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ICSE Class X Sample / Model Paper 2025 : English Paper 1 (English Language)

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Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 ICSE Paper I Mock Test (This worksheet may be administered to students of CISCE board who are thorough with the ICSE syllabus) Time: Reading: 15 minutes + Writing: 2 Hours = 2 Hours 15 minutes. Full Marks: 80 Fill in the box below before you proceed further: NAME CLASS/GRADE/FORM/BATCH DATE Suitable for: CISCE Classes 9 and 10 (age 14+) 1 Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 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 [ ]. 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: (a) [20] Write an original short story having the following theme: Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves (b) Social Media is the leading cause of brainlessness today. Express your views either for or against this statement. (c) Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Describe an incident to prove the truth of this statement. (d) Never judge a book by its cover. Narrate an incident which made you realise that individual bias and prejudice often prevents us from gaining new experiences. 2 Samaddar Tutorials (e) Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 Study the picture given below. Write a short 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. Question 2 [10] (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select any one of the following: (a) You have behaved very rudely with your cousin. Write a letter to him / her apologizing for the rude behaviour. Explain what happened and tell him / her what you plan to do to make amends. (b) Write a letter to the Police Commissioner of your city, stating your concern about the rise in pickpockets in the public transport systems. Also state how it can be checked. 3 Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 Question 3 (a) Your school is organising an inter-school photography competition. Write a notice to be put up in your school, informing the students about the event. [5] (b) Write an e-mail to the principal of a neighbouring school, informing him/her of the event and requesting him/her to send a team to participate in the competition. [5] Question 4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: Ten o'clock. The sun came out from behind the rain. The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles. 5 10 Ten-fifteen. The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness. The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned, evenly free of its white paint. The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down. The five spots of paint - the man, the woman, the children, the ball- remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer. The gentle sprinkler rain filled the garden with falling light. 15 20 Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, "Who goes there? What's the password?" and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia. It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window, the shade snapped up. The bird, startled, flew off! No, not even a bird must touch the house! 4 Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 Twelve noon. A dog whined, shivering, on the front porch. 25 30 The front door recognized the dog voice and opened. The dog, once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores, moved in and through the house, tracking mud. Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience. For not a leaf fragment blew under the door but what the wall panels flipped open and the copper scrap rats flashed swiftly out. The offending dust, hair, or paper, seized in miniature steel jaws, was raced back to the burrows. There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Bael in a dark corner. The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here. It sniffed the air and scratched the kitchen door. Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich baked odour and the scent of maple syrup. 35 The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire. It ran wildly in circles, biting at its tail, spun in a frenzy, and died. It lay in the parlour for an hour. Two o'clock, sang a voice. Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown grey leaves in an electrical wind. Two-fifteen. 40 The dog was gone. In the cellar, the incinerator glowed suddenly, and a whirl of sparks leaped up the chimney. Two thirty-five. Bridge tables sprouted from patio walls. Playing cards fluttered onto pads in a shower of pips. Martinis manifested on an oaken bench with egg-salad sandwiches. Music played. 45 But the tables were silent and the cards untouched. At four o'clock the tables folded like great butterflies back through the panelled walls. Four-thirty. The nursery walls glowed. 