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Practice QP English Class X Set-Iv
Practice QP English Class X Set-Iv
General Instructions:
1. This paper is divided into two sections: A and B. All questions are compulsory.
2. Separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary. Read
these instructions very carefully and follow them.
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.
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READING 20 Marks
1. Read the passage given below.
Power of Thoughts
1. Ideas rule the world. You shape your fate and decide your destiny by your
thoughts. You have to think high to rise. You have to believe and be sure of
yourself to win a prize. Life’s battles do not always go to the stronger or the faster
man. But, sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
2. Success starts with your thoughts. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve. And your mind is nothing more than a bundle of thoughts. Since
you have the power to shape your thoughts, you automatically have the power to
fashion your fate and decide your destiny. Thus, your thoughts are the most potent
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3. For your thoughts to blossom into success, they should be combined with
translate them into action. Believe that you will succeed and believe it firmly. You
4. Faith in yourself as well as the confidence that you can and will succeed are
the key to your success in any venture. If you keep your mind riveted on your
goal and focus your thoughts on the great and splendid things that you wish to
have, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are
5. Thoughts are supreme. Preserve the right mental attitude of courage, frankness
and good cheer. Think of success in your work and you will then do automatically
and unconsciously, the things necessary to bring success about. If your desire is
weak and your efforts are erratic your achievements will also be slight and fleeting.
But, if you go after your goal with the single-mindedness of a bulldog after a cat,
nothing and nobody under the sun can stop you. Your goal should also be well-
defined, clear-cut and specific and should be linked to a fixed timeframe so that
your definite energies and efforts can be focused and forcefully directed towards
its attainment.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer ANY TEN questions from the twelve
questions that follow. (1 × 10 = 10)
i. The basic triggers of achieving success are:
a. Be sure of yourself b. Think high
c. Have the power d. Both (i) & (ii)
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ii. The suitable heading for para 3 is:
a. Be positive b. Dream big
c. Success only depends on you d. Streamline your life
iii. Which of these plays the most important role in achieving our success?
a. our health b. our thoughts
c.hardwork d. confidence
iv. In order to change our thoughts into success, we must also have:
a. definiteness of purpose b. Perseverance
c. Strong desire d. All of these
v. If you go after your goal with the _____, you will achieve success.
a. In a hurry b. Think about obstacles
c. Be alert d. Single-mindedness
viii. In para 2, which of the following words mean the same as ‘powerful’
a. Success b. Prime
c. Potent d. destiny
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ix. Choose the option which is NOT true
x. Choose the correct usage of the word ‘riveted’ as used in the para 4
c. Fix multiple time bound goals d. A clear cut time bound goal
xii. Based on the reading of the passage which of the following quotes suits better
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Tourism is a thriving business for earning valuable foreign exchange as well as
providing an opportunity for cultural exchange and generating employment. India
has a rich heritage of art, sculpture, music,
dance and drama. Many European countries 18 lakh
30 lakh
tourists
tourists
have promoted tourism as a trade. In some
from
from
Southern
Western
countries
countries
counties it is run like an industry.
18%
30%
32 lakh
tourists 20 lakh
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a business like attitude in greeting and sending off the visitors with a smile. Give
them a pleasant experience and prepare them to undertake a repeat visit soon.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer ANY TEN questions from the
twelve that follow. (1 × 10 = 10)
ii). In 2018, tourism was responsible for creating what number of jobs?
(a) about 427 lakh (b) about 40 lakh
iii). In the line, “ …………………… a thriving business for earning” , the word ‘thriving’
iv). Based on your understanding of the passage, choose the option that lists the
benefits of booming tourism industry.
I. II.
III. Provides opportunity for cultural exchange IV. Contributes to the rise in population
Generates
V. employment
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(a) I, II and V (b) II, III and IV
v). The number of tourists that arrived in India from eastern countries in 2019
was:
vi). What is the main stumbling block in the development of tourism at present?
vii). How many domestic tourists visited all states and union territory in 2019?
viii). Choose the option that lists statement that is NOT TRUE
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(c) European countries (d) All of these
x). Choose the option that lists the correct answer for the following:
City ‘A’ has many tourist sites, however it suffers from poor accommodation
facilities in its hotels.
xi). According to the data, how many tourists from western countries visited India
in 2019?
xii). According to the data, the number of tourists from northern countries who
visited India in 2019 was:
LITERATURE 10 Marks
3. Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the questions that follow.
