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ §üÎ˚ ‘Not’ í˛z!ë˛ˆÏÎ˚ !òˆÏÎ˚
‘unintelligent’-~Ó˚ Antonym/opposite word ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(ii) He was the worst boy on earth. (Change into positive degree)
Ans. No other boy was as so bad as he on the earth.
N.B. Rule –– No other+noun+verb+as+adjective+as+noun/Pronoun
ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒÓ˚ ˆ¢ˆÏ£ÏÓ˚ Noun xÇ¢ ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒÓ˚ ¢%Ó˚%Ó˚ xÇˆÏ¢Ó˚
(iii) The people were too stunned to speak in the beginning. (remove
too).
Ans. The people were so stunned that they could not speak in the
beginning.
N.B. ‘too’-~Ó˚ ˛õ!Ó˚ÓˆÏï≈˛ ‘so’ ~ÓÇ ‘to’ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˛õ!Ó˚ÓˆÏï≈˛ that ÓˆÏ§ˆÏåÈ– ‘that’
clause!ê˛ˆÏÜ˛ Nagative Ü˛Ó˚y •Î˚ ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒ ÓƒÓ•,ï˛ verb-~Ó˚ Tense xö%ÎyÎ˚#–
‘Be’ verb-~Ó˚ Present form-~ ÌyÜ˛ˆÏ° ‘cannot’ ~ÓÇ past form-~
ÌyÜ˛ˆÏ° could not Ó§ˆÏÓ–
(iv) Father had composed a long letter to the headmaster. (Change
the voice)
Ans. A long letter had been composed to the headmaster by father.
N.B. ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ Past perfect-~ ÌyÜ˛yÎ˚ passive voice-~Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe Rule!ê˛ •°ÈÙÙÙÈ
3
subject+had been+v +by+object.
(v) ‘‘Swaminathan, where is your homework?’’ asked Samuel.
(Change into indirect speech)
Ans. Samuel asked Swaminathan where his homework was.
N.B. ≤ÃŸ¿ˆÏÓyôÜ˛ ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒÓ˚ Narration change.
(i) Reporting verb ask Ó§ˆÏÓ tense xö%ÎyÎ˚#–
(ii) ≤ÃŸ¿ ‘wh’ word !òˆÏÎ˚ ¢%Ó˚% •ˆÏ° ‘wh’ word-•z Ó§ˆÏÓ–
(iii) ‘wh’ word-~Ó˚ ˛õÓ˚ reported speech ~Ó˚ ‘your’ ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ •ˆÏÎ˚
‘his’ •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(iv) ‘Reporting verb’ ‘Past’ Tense-~ ÌyÜ˛yÎ˚ Reported speech-~Ó˚
verbÄ past •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(vi) There was silence in the room as Gandhiji breathed his last.
(Rewrite the sentence using the adjective form of silence)
Ans. The room was silent as Gandhiji breathed his last.
N.B. ‘Parts of speech’ ˛õ!Ó˚Óï≈˛öÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe Ü˛áöÄ Ü˛áöÄ ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ˆÏÜ˛ xÌ≈ !ë˛Ü˛
ˆÓ˚ˆÏá ~Ü˛ê%˛ â%!Ó˚ˆÏÎ˚ !°áˆÏï˛ •Î˚– ˆ§•z ‘word’-~Ó˚ í˛z˛õÎ%=˛ ‘Parts of speech’
ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •Î˚–
2×4=8
(i) an agreement concerning purchase or sale : bargain
(ii) Thrill : tremor
(iii) The end or conclusion : closure
(iv) extreme or sudden fright : panic
Set - 5
A. Choose the correct forms of verbs to fill in the blanks : 1×3=3
(i) And the former (was calling/had called/will call/called)
the latter ‘Little Prig’.
(ii) They (looked/is looking/was looking/had looked) like
lost children.
(iii) The peon told him the headmaster (had gone/would
have gone/would go/has gone) on a week’s leave.
1×3=3
(In/On/To/Upto) top of the shed, the cat arches his
back and rakes his claws once or twice (throug/on/of/
in) the soft bark of (a/an/the/under) old roof.
(i) When the family has finished tea, and gathers round the fire
the cat casually goes out of the room. (Split up the sentence)
Ans. (a) The family has finished the tea.
(b) The family gathers round the fire.
(c) The cat casually goes out of the room.
N.B. Split up-~Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe ~Ü˛!ê˛ ò#â≈ ÓyÜ˛ƒˆÏÜ˛ âê˛öy ˛õÓ˚¡õÓ˚y verb-~Ó˚ tense xö%ÎyÎ˚#
ÎÌy§Ω˛Ó ˆåÈyˆÏê˛y ˆåÈyˆÏê˛y §Ó˚° ÓyÜ˛ƒ Óy simple sentence-~ (i), (ii),
(iii)ÙÙÙÈ~û˛yˆÏÓ ˛õÓ˚˛õÓ˚ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
(ii) Swami sat down, feeling sad. (Join into complex)
Ans. Swami who sat down, felt sad.
N.B. Óƒ!=˛ !ÓˆÏ¢ˆÏ£ÏÓ˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe ‘who’ ~•z Pronoun!ê˛ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ ‘Adjective
clause’ÈÙÈ~ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ complex sentence-~Ó˚ joining Ü˛Ó˚y •Î˚–
(iii) As he entered the school gate, an idea occurred to him. (Turn
into simple sentence)
Ans. On his entrance the school gate, an idea occurred to him.
N.B. ~áyˆÏö Preposition with Noun ˆÎyˆÏà simple sentence-~ ˛õ!Ó˚îï˛ Ü˛Ó˚y
•ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ– ~áyˆÏö ‘On’ Preposition ~ÓÇ ‘entered’ verbÈÙÈ~Ó˚ Noun form
‘entrance’ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(iv) The call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call. (Use
not only....but also)
Ans. The call of the running tide is not only wild but also clear.
N.B. ‘Not only.....but also’È ÙÙÙÈ~!ê˛ ~Ü˛!ê˛ §üß∫Î˚Óyã˛Ü˛ xÓƒÎ˚– ò%!ê˛ ~Ü˛•z çyï˛#Î˚
!ç!öˆÏ§Ó˚ §üß∫Î˚ ˆÓyé˛yˆÏï˛ ÓƒÓ•,ï˛ •Î˚– ˆÎüö ı ‘wild call’ Ä ‘clear call’-
ò%!ê˛Ó˚ §üß∫Î˚ ˆÓyé˛yˆÏï˛ ‘Not only.....but also’ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
(v) ‘‘Swaminathan, where is your home work?’’ said Samuel. (Turn
into indirect speech)
Ans. Samuel asked Swaminathan where his home work was.
(vi) Claude and I couldn’t understand what he meant. (Replace the
underlined word with a phrasal verb)
Ans. Claude and I couldn’t make out what he meant.
N.B. ‘Phrasal verb’ à%!° ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒ ÓƒÓ•,ï˛ verb-~Ó˚ Tence xö%ÎyÎ˚# ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛
•ˆÏÓ– ˆÎüöñ ‘understand’ verb!ê˛ Present Tense ÌyÜ˛yÎ˚ ‘Makeout’
phrasal verb!ê˛Ó˚Ä Present form ÓˆÏ§ˆÏåÈ– ~Ó˚çöƒ à%Ó˚%c˛õ)î≈ Phrasal
verbà%!° xÌ≈ xö%ÎyÎ˚# ˜ï˛!Ó˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
2×4=8
(i) the front of a building to words a street or
open space. : facade
(ii) frail : fragile
(iii) the study of ancient buildings and other remains. : archaeology
(iv) before in time. : former
N.B. ‘D’ xÇˆÏ¢ ‘unseen’ passage ˆÌˆÏÜ˛ ˆÎ ã˛yÓ˚!ê˛ ‘word’-~Ó˚ synonyms á%ÑˆÏç
ÓyÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •Î˚ñ ï˛yÓ˚ çöƒ åÈyeÈÙÈåÈye#ˆÏòÓ˚ •zÇˆÏÓ˚!ç ˜ò!öÜ˛ ˛õ!eÜ˛y ˛õˆÏí˛¸ !öˆÏçÓ˚
‘stock of words’ Óy ¢∑ û˛y[˛yÓ˚ ˛õ)î≈ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
Section-D
WRITING SKILL
RULES OF WRITING SECTION
PARAGRAPH
P Paragraph ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ !öˆÏã˛Ó˚ !öÎ˚ü ˆüˆÏö ã˛°ˆÏÓ ı
1. ≤ÃÌˆÏü•z ˆÎ !Ó£ÏˆÏÎ˚ Paragraph !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ ˆ§•z !Ó£ÏÎ˚!ê˛ˆÏÜ˛ ˛õÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ §•ç
û˛y£ÏyÎ˚ üˆÏöÓ˚ üˆÏôƒ ôyÓ˚yÓy!•Ü˛ §y!çˆÏÎ˚ !öˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
2. ≤ÃÌˆÏü•z Paragraph!ê˛Ó˚ !¢ˆÏÓ˚yöyü Óy Title!ê˛ Óí˛¸ •yˆÏï˛Ó˚ •Ó˚ˆÏú˛ xÌ≈yÍ Capital
letter-~ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
3. ü)° !Ó£ÏÎ˚!ê˛Ó˚ í˛zˆÏÕ‘á Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ Paragraph!ê˛Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ ˆ°áy í˛z!ã˛ï˛–
4. Paragraph ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ §Ó§üÎ˚ §•ç ¢∑ Ä §Ó˚° ÓyÜ˛ƒ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
5. ≤ÃˆÏï˛ƒÜ˛!ê˛ Hints-~Ó˚ í˛z˛õÓ˚ ~Ü˛!ê˛ xÌÓy ò%!ê˛ ÓyÜ˛ƒ ˆ°áy ˆÎˆÏï˛•z ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
6. ~Ü˛!ê˛ Concluding sentence Óy §üy!Æ ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒÓ˚ üyôƒˆÏü paragraph!ê˛ ˆ¢£Ï
Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
7. Paragraph ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ xÓ¢ƒ•z spelling Óy Óyöyöñ capital letters Óy Óí˛¸
•yˆÏï˛Ó˚ x«˛ˆÏÓ˚Ó˚ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ñ grammar Óy ÓƒyÜ˛Ó˚ˆÏîÓ˚ û%˛°ñ ˆåÈò Óy Î!ï˛ !ã˛•´
(punctuation marks)-~Ó˚ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ !òˆÏÜ˛ öçÓ˚ ˆòÄÎ˚y í˛z!ã˛ï˛–
STORY
P Story ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ !öˆÏã˛Ó˚ !öÎ˚ü ˆüˆÏö ã˛°ˆÏÓ ı
1. ≤ÃÌˆÏü•z àˆÏ“Ó˚ Hints à%!° û˛yˆÏ°y Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ ˛õˆÏí˛¸ !öˆÏÎ˚ üˆÏöÓ˚ üˆÏôƒ âê˛öy ˛õÓ˚¡õÓ˚y
