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SHARADA MANDIR SCHOOL STD: 10 ENGLISH PAPER- 1 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION DEC 2023 MARKS: 80 TIME: 2 HRS 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 [ ]. 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] (a) Write an original short story that begins with, I could feel my heart racing as I looked into the mirror (b) I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. Thomas Edison Narrate a situation in your life to prove the truth of the above quote. (c) You visit an old house which is rumoured to be haunted. Give details of the unusual sights, sounds and smells that you experienced. How did you feel as you left the house? (d) Graffiti is a form of expression that should be considered Art. Express your views for or against the statement. (e) 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. Question2 (Do no spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select any one of the following: [10] (a) Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner, appreciating an initiative taken by the government to make the city environmentally friendly. Suggest one additional measure that can be incorporated to make your city more eco friendly. OR (b) Festivals are joyous occasions to spread good will and cheer. Write a letter to your cousin telling him about how you plan to celebrate an upcoming festival. State how you will appreciate and show gratitude to those around you. CONT D.... 1 PAGE 2 ENGLISH PAPER- 1 STD 10 Question 3 (a) You are the President of the Nature Club of your school. Write a notice informing the students of class 10 about a Nature Quiz, to be conducted in your school. [5] (b) Write an e-mail, as the President of the Nature Club, to the Principal of a neighbouring school requesting her/him to send two students to participate in the Nature Quiz. Give necessary details. [5] Question 4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. The Battle of Chancellorsville was one of the most famous battles fought during the turbulent years of the American Civil War. This battle was fought between the Union Army of Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. It took place in Virginia in the spring of 1863. For days at stretch, the two armies had been staked out on opposite banks of a narrow river. The Confederate troops were led by perhaps the most revered military tactician in American history, General Robert E. Lee. The Union soldiers were led by Fighting Joe Hooker. In appearance, personality, and lifestyle, the two commanders were nearly perfect opposites. Robert Lee, the Commander of the Confederate Army, was an older man in poor health with a gray beard, and sombre, measured demeanour. Quite unlike him, Joe Hooker was a blond, strapping young man whose vanity over his appearance was but one aspect of his egotism. While Lee was devout and principled, 10 Hooker was known for his rollicking enjoyment. Despite the fact that the Confederacy had won the last four major battles and the Union soldiers were famished, exhausted, and demoralized, Hooker proclaimed, My plans are perfect. And when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none. Why, aside from a propensity for narcissism, was Hooker so confident? Hooker had used spies, analysts, and even hot air balloons to compile a vast amount of intelligence about Lee s army. He had discerned, for example, that Lee had only 61,000 men to Hooker s own 134,000. Buoyed by his superior numbers, Hooker covertly moved 70,000 of his men fifteen miles up and across the river, and then ordered them to sneak back down to position themselves behind Lee s army. In effect, Hooker had cut off the Confederate soldiers in front and behind. They were trapped. Satisfied with his advantage, Hooker became convinced that Lee s only option was to retreat to Richmond, thus assuring a Union victory. Yet Lee, despite his disadvantages of both numbers and position, did not retreat. Instead, he moved his troops into position to attack. Union soldiers who tried to warn Hooker that Lee was on the offensive were dismissed as cowards. Having become convinced that Lee had no choice but to retreat, Hooker began to ignore reality. When Lee s army attacked the Union soldiers at 5:00 p.m., they were eating supper, completely unprepared for battle. They abandoned their rifles and fled as Lee s troops came shrieking out of the brush, bayonets drawn. Against all odds, Lee won the Battle of Chancellorsville, and Hooker s forces withdrew in defeat. (i) For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the options provided: [2] 1. revered (line 5) (a) admired (b) reverend (c) sacred (d) disreputable 2. (a) (b) (c) (d) covertly (line 18) stealthily openly inwardly publicly CONT D.... 2 20 PAGE 3 ENGLISH PAPER- 1 (ii) Which word in the passage means opposite of satiated ? (a) exhausted (b) turbulent (c) famished (d) rollicking STD 10 [1] (iii) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words. 1) When and where did the Battle of Chancellorsville take place? Between whom was this battle fought? [2] 2) What aspect of Joe Hooker s personality led to the defeat of his forces? Justify your answer.