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ICSE Class X Mid-term 2026 : English Paper 1 (English Language)

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FIRST PREBOARD NOVEMBER 2025 SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS:X DATE: 25/11/2025 ________________________________________________________________ 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[ ]. _______________________________________________________________ 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 story which illustrates the truth of the statement, The apple does not fall far from the tree. (ii) You have recently visited an Old Age Home. Describe what you saw and experienced when you were there with the elderly people. (iii) Narrate an incident or experience which helped you to overcome one of your fears in life. (iv) Express your views either for or against the statement: Most Apps (applications) on Smart phones are a waste of time. (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. _________________________________________________________________________________ Page 1 of 6 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 cousin, who wants to go abroad for further studies, dissuading him/her from doing so and telling him /her about the advantages of studying in India. (ii) Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner of your city, pointing out the need for constructing large playgrounds so that children and youngsters can freely play in the open air. Question 3 (i) Your school is organising a Quiz Competition on the occasion of United Nations Day. Write a notice to be displayed on the school notice board informing the students about the Competition. [5] (ii) Write an email to the Principal of a neighbouring school informing him/her of the Competition and requesting him/her to send a teacher to be the Quiz master. [5] _________________________________________________________________________________ Page 2 of 6 Question 4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. There is no denying that the major function of the army is to maintain law and order in times of deep crisis. However, we must not forget that the need to maintain law and order also arises in normal times. It is in these times that we need another force that compels citizens to obey the law and to act with due regard to the rights of others. The force also protects the lives and the properties of law-abiding citizens. Laws are essentially made to secure the personal safety of the citizens of a country. They aim to prevent different types of crimes that pose threat to the security of people and safety of their property, such as larceny, murder and numerous other illegal practices involving violence of any type. Besides ensuring security of the property of the citizens against theft and damage, laws also try to protect the rights of communities and castes to carry out their customs and ceremonies, so long as they do not conflict with the rights of others. It is important to note that the enforcement of laws multiplies the duties and responsibilities of citizens towards themselves. Those among them, who can be identified as good citizens, obey these laws and take care that everything they do is done with due regard to the rights and well-being of others. Sadly, however, there are people who do not show a natural keenness to understand the true significance of laws. These people, who can be called bad citizens, often seem to be reluctant in terms of their willingness to follow laws. Such citizens are only restrained from breaking these laws by fear of the consequence of their actions. That is why it becomes necessary for the law-enforcing agencies to take steps to compel a bad citizen, so that they may start acting as a good citizen. It is significant to note in this regard that the supreme control of law and order in a State is usually in the hands of the Home Minister who is responsible to the State Assembly. He/she is assisted by a number of bureaucrats, including the Home Secretary, besides additional and joint secretaries. The Inspector General of Police, who heads the police force in a state, carries out the orders issued by the Home Ministry. He / she too has a hierarchy of police officers under him. Thus, to maintain law and order in any state, there is a vast chain of officials. (i) For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the options provided: [2] 1. Compels (a) forces (b) compulsory (c) deters (d) prevents 2. Violence (a) brutality (b) tranquillity (c) crime (d) conflict (ii) Which word in the passage means the opposite of the word equality? (a) authority (b) hierarchy (c) keenness (d) well being [1] _________________________________________________________________________________ Page 3 of 6 iii) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words. (a) What does the force or law help in? (b) State the role played by the law in the day-to-day life of man. (c) What is the central idea of the passage? (d) Who has the supreme control of law and order situation of the state? How? (e) Who