ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-47 1.1. On the basis of your understanding of the above passage answer the following questions: (any eight) (1 × 8 = 8) (a) How was Eleanor Roosevelt’s personality in contrast to what she became? (b) Apart from being the First Lady what else did she have to her credit? (c) What challenges did she face in her personal life but remained unfazed? (d) Eleanor was a strong woman who helped her husband become the President of America. How? (e) What does the statement: ‘she became her husband’s legs and eyes’ mean? @(f) What was her special contribution during the depression? qualitystudymaterial _telegram (g) How did she motivate soldiers during World War-II? (h) What did she do for the first time for a First Lady? (i) What side of her personality is reflected in this passage? Ans. (a) Eleanor Roosevelt was very quiet in her years of growing up. She was parentless in that period. Later she became the First Lady of the United States. She became an author, lecturer and was loved and admired. (b) Besides being the First Lady she was an author, a lecturer and a much admired woman. (c) She faced many challenges in her personal life but remained unfazed. She lost her second son when he was a baby. Her husband had an attack of polio which left him disabled. (d) Eleanor nursed her husband with all the care. She encouraged him to be in politics. She also helped him to become the governor of New York and then the President. (e) The statement means that she visited prisons, hospitals, mines and factories on his behalf to assist him in his job. (f) Her special contribution was that she travelled all over the country bringing goodwill, reassurance and help the people when they didn’t have food or jobs. (g) She visited the American soldiers in camps to boost their morale during World War-II. (h) She remained in touch with the people through a daily newspaper column called ‘My Day’. She broadcast on the radio and delivered lectures for a First Lady. (i) Her intelligence and strength of character is reflected in the passage. 2. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow: (12) 1. Overpowering prey is a challenge for creatures that do not have limbs. Some species like Russell’s viper inject poison. Some others opt for an alternative non-chemical method rattle snakes, for instance, catch and push their prey against the ground, while pythons use their muscle power to crush their prey to death. But snakes can’t be neatly divided into poisonous and non-poisonous categories. 2. Even species listed as non-poisonous aren’t completely free of poison. The common Sand Boa, for instance, produces secretions particularly poisonous to birds. So the species doesn’t take any chance—it crushes its prey and injects poison as an extra step. 3. Do vipers need poison powerful enough to kill hundreds of rats with just one drop? After all, they eat only one or two at a time. 4. While hunting animals try their worst to kill most efficiently, their prey use any trick to avoid becoming a meal, such as developing immunity to poison. For instance, Californian ground squirrels are resistant to Northern Pacific rattle snake poison. Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
E-48 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER–2019 5. Competition with prey is not the only thing driving snakes to evolve more and more deadly poison. Snakes also struggle to avoid becoming prey themselves. 6. Some snake killers have partial immunity to poison. Famously, mongooses are highly resistant to cobra poison and with their speed and agility, kill snakes fearlessly. It would be the death of cobras as a species if they didn’t evolve a more deadly poison to stop mongooses. 7. Poison has another important role. It’s an extreme meat softener, specific enzymes break up the insides of the prey. Normally, a reptile depends on the sun’s warm rays to aid digestion. 8. But I wonder if we cannot use venom in our favour. In remote parts of India, local hospitality often involves leather-tough meat. I chew and chew until my jaw ache. If I spit it out or refuse, our hosts would be offended. I swallow like a python stuffing a deer down its throat and hope 1 don’t choke. If only I had poison. 2.1. Read the questions given below and answer any four in 30-40 words each.@ (2 × 4 = 8) qualitystudymaterial _telegram (a) Russell viper and rattle snake have different methods to attack prey. How? (b) How does Sand Boa kill its prey? (c) There is a constant tussle between the hunting animal and its prey. Why? (d) What makes mongoose a snake predator? (e) What difficulty does the writer face when he is entertained in the remote parts of India? Ans. (a) Russell viper and rattle snake have different methods to attack prey. Russell viper injects poison whereas the rattle snakes catch and push their prey against the ground. (b) Sand Boa produces secretions which prove very poisonous for the birds. It crushes its prey and injects poison as an extra step. (c) There is a constant tussle between the hunting animal and its prey. The hunting animals try their worst to kill their prey most efficiently. And the prey use every trick to avoid being killed. (d) Mangooses are highly athletic in the sense that they are very agile and smart in speed. They are naturally endowed with agility to be heavy on snakes. They kill them fearlessly to be called predators. (e) The writer faces the difficulty to chew leather-tough meat when he is entertained in the remote parts of India. His jaws start aching. So he swallows it down his throat like a python. 