Class 10 English Sample Paper Term 1 with Solutions Set B

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Term 1 Sample Paper for Class 10 English With Solutions Set B

READING

Read the passage given below.
I. Not too long ago, a group of teachers made a study of the students and learning problems. A curious fact came out of this study. The teachers discovered that the students who did poorly in subjects such as Maths or Art could still do very well in other subjects. But the students who did poorly in reading, almost did poorly in all their other courses.
II. For a while the teachers who made the study were puzzled by this, but they soon had an answer to this puzzle. The teachers looked at the subjects that the students were failing in and discovered that even subjects like Maths and Science were based on reading.
III. Of course, there were also other skills involved such as learning to add and subtract in Maths class. Most of the explanations of how to do things had to be read by the students. Much of the home work assignments required students to read long sets of directions and tests and problems in class often involved story problems, problems that were explained in words and had to be read and understood before they could be solved. Your success or failure in these classes will depend on your ability to read the required material.
IV. Finally, if you go to college, almost all your study time will be spent in reading.You need more and more information and most of the information come from the printed material you have to read. Even if you could get tapes or movies containing all the information, you need to know that they would not be of much help until and unless you know how to read. Magazines and books may all be on microfilm in the next few years, but they will still have to be read. The same is true of most of what you have to learn in school. Your school is probably not going to throw all printed material out of the window very soon.
V. Success in school courses still depends on an ability to read and those students,who cannot read or at least read well enough to master material, are in trouble. You are moving into a world where everyday more and more technical reading is required. Instructions for using applications are becoming more complex. There are written instructions to follow, for food preparations, traffic signs, travel directions and safety information, all requiring the ability to read.
VI. Also your ability to get and keep a job is directly related to your ability to read.Even the simplest jobs require some reading ability and many people advance to more important and better paying jobs by getting additional knowledge and skills through reading. The more specialised the job, the greater the need to read confidently, quickly and efficiently. Doctors read professional journals so that they can use the latest medical knowledge in treating patients while pharmacists have to read the prescriptions the doctors write. Lawyers spend their days reading briefs.The number of semiskilled and professional occupations that require high reading ability is increasing rapidly. Today a person who cannot read is almost unemployable.
Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any eight out of the ten questions by choosing the correct option.

Question. “The students who did poorly in reading, almost did poorly in all their other courses” because
a. other courses require different skill-set.
b. other courses are difficult to read.
c. other subjects are also based on reading.
d. other subjects are application-based subjects.

Question. Why is reading so important in one’s life?
a. Success in school courses still depends on an ability to read.
b. If you go to college, almost all your study time will be spent in reading.
c. There are written instructions to follow, for food preparations, traffic signs, travel directions and safety information.
d. All of the above

Question. What is the most essential pre-requisite to keep a job?
a. One’s ability to read
b. One’s ability to write
c. One’s ability to hear
d. One’s ability to speak

Question. One’s ………….. in school classes depends on one’s ability to read the required material.
a. promotion or demotion
b. pass or fail
c. success or failure
d. marks

Question. Select the option with the underlined word that can suitably replace ‘instructions’ (para v).
a. Military leaders command the troops to open fire.
b. She didn’t acknowledge his order but headed toward the stairs.
c. In July he issued a decree ordering all unofficial armed groups in the country to disband.
d. The computer comes with a comprehensive owners manual.

Question. The study of a group of teachers revealed that …………… .
a. The students who did poorly in reading almost always did poorly in all other subjects.
b. The students who did poorly in subjects such as Maths or Art could still do very well in other subjects.
c. The students who did poorly in subjects such as Maths or Art did poorly in all other subjects.
d. Both a. and b.

Question. Assonance is resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels and also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled).
From the options given below, select an assonance phrase that appears in the para I.
a. Not too long ago
b. A curious fact came out
c. The teachers discovered that the
d. Their other courses

Question. Complete the dialogue between two friends with reference to the above passage.Sam: Inspirational and motivational reading also helps us keeping our emotional balance.
Sunil: Very true! ……………
Sam: Exactly! Reading is important not only for students but for each and every person to understand the life in its true sense. Well, I will take your leave now. Bye!
a. Reading helps you to get success in your studies.
b. Reading itself is a huge source of acquiring knowledge.
c. Reading helps you in gaining bookish knowledge.
d. Reading opens up the world of imagination.

