ENGLISH (COMMUNICATIVE) - Sample Question paper, Class 10 PDF Download

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ENGLISH (Communicative)
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum marks : 100
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :
(i) The Question paper is divided into four sections:
Section A - Reading Comprehension 20 marks
Section B - Writing 30 marks
Section C - Grammar 20 marks
Section D - Literature 30 marks
(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
oreder .
QUESTION PAPER CODE 1/1/1
SECTION A (Reading) 20 Marks
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5 = 5 marks
School used to be all about writing, whether it was the exercise books we wrote in,
the notes we passed round, or the lines we stayed in to do. But not any more. Now
it's all about typing. My six year old daughter is part of the first generation that is
truly computer literate and I really didn't want her learning copperplate writing. I
could see that spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation were important, but
handwriting? By the time she's at university, handwriting may not be as relevant as
needlepoint. So when my daughter came home last year with cursive handwriting
homework, I was nonplussed. Cursive was originally developed to make it easier
for children to write with a quill. By joining up the letters, it kept the quill on the
parchment and minimized ink blots. But my daughter writes with a laptop. I explained
as much to her teacher at the next parents' day. But her teacher explained something
to me. Research suggests that the process of writing information down on paper, by
hand, has a more direct effect on the formation of memories in the learning process
than typing. Taking notes in class is still the most effective way to learn. It's better
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ENGLISH (Communicative)
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum marks : 100
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :
(i) The Question paper is divided into four sections:
Section A - Reading Comprehension 20 marks
Section B - Writing 30 marks
Section C - Grammar 20 marks
Section D - Literature 30 marks
(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
oreder .
QUESTION PAPER CODE 1/1/1
SECTION A (Reading) 20 Marks
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5 = 5 marks
School used to be all about writing, whether it was the exercise books we wrote in,
the notes we passed round, or the lines we stayed in to do. But not any more. Now
it's all about typing. My six year old daughter is part of the first generation that is
truly computer literate and I really didn't want her learning copperplate writing. I
could see that spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation were important, but
handwriting? By the time she's at university, handwriting may not be as relevant as
needlepoint. So when my daughter came home last year with cursive handwriting
homework, I was nonplussed. Cursive was originally developed to make it easier
for children to write with a quill. By joining up the letters, it kept the quill on the
parchment and minimized ink blots. But my daughter writes with a laptop. I explained
as much to her teacher at the next parents' day. But her teacher explained something
to me. Research suggests that the process of writing information down on paper, by
hand, has a more direct effect on the formation of memories in the learning process
than typing. Taking notes in class is still the most effective way to learn. It's better
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way to store the skills for written language in a child's brain than pressing keys.
There's nothing old-fashioned about handwriting. Handwriting is where it's at.
(a) According to the narrator his daughter is ............... .
(i) computer literate
(ii) illiterate
(iii) copperplate writer
(iv) handwriting expert
(b) ................. was developed to make writing with a quill easier.
(i) T yping
(ii) Grammar
(iii) Cursive writing
(iv) Note making
(c) The word, 'nonplussed' means ............... .
(i) sad
(ii) puzzled
(iii) crying
(iv) see
(d) Writing information down on paper is ............................. typing in the
learning process.
(i) inferior to
(ii) same as
(iii) superior to
(iv) not as effective as
(e) Writing by hand is ................... .
(i) old- fashioned
(ii) not old-fashioned
(iii) of the future
(iv) not used today
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ENGLISH (Communicative)
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum marks : 100
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :
(i) The Question paper is divided into four sections:
Section A - Reading Comprehension 20 marks
Section B - Writing 30 marks
Section C - Grammar 20 marks
Section D - Literature 30 marks
(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
oreder .
QUESTION PAPER CODE 1/1/1
SECTION A (Reading) 20 Marks
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5 = 5 marks
School used to be all about writing, whether it was the exercise books we wrote in,
the notes we passed round, or the lines we stayed in to do. But not any more. Now
it's all about typing. My six year old daughter is part of the first generation that is
truly computer literate and I really didn't want her learning copperplate writing. I
could see that spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation were important, but
handwriting? By the time she's at university, handwriting may not be as relevant as
needlepoint. So when my daughter came home last year with cursive handwriting
homework, I was nonplussed. Cursive was originally developed to make it easier
for children to write with a quill. By joining up the letters, it kept the quill on the
parchment and minimized ink blots. But my daughter writes with a laptop. I explained
as much to her teacher at the next parents' day. But her teacher explained something
to me. Research suggests that the process of writing information down on paper, by
hand, has a more direct effect on the formation of memories in the learning process
than typing. Taking notes in class is still the most effective way to learn. It's better
2
way to store the skills for written language in a child's brain than pressing keys.