2.2. On the basis of your reading of the above passage fill in any two of the following blanks. (1 × 2 = 2) (i) Overpowering ............ is a challenge for creatures that do not have limbs. (a) a killer (b) humans (c) a python (d) prey (ii) Poison ............ meat. (a) enhance taste of (b) hardens (c) softens (d) breaks down (iii) Californian squirrels are ............ rattle snake poison. (a) afraid of (b) helpless against (c) resistant to (d) indifferent to Ans. (i) (d) prey (ii) (c) softens (iii) (c) resistant to 2.3. Find words from the passage which mean the same as: (any two) (1 × 2 = 2) (a) Another (para 1) (b) Liquid substances released from glands (para 2) (c) Particular (para 7) Ans. (a) alternative (b) secretion (c) specific SECTION B : (WRITING AND GRAMMAR) 30 3. You are Tanvi/Shirish of Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi. You are extremely disturbed about the attacks on old people living alone. Write a letter in 100-120 words to the Editor, ‘The New Indian News’ making people sensitive to the problem. Make suggestions to the people living alone and the authorities to ensure that such attacks do not take place. (8) Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-49 Or You are Ravi/Raveena, Sports Secretary of your school. Write an article in 100-120 words on the topic, ‘Importance of Outdoor Games in the life of a teenager.’ Ans. Safdarjung Development Area New Delhi 5 August 2020 The Editor The New Indian News New Delhi Subject: Attacks on old people–remedies. Sir, Kindly publish the following views of mine in the appropriate columns of your esteemed daily on the subject cited above. It is very painful to read almost daily the news about the attacks and murder of old people in the country. It is a tragedy of times that a large number of families don’t keep their olds with them. So the old people now physically weak have to fend for themselves. Anti-social elements enter the old couples’ houses, steal their belongings and murder them. These murders have shocked all. They are in danger at all the times. This fear can be avoided if the policemen visit the old couples at convenient times. This shall instill fearlessness in their hearts. Secondly, the neighbours should also keep vigil on them and have good communications with them. Social meetings shall go a long way in reducing this menace. Yours faithfully Tanvi/Shirish Or Importance of Outdoor Games in the Life of a Teenager — Ravi/Raveena, Sports Secretary There cannot be any doubt about the importance and benefits of games for the teenagers. They should be treated as most necessary for the good physical growth and mental development of them. So they are as good as academic pursuits. Games or sports of any kind teach many things. Besides keeping the players physically fit and mentally sound, sports give boost to various human values like fellow-feeling, team spirit, cooperation and mutual help. These values are socially very important as man is a social animal. The most important aspect of outdoor games is that these expose the players towards nature which means indirect respect and response to it. Playing in soil and getting close to nature are ways to learn about it. For teenagers it is most important as they are in the process of growing. @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram 4. Write a story in 150-200 words with the help of the following outline. Give it a suitable title also. (10) Bunya was a foolish boy, who was an attention seeker. He was a woodcutter and would go deep into the jungle to cut trees. One day he wanted to do an act of mischief. He shouted at the top of his voice, “There’s a tiger, tiger, there’s a tiger ......” Or On Sunday I was watching T.V. Suddenly I heard people shouting outside... Ans. Bunya was a foolish boy, who was an attention seeker. He was a woodcutter and would go deep into the jungle to cut trees. One day he wanted to do an act of mischief. He shouted at the top of his voice, “There’s a tiger, tiger, there’s a tiger.” The villagers heard his voice and came to his help of lathis and pieces of wood. They really intended to save Bunya from the clutches of the tiger. When they reached Bunya he laughed and said, “I was making a fun. There’s no tiger.” Saying so he laughed. This irritated the farmers who had reached him to save him from the tiger. They felt it very much as they had left their work incomplete. Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
