Class 10 English Communicative: Question Paper for 2019 | English Class 10 PDF Download

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 1/3/2  1 P.T.O. 
Candidates must write the Code on the 
title page of the answer-book. 
 Series JMS/3  Code No.  
1/3/2
 
 
 
Roll No. 
 
 
 
ENGLISH 
(Communicative) 
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80 
General Instructions : 
(i) The Question paper is divided into three sections :  
  Section A — Reading     20 marks   
  Section B — Writing and Grammar    30 marks   
  Section C — 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 order. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 7 printed pages. 
? Code number given on the right hand side of the question paper should be 
written on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 11 questions. 
? Please write down the Serial Number of the question before attempting 
it. 
? 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question 
paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the 
students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the 
answer-book during this period. 
SET-2 
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 1/3/2  1 P.T.O. 
Candidates must write the Code on the 
title page of the answer-book. 
 Series JMS/3  Code No.  
1/3/2
 
 
 
Roll No. 
 
 
 
ENGLISH 
(Communicative) 
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80 
General Instructions : 
(i) The Question paper is divided into three sections :  
  Section A — Reading     20 marks   
  Section B — Writing and Grammar    30 marks   
  Section C — 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 order. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 7 printed pages. 
? Code number given on the right hand side of the question paper should be 
written on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 11 questions. 
? Please write down the Serial Number of the question before attempting 
it. 
? 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question 
paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the 
students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the 
answer-book during this period. 
SET-2 
    
 1/3/2 2 
 SECTION A – (Reading) 20 marks 
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 8 
1 Even before the independence of India, father of the nation, Mahatma 
Gandhi had said that, ‘‘Sanitation is more important than 
Independence.’’ He had emphasized the importance of cleanliness and 
sanitation in daily lives. However, he failed in his aim because of the 
incomplete participation of the people. After many years of 
independence of India, a most effective campaign of cleanliness has 
been launched to call people for their active participation and complete 
the mission of cleanliness. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee 
while addressing the Parliament in June 2014 said, ‘‘For ensuring 
hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation, a 
Swachh Bharat Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to 
Mahatma Ghandhi on his 150
th
 birth anniversary to be celebrated in 
the year 2019.’’ In order to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and 
make India an ideal country in the world, the Government of India 
initiated a campaign called ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on the birthday 
of Mahatma Gandhi (2
nd
 of October). This campaign aims at  
completing the mission by 2019. 
2 Through this campaign the Government of India would solve the 
problem of lack of sanitation by improving the waste management 
techniques. Clean India movement is completely linked with the 
economic strength of the country. The basic goal behind the launch of 
the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is to provide the country with enough 
sanitation facilities as well as to eliminate all the unhealthy practices 
of people in their daily routine. The completion of this mission would 
indirectly draw the attention of business investors to India, enhance 
the GDP growth, draw tourists  from all over the world, create a 
variety of avenues of employment, reduce health costs, reduce death 
rate, and reduce fatal disease rate and many more. It has been 
requested that every Indian devote at least 100 hours per year to 
cleanliness in India which is sufficient to make this country a clean 
country by 2019. The cleanliness drive also ensures cleanliness in the 
official buildings. Spitting paan, gutka and other tobacco products in 
the government offices has been banned. 
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 1/3/2  1 P.T.O. 
Candidates must write the Code on the 
title page of the answer-book. 
 Series JMS/3  Code No.  
1/3/2
 
 
 
Roll No. 
 
 
 
ENGLISH 
(Communicative) 
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80 
General Instructions : 
(i) The Question paper is divided into three sections :  
  Section A — Reading     20 marks   
  Section B — Writing and Grammar    30 marks   
  Section C — 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 order. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 7 printed pages. 
? Code number given on the right hand side of the question paper should be 
written on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 11 questions. 
? Please write down the Serial Number of the question before attempting 
it. 
? 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question 
paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the 
students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the 
answer-book during this period. 
SET-2 
    