There's nothing old-fashioned about handwriting. Handwriting is where it's at.
(a) According to the narrator his daughter is ............... .
(i) computer literate
(ii) illiterate
(iii) copperplate writer
(iv) handwriting expert
(b) ................. was developed to make writing with a quill easier.
(i) T yping
(ii) Grammar
(iii) Cursive writing
(iv) Note making
(c) The word, 'nonplussed' means ............... .
(i) sad
(ii) puzzled
(iii) crying
(iv) see
(d) Writing information down on paper is ............................. typing in the
learning process.
(i) inferior to
(ii) same as
(iii) superior to
(iv) not as effective as
(e) Writing by hand is ................... .
(i) old- fashioned
(ii) not old-fashioned
(iii) of the future
(iv) not used today
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2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5=5 marks
Before chocolate became an elixir fit only for the kings, Mayans drank a cold, frothy
mix made from kakawa beans harvested from the Mexican rainforests. Found in
rows inside foot-ball-size fruit filled with white pulp, the beans need two weeks for
fermenting, drying and roasting. Then Mayans began bartering beans with the Aztecs.
The Spanish court kept the source of the beans secret for nearly 100 years. Inevitably ,
word spread and chocolate travelled swiftly throughout Europe. The first chocolate
shop in London opened in 1657, serving the drink in gold and silver cups.
Still, the brew tasted rather fatty due to the cocoa butter and gritty from imperfect
crushing of the seeds. A Dutch inventor separated the cocoa butter in the early
1800s, and before the century was out, a conching machine smoothed the chocolate.
A Swiss chocolatier added evaporated milk to create the first chocolate bar. Soldiers
who ate the bars for energy during W orld W ar I brought their taste home, creating a
huge market for chocolate bars and snacks invented in the early 1900s.
(a) The word, 'bartering' means .................
(i) selling
(ii) buying
(iii) exchanging
(iv) changing
(b) .....................kept the source of the chocolate beans a secret for nearly 100
years.
(i) Mayans
(ii) The Spanish
(iii) The soldiers
(iv) Mexico
(c) The first .................................. was made by a Swiss chocolatier.
(i) cocoa seed
(ii) cocoa butter
(iii) evaporated milk
(iv) chocolate bar
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ENGLISH (Communicative)
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum marks : 100
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :
(i) The Question paper is divided into four sections:
Section A - Reading Comprehension 20 marks
Section B - Writing 30 marks
Section C - Grammar 20 marks
Section D - Literature 30 marks
(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
oreder .
QUESTION PAPER CODE 1/1/1
SECTION A (Reading) 20 Marks
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5 = 5 marks
School used to be all about writing, whether it was the exercise books we wrote in,
the notes we passed round, or the lines we stayed in to do. But not any more. Now
it's all about typing. My six year old daughter is part of the first generation that is
truly computer literate and I really didn't want her learning copperplate writing. I
could see that spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation were important, but
handwriting? By the time she's at university, handwriting may not be as relevant as
needlepoint. So when my daughter came home last year with cursive handwriting
homework, I was nonplussed. Cursive was originally developed to make it easier
for children to write with a quill. By joining up the letters, it kept the quill on the
parchment and minimized ink blots. But my daughter writes with a laptop. I explained
as much to her teacher at the next parents' day. But her teacher explained something
to me. Research suggests that the process of writing information down on paper, by
hand, has a more direct effect on the formation of memories in the learning process
than typing. Taking notes in class is still the most effective way to learn. It's better
2
way to store the skills for written language in a child's brain than pressing keys.
There's nothing old-fashioned about handwriting. Handwriting is where it's at.
(a) According to the narrator his daughter is ............... .
(i) computer literate
(ii) illiterate
(iii) copperplate writer
(iv) handwriting expert
(b) ................. was developed to make writing with a quill easier.
(i) T yping
(ii) Grammar
(iii) Cursive writing
(iv) Note making
(c) The word, 'nonplussed' means ............... .
(i) sad
(ii) puzzled
(iii) crying
(iv) see
(d) Writing information down on paper is ............................. typing in the
learning process.
(i) inferior to
(ii) same as
(iii) superior to
(iv) not as effective as
(e) Writing by hand is ................... .
