SECTION – A: READING

Q.1 – Read the passage given below carefully and answers the questions that
follow:

One day, the old emperor shah jahan became ill. His son, Aurangzeb, who always
wanted to be the emperor, put his father in a jail. Jahanara begun, the eldest child
of shah jahan, did not leave her father and want to jail along with him. Her dais, “I
shall share the sufferings of my father. He needs me in his old age, and I shall
never leave him.” Shah jahan lived in the jail for seven years and then he died.
During that period,princess jahanara stayed with him and took care of him. After
the death of her father. She returned back to her own palace. She continuedto live
there and spent the rest of her life serving the needy and the poor. Before her death,
she gave away all her money to the poor and needy.

Questions:

(a) Who was shah jahan’s eldest child?

(b) What did Aurangzeb do when shah jahan became ill?
(c) What did jahanara do before her death?
(d) Find words in the passage which mean the same as:

 (a) King
 (b) Sick
Question 2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by
choosing the right alternative.

Sarojini Naidu was educated in her carely years under her father’s own care. He
wanted her to become a great mathematician or scientist but she loved to dream
and writers poems. She was hardly eleven when she wrote her first poem.

At thirteen she wrote a long poem in the manner of famous English poets. After
her matriculation in India she went to England for higher education in lender. She
met sir Edmund cross a distinguished man of letters. He was impressed by her
knowledge and intelligent. He was surprised to see that she had written poems in
flawless English but felt disappointed to find that they had nothing of the east in
them. They were all about English sights from this day onwards; she devoted
herself to writing verses about India.

Questions:
 Sarojini Naidu loved to__________
(a) Become a great mathematician orscientist.
(b) Be an English poet.
(c) Be an English teacher.
(d) Dream and write poems.

 She wrote her first poem at the age of______

(a) Ten
(b) Eleven
(c) Twelve
(d) Nine

 She wrote a long poem like English poets at the age of_____
(a) Ten
(b) Thirteen
(c) Twelve
(d) Eleven

 Sir Edmund goose is known as a ______

(a) Intelligent and knowledgeable person
(b) Renowned English poet
(c) Distinguished man of letters
(d) Mentor of Sarojini Naidu

 The word ________ means ‘distressed’.

(a) Flawless
(b) Disappointed
(c) Higher
(d) Hardy

SECTION – B WRITING

Question 3. Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics:

(a) Work is worship

(b) Child labor
(c) A visit to hill station
Question 4. Write an application to the principal or your school requesting him/her
to arrange extra classes for math and science.

Or

Write a letter to SHO of your area complaining about the theft of your bicycle from
the school compound.

Question. 5. You are Neha/Nikhil of Ramjas public school. Write a notice to be put
on the school notice board regarding annual day to be held in your school.

Or

Complete the story below on the basis of the hints given below.

Two friends-goes on a journey-promise to help each other-pass through forest-one

sees a bear-becomes afraid-climbs a tree-other lies down and saves his life.

SECTION – C: GRAMMER

Question .7. Arrange the jumbled words to make proper sentences:

(a) Came/the/class/to/teacher/the/
(b) Spread/people/for/hatred/each other/selfish

Question. 8. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each
line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in
the space provided. Remember to underline the word that you have
supplied.
Incorrect Correct
Have you ever wonder why (a) …………….. ……………….
a newly constructed road deteriorate (b) …………….. ……………….
within a few months ? Two years ago MCD come (c) …………….. ……………….
up with a plan to made roads (d) …………….. ……………….
stronger by concreted them. The civic (e) …………….. ……………….
body identifies 245 stretches should (f) …………….. ……………….
concretised. People has been (g) …………….. ……………….
complain about the poor condition (h) …………….. ……………….
of the roads for years but in vain.
 SECTION – D: TEXTBOOK

Question 11.

(a) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Suddenly jody was unwilling to have mill-wheel with him. If the fawn wan dead,
or could not be found, he could not have his disappointed seen. And if the fawn
was there, the meeting would be so lovely and so secret that he could not endure to
share it. He said, “It not for now, but the scrub is very thick for a horse. I can make
it on foot.” “But I’m afraid to leave you, suppose you get lost or got bitten by the
snake, too?”

Question:

(i) Where was jody going?

(ii) Who wanted to come with jody?
(iii) Whom did jody want to find?
(iv) What was the danger of going alone?
(v) Pick out the word from the passage which means ‘to tolerate’.

Answer :

(i) Jody was going to the forest to bring the fawn.

(ii) Mill – wheel wanted to come with jody.
(iii) Jody wanted to find the door fawn.
(iv) The danger of going alone was that mill-wheel might get lost in the
thick scrub or get bitten by the snack.

(b)Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

The first day of monsoon mist.

How all the bird full silent as the mist comes climbing up the hill? Perhaps that’s
what makes the mist so melancholy; not only does it conceal the hills, it blankets
them in silence too only an hour ago the tresses were ringing with build song. But
now the forest is directly still as through it were midnight?

Question:
(a) Name the chapter from which this passage has been taken.
(b) What does rain bring with it?
(c) What has happened to the birds?
(d) Which word in the passage means to ‘hide’?
(e) Why does the author call mist melancholy?

Answer

(a) The passage has been taken from the lesson ‘a short monsoon diary’
(b) Rain brings mist with it.
(c) The birds become silent due to climbing of mist upto the hill.
(d) Conceal.
(e) The author calls mist melancholy because it conceals the hills and blankets
them in silence.

