Arihant sample paper English

194 CBSE Sample Paper English Language & Literature X (Term I) 47. What was Hari Singh thinking while sitting in the shelter of clock tower? 1. “Education can one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees.” 2. “I cannot cook his meals, run to the bazaar.” 3. “I should go back to Anil for the sake of learning to read and write.” 4. “I cannot learn to write whole sentences any more.” (a) 1 and 4 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 3 and 4 48. According to the speaker, how would Anil react when he would know about the theft? (a) Would show a touch of sadness for the loss of trust. (b) Would show fear for the loss of money. (c) Would show anger for the loss of money. (d) Would show acceptance for the loss of money. 49. The word ‘drizzle’ does not correspond to the word (a) Sprinkle (b) Spray (c) Shower (d) Rainfall 50. Arrange the following events in series. (b) 561243 (d) 231546 1. He could not board the train 2. Hari Singh went to the bazaar. 3. He went to Anil’s room. 4. Hari Singh went to the clock tower. 5. Hari Singh stole money. 6. Hari Singh went to the station. (a) 623514 (c) 132456 IX. Attempt the following questions. 51. “All of a sudden Mrs. Hall heard a sniff close to her ear.” – Who sniffed near Mrs. Hall? (a) Clergyman (b) Griffin (c) Staff of the inn (d) A ghost 52. When the young seagull’s brother caught his first herring, how did their parents react? (a) They criticised him. (b) They shouted at him. (c) They did not like it. (d) They made praising sounds. 53. Why doesn’t the poet write about a more ‘beautiful’ tree such as a maple or an oak or a pine instead of a hemlock tree in the poem ‘Dust of Snow’? 1. A hemlock tree is a poisonous tree. SAMPLE PAPER 10 2. Other beautiful trees symbolise beauty and happiness. 3. Frost wanted to symbolise the feelings of sadness and regret. (a) Only 1 is correct (b) 1 and 2 are correct (c) 2 and 3 are correct (d) All are correct 54. “Yeah, velvet too. A hundred dresses,” Wanda would repeat stolidly. – What does the word ‘stolidly’ mean? (a) Showing anger (b) Showing irritation (c) Showing little emotion (d) Showing fear

CBSE Sample Paper English Language & Literature X (Term I) 195 55. “The field was white, as if covered with salt.” Which figure of speech is used in the given line? (a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Personification (d) Alliteration 56. Why do you think the tiger in the poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’ stares at the brilliant stars? (a) Because they entertain him. (b) Because they are shining freely in the sky. (c) Because he likes to watch them. (d) Because he loves their brightness. 57. Who was Tristan in the story ‘A Triumph of Surgery’? (a) Mr. Herriot’s companion (b) Greyhound (c) A dog at the surgery (d) Another name for Tricki 58. For the poet, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for? Fill in the blanks. Fire = Greed, Avarice, Desires, (i) ............. Ice = Cruelty, Hatred, (ii) ............. , Insensitivity. (a) (i) Conflict, (ii) Intolerance (b) (i) Coldness, (ii) Indifference (c) (i) Rigidity, (ii) Fury (d) All of these 59. How did Wanda’s house remind Maddie of Wanda? 1. The house and its sparse little yard looked shabby but clean. 2. Wanda also used to wear a faded blue cotton dress, shabby but clean. (a) Only 1 Is correct (b) Both 1 and 2 are correct (c) Only 2 is correct (d) Both 1 and 2 are incorrect 60. The pilot of old Dakota was in the storm for ................. . (a) Half an hour (b) Less than half an hour (c) More than half an hour (d) An hour SAMPLE PAPER 10