 1/3/2 2 
 SECTION A – (Reading) 20 marks 
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 8 
1 Even before the independence of India, father of the nation, Mahatma 
Gandhi had said that, ‘‘Sanitation is more important than 
Independence.’’ He had emphasized the importance of cleanliness and 
sanitation in daily lives. However, he failed in his aim because of the 
incomplete participation of the people. After many years of 
independence of India, a most effective campaign of cleanliness has 
been launched to call people for their active participation and complete 
the mission of cleanliness. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee 
while addressing the Parliament in June 2014 said, ‘‘For ensuring 
hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation, a 
Swachh Bharat Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to 
Mahatma Ghandhi on his 150
th
 birth anniversary to be celebrated in 
the year 2019.’’ In order to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and 
make India an ideal country in the world, the Government of India 
initiated a campaign called ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on the birthday 
of Mahatma Gandhi (2
nd
 of October). This campaign aims at  
completing the mission by 2019. 
2 Through this campaign the Government of India would solve the 
problem of lack of sanitation by improving the waste management 
techniques. Clean India movement is completely linked with the 
economic strength of the country. The basic goal behind the launch of 
the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is to provide the country with enough 
sanitation facilities as well as to eliminate all the unhealthy practices 
of people in their daily routine. The completion of this mission would 
indirectly draw the attention of business investors to India, enhance 
the GDP growth, draw tourists  from all over the world, create a 
variety of avenues of employment, reduce health costs, reduce death 
rate, and reduce fatal disease rate and many more. It has been 
requested that every Indian devote at least 100 hours per year to 
cleanliness in India which is sufficient to make this country a clean 
country by 2019. The cleanliness drive also ensures cleanliness in the 
official buildings. Spitting paan, gutka and other tobacco products in 
the government offices has been banned. 
    
 1/3/2  3 P.T.O. 
1.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer 
any eight of the following questions : 1 ?8=8 
(a) What is the passage about ? 
(b) What was the result of incomplete participation of the people 
in the mission ? 
(c) Why has 2019 been kept as the target year of completion ? 
(d) What did Gandhiji say about sanitation ? 
(e) How can the problem of lack of sanitation be solved ? 
(f) How will it impact our economy ? 
(g) What has been banned in the offices ? 
(h) What request has been made to Indians to accomplish it ? 
(i) What does ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ aim at ? 
2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 12 
1 As a novelist and storyteller, I have always drawn upon my memories of 
places that I have known and lived in over the years. More than most 
writers, perhaps, I find myself drawing inspiration from the past — my 
childhood, adolescence, youth, early manhood ... But to talk of my early 
inspiration I must go back to my very beginnings, to the then small, 
princely state of Jamnagar, tucked away in the Gulf of Kutch. Here my 
father started a small palace school for the princesses. I was there till 
the age of six, and I still treasure vivid memories of Jamnagar’s 
beautiful palaces and sandy beaches. 
2 Some of these landmarks are preserved for me in photographs taken by 
my father, which I have to this day. An old palace with pretty windows 
of coloured glass remained fixed in my memory and many years later 
gave me the story, ‘‘The Room of Many Colours’’, which also inspired an 
episode in a TV serial called Ek Tha Rusty. I spent a memorable year 
and a half with him in New Delhi, then still a very new city — just the 
capital area designed by Edwin Lutyens and Connaught Place, with its 
gleaming new shops and restaurants and cinemas. I saw Laurel and 
Hardy films and devoured milkshakes at the Milk Bar, even as the Quit 
India Movement gathered momentum. 
3 When I was seventeen, I was shipped off to the UK to ‘‘better my 
prospects’’ as my mother put it. Out of a longing for India and the 
friends I had made in Dehra came my first novel — The Room on the 
Roof — featuring the life and loves of Rusty, my alter ego. In the 1950s 
everyone travelled by sea, as air services were still in their infancy. A 
passenger liner took about three weeks from Southampton to Bombay 
(now Mumbai). After docking in Bombay, I took a train to Dehra, where 
I stepped onto the platform of the small railway station and embarked 
on the hazardous journey of a freelance writer. Railway stations! Trains! 
Platforms! I knew as long as these were there I would never run out of 
stories.  
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 1/3/2  1 P.T.O. 
Candidates must write the Code on the 
title page of the answer-book. 
 Series JMS/3  Code No.  
1/3/2
 
 
 
Roll No. 
 