Question. Choose the quote that best expresses the central idea of the passage.
a. “The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” – David Bailey
b. “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” – Roberto Bolaño
c. “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” – William Godwin
d. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass

Question. How is reading ability helping various professionals in their fields?
1. Doctors read professional journals to be abreast with latest medical knowledge in treating patients.
2. Pharmacists read doctor’s prescriptions.
3. Lawyers read briefs.
a. Only 2
b. 1 and 2
c. 1, 2 and 3
d. 2 and 3

Read the passage given below.

I. Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterised by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which leads over time to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. The most common is type 2 diabetes,usually in adults, which occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesn’t make enough insulin. In the past three decades the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically in countries of all income levels. Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin by itself. For people living with diabetes, access to affordable treatment, including insulin, is critical to their survival. Hyperglycemia or raised blood sugar, is a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious damage to many of the body’s systems, especially the nerves and blood vessels. There is a globally agreed target to halt the rise in diabetes and obesity by 2025.
II. About 422 million people worldwide have diabetes, the majority living in low and middle income countries and 1.6 million deaths are directly attributed to diabetes each year. Both the number of cases and the prevalence of diabetes have been steadily increasing over the past few decades. In 2014, 8.5% of adults aged 18 years and older had diabetes. In 2019, diabetes was the direct cause of 1.5 million deaths.
To present a more accurate picture of the deaths causes by diabetes, however, deaths due to higher than optimal blood glucose through cardiovascular disease,chronic kidney disease and tuberculosis should be added. In 2012 (year of the latest available data), there were another 2.2 million deaths due to high blood glucose.
III. Between 2000 and 2016, there was a 5% increase in premature mortality from diabetes. In high-income countries the premature mortality rate due to diabetes decreased from 2000 to 2010 but then increased in 2010-2016. In lower-middle income countries, the premature mortality rate due to diabetes increased across both periods.
IV. By contrast, the probability of dying from any one of the four main non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases or diabetes) between the ages of 30 and 70 decreased by 18% globally between 2000 and 2016.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any six out of the eight questions by choosing the correct option.

Question. What do you think can be the risk factors for diabetes?
1. Unhealthy diet 2. Less or no physical activity
a. Only 1 is correct
b. Only 2 is correct
c. Both 1 and 2 are correct
d. Both 1 and 2 are incorrect

Question. What is diabetes?
a. Elevated levels of blood glucose
b. Elevated levels of blood platelets
c. Elevated fat in the body
d. Elevated level of cholesterol

Question. What is the main characteristic of Type-1 diabetes?
a. There is insulin resistance.
b. There is little or no insulin secreted by pancreas.
c. The pancreas become dysfunctional.
d. All of the above

Question. …………… deaths due to diabetes and high blood glucose are recorded each year.
a. 3.7 million
b. 1.6 million
c. 422 million
d. 2.2 million

Question. Select the option that is true for the two statements given below.
(1) Diabetes is increasing the rate of premature mortality.
(2) Diabetes is taking lives before the average age of death.
a. (2) furthers the meaning of (1)
b. (1) is the result of (2)
c. (2) is independent of (1)
d. (1) is true (2) is false

Question.There was a 18% decrease in probability of global deaths from any one of the four non-communicable diseases between 2000 and 2016.The above line suggests that
a. deaths due to cardiovascular diseases decreased by 18%.
b. deaths due to cancer and chronic respiratory diseases decreased by 18%.
c. deaths due to diabetes decreased by 18%.
d. deaths due to cardiovascular diseases or cancer or chronic respiratory diseases or diabetes alone decreased by 18%.

Question. Choose the option that does NOT use the word ‘premature’ as it is used in the above passage.
a. Every father should insure himself against premature death or prolonged illness for the sake of his wife and children.
b. Premature disclosure of the test sites might lead to invalidation of the experiment.
c. For enterprises and service providers, the use of network processors ensures against premature product obsolescence.
d. Dean retreated to their quarters to handle some premature paper work and so spent the remainder of the morning.

GRAMMAR AND WRITING

Grammar

Answer any five out of the six questions by selecting themost appropriate option for each.

Question. The coffee is rather bitter. …………… you please pass some sugar?
a. Shall
b. Should
c. May
d. Would

Question. There were …………… people at the airport.
a. many
b. little
c. more
d. much

Question. My uncle and guardian …………… me to start my own business.
a. want
b. wants
c. is wanting
d. are wanting

Question. When Feroze and Mehr …………… for the first time, they did not like each other but now they are married.
a. meet
b. meets
c. met
d. have met

Question. Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence.
“Why don’t you change into something more comfortable?” he said to his guest.
a. He asked his guest why he hadn’t change into something more comfortable.
b. He asked his guest why didn’t he change into something more comfortable.
c. He asked his guest why he didn’t change into something more comfortable.
d. He asked his guest why he hasn’t change into something more comfortable.