à“!ê˛ˆÏÜ˛ §y!çˆÏÎ˚ !öˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
2. àˆÏ“Ó˚ çöƒ ~Ü˛!ê˛ í˛z˛õÎ%=˛ !¢ˆÏÓ˚yöyü (justified title) ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
!¢ˆÏÓ˚yöyü!ê˛ xÓ¢ƒ•z capital letters-~ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
3. Hints xö%ÎyÎ˚# àˆÏ“Ó˚ verb Óy !Ü ˛Î˚y˛õòà%!°ˆÏÜ˛ past form (Past Indefinite)
ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
4. ˆÓ¢ ≤Ãyã˛#ö à“ •ˆÏ° ‘Once upon a time’, ‘Once there lived’ •zï˛ƒy!ò
phrase à%!° !òˆÏÎ˚ à“ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ ¢%Ó˚% Ü˛Ó˚y ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
5. àˆÏ“Ó˚ ˆ¢ˆÏ£Ï ‘moral’ ≤Ã§ˆÏAà Ó°y ÎyÎ˚ÈÙÙÙÈ‘moral’ ≤ÃˆÏŸ¿ ã˛y•zˆÏ° ï˛ˆÏÓ•z ˆòÄÎ˚y í˛z!ã˛ï˛–
PROCESSING
P Process ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ !öˆÏã˛Ó˚ !öÎ˚ü ˆüˆÏö ã˛°ˆÏÓ ı
1. ≤ÃÌˆÏü•z ˆ°áy ¢%Ó˚%Ó˚ xyˆÏà Ä ˛õˆÏÓ˚ üyé˛yüy!é˛ çyÎ˚àyÎ˚ ˆÎ !Ó£ÏˆÏÎ˚Ó˚ processing
ˆ§!ê˛ capital letters-~ !°áˆÏÓ–
2. ˆÎ !Ó£ÏˆÏÎ˚ Processing, ˆ§•z processing-~Ó˚ à%Ó˚%c Óy importance §¡õˆÏÜ≈˛
2ÈÙÈ3!ê˛ ÓyÜ˛ƒ ˆòÄÎ˚y ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
3. §yôyÓ˚îû˛yˆÏÓ ‘processing’ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ≤Ã!ï˛!ê˛ ÓyˆÏÜ˛ƒ•z passive voice ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛
•ˆÏÓ–
4. ÓyÜ˛ƒà%!°Ó˚ ˛õyÓ˚flõ!Ó˚Ü˛ §¡õÜ≈˛ ÓçyÎ˚ Ó˚yáyÓ˚ çöƒ ¢%Ó˚%ˆÏï˛•z at first, ï˛yÓ˚˛õÓ˚
then, after that, there after •zï˛ƒy!ò ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y •Î˚– ˆ¢ˆÏ£Ï at last/
finally ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
5. ≤ÃˆÏï˛ƒÜ˛!ê˛ processing ˆ«˛ˆÏe it is made/prepared through a number
of steps/stages ÓyÜ˛ƒ!ê˛ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y ÎyˆÏÓ–
6. ~áyˆÏö !Ó!û˛ß¨ ôÓ˚ˆÏöÓ˚ ‘processing’-~Ó˚ ‘solution’ ˆ°áy •°– ˆ§à%!°
û˛yˆÏ°yû˛yˆÏÓ ˛õˆÏí˛¸ processingÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ˆ¢£Ï ÓyÜ˛ƒà%!° ˆ°áy ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚– ˆÎüöÈÙÙÙÈ
(i) Now mustard oil is ready for use, (ii) It is sent to market for
sale, (iii) It is served •zï˛ƒy!ò–
7. ~•z Ó•zÈÙÈ~Ó˚ !Ó!û˛ß¨ ôÓ˚ˆÏöÓ˚ Processing-~Ó˚ Introductionà%!° ˆÌˆÏÜ˛Ä xöƒyöƒ
Processing-~ ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y ÎyˆÏÓ–
REPORT
P Report ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ !öˆÏã˛Ó˚ !öÎ˚ü ˆüˆÏö ã˛°ˆÏÓ ı
1. Report ˆ°áy ¢%Ó˚% Ü˛Ó˚yÓ˚ xyˆÏà•z ~Ü˛!ê˛ í˛z˛õÎ%=˛ Ä ï˛yÍ˛õÎ≈˛õ)î≈ !¢ˆÏÓ˚yöyü Óy
Title !òˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– ‘Title’!ê˛ ~üö •ÄÎ˚y í˛z!ã˛ï˛ ÎyˆÏï˛ !Ó£ÏÎ˚!ê˛ ≤Ãû˛y!Óï˛
(impressive) •ˆÏÓ–
2. ‘Title’!ê˛ xÓ¢ƒ•z capital letter-~ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– xÌÓy ≤Ã!ï˛!ê˛ ¢ˆÏ∑Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü
x«˛Ó˚ Óy first letter, capital •ˆÏÓñ ¢%ô% prepositions Ä conjunctions
ÓyˆÏò– ˆÎüöÈÙÙÙÈDIED IN A ROAD ACCIDENT/Died in a Road Accident–
3. ‘Title’-~Ó˚ !ë˛Ü˛ ö#ˆÏã˛ ~Ü˛ê%˛ í˛yö !òÜ˛ ˆâÑˆÏ£Ï ‘By a staff Reporter’ !°áˆÏï˛
•ˆÏÓ–
4. The main body of the report ¢%Ó˚% •ˆÏÓ place, date ~ÓÇ year !òˆÏÎ–˚
‘Place’ xÓ¢ƒ•z capital letters-~ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– ˆÎüöÈÙÙÙÈ KOLKATA,
March-3, 2016
5. Report xÓ¢ƒ•z past tense-~ •ˆÏÓ–
NOTICE
P Notice ˆ°áyÓ˚ §üÎ˚ !öˆÏã˛Ó˚ !öÎ˚ü ˆüˆÏö ã˛°ˆÏÓ ı
1. ¢%Ó%̊ˆÏï˛•z üyé˛yüy!é˛ çyÎ˚àyÎ˚ ‘Notice’ ¢∑!ê˛ˆÏÜ˛ capital letters-~ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
ˆÎüöÈÙÙÙÈNOTICE
2. ‘NOTICE’ ¢∑!ê˛ ˆ°áyÓ˚ !ë˛Ü˛ ö#ˆÏã˛•z ‘notice’-~Ó˚ !Ó£ÏÎ!˚ ê˛ !°áˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– !Ó£ÏÎ!˚ ê˛Ó˚
≤ÃˆÏï˛ƒÜ˛!ê˛ ¢ˆÏ∑Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü x«˛Ó˚ capital letter •ˆÏÓñ ¢%ô% Prepositions Ä
conjunctions ÓyˆÏò–
3. ‘Notice’ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ !Ó£ÏÎ˚ ˆ°áyÓ˚ ˛õÓ˚ ï˛yÓ˚ ö#ˆÏã˛ Óyü!òÜ˛ ÓÓ˚yÓÓ˚ ‘Notice’ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ !ÓK˛!Æ
ö¡∫Ó˚ !òˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– !ë˛Ü˛ !ÓK˛!Æ ö¡∫Ó˚ ÓÓ˚yÓÓ˚ í˛yö!òˆÏÜ˛ ‘Notice’ Óy !ÓK˛!Æ çy!Ó˚Ó˚
ï˛y!Ó˚á !òˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ– ˆÎüöÈÙÙÙÈ
No. S/ 01/ 2016 Date : 28.05.2016
4. ‘Notice’ §Ó§üÎ˚ §•ç û˛y£ÏyÎ˚ ˆ°áy í˛z!ã˛ï˛ñ ÎyˆÏï˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ §Ü˛ˆÏ°•z ï˛y Ó%é˛ˆÏï˛
˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
5. ˆÜ˛yˆÏöy x≤Ãy§!AàÜ˛ ï˛Ìƒ ‘Notice’ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ xhsˇû%≈˛=˛ Ü˛Ó˚y ã˛°ˆÏÓ öy–
6. ‘Notice’ •ˆÏÓ §Ç!«˛Æ Ä ≤ÃÌyàï˛–
7. Secretory-~Ó˚ öyü Ä !ë˛Ü˛yöy ö#ˆÏã˛ í˛yö!òˆÏÜ˛ !òˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
PERSONAL LETTER
P How to write a personal letter :
1. Address of the sender
SˆÎ ˛õyë˛yˆÏFåÈ ï˛yÓ˚ !ë˛Ü˛yöyV
2. Date Sï˛y!Ó˚áV
3. Solution
My dear Amit,
4. Body of the letter, ~•z ˆ«˛ˆÏe ~•z Ó•zˆÏï˛ Personal letter-~Ó˚ ‘body of
the letter’ xÇˆÏ¢Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü 3ˆê˛ Óy 4ˆê˛ ÓyÜ˛ƒ ˜ï˛!Ó˚ Ó˚yáˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ Îy ˆÎ ˆÜ˛yö
personal letter-~Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y ÎyˆÏÓ– ‘letter’-~Ó˚ ˆ¢ˆÏ£ÏÓ˚ 2ÈÙÈ3!ê˛
°y•zöÄ ü%áhflÏ Ó˚yáy ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
5. Your friend
Bidesh
6. ÎyˆÏÜ˛ letter ˛õyë˛yˆÏöy •ˆÏFåÈ ï˛yÓ˚ !ë˛Ü˛yöy–
EDITOR LETTER
P How to write a editorial letter :
1. To 2. Date : of the sender
The Editor place :
The Hindustan Times
Delhi
3. Sub :
4. Sir,
5. Body of the letter : ~•z ˆ«˛ˆÏe ‘Editorial letter’ üyˆÏö•z Ó°y
ÎyÎ˚ §ü§ƒy §ÇÜ ˛yhsˇ– ï˛y•z ~•z Ó•zÈÙÈ~Ó˚ ‘body of the letter’-~Ó˚ ≤ÃÌü ‘para’!ê˛
ü%áhflÏ Ó˚yáˆÏ°ñ ï˛y ˆÎ ˆÜ˛yö §ü§ƒy Ó•%° Editorial letter-~Ó˚ ˆ«˛ˆÏe ‘apply’
Ü˛Ó˚y ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚– ¢%ô% !Ó£ÏÎ˚ ˛õ!Ó˚Óï≈˛ö Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
ˆ¢ˆÏ£ÏÓ˚ ‘Para’!ê˛Ä ü%áhflÏ ˆÓ˚ˆÏá !Ó£ÏÎ˚ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ !Ü˛å%È ˛õ!Ó˚Óï≈˛ö Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ ‘Apply’ Ü˛Ó˚y
ˆÎˆÏï˛ ˛õyˆÏÓ˚–
6. Yours faithfully
!öˆÏçÓ˚ öyü
OFFICIAL / SCHOOL LETTER
P How to write an official letter / School letter :
~•z ˆ«˛ˆÏe í˛z˛õˆÏÓ˚y=˛ ‘Editorial letter’-~Ó˚ÈÙÈ•z format ÓƒÓ•yÓ˚ Ü˛Ó˚y ÎyˆÏÓñ ¢%ô%
ÎyˆÏÜ˛ ˆòÄÎ˚y •ˆÏFåÈ ï˛yÓ˚ ‘Address’!ê˛ ˛õ!Ó˚Ó!ï≈˛ï˛ •ˆÏÓ–
N.B. ˛õ!Ó˚ˆÏ¢ˆÏ£Ï åÈyeÈÙÈåÈye#ˆÏòÓ˚ í˛zˆÏj¢ƒ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ Ó!° ï˛yÓ˚y ˆÎö ‘Writing section’-~Ó˚
xhsˇà≈ï˛ ≤ÃˆÏï˛ƒÜ˛!ê˛ ‘Writing’-~Ó˚ Format û˛yˆÏ°yû˛yˆÏÓ ≤Ã›ï˛ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ Ó˚yˆÏá– ˆÜ˛ööy
ˆÜ˛yö ‘Writing’-~Ó˚ ≤ÃŸ¿ ˆåÈˆÏí˛¸ öy !òˆÏÎ˚ ÓÓ˚Ç ‘Format’ xö%§Ó˚î Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚ !°áˆÏ°
xÓ¢ƒ•z !Ü˛å%È ö¡∫Ó˚ ˛õyÄÎ˚y ÎyˆÏÓ– xÓ¢ƒ•z ~•z Ó•zÈÙÈ~Ó˚ writingà%!° xû˛ƒy§
Ü˛Ó˚ˆÏÓ– Grammar xÇˆÏ¢ ≤ÃˆÏï˛ƒÜ˛!ê˛ @ˇÃyüyÓ˚ÈÙÈ~Ó˚ §Ç!«˛Æ Rules ˆòÄÎ˚y •ˆÏÎ˚ˆÏåÈ–
ï˛yÓ˚y ˆÎö ï˛y xû˛ƒy§ Ü˛ˆÏÓ˚– xÓ¢ƒ•z §yú˛°ƒ xy§ˆÏÓ–
Set - 1
1. Write a paragraph (in about 100 words) about the
‘Kanyashree Project’ undertaken by the W. B. Government :
10
[Points : A social development project––started in 2011––a great
view––its goal––an annual scholarship––a one time scholarship
of Rs. 2500]
THE KANYASHREE PROJECT
The Kanyashree Project is a social development project. It is
undertaken by the women development and social welfare
department of the West Bengal Government. It was started in
2011. The purpose of this project is to ensure the study of the
girls of West Bengal. Through the help of this project the girls
can study to a minimum of H. S. level. In the rural areas, after
finishing the study, the children become the victims of child
marriage. This project is also helpful to stop this child marriage.
The girls who are under the school education will get an annual
scholarship of Rs. 500/. The unmarried girls whose ages are
18–19 years will get a one-time scholarship of Rs. 25,000. The
government think that this project will be helpful to reduce the