 
 
ENGLISH 
(Communicative) 
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80 
General Instructions : 
(i) The Question paper is divided into three sections :  
  Section A — Reading     20 marks   
  Section B — Writing and Grammar    30 marks   
  Section C — 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 order. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 7 printed pages. 
? Code number given on the right hand side of the question paper should be 
written on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 11 questions. 
? Please write down the Serial Number of the question before attempting 
it. 
? 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question 
paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the 
students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the 
answer-book during this period. 
SET-2 
    
 1/3/2 2 
 SECTION A – (Reading) 20 marks 
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 8 
1 Even before the independence of India, father of the nation, Mahatma 
Gandhi had said that, ‘‘Sanitation is more important than 
Independence.’’ He had emphasized the importance of cleanliness and 
sanitation in daily lives. However, he failed in his aim because of the 
incomplete participation of the people. After many years of 
independence of India, a most effective campaign of cleanliness has 
been launched to call people for their active participation and complete 
the mission of cleanliness. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee 
while addressing the Parliament in June 2014 said, ‘‘For ensuring 
hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation, a 
Swachh Bharat Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to 
Mahatma Ghandhi on his 150
th
 birth anniversary to be celebrated in 
the year 2019.’’ In order to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and 
make India an ideal country in the world, the Government of India 
initiated a campaign called ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on the birthday 
of Mahatma Gandhi (2
nd
 of October). This campaign aims at  
completing the mission by 2019. 
2 Through this campaign the Government of India would solve the 
problem of lack of sanitation by improving the waste management 
techniques. Clean India movement is completely linked with the 
economic strength of the country. The basic goal behind the launch of 
the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is to provide the country with enough 
sanitation facilities as well as to eliminate all the unhealthy practices 
of people in their daily routine. The completion of this mission would 
indirectly draw the attention of business investors to India, enhance 
the GDP growth, draw tourists  from all over the world, create a 
variety of avenues of employment, reduce health costs, reduce death 
rate, and reduce fatal disease rate and many more. It has been 
requested that every Indian devote at least 100 hours per year to 
cleanliness in India which is sufficient to make this country a clean 
country by 2019. The cleanliness drive also ensures cleanliness in the 
official buildings. Spitting paan, gutka and other tobacco products in 
the government offices has been banned. 
    
 1/3/2  3 P.T.O. 
1.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer 
any eight of the following questions : 1 ?8=8 
(a) What is the passage about ? 
(b) What was the result of incomplete participation of the people 
in the mission ? 
(c) Why has 2019 been kept as the target year of completion ? 
(d) What did Gandhiji say about sanitation ? 
(e) How can the problem of lack of sanitation be solved ? 
(f) How will it impact our economy ? 
(g) What has been banned in the offices ? 
(h) What request has been made to Indians to accomplish it ? 
(i) What does ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ aim at ? 
2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 12 
1 As a novelist and storyteller, I have always drawn upon my memories of 
places that I have known and lived in over the years. More than most 
writers, perhaps, I find myself drawing inspiration from the past — my 
childhood, adolescence, youth, early manhood ... But to talk of my early 
inspiration I must go back to my very beginnings, to the then small, 
princely state of Jamnagar, tucked away in the Gulf of Kutch. Here my 
father started a small palace school for the princesses. I was there till 
the age of six, and I still treasure vivid memories of Jamnagar’s 
beautiful palaces and sandy beaches. 
2 Some of these landmarks are preserved for me in photographs taken by 
my father, which I have to this day. An old palace with pretty windows 
of coloured glass remained fixed in my memory and many years later 
gave me the story, ‘‘The Room of Many Colours’’, which also inspired an 
episode in a TV serial called Ek Tha Rusty. I spent a memorable year 
and a half with him in New Delhi, then still a very new city — just the 
capital area designed by Edwin Lutyens and Connaught Place, with its 
gleaming new shops and restaurants and cinemas. I saw Laurel and 
Hardy films and devoured milkshakes at the Milk Bar, even as the Quit 
India Movement gathered momentum. 
3 When I was seventeen, I was shipped off to the UK to ‘‘better my 
prospects’’ as my mother put it. Out of a longing for India and the 
friends I had made in Dehra came my first novel — The Room on the 
Roof — featuring the life and loves of Rusty, my alter ego. In the 1950s 
everyone travelled by sea, as air services were still in their infancy. A 
passenger liner took about three weeks from Southampton to Bombay 
(now Mumbai). After docking in Bombay, I took a train to Dehra, where 
I stepped onto the platform of the small railway station and embarked 
on the hazardous journey of a freelance writer. Railway stations! Trains! 
Platforms! I knew as long as these were there I would never run out of 
stories.  
    