E-50 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER–2019 One day it so happened that Bunya as usual was deep into the forest cutting the wood. All of a sudden there came a tiger really. He was in a grave danger. He climbed the tree with the tiger standing beneath him and shouted,“Help! Help! The tiger is just a few metres away from me.” But to his surprise no villager came to his help. The villagers and others did hear him but they thought that he was making a fool of them. The tiger did not budge from there. On the other hand he started climbing the tree. This petrified Bunya. He was so scared that he fell down. The tiger didn’t wait and took seconds to kill him. Moral: Never play with the sentiments of the people. Or On Sunday I was watching T.V. Suddenly I heard people shouting outside. Out of curiosity to know what was the cause of this shout I peeped out of the window. I was aghast that a young boy had climbed on an electric pole to retrieve a paper kite with his friends standing below him. The boy was just near the live wires of the pole where the kite had stuck. The gathered people was crying at their voice to ask him to came down. He was also trying to climb down the pole. The boy was greatly scared at the imminent death in case he touched the live wire. It was just inches away from him. The boy’s parents too arrived there. They were exhorting the people to save him. Meanwhile, a young man went to the transformer which was close to the spot where the boy had climbed the pole. The young man took no time to switch off the power from the transformer. The boy started climbing down the pole with the directions of the people gathered there. Luckily, he was saved. All heaved a sigh of relief. @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram 5. Fill in any four of the following blanks choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below. Write the answer in your answer-sheet against the correct blank numbers. (1 × 4 = 4) Delhi (a) ............ the capital of India. People from all parts (b) ............ the country and world come to visit Delhi. There (c) ............ many historical buildings here. Last year I, (d) ............ Delhi. I also watched (e) ............ Commonwealth Games 2010. (a) (i) was (ii) is (iii) are (iv) being (b) (i) of (ii) from (iii) for (iv) at (c) (i) being (ii) are (iii) been (iv) were (d) (i) visit (ii) visiting (iii) visited (iv) will visit (e) (i) a (ii) an (iii) the (iv) some Ans. (a) (ii) is (b) (i) of (c) (ii) are (d) (iii) visited (e) (iii) the 6. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the error along with its correction in the space provided. Do any four. Underline the word you have supplied. (1 × 4 = 4) Error Correction Sachin Tendulkar is a best e.g. a the cricketer in India. He has play for (a) ............... ............... more than 20 years on the country. (b) ............... ............... He retired from the games (c) ............... ............... last year. He is know for (d) ............... ............... his skill in batting or fielding. (e) ............... ............... Ans. Error Correction (a) play played (b) on for (c) games game (d) know known (e) or and Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-51 (1 × 4 = 4) 7. Rearrange any four of the following words/ phrases to make meaningful sentences: 1. that life began/ centuries ago/ scientists think/ twenty million/ on earth/ about 30 2. endless process/ the plants and animals/ of evolution/ are the products/ of an 3. are/ their/ animals/ products of/ all the/ environment 4. lose/ habitat/ human/ due to/ their/ the animals/ encroachment 5. the/ habitat/ regrowth/ rate of/ is/ very slow/ of Ans. 1. Scientists think that life began on earth about twenty millions centuries ago. 2. The plants and animals are the products of an endless process of evolution. 3. All the animals are products of their environment. 4. The animals lose their habitat due to human encroachment. 5. The rate of regrowth of habitat is very slow. SECTION C : (LITERATURE) @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram8. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow: (1 × 4 = 4) When I casually mentioned this to a friend, he casually replied that I had better get one in the Tigris marshes, for there they were as common as mosquitoes, and were often tamed by the Arabs. We were going to Basra to the Consulate- General to collect and answer our mail from Europe. At the Consulate-General we found that my friend’s mail had arrived but that mine had not. (a) What was ‘they’? (b) Where could the author get ‘one’? (c) Find the exact word from the extract which means ‘domesticated’. (d) What did the author find at the Consulate-General? Or (There is a languid, emerald sea, where the sole inhabitant is me a mermaid drifting blissfully.) Questions: (a) Who does ‘me’ stand for? (b) How does ‘me’ feel? (c) Who is ‘me’ compared to? (d) Which word in the extract means opposite of ‘sorrowfully’? Ans. (a) They are otters. (b) The author could get one in Tigris Marshes. (c) It is ‘tamed’. (d) At the Consulate-General, the author found that his friend’s mail had arrived but his mail had not. Or (a) ‘Me’ stands for the child, Amanda. (b) She feels that she should also be free and relaxed like the mermaid sailing in the sea freely. (c) ‘Me’ is compared to a mermaid. (d) ‘Blissfully’. 9. Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each: (2 × 4 = 8) (i) How did Kisa Gotami realise that life and death is a normal process? (ii) Why did Maddie write a note to Peggy and then tore it? (iii) How can you say that Horace Danby was good and respectable but not completely honest? Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