gender bias. It will also be helpful to cut down the number of
school droptouts. (words–106)
2. Write a letter to your pen friend telling him about your
recent visit to a place of historical interest : 10
Own address .............................
Date : ........................................
Dear Dipak,
It is nice to get your letter after a long time. I have gone
through your letter and felt a great joy. But here is a good news
for you. I am going to tell you about that. In the last winter I
went to visit Murshidabad, a place of historical interest.
Murshidabad offers a multitude of interesting places. I was
accompanied by my parents. There are many attractive places,
such as ‘the Hazarduari’, ‘the New palace’, ‘the Kathgola Bagan’,
‘the Khoshbag Fomb’, ‘Jagath Set’s House’, etc. The most
interesting place is the Hazarduari which I have seen on the first
day. We also paid a visit to the notable attractions like the
Kathgola bagan, ‘the new palace’, the Khoshbag Fomb etc by a
‘To-To car’. I really enjoyed this trip very much.
No more today, more when we meet again.
With love and best wishes.
Yours ever
STAMP Rohan
Dipak Sarkar
27 College Street
Kolkata-700073
3. Write a newspaper report using the following points : 10

Points :
Date, Time & place : In the morning of 10 January, 2016 in
Rajasthan.
Incident : A luxury bus carrying 35 tourists fell into a ditch, 12
km of Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, killing at least 18 persons and
others injured.
Cause : The driver lost control over the speeding bus.
Rescue : Local people helped––the victims rushed to the local
hospital––the police arrived late.
Effect : The angry mob blocked the high way for two hours.
18 KILLED AS BUS FALLS INTO ADITCH
––By Staff Reporter
Rajasthan, January 10, 2016 : 18 persons were killed and
seventeen were injured in a serious bus accident. The accident
took place in the morning at 12 Km away of Jaisalmer in
Rajasthan. The bus was carrying 35 tourists of Kolkata on its
way to Rajasthan. The luxury bus running at a high speed. The
driver lost control over the speeding bus and the bus fell into a
ditch. The local people came forward. The injured persons were
released after the first-aid. But the seriously injured were at
first admitted into a local hospital. The little injured persons
were hospitalised. The police arrived at late. The angry mob
blocked the road for two hours.
Set - 2
1. Write a newspaper report about a train robbery with the
following points : 10
[Points : Date : 25th May, 2016, Place : between Kharagpur and
Bankura. Time : 9 p.m., Vehicle involved : Delhi, Rajdhani Express,
Result : Rs. 40,000/- from a business and wrist-watches and
ornaments from other passengers robbed.]
A DARING TRAIN ROBBERY

––By a Staff Reporter
Kolkata, 26th May, 2016 : A daring train robbery took place in
the Delhi-Rajdhani Express between Kharagpur and Bankura at
about 9 p.m. yesterday. When the Express Train was running,
five robbers enterd into a compartment. Each of them had pistols
in their hand. Two of them forced a business man to pay Rs.
40,000/-. Rest of them were busy to take away many wrist-
watches and ornaments from other passengers and pulled the
chain to flee. Thy fled with the valuables worth rupees on lakh.
The passengers informed the R.P.F. But they reached after half
an hour, and tackled the situation.
2. Suppose you are secretary of the students’ welfare

committee of your school. Write a notice for the school
notice board placing restriction on the use of cell phones or
mobile phones : 10
NOTICE
[Restriction on The Use of Cell Phones]
No. S / 03 / 2016 Date : 03.06.2016
It is here by notified that the management of the school has
decided to ban the use of the cell phones in the school premises.
The constant use of the cell phones during school hours hampers
the academic atmoshphere in the school. This distracts the minds
of other students from their studies. The students are asked not
to use the cell phones during school hours in the school premises.
If any student breaks the discipline, he will be punished according
to school law.
Asit Sen
Counter signed by the Secretary
Headmaster The students’ Welfare Committee
3. Write a paragraph on ‘Global Warming’ (in about 100

words) : 10
[Points : Global warming, a burning question––average
temperature —causes of warming––affects of warming––
conclusion.
GLOBAL WARMING
Global warming has become a burning question now-a-days. It
is the increase in the average temperature of Earth’s surface air.
The cause of the ‘Global warming’ is green house gases due to
fuel burning. This fuel is burnt in the motor vehicles, different
types of industries and factories. The cause of deforstation is
the root of ‘Global warming’. The ‘Global warming’ leads to
different problem in the earth. It causes the rise of sea-levels.
The weather becomes extreme hot. If this conditions continue,
human civilization will be destroy. In this very situation a general
awareness is urgently needed.
Set - 3
1. Write a paragraph about the bad-effects of excessive use of
plastic : 10
[Points : The most harmful to the man––the use of plastic
increasing day by day––react with food––water polluted––non
biodegradable––soil fertility reduced––Gas from burnt plastic
causes different disease––the Gas also pollutes the air––eco-
system damage––a great threat to the human civilization.]
BAD EFFECTS OF PLASTIC
Polymer or plastic is the most harmful to the human civilization.
The use of articles made of polymer or plastic are increasing
day-by-day. Plastic carry bags or plastic containers make the
food toxic. It is often found plastic wastes from different factories
are thrown into the rivers and also seas. It pollutes the water
and it becomes harmful to the marine lives. The articles made
of plastic or polymer are non bio-degradable. So, these are often
get burried into the ground. It reduces the soil fertility. Gas
from burnt plastic causes asthma, cancer, skin disease etc. The
gas from burnt plastic also pollutes the air. The balance of eco-
system is being damage. After all it poses a great threat to the
human civilization. (words 109)
2. Suppose your pen friend wants to know more about you.
Now write a letter to him describing your likes and dislikes :
10
Own address .............................
Date : ........................................
Dear Santu,
It is nice to get your letter after a long time. I have gone
through your sweet letter and realised the theme of it. It is my
fortune that you have responsed of my letter from far-off Sikim.
Well, you have wanted to know more about me. Let me jot-
down. You know that I am a student of very old Govt. School
Nawab Bahadur’s Institution of Murshidabad. I live with my
family. I am fond of songs of Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey, in
reading story books, in reading news paper etc. My favourite
food is maggi and chocolate. I also like ice-cream and cold-
drinks. I am interested in travelling. On the other hand, I dislike
the examinations and more advice from others. It is endless to
say that what I like or what I dislike.
No more today, more when we meet again. With love and
best wishes.
Yours ever
STAMP Surendra
Santu Roy
Rupnagar
139 New Banglo
Sikim
3. Write a news paper report using the following points : 10

[Points : Boat capsized in the Ganges––50 feared dead––11
bodies rescued so far of them 7 are women, 2 children, 30
passengers swam ashore. Cause : Irregular ferry service, boat
carrying passengers beyond capacity. Place : Lalbagh Sadar
Ghat.]
50 DIED IN A BOAT CAPSIZES
Ganges, January ’23, 2016 : A ferry boat capsized in the middle
of the Ganges last night. It was carring 89 passengers of a tourist
party. The boat carrying passengers were beyond of its capacity.
Being irregular ferry service, the boat was over loaded. The
incident took place at Lalbagh Sadar Ghat. The boat left Sadar
Ghat at 7 p.m. When it was going through the middle of the
Ganges, it drowned suddenly. The passengers tried to save their
lives by swiming. But 50 passengers were died in fear. 30
passengers swam ashore. 11 bodies were rescued. So far of
them 7 were women and two were children. The rescued persons
were admitted to Lalbagh Hospital.
Set - 4
1. Write a paragraph (in about 100 words) about ‘morning
walk’ : 10
[Points : Health is welath––duty can not be performed without
physical fitness–easiest exercise––healthy habit––start a good
day— enjoy the beauty of nature––fresh air full of oxygen––
relief from tension––contact with nature––an independent
exercise––essential to every body]
MORNING WALK
Health is wealth. This expression is a universal truth. Nobody
can perform his duty without physical fitness. Morning walk is
one of the easiest exercise. It is a healthy habit. A good day can
be started with the help of morning walk. A riser who gets up
early in the morning, can enjoy the beauty of nature. The fresh
morning air is full of oxygen which every one can inhale. An
early riser can get relief from tension through the habit of
morning walk. It also helps us to contact with nature closely
and deeply. It is an independent exercise. Anybody can do it. If
we want to keep our body fit, we should do the morning walk.
(words 102)
2. Suppose you are the secretary of ECO club of your school .
Now write a notice on the school notice board on behalf of
the students on ‘Safe Drinking Water’ to make them
conscious about the problems of drinking water : 10
[Points : water a great need in human life––source and substance
of life––safe water needed for healthy life––unsafe water couses
many diseases like diarrhoea, jaundice, typhoid––unsafe water,
great problem to the Indians––according to UNICEF programme
safe water is needed for all.]
NOTICE
[Safe Drinking Water]
No. S / 01 / 2016 Date : 28.05.2016
It is notified to all the students of our school that the ECO Club
of our school is going to make the student’s conscious about
the problems of drinking water. We know that water is a great
need in human life. Water is the source and substance of life.
Safe water is need for healthy life. Unsafe water causes many
water borne disease like diarrhoea, jaundice, typhoid etc. Unsafe
water is a great problem to all the Indians. UNICEF has decided
to supply drinking water for all. The students are said to be
conscious about the problem of impure drinking water.
Countriergned by the Ranajit Chowdhury
Headmaster Secretary, ECO-Club
N.B. Institution
3. Write a letter to the HM of your school about a tree
plantation programme you and your friends have decided
to take up in the ground of your school : 10
2nd June, 2016
Lalbag, Murshidabad
To,
The Headmaster
N. Bahadur’s Institution
Murshidabad
Sub : Seeking permission for a tree plantation programme
Sir,
With due respect, we, the students of your school, seek
your kind permission to hold a tree plantation programme in
the premises of our school on 5th June, 2016. The World
Environment day. The teachers are agreed with us. They will
also help us in this programme. They have suggested us to collect
the saplings from Murshidabad Municipality free of cost. The
newly planted saplings will make the school campus beautiful.
It will also be helpfull to improve our environment.
We shall, therefore, be grateful if you kindly grant our above
permission.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully
Soumyadeep Day (Class X)
on behalf of the students of NBI
Set - 5
1. Write a short report in 100 words to be published in a
newspaper. Use the following points : 10
[Points : Incident––A devastating fire, Date and time––3rd
March, 2016, 3 P.M., Place––Kolkata Book fair, Source of Fire––
Blaze in food stall, Result––stalls destroyed, people panic striken,
no casualty, Measures taken––two fire tenders stationed, security
installed, Home Minister’s announcement of reopening the fair
within a week.]
A MAJOR FIRE ENGULFED THE KOLKATA BOOK FAIR
KOLKATA, 4th March, ’16 : A devastating fire engulfed the big
book fair of Kolkata. It occured at 3 P.M. on 3rd March. About seventy
percent stalls were destroyed. The blaze broke out in a food stall just
at 3. P.M. the fire was spreading rapidly. The people who went to the
book fair were panic striken. But they were in safe. The half-burnt
books were found lying on the ground here and these. Only two fire
engines stationed at the fair ground. The engines controlled the total
fire within half an hour. Some security guards were installed. The
Home Minister announced the reopening of the fair within a week.
2. Write a letter to your friend about the new syllabus on
English text ‘Bliss’ of Class-X : 10
Own address .............................
Date : ........................................
Dear Aniket.
It is nice to get your letter after a long time. I have gone through
your sweet letter and realised the theme of it. It is my fortune that
you have responsed of my letter within two weeks. Well, you have
wanted to know my opinion about the new syllabus on English text
‘Bliss’ of Class-X. The new book is really interesting. The book has
been redesigned by the English Syllabus Advisory Committee of the
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The reading materials are
so much interesting. These (both prose and poetry) are enriched with
eligible language. All the lessons are language function based. There
are available M.C.Q type and ultimate objective type questions in
each lesson. I hope that all these will help us to acquire the skills of
language. We are thankful to the West Bengal Board for such books
and syllabus. There is indeed novelty in the new books.
No more today, more when we meet again. With love and best
wishes.
Yours ever
STAMP Diptesh
Aniket Roy
P.O. - Berhampore
Dist.-Murshidabad
3. Write a notice as the Secretary of your club informing the

