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ICSE Class X Sample / Model Paper 2024 : Biology

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GARDEN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS X Half-Yearly Examination, 2022 23 English Paper 1 Time: 2 hours Full Marks: 80 This Question Paper has eight printed pages. Answers must be written in the script/s provided. You will not be allowed to write for the first 15 minutes. This time must be spent in reading the Question Paper. The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing answers. Answer all the five questions. Maximum marks for a question or part of a question are given in brackets [ ]. Question No 1 [ Do not spend more than 30 minutes in answering this question. ] Write any one of the following compositions in about 300 350 words: (a) Write a story or description or an account based on what the picture given below suggests to you. There must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition. [20] (2) (b) Write a short story beginning with the following sentence: The snow in the mountains was melting and the weather was perfect for a hiking trip (c) Your class has conducted a special Morning Assembly. Write an account of how the pupils prepared for it, what your role was and what you gained from the experience. (d) The obsession with social media has led to a decline in social skills. Give your views for or against the statement. Question No 2 [10] [ Do not spend more than 20 minutes in answering this question. ] Attempt any one of the following: (a) You have recently been on a field trip, arranged by your school, to the Botanical Gardens. Write a letter to a friend who was unable to go, telling him about the trip, why it was important and what you gained from the experience. (b) Write a letter to the Commissioner of Food Safety, expressing your concern about the unhygienic manner in which food is prepared at some of the fast food shops in your neighbourhood. Highlight the health hazards and suggest measures that should be taken to ensure quality and cleanliness. Question No 3 [10] The Centre for Environment Studies is organizing a workshop in your school to create awareness about environmental concerns. (a) Draft a notice for the school Notice Board, giving necessary information and inviting pupils to participate. (b) Write an email to a prominent environmentalist inviting him to deliver the keynote address. Question No 4 [20] Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow: The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn t just let it keep on walking, and go to bed. Its advent caused my mother to throw a shoe through a window of the house next door and ended up with my grandfather shooting a patrolman. I am sorry, therefore, as I have said, 5 that I ever paid any attention to the footsteps. (3) They began about a quarter past one o clock in the morning, a rhythmic, quick-cadenced walking around the dining room table. My mother was asleep in one room upstairs, my brother Herman in another; grandfather was in the attic, in the old walnut bed which, as you will remember, once fell on my father. I had just stepped out of the bathtub and was busily 10 rubbing myself with a towel when I heard the steps. They were the steps of a man walking rapidly around the dining room table downstairs. The light from the bathroom shone down the back steps, which dropped directly into the dining room; I could see the faint shine of plates on the plate-rail; I couldn't see the table. The steps kept going round and round the table; at regular intervals a board creaked, when it was trod upon. I supposed at first that it 15 was my father or my brother Roy, who had gone to Indianapolis but were expected home at any time. I suspected next that it was a burglar. It did not enter my mind until later that it was a ghost. After the walking had gone on for perhaps three minutes, I tiptoed to Herman s room. Psst! I hissed, in the dark, shaking him. Awp, he said, in the low, hopeless tone of a 20 despondent beagle he always half-suspected that something would get him in the night. I told him who I was. There s something downstairs! I said. He got up and followed me to the head of the back staircase. We listened together. There was no sound. The steps had ceased. Herman looked at me in some alarm: 25 I had only the bath towel around my waist. He wanted to go back to bed, but I gripped his arm. There s something down there! I said. Instantly the steps began again, circled the dining room table like a man running, and started up the stairs toward us, heavily, two at a time. The light still shone palely down the stairs; we saw nothing coming; we only