Std: 10TH (Eng.

) TATTVAM Time: 3 hours

Date: 25-12-2024 ENGLISH Total Marks: 80
(Group - 2, R – 2)

SECTION – A
❖ Read the following passage and answer the given questions. [3]
"Follow me," he was saying. "Follow me.""He knows that I am lost, I thought. 'He's trying to help me.
He turned his aeroplane slowly to the north, in front of my Dakota, so that it would be easier for me to
follow him. I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplanęlike an obedient child. After half an
hour the strange black aeroplane was still there in front of me in the clouds. Now there was only
enough fuel in the old Dakota's last tank to fly for five or ten minutes more. I was starting to feel
frightened again. But then he started to go down and I followed through the storm.
Questions:
1. What did the Dakota pilot think about the pilot of black aeroplane?
2. In which direction did the black aeroplane pilot turn his plane?
3. How much fuel was left in his plane?
❖ Read the following passage and answer the given questions: [2]
That was twenty-four hours ago. Since then, nobody had come near him.
The day before, all day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his brothers and sister,
perfecting them in the art of flight, teaching them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish. He
had, in fact, seen his older brother catch his first herring and devour it, standing on a rock, while his
parents circled around raising a proud cackle. And all the morning the whole family had walked about
on the big plateau midway down the opposite cliff taunting him with his cowardice.
4. Identify the correct sentence about the seagull from the given below.
A. The seagull's parents gave him directions about how to dive in the water.
B. The seagull raised a proud crackle to congratulate his brother.
C. The whole family taunted him for his cowardice.
D. The seagull got to a eat a portion of the herring his brother had caught.
5. Match the synonym for the word 'devour' from the options given below.
A. Destroy B. Swallow C. Savor D. Secure
❖ Fill in the blank selecting appropriate option. [5]
(unpredictable, dummies, pleading, teachers, quarter)
Even G's __6__ glances and my angry outbursts can't calm them down. If you ask me, there are so
many __7__ that about a __8__ of the class should be kept back, but __9__ are the most __10__
creatures on earth.
❖ Answer the following questions in about five to six sentences each. (any 3) [6]
11. How did the rain change? What happened to Lencho's fields ?
12. Describe the views of Mandela for the black people who fought and sacrificed their lives for the
country's political independence?
13. Was Anne right when she said that the world would not be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-
old girl?
14. Why was lencho angry while counting the money.
 SECTION – B
❖ Read the following line and answer the following questions: [3]
If, when you're walking round your yard
You meet a creature there,
Who hugs you very, very hard,
Be sure it is a Bear,
If you have any doubts, I guess
He'll give you just one more caress.
Questions:
15. Who is going to hug you?
16. What is the synonym of 'hug'?
17. Where can a bear be found?
❖ Choose the right answer from the given options. [2]
18. This simple rule may help you learn the Bengal Tiger to discern
(A) Alliteration and Simile (B) Internal Rhyme and Alliteration
(C) Simile and Metaphor (D) Anastrophe and Internal Rhyme
19. 'If when you're walking round your yard'.
(A) Personification (B) Alliteration
(C) Metonymy (D) Metaphor
❖ Answer the following questions in about 4 to 5 sentences each. (any 3) [6]
20. Have there been times when you felt depressed or hopeless? Have you experienced a similar moment
that changed your mood that day
21. What is 'dust of snow'? How has it changed the poet's mood?
22. How is the Asian Lion described in the poem?
23. How the world will perish twice?
❖ Read the following passage and answer the given questions. [3]
Fifteen years ago, Horace had served his first and only sentence in a prison library. He loved rare,
expensive books. So he robbed a safe every year. Each year he planned carefully just what he would
do, stole enough to last for twelve months, and secretly bought the books he loved through an agent.
24. Why does he steal every year?
25. Which word in the above extract means the same as 'with a lot of alertness'?
26. What is strange in the passage?
❖ Read the following passage and answer the given questions. [2]
That science has become one of the most powerful factors in modern life is a generally accepted and
indeed an obvious fact. The proper role of the scientist himself is however a point on which there is no
general agreement. On the one hand are those diehards, who ignoring the changed circumstances of the
outside, contend that, outside the laboratory, the personal influence of the scientist should be no more
than any other citizen. On the other hand, are extremists who advocate a state verging on a technocracy
in which scientists would
have special privileges and large measures of control. Those who tend towards the latter view are
