Quarterly Examination – 2024-25
Class – 10th
Subject – English
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Instructions :
(1) All questions are compulsory.
SECTION – A (Reading)
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below – (1×5=5)
Today perhaps your only association with the word ‘polio’ is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that
pro-tects children from the disease. Fifty-five years ago, this was not so. The dreaded
disease, which mainly affects the brain and the spinal cord, causes stiffening and
weakening of the muscles, crip-pling and paralysis – which is why I am in a wheelchair
today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no
one would have believed it. I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers
and sisters, with a huge 23 – year gap between the first and the last. I was told that,
unlike the others, I was so fair and brown-haired that I looked more like a foreigner than
a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
Questions –
(i) The narrator of the passage is a patient of
(a) cerebral attack. (b) polio (c) diabetes (d) heart disease.
(ii) To say something about the future is to
(a) verdict (b) predict. (c) addict. (d) protect.
(iii) The narrator was the seventh child in a family that had
(a) one score children (b) eight children (c) nine children (d) twenty-three children
(iv) Polio, the dreaded disease, mainly affects the
(a) brain and spinal cord. (b) brain and nerves.
(c) heart and spinal cord. (d) brain and heart.
(v) What made the narrator look like a foreigner?
(a) He was fair and brown-haired. (b) He was fair with red hair.
(c) He was fair and skinny. (d) He was dark and blonde
Q.2 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below – (1×5=5)
There are three main groups of oils-animal, vegetable and mineral. Great quantities of
an-imal oil come from whales, those enormous creatures of the sea, which are the
largest of the animals remaining in the world. To protect the whales from the cold of the
Arctic seas, nature has provided them with a thick covering of fat, called blubber.When
the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down. It produces a great.
quantity of oil which can be made into food for human consumption. A few other
creatures yield oil, but none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and halibut,two
kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil. Both cod liver oil and halibut oil are given to sick
children and other invalids who need certain vitamins. Vegeta -ble oil has been known
from very old times. No household can get on without it, for it is used in cooking.
Perfumes may be made from the oils of certain flowers. Soaps are made from
vegetable and animal product and the oils of certain flowers.
Questions –
(i) The main source of animal oil is____.
(a) whale (b) sea weeds (c) fish (d) plant
(ii) Vegetable oil is mainly used for______.
(a) Cooking (b) Making perfumes (c) Making soap (d) Making lubricants
(iii) The ……. of fish yields nourishing oil.
(a) stomach (b) eyes (c) liver (d) head
(iv) The thick protective covering of fat on a whale is called a
(a) cells (b) blubber (c) skin (d) Fins
(v) Write the noun form of the word ‘protect’ is _____.
(a) protected (b) proactive (c) protectable (d) protection
SECTION – B (Writing)
Q.3 Read the following passage and make notes on it and also give a suitable title to it – (4)
Discipline is necessary in life. A man without discipline can achieve nothing worthwhile in
life. Discipline is the very condition of progress, stability and strength. Discipline is
necessary in all walks of human life. Without discipline there will be disorders and
lawlessness in a civilized society. We cannot live without having some regards for the
welfare of others. Respect for authority is the basis of discipline.Children must obey their
parents. In schools and colleges, there must be discipline, otherwise education will
suffer. We find evidence of discipline all around us even in the world of nature and the
world of animal, discipline loses nothing but it wins a lot.Discipline helps us to safeguard
our interests and restrains us from missing our liberty.
Q 4 You are Poorvi studying in Sarasvati Shishu Mandir, Bankhedi, (M.P.).Write an (4)
application to your Principal for full fee concession.
OR
You are Deepansh. Write a letter to your friend inviting him to attend the marriage
ceremony of your sister.