 1/3/2 4 
4 I also looked for inspiration in tombs and monuments and the  
ever-expanding city, but did not find it, and my productivity dropped. 
Escape from Delhi had become a priority for me. I felt drawn to the hills 
above Dehra. On the outskirts of Mussoorie I found a small cottage, 
surrounded by oak and maple trees where the rent, thankfully, was 
nominal. 
5 I’m of the opinion that every writer needs a window. Preferably two. Is 
the house, the room, the situation ... important for a writer ? A good 
wordsmith should be able to work anywhere. But to me, the room you 
live in day after day is all-important. The stories and the poems float in 
through my window, float in from the magic mountains, and the words 
appear on the page without much effort on my part. Planet Earth 
belongs to me. And at night, the stars are almost within reach. 
2.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer 
any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each : 2 ?4=8 
(a) What does the writer remember about Jamnagar ? 
(b) How did he spend time in Delhi ?  
(c) What was the inspiration for the first novel and why ? 
(d) What was the importance of trains and railway stations in his 
life ? 
(e) What was the importance of a window in the writer’s life ? 
2.2 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, fill in any 
two of the following blanks with appropriate words/phrases : 1 ?2=2 
(a) He was shipped off to UK for _____________ . 
(b) Everyone travelled by sea because  _____________ . 
(c) The productivity dropped because  _____________ . 
2.3 Find out words/phrases from the passage that mean the same as the 
following. Attempt any two. 1 ?2=2 
(a) located at a quiet place (para 1) 
(b) important monuments/buildings (para 2) 
(c) outside (para 4) 
 SECTION B – (Writing and Grammar) 30 marks 
3. You have recently got admission to ‘Thorough Arts College’, Patiala for 
your Masters in Painting. You want a room in the girls hostel. Write a 
letter in 100 – 120 words to the hostel warden enquiring about the details 
like hostel timings, whether accommodation available is single room or 
room on sharing basis, charges for both types, types of meals provided, etc. 
You are Meghna, 15/17 Mall Road, Shimla.  8 
OR 
 Write an article in 100 – 120 words on the topic, ‘Technology and its effects 
on health’. You can use the following cues : lack of exercise, confined to one 
place for long hours, obesity, exposure to harmful rays, etc. You are 
Varun/Vanita. 
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 1/3/2  1 P.T.O. 
Candidates must write the Code on the 
title page of the answer-book. 
 Series JMS/3  Code No.  
1/3/2
 
 
 
Roll No. 
 
 
 
ENGLISH 
(Communicative) 
Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80 
General Instructions : 
(i) The Question paper is divided into three sections :  
  Section A — Reading     20 marks   
  Section B — Writing and Grammar    30 marks   
  Section C — 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 order. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 7 printed pages. 
? Code number given on the right hand side of the question paper should be 
written on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate. 
? Please check that this question paper contains 11 questions. 
? Please write down the Serial Number of the question before attempting 
it. 
? 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question 
paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the 
students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the 
answer-book during this period. 
SET-2 
    