Question 12. Answer anyone question in about 80 words.

How did jody feed fawn when it was brought back home?

Or

Write the character sketch of Stephen hawking.

Ans. Jody went into the kitchen. The fawn went after him morning milk stood in
the kitchen safe. Jody skimmed the milk into a jug. He put milk into a small
ground. He held it out to the fawn. He dipped his fingers in the milk and put them
into fawn’s soft wet mouth fawn sucked milk greedily, he dipped his fingers again
and the fawn sucked. The last of the milk vanished in a swirl of foam.

Or

Stephen hawking is one of the greatest scientists of four times. He suffers from a
form of paralysis that confines him to a when chair. He can speak only by
punching buttons on a computer. The computer speaks for him a machine like
voice. Stephen had not allowed himself to be departed had not disability. He had
authored the book ‘a brief history of time’ and also joined at university of
Cambridge hawing has left the message for disabledthat they should concentrate on
what they are good at.

Questions 13. Answer any four questions in 30-40 words each:

 (a) What experience did the write get as an ever ester?
(b) Why did penny boxer allow jody to go find the fawn and raise it?
(c) Why was the writer nervous at the prospect of meetings Stephen hawking?
(d) Why did the grandmother ask the children not to kill the chuchundar?
(e) What did the poet say about his thoughts and poems?(the great stone face-II)

Answer

(a) As an ever ester writer got an experience to face the difficulties with strong
determination. This experience was purposeful. It also taught him to look at the
inner summit.
(b) The fawn belonged to the above. They had killed to draw out of the poison to
save penny and it was ungrateful to leave the fawn to starve. So penny boxer
allowed jody to go.
(c) Writer was completely nervous because he had forgotten that such a worth
author of abrief history of times could have lived there. He was completely
disabled. In spite of that he had become professor at university of Cambridge.
(d) Grandmother asked the children not to kill chuchundar as they are lucky and
bring money. Infact author even gets small cheque in the mail.
(e) The poet told invert that he could hear in his own songs the distant voice of a
heavenly song. His life was different from his poems. He had no confidence in his
own thoughts.

Question. Read the stanzas carefully and answer the questions that follow by
choosing the right alternative.

(a) Said that duck to the kangaroo, good gracious. How you hope over the fields
and the water too, as if you never would stop. My life is a bore in this nasty pond,
and I long to go out in the world beyond. I wish I could hope like you said the duck
to the kangaroo

Questions :

 Name the poem?

(a) The ___ out and the cricket
(b) Geography lesson ____
(c) The duck and the kangaroo ______
(d) The last bargain ______

 What did the duck say to the kangaroo?

 (a) How he sits
(b) How be hops
(c) How he walks
(d) .how he eats

 My life is a bore in this nasty pond. Whose life is referred to?

(a) Kangaroo
(b) Lee
(c) Ant
(d) Duck

 “I wish I could hop like you” for whom ‘you’ is used?

(a) Kangaroo
(b) Cricket
(c) Duck
(d) Ant

Answer :

1. (c)
2. (b)
3. (d)
4. (a)
Or

B. when I set out for lyonnesse

A hundred miles away,

The rime was on the spray;
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
A hundred miles away.

Question:

 Name the poem?

(a) The last bargain
(b) When I set out for lyonesse
 (c) The school boy
(d) Geography lesson

 Who is ‘I’ here?

(a) Thomas hardy the poet
(b) Poets friend
(c) Poets sister
(d) Poet’s mother

 Where did he go?

(a) Mynnesse
(b) London
(c) Lynnesse
(d) Los angle

 Which words shows that it was late evening?

(a) Rime
(b) Lon
(c) Spray
(d) Starlight

Answer:

1. (b)
2. (a)
3. (c)
4. (b)
Question 15. Answer any two questions in 30-40 words:

(a) What does the boy in the poem ‘the school boy’ wishes for?
(b) In the poem ‘the cross hopper and cricket5’ which are two seasons.
(c) What change was brought in the poet after his visit loynesse?

Answer:

(a) In the poem “the schoolboy” the boy wishes for freedom to do something
creative.
(b) In the poem ‘the cross hopper and the cricket’ the two seasons mentioned are
summer and winter. They are represented by cross hopper voice and the cricket
song
(c) The poet had a change after his visit to lynnesse. He had magic in his eyes
and radiance in his face.

Question 16 : Answer any four of the following questions:

(a) Who was the better swimmer rajni or suraj? How do you know it?
(b) Why according to indranideloi, had the comet not been disastrous?
(c) What does the project ‘light brigade’ refer to?
(d) How did he plan to pay the fees next day?(jalebis)
(e) According to Vera why did her aunt keep the window open every evening?

Answers:

(a) Ranji was the better swimmer. He could swim the length of the pool a dozen
times without tiring. He could early dive also which the Punjabi boy could not do.
(b) Duttada informed his wife indranideloi that the comet had gone away without
proving disastrous to earth. She told him that there could be some major disastrous
on earth. However all such disastrous were averted due to yajna at their house
(c) Project ‘light bridge’ refers to a very important and secret astronomical
operation. Project Bridge also helps to push comet dutta from its path.
(d) He hoped to get the scholarship money the nest day. So he planned to pay his
fees the next day with scholarship money.
(e) Her aunt believed that her husband who had left for shooting three years ago
would come back some day. She kept windows open.

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