FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 10 - MODEL QUESTION PAPER- 2 / KEY ANSWERS

 

2020-21 MODEL QUESTION PAPER - 2

Subject: FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH                                                   Subject Code: 14E

Time: 3 hrs. 15 minutes                                                                               Max. Marks: 100

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATE

·         This question Paper consists of objective and subjective types of 45 questions.

·         Follow the instructions given against both the objective and subjective types of questions.

·         Figures in the right hand margin indicate maximum marks for the questions.

·         The maximum time to answer the paper is given at the top of the question paper. It includes 15 minutes for reading the question paper.

I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions / incomplete statements. Only one of them is correct or most appropriate. Choose the correct alternative and write the complete answer along with its letter of alphabet.                                                                                 6 x 1 = 6

1. ................. universal meet is being planned to discuss the measures to control carbon emission.

The appropriate articles to be filled in the blanks are:

A. An                                                  B. The

C. A                                                    D. Zero article

 

2. A few students participated in the marathon, ................... The appropriate question tag to be added is:

A. haven’t he?                                     B. didn‟t  they ?

C. isn’t he?                                          D. did they ?

 

3. And I sunned it with smiles. The figure of speech used here is:

A. Alliteration                                     B. Personification

C. Simile                                             D. Metaphor

 

4. The boy jumped ................... the wall ................... the garden.

The appropriate preposition to be filled in the blank is:

A. up, in                                              B. above, in

C. over, into                                        D. upon, to

 

5. I ....................... a dictionary to find out the meanings of difficult words.

The correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank is:

A. look up                                           B. look in

C. look after                                        D. look down

 

6. Your boss would have sanctioned your leave if you ................ ( give ) a genuine reason.

The correct form of the verb to be filled in the blank is:

A. give                                    B. had given

C. gave                                    D. have given

 

II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following.                                                                          4 x 1 = 4

7. Nose: knows: : Meet : __________

8. Herd: Elephant: : Pack : __________

9. Deep: Shallow: : Honest : __________

10. Plentiful: Abundant: : Gallant : __________

 

III. Rewrite as directed.                                                                    3 x 1 = 3

11. Change the voice of the sentence:

Let him do that work.

 

12. Change the assertive sentence into negative interrogative sentence:

The Don was immediately arrested after he arrived at the airport.

 

13. Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer:

I took up this profession  to please my father.

 

IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each.                                   4 x 1 = 4

14. What is the „cheering sight‟ mentioned by Sir C. V. Raman?

15. What did the hunter do with the dead male sarus crane?

16. Why did the female sarus crane sit on the blood stained feathers?

17. Where did Otto Frank and the others hide themselves in, when the Nazis invaded Netherlands?

 

V. Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each.                     7 x 2 = 14

18. What are the subsidiary purposes served by controlling the movement of water and by its conservation?

19. Why did Jean lie to Pierre and send him to fetch the tart?

20. How did Parashurama realize that Karna was not a Brahmana?

21. How did Ulysses introduce himself and his group to the Cyclop?

22. What justification did Drona give for his unfair demand?

23. Why did Ulysses not attack the Cyclop with his sword?

24. Why Buttoo severed his right hand thumb.

 

VI. Rewrite as directed.                                                                             3 x 2 = 6

25. Change the following sentence to reported speech:

“Did you attend the classes yesterday ?” said Shyam.

 

26. Use the following words in sentences of your own to bring out the difference in their meanings:

a) Principal                              b) Principle

 

27. Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison:

No other virus is as deadly as Corona. 

 

VII. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each.                  6 x 3 = 18

28. What changes were noticed in the movement and attitude of the girl of the silent torrent after the man gave her the painted pitcher?

29. Why  does  the  narrator  say  that  October  is  the  best  time  in Mussoorie ? Being blind, how could he describe it?

30. Describe the experiment conducted by Pasteur on anthrax.

31. Explain  the  ideas  of  spirituality  emerging  from  the  study  of  the Vachana “The temple and the body”.

32. What mishap happened to Karna’s chariot?

33. How does the poet bring out the feelings of the female crane on the death of its male partner ?

 OR

How does the poet bring out the intense love of the female sarus crane towards its partner?

 

VIII. Explain with reference to the context.                                              5 x 3 = 15

34. “I‟m me without my hair, ain‟t I?”

35. “If you can cure animals, you can cure my son.”

36. “With her beak she kissed a few feathers picked the ones that wind had not taken away”. 

37. “Aunts are usually formidable creatures” 

38.  “Go away. I’ve got nothing for you. My wife is away and I am busy. You’d better go to the next street.” 

