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KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN GURUGRAM REGION

कक्षा- X Class-X
2022-23
PRACTICE PAPER-IV
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Code No. 184)
Time allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 80
General Instructions:
1. 15-minute prior reading time allotted for Q-paper reading.
2. The Question Paper contains THREE sections - READING, GRAMMAR & WRITING and
LITERATURE.
3. Attempt questions based on specific instructions for each part.
Q1. Read the passage given below:-
1. Through the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, the countries of the 10x1= 10
world have resolved to achieve universal access to safe drinking water and
adequate sanitation and hygiene to all by 2030. The aim is to ensure the
consumption of safe drinking water, practice safe sanitation and hygiene,
resulting in lower exposure to a contaminated environment, resulting in
lower morbidity and mortality, especially amongst children.

2. The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched by the Government of India on

2nd October, 2014 to achieve the vision of 'Swachh Bharat' by 2nd October,
2019. The Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin-SBM (G) endeavours to accelerate
rural sanitation coverage, reduce open defecation and improve
management of solid and liquid wastes in rural areas. The implementation
of SBM (G) is the responsibility of the Ministry of Drinking Water and
Sanitation (MDWS). The MDWS, while issuing guidelines for Open
Defecation Free (ODF) verification stressed on "safe technology option
which aimed at no contamination of surface soil, ground water or surface
water; excreta management inaccessible to flies or animals; no human
handling of fresh excreta and freedom from odour and unsightly condition".
Over the past 4 years, over 92 million new households have received access
to household toilets and by the end of the SBM G programme, all 16.5
million rural households will have such access. However, the issue is of
usage and thus, the goal is to create ODF communities and villages, with no
one defecating in the open.
3.The status of ODF villages published on the website of MDWS indicates
that as on 01.04.2019, over 99% of rural HHs in India have toilet access. The
declared ODF villages at all India level accounted to 556,824 spreading over
247,723 Gram Panchayats, 6,031 Blocks and 616 Districts .

4. UNICEF in India accords high priority to the provision of safe sanitation

and water services to people in rural areas and has over the past many years
aided through catalytic technical support to MDWS, Government of India
and 15 state governments in the implementation of the various sanitation
programmes and since 2014, specifically to the SBM (G). With the progress
of the SBM (G) and declaration of ODF communities, there is an emerging
question on whether the campaign to eliminate open defecation and create
ODF communities is resulting in the decrease in faecal contamination in the
environment.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the questions by

choosing the correct option.
i) The purpose of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (G) was to
________________.
1. accelerate rural sanitation coverage
2. reduce open defecation
3. improve management of solid and liquid wastes in rural areas
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3

ii) Select the option that is true for the two statements given below.
(1) The goal is to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) communities and
villages.
(2) There will be a decrease in the faecal contamination in the environment.
(a) (1) is the result of (2). (b) (1) is the reason for (2).
(c) (1) is independent of (2). (d) (1) contradicts (2).

iii) Select the option that gives the correct meaning of the following
statement. "By the end of the SBM-G programme, all 16.5 million rural
households will have toilet access."
(a) By 2nd October, 2019, there will be villages with no one defecating in
open.
(b) By the end of the programme, rural households will be defecating in
open.
(c) By 2nd October, 2019, there will be enough toilets in the households.
(d) By the end of the programme, there will be no villages in India with
access to toilets.

iv) The passage provides data that proves that……………………….

(a) There is an increase in usage of toilets among rural households.
(b) Over 99% of rural households have access to toilets.
(c) There is an increased access to toilets among rural households.
(d) There is a decrease in open defecation.
v) On which of the following goals, ODF guidelines are based?
1. Universal access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.
2. Lower exposure to a contaminated environment.
3. Lower morbidity and mortality, especially amongst children.
(a) 1 and 3 (b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3

vi). Select the option what the given sentence refers to.
"Over the past 4 years, over 92 million new households have received access
to household toilets."
(a) There is an increase in building of toilets inside households.
(b) There is an increase in construction of community-shared toilets.
(c) There is an increase in usage of toilets among rural households.
(d) There is an increase in the access to toilets but are not being used by the
villagers.

vii). The government is successful in providing access to toilets to over 99%

of rural households because ………………………….
Select the correct option.
(a) villagers also want to have access to toilets to minimise the negative
impact of open defecation.
(b) villagers are cooperative.
(c) government is giving false data.
(d) rural households have become educated.