members in detail of a picnic to be organized by the club :
10
NOTICE
[In Detail of A Picnic]
No. 5 / 04 / 2014 Date : 10.06.2016
It is here by notified to all the members of our club that our
club is going to organize a picnic at Motijhil Park in Murshidabad on
15th August. A luxuary bus will be hired for this purpose. The bus will
start from our club premises. Each of the participants should submit
as the picnic charge Rs. 500/- within 12th August. They will deposit
the money to the secretary of the club. As the bus will start for
Motijhil at 5 a.m. the participants should present at the club premises
at 4-30 a.m. on that day.
Susanta Sen
Secretary, Arabinda Club
Murshidabad
Set - 6
1. Write a short report in 100 words to be published in a
newspaper. Use the following points : 10
[Points : Date : 12th February, Time : 7 p.m., Place : Sealdah
Premises, near Big Bazar, Kolkata, Incident : IED explosion by
militants, Casualty : 5 killed, 15 injured, injured were taken to
nearby Nil Ratan Hospital, no crime arrest yet, none claims
responsibility Lalbazar Police came, tackled the whole situation.]
BLAST NEAR BIG BAZAR 5 KILLED
Kolkata, 12th February : At least five persons were killed and
more over fifteen persons were injured in an IED explosion at a
crowded Sealdah Premises near Big Bazar at 7 p.m. to day.
Immediately with the explosion fiue persons were died on the
spot. The injured persons were taken to nearby Nil Ratan
Hospital. Ten persons were seriously injured. They were admitted
at the hospital. But rest of them were relased after first-aid
treatment. Police came from Lalbazar after fifteen minutes. They
carried out a search operation across the city. But no crime has
been arrested yet. According to police opinion the explosion
was tiggered by militants. But none of them claimed their
responsibility. At last, police tackled the whole situation.
2. Write a story (in about 100 words)on the basis of the

following points and add a suitable title to it : 10
[Points : Ranjan, a poor taxi driver––a man hired his taxi from
the station at 10 p.m.––dropped the man near his house––in
the morning found a briefcase inside the taxi––bundles of money
and documents in the briefcase––got his address from the visiting
card––drove straight to the man’s house––overwhelmed––
offered Ranjan a cash reward––refused saying it was his duty.]
TITLE : A KIND HEARTED TAXI-DRIVER
Once Ranjan, a poor taxi driver lived near a station. He earned
some money by driving taxi. One day a business man got down
from train at 10 p.m. and then he hired a taxi to go to his
house. His house was far away from the station. The driver
dropped the man near his house. After that, the driver went
straight to his house. In the morning, the driver found a briefcase
inside the taxi. He was amazed to see it. Then he saw the bundles
of money and some docoments that were releated with his
business in the brief case. He also found a visiting card from it.
He got his address from it. So, he went straight to the business
man’s house. The driver returned him bundles of money and
docoments. The man was overhelmed. The man rewarded the
driver but the driver refused it telling him that it was his duty.
7. Suppose you are secretary of a local club. Your club has
arranged a free eye treatment camp in your club premises.
Write a notice for the local people in this regard : 10
NOTICE
[Free Eye Treatment Camp]
No. S / 05 / 2016 Date : 18.06.2016
It is notified to all the local people of our locality that our club is
going to organize a Free Eye Treatment Camp as a social service.
The camp will be held on 26th June 2016 from 10 am to 4pm. It
will be held in our club premises. Dr. S. K. Jha and Dr. P. K. Roy
will be present here as eminent doctors. Of course, there will
be present other junior doctors to assist them. So the people
who are willing to do their cataracts operation are requested to
contact the secretary of the club. Free medicines will also be
available at the camp. Co-operation and participation from all
the people is highly solicited.
Tarun Adhikari
Secretary
Vivekananda Club
Lalbagh, Murshidabad
Set - 7
1. Write a paragraph (in about 100 words) about pollution : 10
[Points : Pollution, a great problem––types of pollution––air
pollution and its cause––land pollution and its cause––water
pollution and its cause––steps to control it.]
POLLUTION
Pollution has become a great problem all over the world. There
are three types of pollution. Such as––Land Pollution, Air
Pollution and Water Pollution. The air is being mostly polluted

by carbon monoxide which is emitted by motor vehicles. The air
is being also polluted by smoke which is emitted from factory.
The main source of ground pollution is uncollected garbage. On
the other hand, indiscriminate use of chemicals in the soil is
also a source of land pollution. Water is being polluted by the
untreated sewage and chemical waste from factories, often the
oil of oil tankers is mixed with the sea water. In this way, sea
water is being polluted. If we want to make pollution free world,
we should take steps to control such environmental pollution.
(Words–110)
2. Use the following hints to describe ‘How Tea is prepared’ : 10
[Points : Pour cold water in kettle––boil it until vapour comes
out—put tea-leaf in a tea pot––pour boiled water in the tea pot
and leave it for 2 minutes––add sugar and milk––stir with a
teaspoon pour it in cups––serve it hot.]
TEA PREPARATION
Coffee is the first favourite hot drink to all the people of India.
So, in this way, we can say that tea is the second not drink to all
over the world. This tasty hot drink is prepared in a systemetic
way at home. At first, cold water is poured in a kettle. The kettle
is put on an oven. Then water is boiled until vapour comes out.
After that, tea-leaves are put in a tea pot. Boiled water is poured
in the tea-pot. Then it is left for two minutes. Sugar and milk
are added to it. Then this mixture is stirred with a tea-spoon.
Now, tea is prepared. Tea is poured in cups. Finally, tea is served
hot to the members of the family or the guests.
3. Write a story (within 100 words) using the given points.
Give a title to the story : 10
[Points : Crow sitting on a tree––piece of meat in its beak––fox
passing under the tree––wants the meat––asks the crow to sing–
– crow keeps meat under its feet and sings––fooled, fox leaves.
THE VAIN CROW
Once upon a time, crow had a nest on the branches of a tree.
One day she stole a piece of meat from a shombles. She sat on
a tree with the piece of meat in its beak. At the same time a fox
was passing under the tree. He saw the peace of meat in the
beak of the crow. He wanted to get the meat. So, the fox made
a plan. He asked the crow to sing. Hearing it, she became very
pleased. So the crow kept the piece of meat under its feet and
began to sing. At once, the piece of meat fell from its feet.
Without delay, the fox picked it up and left the place. In this
way, the crow became foolis.
Set - 8
1. Use the following points to write a processing on how a
building is constructed : 10
[Points : Drawing of a plan of the building by the architect––
getting the sanctioned by the corporation or municipal
authorities––engaging masons and labourers––starting the
construction with bricks, cement and sand––fitting doors and
windows––plastering of walls––wiring––electric and water
connections––painting––building completed––fit for living.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Man is a social animal. So they need building for living. Building
is constructed through the following steps. At the beginning, a
plan of the building is drawn by the architect. After that, the
plan is got sanctioned by the corporation or municipality. After
that, masons and labourers are engaged to build the building.
Then the construction is started with bricks, cement and sand.
There after, the doors and windows are fitted. Then, walls of
the building are plastered with sand and cement. Electric wiring
is done. Now, electric and water connection are given. Then the
building is painted with chooseable colours. After that the
building is completed. At last, the building is fit for living.
2. Write a letter to the Editor of an English newspaper
complaining against the misuse of microphones : 10
10th May, 2016
To, Lalbagh, Murshidabad
The Editor,
The Telegraph, Kolkata
Sub : Misuse of Microphones
Sir,
I want to draw your kind attention about the misuse of microphones
in our locality, through the columns of your popular daily.
I live at Swarup Nagar in the district of Murshidabad. In our
locality, the reckless use of microphones has created a great
headache to the peaceloving people. There are thirteen festivals

in twelve months. On the other hand, some organizers organize
several cultural functions. So, in the festivals and also in the
cultural functions, organizers use microphones indiscriminately
day and might. It causes a great disturbance to the students.
The old and the patients of heart disease spend sleepless night.
There are some officials restrictions and laws, but it is going on.
So, I shall be highly obliged, if you take the positive steps to
regulate the use of microphones and save the public from the
discomforts.
Thanking you.
Yours faithfully
Vikram Chatterjee
3. Describe the process of ‘Preparation of Lemon Squash’ using
the following points : 10
[Points : Buying lemons––sorting and removing rotten ones––
cleaning––crushing to extract Juice––straining the seeds with a
piece of cloth––mixing sugar and citric acid––pouring the mixture
in sterilized bottles––sealing and labelling––packing in cartoons–
–sending to market for sale.]
LEMON SQUASH PREPARATION
Lemon squash is a delicious drink to all of us. It is generally
taken in the season of summer. It can be prepared through the
systematic way. At first, lemons are bought from the market.
Only good ones are sorted. Rotten ones are removed. Then the
good ones are cleaned with water. These lemons are peeled.
Then, these are boiled with water. After that, boiled lemons are
cooled. These are chushed to extract juice. Then, the seeds are
strained with a piece of cloth. Sugar and citric acid are added
with the juice. After that, the mixture is poured in sterilized
bottles. Then, the bottles are sealed and labeled. The bottles
are packed in cartoons. At last the cartoons are sent to market
for sale.
Set - 9
[Points : The wheels of a cart sank into mud––the carter whipped
the bulocks in vain––prayed to the god of strength for help––
the god came––asked the carter to put his shoulder to the wheel–
–he did––cart came out of mud.]
TITLE : THE CARTER AND THE GOD
Once upon a time a carter lived in a certain village. One day in
the monsoon, he was driving his loaded cart along the muddy
road of the village. On the way, the wheels of the cart sank into
mud. The carter whipped the bulocks to pull the cart out. Bulocks
could not draw the wheels out of the mud. Finding no way, the
carter prayed to the ‘God of strength’ for help. The god came
before him. He advised him to put his own shouder to one of
the wheels and pushed the forward. The carter followed his
advice. At last, the cart came out of mud. The cart started to
move on.
2. Use the following points to write a processing on How
Omelet is prepared : 10
[Points : buying an egg––cutting onions, chillies––breaking egg–
– sliced onions, sliced, chillies, salt added––pouring mustard oil
in a frying pan––stirring the mixture with a spoon––the mixture
poured in pan––spreading it––rolling it––omelet ready––serve
it.]
OMELET PREPARATION
Omelet is a very delicious food to the food Humorous Bengales.
It can be easily made at our homes through the systematic way.
At first, an egg, onions, chilli etc. are bought from the market,
Now, an egg is broken in a bowl. Then onions and chillies are
cut into small pieces with a knife. Sliced onions, sliced chillies,
salt are added to the egg. Then mustard is poured in a frying
pan. After that, the pan is heated. Sliced onions, sliced chillies,
salt, egg are stirred with a spoon. Then the mixture is poured in
the frying pan. It is spread on the pan. After a few seconds, the
mixture becomes solid and then it is rolled. Now an omelet is
ready. At last, not omelet is served to a plate.
3. As a reporter of an English daily, write a report using the

following points in about 100 words : 10
[Accident : Air crash, Date : 20th January, morning, Place :
Mangalore Bajpee Airport, Flight involved : An Air India Express
Boeing 737 from Dubai to Mangalore, Cause of disaster : Plane
missed touch––down point––overshort runway––plunged into
gorge—burst into flames, Casualties : 155 persons including crew

members killed––8 passengers survived, Rescue work : Fire
brigade, local people, Police and airport staff, Measures taken :
Civil Aviation Minister rushed to Mangalore––compensation
declared.]
A TERRIBLE AIR CRASH
21st January, Mangalore : A terrible Air crash happened on
yesterday, morning at Mangalore, Bajpee Airport. It is reported
that an Air India Express Boeing 737 from Dubai to Mangalore
was involved in this crash. Suddenly the plane missed touch
down point. It is also said that the plane over short runway. It
plunged into gorge. At last, it burst into flames. As a result 155
persons includeing crew members were killed on the spot. Eight
passengers survived very soon. Fire Brigade, local people came
forward to rescue quickly. After half an hour, police and air port
stuff reached there and controlled the situation. Civil Aviation
Minister rushed to Mangalore and declared the compensation
for the family of the dead persons.
Set - 10
1. Write a paragraph on role of mobile phones (in 100 words)
in modern life : 10
[Points : Not only amazing medium, but also instant
communication–––substitutes for computers––preserve
important information and photographs––equips with G.P.R.S.
camera, F.M. radios etc.––misuses also––affects on students and
younger generation––accidents occur.]
ROLE OF MOBILE PHONES IN MODERN LIFE
A mobile phone or cellular phone are not only amazing medium
in modern life but it also communicates instantly. Some costly
mobile phones are used as a substitute for computer. It preserves
important information and photographs. Cellular phones are
equipped with G.P.R.S., camera, F.M. radios etc. The SMS facility
of it is the most convenient form to keep in touch with one’s dear
ones. But it has abuses also. Students and young generation are
addicted to cellular phones. They use their hand sets while they
walk and also while they drive cars. It causes accident. It has
proved that excessive use of mobile phones can cause ‘Brain
Cancer’.
2. Write a notice as the secretary of your club informing the
members in detail of a blood donation camp to be organized
by the club : 10
NOTICE
[Donate Blood and Save a Life]
No. S / 02 / 2016 Date : 05.06.2016
It is notified to all the members of our club that our club is
going to organize a blood donation camp on 10th June in the
club premises at 8 a.m. All the willing members and local people
are requested to contact with the undersigned in the club ‘Hall
Ghar’ from 5 pm. to 8 pm. They should enlist their names. The
age limit of the willing persons should be 20 to 50 years. In case
of female, it is 20 to 45 years. Every donors will get the certificate
signed by the Chief Minister. Active co-operation will accept
from any source to make this great effort a grand success.
Animesh Adhikari
Secretary
Vivekananda Club
Murshidabad
3. Write a letter to the Editor of an English daily, expressing