(i) old- fashioned
(ii) not old-fashioned
(iii) of the future
(iv) not used today
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2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5=5 marks
Before chocolate became an elixir fit only for the kings, Mayans drank a cold, frothy
mix made from kakawa beans harvested from the Mexican rainforests. Found in
rows inside foot-ball-size fruit filled with white pulp, the beans need two weeks for
fermenting, drying and roasting. Then Mayans began bartering beans with the Aztecs.
The Spanish court kept the source of the beans secret for nearly 100 years. Inevitably ,
word spread and chocolate travelled swiftly throughout Europe. The first chocolate
shop in London opened in 1657, serving the drink in gold and silver cups.
Still, the brew tasted rather fatty due to the cocoa butter and gritty from imperfect
crushing of the seeds. A Dutch inventor separated the cocoa butter in the early
1800s, and before the century was out, a conching machine smoothed the chocolate.
A Swiss chocolatier added evaporated milk to create the first chocolate bar. Soldiers
who ate the bars for energy during W orld W ar I brought their taste home, creating a
huge market for chocolate bars and snacks invented in the early 1900s.
(a) The word, 'bartering' means .................
(i) selling
(ii) buying
(iii) exchanging
(iv) changing
(b) .....................kept the source of the chocolate beans a secret for nearly 100
years.
(i) Mayans
(ii) The Spanish
(iii) The soldiers
(iv) Mexico
(c) The first .................................. was made by a Swiss chocolatier.
(i) cocoa seed
(ii) cocoa butter
(iii) evaporated milk
(iv) chocolate bar
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(d) Mayans got kakawa seeds from ........................ .
(i) the kings
(ii) the Aztecs
(iii) Mexican rain forests
(iv) London
(e) Cocoa brew tasted fatty because of ........................ .
(i) bad crushing of the seeds
(ii) cocoa butter
(iii) imperfect crushing of the seeds
(iv) vanilla flavour
3. Read the poem given bolow: ½x10 = 5
T o a Fish
Y ou strange, astonished-looking, angle- faced,
Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea,
Gulping salt-water everlastingly .
Cold blooded, though with red your blood be graced,
And mute, though dwellers in the roaring waste;
And you, all shapes beside, that fishy be ...............
Some round, some flat, some long, all devilry,
Legless, unloving, infamously chaste ................
O scaly, slippery wet, swift, staring wights,
What is't ye do? What life lead? Eh, dull goggles?
How do ye vary your vile days and nights?
How pass your Sundays? Are yet still but joggles
In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites,
And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles?
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ENGLISH (Communicative)
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum marks : 100
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :
(i) The Question paper is divided into four sections:
Section A - Reading Comprehension 20 marks
Section B - Writing 30 marks
Section C - Grammar 20 marks
Section D - Literature 30 marks
(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
oreder .
QUESTION PAPER CODE 1/1/1
SECTION A (Reading) 20 Marks
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5 = 5 marks
School used to be all about writing, whether it was the exercise books we wrote in,
the notes we passed round, or the lines we stayed in to do. But not any more. Now
it's all about typing. My six year old daughter is part of the first generation that is
truly computer literate and I really didn't want her learning copperplate writing. I
could see that spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation were important, but
handwriting? By the time she's at university, handwriting may not be as relevant as
needlepoint. So when my daughter came home last year with cursive handwriting
homework, I was nonplussed. Cursive was originally developed to make it easier
for children to write with a quill. By joining up the letters, it kept the quill on the
parchment and minimized ink blots. But my daughter writes with a laptop. I explained
as much to her teacher at the next parents' day. But her teacher explained something
to me. Research suggests that the process of writing information down on paper, by
hand, has a more direct effect on the formation of memories in the learning process
than typing. Taking notes in class is still the most effective way to learn. It's better
2
way to store the skills for written language in a child's brain than pressing keys.
There's nothing old-fashioned about handwriting. Handwriting is where it's at.
(a) According to the narrator his daughter is ............... .
(i) computer literate
(ii) illiterate
(iii) copperplate writer
(iv) handwriting expert
(b) ................. was developed to make writing with a quill easier.
(i) T yping
(ii) Grammar
(iii) Cursive writing
(iv) Note making
(c) The word, 'nonplussed' means ............... .
(i) sad
(ii) puzzled
(iii) crying
(iv) see
(d) Writing information down on paper is ............................. typing in the
learning process.
(i) inferior to
(ii) same as
(iii) superior to
(iv) not as effective as
(e) Writing by hand is ................... .