viii) . According to the passage, who is responsible for the progress of

Swachh Bharat Mission?
 (a) Open Defecation Free communities and villages
(b) Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
(c) UNICEF
(d) Sustainable Development Goals

ix) Substitute the word ‘Endeavour’ with one word similar in meaning in the
following sentence from (para II)
The SVM (G) endeavours to accelerate rural sanitation coverage ,reduce
open defecation and improve management of solid and liquid wastes in
rural areas.

x) Complete the following analogy correctly with a word /phrase from

paragraph II
Eg Dolphins: Fins :: Flies :______________
(Clue Just like fins define the structure similarly ______________ is to flies)

Q.2 Based on your understanding of the passage answer the following 10x1 =
questions. 10

1 Pollution is not a new problem. In the Middle Ages, most towns were
dirty, water supplies were foul, and diseases spread quickly. But now it has
become more serious than ever before. Now it is not the result of any
ignorance or illiteracy, it is the result of man's greed, selfishness and
carelessness.

2 The pollution of land is due to the increasing quantities of industrial and

house hold waste. Getting rid of plastics is particularly difficult. After some
time, wood and paper decay through the action of bacteria. But plastics
never decay. The more we throw away, the more litter is produced.
3 Vegetable scraps and paper are biodegradable, but glass and plastics
continue to accumulate and pollute the environment. Plastic is often taken
for food by birds, animals and fish, leading to their death. It also chokes our
sewer pipes, and then the dirty smelly water starts flowing out of manholes.

4 The world's oceans have been used as 'dustbins'. Millions of tons of

rubbish are being dumped into the seas every year, harming marine life. All
the oxygen is used up, and the fish die. The bacteria which normally break
down the sewage into harmless substances also die. Only harmful bacteria,
which do not need air, remain and these become the cause of disease.

5 Smoke from factory chimneys and exhaust gases from motor vehicles
pollute the air. About 32 percent of the air environment is filled with smoke.
And about 37 percent of air is polluted by the poisonous gases exhausted by
various means of transportation. 27 percent of air pollution is due to the
waste produced by factories and 40 percent of pollution is due to the house
hold waste. Chemicals in the air combine with moisture to make acids.
These acids eat away stone and bricks, and thus damage buildings. The
gases given out by the engines of motor vehicles can damage people's
health.

6 Another very serious form of pollution is the build-up of carbon dioxide in

a layer high above the Earth. As we burn coal, wood, petrol and oil, more
carbon dioxide is released into that layer. This is causing the sun's warmth
to be trapped near the Earth's surface. It produces the 'greenhouse effect.
Weather patterns would change, and the crops would suffer. Also, the polar
caps would start melting and raise the sea level by about 5 meters. This
would flood many seaport cities, and vast areas of low-lying land would
disappear under the sea.

7 Ridding our world of pollution is an unimaginably big task. Anti-pollution

measures are often unpopular and unprofitable, so many governments and
big companies are slow to act. However, pollution must be controlled,
otherwise one day our Earth will become so polluted that no life would be
possible on it.
Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the following
choosing the correct option.
1. According to you, why is it difficult to get rid of plastic?

2. Justify the statement that plastic is dangerous for animals and fish?

3. Give your opinion, how does plastic harm sewerage?

4. How does the rubbish dumped in oceans harm the marine life?

5. From the understanding of the above passage mention the agents

responsible for polluting the air?

For visually impaired candidates only

Fill in the blank:-

Ridding our world of _____________ is an unimaginably big task.

6. Harmful acids are produced when…..

(a) oxygen in air is combined with water.

(b) water is evaporated in the air.
(c) chemicals in the air combine with water.
(d)plants do the process of photosynthesis.

7. Now the pollution is the result of man’s---

(a) ignorance
(b) illiteracy
(c) carelessness and greed
(d) all of above

8. According to the chart given with the passage,36% of the deaths are
caused by ---------
(a) stroke (b) heart disease (c) lung cancer (d) none of these

9. What could be the effects of Global Warming?

(a) weather pattern would change (b) crops would suffer (c) the polar caps
would start melting (d) all of above
 10. Which word in the passage means ‘’rot’’?
(a) foul (b) decay (c) litter (d) unimaginably
Section B: Grammar (10 Marks)
Q3 Attempt ANY TEN of the following questions. 1

i) Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete an online

update.
The climate control comment by an activist on social media yesterday .
A. blow up
B. blew up
C. is blown 1
D. will be blown

ii) Read the conversation between a doctor and his patient. Complete the
sentence by
reporting the patient’s reply correctly.
Doctor: Do you feel down from time-to-time Mr. Gopalan?
Patient: Yes, I do not stay in a good mood.
The doctor, while trying to figure out his patient’s ailment, asked about his
well-being,
to which, the patient affirmed .