[2] 3) What was the condition of the Union soldiers when Joe hooker was planning the next battle? Why? [2] 4) Why was Hooker confident of victory against Lee? [2] 5) What phrase conveys the fact that Joe Hooker was excessively fascinated with his own self? [1] (iv) In not more than 50 words write how Robert Lee s war strategies won the Battle of Chancellorsville. What consequence did the victory have on Hooker s forces? [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 blankspace. [4] Example: (0) wanted In the afternoon, my mother ___0___(want) me to run out and play, but I ___1___(not go) far. I ___2___(know) if I went a certain distance, I would forget. Below our house, there was a valley, and in a deep hollow, the millpond and mill stream ___3___(run) between wooded hills. Once there, I ___4___(tend) to forget the real world, so I sat, on a wall outside the house, running in every half an hour to see how mother was. Evening ___5___(fall) ; the street lamps ___6___(light) and the paper boy ___7___(go) crying up the road, selling the evening edition. I ___8___(buy) a paper and tried to read it to mother. (ii) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: (a) The child is not well; she is feeling a little _____ the weather. (b) I must insist _____following this rule. (c) The medicine will act _______ the patient after some time. (d) On seeing his intense anger, she backed _______. (e) She broke _______ on hearing the news of her friend s death. (f) The burglar broke _______ the shop last night. (g) The nanny distributed chocolates ____ the two brothers. (h) The cat jumped on the table and knocked _______ the vase. [4] (v) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentences without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option: [4] 1. Sita does not know the formula. Sheena does not know the formula. (a) Sita and Sheena both do not know the formula. (b) Sita, as well as Sheena, do not know the formula. (c) Neither Sita nor Sheena knows the formula. (d) Neither Sita nor Sheena know the formula. CONT D.... 3 PAGE 4 ENGLISH PAPER- 1 STD 10 2. Read more. You will gain more knowledge. (a) The more you read, the more knowledge you will gain. (b) Read more to get vast knowledge (c) Read more and gain more knowledge. (d) The more knowledge you gain, the more you read. 3. Father did the laundry. He then ironed the clothes. (a) After doing the laundry, father ironed the clothes. (b) After ironing the clothes, father did the laundry. (c) Not only did father do the laundry but also ironed the clothes. (d) Father did the laundry as well as ironed the clothes. 4. I found my lucky coin. I thought I had lost it. (a) I found my lucky coin, which I thought I had lost it. (b) I found my lucky coin, which I thought I had lost. (c) I found my lucky coin, while I thought I had lost it. (d) I found my lucky coin since I thought I had lost it. (vi) Choose the correct option and re-write the following sentences according to the instructions given after each sentence. [8] 1. When the football match ended, the Japanese team cleaned the stadium. (Begin: No sooner ) (a) No sooner did the football match end, whenthe Japanese team cleaned the stadium. (b) No sooner did the football match end, than the Japanese team cleaned the stadium. (c) No sooner did the football match end, then the Japanese team cleaned the stadium. (d) No sooner had the football match ended, when the Japanese team cleaned the stadium. 2. She is the best artist in this exhibition. (Use: better) (a) She is better than any other artist in this exhibition. (b) In this exhibition, no other artist was better than her. (c) None is a better artist than her in that exhibition. (d) No other artist is better then her in this exhibition. 3. Unless the United Nations intervenes, human rights will be violated in Ukraine. (Begin: If ) (a) If the United Nation intervenes, human rights will be violated in Ukraine. (b) If the United Nation does not intervene, human rights will be violated in Ukraine. (c) Human rights will be violated in Ukraine, if the United Nation intervenes. (d) If the United Nation had not intervened, human rights would have been violated in Ukraine. 4. In spite of the rains, they played the match (Begin: Despite ) (a) Despite of the rains, they played the match. (b) Despite the rains, they will play the match. (c) Despite the rains, they played the match. (d) Despite the fact that it had rained, they will play the match. 5. The hike was so difficult, that we could not walk further. (Rewrite using too in place of so ) (a) The hike is too difficult, to walk further. (b) The hike was too difficult, to walk further. (c) The hike was too difficult, that we could not walk further. (e) The hike was to difficult, too walk further. CONT D.... 4 PAGE 5 ENGLISH PAPER- 1 6. Peanut butter and jelly are my favourite sandwich. [Correct the error in the sentence] (a) Peanut butter and jelly is my favourite sandwich. (b) Peanut butter and jelly has been my favourite sandwich. (c) Peanut butter and jelly was my favourite sandwich. (d) Peanut butter and jelly were my favourite sandwiches. 7. The doctor is examining the patient now. (Begin: The patient ) (a) The patient has been examined by the doctor. (b) The patient is being examined by the doctor. (c) The patient was examined by the doctor. (d) The patient was being examined by the doctor. 8. I am not as wise as he. (Use: wiser) (a) He is not wiser than me. (b) I am wiser than him. (c) He is wiser than I. (d) He was wiser than me. ******* END ******* 5 STD 10
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