your great concern about the felling of trees at random in
your locality : 10
25th May, 2016
Lalbag, Murshidabad
To,
The Editor
The Times of India
Kolkata
Sub : About the felling of trees
Sir,
I want to draw your kind attention about the felling of trees
at random in our locality, through the columns of your popular
daily.
I live at Nanur in the district of Murshidabad. In this village,
there are many old trees along with the road side like shal,
mahogany, sirish and many other trees. But now-a-days these
trees are being cut thoughtlessly. This thoughtlessly cutting of
trees is damaging our environment and also our eco-system. It
is under the criminal-act.
According to my opinion, transplant may be the substitute

way, to protect this damage of environment.
I shall be highly obliged if you kindly grant my above prayer.
Thanking your,
Yours faithfully
Raktim Singha Roy
Set - 11
1. Write a biography of Swami Vivekananda based on the
[Points : Name––Swami Vivekananda––parents––Biswanath
Dutta and Bhubaneswari Devi––Date of birth––12th January,
1863––Education––studied in Metropolitan Institution,
graduation from Scottish Church College––contact Sri
Ramakrishna––delivered speeches on religions at Chicago––
founded Ramkrishna Mission––Die––2nd July, 1902.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
In every century and in every country many men and women
were born. The works what they did for their own country made
them famous. Swami Vivekananda was one of them. He was
born on 12th January, 1863. His pet name was Narendranath.
His father’s name was Biswanath Dutta. His mother’s name was
Bhubaneswari Devi. He studied in Metropolitan Institution. He
did his graduation from Scottish Church College in 1884. He met
Sri Ramkrishna and became his disciple. He delivered his
speeches on religions at Chicago. He founded Ramkrishna
Mission at Belur Math. He breathed his last at the age of thirty-
nine. He was a great monk. We remember him for ever.
2. Describe the process of ‘Preparation of Mustard Oil’ using
the following hints : 10
[Hints : seeds collected––dried––curshed in a machine––a little
water added––oil cakes separated––oil kept in containers––
sealed— ready for use and sale.]
MUSTARD OIL PREPARATION
Mustard oil is known as edible oil. Bengalees family cannot cook
vegetables without mustard oil. Mustard oil is prepared in a
number of stages in mills. At first, mustard seeds are collected
from the market. After that, the seeds are dried in the sun.
Then the dried seeds are sent to a mill. there, the seed are
crushed in a machine. Then a little water is added to it.
Thereafter, oil is extracted. Then oil cakes are separated. Oil is
kept is containers. After that, the containers are sealed. At last,
mustard oil is ready for use and it is sent to market for sale.
[Points : A villager and his goats––tend his goats––keep the
goats under a shed––during his sleeping hours, goat stole by his
neighbours––villager made a plan––kept a dog––the dog
barked–– villager woke up––neighbour caught and punished.]
TITLE : THE VILLAGER AND HIS GOATS
Once upon a time, a villager lived in his village with peacefully.
He had a number of goats. He used to tend his goats. He kept
the goats under a shed. At every night, the villager used to
sleep in his cottage. Every night, during his sleeping hour, his
neighbours used to steal the goats. As a result, the number of
goats were decreasing day by day. So the villager made a plan,
One day, he kept a dog under the goat shed. At that night,
whenever the neighbour entered the shed to steal the goat, the
dog barked frequently. The villager woke up to hear the dog’s
bark. The neighbour was caught and punished. In this way the
villager saved his goats.
Moral : Cleverness brings its reward.
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PROJECT
CASE STUDY
Subject : BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
[Inspired from ‘Freedom’]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I, Sri Paresh Das, a student of Class-X, is merely grate ful to
respected Ajoy Bhaskar, My model guide for inspiring,
encouraging and helping me to complete the ‘Model’, I am
obliged to him for his kind sonsideration, co-operation and
inspiring guidance.
Paresh Das
Date : Signature of the Student
Resource of the Topic :

I have read ‘Freedom’ by
George Bernard Shaw from ‘Essays,
short stories and one-act plays’––
Oxford. From this source, I have
come to know about this famous
writer, George Bernard Shaw. There
fore, I have selected this topic
‘Biography of Bernard Shaw’.
Out come of the Topic :

George Bernard Shaw was a famous dramatist who was born
in a Dublin Protestant family in 1856. Shaw quit school at fourteen
to work as a rent collector until moving to London in 1876 to join
his mother, a music teacher. Shaw learned how to laugh at life’s
tragedies from his father. He also learned a sound appreciation of
music from his mother. He studied Marx and Engles and became
one of the founders of the Fabian Society in 1884. He was a music
critic. He wrote the perfect wagnerite (1898). He became a
dramatist and gained popularity in 1925.
He got award the ‘Nobel prize’ in 1926 for his constribution to
British drama. He had astoundin vitality. Through this vitality he
fascinated and delighted the audience. He made people think by
compelling them to laugh. As an essayist and pamphleteer, Shaw
advocates spiritual freedom, honesty, courage and idealism.
Among his literary works are : Plays pleasant and plays
unpleasant; Man and superman; Saint Joan, The intelligent woman’s
Guide to Socialism, Capitalism and Essays in Falsian Socialism.
The essay ‘Freedom’ one of the series of B.B.C. Radio talks
delivered on 18 June, 1935. It was published in the Listerner, 26
June, 1935. In ‘Freedom’ Shaw pleads for an original and stimulating
attitude towards the concept of Freedom––individual, Social and
Political and Skilfully anolyses the difference between the natural
slavery of man to Nature and unnatural slavery of man to man.
Conclusion :
The model, ‘Case Study’ was completed written scheduled time.
But we need huge time to make it enlightening. Having completed
the model I have learn the following :
(a) How to re-arrange the sequence of materials.
(b) How to write biography.
(c) How to organise a biography.
(d) How to enjoy group work.
IDENTIFYING CARD
I, Bipul Tiwari hereby declare that Paresh Das, the student
of Class-X has prepared the model under my Supervision and
guidance.
Bipu Tiwary
Date : Signature of the Teacher
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Time : 3 Hours 15 Minutes For Regular Candidates : F.M - 90
[First 15 Mins. for reading the For External Candidates : F.M - 100
question paper only]
Section-A
Reading Comprehension (Seen)
that follow :
Most people think that the cat is an unintelligent animal,
fond of ease and caring little for anything but mice and milk.
But a cat has really more character than most human beings,
and gets a great deal more satisfaction out of life.
He––or she––is an athlete, an acrobat and a grim fighter.
All day long the cat loafs about the house, takes things easy
and allows himself to be pestered by the attentions of the
people in the house. To pass the time away he sometimes
watches a mouse-hole for an hour or two––just to keep
himself from dying of boredom. People get this idea that this
sort of thing is all that holds life for a cat. But watch him as
the shades of evening fall. You can see the cat as he really is.
sentences in the given spaces : 1×5=5
a) According to the people’s thinking, the cat is––
i) an intelligent animal
ii) an unintelligent animal
iii) a dull animal iv) a wise animal.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) All day long the cat loafs about––
i) the market ii) the garden
iii) the house iv) the pond.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The pass the time away, a cat––
i) shows anger ii) sleeps
iii) sings iv) watches a mouse-hole.
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) One can see the cat as he really is in the––
i) night ii) afternoon
iii) evening iv) morning.
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The cat likes to eat––
i) milk and bread ii) fish and bread
iii) milk and mice iv)butter and bread.
Answer : _____________________________________________
the text : 1×3=3
a) According to the opinion of most people the cat ______
b) To idel the time away a cat ________________________
c) The cat is watched as ____________________________
C. a) State whether the following statements are True or
False. Write ‘T’ for ‘True’ and ‘F’ for ‘False’ statements.
Provide sentences/phrases/words in support of your
answer : 2×2=4
i) All day long the cat roams about the garden.
Supporting Statement(s) : ________________________
ii) To idle the time away a cat sometimes watches the

members of the family.
OR
b) Fill in the chart with information from the text : 2×2=4
Statement Reason
A cat fond of case and
caring little for anything
but mice and milk.
To pass the time away a
cat sometimes watches
a mouse hole for an
hour-two
question that follow :
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel:
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig.’
Bun replied,
‘You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not so large as you,
you are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I’ll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.’
sentences : 1×4=4
a) The mountain makes a squirrel track which is––
i) ugly ii) small
iii) pretty iv) broad
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) But all sorts of things and weather combindly make

up––
i) a year and a sphere ii) a year
iii) a sphere iv) a month
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The mountain and the squirrel had a––
i) misunderstanding ii) quarrel
iii) friendship iv) fight
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) The differ that is between the mountain and the squirrel
is––
i) courage ii) talent
iii) wisdom iv) strength
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The squirrel can not carry––
i) forests ii) the mountain
iii) the burden iv) heavy load
Answer : _____________________________________________

a) To whom does the ‘little prig’ refers to and by whom?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) In which way, one can make up a year?
Answer : _____________________________________________
Reading Comprehension (Unseen)
follow :
Berhampore, Aug., 5 : The Murshidabad flood situation
worsened again with the river Bhairav rising one meter above
the danger level. Flood waters are submerging vast areas or
Naoda, Harihorpara and Beldanga. An embankment at
Dangapara gave in yesterday. Army has rescued 300 people
in Farakka and Dhuliyan. About 6,000 people have been
affected with gastroenteritis or diarrhoeal disorders senior
health officials said.
Nine expert doctors have been sent to Murshidabad from
Calcutta to arrest the outbreak or any epidemic, once the
water recedes. Complaints of inadequate relief and lack of
attention, however, comtinue to pour in. The death toll stands
at 43 officially.
With water-levels in all rivers remaining steady, there
has been no deterioration in the flood situation in Nadia
district today. No fresh areas have been inundated, according
to Mr. S. K. Majumder, Additional District Magistrate. But
one more diarrhoea death has been reported from
Nakashipara. The Official death toll now stands at eight. Mr.
Majumder said 1,20,000 people had been affected by the

floods. Of them 20,000 were taken to relief camps, Rs. 2
lakhs in cash, 50 M.T. wheat, 10 M.T. rice and 1, 500 tarpaulin
had been distributed.
While the flood situation is better in South Dinajpur, it is
still grim in North Dinajpur, so far 11 people died in South
Dinajpur while the death toll rose to 45. Water level is
gradually decreasing in South Dinajpur. But there had been
increased cases of enteric diseases. The major affected areas
had been Gangasagar, Hili and Gangarampur.
[From the Statesman]
sentences : 1×6=6
a) Murshidabad flood situation worsened again with the
river––
i) Bhagirathi ii) Ajoy
iii) Damodar iv) Bhairav
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) In Farakka and Dhuliyan, Army has rescued––
i) 400 people ii) 300 people
iii) 600 people iv) 500 people
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) Number of people who have been affected with
gastroenterities or diarrhoeal disorders we––
i) about 600 people ii) 6000 people
iii) 8000 people iv) 20,000 people
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) The doctors who have been sent to Murshidabad from
Calcutta were in number—
i) six expert doctors ii) four expert doctors
iii) nine expert doctors iv) three expart doctors
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The death toll officially stands at––
i) 50 ii) 40
iii) 53 iv) 43
Answer : _____________________________________________
f) Additional District Magistrate was––
i) Mr. S. K. Nandy ii) Mr. R. K. Raha
iii) Mr. S. K. Majumdar iv) Mr. S. K. Mondal
Answer : _____________________________________________

answer : (1+1)×3=6
i) The rising of water level in the river Bhairav did not
show, the danger of flood.
ii) An expert medical team was sent to South Dinajpur.

iii) Only one diarrhoea has been reported from
Murshidabad.

a) Which districts were effected by the flood?
Answer : _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
b) How many people were died at different parts of the
district?
Answer : _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
c) What was the name of Additional District Majistrate?
Answer : _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
d) Tick the most appropriate title for the passage :
i) A devastative flood in Murshidabad, Nadia, North and
South Dinajpur
ii) River Bhairav caused the flood in Murshidabad.
iii) Better flood situation in South Dinajpur.
Section-B
Grammar and Vocabulary
4. Write the correct alternative to fill in the blanks : 1×3=3
Swami __________ (stand/stood/standing) at the entrance
to his class.
Samuel __________ (is/was/are) __________ (teach/tought/
teaching) arithmatic.
5. Do as directed : 1×9=9
a) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and
prepositions : 1×3=3
It is all ________ account of __________ kite that there
are more __________ us.
b) Answer the following questions : 1×3=3
i) She said, ‘‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’’
(Chang the mode of narration)
Answer : _____________________________________________
ii) Father received her letter. (Change the voice)
Answer : _____________________________________________
iii) As soon as spring comes, back we sail to our own
dear island. (Use ‘no sooner’ in place of ‘as soon as’)
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) Choose the correct phrasal verbs from the list given
below to replace the words underlined. Write the
correct phrasal verbs in the boxes on the right hand
side, changing the form, where necessary. There is one
extra phrasal verb in the list : 1×3=3
i) Whenever you see an oak tree felled, swear now
you will plant two.
ii) Women had collected around Birla House.
iii) Lying in bed, Swami realised with a shudder that it

was Monday morning.
[ List of phrasal verbs : cut down, get together,
get at, take place ]
6. Given below are the meanings of four words which you
will find in Question No. 3. Find out the words and write
them in the appropriate boxes on the right hand side :
2×4=8
a) spread out
b) wide spread
c) by degrees
d) frequent evacuation of the bowels
Section-C
(Writing)
7. Write a paragraph on ‘Today’s Terrorism’ (about 100 words).
Use the given hints : 10
Hints : Introduction––description––examples from recent
incidents––threats––recovery ––conclusion.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
8. Write a report (about 100 words) for a daily newspaper.

