HOLY ANGELS’ ISC SCHOOL NANTHENCODE

2nd MODEL EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER

ENGLISH LANGUAGE (ENGLISH PAPER – 1)

STD-X MARK -80

TIME-2HRS

Maximum Marks: 80
Time allowed: Two
hours
Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.
You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.
The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.

Attempt all five questions.

The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets
You are advised to spend not more than 30 minutes in answering Question 1 and
20
minutes in answering Question 2.

Question 1
(Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.)
Write a composition (300 - 350 words) on any one of the following: [20]
i. Write an original short story that begin with the words, “It’s not my fault,”
he shouted........
ii. “Nothing is impossible in this world” Narrate an incident from your
experience which brings out the truth of this statement.
iii. Your grandparents live in a very remote but beautiful village. Describe the
village vividly and state why you find this village so different and beautiful.

iv. It is necessary to fail in order to succeed. Give your views for or against
this observation.

v. Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of

what it suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the
picture or you may take suggestions from it; however, there must be a clear
connection between the picture and your composition.

Question 2 [10]
(Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.)
Select any one of the following:

i. Write a letter to your uncle telling him about your grandfather's failing health
and requesting him to come over at the earliest possible.
ii. The garbage bins in your locality have not been cleared regularly resulting in the
overflow of garbage in the area. Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner
of your city/town, complaining about the problem. Offer suggestions for the
removal of the garbage and cleaning up of the place.
Question 3

i. Write a notice for the school notice board giving information to students about
[5] the upcoming Annual Sports to be held in October.

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ii. Write an email to Sudip Banerjee, the eminent cricketer from Bengal inviting [5]
him to be the Chief Guest in the upcoming Annual Sports.

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Question 4
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Fire-eyed Vedanayagam was presiding over the class with his back to the long window.
Through its bars one saw a bit of the drill ground and a corner of the veranda of the
Infant Standards. There were huge windows on the left showing vast open grounds
bound at the other extreme by the railway embankment.

To Swaminathan, existence in the classroom was possible only because he could watch
the toddlers of the Infant Standards falling over one another, and through the windows
on the left see the 12.30 mail gliding over the embankment, booming and rattling while
passing over the Sarayu Bridge.

The first hour passed off quietly. The second they had arithmetic. Vedanayagam went
out and returned in a few minutes in the role of an arithmetic teacher. He droned on
monotonously. Swaminathan was terribly bored. His teacher's voice was beginning to
get on his nerves. He felt sleepy.

The teacher called for home exercises. Swaminathan left his seat, jumped on the
platform, and placed his notebook on the table. While the teacher was scrutinizing the
sums, Swaminathan was gazing on his face, which seemed so tame at close quarters. His
criticism of the teacher's face was that his eyes were too near each other, that there
was more hair on his chin than one saw from the bench.

His reverie was disturbed. He felt a terrible pain in the soft flesh above his left elbow.
The teacher was pinching him with one hand, and with the other crossing out all the
sums. He wrote "Very Bad' at the bottom of the page, flung the notebook in
Swaminathan's face, and drove him back to his seat.

Next period they had history. The boys looked forward to it eagerly.It was taken by
D.Pillai, who had earned a name in the school for kindness and good humour. He was
reputed to have never frowned or sworn at the boys at any time. His method of
teaching history conformed to no canon of education. He told the boys with a wealth of
detail the private histories of Vasco da Gama, Clive, Hastings, and others. When he
described the various fights in history, one heard the clash of arms and the groans of the
slain. He was the despair of the headmaster whenever the latter stole along the corridor
with noiseless steps on his rounds of inspection.

The scripture period was the last in the morning. It was not such a dull hour after all
There were moments in it that brought stirring pictures before one: the Red Sea
cleaving and making way for the Israelites; the physical feats of Samson; Jesus rising
from the grave; and so on.

(a) For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from
the options provided.

1. embankment
a) an earth or stone bank to prevent flooding
b) a stone bank to prevent flooding
c) an earth bank to prevent flooding
d) a banking security device to prevent fraud
2. scrutinizing
a) going through in meticulous detail
b) checking
c) going through in minute deta

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 d) both a and b
3. Which word in the passage means the opposite of the word 'boring'?
a) gliding
b) pinching
c) rising
d) stirring

(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:

i. What could one see through the windows of Swaminathan's class?
ii. What made existence in the classroom possible for Swaminathan?
iii. What subject did Swaminathan have in the second hour?
iv. What was Swaminathan's criticism of his teacher's face?
v. How did the teacher treat Swaminathan and his homework?
vi. In not more than 50 words describe D. Pillai’s style of teaching.
Question 5
(i) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in
brackets Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or
phrase appropriate to the blank space. [4]
Example: (0) asked
Three labourers were breaking stones. When...........(ask) by a passerby why they break)
stones, the first labourer....2.... (answer) "I am doing this because I didn't get another
job." The second labourer said, "I am doing this....3 (feed) my children well." While the
third labourer said," A beautiful castle (build) with these stones that I am breaking!"