Q.5 Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics (in about 120 words) (5)
(i) Importance of Trees (ii) Importance of English
(iii) Online education (iv) Covid-19
Q.6 On the basis of the picture given below, describe how we can keep ourselves fit and (3)
healthy? (In about 75 words)
SECTION – C (Grammar)
Q.7 Fill in the blanks choosing the correct alternative given in the brackets – (Any five) (5)
(i) Ram is sitting………………….Radha and Sapna (between/among)
(ii) ………….moon walks slowly and silently (A/An/The)
(iii) Monday comes………….Sunday (before/after)
(iv) We…………….obey our teacher (ought to/ should/must)
(v) The book is …………. the table (on/upon)
(vi) I have read …………. books (many/much)
Q.8 Do as directed – (any five) (5)
(i) She speaks the truth. (Change into negative
(ii) He has taken tea. (Change into interrogative)
(iii) They are selling their house. (Change into present perfect)
(iv) He is too weak to go school. (rewrite the sentence using ‘so………that’)
(v) in the park/were playing/Children/football
(Rearrange the words to make a meaningful sentence.)
(vi) Children are making toys. (Change the sentence into Passive Voice)
SECTION – D (Textbook)
Q.9 Answer the following questions – (1×4=4)
(i) Who read the letters sent by Lencho?
(a) His wife (b) The postmast (c) The God (d) His son
(ii) Who is the poet of the poem ‘Dust of Snow’?
(a) Robert Frost (b) Ogden Nash (c) Walt Whitman (d) W.B. Yeats
(iii) Who has written the poem “Fire and Ice”?
(a) Robert Frost (b) John Keats (c) W. B .Yeats (d) S.T. Coleridge
(iv) According to Mandela, what comes naturally to heart?
(a) hatred (b) love (c) discrimination (d) unity
Q.10 Read the following extracts from the prose and answer the questions given below –
(A) Early in the New Year of 1956 I travelled to Southern Iraq. By then it had crossed my
mind that I should like to keep an otter instead of a dog, and that Camusfearna, ringed.
by water a stone’s throw from its door, would .be .an .eminently. suitable. spot. for this
experiment.
Questions – (1×3=3)
(i) The author travelled ……….
(a) USA (b) Iraq (c) Australia (d) Japan
(ii) When did the author travel?
(a) In 1947 (b) In 1999 (c) In 1956 (d) In 1971
(iii) The author wanted to keep an otter instead of…….
(a) Dog (b) Cat (c) Monkey (d) Cow
(B) He hears the last voice at night,
The patrolling cars,
And stares with his brilliant eyes,
At the brilliant stars.
Questions – (1×3=3)
(i) From which poem the above lines have been taken?
(a) Dust of Snow (b) Fire and Ice (c) A Tiger in the Zoo
(ii) What does he stare at?
(a) cars (b) night (c) stars
(iii) Which of the following is opposite of the word ‘brilliant’?
(a) intelligent (b) glare (c) dull
Q.11 Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (Any six) [2×6=12]
(i) Why did Lencho say that the raindrops were like ‘new coins’?
(ii) What does courage mean to Mandela?
(iii) What makes writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne Frank?
(iv) What ideals does Mandela set out for the future of South Africa?
(v) What compelled the young seagull to finally fly?
(vi) Why does Anne want to keep a diary?
(vii) What made the woman in the control centre look at the narrator strangely?
Q.12 Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (Any two) [2×2=4]
(i) What does the poet say has changed his mood?
(ii) According to Robin Klein, how silence is golden and freedom is sweet?
(iii) What does the tiger stare at in the night?
Q.13 Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (Any two) [2×2=4]
(i) Why was the narrator shocked at Tricki’s appearance?
(ii) Why had Fowler wanted to meet Ausable?
(iii) What does the thief get from Anil in return for his work?
Q.14 Answer the following questions in about 75 words. [3]
What happens to the house when the trees move out of it?
OR
What is the story about the Kodavu people’s descent?
Q.15 Answer the following questions in about 75 words. [3]
Write the central idea of the poem ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’.
OR
What is the central idea of the poem ‘Fire and Ice’?
Q.16 Answer the following questions in about 75 words. [3]
How did Mandela’s ‘hunger for freedom’ change his life?
OR
Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm.