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CBSE Sample Paper English Language & Literature X (Term I) 197 Answers 1. (c) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (d) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (b) 14. (d) 15. (c) 16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (d) 19. (b) 20. (c) 21. (a) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (b) 26. (c) 27. (a) 28. (a) 29. (c) 30. (b) 31. (a) 32. (d) 33. (c) 34. (b) 35. (c) 36. (a) 37. (c) 38. (d) 39. (b) 40. (a) 41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (c) 44. (c) 45. (c) 46. (a) 47. (c) 48. (a) 49. (d) 50. (b) 51. (b) 52. (d) 53. (d) 54. (c) 55. (b) 56. (b) 57. (a) 58. (a) 59. (b) 60. (c) EXPLANATIONS 1. (c) According to the passage, the supporters of programme is very costly and cannot be done SAMPLE PAPER 10 zoo have argued that it plays a very important for every species. They argue that some zoos role in educating children about the wildlife keep the animals in inhumane conditions and also helps in conservation of species by which only aggravate their behavior and this breeding some of the endangered species in behavior gives inaccurate information to captivity. children. 2. (a) Zoos provide a chance to encounter real 11. (a) According to the passage, Goal 4 in the animals, but visitors do not always see the SDG agenda suggests that by 2030, the world natural behavior of animals. should ensure inclusive and equitable education for all children and ensuring a 3. (c) The passage suggests that closing the zoos universal access of primary education. is not a good option as it would prove disastrous and be a deliberate action of 12. (c) According to the passage, ‘Latin America destruction of wildlife on a very large scale as and the Caribbean and East Asia and the many animals in captivity would have to be Pacific’ have the highest rates of primary killed. education completion in the rich quintile. 4. (c) The captive breeding programmes are not 13. (b) According to the passage, the decline in 100% successful because such programmes are the number of children who don’t go to school a minute solution to the worldwide for primary education fell by more than conservation of wild animals. 40 per cent, from 99 million in 2000 to 58 million in 2019, out of which 54 percent 5. (a) ‘but can you see the way they are living; were girls. they are confined to an area, they do not have space to move, they are unable to act naturally’ 14. (d) The passage mentions that the number of is the correct answer. children attending school is lower from the poorer families and higher from the wealthier 6. (b) The passage makes mention of the polar families. This suggests poverty and bear, Pere David’s Deer and Arabian Oryx as inaccessibility to be significant reasons behind among the few animal species that have been incompletion of primary education. saved from extinction with the help of the Additionally, feasibility, discrimination, child zoos. labour and trafficking and displacement are also the reasons for the same. 7. (d) According to the passage, the captive breeding programme saves the animal species 15. (c) ‘Foundational’ means denoting an from extinction and preserves them by underlying basis or principle. Hence, it breeding few in captivity and then letting them corresponds with ‘fundamental’. out into the wild. 16. (d) “In 2019, about four out of five children 8. (b) ‘Impoverish’ means poor or to weaken attending primary education completed it” someone or something. Hence, ‘strengthen’ suggests that about 80% children completed does not correspond to impoverish. the primary education. 9. (d) Cooperation of zoos support captive 17. (a) “West and Central Africa has the largest breeding programme by preventing inbreeding gap of 58 percentage points in primary school among captive animals. completion rates between the richest and poorest quintiles.” – refers that the number of 10. (d) According to the passage, the opponents of zoo have argued that running the conservation