It was not ...5....(surprise) then that the third labourer was doing a better and faster job.
You don't have to do this, it ...6.....(happen) automatically. In the language of economics
this would mean more productivity, lesser time. The question is not what you.......(do)
but whether you are doing it with all your heart. Plenty would depend on this in terms
of....8....(save) time.

(ii)Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. [4]

a) The cafe's menu appealed.........coffee lovers.
b) Sudha comes.......a family of doctors.
c) We had to deposit room rent in advance at the time of check...
d) The heat wave dried.....all the rivers and wells.
e) Silkworms feed.....mulberry leaves.
f) The burglar broke.......under questioning.
g) The old monument has fallen......ruin.
h) The old man is too miserly to part. . .his money.

(iii)Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using
and, but or so. Choose the correct option. [4]

1. The shower finished. The sun shone out again.

a) Hardly had the shower finished so the sun shone out again.
b) Hardly had the shower finished then the sun shone out again.
c) Hardly had the shower finished since the sun shone out again.
d) Hardly had the shower finished when the sun shone out again.

2. You wish to enjoy your weekend. Then you go to Nainital.

a) Go to Nainital to wish and enjoy your weekend.
b) Go to Nainital because you wish to enjoy your weekend.
c) If you wish to enjoy your weekend then go to Nainital.
d) You wish to enjoy your weekend when you go to Nainital.

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 3. He makes a wish. It is immediately fulfilled.
a) As soon as he makes a wish, it gets fulfilled.
b) He makes a wish which is immediately fulfilled
c) The wish he makes is fulfilled.
d) He always makes a wish to be fulfilled.

4. You may succeed or not. She is not interested in it.

a) She is interested in whether you succeed or not.
b) She is not interested in whether you succeed or not.
c) She is not being interested in whether you succeed or not.
d) Whether you succeeded or not, she is not interested.

iv. Choose the correct option to rewrite the following according to the instructions
given after each sentence. [8]
1. No sooner did he go to bed than he fell asleep. (Begin: As soon as ...)
a) As soon as he go to bed, he fell asleep.
b) As soon as he went to bed, he fall asleep.
c) As soon as he go to bed, he was falling asleep.
d) As soon as he went to bed, he fell asleep.
2. You can come with us for the picnic provided your father permits you.
(Begin: Unless )
a) Unless your father permits you, you can come with us for the picnic.
b) Unless your father does not permit you, you cannot come with us for
the picnic
c) Unless your father permits, you cannot come with us for the picnic.
d) Unless your father is permitting you, you can come with us for the picnic.
3. Nobody in our school is as smart as Uma. (Use: smarter)
a) Uma is smarter than any other girl in our school.
b) Nobody in our school is smarter to Uma
c) Nobody in our school was smarter than Uma.
d) Nobody in our school is smart as Uma.
4. He was not sure if he could walk so far. (Use: doubtful)
a) He is doubtful if he could walk so far.
b) He was doubtful if he can walk so far.
c) He was doubtful if he could walk so far.
d) He doubted if he can walk so far.
5. She said to us, "Let us go through the book." (Begin: She suggested. )
a) She suggested if we could go through the book.
b) She suggested we could go through the book.
c) She suggested let us go through the book.
d) She suggested to us to go through the book.
6. You remembered to sign the contract, didn't you? (Begin: You didn't.)
a) You forgot to sign the contract, didn't you?
b) You didn't forget to sign the contract, did you?
c) You didn't forget to sign the contract, didn't you?
d) You didn't forgot to sign the contract, did you?
7. The report was s being examined by an expert. (Begin: An expert. .)
a) An expert was examining the report.
b) An expert is examining the report.
c) An expert examined the report.
d) An expert would examine the report.
8. Why did she leave so late? (Begin: She ought. .)
a) She ought to have left so late.

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b) She ought not have left so late.
c) She ought to leave so late.
d) She ought not to have left so late.