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ICSE Class X Prelims 2026 : English Paper 1 (English Language) (St. Michaels School (SMS), Siliguri, Jalpaiguri) : Preboards

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ST. MICHAEL S SCHOOL, SILIGURI (BOYS WING) PRE BOARDS EXAMINATION 2025-26 ENGLISH LANGUAGE (ENGLISH PAPER-1) CLASS 10 Maximum Marks : 80 Time allowed: Two hours Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately. You will not be allowed write during 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[] You are advised to spend not more than 30 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. 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) If you had the option to travel to any place in the world, where would you go? Why do you want to visit the place and what would you do there? (ii) Write an original story in which a singer and a detective are the main characters. (iii) A.I apps are hampering conceptual knowledge. Express your views either in favour or against this statement. (iv) You and your friends are at the biggest Annual Book Fair held in your area. Describe how the atmosphere changed from when it opened in the morning to when it closed in the evening. (v) Study the picture given below carefully. 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 . Give a suitable title to your composition, also. Question 2 (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select any one of the following: [10] (i) (ii) Write a letter to the Principal of your school drawing his attention to the increasing bullying cases during your departure time. Share an incident you witnessed at the school gate that compelled you to write this letter. Suggest measures to curb these unhealthy practices. Recently there was a water shortage in your area and your family used a sensible way to conserve water at home. Write a letter to your friend describing the sensible way used and what you learnt from it. Question 3 (i) Write a notice for your school notice board inviting grade IX to XII students of your school to participate in a Marathon for a noble cause organised by the school. [5] (ii) Write an email to the DSP of your district seeking permission to conduct the event and also inaugurate it. Question 4 1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: When Matthew Cuthbert reached Bright River there was no sign of any train; he thought he was too early, so he tied his horse in the yard of the small Bright River Hotel and went over to the station house. The long platform was almost deserted; the only living creature in sight being a girl who was sitting on a bench at the extreme end. Mathew, barely noting that it was a girl, sidled past her as quickly as possible without looking. Had he looked, he could hardly have failed to notice the tense expression of expectation on her face. She was sitting there waiting for something or somebody and, since sitting and waiting was the only thing to do just then, she sat and waited with all her might. Matthew encountered the stationmaster locking up the ticket office before going home for supper, and asked him if the five-thirty train would soon be along. "The five-thirty train has been in and gone half an hour ago," answered that brisk official. "But there was a passenger dropped off for you - a little girl. She's sitting out there on the bench. I asked her to go into the ladies' waiting room, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside. `There was more scope for imagination,' she said. She's a case, I should say." "I'm not expecting a girl," said Matthew blankly. "It's a boy I've come for. He should be here. Mrs Spencer was to send him over for me. We need a boy to help on the farm." The stationmaster whistled."Guess there's some mistake," he said. "Mrs Spencer came off the train with that girl and gave her into my charge. Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphanage and that you would be along for her presently. That's all I know about it - and I haven't got any more orphans concealed hereabouts." "I don't understand," said Matthew helplessly, wishing that Marilla was at hand to cope with the situation. "Well, you'd better question the girl," said the station-master casually. "I dare say she'll be able to explain - she's got a tongue of her own, that's certain. The stationmaster walked away, cheerfully, leaving Mathew to speak to the girl; something he was feeling very uncomfortable about. Mathew groaned as he turned around and shuffled gently down the platform towards her. The girl had been watching Matthew ever since he had passed her.However, Matthew was not looking at her. If he had been, he would have seen a child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-white cloth. She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair. Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods, and grey in others. An extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was pointed and pronounced; that the eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, one might conclude that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child. ____Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (i) For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the options provided: [2] 1. gravely (a) happily (b) importantly (c) seriously (d) agonisingly 2. extraordinary (a) imaginative (b) special (c) keen (d) common (ii) Which word in the passage means the opposite of the word, listlessness ? [1] (a) expectation (b) barely (c) cheerfully (d) vivacity (iii) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words: (a) Why did Mathew think he was too early? [1] (b) Why was Mathew not expecting a girl? What was the stationmaster s reaction when Mathew said he was expecting a boy ? [2] (c) What would Mathew have noticed had he looked at the girl? [2] (d) What do you think the little girl meant when she said that there was more scope for imagination outside? [2] (e) Which sentence in the passage tells us she was not an ordinary girl?[2] (iv) In not more than 50 words, describe what the little girl looked like. [8] Question 5 (i) Fill in the gaps in the passage given below with a suitable form of the word given in the brackets. Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. [4] Example: waiting It was my second year at boarding school, and I was sitting on platform number 8 at Ambala station, (0)_________(wait) for the northern bound train. I (1) __________(think) I was about twelve at the time. My parents (2)___________(consider) me old enough to travel alone and I (3)____________(arrive) by bus at Ambala early in the evening. Now there was a wait till midnight before my train arrived. Most of the time I (4)____________(pace) up and down the platform, browsing at the bookstall, or feeding broken biscuits to stray dog; trains came and (5)___________(go) and the platform would be quiet for a while and then, when a train arrived it would be an inferno of heaving, shouting, agitated human bodies. As the carriage doors (6) ___________(open) a tide of people (7)__________(sweep) down upon the nervous little ticket-collector at the gate; and every time this happened I would be caught in the rush and swept outside the station. Now, tired of the game and of (8) ___________(amble) about the platform, I sat down on my suitcase and gazed dismally across the railway tracks. (ii) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: [4] (a) Mr. Sen has now recovered_________ his prolonged illness. (b) Aditi is so tall that she towers ____________ everyone else in the class. (c) She had disposed _____________ the old textbooks by the time I thought to ask for them. (d) _____________ being careless, she has also been unmindful. (e) The wheel was wedged _______________ two boulders. (f) We were soaked _____________ the skin in the sudden downpour. (g) Prasoon was instrumental ___________ getting me a job. (h) The police ran ________________ the thieves. (iii) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option. [4] 1. Do not forget to carry your registration card. Do not forget to carry your stationery case. (a) Neither you should forget to carry your registration card nor your stationery case. (b) Neither should you forget to carry your registration card nor your stationery case. (c) Neither should you forget to carry your registration card or your stationery case. (d) Either you should forget to carry your registration card or your stationery case. 2. I will lend you my headphones. You must promise to take care of it. (a) I will not lend you my headphones if you promise to take care of it. (b) I will lend you my headphones if you promise to take care of it. (c) I will lend you my headphones if you must promise to take care of it. (d) I will lend you my headphones but you must promise to take care of it. 3. Stop talking. Leave the classroom. (a) Stop talking or leave the classroom. (b) Leave the classroom to stop talking. (c) Stop talking to leave the classroom. (d) If you don t want to stop talking you can leave the classroom. 4. We frighten our cat. Its fur stands on end immediately. (a) Since we frightened our cat, its fur stands on end immediately. (b) No sooner had we frightened our cat when its fur stands on end. (c) Hardly do we frighten our cat than its fur stands on end. (d) As soon as we frighten our cat, its fur stands on end. (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 sentence. Choose the correct option. [8] 1. Dad said to me, Let s bake a cake for Mom s birthday tomorrow . (Begin: Dad suggested .) (a) Dad suggested me to bake a cake for Mom s birthday the following day. (b) Dad suggested that we bake a cake for Mom s birthday tomorrow. (c) Dad told me that we would bake a cake for Mom s birthday the following day. (d) Dad suggested that we bake a cake for Mom s birthday the following day. 2. If Prabhu had been driving carefully, he would not have met with an accident. (Had ) (a) Had Prabhu driven carefully, he would have met with an accident. (b) Had Prabhu not been driving carefully, he would have met with an accident. (c) Had Prabhu been driving carefully, he would not have met with an accident. (d) Prabhu had not been driving carefully, so he met with an accident. 3. The Captain won the toss and elected to bowl. (Begin : Having ..) (a) Having been won the toss, the Captain elected to bowl. (b) Having elected to bowl, the Captain won the toss. (c) Having won the toss, the Captain elected to bowl. (d) Winning the toss, the Captain elected to bowl. 4. I (a) I (b) I (c) I (d) I was was was was was overjoyed at Grandma s surprise visit. (Use: joy ) in joy at Grandma s surprise visit. joyous at Grandma s surprise visit. in joy at Grandma s surprise visit. filled with joy at Grandma s surprise visit. 5. It was probably the first time in twenty years that anyone had smiled in that lumber room. (Begin: In .) (a) In all probability, it was the first time in twenty years that anyone had smiled in that lumber room. (b) In all probabilities, it was the first time in twenty years that anyone smiled in that lumber room. (c) In all probability, it was the first time in twenty years that anyone had smiled in that lumber room. (d) In every probability, it was the first time in twenty years that anyone smiled in that lumber room. 6. She always contradicted him.( Begin: There was ) (a) There was never an occasion when she did not contradict him. (b) There was never an occasion when she did contradict him. (c) There was always an occasion when she did not contradict him. (d) There was never an occasion that she did not contradict him. 7. The migrant was bidden to leave the country by the authority. ( End: . leave the country) (a) The authority bid the migrant to leave the country. (b) The authority bids the migrant to leave the country. (c) The authority bade the migrant to leave the country. (d) The authority bidded the migrant to leave the country. 8. Starting a fitness routine was the best decision I made this year. (Begin: No other ..) (a) No other fitness routine I made this year was the best decision I started. (b) No other decision I started this year was as good as a fitness routine. (c) No other decision I made this year was as good as starting a fitness routine. (d) No other routine I started this year was the best decision I made.

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