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Sample Paper 2013 Class X Subject ENGLISH PAPER I ( LANGUAGE) Marks : 80 ( 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 the FOUR questions. The intended marks for questions or parts of question are given in brackets [ ]. You are advised to spend not more than 35 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Question 1 [15] (Do not spend more than 35 minutes on this question.) Write a composition of reasonable length (350-400 words) on any ONE of the topics given below. a) Manners maketh man. Express your views either for or against the statement. b) Write an original story entitled: The Miraculous Escape c) Narrate how travel has been of educational value to you. d) Role of dreams in human life 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 may take suggestions from it but there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition. Question 2 [10] (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select ONE of the following. a) Imagine that you have a friend in America who has planned to visit India. Advise him in a letter about what time of the year he should come, what he can bring with him and places he should aim to visit. You can also tell him you would be delighted if he spends a few days with you. b) Write a letter to the Director of Health and Medical Services of the local hospital thanking him for the good care taken of your mother while under treatment in the hospital. Question 3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. A sound of quick steps broke the silence of the moor. Crouching among the stones, we started intently at the silver-tipped bank in front of us. The steps grew louder, and through the fog, as through a curtain, there stepped the man whom we were awaiting. He looked round him in surprise as he emerged into the clear, starlit night. Then he came swiftly along the path, passed close to where we lay, and went on up the long slope behind us. As he walked he glanced continually over either shoulder, like a man who is ill at ease. Hist! cried Holmes, and I heard the sharp click of a cocking pistol. Look out. It s coming. There was thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the heart of the crawling bank. The cloud was within fifty yards of where we lay, and we glared at it, all three, uncertain what horror was about to break from the heart of it. I was at Holmes elbow, and I glanced for an instant at his face. It was pale, exultant, his eyes shining brightly in the moonlight. But suddenly they started forward in rigid, fixed stare, and his lips parted in amazement. At the same instant, Lestrade gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downwards upon the ground. I sprang to my feet; my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which handspring out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its mouth, its eyes glowed with a smoldering glare, its muzzle and develop were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appealing, more hellish, be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog. With long bounds the huge black creature was leaping down the track, following hard upon the footsteps of our friend. So paralysed were we by the apparition that we allowed him to pass before we had recovered our nerve. Then Holmes and I fired together, and the creature gave a hideous howl, which showed that one at least had hit him. He did not pause, however, but bounded onwards. Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from that hound had blown all our fears to the wind. If he was vulnerable, he was mortal, and if he could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes run that night. In front of us as we flew up the track we heard scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound. I was in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground and worry at his throat. But the next instant Holmes had emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creature s flank. With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet pawing furiously, and then fell limp upon its side. (a) Three words or phrases are given below. Give the meaning of each as used in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted: (i) Crouching (ii) Flickering (iii) Delirious (iv) Bounded (v) Pawing [3] (b) Answer the following questions in your own words: [12] (i) Mention to reasons given in the passage which show that the man who had come through the fog was not sure of himself. (ii) Would you say that Holmes, Lestrade and Watson were mentally prepared for the horrible creature which emerged from the forg? Give reasons for your answer. (iii) Why did Holmes and Watson shoot the hound only after it had passed them? (iv) Watson says that he and Sherlock Holmes were no longer afraid of the hound after they had shot at it. Why? (v) Whom was the hound following? For what purpose? (vi) Was the hound able to get his victim? How does the text reveal it? (vii) In your opinion, was the hound real or imaginary? Give reasons for your answer. (c) In not more than 60 words describe the chain of events after Lestrade threw himself on the ground. [10] Question 4 [20] a) 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] One lonely evening, my Grandpa (1) (play) an interesting game of chess with his old friend who (2) . (come) to visit him. When the game (3) . (be) over, my Grandpa (4) (realise) that his friend (5) (die) seven years ago. I (6) (enjoy) the game, (7) .. (assert) his old friend. And according to my grandpa, that friend (8) . (come) every day for six months now. b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: [4] i) Who is looking this baby nowadays? ii) The officer is looking .. the matter carefully. iii) He has no hope recovery. iv) I entrusted him all my wealth. v) Let us not fight .. our brothers. vi) The Germans fought the English in the Second World War. vii) The new chapter begins page 20. viii) They didn t want the news of their engagement .. till it was officially announced. c) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and ,but or so. [4] i) He has some weaknesses. He is the darling of everyone. ii) He could afford to lose something. He lost somewhat more. iii) The thief entered the room. He found it empty. iv) He may be innocent. I do not know. d) 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. i) They should not have the lame horse in the . . (use proper forms of desert .) ii) She likes mangoes more than bananas. (change into Positive Degree..) iii) Every one loves his country. (Change into negative. ) iv) The servant has gone to the market (Use infinitive to complete the sentence.) v) He kept flying ahead of us, cackling loudly, until Larry has thoroughly exasperated. (Begin: Larry ..................................... ) vi) He tricked the gun under his arm and stamped irritably on to the bridge. (End: ......................his arm. ) vii) I had just settled down to do my homework assignment when lights went off. (Begin: Hardly ............................................................ ) viii) He said, I will not listen to such gossip and scandal. (Begin: He said that ............................................................. ) [8]

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