 

IX. Quote from memory.                                                1 x 4 = 4

39. And it grew _________________

_________________________

_________________________

__________________ was mine.

                                                            OR

And into _________________

_________________________

_________________________

__________________ beneath the tree.

 

X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each.       3 x 4 = 12

40. What illustrations does Gandhiji give to justify that all good actions need not be moral acts?

41. How is the precious soil eroded and how can this be prevented?

                                                OR

Narrate the events where we see the glimpses of Nazi cruelty in the write-up of Louis De Jong.

 

 42. Describe the effect that the spectacle of the peak had on the poet’s mind.

 

OR

Teach him to listen to all men ...

 

but teach him also to filter all he hears

 

on a screen of truth.‟

 

Bring out the different ideas conveyed in these lines.

 

XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. (2 x 2)

Tia Geminiuc, an insurance wholesaler, was making a quick stop at a chemist when she overheard an elderly woman asking for directions to a nursing home. Geminiuc tried to explain the route by city bus but it was clear that the trip would be complicated. So she said to the woman, “If you wouldn‟t mind, I would like to drive you there”.

Doing so would take her out of her way and make her late for an important meeting with a client, but  Geminiuc  believes in reaching  out.  “The feeling you get from making someone‟s day is something you can‟t purchase,” she says.

Heading to the nursing home, the older woman explained that she was going to see her husband.  “Because I gave her a lift, she got to spend an extra two  hours with him,”  says Geminiuc. “At  that moment, she needed me  more than anyone else did.”

It‟s lovely  to think that we  do  good  deeds simply because we  like  making someone‟s  day,  but  there  must  be   a  deeper  motive at  play.  Human behaviours have evolved over thousands of generations and do not persist unless they support our survival. “Natural selection minimizes any behaviour that supports others but is costly to us unless there are compensating benefits,” says a Canadian Psychologist.

 

Questions.

a) What inconvenience would Geminiuc be put to by helping the old lady?

b) What extra benefit did the old lady get by the good deed of Geminiuc ?

 

XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18 to 20 sentences on any one of the following topics.       1 x 5 = 5

a) Environmental awareness

 

b) Importance of active and responsible mass media in our country.

 

XIII.   Letter writing                                                                                            1 x 5 = 5

45. Imagine that you are a student of Government High School. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper expressing the inconveniences faced by commuters due to traffic jams in Metropolitan cities.

 

Or

Write a letter to your friend explaining to him the different options before him to take up as a career after completing his tenth standard.

 

                                             KEY ANSWERS                              

 

       I.             

1)      C) A                       1m

2)      B) Didn’t they?      1m

3)      A) Alliteration        1m

4)      C) Over, into          1m

5)      A) look up              1m

6)      B) had given        1m

 

    II.             

7)      Meat                      1m

8)      Wolves / dogs        1m

9)      Dishonest               1m

10)  Brave                     1m

 

 III.             

11)  Let that work be done by him.  1m

12)  Was not the don immediately arrested after he arrived at the airport?     1m

13)  Why did I take up this profession?  1m

 

  IV.             

14)  When rain fed tanks are full.        1m

15)  Hunter threw the dead male sarus crane like dirty linen in washing bag.   1m

16)  To hatch.   1m

17)Annexe.  1m

 

     V.             

18)Value to the life of the countryside.       2m

 

19)  Jean was beaten by M. Gaultier black and blue and he wanted Pierre should get same punishment which he had.    2m

 

20)  Parasurma recognized Karna was not a brahmana when he saw Karana had bore pain of a stinging worm. 2m

 

21)  Ulysses told the Cyclops that they had come not to steal or for business. They were Grecians who had lost their way.     2m

 

22)   Dronacharya had already promised Arjuna that there would be no one greater than Arjuna in archery and he would be the best archer ever. Thus to keep his promise Drona asked his unfair demand.                   2m

 

23)  Ulysses restrained himself because without help of Cyclop they would perish, Polyphemus could remove mass of stone from the entrance. 2m

 

24)Recompense (Gurudakshina).    2m

25)  Shyam asked whether he had attended the classes the previous day.    2m

 

26)  a) Principal: Principal has rewarded many students for their achievements.                                              2m

b) Principle: Gandhij’s principles (truth & non-violence) should be inculcated by all.

 

27)  Superlative degree: Corona is the deadliest virus.         2m

Comparative degree: Corona is deadlier than any other virus.

 

28)  - The girl of the silent torrent felt sorry for the man because did not have any work to do and he was wasting his time.  3m

- the girl was fascinated with work of that man and she spent lot of time in finding meaning..

- she had been wasting her precious time in those ribbons.

- The girl had fallen in love with the art and her attitude to life had changed.

 

29)  - The narrator describes Mussoorie dependent on his recollections.   3m

-the narrator was not generally visually impaired

-and had visited Mussoorie when his vision was acceptable.

- Narrator explained about beautiful flowers in month of October.

 

30)  - Louis Pasteur developed the idea of immunity when he doing experiment on anthrax which was killing cows and sheep in France.   3m

-He found that cow would not have anthrax second time.

