Govt. High School, Pamanakallur
Preparatory Examination : 2017-18
Class: 10th Subject : English
Duration: 2.45 Minutes Max. Marks: 80
Section-A (Prose, Poetry, Supplementary Reading and Vocabulary)
Prose
Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions / incomplete statements. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer: 1 x 3 = 3
(1) The person who made long boring speech was ..........
(a) Alla Rakha (b) Pandit Ravishankar (c) large mustached man (d) the anchor
(2) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar bought books by ..........
(a) borrowing loan (b) curtailing his daily needs
(c) large mustached man (d) none of above
(3) The seismic waves are similar to ..........
(a) waves generated by nuclear bombs (b) waves generated by atom bombs
(c) waves generated by earthquake (d) waves generated by sea
Answer the following in 2-3 sentences each: 2 x 4 = 8
(4) Why did Swami feel that his father’s proportion was frightful?
(5) How did you say that Swami was not a boy of courageous?
(6) Ambedkar had a great thirst for books, when he was a student. Explain.
(7) Why did super power meet in Geneva?
Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: 3 x 3 = 9
(8) “I don’t like to have you speak to me in that manner.”
(a) Who do you think the speaker of the sentence?
(b) Who does the word ‘you’ refer to?
(c) What made him say so?
(9) “We must not miss the chance.”
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) What does the word ‘chance’ refer to?
(c) Why does the speaker fell so?
(10) “Behanji, aap theek hai?”
(a) Who does ‘behanji’ refer to here?
(b) Who is the speaker?
(c) Why was there no response?
Answer the following question in 8-10 sentences: 4 x 1 = 4
(11) Columbus learned many things in the voyage Discovery. Describe.
OR
Describe the incident that changed the lonely and desperate life of Sathish.
Poetry
Four alternatives are given for the following question / incomplete statement. Write the correct or the most appropriate answer: 1 x 1 = 1
(12) ‘Muddy holes’ refers to
(a) virtual holes in the land (b) intension of the speaker
(c) commotion created by the reader (d) common feelings of the reader
Answer the following in 2-3 sentences each: 2 x 2 = 4
(13) Why is the poet querulous in the poem – ‘The Song of India’?
(14) The speaker Norman Nicholson had the feeling that he was imprisoned. What makes you
think so?
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: 3 x 1 = 3
(15) “ ‘We are lost’ shouted the captain”
(a) Who does the word ‘we’ refer to?
(b) Why was the speaker made the statement?
(c) What reaction did the speaker get from his shout?
Quote from memory the four lines of the poem beginning with 1 x 4 = 4
(16) The quality of ................................... heavy sighs ......................................
.......................................................... OR ..........................................................
.......................................................... ..........................................................
.......................... and him that takes ........................................ can know
Answer in a paragraph: 1 x 4 = 4
(17) Grandma was a genius. How did the poet describe in the poem?
OR
Describe the physical appearance of Jazz? What special skill did he have?
Answer the following in about 4-6 sentences each: 2 x 2 = 4
(18) Why were the students marching in the street? Why was it termed uncommon?
OR
How did Dicky Dolma succeed in the task of scaling Mount Everest?
(19) Life of Hanif in the beginning was never a smooth sail. Why was it?
OR
Why did Wangjia decide not to go back?
Vocabulary
(20) Combine the word in column ‘A’ with its collective word in ‘B’. 1
‘A’ ‘B’
Impose (book, curfew, law, below)
(21) Write the opposites by adding correct prefixes. ½ x 1 + 1
Merciful X ...................... fortune X ......................
(22) Use the correct word form of the word given in brackets. 1
The sailors showed their ...................... (disappoint) by singing song.
(23) Which one of the following words has three syllables. 1
Direction, evening, carry, fortune
Reading
Answer in a paragraph: 4 x 1 = 4
Once, a king became seriously ill. The doctors said that he could be well again, if he wore the shirt of a perfectly happy man. The king sent his men all over to find a perfectly happy man. They could not find a perfectly happy man. After a weary search, they came upon a beggar. He was singing and laughing. He was perfectly happy. He was brought before the king. The king asked his shirt. But, the beggar laughed and said, “I have no shirt at all.”