5 Samaddar Tutorials (a) Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage: One-word answers or short phrases will be accepted. (b) (i) pelted (line 5) (ii) paranoia (line 18) (iii) hysterically (line 30) [3] Answer the following questions briefly in your own words. (c) (i) Where were there silhouettes of the man, woman, boy and girl? [1] (ii) Why were these silhouettes there? [2] (iii) Who behaved in an old maidenly way? Why? [2] (iv) Where had the dog gone ? [2] (v) What do you think that the tables were silent and the cards untouched ? [2] In not more than 50 words, describe the house and its inhabitants. [8] Question 5 (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] Example: (0) was given 6 Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 When I went to University, I (0) ___________ (give) a room of my own. The common link of friendship (1) ___________ (snap). My grandmother (2) ___________ (accept) our seclusion with resignation. She rarely (3) ___________ (leave) her spinning wheel to talk to anyone. From sunrise to sunset she (4) __________ (sit) by her wheel (5) ___________ (spin). Only in the afternoon she (6) __________ (relax) for a while to feed the sparrows. Some sparrows (7) ___________ (come) and (8) ___________ (perch) on her legs. (b) Fill in the blank with an appropriate word: (i) The earthquake victims were provided ___________ everything. (ii) Natural calamities do not distinguish ___________ the rich and the poor. (iii) She hankers ___________ riches. (iv) The thief crept stealthily ___________ the car. (v) He is the braver ___________ the two. (vi) Traffic usually eases ___________ by 8 pm. (vii) I decided to dispense ___________ the services of the driver. [4] (viii) I refused to give ___________ his unfair demands. (c) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option. [4] 1. We placed our order late. We received the food on time. (a) Despite placed our order late, the food was received on time. (b) Despite placing our order late, we received the food on time. (c) Despite we placed our order late, the food was received on time. (d) Despite of us placing our order late, we receiving the food on time. 7 Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 2. The music stopped. The audience left the auditorium. (a) Hardly had the music stopped so the audience left the auditorium. (b) Hardly had the music stopped then the audience left the auditorium. (c) Hardly had the music stopped since the audience left the auditorium. (d) Hardly had the music stopped when the audience left the auditorium 3. You cannot enter the club. You do not have a membership. (a) You cannot enter the club unless you have a membership. (b) You cannot enter the club since you have a membership. (c) You cannot enter the club whereas you have a membership. (d) You cannot enter the club if you have a membership. 4. She was very late. She could not catch the train. (a) She was to late to catch the train. (b) She was so late to catch the train. (c) She was too late to catch the train. (d) She was as late so as to catch the train. 8 Samaddar Tutorials (d) Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 Choose the correct option to rewrite the following according to the instructions given after each sentence. [8] 1. The burglar ran away the moment he saw the guard. (Begin with: No sooner ) (a) No sooner has the burglar seen the guard, he ran away. (b) No sooner than the burglar saw the guard, he ran away. (c) No sooner did the burglar see the guard when he ran away. (d) No sooner had the burglar seen the guard than he ran away. 2. The parents have trained their children well. (Begin with: The children ) (a) The children were trained well by their parents. (b) The children is being trained well by their parents. (c) The children had been trained well by their parents. (d) The children have been trained well by their parents. 3. My cousins returned home one month ago. (Begin with: It has ...) (a) It has been one month for my cousins' return home. (b) It has been one month since my cousins returned home. (c) It has been one month when my cousins returned home. (d) It has been one month ago that my cousins returned home. 4. Your form will be accepted if it is submitted on time. (Use: unless ) (a) Your form will be accepted unless it is submitted on time. (b) Unless your form is submitted on time, it will not be accepted. (c) Unless the form is accepted, it should be submitted on time. (d) Your form will be accepted unless it is not submitted on time 9 Samaddar Tutorials Grammar Worksheet G09-MT-S001 5. The house needs a thorough cleaning again. (Use: thoroughly) (a) The house needs a thoroughly cleaning again. (b) The house needed a cleaning thoroughly again. (c) The house needs to be cleaned thoroughly again. (d) The house needed to be thoroughly clean yet again. 6. My sister offered me a new job in her company. (Begin with: A new job ) (a) A new job was offered to me by my sister in her company. (b) A new job has been offered to me by my sister in her company. (c) A new job had been offered to me by my sister in her company. (d) A new job was being offered to me by my sister in her company. 7. "I am going to watch my friend's play tomorrow," she said. (Begin with: She said...) (a) She said that she is going to watch her friend's play tomorrow. (b) She said that she will be going to watch her friend's play tomorrow. (c) She said that she was going to watch my friend's play the following day. (d) She said that she was going to watch her friend's play the following day. 8. Nithin is more talented than most of the professional musicians I know. (Use: few) (a) Professional musicians I know have few talents as Nithin. (b) Few professional musicians I know are as talented as Nithin. (c) Few professional musicians I know are not as talented as Nithin. (d) Professional musicians I know do not have as few talents as Nithin. 10

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