Sant Tukaram English School

Class: -X Terminal Exam Subject: - English

Time:-3:00hr Marks:-80 +10

Language study 10
MCQ
1. Pick out the present participle from the sentence.
I don’t like frightening stories.
2. Spot the error in the following sentence and rewrite it .
The hermit did not paid anything to the king.
3. Complete the following word chain of nouns:-
Book- k……………., ………………………….., …………………., ………………
4. Write past participle of the words:-
1.write, 2. hurt
5. The Dauphin will give me all I need .
(Rewrite the sentence using the present perfect tense)
6. Leaves came down dancing and fluttering
( identify the figure of speech )
7. I am taking a big chance .
( Change the voice)
8. Make two sentence of your own to show difference of
Homograph :- ‘train’
9. I had no passport. ( add question tag)
10. Jupiter is the largest of all planets. ( Make positive degree)

Q.1 A Language study 10

A.1 Do as directed:- (4)

1. Complete the following word chain of Adjective:-
beautiful - l……………., …………………………, …………………., ………………
2. Spot the error in the following sentence and rewrite it .
The Novel was publishing in 1952.
3. Write past participle of the words:-
1. write 2. hurt
4. Why didn’t you come earlier?
(Identify the type of sentence)
A.2 Do as directed: (any two ) (4)
1 I am taking a big chance .
( Change the voice)
2. I started a company
( Rewrite the sentence using present perfect tense.)
 3. He said , " What shall we do , UstadSaheb?"
( Rewrite in Indirect Speech )

Q.1 (B) Do as directed :- (any one ) (2)

1. Make two sentence of your own to show difference of
Homograph :- ‘break’
2. Change the degree:-
Sahara is the biggest desert in Africa.

(Section II: Textual Passages

Reading Skill, Vocabulary and Grammar)

Q.1 (A) Read the following passage and do the activities: (10 marks)

A.1 Name the following :- 2

1. Those considered by Kailash Satyarthi as his daughters-_______
2. The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind.

We have made progress in the last couple of decades. We have reduced the number of out-of school
children by half. We have reduced the number of child labourers by a third. We have reduced child mortality and
malnutrition, and we have prevented millions of child deaths.
But, let us make no mistake, great challenges still remain. Friends! The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on
the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
We have utterly failed our children in imparting an education. An education that gives the

meaning and objective of life. An education that gives a sense of global citizenship among the youth. I am afraid that
the day is not very far away when the cumulative result of this failure, will culminate in an unprecedented violence,
and that will be suicidal for humankind. Rights, security, hope can only be restored through education. Young
people like Malala ... I’ve started calling her my daughter Malala not just Malala ... So my daughter Malala and other
daughters including Kayanat.. in fact.. two Kayanats, and Shazia, and the daughters from Africa, and from all over
theworld. They are rising up and choosing peace over violence, tolerance over extremism, and courage over fear.
The solutions are emerging. But these solutions cannot be found in the deliberations in conferences alone, and
cannot be found in prescriptions from a distance.
They lie in small groups and local organisations and individuals, who are confronting with the problem every day.
Even if they remain unacknowledged, unrecognised and unknown to the world the solution are with them

A2 Complete the list of the progress made in the last couple of decades: 2
1. ________ 2._________ 3. ________ 4.____________
A.3 1. Choose the correct option which conveys the exact meanings :- of:- 2
1. culminate:-
a. destroy b. succeed c. rise to a peak
2. mortality:-
a. death b. virtues c starvation
2. Pick out from the passage the antonyms of:
1. well known 2 increased
A.4 Do as directed:- 2
Complete the following sentences with help of the given sentence;
 Sentence :- The biggest challenge knocking on the doors of humankind is fear
and intolerance .
a. No other challenge knocking ______ as big as ________.
b. Fear and intolerance are bigger ______________
A.5 List four ways in which literacy can be improved in India. 2