E-52 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER–2019 (iv) What difficulty do the crew of the space probe face on the Earth? (v) What was the most fascinating thing that Valli saw on the street? Ans. (i) Gautama Buddha taught Kisa Gotami the truth of life by getting him mustard seeds. These should be from the house where no death had occurred. Kisa Gotami went from house to house but couldn’t find such a house. Finally, she understood the truth and the secret of life. (ii) Maddie wrote a note to Peggy to stop making fun of Wanda. But she tore the note. She thought that Peggy would make fun of her the next time as she did to Wanda. Maddie perceived herself in Wanda’s place. So out of this future insult, she tore the note later. (iii) This description fits well on Horace Danby. Horace enjoys a good reputation as ‘a good, honest citizen’. Then he steals only once a year. He covers his stealing under his profession of making locks. He also loves reading books. So due to these reasons he can’t be categorised as a typical thief. (iv) The space probe lands in a public library. The crew is shocked because the place looks very strange. They haven’t seen such a place as they have no ideas of books. They think that it may be a some kind of a storage barn. Iota calls it ‘storage barn’ and Oop calls it a haberdashery. (v) The most fascinating thing of all for Valli was one thing. It was the bus. The bus looked very mysterious for her. It was a kind of another world for her. It travelled between her village and the nearest town. It passed through her street each hour. The bus filled Valli with unending joy with a new set of passengers. @ 10. Attempt any one of the following questions in 100-120 words:qualitystudymaterial _telegram (8) Bholi is a child different from others. This difference makes her an object of neglect and laughter. Elaborate. Or The poet in the poem, ‘For Anne Gregory’ conveys that we should given importance to the inner beauty and not to the physical appearance. Elaborate with reference to the poem. Ans. Bholi is a child different from her brother and sisters. This obviously makes her an object of neglect and laughter. Bholi can’t speak properly. She stammers when she speaks. She has pock marks on her body which makes her look ugly. She fell down from her cot in childhood and due to that she develops fear and physical disability. Thus she is different from other girls. No one likes her due to that she is made fun of. As a result she talks very little. Her parents also treat her badly and without any affection. They don’t get her new clothes. On the other hand she wears old and discarded or worn out her clothes. Her mother doesn’t support her and calls her witless. Bholi is called a dumb cow. Or In this poem ‘For Anne Gregory’ the poet conveys an essential truth that inner beauty is the real beauty. Physical appearance may appeal as beautiful for some time. But it gets changed with the passage of time. A young man is handsome but in old age that is not so. The speaker says to her that young men love her for her beautiful yellow hair. It is possible they will never love her for what she is really. Anne replies that her hair can be changed. External beauty is all superficial and temporary. Men should not love her for that but should love for her inner beauty. A person can be beautified artificially and this is not beauty. It is inner beauty that lives for ever and it should be the basis of true love. Q.No. 11 of 10 marks is not given as it does not belong to the current syllabus. Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
@ qualitystudymaterial _telegram Click Here to Buy Main Book Online Committed to Educate the Nation NEW AGE INTERNATIONAL (P) LIMITED, PUBLISHERS LONDON • NEW DELHI • NAIROBI IN INDIA Visit us at www.newagegolden.com
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-53 Series — TYM SET-1 Code No. 2/1 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER-2018 English Language and Literature Class–X (Solved) @Time allowed: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80 qualitystudymaterial _telegram General Instructions: 20 marks 30 marks (i) The Question paper is divided into three sections : 30 marks Section A — Reading Section B — Writing and Grammar Section C — Literature (ii) All questions are compulsory. (iii) You may attempt any section at a time. (iv) All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order. SECTION A : (READING) 20 1. Read the passage given below: (8) (1) Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir have another attraction — a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first in the country. ‘Floating Post Office, Dal Lake’s— claimed to be the only one such post office in the world is built on an intricately carved maroon houseboat, fastened on the western edge of the Dal Lake. (2) This post office lets you avail of all the regular postal services available in the country while being afloat. The seal used on everything posted from Floating Post Office is unique — along with the date and address, it bears the design of a boatman rowing a shikara on the Dal Lake. The special feature of this post office is that letters posted from here carry a special design which has the picturesque scenery of Dal Lake and Srinagar city. These pictures reach wherever these letters are posted to and hence promote Kashmir as a tourist destination across the world. (3) This is actually a heritage post office that has existed since British times. It was called Nehru Park Post Office before 2011. But then the chief postmaster John Samuel renamed it as ‘Floating Post Office’. (4) The post office’s houseboat has two small rooms —one serves as the office and the other a small museum that traces the philatelic history of the state postal department. It has a shop that sells postage stamps and other products. (5) But for the locals, Floating Post Office is more than an object of fascination. ` 1-2 crore is deposited per month in the Floating Post Office by communities living in and around the Dal Lake. The lake has several islets that are home to more than 50,000 people. (6) The greatest fear is the recurrence of 2014 like floods in which the houseboat had gone for a toss uncontrollably pushed by the flood. Rescue teams had to anchor it using special mechanism in a nearby highland. Then it was brought back on the Dal after the water receded. The biggest boon is that at no time of the year do you need a fan in this post-office. 