Use the given hints : 10
Hints : Bomb blast on railway track between Kantadih and
Urma––railway track destroyed––train services
disrupted for about 12 hours on Adra-Chandil route
on the S.E. Railway.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
9. Write a letter to the Chairman of your Municipality,

requesting him to take immediate steps for preventing
spread of ‘Dengi’ and other infections (about 100 words) :
10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
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Section-A
that follow :
‘‘At the Birla House, Gandhiji’s relatives and followers
had gathered round his body. There was silence in the room
as Gandhiji breathed his last. Words of Bapuji’s death has
spread through Delhi like a flame fanned by wind. Sad groups
of men and women had collected around Birla House. Out of
every window one could see a brown blur of faces. They did
not make a sound. There was an unnatural silence. It was as
if time stood still for those few minutes.
The people were too stunned to speak in the beginning.
Latter they Clamoured wildly, shouting and crying. They
jostled one another in a stampede to break into the house.
They calmed a little when it was announced that they would
be allowed to see Gandhiji before the funeral.
When one is faced with the shock of a loved one’s death,
on whimpers : ‘‘What will become of me now that he has
left me?’’ This was surely the question uppermost in the
mind of the mourning people. They looked lost children. It
was the question in many of our hearts as we sat, still shocked
and unbelieving. We listened to the broadcast telling the
people of India that their Bapu was no more.’’
a) Out of every window one could see––
i) a darken blur of faces
ii) a brown blur of faces
iii) a reddened blur of faces
iv) a pale blur of faces.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) The death news of Bapuji has spread like––
i) fire ii) wind
iii) a flame fanned by wind iv) fog.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The people were too stunned to speak––
i) at the end
ii) in the beginning
iii) at the mid way
iv) after an hour of the beginning.
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) When one is faced with the shock of a loved one’s death
one––
i) morns ii) cries
iii) whimpers iv) laughs
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The mourning people looked like––
i) lost children ii) foot
iii) dumb iv) mad
Answer : _____________________________________________
the text : 1×3=3
a) Out of every window, one could see ____________
b) It was as if _______________________
c) The people who were mourning had collected _______
answer : 2×2=4
i) The jostled one another in a stampede to break into
the wall.
ii) The people were so delighted that they couldnot speak.

OR
Statement Reason
The people were very
stunned
one whimpers
Within that house secure he hides
When danger imminent betides
Of storm, or other harm besides
Of weather.
Displeasure.
Where’er dwells, he dwells alone,
Whole treasure.
sentences : 1×4=4
a) When any danger appears, the snail hids––
i) in front of the house
ii) out of the house
iii) within the house
iv) beside the house
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) When there is imminent danger, the snail loves to––
i) dance ii) sleep
iii) move iv) hide
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The snail has the power to collect his own––
i) horns ii) food
iii) body iv) eyes
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) The word ‘imminent’ means––
i) thinking ii) expressing
iii) approaching iv) relating
Answer : _____________________________________________
a) What type of danger does the snail appear?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) What kind of power the snail has?
Answer : _____________________________________________

follow :
It was some days before the extent of the damage to
Hiroshima was known. Immediately after the bomb had
exploded on that fateful morning of 6th August, 1945, it was
evident that the destruction in the city was beyond all living
experience. A single atomic bomb, and a small one at that,
had an effect similar to the simultaneous explosion of 20,000
tons of high explosive. It was estimated that about 1,00,000
people were killed by that one explosion––more than the
population of a town the size of Cambridge. Another 40,000
people were injured. More than two-thirds of the buildings
in Hiroshima were destroyed and thousands more were
damaged beyond repair. It was found that telegraph poles
about two and a half miles form the centre of the explosion
were charred by the intense heat.
Statesmen and ordinary men and women all over the
world were shocked and frightened by the news of the
terrible devastation caused by this single atomic explosion.
Ever since, the peoples of the world have lived in the fear
that one day the final catastrophe would happen. As one
newspaper put it : ‘‘the atomic bomb means the end of war
and the end of the human race.’’
If men can agree to settle their disputes by peaceful
means, the atomic power which can mutilate and kill in was
can be used to treat diseases and to produce enough power
to make life easier and more prosperous that it has ever

been.
sentences : 1×6=6
a) The bomb had exploded in Hiroshima––
i) 5th August ii) 6th August
iii) 5th September iv) 6th June.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) It was estimated that about 1,00,000 people were killed
by that––
i) two explosions ii) three explosions
iii) one explosion iv) 4th explosions
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The people who were killed in Hiroshima were more
than the population of a town the size of––
i) Kolkata ii) Mumbai
iii) Cambridge iv) Maxico
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) The people who were injured in the explosion were
about––
i) 4,000 ii) 40,000
iii) 20,000 iv) 1,000
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The buildings which were destroyed in Hiroshima were
more than––
i) one-fourth ii) two-thirds
iii) one-thirds iv) three-fourths
Answer : _____________________________________________
f) The telegraph poles were charred by the intense heat
from the centre of the explosion were––
i) mile ii) 2½ miles
iii) 3 miles iv) 5 miles
Answer : _____________________________________________

answer : (1+1)×3=6
i) It was estimated that about 1000 people were killed by
that one explosion.
ii) The number of seriously injured people in Hiroshima
were 40,000.
iii) Only men and women were shocked all over the world.

a) When did the bomb explode?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) What are the peaceful uses of atomic energy?
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) How many people were killed by that one explosion in
Hiroshima?
Answer : _____________________________________________
i) The fateful morning of 6th August 1945 in Hiroshima.
ii) An atomic bomb caused a great damage at Hiroshima.
iii) Hiroshima lost its wealth.
Section-B
And there _________ (was/were/is) Claude, __________
(stand/standing/is standing) with a bit of cord in his hand
__________ (look/looked/looking) foolish.
Some days __________ the funeral, __________ special
train took Gandhiji’s ashes __________ Allahabad.
i) He was the worst boy on earth. (Put into Positive
degree)
Answer : _____________________________________________
ii) So he changed his tactics. (Use the noun form of
change)
Answer : _____________________________________________
iii) I cannot carry forests on my back. (Change the
voice)
Answer : _____________________________________________
i) Amid song and prayer the train reached Allahabad.
ii) I met an old woman.

iii) Claude and I never quarrelled.
[ List of phrasal verbs : come across, get together,
fall out, arrive at ]
2×4=8
a) any loss b) fatal
c) obvious
d) happening or existing at the same time
Section-C
Writing
7. Write a biography of Sukumar Roy (within 100 words) using
the given hints : 10
Hints : Name––Sukumar Roy, Date of birth––31st October
1887, Father––Upendra Kishore Roy, Mother––
Bidhumukhi Devi, Education––1902, Passed Entrance
Examination from City school, 1906, passed B. Sc.
with honours in physics and chemistry from
Presidency College,––1911 to England for higher
study in painting technology.
Profession––1913, returned from England, Published
painting and Articles in ‘Sandesh’, 1915––Editor of
Sandesh, published ‘Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La’––1923,
Published Abol-Tabol. Death : 19th September, 1923.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
8. As the captain of your school write a notice on your school

notice board requesting the students to participate in the
events organised under ‘Swachha Bharat, Abhiyan’
programme. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
9. Write a letter (in about 100 words) to Headmaster or

Headmistress requesting him or her to make available text
and reference books in your school library. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
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Section-A
that follow :
When the family has finished tea, and gathers round
the fire, the cat casually goes out of the room. True life now
begins for him. He saunters down his own backyard, springs
to the top of the fence, drops lightly down to the other side.
He trots across and skips to the roof of an empty shed. His
movement becomes lithe and pantherlike. He looks keenly
from side to side and moves noiselessly, for he has so many
enemies––dogs and small boys with stones.
On top of the shed, the cat arches his back and rakes his
claws once or twice through the soft bark of the old roof. He
stretches himself a few times to see if every muscle is in full
working order. Then, drooping his head nearly to his paws,
he sends across a call to his kindred. Before long they come,
gliding, graceful shadows. No longer are they the meek
creatures who an hour ago were mewing for fish and milk.
They are now grim fighters.
Just think how much more he gets out of his life then
you do out of yours! And the sports they have, too! As they
get older they go in for sport to the suburban backyards.
These backyards that are dull to us, are to them hunting
grounds where they have more gallant adventure than King
Arthur’s knights ever had.
It is always spoken as a reproach against cats that they
are more fond of their home than of the people in it.
Naturally, the cat doesn’t like to leave his country, the land
where all his friends are, and where he knows every
landmark. Exiled in a new land, he would have to learn a
new geography. So, when the family moves, the cat, if
allowed, will stay at the old house and attach himself to the
new tenants. He will give them the privilege of boarding him
while he enjoys life in his own way.
a) The cat’s enemies are––
i) dogs and small boys with stones
ii) Pigs and women
iii) men
iv) cows and goats.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) The cat moves––
i) angrily ii) loudly
iii) noiselessly iv) shamelessly.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The cat plays––
i) in front of the house ii) the suburban backyards
iii) the garden iv) the room.
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) According to text we can say the cat––
i) the bravo creatures ii) the angry creatures
iii) the gentle creatures iv) the meek creatures.
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The cat casually goes out of the room when the family
has finished tea and gathers round––
i) the table ii) the room
iii) the tree iv) the fire.
Answer : _____________________________________________

the text : 1×3=3
a) Sometimes the cat’s movement becomes an elegant
manner and ________________
b) A blame against cats is that __________
c) The backyards which are dull to us are to the cats ____

answer : 2×2=4
i) Naturally, the cat dislike to leave his country.
ii) People speak as a blame against cats that they are more
fond of their home than of the people in it.
OR
Statement Reason
The cat would have to learn
a new geography
The cat looks kinly from
side to side and moves
noiselessly.
Once I crept in an oakwood––I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there––all knobbly stick and rag.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake––
Unless you make a promise now––now you are going to die.’
sentences : 1×4=4
a) Once the poet went in quitely in––
i) a bamboo wood ii)a mehagoni wood
iii) an oak wood iv)a Rojadendron wood.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) The poet met someone in the oakwood––‘someone’
refers to––
i) young man ii) young woman
iii) very young iv) old woman.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) In this poem, the woman began to laugh creating a
strange sound like as a goose or hen, the poet then
began to––
i) sing ii) cry
iii) laugh loudly iv) tremble
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) In this poem the poet awake––
i) once ii) twice
iii) thrice iv) more than once.
Answer : _____________________________________________

a) What did the oak trees tell the poet to do?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Who were the own true family of the poet?
Answer : _____________________________________________

follow :
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In
otherwords, we do not educate children only for the purpose
of educating them; our purpose is to fit them forlife. As soon
as we realize this fact we will understand that it will very
important to choose a system of education which will really
prepare children for life. It is not enough just to choose the
first system of education one finds : or to continue with one
old system of education without examining it to see whether
it is in fact suitable or not.
In many modern countries it has for some time been
fashionable to think that by free education for all whether
rich or poor clever or stupid-one can solve all the problems

of society. It also build a perfect nation. But we can already
see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such
countries a far larger number of people with university
degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their
degrees, they refuse to do what they think ‘low’ work; and
in fact, work with the hands is thought to be dirty and
shameful in such countries.
But we have only to think a moment to understand that
the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more
important than that of a professor : we can live without
education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned
our streets and took rubbish away from our towns. In
countries where there are no servants because everyone is
ashamed to do such work, the professors have to waste much
of their time doing house work.
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated, we
mean that all of us must be educated in such a way that,
firstly, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain
and ability, and secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are
necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed
of one’s work, or to scorn someone else’s. Only such a type
of education can be called valuable to society.
sentences : 1×6=6
a) We educate our children to––
i) unfit them for life ii) fit them for life
iii) civilize in life iv)do bad manners in life.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Education will really prepare children for––
i) evil work ii) peace
iii) life iv) quarelling.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) Free education for all is––
i) not enough ii) enough
iii) shameful iv) harmful.
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) We can live without––
i) food ii) water
iii) education iv) enjoyment.
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) It is very important to choose a system of––
i) song ii) education
iii) examination iv) modernization.
Answer : _____________________________________________
f) We can realize that all jobs are necessary to––
i) town ii) village
iii) society iv) country.
Answer : _____________________________________________

answer : (1+1)×3=6
i) Education can not be end.
ii) We educate our children to do bad manners in life.