198 CBSE Sample Paper English Language & Literature X (Term I) SAMPLE PAPER 10 West and Central African poor children was brutal and hence, does not correspond with 58 percentage points lower than that of overwhelm. wealthier peers. 35. (c) According to the given extract, the white 18. (d) Primary education is critical to both an population of South Africa fixed the differences individual and a society because it can help among themselves and began a system that in reducing extreme poverty, bringing out discriminated against the Blacks. Born in 1918, social changes and building foundation for Nelson Mandela was 76 years old when he kids. became the president of South Africa in 1994. 19. (b) A comparison is made in the given 36. (a) The phrase ‘to lose heart’ means to become sentence, so ‘fewer’ is the correct answer here. discouraged. Hence, option (a) is the correct answer. 20. (c) ‘have been invited’ is the correct answer because ‘the industrialist and the politician’ is 37. (c) According to the chapter ‘From the Diary of a plural subject. Anne Frank’, Mr. Keesing despite being a Maths teacher, asked Anne to write an essay on 21. (a) ‘will have taken off’ is the correct answer the subject ‘A Chatterbox’ as a punishment for here because the event is fixed to happen. talking too much in the class. 22. (c) ‘needn’t’ is the correct answer here. 38. (d) Anne, in her attempt to prove the necessity of talking, argued that she inherited the trait 23. (a) The correct indirect speech is – ‘Ashish from her mother and thus, couldn’t rectify it told me that he would go to the market that and also that talking is a very common trait day.’ among students. 24. (b) The correct indirect speech is – ‘The 39. (b) Option (b) displays an example of ‘jot down’ mother asked her son to change his shoes.’ — writing quickly or briefly. 25. (b) The correct subject for the letter is 40. (a) The given line shows that Anne was ‘Intensive use of loudspeakers in the metro confident of her friends and herself moving to cities’. the next form. 26. (c) Option (c) shows the correct details to be 41. (a) In the poem ‘The Ball Poem’, the boy is filled in the sender’s details. struck with grief when he loses his ball after it falls into water. 27. (a) Formal tone is required in the letter. 42. (b) According to the poet, another ball is 28. (a) Option (a) shows the correct opening line worthless because it cannot replace the lost ball for the letter. as it won’t have the same memories. 29. (c) ‘It is high time that authorities’ is the 43. (c) In the poem ‘The Ball Poem’, the boy is correct option to complete the closing line for grief-stricken and upset because of the loss of the letter. his ball. 30. (b) Option (b) is the correct complementary 44. (c) The poet describes the world as a closing for the letter. materialistic world of possessions that wouldn’t understand the boy’s loss and probably just ask 31. (a) The discrimination against a certain group him to buy a new ball. of dark-skinned on the basis of race is referred to as Apartheid. 45. (c) The boy is learning about personal losses and how to cope with them. 32. (d) The speaker says that the discrimination that was created in South Africa in the first 46. (a) (1) is true (2) is false, i.e., Hari Singh was not decade of twentieth century gave birth to a hiding anywhere, he was sitting under the very harsh system as it was biased against the clock tower to think and analyse his action of dark-skinned people of the country, which stealing. suppressed them and stripped them of their most basic rights. The people who protest 47. (c) Hari Singh was regretting what he had done against the system were punished severely by because it not only cost him a good friend but separating them from their families. also the education he was getting from Anil. Anil used to teach him how to read and write, 33. (c) The last decade of the twentieth century which would eventually help him become a depicts the time between ‘1991 to 2000’. rich and respectful member of the society. 34. (b) ‘Overwhelm’ means to overpower or submerge. ‘Callous’ means cold-hearted and

CBSE Sample Paper English Language & Literature X (Term I) 199 Other than this, the thought that he would not 54. (c) ‘Stolidly’ means impassive or showing little be able to not cook or shop for Anil anymore, to no emotions. Hence, option (c) is the correct made him want to go back to Anil. answer. 48. (a) Hari Singh says that Anil wouldn’t become 55. (b) Simile is used in the given to make angry with him but would definitely be sad comparison with salt. and upset that Hari Singh broke his trust. 56. (b) In the poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’, the tiger 49. (d) ‘Drizzle’ means little rain falling in very probably felt envious of the ‘brilliant stars’ as fine drops. Hence, it does not correspond to they had the freedom to move and shine freely rainfall, which depicts the process. in the sky contrary to him being caged in the zoo. 50. (b) ‘561243’ is the correct order of the given events. 57. (a) Tristan was Mr. Herriot’s companion at the surgery in the story ‘A Triumph of Surgery’. 51. (b) The invisible Griffin sniffed near Mrs. Hall’s ear. 58. (a) The poet compares fire with ‘desire’ and suggests that it stands for greed, conflict and 52. (d) When the young seagull’s brother caught greed. Similarly, he also makes comparison his first herring, their parents made praising between ice and ‘hatred’ and suggests that it sounds. stands for cruelty, insensitivity, indifference and intolerance. 53. (d) The poem uses hemlock tree instead of other beautiful trees to emphasise the fact that 59. (b) Wanda’s house reminded Maddie of negative things can also bring happiness in Wanda because Wanda’s house was little and one’s life. This means that hemlock tree is shabby but clean just like her faded blue dress. considered to be a bad omen and is a poisonous tree, unlike the other trees which 60. (c) The pilot of old Dakota was in the storm for symbolise beauty and cheerfulness. more than half an hour. SAMPLE PAPER 10