B) Read the following passage and do the activities: 10

B.1 Choose the correct alternatives:- 2

1. Which state does Mary Kom belongs to?
a) Maharashtra b) Assam c) Manipur
2. Which is Mary Kom’s birth place ?
a) Kangthei village b) eastern India c) humble surroundings
3. Who inspired Mary Kom and other youngsters in Manipur to choose boxing as a career?
a) Dingkosingh b) MangteTonpoKom c) adams
4. When did Mary Kom start competing at an international level?
a) 2012 b) 2001 c) 1998

There had to be one successful story if Indians were to survive in sports and we have that story now.
Enough has been said about this great warrior who conquered the world. This warrior is none other than Mary
Mangte Kom-the Komqueror and the Komrade. She is famed as a five times World Boxing Championand the only
boxer to win a medal in every one ofthe six world championships. In the 2012 Olympics,she became the first Indian
woman boxer to qualifyand win a bronze medal in the 51 Kg flyweightcategory of Boxing.
Kom was born is Kangthei village, Moirang Lamkhai in Churachandpur district of rural Manipur ineastern
India. She came from a poor family. Her parents, Mangte TonpaKom and Mangte Akham Komwere tenant farmers
who worked in jhum fields. Kom
grew up in humble surroundings, helping her parents with farm related chores, going to school and learningathletics
initially and later boxing simultaneously. Herfather was a keen wrestler in his younger age.
She had an eager interest in athletics since childhood and the success of Dingko Singh a fellow Manipuri
returned from the 1998 Bangkok Asian gameswith a gold medal, Kom recollects had inspired manyyoungsters in
Manipur to try boxing and she toothought of giving it a try.
Mary Kom’s career started in 2000 after hervictory in the Manipur State women’s boxingchampionship and the
regional championship in WestBengal. In 2001, she started competing at internationallevel. She was only 18 years
old when she made herinternational debut at the first AIBA Women’s WorldBoxing Championship in United States,
winning a silvermedal in the 48 kg weight category. Her greatness isreinforced by the way she apoligized to the
whole nation for not being able to win the Gold. She is alegend for sure and an idol for all the sportswomen tolook
up to.

B.2 Complete the following :- 2

Achievements of
Mary Kom
B.3 Give the antonyms of the following words from the passage:- 2
1. failure 2. defeat 3. weakened 4. wealthy

B.4 Do as directed:- 2
1She was only 18 years old when she made her international debut .
( Pick out subordinate clause and state its kind)
2. She became the first Indian woman boxer to qualifyand win a bronze medal
(Add question tag).
B.5 What makes a writer call Mary Kom a legend 2

Section III : Poetry

Q. 3 (A) Read the following Poem and do the given activities: (5 marks)
A.1 1. Complete the following :-

Complete the analogy:

round : belly : : __________eyes
2. State True or false:
a. Man returns to the helpless, ignorant state of a child.
b. He reaches a stage where he is unconscious of the surrounding.

And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

A.2 What is the change witnessed in the sixth stage of a man’s life? 2
A.3 Identity the figure of speech :-
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 1
B Read the following poem and write the appreciation of it with the help of the following points in a paragraph
format :

When God at first made Man,

Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said He) “pour on him all we can:”
Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.

So strength first made a way;

Then beauty flow’d, then wisdom, honour, pleasure:
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that alone of all His treasures
Rest in the bottom lay

For if I should (said He)

Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature.
So both should losers be.
Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness:
Let him be rich and weary, that at last,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.

Points: 1. The title and the poet of the poem .

2. Rhyme Scheme
3. Figure of speech
4. Central idea/ Theme
Section IV: Non Textual Passage .

( Reading, Skill, vocabulary, Grammar and Summary)

Q.4 (A) Read the following passage and do the activities: 10

Motor transport is killing us! So says Dr. Anuradha Lal of DHI (Doctors for a Healthy India) which met in Delhi
yesterday. Thousands of people die every year in traffic accidents, Even more people die because they breathe
polluted air from motor vehicles. (Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world.) So what is the answer? DHI
says we should make cycling easier. Dr. Lal outlined six reasons why :

(1) Most Indian cities are very polluted because every motor vehicle produces dirty fumes. Doctor says that city air is
so dirty that thousands of people die every year from chest illnesses. Cycling is clean because it produces no fumes.

