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Model Question Paper Time: 2 H 30 min

10th Standard Second Language – English

Marks: 80

Instructions to the Candidates:-

 Write the answers in the space provided.  Write legibly and answer to the point. Section - A { Detailed Text & Supplementary Reading } I. Four alternatives are suggested for each of the following incomplete statements / questions. Choose the best alternative and write the letter of the alphabet and the answer in the space provided against each:-

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1) The first monster asked Wangjia to _______________. a) bring the bird’s head

c) poison Silong

b) kill Lousing’s mother

d) bring Bhima’s eyeballs.

2) According to Borok, the three super powers in the world are _______________. a) France, the U.S.A, the U.K

c) The U.K, the U.S.A, the U.S.S.R

b) The U.K, the U.S.A, Germany

d) China, the U.S.S.R, the U.S.A.

3) What kind of a man was Don Anselmo? a) miser

b) greedy

c) generous

d) spendthrift.

4) The COP suggested to Baleshwar to take Roma to Aroli. But Baleshwar disagreed because ____________. a) the hospital was far away

c) it did not have sufficient equipments

b) the hospital did not have a surgeon

d) it was not a government hospital.

5) Pepe preferred the company of Columbus to other seamen because _______________. a) he had faith in him

b) he was very strict

c) Columbus had made him an officer d) Columbus used to consult him now & then. 6) When does the land feel choked, as narrated in the poem ‘I am the Land’? a) The farmers plough it.

c) Man makes boundaries.

b) The children dance & play on it.

d) People walk & drive vehicles on it.

7) In the poem ‘I am the Land’, ‘I wait’ suggests the feeling of _______________. a) disgust

b) despair

c) anger

d) patience.

8) ‘Tracking through your telescope my upward shooting star’. The figure of speech used here is _______________. a) irony

b) metaphor

c) personification

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II. Answer each of the following questions in two or three sentences:-

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9) Why do some people choose to become scientists? 10) What makes you think that the Americans were good people? 11) Why did Wangjia think of going back to Tibet at first? What made him change his mind later? 12) “Glad till the dancing stops and the lilt of the music ends Laugh till the game is played and be you merry, my friends”. What do lilt of the music ends’ and ‘Laugh till the game is played’ mean? 13) “While the astronaut Nicholson is in the space, he feels that he is imprisoned”. Why does he have such a feeling? 14) What had the police expected about the way of protest by the students? (or)

What was Hanif’s experience in I.M.A training? 15) How did the fourteenth amendment to the U.S Constitution and Mahatma Phule influence Ambedkar? (or)

How did Dolma prepare herself for the task of scaling Mount Everest? III. Read each of the following extracts and answer the questions given below:-

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16) “I’m new to Mumbai, but I have noticed that people are afraid”. a) Who is the ‘I’? b) Why had he come to Mumbai? c) Why were the people afraid? 17) Pandit Ravi Shankar is a busy man. You must not bother him with such a request. a) Who is the ‘You’? b) When did the speaker say so? c) What does ‘bother’ mean in the context? 18) “Pedro, they drink too much.” a) Who was Pedro? b) How did he defend them? c) Was he right in defending them? Give reason for your answer. 19) “His sceptre shows the force of temporal power.” a) What does temporal power mean? b) What does the sceptre create in the minds of people? c) What quality does mercy stand for in contrast to temporal power?

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IV. Quote from memory:-

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20) We were ___________________________________ ________________________________________ sleep It was ______________________________________ ________________________________________ deep. or

You talk ___________________________________ ____________________________________ brought I feel ______________________________________ _______________________________________ night V. Answer each of the following questions in six to eight sentences:-

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21) “Swami was not really a hero but by chance he became a hero”. Justify the statement. or

“Physical disability is not a barrier to success”. Justify the statement with reference to the life of Sathish Gujral who was physically disabled. 22) Write in your own words the substance of the poem ‘Grandma Climbs a Tree.’ or

Give a description of the Jazz player. How did he appear when he started playing on the saxophone? Section – B { Vocabulary, Grammar & Editing } VI. Rewrite as directed:-

23) Combine the word in Column A with the Collocative word in B. A earth

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B water, quake, land, soil

24) Give one word for:

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A person who enters a building in order to steal 25) Add a prefix to the underlined word & write that word in the space provided. -1Padma’s answer is correct, but Latha’s answer is _______________. 26) Fill in the blank with the correct form, of the word given in brackets.

