Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s

C.N.M School & N.D. Parekh Pre-Primary School

Std X (2024-25)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE

MUST KNOW-PAPER 2
Question 1:
Write a composition (350-400 words) on any one of the following:

a) Write an original story that begins with the words: ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right.’
b) ‘Technology has distracted and isolated people’ Express your views either for or against this statement.
c) Looking back at the last few years of your life, describe the events that have been significant in shaping
your personality as it is today.
d) Narrate an incident when you had the opportunity to be a part of the audience for a television show.
e) Study the picture given below. Write a short story or description or an account of what the picturesuggests
to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it;
however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition.

Question 2
Select one of the following:
a) Your father is posted abroad in an area where the telephone and internet network are not very good. Write a
letter to him giving him details of all that has been happening in the family and assuring him that you are
managing very well, taking care of everything at home and in school.
b) Write a letter to the Regional Traffic Officer highlighting the problem of heavy traffic outside your school.
Request him to take measures to resolve the issue and suggest measures for the same.

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Question 3
a) Your school is planning to organise a programme to celebrate Grandparents’ Day. Write a notice to be put
up in your school, asking interested students to submit their names.
b) Write an e-mail to a mimicry artist requesting him/her to put up a short entertainment item for the
Grandparents’ Day celebration in your school. Give details from Q3 a).

Question 4
Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
It was Saturday and Rajan had promised to come in the afternoon. Swaminathan was greatly excited. Where
was he to entertain him? Probably in his own ‘room’; but his father often came in to dress and undress. No,
he would be at Court, Swaminathan reminded himself with relief. He cleaned his table and arranged his
books so neatly that his father was surprised and had a good word to say about it. Swaminathan went to his
grandmother.

‘Granny,’ he said, ‘I have talked to you about Rajan haven’t I?’ ‘Yes. That boy who is very strong but never
passes his examination.’ ‘No. No. That is Mani.’ ‘Oh, now I remember, it is a boy who is called the Gram or
something, that witty little boy.’ Swaminathan made a gesture of despair. ‘Look here granny; you are again
mistaking the Pea for him. I mean Rajan, who has killed tigers, whose father is the Police Superintendent,
and who is great.’ ‘Oh,’ granny cried, ‘that boy, is he coming here? I am so glad.’ ‘Hm… But I have got to
tell you ‘Will you bring him to me? I want to see him.’ ‘Let us see,’ Swaminathan said vaguely, ‘I can’t
promise.’ ‘But I have got to tell you, when he is with me, you must not call me or come to my room.’ ‘Why
so?’ asked granny.
‘The fact is – you are, well you are too old.’ said Swaminathan with brutal candor. Granny accepted
her lot cheerfully.

That he must give his friend something very nice to eat haunted his mind. He went to his mother, who was
squatting before a cutter with a bundle of plantain leaves beside her. He sat before her, nervously crushing a
piece of leaf this way and that and tearing it to minute bits.
‘Don’t throw all those bits on the floor. I simply can’t sweep the floor anymore.’ She said. ‘Mother, what are
you preparing for the afternoon tiffin?’ ‘Time enough to think of it.’ said mother.
‘You had better prepare something very nice, something fine and sweet. Rajan is coming this afternoon.
Don’t make the sort of coffee that you usually given me. It must be very good and hot.’ He remembered how
in Rajan’s house everything was brought to the room by the cook. ‘Mother, would you mind if I don’t come
here for coffee and tiffin? Can you send it to my room?’ He turned to the cook and said: ‘Look here you can’t
come to my room in that dhoti. You will have to wear a clean, white dhoti and shirt.’ After a while he said:
“Mother, can you ask father to lend me his room for just an hour or two?’ She said that she could not as she
was very busy. Why could he himself not go and ask? ‘Oh, he will give more readily if you ask,’ said
Swaminathan.
He went to his father and said: ‘Father, I want to ask you something.’ Father looked up from the papers over
which was bent. ‘Father, I want your room.’ ‘What for?’ ‘I have to receive a friend,’ Swaminathan replied.
‘You have your own room,’ father said. ‘I can’t show it to Rajan.’ ‘Who is this Rajan, such a big man?’ ‘He
is the Police Superintendent’s son. He is – he is not ordinary.’ ‘I see. Oh! Yes, you can have my room, but be
sure not to mess up the things on the table.’ ‘Oh, I will be very careful. You are a nice father, father.’ Father
guffawed and said: ‘Now run in, boy, and sit at your books.’

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a) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage: Choose the correct options. [2]

i) despair
a) misery
b) joy
c) delusion
d) fear

ii) candor
a) lie
b) honesty
c) nervousness
d) truly

b) Which word in the passage means the opposite of the word ‘howled.’ [1]
a) guffawed
b) brisk
c) pleaded
d) ask

c) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.

