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ENGLISH LANGUAGE (ENGLISH PAPER 1) 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) Describe your experience at an Art and Craft fair that you visited over the weekend. Give a detailed account of the items on display from various parts of the country, your interactions with the artists, your emotions, and overall impression of the fair. (ii) Parenting is a word which fills everyone with emotions. Write about any two skills that you have acquired from your parents. In what manner did you learn it? How do you think these skills would benefit you in future? (iii) Life in one's own country is better than living abroad. Argue either for or against this proposition. (iv) Write an original short story where a person without any capability reaches great heights for sometime through faulty means and later is punished by God severely for his/her silent misdeeds done to others. (v) Study the picture given below. Write 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. BIKASH JAISWAL ENGLISH CLASSES - ICSE 2025 1 Question 2 (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select any one of the following: [10] (i) Write a letter to a friend who was absent from school on a day when a really comical incident took place. Describe the incident, say what was so funny about it and what you learnt from it. (ii) Write a letter to the editor of a popular newspaper telling him/her what you think about air pollution, its effects and what people should do to prevent it from getting worse. Question 3 i) Your city was recently affected by devastating floods which left a trail of destruction in its path. As the President of the talent club of your school,you have been given an additional responsibility of organising a photography fair with the above mentioned situation as your theme. The best ones would be published in the upcoming edition of the school magazine. Write a notice informing the students about the same. [5] ii) Write an e-mail to the Principal of a neighbouring school requesting him/her to send a team of students to take part in this event. [5] Question 4 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: Something happens to cats after we have enjoyed a delicious meal. Call it a feline sugar hit or a rush of good feeling. Abandoning our usually sedentary nature, we transform into crazy beasts who thunder down corridors, spring from one piece of furniture to another, or pounce from behind half closed 5 doors to attack the shoelaces of unsuspecting passersby. It is as though we are temporarily possessed. That, at least, is my excuse, dear reader and the only explanation I can offer for my entirely unplanned global TV debut. To be fair, I had no way of knowing that my master was receiving visitors that particular afternoon. Nor that he was being interviewed live, let alone by one of America s most famous journalists. All I knew was that, a few minutes after gorging myself on a favourite treat of creamy pudding, I felt that sudden, primal explosion of energy. I made my way back to the suite of rooms that I shared with my master and felt an overpowering compulsion to do something completely mad. I wanted to run like a furious jungle cat, at that particular moment. Bursting through the door of the room in which my master received visitors, I tore up the carpet as I raced towards the sofa opposite where he was sitting. I ripped its fabric as I scrambled up its side like a savage creature clawing its way up a perilous cliff. Then with a final, frenzied burst, I launched myself off one arm of the sofa, leaping towards the other. It was only at this point that I realised the sofa was occupied by the journalist. She was halfway through a sentence, and my abrupt appearance caught my master s guest completely by surprise. You know, when something truly unexpected happens, time can seem to slow down. Well, that s how it was. As I flew past the woman s face, her expression turned from one of calm BIKASH JAISWAL ENGLISH CLASSES - ICSE 2025 2 engagement to that of total surprise.As she pushed back in her seat to avoid me, the shock on her face could not have been more evident. But, dear reader, she was not more shaken than me. I had not been expecting anyone on the sofa, let alone a TV celebrity, nor one who was mid interview. As I headed towards the opposite end of the sofa, for the first time I observed the lighting, the cameras and the crew watching the action from the shadows. By the time I landed on the other arm of the sofa, all the energy that had propelled me was gone.I was, no longer, a furious jungle cat. The journalist looked at me. I looked at her. Both of us were taking in what had just happened. I was also conscious of the cameras still rolling as well as many pairs of eyes watching me at that moment. My moment of global glory. (i) For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the options provided: [2] 1. Gorging (a) existing. (b) overeating. (c) looking. (d) tardy 2. Perilous (a) rebellions. (b) dangerous. (c) light. (d) certain (ii) Which word in the passage means the opposite of the word abrupt. [1] (a) unexpected (b) hurried. (c) gradual. (d) frightened (iii) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words. (a) What is the usual nature of the narrator s kind? How is it differently presented in the passage? [2] (b) What