1.1. Attempt any eight of the following questions on the basis of the passage you have read: (1 × 8 = 8) (i) What is the location of the Floating Post Office in Srinagar? (ii) What is special about the seal used in the post office? E-53 Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
E-54 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER–2018 (iii) How is the post office helpful in promoting tourism? (iv) Who renamed the post office as ‘Floating Post Office’? (v) What are the two rooms of the post office used for? (vi) How is the post office beneficial to the locals? (vii) What is the greatest fear that the post office has? (viii) How is the post office a big boon to the people? (ix) Find the word from the passage which means the same as ‘attraction’. (para 5) Ans. (i)The location of the Floating Post-Office is the Dal Lake in Srinagar. It is one of the tourist attraction of Jammu and Kashmir. It is built on a houseboat fastened to the western edge of the Lake. (ii) The seal is unique because it bears the design of a boatman rowing a shikara on the Dal Lake along with the date and address. (iii) The postal material posted from this Floating Post Office in Srinagar carries the picturesque scenery of Dal Lake and Srinagar as its special design. This picture reaches the address posted to and promotes Kashmir as a tourist destination across the world. (iv) The chief postmaster John Samuel renamed it as “Floating Post Office”. (v) One of the two rooms serves as the office and the other is a small museum. This museum traces the philatelic history of the state postal department. It has a shop that sells postage stamps and other products. (vi) Communities living in and around the Dal Lake can deposit and withdraw their money in the Floating Post Office. It thus works as a bank for these people. (vii) The greatest fear the Post Office has is the recurrence of the floods in the Lake. (viii) It is a big boon to the people as it is a big source of attraction and source of income for them from tourists. (ix) It is ‘fascination’. @ 2. Read the passage given below:qualitystudymaterial _telegram (12) 1. It is an indisputable fact that the world has gone too far with the innovation of new technologies such as mobile phones, the internet and so on, due to which people are able to tour the cosmos virtually sitting at one place using their smart devices or other technological gadgets. Though mobile internet access is oftentimes hurried and short, it can still provide common internet features like alerts, weather data, e-mails, search engines, instant messages, and game and music downloading. 2. Due to the easy access of smart phones, communication has been very effective and instant. People are able to convey their message all around the globe to their loved ones without spending hefty sums of money. Adults are always fond of such gadgets and they always welcome and adopt such new technology readily. Further, young people have been able to broaden their minds and improve their skills by doing research on the Internet. For instance, they use smart phones to look up any new word they come across. As we know that most of the universities have online teaching provision and smart phones assist the students to complete their assignments on time. 3. The mobile phone has been a lifesaver for a lot of people in case of an emergency. Likewise, use of smart phones can be of vital importance in preventing crimes in the society by providing information to the security forces in time. 4. Nonetheless, for the young the use of mobile phone can be like an addiction and they can misuse it. Young people are also prone to getting involved in undesirable activities on the Internet. This might have adverse effect on their academic performance. Therefore, young people should always be monitored and made aware of its bad outcomes. 5. Also a major contributor to its popularity is the availability of prepaid or pay as you go services from a phone shop or an online store. This allows subscribers to load text or airtime credits to their handsets by the use of their credit cards, debit cards or by buying a prepaid card from the network they subscribe to. This plan also doesn’t commit a particular customer to a contract. If prepaid card is not that appealing to you, then you can opt to subscribe using the pay by month plan. 2.1. On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each: (2 × 4 = 8) (i) How are smart phones helpful in communication? (ii) What are the benefits of mobile phones for the young generation? (iii) How can mobile phones be considered ‘lifesavers’? Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-55 (iv) Mention any two demerits of mobile phones. (v) How is a prepaid card useful to mobile phone users? Ans. (i) Smart phones provide an instant source of communication among the people. They can send instant messages/ pictures/videos to their nears and dears in and around the world without spending much. (ii) The young generation can use smart phones for multifarious uses. It can broaden its knowledge and learn various things instantly like meaning of words etc. Smart phones are the best source of connecting to the people at social level. (iii) Mobile phones can be lifesavers as they help connect with the persons concerned in emergencies. Crimes can be prevented by them in connecting with the law and order agencies. (iv) Smart phones can lead to habit formation and addiction which lead to waste of time and energy. They can also impact adversely the academic performances etc. They can lead the young minds go astray. (v) Prepaid cards help in allowing subscribers to upload text and airtime credits to their smart phones. The prepaid plan does not commit a subscriber to a particular contract. @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram2.2. On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any four of the following:(1 × 4 = 4) (a) In para 1, synonym of ‘innovation’ is ............ (i) production (ii) sincerity (iii) invention (iv) prevention (b) Mobile internet can provide access to : (i) telegram (ii) e-mails (iii) schools(iv) university (c) Grown-ups should ............ the use of new technology by the young people. (i) reject (ii) criticize (iii) monitor(iv) accept (d) Meaning of the word ‘adverse’ in para 4 is : (i) positive (ii) negative (iii) admirable (iv) unguided (e) According to the passage, one can opt for ............ plan if prepaid plan doesn’t suit. (i) yearly (ii) weekly (iii) monthly (iv) daily Ans. (a) (iii) invention (b) (ii) emails (c) (iii) monitor (d) (ii) negative (e) (iii) monthly SECTION B : (WRITING SKILLS AND GRAMMAR) 30 3. You are Prabhu Kumar/Parvati of 17E, Ravi Dass Road, Kochi. Write a letter in 100-120 words to the editor of a newspaper about the nuisance caused by loudspeakers in the city during examination days drawing attention of the concerned authorities to the problem. (8) Or You are Pratibha/Rahul of Class X. Write an article in 100-120 words on ‘Ill-effects on students of too much of television’. You can use the following clues : — Increasing addiction — A great variety of programmes — Easy availability — Neglect of studies — Drop in academic performance — Result – poor physical and mental health Ans. 17E, Ravi Das Road Kochi, 10 August 2020 Editor The Times Kochi Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
E-56 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER–2018 Subject: Nuisance caused by loudspeakers. Sir, I am writing this letter to express my pain and anguish over the problem of loudspeakers in the city during examination days. Kindly publish this in the appropriate columns of your esteemed daily. Till late night and from early morning every day these loudspeakers continue to blare out the noise. It disturbs all the people in the city. In these days of examination students can’t concentrate in their studies. Thus their careers are in a grave danger. The old, aged and the sick can’t sleep due to this noise. Despite meeting the people concerned this noise hasn’t been contained. Thus these people violate the rules of the Hon’ble Supreme Court not to play these after 10 p.m. On behalf of all the students, aged people and the newly born I urge the appropriate authorities to stop the playing of these loudspeakers at once. @ Yours faithfullyqualitystudymaterial _telegram Prabhu Kumar/Parvati Or Ill-effects on students of too much of television — Pratibha/Rahul If there are benefits of viewing television there are disadvantages of it also. Most of the children nowadays watch television as a part of their leisure time. As too much of everything is bad, watching television for long hours has ill-effects. First, it is health. The eyesight is affected. For want of physical activities, these children become obese and invite many health troubles due to this. The cognitive abilities and concentration levels of these children are adversely impacted. Their abilities of imagination and creativity are also affected as watching television is simply to look at it and listen. Then such children become lazy and physically inactive and neglect their homework. There is then a drop in academic programmes. The result is poor physical and mental health. Critical and creative thinking are also affected. Thus watching television excessively has these ill-effects. 4. Write a story in 150-200 words with the help of the following outline: (10) Tortoise and hare — good friends — tortoise — known for his slow speed — hare has fast speed — makes fun of tortoise — challenges him — referee selected — race starts — hare overconfident — takes a nap — tortoise wins. Or Complete the story in 150-200 words which begins as the following: There was a joint family of six members including grandparents. It was the 75th birthday of the grandmother and the family planned to celebrate ............ Ans. Hare and the Tortoise Once there lived a hare and a tortoise in a forest. They were very good friends. The hare was known for his speed while the tortoise was known for doing things slowly. This made the hare proud of his speed. One day he thought to make fun of the tortoise, saying, “Do you ever reach a place in time?” The tortoise said confidently, “Yes, I reach a place in time”. This made the hare a little irritated and he challenged the tortoise, “Let there be a race between me and you. Let’s see who wins.” The tortoise accepted the challenge. They contacted a fox to act as a referee. A starting point was marked. The Fox whistled to start the race. It was started. The hare was soon out of sight as he ran to the maximum of his capacity. The tortoise ran as much as he could but not equal to the hare. The hare stopped in between to see where was the tortoise. He didn’t see him. He decided to take a little rest and thought to run the last leg of the race in no time. Meanwhile the tortoise reached the place where the hare was resting. He passed by him and reached the point of ‘finish’ before the hare. When the hare woke up he ran the last leg and found the tortoise had already reached it. He felt ashamed of himself. Moral: Never make fun of others. Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-57 Or There was a joint family of six members including the grandparents. It was the 75th birthday of the grandmother and the family planned to celebrate it gracefully and with great enjoyment. They made elaborate arrangements to make it a special and memorable moment for the grandmother. So they invited all the nears and dears to celebrate it with all the joy. But before the actual ceremony they asked the children to take the grandma to a nearby park for sometime, say one hour or two. The grandmother didn’t know the plan. Meanwhile, the nears and dears made elaborate plans to decorate the room and bring in all the things customary for celebrating the birthdays. In the park the children of the family spent time in listening to the childhood stories of the grandmother’s childhood, her strong and weak points. @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram The grandmother didn’t sense what was in store for her. When they reached home they saw no activity. This looked strange. But when the grandmother reached her room she was wonderstruck to see all the nears and dears wishing her Happy Birthday. This was the most wonderful surprise for the grandmother who had tears of joy when she embraced them all. 5. Fill in any four of the blanks in the paragraph given below with the help of options that follow: (1 × 4 = 4) The modern student (a) ............ the importance (b) ............ physical exercise. He spends one to two hours in open air (c) ............ he takes part in different sports. However, care should (d) ............ not to overstrain (e) ............ body. (a) (i) understood (ii) understand (iii) have understand (iv) understands (b) (i) of (ii) by (iii) from (iv) with (c) (i) how (ii) which (iii) where (iv) why (d) (i) be taken (ii) took (iii) takes (iv) has taken (e) (i) a (ii) an (iii) the (iv) some Ans. (a) (iv) understands (b) (i) of (c) (iii) where (d) (i) be taken (e) (iii) the 6. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the error and its correction as shown in the example. Do any your. Underline the word you have supplied. (1 × 4 = 4) Error Correction was In the prisoner’s room a candle is e.g. is ............... burning dimly. A prisoner himself (a) ............... ............... ............... sat by the table. Only him back, (b) ............... ............... ............... the hair by his head, and his (c) ............... (1 × 4 = 4) hands are visible from outside (d) ............... through any window. (e) ............... Ans. Error Correction (a) a the (b) him his (c) by on (d) are were (e) any the 7. Rearrange any four of the following words/phrases to form meaningful sentences: (i) work and play/things/different/parents see/as two (ii) is a/of time/they/waste/ think/that playing (iii) important/games/studies/are as/as (iv) a student/to both/proper/should/attention/pay (v) can/life/only/succeed/he/in/then Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
E-58 CBSE BOARD EXAMINATION PAPER–2018 Ans. (i) Parents see work and play as two different things. (ii) They think that playing is a waste of time. (iii) Studies are as important as games. (iv) A student should pay proper attention to both. (v) Only then he can succeed in life. SECTION C : (LITERATURE/TEXTBOOKS AND LONG READING TEXT) 30 8. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (1 × 4 = 4) “But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, he can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man! My aunt’s grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that ............ @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines? (b) Why did his aunt’s grandmother give the meadows? (c) Why did the peasant treat the land as their own? (d) What light do these lines throw on the speaker’s character? Or Belinda tickled him, she ticked him unmerciful, Ink, Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him Percival. They all sat laughing in the little red wagon At the realio, trulio cowardly dragon. (a) Who was tickled by Belinda? (b) Why did she tickle ‘him’? (c) Who are Ink, Blink and Mustard? (d) Why did they all laugh at ‘him’? Ans. (a) Lomov is the speaker of the above lines. (b) Lomov’s aunt’s grandmother gave the meadows to his grandfather’s peasants in return for making bricks for her. The land given was for free and temporary use only. (c) The peasants used this land for forty years. As a result they got accustomed to the land and looked at it as their own. (d) The speaker is logical and has due consciousness about proper protocol. He is thus polite, well-behaved and a sensible person. Or (a) Custard, the dragon, was tickled by Belinda. (b) She tickled him to tease him and make fun of him. (c) The black kitten Ink, Blink, the little grey mouse and the little yellow dog Mustard, are all pets of Belinda. (d) Custard, the dragon was a coward. Hence, the pets all laughed at him. 9. Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each: (2 × 4 = 8) (a) What excited Rajvir? Why did Pranjol not share his excitement ? (b) ‘He senses first responsibility’ – What responsibility is referred to here? (The Ball Poem) (c) What was Horace Danby’s hobby? How did he manage to fulfill it? (d) Why did Matilda (Mme Loisel) leave the ball in a hurry ? What does it show about her character? (e) In which queer way did Anil make a living? (The Thief’s Story) Ans. (a) Rajvir was excited to see the tea garden for the first time. Pranjol was not excited because he had been born and brought Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - X E-59 up on a tea plantation. So he didn’t share his excitement as he was not new to the tea gardens (b) The responsibility referred to here is that of owning a ball and keeping it safe. The boy develops a sense of belonging to the ball. When it is lost, he feels it bad and is restless until it is found or not. (c) Horace Danby loved reading books. These were rare and very expensive. For that he needed money. So he looted a safe each year. For that he would plan well in time. He would not leave any chance of being caught. Then he would buy those books. (d) Matilda left the ball in a hurry because she was wrapped in modest wraps, while the other women wore rich furs. She hurried so that those women in furs might not look at her modest wraps. That would be insulting. (e) Anil lived a queer life. He made money by fits and starts. He would borrow one week and lend the next week. He kept worrying about the next cheque to come. When it arrived he would go out and celebrate. He wrote for magazines. @10. Answer any one of the following questions in 100-120 words: (8) qualitystudymaterial _telegram In life, people who easily trust others are sometimes made to look foolish. One should not be too trusting. Describe how Oliver Lutkins made a fool of the young lawyer. Or What lesson on death and suffering did the Buddha teach Gotami in the chapter, ‘The Sermon at Benaras’. Ans. It is seen that those who easily trust others are honest and simple-hearted. They are also the persons who are easily cheated. This is fully applicable to the young lawyer. He easily trusts the hack driver who is himself Oliver Lutkins. The young lawyer comes to New Mullion to serve summons on Lutkins. But Lutkins traps him in his trap. The hack driver (Oliver Lutkins) tells lies after lies about Lutkins. He tells the young lawyer that he will be available at Fritz’s shop. He takes him there. When he is not there he tells that Lutkins will be at Gustaff’s barber shop. He then takes him to his mother. She is such a ferocious woman that she threatens to burn him alive. Thus Lutkins makes the young lawyer a fool of himself. Or The Buddha says in his first sermon that human life is brief. It is troubled and painful. There is no means by which one can avoid dying. Both young and adult, fools or wise fall to death. They are led to death like an ox taken to slaughter. Anyone will not obtain peace of mind from weeping or grieving. On the contrary, his pain will be greater. His body will suffer. One who seeks peace of mind shall seek it if he overcomes all sorrows. The wise know the truth of life. It is : those who are born are to die one day. So they don’t grieve on deaths. They know the death is essential. 11. Answer any one of the following questions in 200-250 words:* (10) Describe the importance of diary in Anne Frank’s life. Or What problems do Margot and Anne face with regard to the way their parents treat them ? Or Helen Keller’s determination to study and compete with the normal children helps her to enter Radcliffe College. What does this show about her personality? Or Describe how Miss Sullivan succeeds in helping Helen Keller achieve her aim in life. *Answers are not given due to the change in present syllabus. Click Here to Buy Main Book Online
Click Here to Buy Main Book Online @ qualitystudymaterial _telegram
Strictly REFERENCE BOOKS CLASS Based on X Latest NCERT Textbooks @ MRP: 255.00 MRP: 355.00 MRP: 335.00 qualitystudymaterial _telegram Click Here to Buy the Book Online Click Here to Buy the Book Online Click Here to Buy the Book Online MRP: 575.00 MRP: 495.00 MRP: 598.00 Click Here to Buy the Book Online Click Here to Buy the Book Online Click Here to Buy the Book Online MRP: 299.00 MRP: 240.00 MRP: 290.00 Click Here to Buy the Book Online Click Here to Buy the Book Online Click Here to Buy the Book Online Committed to Educate the Nation NEW AGE INTERNATIONAL (P) LIMITED, PUBLISHERS LONDON • NEW DELHI • NAIROBI IN INDIA Visit us at www.newagegolden.com
@ qualitystudymaterial _telegram Click Here to Buy Main Book Online Committed to Educate the Nation NEW AGE INTERNATIONAL (P) LIMITED, PUBLISHERS LONDON • NEW DELHI • NAIROBI IN INDIA Visit us at www.newagegolden.com
Search