(i) old- fashioned
(ii) not old-fashioned
(iii) of the future
(iv) not used today
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2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the correct options. 1x5=5 marks
Before chocolate became an elixir fit only for the kings, Mayans drank a cold, frothy
mix made from kakawa beans harvested from the Mexican rainforests. Found in
rows inside foot-ball-size fruit filled with white pulp, the beans need two weeks for
fermenting, drying and roasting. Then Mayans began bartering beans with the Aztecs.
The Spanish court kept the source of the beans secret for nearly 100 years. Inevitably ,
word spread and chocolate travelled swiftly throughout Europe. The first chocolate
shop in London opened in 1657, serving the drink in gold and silver cups.
Still, the brew tasted rather fatty due to the cocoa butter and gritty from imperfect
crushing of the seeds. A Dutch inventor separated the cocoa butter in the early
1800s, and before the century was out, a conching machine smoothed the chocolate.
A Swiss chocolatier added evaporated milk to create the first chocolate bar. Soldiers
who ate the bars for energy during W orld W ar I brought their taste home, creating a
huge market for chocolate bars and snacks invented in the early 1900s.
(a) The word, 'bartering' means .................
(i) selling
(ii) buying
(iii) exchanging
(iv) changing
(b) .....................kept the source of the chocolate beans a secret for nearly 100
years.
(i) Mayans
(ii) The Spanish
(iii) The soldiers
(iv) Mexico
(c) The first .................................. was made by a Swiss chocolatier.
(i) cocoa seed
(ii) cocoa butter
(iii) evaporated milk
(iv) chocolate bar
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(d) Mayans got kakawa seeds from ........................ .
(i) the kings
(ii) the Aztecs
(iii) Mexican rain forests
(iv) London
(e) Cocoa brew tasted fatty because of ........................ .
(i) bad crushing of the seeds
(ii) cocoa butter
(iii) imperfect crushing of the seeds
(iv) vanilla flavour
3. Read the poem given bolow: ½x10 = 5
T o a Fish
Y ou strange, astonished-looking, angle- faced,
Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea,
Gulping salt-water everlastingly .
Cold blooded, though with red your blood be graced,
And mute, though dwellers in the roaring waste;
And you, all shapes beside, that fishy be ...............
Some round, some flat, some long, all devilry,
Legless, unloving, infamously chaste ................
O scaly, slippery wet, swift, staring wights,
What is't ye do? What life lead? Eh, dull goggles?
How do ye vary your vile days and nights?
How pass your Sundays? Are yet still but joggles
In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites,
And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles?
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Given below is the summary of the poem. Fill in the blanks with suitable words to
complete the summary. Use only one word for each blank.
To a man a fish is a strange creature. Its (a) …............………. face has always a
look of (b) ………….................…. on it. Its mouth is mostly open and keeps on
(c) ……………............…. salt-water. It is called cold blooded even if red blood
runs (d) ………...........…… its body. It lives among (e) ……………….. waters
but is mute itself. The fish may have many (f) ……………… but it has no shapely
legs. It is loveless and chaste.
The fish are swift and slippery and all the time (g) ………….......……. at others.
Man wonders at the (h) ……………......................….. they lead. Are their days
(i) …………….............… from their nights? And what do they do on Sundays?
Do they ever stop or keep on gaping, biting, drinking and (j) ….........……………,
punctuated by sudden movements?
4. Read the passage given below and complete the sentences that follow: 1x5=5 marks
Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated around India but most grandly in Maharashtra. But
the ten day extravaganza the festival has become is a relatively recent creation. In
Pen, in Maharashtra, there are nearly 250 families which work on Ganapathi statues
for a living. Both clay and plaster of Paris are used for the making of the murtis. Clay
is more difficult than POP to work with and there are few expert clay sculptors left.
Many devout customers insist on clay murtis, for after they are immersed in water,
clay dissolves readily while POP can take months with fragments floating to shore
days after the immersion, upsetting both devotees and environmentalists. Once a
murti is made, it is ready for decoration. It is first buffed with a soft cloth. Then a
small red tilak is placed reverently on its forehead. Next it is sprayed with clay resin
primer. After it dries, it is again buffed with 'jheel', a subtle sheen that highlights skin
tones. Finally, the most important finishing touch, 'aakhni' the painting of the eyes, is
done. It is when the eyes are painted on that an idol comes alive.
(a) Ganesh Chaturthi has recently become …………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………….
(b) The material used for the making of murtis is ……....................…….
……………………………………………………………………….. .
(c) Fewer clay murtis are made these days because .........................................
........................................................................................... .
(d) The devout customers, however, demand clay murtis because ....................
......................................................................................................... .