GRAMMAR WORK SHEET – 2

(instructions to students as in the First Test Paper)

Question 1

(Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.) Write a composition
(300-350 words) on any one of the following

(a) Write an original short story which has a crowd of onlookers, a howling
mother of policemen.
(b) Public Examinations at school level should be abolished.” Express your
views against this statement.
(c) Describe a typical market scene in your area.
(d) Narrate an incident when you and your friends were caught in a cyclonic
storm .
(e)Study the picture given below. Write a short story or description or an
account of the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the
subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it .
 Question 2

(Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.)

Select one of the following:

(a) You are studying in a residential school. Write a letter to your

father, explaining how you are spending your time in the
hostel.

(b) You are suffering from jaundice. Write an application to your

Principal requesting him to grant you leave for two weeks

Question 3 (15+5)

(a) You are a student of Class X of St. Mary’s School. While

playing cricket in the school playground you have lost
 your Sports room’s locker keys, were the pocket of your
trousers. Write a notice to be put up on the school notice
board, requesting the finder to return the keys to you.

(b) Write an email to the Incharge of ‘Lost and Found’

Department of your school, requesting him/her to help you
in finding the keys.

Question 4
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions
that follow:
A few months after his arrival, Dr. Cook looked up from a patient
he was examining, to see the usual group of people crowding back
nervously from a couple of panting, half naked messengers.
“Smallpox,” Katherine said quietly.
In Uganda, it was a fatal disease. Once it struck a village, it
spread through it like a plague, destroying hundreds, blinding
and disfiguring the rest. There was no known remedy. The
custom was to put the sick into little huts outside the village and
abandon them to die.

The messengers reported the disease in a nearby village. Dr.

Cook could not think what to do: so few supplies had arrived
from the coast. Then he remembered. Seeing him off from
London nine months ago, his eldest brother had handed him
two tubes of vaccine with the hope that he might find them
useful in Africa. The doctor had put them in his pocket and
forgotten all about them in the bustle of getting away. Had they
been lost on the long march from the coast? Were they broken?
Was it possible that the vaccine had kept its strength after nine
months?

He ran to his quarters and searched frantically through boxes,

bags and baskets. Finally, he found the tubes and ran back to
the dispensary praying as he went. He managed to persuade a
few boys to submit to vaccination and told them to return in a
 week so that he could see whether or not the vaccine had
“taken”, and if so, to collect enough to vaccinate others.

A week went by. The smallpox was spreading. The boys did not
return. Messengers were sent to search for them. Rewards were
offered if they would come back. The doctor concluded sadly that
the vaccine had lost its strength.

Then one morning, Katherine, glancing out of the crowded

dispensary, saw in the market place a boy with an
unmistakable vaccination scar on his arm. She pushed through
the waiting patients and ran out, calling to him. He took one
look and fled. Katherine tucked up her wide skirts-this was no
time for dignity-and sprinted after him. The market people
jumped out of the way as the tall figure in flying white robes
raced through them. The boy, shrieking with fright, put on
speed. But Katherine was
Question 5

QUESTION 1:

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
Mark other changes that may be necessary but do not change the meaning of
each sentence. (10M)

My cousin is short, yet he is a good basketball player. (Begin: In spite………)

• She can only go for picnic if she gets better. (Use: ‘unless’)

• The decision of the Principal surprised us. (Begin: We……….)

• But for his help, I would have drowned. (Begin: Had he……….)

• This town is not so clean as that town. (Use: ‘cleaner’)

• ‘Do you want Limca or a glass of water?’ my mother said. (Begin: My

mother asked……….)
 • As soon as I heard a knock at the door, I switched on the light. (Begin: No
sooner………)

• He was too young to be employed. (Remove ‘too’)

• His parents did not let him play with other children. (End:……….his
parents)

• The man is a cheat. We met him in the bank. (Use: whom)

QUESTION 2:

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word. (5M)

1. I saw Jane last summer, but _________ then I haven’t seen her.

2. The child crawled __________ the bed in an attempt to hide.

3. We walked on __________ we reached the bridge.

4. These souvenirs are __________ no value.

5. We decided __________ a picnic in view of the bad weather.

6. The Sports Day went _________ well this year.

7. The government came _________ heavily on smugglers.

8. He had to break __________ the lock because he had lost the key.

9. The car crashed __________ a wall.

10. The girl takes _________ her mother.

QUESTION 3:

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words given in brackets. (5M)
 Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see
what we believe. If we __________ (observe) all the greatest endeavors carried
out in this world, we find that behind them faith was the sole-driving force. A
person can _________ (set) a goal for himself, only if he has faith that ultimately
he _________ (achieve) the goal.

It was only because of faith, that during the freedom struggle, a whole lot of
freedom fighters _________ (struggle) till they shed the last drop of their blood
and __________ (free) India from the clutches of British Empire. Faith
_________ (prompt) the great Alexander to march along with his troops to
_________ (conquer) the whole world. Such was his spirit that he never
_________ (lose) faith in his abilities and lived the life of a great warriors till his
last breath.

It was faith that ________ (motivate) Edison to keep trying for thousand
times before he discovered lamp without which further inventions and discoveries
in Science _________ (seem) impossible.