SHREE BCR MATRIC HR. SEC.

SCHOOL - KARIMANAGALAM
STD: 10 Time: 2.30 Hours
SUB: English Maximum Marks:
100
Part – I
Answer all the questions. [14 x 1= 14]
Choose the most suitable answer and write the code with the corresponding answer.
Choose the appropriate synonyms for the italicised words.
1. His brothers and his little sister ran to the brink.
(a) bark (b) sea (c) water (d) edge
2. ‘Open up! ’ cried a hoarse voice.
(a) rough (b) sharp (c) haughty (d) soft
3. Trying to revive old childhood memories may prove disappointing! ’
(a) reveal (b) resuscitate (c) cancel (d) cover
Choose the appropriate antonym for the italicised words.
4. I wanted to make sure that I complete this journey with ultimate honesty.
(a) honourable (b) dishonesty (c) rectitude (d) scrupulousness
5. Well, anything which is a certain threshold, can be self-ordered.
(a) unsure (b) sure (c) convinced (d) ascertain
6. M. Hamel would question us on participles.
(a) clarify (b) beautify (c) answer (d) demonstrate
7. Choose the correct plural form of ‘sister-in-law‘.
(a) sister-in-laws (b) sisters-in-law (c) sisters-in-laws (d) sisters-n-law
8. Form a derivative by adding the right suffix to the word – ‘help’.
(a) ful (b) less (c) ly (d) graphy
9. Choose the correct expansion of the abbreviation DSLR.
(a) Digital Single Lens Refraction (b) Digital Single Light Reflex
(c) Digital Service Lens Reflex (d) Digital Single Lens Reflex
10. Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate phrasal verb given below:
I will not ……………. to pressure. I shall face the challenge bravely.
(a) give away (b) give in (c) give out (d) give off
11. Choose the suitable option to pair it with the word ‘rain‘ to form a compound word,
(a) well (b) dance (c) wet (d) coat
12. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate preposition given below:
None of you bothered to leave a bottle of water …………. my bed.
(a) within (b) outside (c) beside (d) for
13. Complete the following sentence using the most appropriate tense form of the verb given below:
The dog never liked to be left alone and kept on ………… the entire night.
(a) whined (b) whining (c) whine (d) will whine
14. Choose the most appropriate linker from the given four alternatives.
It was a great feeling ………. I learnt to use it.
(a) that (b) whether (c) but (d) when
Part – II [10 x 2 = 20]
Section – I
Answer any THREE of the following questions in a sentence or two. [3 x 2 = 6]
15. Why did the young bird utter a joyful scream?
16. Why does Joe mock the policeman who wants to retrieve his gun from the grandfather?
17. What was the information given by Mrs. Hudson to Dr. Watson?
18. What did Aditya do when he went to the attic?
Section – II
Read the following poetic lines and answer any THREE questions given below. [3 x 2 = 6]
19. “They growl at that and they growl at this;
Whatever comes, there is something amiss;”
(a) What does the word ‘growl’ mean here?
 (b) Why do they find everything amiss?

20. “My heart was so light

that I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay. ” “For all nature looked gay”
“You sang, Sir, you say?
Go then ”, says the ant, “and dance the winter away ”. ”
(a) Whose heart was light?
(b) What did he do out of joy?
21. “Remember; we who take arms against each other”
(a) What should we remember?
(b) What advice does the poet give us in these lines?
22. “I drive past the house almost every day.
The house seems to be a bit brighter.
On this warm summer day in May.
It plays with your mind.”
(а) To whom does ‘I’ refer to?
(b) How does the house appear in May?
Section – III
Answer any THREE of the following. [3 x 2 = 6]
23. Rewrite the following sentence to the other voice.
The burglars had cut a huge hole in the wooden door.
24. Rewrite using indirect speech.
“Do they live here?” asked Manohar
25. Punctuate the following.
‘what was the idee of all them cops tarryhootin round the house last night’ he demanded
26. Transform the following sentence into a simple sentence.
It is not known what is the purpose of his visit to this place.
27. Rearrange the words in the correct order to make meaningful sentences.
(a) writing/ system/ telephone/ am/ to/I/ about/ banking/ your/ complain
(b) crashed/ on/I/ the/ system/ been/ that/ each/ informed/ computer/ has/ have/ occasion

Section – IV
Answer the following. [1 x 2 = 2]
28. A stranger approaches you and asks you to guide her/him the way to S.S. Market. Help the stranger to
reach his/her destination with the help of the given road-map and write down the Steps.

Part – III [10 x 5 = 50]

Section – I
Answer any TWO of the following in utmost 10 lines. [2 x 5 = 10]
29. Highlight the factors responsible for the all-women Indian Navy crew to carry out their expedition.
30. Discuss the role played by Kim and Stephen Hawking to utilize technology for the disabled?
32. Give a brief character sketch of Sasanka Sanyal.
Section – II
Answer any TWO of the following in utmost 10 lines. [2 x 5 = 10]
33. How are today’s women portrayed by the poet in, ‘I Am Every Woman’?
34. Comment on the house located on Elm street.

