STD X – ENGLISH

2020 - 2021

CLASS TEST 3 GRAMMAR

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

SUBJECT – VERB AGREEMENT

Question 1.
Climatic change (a) ……………………. one of the hotly contested
debates. India and Antarctica (b) ……………………. once the part of the
same landmass. To visit Antarctica now (c) ……………………. to be a
part of history. 90 percent of the Earth’s total ice volumes (d)
……………………. stored there, Antarctica (e) ……………………. her
simple ecosystem. Therefore to study the earth, Antarctica
………………….. the place to go. Antarctica (8) …………………. devoid
of any human markets. It (h) ……………………. no trees, buildings or
billboards.

Question 2.
Today road accidents (a) ……………………. earned India a dubious
distinction. She (b) ……………………. the worst road traffic accident
rate. The various factors to be blamed (c) ……………………. drunk–
driving and carelessness in the use of helmets. The total number of
deaths (d) ……………………. now passed the 135,000 marks. Trucks
and two-wheelers (e) ……………………. responsible earlier. Evening
rush hours ) ……………………. the most dangerous time to be on the
road. Today drunken–driving (8) ……………………. become a major
cause for road accidents. Think today. The time for action (h)
……………………. now.
Q.3. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one word missing
in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before
and the word that comes after in your answer sheet. The first one has been
done as an example.

 Q.4. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one word missing
in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before
and the word that comes after in your answer sheet. The first one has been
done as an example.
 PHRASAL VERBS

QUESTION 5 Fill in each blank with a suitable word. (Do not write
the sentence)

1. The school board agreed ____ look into the stúdent’s complaints.
2. The school board then agreed ____ the course of action.
3. The benefits ____ providing students with lunch at school, far
outweigh the logistical challenges.
4. Most students benefit ____ interactions with fellow students
outside school hours.
5. The latest set of losses resulted ____ the captain losing her job.
6. Celine clashed ____ her boss in the last meeting.
7. They clashed ____ the tone of the presentation.
8. I forgot ____ buy the medicine in time.
9. I completely forgot ____ the strike the next day.
10. Janice asked ____ a cup of tea.
11. She asked ____ the place where the tea was from.
12. Sobha asked ____ for the directions to the shop, but no one
seemed to know the exact address.
13. Our car broke ____ in the middle of nowhere.
14. Lisa broke ____ when she got to hear the results.
15. She then broke ____ with Sam because he refused to help her.
16. It seems Sam’s house was broken ____ last evening.
17. A mini riot broke ____ as soon as the ice-cream truck arrived.
18. The opposition party worked for over a year to bring ____ the
President.
19. We haven’t met in ages, lets catch ____ sometime soon.
20. The moment I bring ____ the topic of my vacation, my boss
changes the topic.
21. I called the team ____ to my place to celebrate.
22. I called ____ my boss to let him know I would not come in the
next day.

Question 6
Pablo Picasso (0) showed (show) his truly exceptional talent from a very
young age. His first word (i) …………. (be) lapiz (Spanish for pencil) and
he (ii) …………. (learn) to draw before he could talk. He was the only
son in the family and very good looking, so he was thoroughly (iii)
…………. (spoil). He (iv) …………. (hate) school and often (v) ………….
(refuse) to go unless his doting parents (vi) …………. (allow) him to take
one of his father’s pet pigeons with him. Once, he painted his father’s
half completed painting so beautifully that his father (vii) …………. (give)
him his own palette and brushes and never (viii) …………. (paint) again.
He was 13 then.

Question 7.
As heart disease (0) is continuing (continue) to be the number one
killer in the United States, researchers (i) …………. (become)
increasingly (ii) …………. (interest) in identifying the potential risk factors
that (iii) …………. (trigger) heart attacks. High-fat diets and ‘life in the
fast lane’ have long (iv) …………. (know) to contribute to the high
incidence of heart failure. Heart failures (v) …………. (appear) to have
seasonal and temporal patterns. Many heart failures (vi) ………….
(occur) in cold weather and many people (vii) …………. (experience)
heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week. Cardiologists
(viii) …………. (observe) more morning phenomena of heart attacks than
in afternoons or evenings.