Model questions paper

I)choose the best answer

I)the author`s desire was to

a)become an engineer

b)become a big shot in life

c)play foot ball

2)the voice in the narrator`s head advised him to

a)confess the truth to pongo

b)eat all the oranges

c)deny his guilt

d)hide all the oranges

3)animals and fish are becoming axtinct because

a) they have no place to go

b)they die of diseases

c)their food and habitat are polluted

d)all the above

4)he gifted _to the little girl

a)an iron cross

b)a bronze medal

c)marbles

d)old coins

5)the burnett dam gave away as

a)it rained for days

b)the dam was weak

c)it rained heavily and snow was metting

d)the maintenance was poor

ii)choose the antonyms of words:

6)seventeen oranges were hidden in the narrator`s poctets

a)exposed b)masked c)concealed d)buried

7)clem jones was ordered to open the box

a)prepared b)arranged c)farced d)requested

8)pongo locked narrator inside the cabin

a)closed b)sealed c)released d)chocked

9)pongo carefully searched the narrator`s pockets

a)attentively b)carelessly c)cautiously d)strictly

10)the narrator of the story felt very sick for a week

a)healthy b)disordered c)feeble d)unhealthy

iii)read the poem understanding answer the following questions:

11)so sarah she went to the closet to see if yet any meal in the closet to see if …

a)why did sarah go the closet?

b)what is a closet?

c)why was sarah looking for some meal?

12)and out of its leprous hide sprouting leaves

a)what does the phase `leprous hide mean?

b)what comes out of the leprous hide?

GRAMMAR
iv)write negative sentence:

13)he is learning to read

14)raja is driving a new car

15)i am having a bath

v)write questions for the answers:

16)_?

No`they aren`t singing

17)_?

Yes ,she writing a new book

18)_?

No, he isn’t doing the project

vi)fill in the blanks with verbs In the present continuous:

19 you _(listen) to the musie

20)he_(cry)

vii)make sentences in the present perfect tense unsing the verbs in brackets:

21)_he brought his bike?

(had,has,have)

22)i_ all the plays of shakespeare

(read ,had,read,have read)

viii)answer the following questions in one or two sentence:

23)what was tendulkar`s greatest wish?

24)what was the local superstition about trees?

25)why did the policence suspect narrator?

26)what are the life sources needed for a tree

27)what are the lessons to be learnt from the poem?

ix)answer the following questions in about 80-100 words:

28)briefly narrate the happenings of the play in scene ii)

a)how did amy manage the situation at home?

b)how did jim prove to be a real rescuer?

c)how did the mashal save the children

29)how well does the poet bring out the pain of the tree?

30)how does c.v raman show that wata is the real elixil of life?