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CENTRE NUMBER : IN462

NAME: ___________________________ CLASS 10 A B C D E F ROLL NO.: ________

SUBJECT : ENGLISH PAPER: 2 DATE : 18-10-2021

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READ THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BELOW :

1. Additional Materials: Answer Booklet cum Question Paper.

2. If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the
Booklet.
3. Write your roll number and name on all the work you hand in.
4. Dictionaries are not permitted.
5. This document consists of 4 pages. ( 4 printed + 0 blank )

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Section 1

Text A

I hate reading….

It’s #MarchIsReadingMonth, and everywhere you look, people are talking about reading. From
what we’re reading to our kids, and what activities for reading they are doing in schools, to what
books we ourselves are reading this month, there’s no shortage of conversation about reading.

When I look back on my time in grade school, I think of many fond memories. However, contrary
to what you might think—for an author, writer, and educator—reading is not one of those
memories for me. In fact, reading was one of the things that I hated most about school growing
up. I was a slow reader. A...pain...fully...slow...reader. And I still am.

Maybe you can relate. I had great decoding skills and could pronounce the most sophisticated
polysyllabic words, but my fluency, though smooth, was slow. And my comprehension was
definitely not the best. In fact, I would get so bored reading a book, even if it was something I
wanted to read, that I felt restless and physically uncomfortable. I would often give up on books
well before I was being asked to by my teachers—or should have. But I was a fairly dutiful
student, so I worked around my reading aversion, and no one was the wiser.

This continued into high school, where I got audiobooks and summary notes for books to help
shortcut the drudgery that was reading novels. Ugh. It makes me exhausted just thinking about
it now. In college, the reading load grew—exponentially it seemed—as did my reading-
associated stress, and my mitigating attempts to shirk reading became more pronounced, too.

I boldly confess that throughout college I would read just enough of a chapter to know just
enough of something that I could volunteer a thought about the text. Then, I’d be the first one
to raise my hand the next day and get my “participation points.”

People who tend to get distracted often and easily will find it hard to really delve into a book
and get absorbed by the images and ideas that reading can bring. Too much stress or anxiety
in life can make reading a difficult and frustrating experience they justifiably want to avoid. If
you can’t focus on reading and your mind constantly wanders off to think of tomorrow’s deadline
or business trip, it’s only natural that you’ll prefer another activity to reading, something that
doesn’t require you to concentrate.

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Text B

Books, my friends!

Books are my friends, my companion. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

-Christopher Paolim.

Books are more patient than most people and they understand us. They allow us to feel our
emotions and they teach us that it's okay to feel sad sometimes; after all, we are humans. Also,
just like our best friends, good books cheer-up our mood and soothe the soul, sometimes even
making us laugh out loud.

Can you imagine your life without companions? Be it your parents, friends or soul mate! You
can't. But how about books? They never walk away.

The people who teach, advice and guide us may not always be there with us. But "books could
be our greatest friends", they say. Books are like people we meet, we can pity or vilify them,
venerate or love them. Every book we read stays with us in any form (experiences, memories,
empathy n a lot more), one can think of. They give you so much that you wonder of recollecting
at once.

From being judgmental, enriching our mind, broadening our perspective, giving enormous
knowledge, making us smarter, help forgetting troubles and curing loneliness to changing our
perspective towards life, they are treasure house one can keep....

The treasure house of the knowledge that occupy your mind, the range of experiences that you
can share. You become a thinking person, you have a world view, your perspective and have
a knowledge of universe. And all this will feed into what you become and what mark you leave.

Each book we read has the power to transpose us into a diff World. It's not just within the narrow
confines of mere words but the time you go into books, you feel the noble thoughts they
generate into you, you feel the characters well than what people actually encounter. Your whole
life that you spend observing and learning things are concise in a plot of a book thus reducing
the chaos of confusion and making things more obvious.

We think of literature as something very sophisticated but there are ways in which books
organise and clarify our thoughts, concerns and beliefs thus simplying them and being your
greatest aka best friends for life.

A child's reading skills are important to their success in school as they will allow them to access
the breadth of the curriculum and improve their communication and language skills. In addition,
reading can be a fun and imaginative time for children, which opens doors to all kinds of new
worlds for them.

Studies show that reading for pleasure makes a big difference to children’s educational
performance. Likewise, evidence suggests that children who read for enjoyment every day not

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only perform better in reading tests than those who do not, but also develop a broader
vocabulary, increased general knowledge and a better understanding of other cultures.

In fact, reading for pleasure is more likely to determine whether a child does well at school than
their social or economic background.

Through hearing stories, children are exposed to a wide range of words. This helps them build
their own vocabulary and improve their understanding when they listen, which is vital as they
start to read. It is important for them to understand how stories work too. Even if your child does
not understand every word, they will hear new sounds, words and phrases which they can then
try out, copying what they have heard.

Section 2

Essays

Questions 2 ,3,4,5

Write about 350 to 450 words on one of the following questions. Answer on this Question
Paper. Total 40 marks

Up to 16 marks are available for the content and structure of your answer, and up to 24
marks for the style and accuracy of your writing.

Descriptive Writing

2 Write a description with the title, ‘The picture I’d forgotten I had taken’.

OR

3. Describe a place which used to be busy and is now quiet.

Narrative Writing

4. Write a story which involves finding an unusual object.

OR

5. Write a story about a character who wants to make some kind of change.

[Total 40 marks]

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