 1/3/2 2 
 SECTION A – (Reading) 20 marks 
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 8 
1 Even before the independence of India, father of the nation, Mahatma 
Gandhi had said that, ‘‘Sanitation is more important than 
Independence.’’ He had emphasized the importance of cleanliness and 
sanitation in daily lives. However, he failed in his aim because of the 
incomplete participation of the people. After many years of 
independence of India, a most effective campaign of cleanliness has 
been launched to call people for their active participation and complete 
the mission of cleanliness. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee 
while addressing the Parliament in June 2014 said, ‘‘For ensuring 
hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation, a 
Swachh Bharat Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to 
Mahatma Ghandhi on his 150
th
 birth anniversary to be celebrated in 
the year 2019.’’ In order to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and 
make India an ideal country in the world, the Government of India 
initiated a campaign called ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on the birthday 
of Mahatma Gandhi (2
nd
 of October). This campaign aims at  
completing the mission by 2019. 
2 Through this campaign the Government of India would solve the 
problem of lack of sanitation by improving the waste management 
techniques. Clean India movement is completely linked with the 
economic strength of the country. The basic goal behind the launch of 
the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is to provide the country with enough 
sanitation facilities as well as to eliminate all the unhealthy practices 
of people in their daily routine. The completion of this mission would 
indirectly draw the attention of business investors to India, enhance 
the GDP growth, draw tourists  from all over the world, create a 
variety of avenues of employment, reduce health costs, reduce death 
rate, and reduce fatal disease rate and many more. It has been 
requested that every Indian devote at least 100 hours per year to 
cleanliness in India which is sufficient to make this country a clean 
country by 2019. The cleanliness drive also ensures cleanliness in the 
official buildings. Spitting paan, gutka and other tobacco products in 
the government offices has been banned. 
    
 1/3/2  3 P.T.O. 
1.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer 
any eight of the following questions : 1 ?8=8 
(a) What is the passage about ? 
(b) What was the result of incomplete participation of the people 
in the mission ? 
(c) Why has 2019 been kept as the target year of completion ? 
(d) What did Gandhiji say about sanitation ? 
(e) How can the problem of lack of sanitation be solved ? 
(f) How will it impact our economy ? 
(g) What has been banned in the offices ? 
(h) What request has been made to Indians to accomplish it ? 
(i) What does ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ aim at ? 
2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 12 
1 As a novelist and storyteller, I have always drawn upon my memories of 
places that I have known and lived in over the years. More than most 
writers, perhaps, I find myself drawing inspiration from the past — my 
childhood, adolescence, youth, early manhood ... But to talk of my early 
inspiration I must go back to my very beginnings, to the then small, 
princely state of Jamnagar, tucked away in the Gulf of Kutch. Here my 
father started a small palace school for the princesses. I was there till 
the age of six, and I still treasure vivid memories of Jamnagar’s 
beautiful palaces and sandy beaches. 
2 Some of these landmarks are preserved for me in photographs taken by 
my father, which I have to this day. An old palace with pretty windows 
of coloured glass remained fixed in my memory and many years later 
gave me the story, ‘‘The Room of Many Colours’’, which also inspired an 
episode in a TV serial called Ek Tha Rusty. I spent a memorable year 
and a half with him in New Delhi, then still a very new city — just the 
capital area designed by Edwin Lutyens and Connaught Place, with its 
gleaming new shops and restaurants and cinemas. I saw Laurel and 
Hardy films and devoured milkshakes at the Milk Bar, even as the Quit 
India Movement gathered momentum. 
3 When I was seventeen, I was shipped off to the UK to ‘‘better my 
prospects’’ as my mother put it. Out of a longing for India and the 
friends I had made in Dehra came my first novel — The Room on the 
Roof — featuring the life and loves of Rusty, my alter ego. In the 1950s 
everyone travelled by sea, as air services were still in their infancy. A 
passenger liner took about three weeks from Southampton to Bombay 
(now Mumbai). After docking in Bombay, I took a train to Dehra, where 
I stepped onto the platform of the small railway station and embarked 
on the hazardous journey of a freelance writer. Railway stations! Trains! 
Platforms! I knew as long as these were there I would never run out of 
stories.  
    