did the favourite treat of creamy pudding do to the narrator? [2] (c) Describe the actions of the narrator after bursting into the visitors room. [2] (d) How did the journalist react when the narrator flew past her face? [2] (e) Who is the narrator of the above passage? [1] (iv) In not more than 50 words narrate how the narrator became a global celebrity. [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] Lord Otori passed the knife to me and ___1___ (step) towards the wall. I ___2___ (move) to the other side of the window. We waited for the assassin to ___3___ (climb) in. Step by step he came up the wall, stealthy and unhurried, as if he had all the time in the world. We waited for him with the same patience. He ___4___ (pause) on the sill to take out the knife that he ___5___ (plan) to use on us. Then he stepped inside. Lord Otori __6___ (take) him in a stranglehold. The intruder wriggled backwards. We tried ___7___ (leap) at him, but three of us fell into the garden like a flurry of ___8___ (fight) cats. BIKASH JAISWAL ENGLISH CLASSES - ICSE 2025 3 (ii) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. [4] (a) Rohit turned __________ for the meeting earlier than usual. (b) I was laid _______ for three weeks with a broken leg. (c)This book runs _______ a hundred and fifty pages. (d) The speeding driver was asked to pull __________ by the traffic police. (e) Rohan is very ill, but the doctors think he will pull _________________. (f) I have an appointment ______ the dentist. (g) I would not even know how to set ___________ mending a radio. (h) The grandmother gave _____________ to the persistent demands of her grandchild. (iii) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option. [4] (i) He bought a desktop. He bought a laptop. a) Not only did he buy a desktop but also a laptop. b) In spite of buying a desktop, he bought a laptop. c) Besides buying a desktop, he also brought a laptop. d) Despite of buying a desktop, he bought a laptop. (ii) Submit your books.Only then can you appear for the test. a) Until you submit your books you can appear for the test. b) Until you appear for the test you cannot submit your books. c) Unless your books you submit, you cannot appear for the test. d) Unless you submit your books, you cannot appear for the test. (iii) Sheela has not brought a pen. She is writing with a pencil. a) Not having brought a pen, Sheela is writing with a pencil. b) Not having brought a pencil, made Sheela write with a pen. c) Not having bought a pen, Sheela is writing with a pencil. d) Sheela did not bring a pen to write with a pencil. (iv) I saw my father. I ran away immediately. a) On seeing my father, I ran away immediatley. b) On seeing my father, I ran away. c) On seeing my father, I ran immediately. d) I ran away immediately on seeing my father. (iv) Re-write the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence. Choose the correct options. [8] (i) Delhi is more vibrant than many other cities. (Use: vibrant) a) No other cities are as vibrant as Delhi. b) Very few cities are as vibrant as Delhi. BIKASH JAISWAL ENGLISH CLASSES - ICSE 2025 4 c) Very few city is as vibrant as Delhi. d) Very few cities is as vibrant as Delhi. (ii) Had she not helped, Rosina would have succumbed to death. (Begin: But .) a) But for her help,Rosina would have succumbed to death. b) But for her help,Rosina would not have succumbed to death. c) But for not her help,Rosina would have succumbed to death. d) But for her help,Rosina would have succumb to death. (iii) How long I shall stay is doubtful. (Begin:The ) a) The length of my stay is doubtful. b) The stay of mine is doubtful c) The lenght of my stay is doubtful d) How long I will stay is doubtful. (iv) As soon as the teacher enters the class, the attendance is taken. (Begin: No sooner...) a) No sooner did the teacher enter the class than the attendance is taken. b) No sooner does the teacher enter the class than attendance is taken. c) No sooner does the teacher enters the class than the attendance is taken. d) No sooner does the teacher enter the class than the attendance is taken. (v) Hari is too foolish not to be tricked by anyone. (Remove too .) a) Hari is so foolish that he could be tricked by anyone. b) Hari was so foolish that he can be tricked by anyone. c) Hari is so foolish that he can be tricked by anyone. d) Hari is so foolish that he cannot be tricked by anyone. (vi) His performance vexed me. (Begin: I ) a) I was being vexed with his performance. b) I was vexed by his performance. c) I was vexed at his performance. d) I had been vexed by his performance. (vii) Roy said to me, I have seen this man ten minutes ago (Begin: Roy .) a) Roy asked me that he had seen that man ten minutes before. b) Roy told me that he had seen that man ten minutes before. c) Roy told me that he had seen that man ten minutes ago. d) Roy told me that If I had seen that man ten minutes before. (viii) Rohit prefers dancing in the rain to singing loudly under the sky. (Use: rather) a) Rohit would rather dance in the rain to sing loudly under the sky. b) Rohit would rather dance in the rain than sing under the sky. c) Rohit would dance in the rain than sing loudly under the sky. d) Rohit would rather dance in the rain than sing loudly under the sky. BIKASH JAISWAL ENGLISH CLASSES - ICSE 2025 5

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