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QUEEN OF ANGELS' CONVENT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, VADADLA PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SUBJECT: ENGLISH I Date: 16-12-2024 Marks: 80 STD: X Time:2 hours Question 1. Write a composition (350-400 words) onany one of the following. [20] (a) Describe a situation in which you experienced absolute panic. Narrate how you dealt with the situation and what you learnt from it. (b) Do you think that daily homework is necessary for students? Use specific reasons and (c) examples to support your answer. () Write a composition describing yourself - your appearance, strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes and your dreams for the future.(1) (d) Write an original short story which illustrates the truth of the statement: Never look a gift horse in the mouth. (e) Study the picture below. Write a description or an account of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or may take suggestions from it; but there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition. Q.2 [10] Select ONE of the following: (a) You are Keerti/Krishna of 51 A, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. You bought a new Washing Machine last week. Now you find that the machine makes an unbearable noise and the motor tears delicate fabrics. Write a letter to the dealer complaining about the same and requesting him to change the machine as early as possible. (b) Your friend has invited you for her sister's wedding the following week. Your final examinations are starting the same week. Write a letter to your friend expressing your regret at not being able to attend the wedding and also stating the reason. Q3 (a) Write a notice for the school notice board announcing auditions for the Inter House Dramatics Competition. [5] This paper consists of 4 printed pages. Q.3 (b) Write an e-mail to your mother who is out of station, sharingyour joy at having been given aprominent role in the drama to be performed by your house. [5] Q.4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: Sita went to her grandfather and sat down beside him. "When you are hungry, tell said, 'and I will make the bread'. ls your grandmother asleep'? "Yes, but she will me', she wake soon. The pain is deep'. The old man stared across the river, at the dark green of the at the leaden sky, and said, "lf she is not better by morning, Iwill take to her hospitalforest, in Shahganj. They will know how to make her well. You may be on your own for two or three days. You have been on your own before'! Sita nodded gravely. She had been alone before: but not in the middle of the rains with the river so high. But she knew that someone must stay behind. She wanted Grandmother to get well and she knew that only Grandfather could take the small boat across the river when the current was so strong. Sita was not afraid of being left alone but she did not like the look of the river. That evening it began to rain again. Big pellets of rain were But it was warm rain and Sita could move about in it. She scarring the surface of the river. was not rather liked it. In the previous month, when the monsoon shower afraid of getting wet, she had arrived, washing the dusty leaves of the tree and bringing up the good smell of the earth, she had exulted in it, had run about shouting for joy. She was used to it now, even a little tired of the rain, but she did not mind getting wet. It was steamy indoors and her thin dress would soon dry in the heat from the kitchen fire. She walked about barefooted, She was very sure on her feet. Her toes had grown accustomed to gripping allbarelegged. kinds of rocks, slippery or sharp, and though thin, she was surprisingly strong. Black hair, streaming across her face. Black eyes. Slim brown arms. A when she was small, visiting her mother's village, a hyena had entered theScar on her thigh: was sleeping fastened on to her leg and tried to drag her away but her house where she screams had roused the villagers and the hyena had run off. She moved about in the pouring rain, chasing the hens into a shelter behind the hut. A harmless brown snake, flooded out of its hole, was moving across the open ground. Sita took a stick, picked the snake up with it, and dropped it behind a cluster of rocks. She had no quarrel with snakes. They kept down the rats and the frogs. She wondered the rats how had first come to the island- probably in someone's boat or in a sack of grain. She disliked the huge black scorpion who left their waterlogged dwellings and tried to take shelter in the hut. It was So easy to step on one and the sting could be very painful. She had been bitten by a scorpion, she crushed it with a rock! When, finally, she went indoors, she was hungry. She ate some parched gram and warmed up some goat's milk. Grandmother woke once and asked for water and Grandfather held the brass tumbler to her lips. The roof was leaking anda small puddle formed on the floor. Grandfather kept the kerosene lamps alight. They did not need the light but somehow it made them feel safer. It rained all night. () For each word given below choose the correct meaning as used in the passage from the options provided: 1. gravely (line 8) [3) A slightly B solemnly C seriously 2. steamy (line 18) Adangerous B hot D arrogantly C wet D hot and wet Cdull D bright 3. parched (line 34) A dry B stifling This paper consists of 4 printed pages. 