-He made two lots of cows which were twenty four in each lot.

-He thought of injecting the animals with weak germs to improve immunity.

-Later he conducted experiment on cows and sheep and he found success in it.

 

31)  -Basvanna tells us that rich man can build temples for Shiva but a poor man cannot afford it.                 3m

-He compares his body as temple, where his legs as pillars, his body as shrine and his head as cupola.

-He is comparing the human body to a temple because the speaker was unable to construct temple and the speaker compared his body a temple.

-As human soul is a part of God, similarly God’s idol is placed in the temple as the soul lives in the body.

 

 

32)   - Lord Krishna pushed the chariot down five fingers into the mud as he was Arjuna’s charioteer.

-Thus dazzling arrow which was shot in the direction of Arjuna which flew spitting out fire struck Arjuna’s helmet and Arjuna was saved by Lord Krishna.

-Karna’s chariot left wheel suddenly sank into the mud puddle.   3m

 

33)  - Female crane was broken into pieces when she saw dead body of her beloved into front of her eyes.   3m

 -Those hunters so cruelly killed that male crane, the female bird circled the sky in deep sorrow over his disgraceful end.

-When hunter went away she came down to spot where blood stained feathers scattered.

-The female crane kissed a few feather of her partner and she went away beyond Hume’s words beyond the legends and fables of human love.

 

 

34)  Lesson name: The Gift of Magi.             3m

Author name: O. Henry.

Context:

-The above sentence was said by Della to Jim.

-Della had cut her hair to buy a present.

-She sold her hair for Jim.

-Jim was looking at her weirdly.

-Della felt that she would not look pretty.

 

35)  Lesson name : Louis Pasteur, Conqueror of Disease        3m

Author name: E.H. Carter

Context:

-A mother said these words to Louis Pasteur.

-Her son was bitten by a mad dog.

-She requested Louis to cure her son as Pasteur had cured so many animals.

-Pasteur inoculated that boy with some weak rabies germs and the boy recovered.

 

36)  Lesson name: To A Pair of Sarus Cranes.          3m

Poet name: Manmohan Singh.

Context:

-The above sentence is said by the poet.

-Female crane circled the spot where male crane was dead.

-She went to spot after hunters had gone away.

-She kissed few feathers and picked few of feathers and sat on them to hatch them.

 

37)  Poem name : The eyes are not here       3m

Author name: Ruskin Bond.

Context:

-The author said these words to the girl.

-Author enquired that girl about her destination.

-The girl said that she would get down at Sharanapur where her aunt would come to receive her.

- The author said the following words.

 

38)  Lesson name : The pie and the tart                       3m

Author name: Hugh Chesterman

Context:

-The above sentence was said by M. Gaultier to Pierre.

- Pierre was starving and he went to M. Gaultier house to beg.

- Pierre begged M. Gaultier to take pity on him and feed something to eat.

- M. Gaultier asked him to go another street, as his wife was away and he was busy.

 

39)  And it grew both day and night,                 4m

Till it bore an apple bright.

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

Or

And into my garden stole,

When the night had veild the pole;

In the morning glad I see;

My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

     X.             

40)  - A moral act should be without any fear or compulsion.    4m

-One should do good deeds without inner heart

-And does not to expect anything back.

- When act is done by compulsion, it is not classified as moral action.

 

41)   - The various causes of soil erosion are heavy rainfall, slope of land,

-absence of bunds, removal of the top natural protective layer,

-the absence of checks to flow water.

-It can be prevented by terracing of lands, constructing bunds,

-by the practice of contour cultivation and planting appropriate vegetation.

 

Or

 

-Hitler gave one enemy of Jewish declaration after another which constrained the Jews to either seek total isolation or move to different spots.

-The Jews were moved in steers trucks filled path past limit. On appearance, the grown-ups were generally taken straightforwardly to the gas chambers.

-Anne was fifteen and gotten away from the gas chamber alongside her mom and sister. In any case, starvation, malady, and typhus executed them in the holocaust camps.

-Human pride was stripped in these camps and consistently was a battle genuinely and inwardly. The Nazis had no sympathy for ladies and youngsters as well.

-Ladies and kids were kept in extremely disgraceful conditions without legitimate food or clothing.

 

42)  - When the boy took a boat that was in rocky cave and moored to a willow tree.

-He was glad with his act and rowed in river but when came near craggy ridge then he saw huge, black, threatening peak which was following him.

-The boy rode the boat back to the cave and rushed back to home but the it was very difficult for him to forget those things and they remained for a long time on poet’s mind..

  XI.             

43)  a)  Answer             2m

 

b)     Answer          2m

XII.             

44)  Essay

Matter-2

Sequence-2

Language-1

 

45)   Letter writing

Format – 2

Matter – 2

Language-1