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CLASS X(ENGLISH)
1 Read the passage given below and complete the statements that follow by choosing answers from the given options. 1x5=5
I have heard nearly as much nonsense about zoos as I have about God and religion.Well meaning but misinformed people think animals in the wild are “happy” because they are “free”. These people usually have a large, handsome predator, a lion or a cheetah in their minds. They imagine this wild animal roaming about the savannah on digestive walks after eating a prey that accepted its lot piously, or going for callisthenic runs to stay slim after over indulging. They imagine this animal overseeing its offspring proudly and tenderly, the whole family watching the setting of the sun from the limbs of trees with sighs of pleasure. The life of the wild animal is simple, noble and meaningful, they imagine. Then it is captured by wicked men and thrown into tiny jails. Its “happiness” is dashed. It yearns mightily for “freedom” and does all it can to escape. Being denied its “freedom” for too long, the animal becomes a shadow of itself.Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
(a) According to many people animals in the wild are happy because__________.
(i) they get plenty to eat (ii) there is no restriction
(iii) they are free
(iv) their children are with them
(b) Such people have large animals like__________in mind.
(i) elephants
(ii) hippopotamus
(iii) giraffe
(iv) lions
(c) According to these people, animals enjoy in the wild with _______.
(i) other animals
(ii) their offsprings
(iii) others of their species
(iv) none of the above
(d) The wild animals are captured by __________.
(i) good people
(ii) sporting people
(iii) ‘wicked’ people
(iv) happy people
(e) The word, ‘endured’ here means _________.
(i) dealt with difficult situations
(ii) dealt with happy situations
(iii) bore patiently
(iv) none of the above.
PASSAGE 2
Read the passage given below and complete the sentences that follow :
Gandhiji was of a ripe age, but he was still full of vitality and his capacity for work was prodigious. The end came suddenly at the hands of an assassin. India was shocked and the world grieved, and to those of us who were more intimately connected with him the shock and sorrow were hard to bear. And yet, perhaps, it was a fitting close to a magnificent career and in his death, as in his life, he served the cause to which he had devoted himself. None of us would have liked to see him gradually fade in body and mind with increasing years. And so he died, as he had lived, a bright star of hope and achievement, the Father of the Nation which had been shaped and trained by him for half a century.
To those who had the high privilege of being associated with him in some of his innumerable activities, he will ever remain the embodiment of youthful energy. We shall not think of him as an old man, but rather as one who represented, with the vitality of spring, the birth of a new India. To a younger generation who did not come in personal contact with him, he is a tradition, and numerous stories are woven round his name and activities. He was great in his life, he is greater since he passed away.
1x5=5 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
Gandhiji’s capacity for work was great despite his __________. Gandhiji was never considered an old man because __________. The shock and sorrow were hard to bear to those who _______. He lived and died as ___________.The word from the passage which means the same as ‘great’ is _______.
PASSAGE 3
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from given options.
Modern food has become our enemy. We have become so taken in by taste and presentation that we eat food for its entertainment value, not for its nutritional benefit. Even as health awareness is increasing the variety of junk and nutrition deprived food is also increasing. Each restaurant boasts of a new cuisine, which is a mixture of refined flour, oil and sugar. Pasta, noodles, white rice, white bread and maida based products like pizzas, burgers, naan, and rumali roti are the main options in Italian, Chinese, Indian or Mexican cuisines. The vegetarian dishes are either over cooked or have a lot of corn starch and fat. The non-vegetarian dishes are either white- sauce based or made in rich gravies.People are trying to lose weight by eating less in the day, so that they can accomodate such foods in the night. They skip breakfast and lunch so that they can satisfy their taste buds in the night with a family dinner.Perfect health, however, cannot be achieved by a process of deprivation and elimination.The idea is to nourish the body. You might achieve some weight loss but you will also lose out on your health.Therefore, whilst embarking upon any weight loss programme, remember that health is so much more than just weight loss, at the same time achieving an ideal body weight in a healthy way does provide a basis for achieving perfect health.
1x5=5
(1) The writer calls modern food our enemy because _______.
(a) food is eaten for taste not nutrition
(b) it causes diseases
(c) old people do not like it.
(d) it is full of chemicals.
(2) People compensate for eating less during the day by ________.
(a) eating at restaurants everyday
(b) eating fruits and milk
(c) eating junk food at night
(d) by exercising before eating
(3) According to the writer, restaurant food is not good for health because_______.
(a) it is made from sugar, oil and refined flour which are bad for health.
(b) it is not made hygienically
(c) it does not have any nutrition
(d) it makes one fat
(4) While losing weight one must not forget to _______.