iii) The work of a completely uneducated farmer is less
important than that of a professor.
a) We do we educate children?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Do you think that free education will solve all of our
problems?
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) Is it possible that an uneducated farmer is more
important than that of a professor?
Answer : _____________________________________________
d)
Tick the most appropriate title for the passage :
i)
Education helps to fit the children.
ii)
Education is not an end, but a means to an end.
iii)
Mass education.
Section-B
We _________ (take/took/taken) the first thing that ________
(come/came/coming) handy-an old letter _________ (lie/lied/
lying) on the book case in the sitting room.
It was _________ agonizing walk. Thousands silently
watched _________ procession. Bapu lay _________ an
open truck covered with flowers.
i) They did not make a sound. (Change the voice)
Answer : _____________________________________________
ii) ‘’What has he done, Father?’’ (Change the mode of
narration)
Answer : _____________________________________________
iii) There was an unnatural silence. (Split up the
sentence)
Answer : _____________________________________________
i) The mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel.
ii) The teacher was inspecting the home lessons.
iii) He entered home.

[ List of phrasal verbs : turn down, fall out, get
into, look into ]
2×4=8
a) adequate b) precious
c) illiterate d) indecent
Section-C
Writing
7. Write a story (within 100 words) using the given hints. Give
a title to the story : 10
Hints : Grasshopper hungry––wintry day––hopped every
where––found an ant––asked for some grains of
corn––the ant said, ‘‘Why did not you save in
summer?’’––Grasshopper replied, ‘‘I sang’’––the ant
said, ‘‘Now dance.’’
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
8. It is known to all that the north India has gone under water
due to heavy rain. So your school’s student’s committee
has decided to raise a fund to stand by illfated people these.
As you are the secretary of that committee write a notice
in this regard. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
9. Write a letter to your friend informing that you have got a

cycle with free of cost from school. You will also mention
that the Govt. has taken a good decision for the students.
You will also add that the students will get benefit from
this endeavour of the Government. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
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Section-A
that follow :
Of course, there was nobody for us to play with on the
Big Half Moon. We just had to make the most of each other,
and we did.
We live on the Big Half Moon island. ‘We’ are Father
and Claude and I and Aunt Esther and Mimi and Dick. It used
to be only Father and Claude and I. It is all on account of the
kite that there are more of us. This is what I want to tell you
about.
Father is the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse. I
am eleven years old. Claude is twelve. In winter, when the
harbour is frozen over, we all move over to the mainland. As
soon as spring comes, back we sail to our own dear island.
The funny part used to be that people always pitied us
when the time came for us to return. They said we must be
so lonesome over there, with no other children near us. Of
course Claude and I would have liked to have someone to
play with us. It is hard to run pirate caves and things like that
with only two. But we used to quarrel a good deal with the
mainland children in winter. So it was perhaps just as well
that there were none of them on the Big Half Moon. Claude
and I never quarrelled. To be sure, Father didn’t seem to
have any relations except us. This used to puzzle Claude and
me. Everybody on the mainland had relations. Why hadn’t
we? Was it because we lived on an island? We thought it
would be so jolly to have an uncle and aunt and some cousins.
Once we asked Father about it, but he looked so sorrowful
that we wished we hadn’t. He said it was all his fault. Claude
and I didn’t understand what he meant.
a) The writer’s father was the keeper of the Big Half Moon–
i) hospital ii) office
iii) school iv) lighthouse
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) There was nobody for the writer and his playmates to
play with––
i) on the yard ii) on the Big Half Moon
iii) in the field iv) on the metal road
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The writer and her family sail back to their own dear
island when the––
i) spring comes ii) summer comes
iii) winter comes iv) monsoon comes.
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) The harbour is frozen over––
i) in spring ii) in winter
iii) in autumn iv) in late autumn.
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) The age of claude is––
i) twelve ii) fifty
iii) twenty iv) eleven.
Answer : _____________________________________________
the text : 1×3=3
a) The narrator lived on the ________________________
b) At the time of come back from the mainland people __
c) The writer and Claude would have liked to have
someone to ___________________
answer : 2×2=4
i) The narrator and the Claude always quarrelled.
ii) All the people on the main land were related with each
other.
OR
Statement Reason
There was nobody for them
to play with on the Big Half
Moon.
This used to puzzle
Claude and the
narrator.
‘Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, Swear now you
will plant two.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over
you
And root you among the oaks where you were born but
never grew.’
This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that
altered me.
When I came out of the oakwood, back to human
company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart
was a tree.

sentences : 1×4=4
a) The poet returned to––
i) a human child
ii) the old woman
iii) human company
iv) his family.
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Unless the poet swear––
i) the black oak bark will kill him
ii) the black oakbark will wrinkle over him
iii) it will break down on him
iv) it will knock him.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) After coming out of the oakwood, the poet’s walk was
the walk of––
i) an old man ii) a young lady
iii) a human child iv) an angry person
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) The poet’s dream beneath the boughs––
i) gave him sorrow ii) gave him pleasure
iii) gave him shame iv) gave him alteration
Answer : _____________________________________________

a) What would happen if the poet failed to keep his
promise?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) In which way, the oak trees threated the poet?
Answer : _____________________________________________

follow :
The porter asked Michael Faraday to wait at the wooden
bench by the window. As he sat these, he became acutely
conscious of the stillness of the room. It made him feel
thousands of miles away from the noisy streets and shops
and general clatter of London. He became conscious of sound
of his own breathing, sitting here was like sitting in the
comforting stillness of a beautiful cathedral.
Suddenly he was roused from his dreamlike state. A man
was approaching. Michael looked up and for a brief moment
he did not recognize Sir Humphry Davy. He had seen him
before but only from a distance. At that time he was a
dignified figure on the lecture platform, dressed in a

professor’s black coat. Now he saw a slim, round-shouldered
man of medium height, with brilliant dark eyes. The face
was oval and the determined chin seemed out of keeping
with the soft mouth about which hovered a friendly almost
shy smile.
sentences : 1×6=6
a) Michael Faraday has to wait at––
i) the room
ii) the wooden bench
iii) the wooden chair
iv) the iron chair
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Faraday became conscious of the sound of his own––
i) chewing ii) talking
iii) walking iv) breathing
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) The stillness of the room made him feel thousands of
miles away from the––
i) crowded streets ii) noisy streets
iii) conely streets iv) silence streets
Answer : _____________________________________________
d) Where Faraday was sitting was like sitting in the
comforting stillness of a––
i) beautiful garden ii) beautiful park
iii) beautiful temple iv) beautiful cathedral
Answer : _____________________________________________
e) Humphry Davy was a man of––
i) low height ii) high height
iii) medium height iv) minimum height
Answer : _____________________________________________
f) Michael Faraday did not recognize––
i) Sir Wordsworth ii) Sir J. K. Hadson
iii) Sir William Jones iv) Sir Humphry Davy
Answer : _____________________________________________
answer : (1+1)×3=6
i) Sir Humphry Davy was a man of short height.
ii) Michael Faraday was dressed in a professor’s black coat.

iii) A man who was approaching to Michael Faraday was
Sir Humphry Davy.

a) Who was Sir Humphry Davy?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Describe the appearance (looking) of Sir Humphry Davy?
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) Where was Michael Faraday waiting?
Answer : _____________________________________________
i) Faraday came to visit Humphry Davy.
ii) Sir, Humphry Davy, a dignified figure.
iii) A secreat meeting between Michael Faraday and Sir
Humphry Davy.
Section-B
‘‘What __________ (have/has/had) you __________ (write/
wrote/written), Father?’’ Swami __________ (ask/asked/
asking) apprehensively.
I was having tea __________ home __________
__________ evening of 30th January.
i) There was an unnatural silence. (Make it a complex)
Answer : _____________________________________________
ii) Father snatched the letter away from Swami and
tore it up. (Make it simple sentence)
Answer : _____________________________________________
iii) ‘‘Do you want to know what become of your kite?’’
he said. (Change the mode of narration)
Answer : _____________________________________________
i) You would not deliver it.
ii) I think it no disgrace to occupy my place.
iii) Gandhiji breathed his last.

[ List of phrasal verbs : pass away, give away, take
over, callup ]
them in the appropriate boxes on the right hand side : 2×4=8
a) aware
b) noble
c) resolute
d) The Principal church of a district under the charge of a
bishop
Section-C
Writing
7. Write a paragraph on a Rainy Day using the following hints :
10
Hints : Introduction––about the rain––the rain over––the
sight and the scene of nature ––your feeling.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
8. Write a notice as the secretary of the students welfare

society of your school informing the students about the
celebration of 5th June as the World Environment Day.
Mention the time, place, duration and all other information
about this programme. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
9. Write a letter to your brother congratulating him on his

brilliant result in the Madhyamik Examination. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
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Section-A
that follow :
As he entered the school gate, an idea occurred to him.
He would deliver the letter to the headmaster at the end of
the day. There was a chance Samuel might do something
during the course of the day to justify the letter.
Swami stood at the entrance to his class. Samuel was
teaching arithmetic. He looked at Swami. Swami hoped
Samuel would scold him severely.
‘‘You are half and hour late’’, Samuel said.
‘‘I have a headache, Sir.’’ Swami said.
‘‘Then why did you come at all?’’
This was an unexpected question from Samuel.
Swami Said, ‘‘My father said I shouldn’t miss school, Sir.’’
Samuel looked impressed. ‘‘Your father is quite right.
We want more parents like him.’’
‘‘Oh, you poor man!’’ Swami thought, ‘‘You don’t know what
my father has done to you.’’
‘‘All right, go to your seat.’’
Swami sat down, feeling sad. He had never met anyone
as good as Samuel.
The teacher was inspecting the home lessons. To Swami’s
thinking, this was the time when Samuel got most angry. But
today Samuel appeared very gentle.
‘‘Swaminathan, where is your homework?’’
‘‘I have not done my homework, Sir,’’ Swami said.
‘‘Why––headache?’’ asked Samuel.
‘‘Yes, Sir.’’
‘‘All right, sit down,’’ Samuel said.
a) Swami decided to deliver the letter to the headmaster–
i) at the begining of the day
ii) during the arithematics class
iii) at the end of the day
iv) during tiffin break.
Answer : _________________________________________
b) Samuel was teaching––
i) geometry ii) algebra
iii) trigonomety iv) arithmetic
Answer : _________________________________________
c) According to Samuel, Swami was late by––
i) half an hour ii) one hour
iii) two hours iv) quarter of an hour
Answer : _________________________________________
d) Swami said that he had a––
i) fever ii) headache
iii) toothache iv) stomach ache
Answer : _________________________________________
e) To Swami’s thinking. Samuel used to get most angry
when he inspected––
i) home lessons ii) class work
iii) project work iv) examination copies
Answer : _________________________________________
the text : 1×3=3
a) As Swami entered the school gate __________________
b) There was a chance Samuel might __________________
c) Samuel said they wanted more parents like __________
answer : 2×2=4
i) Swami expected that Samuel wouldn’t scold him.
ii) Swami left that he had never met a person as good as
Samuel.
OR