(24) Pick out the sentence in the passage which means ‘beggar was half necked’.
(25) What did the doctor say to the king?
(26) Why did the king send his men all over?
(27) Which word in the passage shows that ‘the king was ill’?
A dialogue is given below. Read it and answer the questions that follow: 2 x 1 = 2
Madhushree : We are going on a trip to Ooti next week. Can you join us on the trip?
Kaveri : Its not possible for me to join you on the trip.
Madhushree : Why is it not possible for you to do so?
Kaveri : My aunt Nirmala is coming from England.
Madhushree : When is she coming to India?
Kaveri : She is coming this next week.
Madhushree : I will miss you lot.
Kaveri : So I will.
(28) Does Kaveri join trip?
(29) Why is not possiblr for Kaveri to join?
(30) Look at the pictures. Write a sentence using ‘heavier than’.
Picture-A Picture-B
[5 kgs] [2 kgs]
(31) Rearrange the jumbled words into a meaningful sentence. 1
Walking / a / bridge / people / along
Writing
A paragraph is given below. It has two errors. Edit the paragraph. Clues are given below: 2
(32) The old man bowed to all on us in the room. Then he remove his hat and gloves, slowly
and carefully.
(a) Preposition to be corrected
(b) Verb form to be corrected
(33) Imagine you are Karna / Kaveri, living in Haveri, door no. 329, 1st cross, Vidyanagar,
Heveri. Write a letter to your father about your progress in study. 4
OR
Write a letter to the news paper editor about felicitation program for teachers conducted at
your village.
(34) Below is a Profile of Sir C.V. Raman, a scientist. Write the given information in the form
of a paragraph: 4
Date of Birth : 7th November, 1888
Father : Chandrashekar Iyer (a professor of Physics)
Mother : Parvathi Ammal
Education : M.A. (Physics)
Profession : earlier – Deputy Accountant General, then a professor in Calcutta University
Aim : wanted to become a scientist
Achievement : Scattering of light (Raman Effect)
Awards : Nobel Prize for his achievement
Spesial Quality : kind hearted and generous
OR
Outline of a story is given. Read and develop into a readable paragraph:
A hungry fox – saw a crow – a piece of meat in its beak – fox thought a plan – praised the crow – listen – happy requested to sing a song – foolish crow sang – meat fell down – picked up – fox ran away
GRAMMAR (LANGUAGE IN USE)
35. Read the conversation 1
A. Did you write letter?
B. Yes, I wrote a letter.
The passive form of the underlined sentence is .....................
(a) Was letter written by you? (b) Letter was written by you.
(c) Letter were written by you. (d) Letter wrote by you.
36. Don’t waste time. 1
The language function of above sentence is .....................
(a) request (b) order (c) permission (d) suggestion
37. He never speaks English. ..................... 1
The question tag to be used for sentence is .....................
(a) does he? (b) do he? (c) don’t he? (d) doesn’t he?
38. The gentleman removed his gloves slowly and carefully. 1
The correct ‘wh’ question for the above sentence is .....................
(a) How did the gentleman remove gloves? (b) How do the gentleman remove gloves?
(c) How did the gentleman removed gloves? (d) How do the gentleman removed gloves?
39. Fill in the blanks with appropriate preposition and article. 1
Swami looked ......... granny for a moment and followed by his father into ......... office room.
40. Read the conversation. Based on it, complete the reported form given below. 2
Father looked at Swami fixedly and asked, “What do you say to that?”
Swami said, “I think he must have been a very strong and grown up person.”
Father looked at Swami fixedly and asked ................................................................................
Swami replied ............................................................................................................................
41. Fill in the blanks choosing the right forms of the verbs given in the brackets. 2
Students ...................... (be + play) in front of the school. The head master who saw them
and ...................... ( question) them.
42. Fill in the blanks using the appropriate linking words given in the brackets. 1
Students were intellint ............... hard working. ............. they scored good marks.
(and, so, but, though)
GRAMMAR (LANGUAGE IN USE)
43. Arrange the following words in the order in which they are put in a dictionary.
Bench, beach, beauty, beast
44. To find the detailed information about one thing, we refer .......................
[atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia]
45. A message reads like this – ‘v r l8 2 c u’
Write it in a normal way.
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