Question. Choose the correct indirect speech of the following sentence.
The General said,” Move the tanks to the battlefield immediately.”
a. The General said to move the tanks to the battlefield immediately.
b. The General ordered to move the tanks to the battlefield immediately.
c. The General told to move the tanks to the battlefield immediately.
d. The General ordered the tanks to be moved to the battlefield immediately.

Writing

Answer any five out of the six questions given, with reference to the context below.
You are Farhan, Purchasing Officer at Fortune Goods, 317, Sitara Road, Kerala. You have to write a complaint letter to the Sales Manager of Everlong Batteries regarding the incomplete delivery of batteries.

Question. Choose the suitable closing line for the letter.
a. Thanking you
b. Thanks
c. I look forward to hearing from you
d. Hope to see you soon

Question. Complete the opening line for the letter.
I am writing this letter in reference to the …………… from your company has not been supplied correctly.
a. bill 243637 we sent
b. card no. 243637 we asked
c. order no. 243637 that we ordered
d. warranty no. 243637 that was ordered

Question. Choose the correct subject for the letter.
a. Regarding the batteries delivered
b. Regarding the incomplete delivery of batteries
c. Complaint about batteries
d. Batteries are incompetent

Question. Which of the following option should be opted as the concluding portion of the letter?
(1) Make up the shortfall immediately and ensure that such errors do not happen again. Otherwise, we may have to look elsewhere for our supplies.
(2) I am writing to ask you to make up the shortfall immediately and to ensure that such errors do not happen again. Otherwise, we may have to look elsewhere for our supplies.
a. Yes, to Option (1) because of the authoritative tone.
b. No, to Option (1) because of the certainty in the tone.
c. Yes, to Option (2) because of the tone of polite expectation.
d. No, to Option (2) because of the informal tone.

Question. Which of the following are required for the letter?
1. Order no.
2. Sender’s details
3. Receiver’s details
4. Proof of incomplete delivery
a. 1, 2 and 3
b. 1, 3 and 4
c. 2 and 3
d. 1, 2, 3 and 4

LITERATURE

Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Even in the grimmest times in prison, when my comrades and I were pushed to our limits, I would see a glimmer of humanity in one of the guards, perhaps just for a second, but it was enough to reassure me and keep me going. Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. (‘Nelson Mandela’ Long Walk to Freedom)

Question. Select the suitable word from the extract to complete the following.
Miserable : Grimmest : : Kindness : ……………. .
a. Glimmer
b. Love
c. Humanity
d. Hate

Question. What did ‘a glimmer of humanity in one of the guards’ reassured Mandela in prison?
a. Love and kindness were still present
b. The guard was kind to him
c. The guard treated him humanely
d. All of these

Question. What does ‘a glimmer of humanity’mean?
a. A light of humanity
b. Humanitarian conditions
c. People showing love to each other
d. None of these

Question. What does the line “Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished” show?
1. Optimism and inspiration.
2. Every individual has goodness within themselves.
3. Though it may remain burning at low intensity, but it can never be extinguished.
a. 1 and 2
b. Only 3
c. Only 1
d. All of these

Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow.
Then he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly and commended himself to dive and soar and curve, shrieking shrilly. He was near the sea now, flying straight over it, facing straight out over the ocean. He saw a vast green sea beneath him, with little ridges moving over it and he turned his beak sideways and cawed amusedly. His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green flooring ahead of him. They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea.

Question. When did the young seagull completely forget that he had not always been able to fly?
a. When he took his first flight.
b. When he cawed amusedly.
c. When he joined his brothers and sisters.
d. When he saw his mother bringing fish to him.

Question. Why was everyone calling shrilly?
a. Because the young seagull did not learn to fly.
b. Because the young seagull made his first flight.
c. Because the young seagull was not eating anything.
d. Because the young seagull was asleep.

Question. Which word does ‘beckoning’ not correspond to?
a. Gesture
b. Signal
c. Wave
d. Repel

Question. Select the correct option for (1) and (2).
(1) The young seagull managed to take his first flight.
(2) His hunger made him fly.
a. (1) is the result of (2)
b. (2) is true (1) is false
c. Both (1) and (2) cannot be inferred from the passage
d. (2) is independent of (1)

Question. What happened when the young seagull took his first flight?
1. He dived and soared. 2. He flew straight over the sea.
3. He was happy.
a. 1 and 3
b. 2 and 3
c. 1 and 2
d. 1, 2 and 3

Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow.
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued. (Dust of Snow)

Question.Why did the poet regret his day?
a. Something bad has happened to him.
b. He was guilty of something.
c. Not mentioned in the poem.
d. He was upset because of his family.