heard the 30 steps. Herman rushed to his room and slammed the door. I slammed shut the door at the stairs top and held my knee against it. After a long minute, I slowly opened it again. There was nothing there. There was no sound. None of us ever heard the ghost again. The slamming of the doors had aroused mother: she peered out of her room. What on earth are you boys doing? she demanded. Herman ventured out of his room. Nothing, 35 he said, gruffly, but he was, in colour, a light green. What was all that running around downstairs? said mother. So she had heard the steps, too! We just looked at her. Burglars! she shouted intuitively. I tried to quieten her by starting lightly downstairs. Come on, Herman, I said. I ll stay with mother, he said. She s all excited. 40 I stepped back onto the landing. (4) Don t either of you go a step, said mother. We ll call the police. Since the phone was downstairs, I didn t see how we were going to call the police nor did I want the police but mother made one of her quick, incomparable decisions. She flung up a window of her bedroom, which faced the bedroom windows of the house of a neighbour, picked up a 45 shoe, and whammed it through a pane of glass across the narrow space that separated the two houses. Glass tinkled into the bedroom occupied by a retired engraver, named Bodwell, and his wife. Bodwell had been for some years in rather a bad way and was subject to mild attacks . Almost everybody we knew or lived near had some kind of attack. It was now about two o clock of a moonless night; clouds hung black and low. Bodwell 50 was at the window in a minute, shouting, frothing a little, shaking his fist. We ll sell the house and go back to Peoria, we could hear Mrs Bodwell saying. It was some time before mother got through to Bodwell. Burglars! she shouted. Burglars in the house! Herman and I hadn t dared to tell her that it was not burglars but ghosts, for she was even more afraid of ghosts than of burglars. Bodwell at first thought that she meant 55 there were burglars in his house, but finally he quieted down and called the police for us over an extension phone by his bed. After he had disappeared from the window, mother suddenly made as if to throw another shoe, not because there was further need of it but, as she later explained, because the thrill of heaving a shoe through a window glass had enormously taken her fancy. I prevented her. [ Adapted from The Night the Ghost Got In by James Thurber ] (a) For each of the following words taken from the passage, choose the correct meaning from the options provided: (i) [3] advent (line 3) (A) an adventure (C) walking (B) the arrival or coming of something (D) footsteps (ii) attic (line 8) (A) a basement (C) room just below the roof (B) a room below the stairs (D) a terrace (iii) despondent (line 20) (A) desperate (C) dejected (B) suspicious (D) afraid (5) (b) What kind of sound did the narrator hear when he was drying himself after taking a bath? What did he initially attribute the sound to? (c) What did Herman do when he heard the sound? Why? [1 + 2] [2 + 1] (d) What did the narrator prevent his mother from doing? What explanation did she give for trying to do what she was prevented from doing? [2] (e) What impression of her character do you form after reading the passage? (f) [2] In not more than 50 words of your own, narrate why the narrator s mother threw a shoe at the Bodwell residence and what happened as a consequence. Question No 5 [7] [20] (a) Fill in each numbered blank with the correct form of the word given in brackets after it. Do not copy the passage. Write the numbers in the correct serial order, and against each, the word appropriate to the blank it stands for. [8 ] To the left of the villa was a large valley, thickly, (1) _____ (stud) with columns of olive trunks. This valley was surrounded by cliffs, along the base of which (2) _____ (grow) a thick bed of myrtles that covered a tumbled mass of rocks. This (3) _____ (be) a fertile hunting ground, for a great quantity of various animals lived in this area. I (4) _____ (hunt) among these boulders one day when I (5) _____ (find) a large, half rotten olive trunk (6) _____ (lie) under the bushes. Thinking there might be something of interest beneath it, I heaved valiantly until it rolled over. In the trough (7) _____ (leave) by its weight crouched two creatures that made me gasp with astonishment. They (8) _____ (be) common toads, but they were the largest I had ever seen. (b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. Do not copy the sentences. (i) [8 ] They bound the fugitive _____ a stake with a strong rope. (ii) When the job is over and done _____, we can all go