iii) Select the correct option to fill in the blank for the given line, from a
health
magazine.
The advertisement read, ‘If you smoke, statistically your story end 15%
before
it should’.
A. must
B. should
C. will
D. ought to

iv) Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction
for the
following line, from a news report:
Last week a child was not allowed to board the plane at Ranchi airport.

v) Complete the given narrative, by filling in the blank with the correct
option:
As I was standing on the dock, looking out at the lake for the last time, a
feeling of
emptiness over me like darkness.

Option no. error correction

A. child children
B. last previous
C. the a
D. at in
Page 7 of 15
A. will wash
B. had washed
C. will have washed
D. washed

vi) Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word in the bracket, for
the given
portion of a letter:
Subject: Request for Approval
Dear Sir
This is to respectfully submit that I (seek) approval for organising a tree
plantation drive to be undertaken by the club.

vii) Report the dialogue between a grandson and his grandfather, by

completing the sentence:
Grandson: Grandpa, who are your superheroes?
Grandpa: Anyone who shows kindness and compassion to others.
In response to the question about his superheroes, grandfather says
that----------------------------------------

viii) Identify the error in the given sentence, from a school magazine
report and supply
the correction.
In order to balancing the sentiments of the Eagles and the Hawks, the
Student Council
suggested a rematch between the teams.
Use the given format for your response.

ix) Sunil shared some information, with Tariq, about a holiday at sea.
Report Tariq’s
question.
Did you enjoy travelling by sea?

x) Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option, to complete the slogan
by the Ministry for Child Welfare.
WE AFFORD TO NEGLECT CHILDREN? THINK TWICE!!
A. WILL
B. MAY
C. NEED
D. CAN

xi) Select the correct option to complete the narration of the dialogue
between Latha
and her father.
Father: Why ask so many questions, Latha?
Latha: I believe that if you don’t know the answer, keep asking till you do!
Father asked Latha the reason for the many questions she was asking. Latha
exclaimed good-humouredly that in event of not knowing the answer one
should

A. keep asking till one does.

B. kept asking till one does.
C. keep asking till one do.
D. kept on to ask till one do.

xii) Identify the error on a shop’s hoarding and supply the correction, for
the following sales offer:
Gumnaam & Daughters Pvt. Ltd. Bindapur, Jharkhand
Massive discount for all senior citizen vaccinated with the precautionary
dose.
Use the given format for your response.

Q4. SECTION B –CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS

All the names and addresses used in the questions are fictitious.
Resemblance, if any, is purely coincidental.

Attempt ANY ONE from A and B given below. 5

1.A Write a paragraph in not more than 120 words after analysing the
given chart.
Study the pie chart and explain it in details. The ABC Publishers invested
rupees one crore on all the items.

Promotion Cost, 0.1,

Printing Cost
, 0.2,
Royalty,
0.15,

Miscellaneous, 0.1,

Binding, 0.2,

Paper Cost,
0.25

OR
B Given below is the turnout of voters including male and female of
Maharashtra from 1990 to 2015. Interpret the data.

Election Voters % Male % Female %

Years
 1990 48.6 45.2 38.2
1995 50.5 42.5 60.3
2000 47.5 58.2 54.2
2005 55.6 50.3 52.0
2010 55.6 52 49.1
2015 58.5 56.4 53.2
2A Your sister has just passed the All-India Secondary School Examination of 5x1 = 5
CBSE. She is planning to join some institutes which may help her in her
personality development. She consults her language teacher on the subject
who advices her to join ‘’The Centre for Creativity and Development” for
this purpose. Write a letter to the Director of the Centre, seeking the
necessary information about her admission to their 8 -week summer course
in leadership.
OR
Taking the help from the hints given below, write a letter to the editor of a
B national daily expressing your concern about the pressure an adolescent
face and also suggest the way to cope with it.
 Increasing crime, cases of drinking
 Drugs trafficking
 Physical and sexual abuses increasing
 Should be handled with the cooperation of social organizations.