Question.The rhyming scheme used in the above extract is ……………. .
a. abcd
b. abab
c. abba
d. aabb

Question.What happened when snow fell on the poet?
1. He noticed what’s happening around him.
2. His mood got changed.
3. He became happy.
a. 1 and 2
b. 2 and 3
c. 1 and 3
d. All of these

Question. What has changed the mood of the poet?
a. Dust of snow
b. A crow
c. A hemlock tree
d. None of these

Question. Choose the option that uses the word ‘rued’ as it is used in the above extract?
a. If you want your workers to be rued, you need to pay them a decent wage.
b. Sara slapped the snooze button on her alarm radio and rued the day she bought it.
c. In spite of the time lapse between practice sessions, she did well enough to win his rue.
d. The very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and rue.

Read the given extract to attempt the questions that follow.

When I reached the station I did not stop at the ticket office but dashed straight to the platform. The Lucknow Express was just moving out. The train had still to pickup speed and I should have been able to jump into one of the carriages, but I hesitated — for some reason I can’t explain — and I lost the chance to get away. When the train had gone, I found myself standing alone on the deserted platform. I had no idea where to spend the night. I had no friends, believing that friends were more trouble than help.
And I did not want to make anyone curious by staying at one of the small hotels near the station. (The Thief’s Story)

Question. Why did the speaker not stop at the ticket office?
a. He did not have money to buy a ticket.
b. He had never bought a ticket in his life.
c. He was in a great hurry.
d. He forgot to buy a ticket.

Question. The phrase ‘get away’means to …………….
a. escape
b. go away
c. go to far off place
d. All of these

Question. Where did the speaker decide to go from the station?
a. To the market
b. To the clock tower
c. To his employer
d. To a shady hotel

Question. Which of the following qualities can be associated with the speaker in the above extract?
1. Grateful
2. Regretful
3. Happy
4. Curious
5. Ashamed
6. Cunning
a. 2, 3, and 6
b. 1, 2 and 5
c. 2, 4 and 5
d. 1, 3, and 4

Question. Which unexplained reason stopped the speaker from getting into the train?
a. That he would break the trust of his employer.
b. That he would not be able to read and write.
c. That he would not be able to become a big and respected man in the society.
d. All of the above

Attempt the following questions.

Question. “I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplane like an obedient child.” – Which figure of speech is used in the underlined phrase?
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Alliteration
d. Personification

Question. Choose the appropriate response in support of the following remark made by a student.
I think animals can be kept in zoo so that they can be protected.
a. Zoos should be banned. It’s not right to keep animals this way.
b. I think wildlife sanctuaries and parks are better way to protect wildlife animals.
c. I think humans should be kept in zoos and animal should roam freely.
d. Both a. and b.

Question. What does the poet wish to convey through the poem ‘Fire and Ice’?
a. We should not be greedy.
b. All the human beings should check their desires and hatred.
c. We should control our desires and care for our fellow beings.
d. Both a. and c.

Question.  When Dr. Herriot placed an extra bowl at the surgery ……………. .
a. Tricki jostled his way towards it.
b. There was the usual headlong rush of the dogs.
c. There were the sounds of high-speed eating.
d. All of the above

Question. Why do you think Wanda lie that she had hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes?
a. To impress Peggy and Maddie.
b. She did not lie.
c. To avoid getting bullied further.
d. None of these

Question. Why did Lencho ask God not to send him the rest of the money through mail?
a. Because he thought that mail would take a much longer time.
b. Because he thought that the post office employees stole it.
c. Because he was not available to receive the mail next time.
d. Because it was not safe to send money through mail.

Question. What did Peggy and Maddie decide to do after hearing letter from Wanda’s father?
1. To go to Boggins Heights to find Wanda.
2. To write an apologising letter to Wanda.
3. To write a friendly letter to Wanda.
a. Only 2
b. Only 1
c. 1 and 2
d. 1 and 3

Question. What was the trick to write the essay on ‘A Chatterbox’?
a. To come up with convincing ideas to prove the necessity of talking.
b. To come up with difficult words that were beyond Mr. Keesing’s understanding.
c. To write the fact that Anne had inherited talking trait from her mother.
d. None of the above

Question. What every man needs to know one day as per the poet of ‘The Ball Poem’?
a. That losing something is a part of life.
b. One must learn to deal with such losses.
c. Both a. and b.
d. One cannot buy a new ball

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