(2) Cyclists don't have to spend on petrol, so bicycles are cheap to run. Cycle repairs are cheaper than motor repairs
too because bicycles are quite simple machines.

(3) Bicycles save money for our country too. All motor vehicles need petrol, which comes from oil. India does not
produce much oil so we have to buy it from other countries. But we don't need to buy anything from foreign
countries to ride bicycles.

(4) If we get exercise every day, we become healthy. Cycling keeps us fit. Driving motor vehicles does not!

(5) In cities, sometimes traffic doesn't move at all as there is not enough space on the roads. Bicycles are too small to
take up much road space.

(6) Motor traffic is very noisy. In contrast, bicycles are quiet - except for the gentle 'tring, tring' of their bells.

A3. Point out the contextual meaning of the underlined words in the sentences :

(1) Bicycles save money for country too.

(2) Bicycles are too small to take up much road space.

A4. Do as directed :

(1) Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world.

(Begin your sentence with Very few.......

(2) Cycle repairs are cheaper than motor repairs.

(Begin your sentence with Motor repairs........

A5. Personal response :

How, according to you, will cycling be safer and easier in cities?

Q.4 B) Write a short summary of the passage given in Q.4 (A) and suggest a suitable title. 5

Section V :- Writing skills

Q.5. Letter writing :- 5

Imagine you are Ria/Rahul, residing at 103, Pragat Colony, M.G. Road, Nagpur-15.
Attempt any one of the letter based on the given situation.
"Celebrate diwali withput crackers .”

Formal Letter Write a letter to the chief Officer, Pollution Informal Letter Write a letter to your friend Anil/Anita
controlling office Nagpur, to organize an awareness making him/her . To celebrate Diwali festival without
campaign Diwali festival without crackers, to stop air crackers and stop the air pollution
pollution

Q.6 (A) Information Transfer:- 5

A.1 Verbal to Non-verbal :- Read the following information and transfer the information in the form of tree
diagram and Suggest a suitable title:-

The word ‘Literature' is really hard to define. Many interpretations are made about the
word. But all are incomplete. Some opine that literature is the mirror of life, some others
say that it is the criticism of life. Whatever may be the controversy about the word, we
may say that literature is that which reflects life. The branches of literature are poetry,
OR
novel and short stories. Poetry is of two kinds, imaginative and realistic. Drama is either a
comedy or a tragedy. Novels are also of many kinds, historical, psychological, realistic,
scientific and regional. Short story is that which stands very close to life inspite of little
scope.
A.2 Non -verbal to Verbal:-

Read the following table and write it in the form of a paragraph with a suitable title: - 5

Electricity
Sun
Coal Sources of Energy

Wind
Rain
B1. Speech/ View – Counterview

Write a speech about 15-20 lines that you would deliver on the occasion of Teachers’ day Celebrations in
your school. You may take the help of the following points for your speech:
* Importance of teachers
* Relationship between teachers and students
* Gratitude towards teachers.
OR
B2 Write a counterview on the topic
Physical Education is a must for all high school students. Given below are some counterviews.

Write your views supporting the statement.

It is not necessary that all high school students should go for physical education classes. They are about to
appear for their first board examination. They should dedicate most of their valuable school time preparing for the
examination and not doing PT. Besides, while doing physical
activities, students can get injured and in the process their studies can suffer. Moreover, they
have to go for innumerable extra classes during this phase. To fare well in their forthcoming
examination, they need to concentrate only on academics. So going to physical education classes
should be optional and not mandatory.

Section VI ( Creative Writing )

Q. 7 (A) Do any of the following:- 5

A.1Expand the theme :-‘ As you sow, so shall you reap

OR

A.2 Expand the Idea :- ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’

B Developing a story/ Narrating an experience: - 5

B1. Develop a story in about 80-100 words with the following beginning:- Give a suitable title:-
.. …………… and this was the incident that changed my life.
OR
B2. Narrate an experience:-
Narrate an experience in about 80-100 words beginning with the following:-
I will never ever forget day when -----------------