Section C: LITERATURE (40 Marks)

Q5. Reference to the context: - 5X1=5
1 Attempt any one of the two extracts given below:-
A He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a fig tree, where he
vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he
renamed the tree the Bo Tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and to
share his new understandings. At that point, he became known as the
Buddha (the Awakened or the Enlightened). The Buddha preached his first
sermon at the city of Benares, most holy of the dipping places on the river
 Ganga.( The Sermon at Benares)

1. How long did the Buddha wander in search of wisdom?

2. What did Buddha do while sitting under tree?
3. After how many days of meditation did, he get enlightenment?
(a) Seven days (b) nine days (c) six days (d) three days
4. Find a word from the passage which means ‘took a pledge’
(a)Vowed (b) sermon (c) preach (d) teach

5. opposite of ----- Wisdom

(a) Ignorance (b) intelligent (c) caution (d) insight
OR
B The house – the only one in the entire valley – sat on the crest of a low hill.
From this height, one could see the river and the field of ripe corn dotted
with the flowers that always promised a good harvest. The only thing the
earth needed was a downpour or at least a shower. Throughout the
morning Lencho – who knew his fields intimately – had done nothing else
but see the sky towards the northeast.
( A Letter To God)
i) Based on the detail of the house’s location, how can it best be described?
a) Majestic
b) Imposing
c)Solitary
d Unique
ii) The field of corn dotted with flowers means that
a) not a single flower was bigger than a dot
b) the flowers were scattered across.
c) the flowers were shaped like dots.
d) the flowers had shrunk in size.
iii) Which quote supports the idea in the given extract?
a) “Farming is a profession of hope.”
b) “I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.”
c) “Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil, and
you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.”
d) “Those too lazy to plough in the right season will have no food at
the harvest.”
iv) Where was the house?
 v) Who is the author of this lesson?
2 Attempt any one of the two extracts given below:- 5X=5

2A Read the extracts given below and answer the question that follow:

I am an orphan roaming the street

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.( Amanda)

(a)Who is an orphan?

(b) What do you think of her?

(c)Amanda wants to roam like a/an………

(i) dishonest (ii) honest (iii) orphan iv tradition

(d)What is the sweetest thing in the world?

(i) passion (ii) freedom (iii) imagination (iv) none of these

(e) What does Amanda do with her feet?

(i) makes design on the deposited dust (ii) hushes the little puppies (iii) runs
along the road (iv) roams on the street
OR
2B Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears,
And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs,
Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage
But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.( The Tale of Custard The Dragon)
(a)Who chased the lions down the stairs?
(b)How brave was Mustard?
(i) as a cat (ii) as a dog (iii) as a tiger (iv) as a mouse
(c) Belinda was as brave as a barrel ………….
(d) The bravery of Mustard has been compared with whom?
(i)roar of lion (ii) Chirping of birds (iii) anger of tiger (iv) none of these
(e) Who wanted a cage to hide?
(i) Custard (ii) Mustard (iii) dragon iv all of the above
Q6 Answer the following questions in 40 to 50 words. (any four) 4 x 3 =
12
 (a) How did Valli react when she saw the dead cow by the road side?
(Madam rides the bus)
(b) The young seagull was afraid of flying .Why?( The First Flight)
(c) ‘Arguments and disputes seldom solve a problem’ .Describe the
dispute between Natalya and Lomov over the dogs and their
superiority? (The Proposal)
(d) The classmates of Anne Frank were shaking with fear and
nervousness.Why (From the diary of Anne Frank)
(e) After her son dies, Kisa Gotami go from house to house? Why does
she not get what she wants?( The Sermon At Benares)
Q7 Answer the following questions in 40 to 50 words. (any two) 2X3 = 6

(a)How did Matilda get the jewels to wear at the ball?

(b)What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win any prize at a
science fair?
(c) Why did Horace rob a safe every year? Was he a typical thief? If so, why?
Q8 Answer these questions in 100 to 120 words (any one). 6X1= 6
God help those who help themselves “Do you agree? Discuss with reference
to the lesson ‘The Black Aeroplane “.
OR
Write down the character sketch of Natalya. (The Proposal)
Q9 Answer these questions in 100 to 120 words (any one). 6X1=6
Education is always a great asset in life of a woman. How did Bholi, an
educated girl face the challenge posed by Bishamber’s greed?(BHOLI)
OR
“Griffin was rather a lawless person.” Comment.( Footprints without feet)