home. (iii) The chef served _____ a fine dish of lobsters. (iv) The provisions ran _____ and death stared the garrison in the face. (v) The shipwrecked sailors subsisted _____ nuts and roots which they found on the island. (6) (vi) The travellers lost their way and managed to stave _____ hunger by eating wild berries and fruit. (vii) Visitors are prohibited _____ entering this garden after 5 p.m. (viii) As the day wore _____, the trapped miners began to lose all hope of being rescued. (c) You are required to join each pair of sentences without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option from those given. (i) We debated for half an hour. Then a decision was reached. (A) A decision was reached because we debated for half an hour. (B) A decision being reached we debated for half an hour. (C) After debating for half an hour, we reached a decision. (D) Hardly had we debated for half an hour when a decision was reached. (ii) I met Anu on Monday. I have not met her after that. (A) I met Anu on Monday and did not meet her again. (B) Since I met Anu on Monday, I have not met her after that. (C) Having met Anu on Monday, I did not meet her after that. (D) I have not met Anu since Monday. (iii) Only Rahul came to the birthday party. No other friend came to the party. (A) Rahul was the only friend who came to the birthday party. (B) Only Rahul s friend came to the birthday party. (C) Rahul came to the birthday party as no other friend did. (D) No other friend of Rahul came to the birthday party. (iv) The weather was fine. We enjoyed our walk. (A) Notwithstanding the fine weather, we enjoyed our walk. (B) Despite the fine weather, we enjoyed our walk. (C) The weather being fine, we enjoyed our walk. (D) The weather was too fine for us to enjoy our walk. [4] (7) (d) You have to rewrite the following sentences as directed. You are allowed to make changes, if necessary, without changing the meaning of any sentence. Choose the correct options from those given. (i) [8] It is most likely that she will win the award. (Use: likelihood) (A) There is little likelihood of her winning the award. (B) The likelihood was that she will win the award. (C) In all likelihood she will win the award. (D) In all likelihood she would be winning the award. (ii) No fewer than a hundred bodyguards protected the king. (Remove No .) (A) A hundred bodyguards protected the king. (B) Less than a hundred bodyguards protected the king. (C) More than a hundred bodyguards protected the king. (D) Few bodyguards protected the king. (iii) The police will only investigate the matter further if an official complaint is made. (Begin: Only ) (A) Only if an official complaint is made will the police investigate the matter further. (B) Only the police will investigate the matter if an official complaint is made. (C) Only the matter will be investigated by the police if an official complaint is made. (D) Only an investigation will be conducted by the police if an official complaint is made. (iv) He said, Let us go and meet the Principal. (Use indirect speech) (A) He told us to go and meet the Principal.. (B) He suggested that we should go and meet the Principal. (C) He asked us to go and meet the Principal. (D) He requested us to go and meet the Principal. (8) (v) They had only just finished eating when a waiter started to clear away the plates. (Begin: Hardly ) (A) Hardly had they finished eating when a waiter started to clear away the plates. (B) Hardly had they finished eating than a waiter started to clear away the plates. (C) Hardly when they finished eating a waiter started to clear away the plates. (D) Hardly had a waiter started to clear away the plates, when they finished eating. (vi) Only the Pied Piper could rid Hamlyn of its dreaded rats. (Begin: None ) (A) None other than the Pied Piper could rid Hamlyn of its dreaded rats. (B) None but the Pied Piper could rid Hamlyn of its dreaded rats. (C) None could rid Hamlyn of its dreaded rats but only the Pied Piper. (D) None better than the Pied Piper could rid Hamlyn of its dreaded rats. (vii) You have broken this valuable vase. (Make it an interrogative sentence by using a question tag) (A) You have broken this valuable vase, haven t you? (B) You have broken this valuable vase, did you? (C) Was or wasn t this valuable vase broken by you? (D) You didn t break this valuable vase, did you or did you not? (viii) Very few parks in our city are as big as this. (Use: biggest) (A) This is the biggest park in our city. (B) This is one of the biggest parks in our city. (C) This is not the biggest park in our city. (D) The biggest parks in our city are not as big as this park.

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