Statement Reason
Swami felt sad
Swami could not do the
homework
Once I crept in an oakwood––I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there––all knobbly stick and rag.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake––
Unless you make a promise now––now you are going to die.’
sentences : 1×4=4
a) The poet was looking for a––
i) lamb ii) stag
iii) goat iv) dog
Answer : _________________________________________
b) The woman whom the poet met in the oakwood was––
i) young ii) middle aged
iii) very young iv) old
Answer : _________________________________________
c) As the woman began to cackle the poet began to––
i) shout ii) sing
iii) quake iv) sweat
Answer : _________________________________________
d) The oak-trees wanted the poet to make a––
i) promise ii) prayer
iii) wish iv) contract
Answer : _________________________________________
a) What did the old woman say?
Answer : _________________________________________
b) Who introduced themselves as the poet’s own true
family?
Answer : _________________________________________

follow :
Kolkata : On reaching Hatkhola, off Shobhabazar, a drive
down Hara Chandra Mullick Street leads the visitor to a
narrow lane, cramped even for two persons to walk together.
The whitewashed walls abound with paintings of freedom
fighters, Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita and scenes from
the ‘Ramkrishna Kathamrita’.
Where this old-world north Kolkata alley ends is the
entrance to Hatkhola Byayam Samiti. At 106, it is the city’s
oldest gymnasium. Established by freedom fighters in 1910,
it is still going strong.
Manohar Aich and many other legends would regularly
work out there with ‘kusti’ and ‘mugur’ at the feet of
mammoth-sized wall paintings of Lord Hanuman, the resident
deity of the samity.
The Mitra family of Hatkhola donated the plot of land to
freedom fighters Upendranath Bandyopadhyay and Pushpalal
Chakraborty who were associated with Anushilan Samity.
Bandyopadhyay was also a co-accused with Barin Ghosh and
Arobindo Ghosh in the Alipore Bomb case.
Body building and exercise were part of the regimen
that the revolutionaries of the samity followed. With the
sympathy of the Mitras, the samity naturally teemed with
freedom fighters at that time.
sentences : 1×6=6
a) The lane leading to the Hatkhola Byayam Samity is––
i) very dirty ii) broad enough
iii) reeking with bad smell iv) very narrow
Answer : _________________________________________
b) The walls along the lane are abound with––
i) paintings of freedom fighters
ii) film posters iii) political slogans
iv) advertisements
Answer : _________________________________________
c) The entrance to Hatkhola Byayam Samity is––
i) Hara Chandra Mullick Street
ii) at the end of a norht Kolkata alley
iii) near Shobhabazar
iv) on Vivekananda Road
Answer : _________________________________________
d) The Samity was established in––
i) 1926 ii) 1906 iii) 1910 iv) 1920
Answer : _________________________________________
e) At present Hatkhola Byayam Samity––
i) has been shut down
ii) is still patronised by body-builders
iii) has been shifted to a new address
iv) is in a dilapidated condition
Answer : _________________________________________
f) The wall paintings of Lord Hanuman––
i) are extremely large in size
ii) look dull and unattractive
iii) are very small in size
iv) are gaudy and colourful
Answer : _________________________________________

answer : (1+1)×3=6
i) The Hatkhola Byayam Samity is said to be the city’s
oldest gymnasium.
Supporting Statement(s) : _________________________
ii) A group of stage actors thronged at the Hatkhola
Byayam Samity.
iii) The age of most of the members ranges between 20
and 70.
a) Who donated the plot of land?
Answer : _____________________________________________
b) Name the two revolutionaries connected with the
Alipore Bomb Case.
Answer : _____________________________________________
c) How many members does the samity have at present?
Answer : _____________________________________________
i) Gymnasium and freedom fighters.
ii) Hatkhola Byayam Samity––the city’s oldest gymnasium.
iii) Old world of North Kolkata.
Section-B
Four persons ______________ (kill / was killed / were killed)
when a matador van _________ (collides / collided / was
colliding) with a scooter last might. The river of the matador
van __________ (is arrested / have arrested / has been
arrested).
_________ great deal has been said and written
_________ the gypsies. The gypsies attracted many
people _________ their magic shows.
i) She is the best student in the class. (Rewrite the
sentence using ‘better’)
Answer : _________________________________________
ii) Can you do this exercise? (Change the Voice)
Answer : _________________________________________
iii) I said to him, ‘‘May you be happy.’’ (Change the

mode of narration)
Answer : _________________________________________
i) The brave never surrenders to evil.
ii) The rains will begin soon.
iii) His proposal was rejected.
[ List of phrasal verbs : turn down, give in, bear
away, set in ]
2×4=8
a) not having enough space to move freely.
b) a narrow passage between buildings.
c) a god or goddess.
d) a set of rules about food or exercise.
Section-C
Writing
7. Write a story (within 100 words) using the given hints. Give
a title to the story : 10
Hints : A soldier––prisoner of war for some years–war ends–
–returnse––sees a bird seller on the way––buys all
the birds and sets them free.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
8. Use the following flow-chart to write a paragraph (within
100 words) on how a School magazine in published : 10
Hints : Essays, stories, poems, sketches collected from
students and teachers––edited by the editor––sent
to press––proofs corrected––final printing––cut into
book forms––books bound––distributed among
students, teachers and others.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
9. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper (within 100
words) about the problems faced by common people due
to uncontrolled use of loudspeakers and soundboxes during
different programmes and festivals. You may use the
Points : Loudspeakers and soundboxes used day in and day
out––government norms frequently violated––aged
persons, patients and students suffer severely––
permanent remedy required.
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Section-D
(SUPPLEMENTARY)
[For External Candidates only]
1. Give antonyms of the following words : (any four) 1×4=4
i) rise _______ ii) heavy _______
iii) virtue _______ iv) beautiful _______
v) slow _______
2. Replace the following expressions by single words formed
by using prefixes listed below : (any three) 2×3=6
i) not even ___________________
ii) not satisfied ___________________
iii) to give courage ___________________
iv) not sufficient ___________________
[dis _______ , en ______ , in ______ , un _______ ]
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Section-A
No longer are they the meek creatures who an hour
ago were mewing for fish and milk. They are now grim
fighters.
Just think how much more he gets out of his life then
you do out of yours ! And the sports they have, too! As
they get older they go in for sport to the suburban
backyards. These backyards that are dull to us, are to them
hunting grounds where they have more gallant advanture
than King Arthur’s knights ever had.
It is always spoken as a reproach against cats that they
are more fond of their home than of the people in it.
Naturally, the cat doesn’t like to leave his country, the land
where all his friends are, and where he knows every
landmark. Exiled in a new land, he would have to learn a
new geography. So, when the family moves, the cat, if
allowed, will stay at the old house and attach himself to the
new tenants. He will give them the privilege of boarding
him while he enjoys life in his own way.
1. Answer the following : 2×2=4
(a) Why are the backyards so exciting to older cats?
Answer : _____________________________________________
(b) Why is the cat unwilling to leave his country?
Answer : _____________________________________________
2. State ‘True’ or ‘False’ with supporting statement for each :
2×2=4
(i) Cats get more out of life than us.
(ii) Suburban backyards are happy hunting grounds for
young cats.
3. Tick the correct answer : 2
(i) Backyards are dull to––
(a) the cats, (b) to us, (c) to the guests.
(ii) Cats prefer to attach themselves to––
(a) old tenants in new house
(b) new tenants in old house
(c) New tenants in new house.
Section-B
It is always lovely on the Big Half Moon in summer. When it
is fine, the harbour is blue and clam, with little wind and
ripples. Every summer, we had some hobby. The last summer
before Dick and Mimi came, we were crazy about kites. A
boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make them.
Back on the island we made plenty of kites. Claude would
go around to the other side of the island and we would
play shipwrecked mariners signalling to each other with kites.
We had a kite that was big and covered with lovely red
paper. We pasted gold tinsel stars all over it and had written
our names full on it––Claude Leete and Philippa Leete, Big
Half Moon lighthouse.
1. Cause Effect 2×2=4
(a) The Weather on the (a)
Big Half Moon is always
fine in summer.
(b) (b) Back on the island the
children made plenty
of bites.

(a) How did the children play ‘shipwrecked Mariners’ on
the island?
Answer : _____________________________________________
(b) How was the big kite decorated by them?
Answer : _____________________________________________
3. State ‘True’ or ‘False’ : 2

(a) The children had their own hobbies throughout all
seasons.
(b) Before Dick and Mimi came the children played with
kites.
Section-C
Chris wondered hopefully if Mr. Sundar was coming across
to offer some fresh views, but his footsteps dwindled away.
He stretched, thinking of how he came to be here and his
experiences in the last month.
It had all been quite sudden. His father owned Stark Plastics,
a small but highly-regarded company making plastic
products, and when he came home after his final semester
in college he was told of the exciting new collaboration
between them and KapCo in India who wanted to diversity
from steel into plastics. The project progressed smoothly,
with executives from India coming to be trained and orders
being placed for the appropriate injection machines and
moulds to be sent to India.
Then suddenly there had been a silence. When Chris, who
had become interested in the project as soon as he had
started working for his father, faxed to ask the reason, he
received an unsatisfactory reply about ‘Labour problems’.
‘‘May be I can help explain what its all about and try and
sort it out’’, he suggested to his father.
‘‘Sure’’, the old man had grunted. ‘‘With your vast experience
of six months.’’
But he had let him go. A letter to the Kapoors had elicited a
cordial invitation to stay with them, which Chris had
accepted with unseemly haste. He prepared in a blur of
packing, visas, and sage counsel. ‘Don’t drink the water’.
And had arrived one chilly and mistry dawn at Indira Gandhi
International Airport outside Delhi.
1. Complete the following : 3×2=6
(a) Chris hoped that _______________________________
(b) Chris’ father was the owner of ____________________
(c) After Chris’ final semester in college _______________
1. Cause Effect 2×2=4
(a) (a) The project progressed
smoothly.
(b) Chris faxed to ask the (b)
reason of silence.
(a) What was Chris’ suggestion to his father ?
Answer : _____________________________________________
(b) How did the kapoors replied to Chris and what has
Chris’ reaction?
Answer : _____________________________________________
(c) What was the ‘sage counsel’ that Chris got?
Answer : _____________________________________________
4. State True or False with supporting statements : 2×2=4
(a) KapCo was originally a company manufacturing plastics.

(b) Delhi was cold and misty when Chris arrived these.
Section-D
Grammar
1. Fill in the blanks with articles and prepositions : 6×½=3
The road ________ the jungle was lined _______ tall tree
______ pine and cedar. _______ a cloudy day __________
beauty of __________ place fascinated any on looker.
2. Rewrite using appropriate phrasal verbs : 4×1=4
[ Put on, Put out, Put off, Come across, Call on]
(a) The Five brigade extinguished the fire.
Answer : _____________________________________________
(b) I met my friend after 5 long years.
Answer : _____________________________________________
(d) The examination was postponed till next week.
Answer : _____________________________________________
(a) I saw a tiger at the zoo. (interrogative using ‘did’)
Answer : _____________________________________________
(b) He is sincere. He is clearer. (Join into a single sentence)

Answer : _____________________________________________
(c) Being injured he was given first aid. (Split into two
sentences)
Answer : _____________________________________________
(d) What a Wonderful News! (Change into assertive)
Answer : _____________________________________________
(e) I went to the movie yesterday. (Simple question using
‘did’)
Answer : _____________________________________________
4. Rewrite as directed : 4×2=8
(a) Nobody will deny that our players played well. (Begin
with : Everybody........)
Answer : _____________________________________________
(b) Robert is not such a good player as Prerna. (Use :
than.......)
Answer : _____________________________________________
(c) Work hard and you will succeed. (Begin with :
Unless............)
Answer : _____________________________________________
(d) ‘I am sorry I was rude to you’, said kiran to Ravi. (Use :
‘apologised’ and change the mode of narration)
Answer : _____________________________________________
Section-E
Writing
1. Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper complaining
about the disruption of water supply in your city. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
2. Write an imaginary dialogue between you and your
favourite cartoon character about the special powers he/
she have and how he/she uses them. 10
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
3. You have survived in a serious accident in which your
school bus was involved. Write a paragraph giving an
account of the accident. 10
Hints : Where––how––what time––how many injured––how were
you rescued––role of local people and the police––your reaction.]
Answer : ______________________________________________
______________________________________________

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