much more vociferous than their more conservative and much more numerous colleagues, with the
unfortunate result that there is a widespread impression that scientists generally share these views and
wish to claim, a far larger share in the control of world affairs than they possess at present. It is,
therefore timely to attempt an assessment of the proper status of the scientist in modern society.
Questions:
27. What is the obvious fact of science today?
28. What according to diehards is the role of a scientist?
 SECTION – C
❖ Write the error and its correction as shown in the example. [4]
ERROR CORRECTION
29. He still owes me fifty cents at a poker game. __________ __________
30. I was fool enough to pay on him. __________ __________
31. Everyone make fun of her and mimicked her. __________ __________
32. She was called Bholi, an simpleton. __________ __________
❖ Punctuation Paragraph : [2]
33. Cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas as well as other festivals Thus the presence of the bakers
furnace in the village is absolutely essential
❖ Fill in the blanks using articles(s), conjunction(s) and preposition(s) at the correct places. Write
the answers only. [4]
[To, With, At, Though]
Let me introduce you __34__ Mullah Nasruddin. He was a wonderful man. He was full of ideas. He
looked __35__ life in many ways. He always tried to see the other side of a thing. __36__ he lived in
Turkey about a thousand years ago, he is still remembered by people all over the world. Stories about
him are told and re-told __37__ great interest.
❖ Turn the following dialogue into the Indirect Speech: [3]
38. I switched on the radio and said, "Paris control, Dakota DS 088 here. Can you hear me? I am on my
way to England. Over." The voice from the radio answered me immediately: "DS 008, I can hear you.
You ought to turn twelve degrees west now, DS? 008. Over."
❖ Do as Directed. [5]
39. Srija did it. (Add a Question Tag)
(A) Srija did it, Did she? (B) Srija did it, didn't she?
(C) Srija did it, Does she? (D) Srija did it, doesn't she?
40. The earrings were screwed into place. (Select the correct Active voice)
(A) Someone screwed the earrings into place by her.
(B) She screwed the earrings into the place to someone.
(C) She screwed the earrings into the place.
(D) He was screwed the earrings into the place.
41. I have not been reading more than I could about tea. (Select the correct Positive Degree)
(A) I have not been reading so much as I could about tea.
(B) I have been reading as much as I could about tea
(C) I had reading so much as I could about tea.
(D) I would have read as much as I could about tea.
42. Is it proper for such a young person to travel alone? (Select the correct Assertive sentence)
(A) It is not proper for such a young person to travel alone.
(B) It was proper for such a young person to travel alone.
(C) It was not proper for such a young person to travel alone.
(D) It is proper for such a young person to travel alone.
43. Coorg, or Kodagu is the smallest district of Karntaka. (Select the correct Positive degree)
(A) No other district of Karnataka is so small as Coorg or Kodagu.
(B) No other district of Karnataka is smaller as Coorg or Kodagu.
(C) Coorg or Kodagu is as small as other district of Karnataka.
(D) Coorg or Kodagu is smaller than any other district of Karnataka.
 SECTION – D
❖ Read the following Poetry and answer the given questions. [4]
Build for yourself a strong boxFashion each part with care, when it's strong as your hand can make it.
Put all troubles there; Hide there all thoughts of your failure, and each bitter cup that you quaff; Lock
all your heartaches within it. Then sit on the lid and laugh.
Questions:
44. What will you make for yourself?
45. When and where will you put all your troubles?
46. What will you hide in the box?
47. We should keep our worries in our heart. True or False? Why?
❖ Answer as requested: [4]
48. The customer realises that the shopkeeper is being unfair to him. Complete the conversion between the
two in which the customer makes the shopkeeper realise his mistake.
❖ Answer as requested: [4]
49. Your school has participated in a campaign 'Say No to Plastic'. Design a poster with a title and a slogan
for it.'
OR
49. Write a notice infrorming the student about inter school cricket tournament, as you are the sports club
secratery.
OR
❖ Answer as requested:
49. You are Rani Amol of class 10 of B. J. High School. You have lost your spectacles and journal in
school. Write a notice for the Lost and Found' on the notice board of your school-in not more than 50
words.
SECTION – E
❖ Answer as requested: [6]
50. Write an email to water division BMC complaining that you are getting contaminated water supply for
the last 2 days.
OR
51. Write a letter to your grandparents informing about your future study plans after std. 10.
52. There was blood donation camp jointly organised by the Red cross club and your school. Write a
report for your school magazine. [4]
53. Write an essay in about 200 words on any one of the following. Health hazards caused by junk food.
[8]
OR
53. Clean environment is healthy environment.