SHREE CLASSES

SHIVSHANKAR COLONY, AADARSH NAGAR, MOSHI

STD.: 10th Eng TOPIC : English Marks : 40
Q.1 Read the following passage and answer the questions:- 10 mrks
We instinctively turn to the outdoor activities and nature as a way of relaxing and enhancing our
wellbeing. Nature soothes and nurtures. Nature fulfils and motivates. Nature whispers and commands. Are
you listening? When I do, it leaves me incomplete awe. We have a hibiscus plant in our garden. Every
fortnight of flower bloom blooms on it. Big, bright and tender. Through the day, it smiles with the sun and
dances with the wind. But as evening approaches it starts wilting. The morning after it Withers
completely, and by evening it falls and becomes one with the earth again. The flower comes to life only
for a day. Yet it does so in full splendor. What if we too lived our life, however short, to it’s fullest? We
went to a rocky beach and saw the spread of the majestic ocean and the wrong law rocks alongside carved,
sculpted and shaped by the water. Water is so gentle. Rock is so hard, yet as the water flows over it
everyday. For years, the rock gives in. It takes the shape that the water commands are problems are so
colossal and we are so small yet. If we persist. We saw small bits of grass peeping through the small rock
cracks in a concrete pavement. It left us thinking, however, impossible things may look, There is always
an opening….

1. Write the life of hibiscus flower in four points?

2. Write in four points the rocks that the writer found on the beach were _________?
3. What teaches us that hard times do not last forever? How?
4. Match the following:-
A B
1. Majestic a. Huge/massive
2. Persist b. Grand
3. Collosal c. Firm belief
4. Conviction d. continue
5. Nature fulfils and motivates. (rewrite using not only… but also)
6. It takes the shape of water. (Add question tag)
7. How do you face difficulties in life?

Q.2 Read the following poem and answer:- 5 mrks

All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their
entrances, and one man in his lifetime plays many parts. He acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
mewling and puking in the nurses arms. Then the whining schoolboy with the Satchel and the shining
morning face creeping like snail, unwilling to school. And then the lover, sighing like furnace with a
woeful ballad. Made to his mistress I brew, then a soldier full of strange oats and bearded like the pard.
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannons mouth.

1. Complete the following:-

a. All the men and women must have their ______.
b. The whining school boy was ____.
2. Match:-
A B
1. Infant a. Acts like the pard
2. School Boy b. Mewling and Puking
3. Lover c. Whining
4. Soldier d. Sighing like furnace
3. All the world’s a stage. (identify the figure of speech)
Q.3 Write the appreciation in paragraph format of the poem:- 5 mrks
“ Where the mind is without fear….”

Q.4 Language study:- 10 mrks

1. Make meaningful sentence :- to voice once fears
2. Identify type of sentence:- Isn’t it clean, Jim?
3. Spot the error:- I were with him.
4. Punctuate:- you have already been answered said the hermit
5. Make word register of four words related to given word:- Spirituality
6. Use the given word as noun and verb by making meaningful sentence:- dream
7. Complete the word chain:-
a. Using nouns:- aspiration, _____, ______, ______, _______
b. Using verbs:- accept, ______, _______, ______, ________
8. Add prefix or suffix:- quest, call, use, mortal

Q. 5. Letter writing:- 5 mrks

Imagine you are Riya or Rahul residing at 103, pragat colony, MG Road,
Nagpur -15. Write a letter to the Health Officer, Nagpur, Municipal Corporation, Nagpur-10.
Requesting to take necessary preventive measures to control the spread of Dengue.

Q.6 Expand the theme: “ Be the change you want to see.”