(a) eat junk food (b) eat nourishing food (c) eat fatty food (d) eat tasty food
(5) The meaning of the word ‘cuisine’ is
(a) expensive and stylish food
(b) name of a medicine
(c) junk food
(d) detested billiard table
SECTION - B
(Writing - 20 Marks)
5.Given below is a profile of Mrs. Smitha Lamba, your English teacher. Write a short bio-sketch of Mrs. Smitha Lamba
Age : 35 years
Height : 165 cm 68 kg a little fat, pleasant looking
Education : M.A (Eng) Delhi University, B.Ed. Punjab University
Duties : Organising extra curricular activities, editor of school magazine, class - co-ordinator of class X
Other qualities : Kind, helpful, good guide, well-informed,polite, soft spoken
6. You are Kriti/Ketan studying in M.G. Public School, Phagwara. The road leading to your school is very congested and full of pot holes. Students and parents are often caught in traffic jams. Inspite of several representations, the government has not done anything to improve the condition of the road. Write a letter in about 120 words to the Editor of ‘The Times of India’, drawing the attention of concerned authorities towards this problem.
7. While reading a magazine, Raman came across the following excerpt :
The first UN Conference on Environment was held 38 years back in 1972 in Stockholm,Sweden. In the next quarter of a century our planet has undergone dramatic changes in, pollution, population and the pressures that humanity puts on its natural resources. This has disturbed the ecological balance. It is high time to take some concrete steps to check the deteriorating situation.He decided to give a speech in the morning assembly on “ How to check environmental pollution.”
Draft the speech in about 150 words on the basis of your own ideas, ideas from the excerpt together with those in the unit on environment.
SECTION - C
(Grammar)
8. Complete the following passage by choosing the correct answers from the options given below.
½x8=4
Last evening I reached home late. After taking dinner, I (a) __________ to bed as I had(b) __________ an early morning flight to Mumbai. I had slept only for an hour or so when I heard someone (c) __________ at the door. It is not my habit (d) __________ someone (e) __________ for me at the door for long. So, I got up at once, (f) __________ the door and I was surprised (g) __________ my friend, Mukta, (h) __________ a basket of flowers in her hand. She wanted to greet me on my birthday.
(a) (i) retiring (ii) retire (iii) retired (iv) retirement
(b) (i) caught (ii) to catch (iii) catching (iv) catches
(c) (i) it knock (ii) knocked (iii) knocking (iv) had knocked
(d) (i) to have kept (ii) kept (iii) had kept (iv) to keep (e) (i) waiting (ii) waited (iii) wait (iv) is wait
(f) (i) opened (ii) to open (iii) opening (iv) had opened
(g) (i) saw (ii) seen (iii) to see (iv) sees
(h) (i) carried (ii) carry (iii) to carry (iv) carrying
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CLASS X(ENGLISH)
1 Read the passage given below and complete the statements that follow by choosing answers from the given options. 1x5=5
I have heard nearly as much nonsense about zoos as I have about God and religion.Well meaning but misinformed people think animals in the wild are “happy” because they are “free”. These people usually have a large, handsome predator, a lion or a cheetah in their minds. They imagine this wild animal roaming about the savannah on digestive walks after eating a prey that accepted its lot piously, or going for callisthenic runs to stay slim after over indulging. They imagine this animal overseeing its offspring proudly and tenderly, the whole family watching the setting of the sun from the limbs of trees with sighs of pleasure. The life of the wild animal is simple, noble and meaningful, they imagine. Then it is captured by wicked men and thrown into tiny jails. Its “happiness” is dashed. It yearns mightily for “freedom” and does all it can to escape. Being denied its “freedom” for too long, the animal becomes a shadow of itself.Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
(a) According to many people animals in the wild are happy because__________.
(i) they get plenty to eat (ii) there is no restriction
(iii) they are free
(iv) their children are with them
(b) Such people have large animals like__________in mind.
(i) elephants
(ii) hippopotamus
(iii) giraffe
(iv) lions
(c) According to these people, animals enjoy in the wild with _______.
(i) other animals
(ii) their offsprings
(iii) others of their species
(iv) none of the above
(d) The wild animals are captured by __________.
(i) good people
(ii) sporting people
(iii) ‘wicked’ people
(iv) happy people
(e) The word, ‘endured’ here means _________.
(i) dealt with difficult situations
(ii) dealt with happy situations
(iii) bore patiently
(iv) none of the above.
PASSAGE 2
Read the passage given below and complete the sentences that follow :
Gandhiji was of a ripe age, but he was still full of vitality and his capacity for work was prodigious. The end came suddenly at the hands of an assassin. India was shocked and the world grieved, and to those of us who were more intimately connected with him the shock and sorrow were hard to bear. And yet, perhaps, it was a fitting close to a magnificent career and in his death, as in his life, he served the cause to which he had devoted himself. None of us would have liked to see him gradually fade in body and mind with increasing years. And so he died, as he had lived, a bright star of hope and achievement, the Father of the Nation which had been shaped and trained by him for half a century.
To those who had the high privilege of being associated with him in some of his innumerable activities, he will ever remain the embodiment of youthful energy. We shall not think of him as an old man, but rather as one who represented, with the vitality of spring, the birth of a new India. To a younger generation who did not come in personal contact with him, he is a tradition, and numerous stories are woven round his name and activities. He was great in his life, he is greater since he passed away.