35. Read the following poetic lines and answer the questions given below.
“Still seeking what I sought when but a boy,
New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,
My heart will keep the courage of the quest,
And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.”
(i) Pick out the rhyming words from the above lines.
(ii) Write the rhyme scheme of the stanza.
(iii) Identify the figure of speech employed in the last two lines of the given stanza.
(iv) Pick out the alliterated words in the first line.
36. Paraphrase the following stanza.
But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
Section – III
Answer any ONE of the following: [1 x 5 = 5]
37. Rearrange the following sentences in coherent order.
(i) The box contains an interesting mechanism that will explode on opening.
(ii) I would have left them to some charity, but I hate the poor.
(iii) This box contains a large number of very fine rubies, diamonds and pearls.
(iv) Doubt me, and open it, and you will be blown to atoms.
(v) I wish you to continue to have expectations and remember your dear uncle.
38. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
‘Come in, Zigzag, come in, dear! ’coazed Visu, and in tottered the strangest, weirdest-looking
bird the Krishnan family had ever seen. About a foot and a half tall, its bald head was fringed with a crown
of shocking pink feathers while the rest of its plumage was in various shades of the muddiest sludgiest
brown. Its curved beak was sunflower-yellow and its eyes were the colour of cola held to sunlight. ‘This is
Zigzag! Announced Visu with a flourish. ‘His’ full name is Ziggy-Zagga-king-of- the-Tonga. How I’m
going to miss him! So beautifully he talks! He can even recite French Poetry!’
The object of all this praise was standing cool and unmoved, with an expression of almost- human
grumpiness in his cola-coloured eyes.
Questions:
(i) Describe Zigzag’s plumage.
(ii) What is the full name of Zigzag?
(iii) What can Zigzag do according to Visu?
(iv) What was the colour of Zigzag’s eyes?
(v) Who brought home Zigzag?
Section – IV
Answer any FOUR of the following. [4 x 5 = 20]
39. Prepare an attractive advertisement using the hints given below.
Fly India – Fly five star – sky is the best place on earth.
40. Look at the following picture and express your views on it in about five sentences..

41. Vivek has been asked to deliver a speech on ‘The Brain Drain Problem’. Use your own ideas, and write
the speech in about 150-200 words.
42. You are Dhinesh/Malu. You have been invited to attend the wedding of your friend’s sister during
summer vacation. Write an e-mail to him/her regretting your inability to attend it.
43. Make notes or write a summary of the following passage.
When we survey our lives and efforts we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and
desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings. We notice that whole nature resembles that
of the social animals. We eat food that others have produced, wear clothes that others have made, live in
houses that others have built.
The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been passed on to us by other people though the
medium of a language which others have created. Without language and mental capacities, we would have
been poor indeed comparable to higher animals. We have, therefore, to admit that we owe our principal
knowledge over the least to the fact of living in human society.
The individual if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast like in his thoughts and
feelings to a degree that we can hardly imagine. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he
has, not much in virtue of the individuality, but rather as a member of a great human community, which
directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to grave.
44. Identify and correct the errors in the following sentences.
(a) Two-thirds of the content were rubbish.
(b) Mr. Bhaskar is not attending his office for the last one month.
(c) I must get to the house in Lake View Road by twelve o’ clock.
(d) Will you please buy some honey for me when you go to the market?
(e) It is mandatory that you study well but we might have to fail you.
Section – V
Quote from memory. [1 x 5 = 5]
45. We will serve ………… and read and write!
Part – IV
46. Write a paragraph of about 150 words by developing the following hints. [2 x 8 = 16]
(a) Prospero a sympathetic character – uses magic to control – learns sorcery – protects Miranda –
control Ariel and others – alter weather – raise the dead – demands attention – an insensitive
character to compassionate character – rightful duke of Milan – humanity in his treatment of Antonio
– extremely forgiving – helpless against his enemies – white magic and not black magic – complex
personality – refuses to free Ariel – subjugates Caliban – ruler appears insensitive and harsh –
tyrannical – understanding – protective just and fair, intelligent.
[OR]
(b) Describe the farmer’s painful journey up the mountain by developing the given hints. A mother’s
affection – insightful sustenance of sacrifice and pain – eternal and unconditional love is invaluable –
the law – tyrant ruler – changes decision – a kind mode of death – summit of Obatsayuma – Her
heart is concerned.
47. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
In Titanic the ‘older’ Rose throws the Heart of the Ocean diamond over the side of the ship. While
the Heart of the Ocean is only a fairy tale, it is based on the Hope Diamond or The Blue Fire. It was bought
in India by a French jeweller in the 1660s and brought back to France.
The Blue Beauty was sold to Louis XIV where it began to attract a reputation as a cursed creature. Things
did not end well with Louis XIV who was flat broke at the end of his life and who was eaten by a pack of
wild dogs. It then passed on to Queen Marie Antoinette who was eventually beheaded. The diamond
disappeared for two decades and eventually resurfaced amidst a story of suicides.
The last owner’s brother died early, her son was run over by a car when he was nine years old, she got
divorced, her husband perished in a mental institution, her daughter died of an overdose and she herself died
of pneumonia.
The Hope Diamond is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Questions.
(a) Where did The Blue Fire originate?
(b) To whom was the Blue Beauty passed on after Louis XIV was dead?
(c) How did the diamond affect Louis XIV?
(d) Under what circumstances did the Hope Diamond resurface after two decades?
[OR]
Read the following poem and answer the questions given below:

PIPING DOWN THE VALLEYS

Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud, I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me :
“Pipe a song about a Lamb !”
So I piped with merry cheer.
“Piper, a pipe that song again;”
So I piped: he wept to hear.
Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
“Sing thy songs of happy cheer.”
So I sang the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
“Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book, that all may read.”
So he vanish’d from my sight,
And I pluck’d a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stain’d the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
Questions.
(a) Whom did the piper see in a cloud?
(b) What did the child ask the piper to do?
(c) When did the piper pluck a hollow reed?
(d) What did the child do after singing?