2 (ii) Answer the following questions in your own words: 1. Why was Sita willing to stay alone? [9] 2. What had made Sita like the first monsoon shower? 3. Why did Sita have a scar on her thigh? 4. Which word in the passage tells us that Sita need not need to fear the snake? 5.Why did she think snakes were useful? [8] (ii) Describe Sita in 50 words Q.5 ) Fillin each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Donot copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate [4] to the blank space. He (1) (take) the bowl between his shaking hands and he went to the other basket. There, while the vendor (2). (watch), the old man (3) (pull) aside the quilt until one could see the shrunken face of a small boy lying with his eyes tightly closed. One (4). (will) have said the child was dead except that when the old man (5) .(can) touch the edge of the little bow,he (7) his head so his mouth (6). (lift) (begin) to swallow feebly until the hot mixture was finished. The old man (8) (murmur) to him: Thank You! (i ) Fillin the blanks with an appropriate word: recommending me. (a) Iam indebted to you (b) Don't be distrustful everyone. (c) Won't you accede (d) She insisted (e) He cannot part [4] my request? my staying in the village. his pen. the meeting. ()The principal presided the way he has a solution to every problem. (g) Ihave great regard her attitude. (h) Iam annoyed (ii) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but, so. Choose the correct option. [4] 1. She gave us food to eat. She gave us money. (a) She gave us food as well as money to eat. (b)She gave us not only food to eat but also money. x (c) She gave us food and money to eat. & (d)Besides giving us food to eat, she alsogave us money. 2. Take medicine. You will get better. (a) Take medicine to get better. (b) Take medicine or youwill get better. (c) If you do not take medicine you will get better. (d) If you take medicine you will not get better. 3. He cannot die in peace. He is a sinner. (a) He cannot die in peace for being a sinner. (b) He, being a sinner, cannot die in peace. (c) He can die peacefully if he is asinner. (b) He can die in peace if he is not a sinner. 4. Igave him a book. Iwanted him to develop the habit of reading. (a) Igave him a book for developing the habit of reading. (b) Igave him a book to develop the habit of reading in him.a This paper consists of 4 printed pages. 3 (c) Igave him abook because ha has a habit of reading. (d) lgave him a book to read. (iv) Rewrite 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 sentences. Choose the correct options. [8] 1. Only a fool can challenge him. (Begin: None....) (a) None but a fool challenge him. (b) None but fool will challenge him. (c) None but a fool can challenge him. (d) None other than a fool challenges him. 2. My younger brother does not care where he sleeps. (Begin: My younger brother hardly bothers....) (a) My younger brother hardly, bothering where he sleeps. (b) My younger brother hardly bothered where he slept. (c) My younger brother hardly bothers where he sleeps. (d) My younger brother hardly bother where he should sleep. 3. We parked our car and went in (Begin: Having....) (a) Having parked our car, we went in. (b) Having parking our car we went in. (c) Having been parked our car we went in.ecl (d) Having parked our car we are going in. 4. The servant saidto the master, "Pardon my fault, sir". (Remove the inverted commas and use'begged') (a) The servant respectfully begged the master to pardon his fault. (b) The servant begged the master respectfully to pardon his fault. (c) The servant begged the master for pardoning his fault. (d) The servant begged respectfully the master pardon him. 5.One should be kind to the poor. (Use noun form of 'kind") (a) Showkindness to the poor. (b)One should show kindness to being poor. (c) One should show kindness to the poor. (d) Be kind to the poor. 6. The letter came. He had left earlier. (Use: after) (a) The letter came after he had left (b) He had left earlier after came the letter. (c) He had left and the letter came after. (d) The letter had come after his leaving. 7.A liar is seldom trusted. (Begin: A person) (a) A person who lied is not trusted. (b) A person seldom is not trusted. (c) A person who lies is seldom trusted. (d) A person lied and was not trusted. 8. We are too short to climb it. (Remove: too) (a)We are so short that we can climb it. (b)We are short enough to climb it. (c) We are so short that we cannot climb it. (d) We are so short that we willclimb it. This paper consists of 4 printed pages. 4
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