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ICSE Class X Prelims 2024 : English Paper 1 (English Language)

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St. Xavier s Academy, Rajkot Std.: 10th (ICSE) An Education You Can Have Faith In! PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION ENGLISH GRAMMAR (22-12-2023) Time: 2 Hrs. Total Marks: 80 Note: 1. 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. 2. Attempt All Five questions. The intended marks for questions or for parts of questions are given in brackets [ ]. You are advised not to spend 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) During a football match between your school and a neighbouring school, a free-for-all fight suddenly broke out, thus ending what started as a thrilling match. When the situation went out of control, the policemen were drafted to the scene. Give a detailed account of the scene. (b) Describe time when you had trouble in your school. State how you solved the problem. (c) Government should give unemployment allowance to the unemployed people till they get a job. Give arguments either in favour or against the proposition. (d) Write a short story which illustrates the truth of the statement, Self-help is the best help. (e) Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be directly about the subject of the picture or may take suggestions from it, but there must be some clear connection between the picture and the composition. Question 2 (DO NOT spend more than 20 minutes on this question) Select ONE of the following: [10] (a) Write a letter in reply to a penfriend abroad who has asked you for information about what is being done in your country to reduce the number of accidents on roads. (b) You left your library book in a shop by mistake. Write a letter to the owner of the shop requesting him to enquire about the book and to keep it with him if he succeeds in finding it. Give a description of the book, the time you left the shop and other details you think are important. Question 3 (5+5) (a) Your school is organizing a career guidance seminar during summer vacation. As the Head Boy/Head Girl of your school, draft a notice to be displayed on the school notice board, inviting the interested students of Classes X & XII to register their names for the event. (b) Write an email to the Principals of two neighbouring schools to encourage their students of Classes X and XII to join the career guidance seminar. Use the details given in Q3 (a) Page 1 of 4 Question 4 Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgements about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But, at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognised messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I cheered up, set the watch by guess and commanded my superstitions to depart. Next day, I stepped into the chief jeweller s to set it by the exact time. The head of the establishment took it out of my hand and processed to set it for me. Then he said, She is four minutes slow regulator wants pushing up. I tried to stop him and implored him to let the watch alone; but he cruelly did the shameful deed. My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within a week it sickened to a raging fever and its pulse went up and up. At the end of two months, it had left all the timepieces of the town far behind and was a fraction over thirteen days ahead of time. It was away into November enjoying the snow, while the October leaves were still turning yellow. I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated. He had a look of vicious happiness and eagerly pried the watch open, and then put a small dice-box into his eye and peered into its machinery. He said it wanted cleaning and oiling. After this, my watch slowed down to that degree that it ticked all appointments I go to, missing my dinner, I gradually drifted back into yesterday, then the day before, then into last and the world was out of sight. I went to the watchmaker again. He took the watch all to pieces and took three days to sort it right. After this the watch averaged well, but nothing more. But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch. Following another visit to another watchmaker it would run a while and then stop a while, using its own discretion about the intervals, and so I went again to have the watch repaired. It now performed unexceptionably, except that often after few hours, everything inside would fall apart and begin to buzz like a bee. Its hands would spin round and round, so fast, that they simply seemed a delicate spider s web over the face of the watch. The watch had cost two hundred dollars and I seemed to have paid out two or three thousand for repairs. (a) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. One -word answers or short phrases will be accepted: [3] (i) infallible (line 2) a. always go wrong b. never go wrong c. sometime go wrong d. rarely go wrong (ii) implored (line 9) a. ordered b. asked c. instructed d. requested (iii) drifted (line 19) a. moved b. fall c. come d. go (b) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words: What were the narrator s views on his