takes up the responsibility to change a bad citizen? (iv) In not more than 50 words, briefly describe the importance of laws. [2] [2] [2] [2] [1] [8] 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) launched Chandi Prasad Bhatt .. (launch) a public campaign, .1 . (know) as the Chipko Movement, to protect the trees against the axe. In this movement, village women .2 (play) an active role. They took up their positions with each 3 . (hug) a tree by enveloping the trunk in their arms. This .4 . (do) to warn the contractors that if they wanted 5 (cut) down a tree, they would have to attack the protesters first. Bhatt himself 6 (surprise) at the success of the movement and at the protestors positive participation to prevent the felling of trees. This unusual movement was successful as it .7 (base) on the principle of non-violence and 8 (focus) on the sentimental feelings of the local inhabitants who treated trees as their family members. (ii) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. (a) One should not confide one s secrets everyone. (b) She was accompanied her sister to the town. (c) Rama made an objection his proposal. (d) The man provides the poor .. free ration. (e) I am surprised you fell that trick. (f) The old man has no control his children. (g) I see no cause anxiety. (h) A leader must be true .. his/her word. [4] (iii) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. [4] 1. The aerated water tasted peculiar. It has to be disposed of. (a) The aerated water being peculiar was disposed of. (b) The aerated water has to disposed as it was peculiar. (c) Since the aerated water tasted peculiar, it has to be disposed of. (d) The aerated water could not be tasted as it was peculiar in taste. _________________________________________________________________________________ Page 4 of 6 2. He is very old. He enjoys good health. (a) (b) (c) (d) Although he is very old, he enjoys good health. Being very old, he enjoys good health. He is too old to enjoy good health. He enjoys good health after being very old. 3. He saw me coming. He immediately took to his heels. (a) He saw me coming to, he immediately took to his heels. (b) Seeing me he immediately take to heels. (c) He immediately took to his heels when I was coming. (d) As soon as he saw me coming, he took to his heels. 4. He met a man. He was selling books on a footpath. (a) He met a man who was selling books on a footpath. (b) He met man when he was selling books on a footpath. (c) He met a man while he was selling books on a footpath. (d) He was selling books on a footpath when he met a man. (iv) Choose the correct option to rewrite the following according to the instructions given after each sentence. [8] 1. I will help you if I can, he promised me. (Begin with: He promised me that ) (a) He promised me that he will help to me if he can. (b) He promised me that he shall help me if he could. (c) He promised me that he would help me if he could. (d) He promised me that he should help me if he could. 2. He is not only a good orator, but also an excellent actor. (Begin with: Besides being..) (a) Besides being an orator, he is also an actor. (b) Besides being a good orator, he is therefore an excellent actor. (c) Besides being a good orator, he is an excellent actor. (d) Besides being the good orator, he was also the excellent actor. 3. He is too old for the job. (Remove: too ) (a) He cannot do the job for being old. (b) He is so old that he cannot do the job. (c) He is very old to do the job. (d) He is old enough do the job. 4. Have I not told you of the danger earlier? (Use: already) (a) I have already tell you of the danger. (b) I have been telling you of the danger. (c) I have told you of the danger already. (d) I have already told you about the danger. _________________________________________________________________________________ Page 5 of 6 5. He is sorrowful, yet hopeful. (Begin with: Notwithstanding ) (a) Notwithstanding his sorrow, he is hopeful. (b) Notwithstanding his hope, he is sorrowful. (c) Notwithstanding about his sorrow, he is still hopeful. (d) Notwithstanding to his sorrow, he is hopeful. 6 He must not be late or he will be punished. (Begin with: In the event of ) (a) In the event of his being late, he will be punished. (b) In the event of his getting late, he will be punished. (c) In the event of his late entry, he will be punished. (d) In the event of coming late, he will be punished. 7 No one can put up with such an insult. (Begin with: Can anyone ) (a) Can anyone do away with such an insult? (b) Can anyone put up with that insult? (c) Can anyone put up with such an insult? (d) Can anyone take up such an insult? 8 You must work hard to pass the examination. (Use: or) (a) You must not work hard or you will fail the examination. (b) You must work hard or you will fail the examination. (c) You must work hard or fail in the examination. (d) You must not work hard to fail in the examination. _________________________________________________________________________________ Page 6 of 6

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