1x5=5 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
Gandhiji’s capacity for work was great despite his __________. Gandhiji was never considered an old man because __________. The shock and sorrow were hard to bear to those who _______. He lived and died as ___________.The word from the passage which means the same as ‘great’ is _______.
PASSAGE 3
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answers from given options.
Modern food has become our enemy. We have become so taken in by taste and presentation that we eat food for its entertainment value, not for its nutritional benefit. Even as health awareness is increasing the variety of junk and nutrition deprived food is also increasing. Each restaurant boasts of a new cuisine, which is a mixture of refined flour, oil and sugar. Pasta, noodles, white rice, white bread and maida based products like pizzas, burgers, naan, and rumali roti are the main options in Italian, Chinese, Indian or Mexican cuisines. The vegetarian dishes are either over cooked or have a lot of corn starch and fat. The non-vegetarian dishes are either white- sauce based or made in rich gravies.People are trying to lose weight by eating less in the day, so that they can accomodate such foods in the night. They skip breakfast and lunch so that they can satisfy their taste buds in the night with a family dinner.Perfect health, however, cannot be achieved by a process of deprivation and elimination.The idea is to nourish the body. You might achieve some weight loss but you will also lose out on your health.Therefore, whilst embarking upon any weight loss programme, remember that health is so much more than just weight loss, at the same time achieving an ideal body weight in a healthy way does provide a basis for achieving perfect health.
1x5=5
(1) The writer calls modern food our enemy because _______.
(a) food is eaten for taste not nutrition
(b) it causes diseases
(c) old people do not like it.
(d) it is full of chemicals.
(2) People compensate for eating less during the day by ________.
(a) eating at restaurants everyday
(b) eating fruits and milk
(c) eating junk food at night
(d) by exercising before eating
(3) According to the writer, restaurant food is not good for health because_______.
(a) it is made from sugar, oil and refined flour which are bad for health.
(b) it is not made hygienically
(c) it does not have any nutrition
(d) it makes one fat
(4) While losing weight one must not forget to _______.
(a) eat junk food (b) eat nourishing food (c) eat fatty food (d) eat tasty food
(5) The meaning of the word ‘cuisine’ is
(a) expensive and stylish food
(b) name of a medicine
(c) junk food
(d) detested billiard table
SECTION - B
(Writing - 20 Marks)
5.Given below is a profile of Mrs. Smitha Lamba, your English teacher. Write a short bio-sketch of Mrs. Smitha Lamba
Age : 35 years
Height : 165 cm 68 kg a little fat, pleasant looking
Education : M.A (Eng) Delhi University, B.Ed. Punjab University
Duties : Organising extra curricular activities, editor of school magazine, class - co-ordinator of class X
Other qualities : Kind, helpful, good guide, well-informed,polite, soft spoken
6. You are Kriti/Ketan studying in M.G. Public School, Phagwara. The road leading to your school is very congested and full of pot holes. Students and parents are often caught in traffic jams. Inspite of several representations, the government has not done anything to improve the condition of the road. Write a letter in about 120 words to the Editor of ‘The Times of India’, drawing the attention of concerned authorities towards this problem.
7. While reading a magazine, Raman came across the following excerpt :
The first UN Conference on Environment was held 38 years back in 1972 in Stockholm,Sweden. In the next quarter of a century our planet has undergone dramatic changes in, pollution, population and the pressures that humanity puts on its natural resources. This has disturbed the ecological balance. It is high time to take some concrete steps to check the deteriorating situation.He decided to give a speech in the morning assembly on “ How to check environmental pollution.”
Draft the speech in about 150 words on the basis of your own ideas, ideas from the excerpt together with those in the unit on environment.
SECTION - C
(Grammar)
8. Complete the following passage by choosing the correct answers from the options given below.
½x8=4
Last evening I reached home late. After taking dinner, I (a) __________ to bed as I had(b) __________ an early morning flight to Mumbai. I had slept only for an hour or so when I heard someone (c) __________ at the door. It is not my habit (d) __________ someone (e) __________ for me at the door for long. So, I got up at once, (f) __________ the door and I was surprised (g) __________ my friend, Mukta, (h) __________ a basket of flowers in her hand. She wanted to greet me on my birthday.
(a) (i) retiring (ii) retire (iii) retired (iv) retirement
(b) (i) caught (ii) to catch (iii) catching (iv) catches
(c) (i) it knock (ii) knocked (iii) knocking (iv) had knocked
(d) (i) to have kept (ii) kept (iii) had kept (iv) to keep (e) (i) waiting (ii) waited (iii) wait (iv) is wait
(f) (i) opened (ii) to open (iii) opening (iv) had opened
(g) (i) saw (ii) seen (iii) to see (iv) sees
(h) (i) carried (ii) carry (iii) to carry (iv) carrying
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