new watch before it developed some fault? [1] What superstitions of the narrator are referred to in the first paragraph of the passage? [2] What is the shameful deed referred to in the second paragraph? [2] Explain the meaning of: It was away into November enjoying the snow, while the October leaves were still turning yellow. [2] (v) Refer to the fourth paragraph and explain the consequences of the watch slowing down. [2] (c) In not more than 50 words, summarise the erratic working of the watch. [8] Question 5 Page 2 of 4 (a) In the following passage, 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 day the King was on his way to the forest to hunt. As he was __1__ (leave) his castle he saw Nasruddin. For some reason he believed that it was a bad omen __2__ (see) him on his way to a hunt. So he ordered his guards to beat Nasruddin and send him away. However, the King had a very good hunt and came back __3__ (satisfy). Then he remembered about Nasruddin and felt bad. So he asked that Nasruddin be brought to the castle. Nasruddin walked in, __4__ (bandage) and __5__ (limp). I am so sorry, Nasruddin, said the King. I thought you __6__ (be) a bad omen for me. But I had a good hunt and realised that it s not true. Nasruddin glared at the King. You thought I was a bad omen? Your Highness, you saw me and had a successful hunt. I saw you and got __7__ (beat) up. Who do you __8__ (think) is a bad omen? (b) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: My savings ran ___________ in a month. She is putting ___________ in her aunt s house. I saw __________ his clever plan. The Principal looked ___________ the matter and punished the guilty. The pond abounds __________ fish. My sister dissuaded me ___________ going abroad for studies. Don t get angry ________ me. He has just scrape _________ the examination. (c) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so: Choose the correct options: 1. The exam was very difficult. I could not pass it. a. The exam was too difficult that I could not pass it. b. The exam was so difficult that I could not pass it. c. Being very difficult, I could not pass the exam . d. The exam was very difficult and I would not pass it. 2. I heard the song. It brought back memories of my country. a. The song that I heard had brought back memories of my country. b. When I heard the song which brought back memories of my country. c. I heard the song which brought back memories of my country. d. The song brought back the memories of my country. 3. She decided not to buy the camera. The price was high. a. Since the price was very high, she decided not to buy the camera. b. The price being high, she decided not to buy the camera. c. The price having high, she decided not to buy the camera. d. The price been high, she decided not to buy the camera. 4. She is helpful. She is very poor. a. Despite of being very poor, she is very helpful. b. In spite of being very poor, she was very helpful. c. Despite being very poor, she is very helpful. d. She is very poor and she wanted to help people. [4] [4] Page 3 of 4 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. Choose the correct options: [8] 1. You should focus on your back stroke, Zoa, the coach said. (Begin: The coach advised...) a. The coach advised Zoa to focus on your back stroke. b The coach advised Zoa to focus on her back stroke. c. The coach advised Zoa that had to focus on her back stroke. d. The coach advised Zoa that she must focus on her back stroke. 2. The protests did not stop until the president resigned. (Begin: Not until...) a. Not until the president resigned, the protests did not stop. b Not until the protests stopped, the president resigned. c. Not until the protests stopped, did the president resign. d. Not until the president resigned, did the protests stop. 4. Don t blame her if the mirror is broken. (Begin: She is not...) a. She is not responsible for the breaking of the mirror. b. She is not to be blamed if the mirror is broken. c. She was not responsible for the breaking of the mirror. d. She is to be blamed if the mirror is broken. 5. You remembered to sign the contract, didn t you? (Begin: You didn t...) a. You did not remember to sign the contract, did you? b. You did not remember to sign the contract, didn t you? c. You did not forget to sign the contract, did you? d. You did not forgot to sign the contract, did you? 6. As soon as the bell rang, I opened the door. (Use: no sooner) a. No sooner the bell rang I opened the door. b. No sooner the bell rang than I opened the door. c. No sooner had the bell rang than I opened the door. d. No sooner did the bell ring than I opened the door. 7. It is a pity that I forgot my password. (Begin: I wish...) a. I wish I remembered my password. b. I wish I forgot my password. c. I wish I did not remember my password. d. I wish I have remembered my password. 8. Time has already exceeded that you stop now. (Begin: It is high time...) a. It is high time for you to stop. b. It is high time that you stop. c. It is high time that you must stop. d. It is high time that you stopped. ******************* Page 4 of 4

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