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Cricket is an ________________ game. (interest) 27) Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions:

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Mohan goes __________ the school ___________ the bike. K.S.E.E.B., Malleshwaram, Bangalore, 2nd Language English - 31E

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28) Fill in the blanks with suitable linking words:

(Conjunctions)

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Suresh ______ Sathish are brothers. Suresh is very active _____ Sathish is lazy. 29) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate articles:

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Lalitha is __________ M.A. She is has been working in __________ private school. 30) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate tense form of the verb given in brackets:-1We celebrated Teachers Day on 5th September in our School. All the teachers ____

(be + honour) by our parents.

31) Change into passive voice:

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Padma has written a number of books in English. 32) Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer.

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Santhosh bought some books in the shop. 33) Rearrange the following jumbled words into a meaningful sentence.

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do / students / not / a noise / make 34) Write the other degrees of:

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Bengaluru is the most expensive city in Karnataka. 35) Change into indirect speech:

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The teacher said to the students, “Why did you come to school late yesterday?” 36) A paragraph is given below. It has three errors. Edit the paragraph and write it in the space provided. Clues are given below:3 Mahesh was 15 years old. He was afraid of sleeping alone. So, he used to sleep beside his aunt everyday before his father return home. When his father commented on this Mahesh’s mother defended her son. The father kept quiet. Mahesh who was listening to this conversation was relieved to hear that his father would leave him alone.

Clues:a) Spelling to be corrected. b) Punctuation mark to be used. c) Verb to be corrected. Section – C { Reading - Unfamiliar Passage & Dialogue } VII. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:-

As a boy, Lal Bahadur Sastry was mischievous, but always cheerful. He had a kind heart. Once he and his uncle went for a stroll. It was getting dark. An old man who was selling mangoes saw them. He said, “Sir, it is getting dark. I will sell these mangoes cheap, just give me one anna (six paise of today) for a hundred. The two searched their pockets and scraped together an anna and gave it to him. The vendor started counting the fruits. When he reached fifty, Lal Bahadur asked him to stop and to keep the change. Later his uncle asked him why he had done so. The boy K.S.E.E.B., Malleshwaram, Bangalore, 2nd Language English - 31E

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replied, “A hundred mangoes for an anna is too cheap. He was prepared to suffer a loss and sell them at that rate only because it was going dark. It was hard on him. So, I asked him to keep the change. 37) “His uncle asked him why he had done so.” a) What had he done? -1b) Why did he do so? -138) What kind of a boy was Lal Bahadur?

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39) Pick out the word from the passage which means –

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“A person who sells things especially on the street.” VIII. A dialogue is given below. Read it and answer the questions that follow:-

Asha : It’s very kind of you, Bharathi to let us stay in your house for so long. Bharathi : Stay as long as you like. I only want your father to recover. Asha : [has a sad look on her face] He seems to be getting weaker and weaker… Bharathi : Let’s hope for the best. 40) Asha was welcome / unwelcome in Bharathi’s house. (Pick the correct answer) -141) Which word in the conversation means ‘become well again’? -1Section – D { Composition - Writing } X. 42. Imagine that you are Savithri / Ramanna studying in X standard, Govt. High School, Gonikoppa. Write a letter to your friend about your school and hostelmates. -5-

or Write a letter to the Depot manager, K.S.R.T.C, Madikere, requesting him to provide two more buses from Gonikoppa to Madikere one at 8 a.m and another at 8.30 a.m for the students and officials who go from Gonikoppa to Madikere, giving reasons.

42)Given below is a profile of Mr. Venkatesh. Write a paragraph based on the information. Qualification

Age 30

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M.B.B.S

Profession Doctor Name & Address Native place

Govt. Hospital, Malipatna Basavapatna but resides at Malipatna

Reasons for his popularity

Works after 5 p.m. - always cheerful does not demand money from patients Or

Write a paragraph using the clues given below

An old woman – greedy – had a goose – laid a golden egg everyday, sold – earned her living – thought – hundreds of golden eggs in its stomach – thought of becoming very rich – cut it – only one egg – lost what she had – moral.

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