MERIT ACADEMY

FIRST SUMMATIVE E VALUATION TEST

C LASS : X SUBJECT :ENGLISH TIME :1 HR FULL M ARKS :40

Reading Comprehension (Seen)

1. Read the following passage and answer the following questions:

The teacher was inspecting the home lessons. To Swami's thinking, this was the time when Samuel got most angry. But today Samuel
appeared very gentle.

"Swaminathan, where is your homework?"

"I have not done my homework, sir." Swami said. "Why-headache?" asked Samuel. ‛Yes sir."

‛All right, sit down", Samuel said.

When the bell rang for the last period at 4.30, Swami picked up his books and ran to the headmaster's room. He found the room locked.
The peon told him the headmaster had gone on a week's leave. Swaminathan ran away from the place.

As soon as he entered home with the letter, Father said, "I knew you wouldn't deliver it."

"But the headmaster is on leave," Swami said.

Father snatched the letter away from Swami and tore it up.

"Don't ever come to me for help if Samuel scolds you again. You deserve your Samuel”, he said.

A. Write the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences:. 1×6=6

i. Samuel was checking lessons done by the students in the/at (a) class room (b) office (c) home (d) playground

ii. When Samuel learnt that Swami had not done his homework he was (a) happy (b) calm (c)angry (d) confused

iii. The headmaster would remain absent for (a) Five days (b)seven days (c)six days (d) nine days.

iv. Swami went to hand the letter over to the headmaster (a) At the end of the class (b) during tiffin break (c) in the first period (d) one
week after.

v. The last period of the school ended at (a) 4-00 p.m.(b) 4.15 p.m.(c) 4.30 p.m. (d)4.45 p.m.

vi. Samuel gets angry most while he (a) teaches the class (b)conducts the prayer (c)checks the home lessons (d)checks the class works.

B. Complete the following sentences with information from the passage:. 1×4=4

i. Samuel allowed Swami___________________________________________________.

ii. As the bell rang for the last period__________________________________________.

iii. Swami ran away from the headmaster's room because________________________________________.

iv. Father snatched the letter away from Swami and________________________________________________.

C. Answer the following questions briefly: 1×2=2

i. What did Swami's father do with the letter?

ii. "You deserve your Samuel"-Why did Swami's father say so?

2. Read the following poem and answer the following questions:

Once I crept in a Oakwood- I was looking for a stag.

I met an old woman there all knobbly stick and rag.

She said: 'I have your secret here inside my little bag';
Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.

She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake-

Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.

They said: 'We are the oak trees and your own true family.

We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.

Unless you make a promise now -now you are going to die;

Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.

Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you

And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew?

This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me.

When I came out of the Oakwood, back to human company.

My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.

A.Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:. 1×4=4

i. The experience of the poet presented in the poem is (a) a reality (b) a dream (c) falsehood (d) None of the above

ii. Unless he made a promise, the poet was going to (a) live (b)be free (c) die (d) be happy

iii.The theme of the poem 'My Own True Family' 'is (a) importance of family (b) importance of man (c) importance of trees (d) importance
of wildlife

iv. "You do not blink an eye" By this, the trees mean (a) human beings are caring (b) human beings have weak eyesight (c) human beings
are indifferent (d) human beings are cruel.

B.Complete the following sentences with information from the text:. 1x4=4

i. Whenever an oak tree is felled____________________________________________________________.

ii. The poet dreamt a dream lying________________________________________________________________.

iii.The poet feels that his dream______________________________________________________________________.

iv. If the poet does not swear___________________________________________________________________________.

Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

3. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:

When I was at college I used to spend my summer vacations in Dehra, at my grandmother's place. I would leave the plains early in May
and return late in July. Deoli was a small station about thirty miles from Dehra: it marked the beginning of the heavy jungles of the Indian
Tarai.

The train would reach Deoli at about in the morning when the station would dimly lit with electric bulbs and oil lamps and the jungle
across the railway tracks would just be visible in the faint light of dawn. Deoli had only one platform, an office for the station master and
waiting room. The platform boasted a tea stall, a fruit vendor and a few stray dogs: not much else, because the train stopped there for
only ten minutes before rushing on into the forest.

A. Answer the following question within fifteen words:

A. Write 'T' for the true statement and 'F' for the false statement. Provide sentence/phrase in support of your answer:
1×2=2

i. Deoli was a small station about forty miles from Dehra.( )

S.S.:

ii.The train would reach Deoli in the evening.( )

S.S.:
B. Write the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences: 1x3=3

i. The narrator would leave the plains- (a) early in May (b) early in June (c) late in July

ii. Deoli had only one- (a) Auditorium (b) Park (c) Platform

iii.The train stopped at Deoli station only for- (a) five minutes (b) ten minutes (c) fifteen minutes

Grammar and Vocabulary

4.Do as directed:

A. Change the voice of the following sentence:. 1×3=3

i. The boy has read out the letter.

ii.Who has done the work?

iii.Change the voice.

B.Change the mode of Narration: 1×2=2

i. My brother said, "I am baking Pizza.”

ii. Delbor said to me, "I have completed the project. "

Writing skills

5. . Write a letter to the editor of a daily newspaper about the menace of reckless driving. You may use the following points.
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[Points: Desperate driving by teenagers-causes accidents-injures pedestrians-creating panic in the minds of public-negligence of
authority.)