Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Instructions :
(i) Read the questions carefully and answer them.
(ii) All questions are compulsory.
(iii) Answers must be complete and to the point.
Note : Answer each of the following questions (from Q. Nos. 1 to 11) in about 75 words. All questions carry equal marks.
PROSE SECTION
1. Why did Rama Rao plan to go to Madras ? 4
2. What damages are caused when an earth-quake strikes ? 4
3. What helps a porpoise to swim fast ? 4
4. Why was the narrator of the, Story Old Man at the Bridge on Guard duty ? 4
5.Why didn't the prison atmosphere affect the children ? Comment 4
on it with reference to A visit to the andamans
6. Why did Grimsdyke become discontented with his life ? 4
7. Why did Ross have so much difficulty in finding the malaria parasite in the mosquitoes which he examined ? 4
8. Describe a Tagin's village.
Or
Give three reasons why green plants are vital to life ? 4
POETRY SECTION
9. "And no more dead than they." What makes the poet say this ? 4
10. Why does the poet want to escape from human suffering ? 4
11. What are the narrow domestic walls that the poet speaks of ?
Or
Wander thirst-explain it and point. out the line where the speaker
says that there is no place on earth where he can be free from
this. 4
VOCABULARY SECTION
12. Match the words in Column 'A' with the explanations in Column'B'
and rewrite them : 5
Column `A' Column 'B'
(a) Optimism (i) Children and grand-children
(b) Beach (ii) Person who gets help from a
lawyer
(c) Descendents (iii) Hopefulness, belief and success
will come in the end
(d) Nuptials (iv) Seashore covered with sand or
water-pebbles
(e) Client (v) Marriage
13. Do as directed: 5
(i) Rama Rao's business failed because he ran it badly.
(Say this statement False or True)
(ii) Provision (Give its verb form)
(iii) Perform (Give its Noun form)
(iv) Fortunate (Add prefix to make it opposite)
(v) Rice, wheat and other food-grains are called ...
(Fill in the blank and give one word for it)
GRAMMAR SECTION
14. Do as directed : 5x1
(i) Combine the following sentences using adverb clause of
place :
(a) There is a will.
(b) There is a way.
(ii) Combine the sentences using adverb clause of result (so ...
that) :
(a) The idol of god looked very sacred.
(b) I was surprised.
(iii) Rewrite the sentence beginning with anticipatory It,:
That I will come is not certain.
(iv) Make a complex sentence :
(a) He works hard.
(b) He may get good marks.
(v) Combine the pair of sentences using a relative clause :
(a) The teacher explained the problem.
(b) It was very difficult.
15. Do as directed : 5
(i) Change the voice :
Switch off the lights.
(ii) Change the voice :
What has been done by him ?
(iii) I am writing a book. (Question tag)
(iv) Make the sentence emphatic :
Hari eats an apple daily.
(v) Convert the simple sentence into complex sentence :
Seeing a tiger the deer ran away.
16. Do as directed : 5
(i) Add a suitable article to it :
He has a cow and ................................ox.
(ii) Frame a question :
Krishna goes to temple daily.
(iii) Add a Preposition :
He has been ill ....................Monday.
(iv) Ujjain is situated ....................Nagda and Bhopal.
(v) Combine the pair of sentences using a relative clause :
(a) A lady wrote this novel.
(b) She is expected here today.
17. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given
below : 6
Sanyogita, the beautiful princess of Kannauj, felts no liking for any
one of the brave kings in the hall. Her heart had already been
given to Prithvi Raj Chauhan who was considered to be the bravest
King in India. She had sent him a message that she hoped that he
would come to Kannauj so that she might choose him as her
husband. And he had sent her a message that he would reach
Kannauj without fail. On the Swayamber day, Sanyogita tried to
search for him. Passing scornfully by the suitors when her father
wished her to choose she slipped through the wide doors of the
hall and flung her garland over the stone image of Prithvi Raj
Chauhan. There was a rush, a cry from the crowd as Prithvi Raj
himself came and lifting her to his saddle rode westward to Delhi.
Questions :
(i) Who was Sanyogita ?
(ii) To whom had Sanyogita given her heart ?
(iii) Why did she want to marry Prithvi Raj Chauhan ?
(iv) What message did she send to Prithvi Raj Chauhan ? (v) (v) What did Prithvi Raj Chauhan reply ?
(vi) Whom did she garland ?
(vii) What did Prithvi Raj Chauhan do then ?
(viii) Give a suitable heading to this passage.
18. Make a precis of the following passage in one-third of its length and give a, title : 8
It is physically impossible for a well-educated intellectual to make
money the chief object of his thoughts, just as it is for him to make
his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their
dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives.
So all, healthy-minded people like making money,ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it. it is something better than money. A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay-very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it, still his main notion of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergymen. The clergyman's object is essentially to baptize and preach, not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors. They like fees no doubt.
ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole,desire to cure the sick, and if they are good doctors, and the choices were
fairly put to them, would rather cure their patients and lose their
fee, than kill him and get it. And so with all the other brave and
rightly trained men; their words work is first, their fee second-very
important always, but still second.
19. Write an essay on any one of the following topics in 250 words : 10
(i) An Indian Festival
(ii) My Favourite Hobby
(iii) Science in Daily Life
(iv) Population Problem in India
(v) An Interesting Match
20. You are L. N. Jatawa, a student of class X. J.N.V., Ghattiya, district Ujjain. Write an application to your principal to issue you book from Book-Bank.
Or
Write a letter to your friend inviting him to attend the marriage
ceremony of your brother. You are Priyanka Thakur, residing in Radha Gunj, Dewas. 5