 1/3/2 4 
4 I also looked for inspiration in tombs and monuments and the  
ever-expanding city, but did not find it, and my productivity dropped. 
Escape from Delhi had become a priority for me. I felt drawn to the hills 
above Dehra. On the outskirts of Mussoorie I found a small cottage, 
surrounded by oak and maple trees where the rent, thankfully, was 
nominal. 
5 I’m of the opinion that every writer needs a window. Preferably two. Is 
the house, the room, the situation ... important for a writer ? A good 
wordsmith should be able to work anywhere. But to me, the room you 
live in day after day is all-important. The stories and the poems float in 
through my window, float in from the magic mountains, and the words 
appear on the page without much effort on my part. Planet Earth 
belongs to me. And at night, the stars are almost within reach. 
2.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer 
any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each : 2 ?4=8 
(a) What does the writer remember about Jamnagar ? 
(b) How did he spend time in Delhi ?  
(c) What was the inspiration for the first novel and why ? 
(d) What was the importance of trains and railway stations in his 
life ? 
(e) What was the importance of a window in the writer’s life ? 
2.2 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, fill in any 
two of the following blanks with appropriate words/phrases : 1 ?2=2 
(a) He was shipped off to UK for _____________ . 
(b) Everyone travelled by sea because  _____________ . 
(c) The productivity dropped because  _____________ . 
2.3 Find out words/phrases from the passage that mean the same as the 
following. Attempt any two. 1 ?2=2 
(a) located at a quiet place (para 1) 
(b) important monuments/buildings (para 2) 
(c) outside (para 4) 
 SECTION B – (Writing and Grammar) 30 marks 
3. You have recently got admission to ‘Thorough Arts College’, Patiala for 
your Masters in Painting. You want a room in the girls hostel. Write a 
letter in 100 – 120 words to the hostel warden enquiring about the details 
like hostel timings, whether accommodation available is single room or 
room on sharing basis, charges for both types, types of meals provided, etc. 
You are Meghna, 15/17 Mall Road, Shimla.  8 
OR 
 Write an article in 100 – 120 words on the topic, ‘Technology and its effects 
on health’. You can use the following cues : lack of exercise, confined to one 
place for long hours, obesity, exposure to harmful rays, etc. You are 
Varun/Vanita. 
    
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4. Write a short story in 200 – 250 words, with the help of the cues given 
below. Give a suitable title to the story. 10 
 My father received his transfer orders. We had to shift to our new house in 
Mathura. I was very sad at the idea of leaving my old home. I … … … 
OR 
 I got admission to Class IX in an English medium school. I was very 
nervous as I was attending my new school for the first time. I ... … … 
5. Fill in the blanks in the paragraph given below by choosing the most 
appropriate options from the ones that follow. Attempt any four. Write 
the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. 1×4=4 
 The life of soldiers stationed    (a)    Siachen is extremely tough. For 
drinking water, they have to break ice      (b)      the glacier, boil it and 
drink it. There is one person       (c)       to keep the water warm at all 
times. The main task of the infantry      (d)      to hold the ground and man 
the post. To show their physical presence is important to     (e)     the 
enemy at bay. 
(a) (i) at (ii) on (iii) up (iv) inside 
(b)  (i) in (ii) from (iii) upon (iv) away 
(c) (i) assign (ii) assigning (iii) assigned (iv) has assigned 
(d)  (i) be (ii) were (iii) was (iv) is 
(e) (i) keep (ii) keeping (iii) keeps (iv) kept 
6. In the following paragraph, one word has been omitted in each line. Write 
the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that 
comes after it against the correct blank number. The first one has been 
done for you. Attempt any four. 1×4=4 
   Word Missing Word 
  Before Word After 
Today, Mt. Everest is drawing attention all              e.g. attention    for   all 
  
the negative reasons. The entire route the (a) ______ ______ _____ 
climbers follow reach the top is littered with (b) ______ ______ _____ 
rubbish and is in sore need cleaning up. The (c) ______ ______ _____ 
rubbish strewn along mountain slopes (d) ______ ______ _____ 
includes oxygen cylinders, bottles food cans. (e) ______ ______ _____