(5 × 1)
(A)
i. His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green flooring
ahead of him. They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly. He dropped his legs
to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it. He screamed with fright and
attempted to rise again flapping his wings. But he was tired and weak with
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hunger and he could not rise, exhausted by the strange exercise. His feet sank
into the green sea, and then his belly touched it and he sank no farther. He
was floating on it, and around him his family was screaming, praising him and
their beaks were offering him scraps of dog-fish.
i. The green flooring refers to
iii. How will you describe the emotion of the young seagull when he fell
a. Calling b. Inviting
c. Wearisome d. Deceiving
OR
B). Sometimes, when Peggy was asking Wanda those questions in that mocking
polite voice, Maddie felt embarrassed and studied the marbles in the palm of her
hand, rolling them around and saying nothing herself. Not that she felt sorry for
Wanda, exactly. She would never have paid any attention to Wanda if Peggy
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hadn’t invented the dresses game. But suppose Peggy and all the others started
in on her next ? She wasn’t as poor as Wanda, perhaps, but she was poor. Of
course, she would have more sense than to say she had a hundred dresses. Still
she would not like for them to begin on her. She wished Peggy would stop teasing
Wanda Petronski.
i. How did Maddie fell when Peggy asked those questions to Wanda?
a. elated b. uncomfortable
c. tensed d. humiliated
ii. Which question resonated in the mind of Maddie every time she wanted to
speak for Wanda?
a. How can they do that to her?
b. Why does she answer in a ridiculous way?
c. What if I am next?
d. What can I ask Wanda next?
v. Synonym of ‘mocking’ is
a. disdain b. ridicule
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c. aversion d. to pull one’s leg
4. Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the
questions that follow.
5m
A). “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning
things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
d. enjoying
ii. No one is dissatisfied means that animals do not have _____ like humans
a. Power b. zeal
c. Desire d. selflessness
a. Preying b. punishment
c. praying d. equality
a. Metaphor b. hyperbole
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c. personification d. anaphora
OR
B). “But he’s locked in a concrete cell,
His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage,
Ignoring visitors.”
ii. ‘ But he’s locked’ – what does the poet mean by this
a. helplessness b. captivity
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iv. The possible reasons for ignoring visitors..
c. they don’t help him out of the cell d. all the above
a. shoot b. to stride
c. trunk d. to measure
GRAMMAR 10 Marks
5. Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the paragraph. (3 × 1)
Today’s younger generations are very narcissistic. They__ i__ much more self-
centered than other generations and have changed their priorities. We __ii__ in
the I-Generation. Where looking pretty and uploading selfies __iii__ the norm.
Where children are losing their youth in order to get attention and feel important.
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6. Choose the correct options to fill in the blanks to complete the passage:
(3m)
John saw Mary and ____i____ for which Mary replied that ____ii___. Upon
listening to her response, John asked if she would like to out with him and Mary
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c. it was finished d. it has been
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7. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct options for ANY
FOUR of the six sentences given below.
(4x1=4)
a) ought to b) had to
c) need to d) used to
iii. In 2000, Africa had fewer than five million Internet users.
a. less b. few
b. c. a little d. fewer
a. have b.
has c. was
d. was
a. have b. has
c. were d. was
vi. The philosopher and the politician ____ on this project since 2018.
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a. has been working b. have been
working
OR
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OR
[B] The following table shows details about the internet activities
for six categories for different age groups. Write an analytical
paragraph to describe the information in 100-120 words and
compare where relevant.
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LITERATURE (30 marks)
(i) How did Wanda win the drawing competition? Did anyone
expect her
victory?
(ii) How did Belinda and pets behave when the pirate had been
killed?
(iii) Why did Valli avoid to look out of the
window?
B. Any two (2x2=4)
(i) Bholi’s heart was overflowing with a ‘new hope and a new life’.
What does the phrase ‘the new hope and the new life ‘mean?
(ii) Who was Lutkins? Did the narrator serve the summons that day?
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Why?
(iii) Why did Mrs. Hall find the scientist eccentric?
(1)What are the ‘tokens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long
ago and which the animals have kept for him?
(ii) Do you think Kisa Gotami was selfish and grief stricken? Explain.
(iii) How can you say that the conductor was a good-natured jolly
fellow? Support your answer with examples.
(i) What lesson did Ebright learn when he could not win a prize at
the science fair?
(ii) What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin?
(iii) What attitude did the lawyer have to the country life? How did
his experience at New Mullion change it?
b) “I am sure that none of the boys and girls in Room Thirteen would
purposely and deliberately hurt anyone’s feelings because his or her
name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what
was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the
way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happened
unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it.”. [The
Hundred Dresses]
(A) ‘The Necklace’ reveals that vanity is an evil. It may bring joy for
a short period but ultimately it leads to ruin. If you were placed in a
situation similar to that of Matilda, what would have you done? Write
your views.
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OR
(B)’Failure is the stepping stone to success’. Elucidate with reference
to Ebright and his struggles.
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