Set-1

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE (184)

MARKING SCHEME
CLASS-X PRE-TERM EXAMINATION 2021-22
MM-40

Passage I. (any 8)

Q1. (C) Both (i) and (iii)

Q2. (D) Both (a) and (b)
Q3. (A) Technology does not help students stay engaged during class.
Q4. (D) All of these
Q5. (C) Students have to depend on costly gadgets for learning.
Q6. (D) Technology should be an integral part of learning process
Q7. (C) II and III
Q8. (A) Only I
Q9. (B) Martha and Betsy spoke frequently on the phone.
Q10. (C) removal

Passage II. (any 6)

Q11. (D) a section providing supporting evidence in a larger work on MTR

Q12. (D) careless

Q13. (C) believes that MTR companies are insensitive towards environment and
people
Q14. (B) “However, instead of bringing jobs and prosperity to poor Appalachian
communities,
the companies actually bring destruction and poverty.”
Q15. (D) argue that the companies are interested more in saving money than
environment.
Q16. (B) II only
Q17. (D) All the above
Q18. (C) A is true but R is false.

III. (any 5)

Q19. (C) has

Q20. (C) most
Q21. (B) is
Q22. (D) It is extremely foolish to waste time in useless activities.
Q23. (C) The teacher ordered the boys not to move.
Q24. (B) may

IV. (any 5)
Q25. (b) Dear sir/ma’am

Q26. (a) the problem that she is facing

Q27. (B) Commissioner of Police (traffic)

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Q28. (a) offensive
Q29. (b) Manage the traffic during school hours
Keep the pedestrians safe.

Q30. (d) traffic police constables to regulate the traffic

V.

Q31. (A) Option (1)

Q32. (B) She was proud of him and made a lot of noise

Q33. (C) They began flying around him

Q34. (A) release

Q35. (B) He did not fall headlong

VI.

Q36. (c) to another city.

Q37 (c) people who have migrated from another country

Q38. (d) avoid

Q39 (b) shocked
Q40. (a) to look quickly and secretly

VII.

Q41. (c) is thinking to himself.

Q42. (a) an onlooker observing

Q43. (c) who has lost his ball

Q44. (a) contrast with the dejected feeling of the boy.

Q45. (c) option 3

VIII.
Q46 (d) became invisible

Q47. (b) to become invisible

Q48. (b) burnt his landlord’s house
Q49. (c) he was a lawful person
Q50. (a) Griffin had a healthy relationship with his landlord

IX.

Q51. (b) a kind-hearted teacher

Q52. (b) to provide him hundred pesos
Q53. (c) )that nothing in the nature is ugly, inauspicious or negative
Q54. (d) happiness
Q55. (d) apartheid
Q56. (c) maiden
Q57. (d) one who talks a lot
Q58. (a) zoo-forest
Q59. (d) as he looked seriously ill
Q60. (b) domestic servant