Time : 3 hours Max.marks:100
This paper consists of four sections :
Section – A Reading (20 marks)
Section – B Writing (30 marks)
Section – C Grammar (20 marks)
Section – D Literature (30 marks)
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions
2. Do not write anything in the question paper.
3. All answers must be numbered correctly as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet provided to you.
4. Attempt all questions in each section before going to the next section.
5. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.
6. Strictly adhere to the word limit given with each question.
Marks will be deducted for exceeding the word limit.
Section- A (20 marks)
A.1.Read the poem carefully:
The Champion
The road was hilly, the wind was strong,
The laddie gallantly struggled along,
With never a glance at the downward way
Where his comrades shouted and laughed in play.
Though he longed to be there and join the sport,
In his brave little heart he crushed the thought.
‘If I went,’ he said, ‘I should certainly rue it,
When you’ve promised a thing, you’re bound to do it.’
The pitch was slippy, the bowling hard.
A weary batsman stood on guard,
He’d come to the field with an aching head.
But the game depended on him, they said.
The sun burned hot on his tired back,
And just for a moment he’d thought he’d slack,
He was sorely tempted to lose a wicket:
‘T would be easy,’ he thought, but it wouldn’t be cricket!’
In life sometimes things won’t go well,
And ‘Duty’s’ a difficult word to spell,
But the fellow who sets before his eyes
A high ideal as the worthiest prize
Will shun the evil and follow the good,
And say to himself, as a brave lad should,
‘It only needs grit, and I must not lack it;
The world’s hard nut, but I mean to crack it!’
A1.1. Below is the summary of the poem.Complete it by writing the missing word/phrase against the correct blank number in your answer sheets (1/2 x 8 = 4 marks)
The poet was playing ____________while his friends were enjoying themselves at some other sport. He wished to be with his fiends, but since he_______________his team mates that he would play well, he continued. A tired batsman came to the________________ and was feeling so___________ that he wanted to throw his__________ and go rest. But on second thoughts he felt that that would be spoiling the___________ of the game.
The lesson the poet wants us to learn is that we can__________ all trials in life if we have the__________________to complete the task given.
A1.2The poet uses certain expressions from the poem to suggest something to the reader.There are some suggestions given below. Choose one suggestion that best fits each of the expressions in the table and write the answer against the correct blank number in your answer sheets. (4 marks)
be happy about it, hard to complete something sincerely, spelling the word is difficult not sporting, To fall short of something
Expression from the poem:
1.at the downward way: below the hill
2.certainly rue it:____________________
3.it wouldn’t be cricket:_________________
4. a difficult word to spell:_________________
5. I must not lack it:_____________________
English Class X Sample Paper 4
A2.Read the passage given below:
Excuse me,what was that you whistled?
Visitors to the Canary Islands usually go to Tenerife or Gran Canaria. Very few of them go to the island of Gomera, but Gomera is an island with a surprise, because the people there have two languages: Spanish and whistle-language.
It was a great day in Gomera when Colombus arrived with his ships before his first crossing of the Atlantic. Colombus stayed on the island while he bought fruit and cattle and other animals for the voyage. But Gomera has not shared in many of the events of history. It is not easy to land there from the sea, and aeroplanes cannot land at all. Small boats are used to trade with the other islands.
Gomera is the only place in the world which has whistle language. How did it begin? Why did it begin? We cannot answer
These questions because we do not know the complete history of the island. We do know that the Spaniards were the first people to whistle there. Norman seamen had visited the island in 1402.They found tall people with fair hair and blue eyes who called themselves Guanches. They kept cattle for living. they believed that a great king had once become very angry with the Guanches and had cut out the tongues of every man, woman and child. They had to speak without tongues and the whistle language was the result.
We can certainly imagine other reasons for the beginning of the whistle language. Very deep valleys break up the surface of the island. A person on one side of the valley cannot easily shout at a person on the other side. But he can whistle and can be heard from four miles away, and men say that the record is seven miles. The people who live on the island usually have good teeth and this helps them to whistle well. They must also have good ears so that they can hear other whistlers.
We can understand why the Spaniards took the whistle-language from the Guanches.it is very useful on the island, and the Spaniards found that it was very easy to learn. When somebody is hurt or ill, the whistle-language takes the place of the telephone. If the sick person is a long way from town, San Sebastian, boys and men pass the news from one to another. A boy guarding cattle on a hillside whistles to a man fishing from his boat. The last one is able to describe the trouble fully and exactly to the doctor in San Sebastian. People help each other in the same way when a car breaks down or a cattle is lost.
Whistle-language is very useful in work down at the water-front. It is often used to talk to anybody who is more than thirty metres away. People of all ages can whistle. Country people use the language more than people who live in the town. In fact, town people sometimes ‘make mistakes’ and give the hearer the wrong idea. Children learn the whistle language as fast as they learn Spanish. Even the birds on the trees have learnt it. On Gomera, people do not copy the birds: the birds copy people.
Radio and T.V often kill the special ways of speaking in different parts of a country. But on Gomera you are nobody if
you cannot whistle. When the Spaniards arrived the Guanches died out, but they passed on the whistle-language to new comers. Perhaps soon after television arrives on the island, people in the picture will be whistling the news and other facts and opinions.
On the basis of your reading of the passage above answer the following questions briefly: (9 marks)
1.The ‘legend’ about the Guanches was ……… (2 marks)
2.Gomera does not find a place in the history books because…. (2 marks)
3.The ’scientific’ reasoning for the origin of the whistle-language is …… (1 mark)
4.To communicate well in whistle –language,people must have…. (1 mark)
5.The whistle-language was used as an effective means of communication ……………. (2 marks)
6.At work the clarity of the language is best heard when….. (1 mark)
Find words in the passage which mean: (3 marks)
1. to give to others what you have. 2. happenings. 3.views 4.destroy 5.imitate 6.end product
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