1. What was Swaminathan excited about? [2]
2. what can you make out about the relationship Swami and his grandmother shared? [2]
3. What requests did Swami make to his mother about the food and coffee for his friend?
Why do you think he made those requests? What were Swami’s instructions to the cook? [2]

4. Why was Swami’s father amused with his behaviour?

Why do you think he allowed Swami to use his room? [2]
5. Which sentence in the passage suggests that granny did not get offended easily? [1]
d) With close reference to the extract and in not more than 50 words describe the preparations Swaminathan
wanted to make for his friend’s visit to his house.

Question 5
a) Fill in each of the blanks with the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Do not copy the passage.
Write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.

Example: 0 – appearing
Articles (0) _________ (appear) in newspapers and magazines, sometimes (1) _____ (offer) tips on learning.
According to one write-up, a nose (2) ________ (bury) in a book will not sniff out much knowledge. Hours
(3) ______ (spend) on nonstop study are so many hours (4) ______ (waste). Some writers (5) ______
(recommend) that one should take a break and glance at jokes or cartoons. Humour (6) ______ (help) in
learning. However, the risk involved (7) _________ (be) that you may scare everyone by sudden loud
laughter. Perhaps slow music (8) _________ (keep) you company is a safer aid.

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b) Complete the following sentences by filling in the blanks with appropriate words. Only write the
word in the answer sheet, with the correct numbering.
1. Many these days are devoid _________ sympathy for the poor.
2. The team will take shelter in the pavilion _________ the rain stops.
3. The boy parted _________ his family at the airport.
4. The construction company has encroached _________ the area reserved for a park.
5. _________ being a doctor, he is the author of many medical journals.
6. He is laid _________ with dengue fever.
7. The mouse nibbled _________ the chunk of cheese.
8. She acceded _________ her friend’s request.

c) Join the following sentences without using and, but and so. Choose the correct option.
1. Adnan sang a lovely song. It became a hit.
a) Adnan sang a lovely song that became a hit.
b) Adnan’s song became a lovely hit because he sang
c) The song of Adnan became a hit and he sang a lovely song.
d) It was a lovely song of Adnan which was hit.

2. He cultivates orchids. He displays them at the flower show.

a) His orchids are displayed at the flower show.
b) He cultivates orchids and displays at the flower show.
c) He cultivates orchids; He displays them at the flower show.
d) He cultivates orchids to display them at the flower show.

3. Bhaskar was very weak. He could not walk to school.

a) Bhaskar was very weak to walk to school.
b) Bhaskar was so weak that he could not walk to school.
c) Bhaskar was too weak that he could not walk to school.
d) Bhaskar was too weak to walk to school.

4. He escaped from the prison. He looked for a place to hide.

a) On escaping from prison he looked for a place to hide.
b) He escaped from prison and he looked for a place to hide.
c) They escaped from prison and they looked for a place to hide.
d) On escaping from prison he looked for a place.

d) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make any changes that
may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence. Choose the correct option. (8)

1. Had I not helped her, she would not have succeeded. (Begin: But…)
a) But had I not helped her, she would not have succeeded.
b) But I had not helped her, she would have succeeded.
c) But for the fact I had not helped her, she would have not succeeded.
d) But I had not helped her, she would have succeeded.

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 2. His generosity brought him much praise. (End: …generosity.)
a) His praise brought him generosity.
b) He was praised for his generosity.
c) He was praised much for his generosity
d) His praise had much generosity.

3. No sooner had Ralph scored the goal than the celebrations began. (Begin: Hardly…)
a) Hardly had Ralph scored the goal when the celebrations began.
b) Hardly did Ralph score the goal than the celebrations began.
c) Hardly had Ralph score the goal when the celebrations began.
d) Hardly Ralph scored the goal when the celebrations began.

4. Although it was a sunny day, it was very cold. (Begin: Despite…)

a) Despite it was a sunny day, it was very cold.
b) Despite it being a sunny day, it was very cold.
c) Despite a sunny day, it was very cold.
d) Despite it was cold and a sunny day.

5. Arya drank three glasses of water, but not even that quenched her thirst. (Begin: Not even…)
a) Not even Arya’s thirst was quenched by three glasses of water.
b) Not even three glasses of water quenched Arya’s thirst.
c) Not even three glass of water quenched Arya’s thirst.
d) Not even three glasses of water quenches Arya’s thirst.

6. Every one of them was an experienced mountaineer. (Begin: There was no…)
a) There was no experienced mountaineer among all.
b) There was no experienced mountaineer among all of them.
c) There was no experience mountaineer among all of them.
d) There was no inexperienced mountaineer among all of them

7. Neeraj goes to a school which has over thousand students. (Begin: There…)
a) There are students over a thousand in Neeraj’s school.
b) There are over a thousand students in Neeraj’s school.
c) There over a thousand in Neeraj’s school.
d) There are students over a thousand in Neeraj’s school.

8. She was the only person capable of being the House Captain. (Use: capability)
a) She was the only person with capability of being the House Captain.
b) The capability of being the House Captain was only her.
c) She was the only person who had the capability of being the House Captain.
d) She was the only person who has capability of being the House Captain.

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