2007 CBSE english Question paper

Course: SSLC

University: CBSE

Class - X
English
Time Allowed : 3 hours M.Marks : 100
[Section A - Reading (20 Marks)]
Q1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :-
Most of the people who appear most often in history books are great conquerors
and generals. Strangely enough people who really helped civilization forward are
often never mentioned at all.
We do not know who made the first boat or calculated the length of the year but
we know all about our killers and destroyers. We raise statues to them simply
because they fought bravely. But even animals fight. So do savages. To fight is
not to be civilised. Moreover, there are other way of setting quarrels among men
of nations. So really civilized people have been those who have bought peace
and happiness to mankind. They have been prophets, saints, doctors, inventors
and discoverers. They have been truly great since instead of inflicting pain and
hardship upon huminity, they have healed their wounds. Instead of killing, they
have saved human lives. They are really civilized and deserved our admiration
and respect.
(i) Answer the following questions briefly :
a) Who are the people who generally appear in history books?
b) Is fighting a mark of civilization?
c) Why do we raise statues?
d) Who are truly civilized ?
e) Why do they deserve our admiration and respect?
(ii) Find from the passage words / phrases which mean the same as the following:
a) To build up
b) To elevate in social life
c) Fierce (5+3 = 8 marks)
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Q2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Books are by far the most lasting products of human efforts. Temples crumble
into ruin, pictures and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account
with great thoughts which are as fresh today as when they first passed through
their authors minds ages ago. What was then thought and said still speaks to us as
ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift and winnow
out the bad product; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really
good. Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of
the greatest minds they have lived. We hear what they said; we see them as if
they were really alive; we sympathise with them, enjoy with them, grieve with
them ; there experience becomes our; as we feel as if we were actors with them
in the scence which they describe:-
a) How are books the most lasting products of human efforts?
b) How does time effect a book?
c) What do books contain?
d) 'Books introduce us into the best society' Explain in your own words.
e) How can we share the experience of the greatest minds? [6 marks]
Q3. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:-
Gandhiji's greatest strength was his belief in God. He fought for the freedom of
India because he used to say that the best way to serve God was to serve his
people, and therefore, when he worked for the happiness of Indians, he was also
making God happy. Many times people would put a straight question to him
asking him to give proof that there is a God and how we can know. Gandhiji
would admit frankly that he could not show God to any one , because his presence
could be felt in heart only. He was, however, a lover of God and could not live
with out him. He once said," If you do not give air and water, I can still live, but
if you take away my brief in God, I shall die immediately.
a) What was Gandhiji's strength ?
b) How did he want to serve the God ?
c) What were Gandhiji's views about God ?
d) In what way was he a lover of God? [6 marks]
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[Section B- Writing (20marks)]
Q4. Write a letter to your brother advising him to improve his health.
or
Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper, against the rising prices.
[6 marks]
Q5. The beauty of the country was always delightful to me. Even as I strolled about,
bird's nestling, the freshness of early morning, the sun coming up the sky filling it
with lovely colours and with heavenly cheerfulness, the bright dew drops hanging
on every bush, and scattered glittering over the young grass, the sweet odour of
leaves and flowers; the roses and jasmines coming out in their own time filled me
with speechless joy. The aspect of dark woods and water, the tall trees with their
deep sighing sound, the cries and appearances of all sorts of birds and little wild
animal; these were the things that kindled my imagination; and led me often
many miles from home. But when I got into the peak. I could not sleep for joy and
wonder. Such mighty towering rocks covered with hanging thickets and wood!
Such clear swift rivers rushing along beneath them! Such wild high hills and far-
stretching uplands! Such mighty ranges, as it appeared to me, of dark forests! I
was never tried of gazing on them.
(i) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it in
points only, using headings and sub headings. Also use recognizable
abbreviations, where necessary. Supply a suitable title on it.
(ii) Write a summary of the above passage in about 50 words.
[4+4=8 marks]
Q6. Write a paragraph in about 80 words on any one of the following topics:
a) Population Explosion
b) How I celebrated My Birthday
c) The festival I like most [6 marks]
[Section C- Grammar (15 marks)]
Q7. (a) Use the proper Non-Finite Form of the given verb in each sentences-
(i) The rice will grow well in the (come) season.
(ii) The farmer is going (plough) his field. [2 marks]
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(b) Change the voice-
(i) It is good to help the poor.
(ii) You should have reminded your officer. [2 marks]
(c) Combine the following pairs of sentences, using the sentences connectors
given in the brackets:
(i) She will see the picture. She will be happy. (When)
(ii) I trust him. He is honest. (Because) [2 marks]
(d) Fill in the blanks, using suitable modals:
must / can / should / may
(i) _________ you solve this sum?
(ii) _________ God bless you!
(iii) If you __________ see him, give him my regards.
(iv) You __________ help Ram. After all he is your brother. [2 marks]
(e) Change the narration:-
(i) She will say to me," I am un well".
(ii) The players said," Hurrah! We have won the match". [2 marks]
(f) Rearrange the following jumbled words into meaningful sentences:-
(i) reap sow you as so you shall.
(ii) bad a work man tools with his quarrels. [2 marks]
(g) Do as directed:-
(i) They are not wasting your time. (Change into Past Indefinite Tense)
(ii) What a lovely flower! (Change into Assertive Sentence)
(iii) Ram does not tell a lie. (Change into Future Indefinite Tense)
[3 marks]
[Section D - Literature (45 marks)]
Q8. (i) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :-
The accident had occurred at midnight, while Sudha and her mother were
on their way to Chennai from the pilgrimage- centre of Vayalur. Their bus
collided head-on with another bus that crashed into the drivers seat killing
him. Sudha was sitting two rows behind the driver with her legs out stretched
on the opposite seat. As a result, her feet got jammed. She was extricated
from the debris with great difficulty as her right leg was fully trapped.
(a) When did the accident occur?
(b) Was Sudha alone?
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(c) How did the accident take place?
(d) Where was she coming from?
(e) Where had Sudha been sitting in the bus? [5 marks]
(ii) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:-
He changed himself into a working man and went to work with the poor
peasant. The first year he advised the peasant to saw corn in a low lying
damp place. The peasant took his advice and sowed there. The year happened
to be a very dry one, and the crops of the other peasants were all burnt up by
the sun, but the poor peasant's corn grew thick and tall and heavy with
grain. Not only had he enough grain to last him for the whole year, but he
had also much to spare.
(a) Who does 'He' in these lines refer to?
(b) What did he advise the peasant to do?
(c) How were the crops of other peasants burnt up?
(d) How did the poor peasant come to have a very good crop?
(e) Which word in the passage means 'slightly wet' ? [5 marks]
Q9. What are the desired results of working together? Have they been achieved?
or
What is the "Old African Wisdom" Kofi Annan has recalled here? How is it
relevant today? [6 marks]
Q10.Give a brief sketch of Udgam Kund.
or
How do you know that Anne was close to her grandmother? [4 marks]
Q11.Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow:
The sun in heaven was shining gay,
All things were joyful on that day;
The sea-birds screamed as they wheeled round,
And there was joyance in their sound.
(i) What Kind of weather was it?
(ii) How did all things look?
(iii) What were the sea-birds doing?
or
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Teach me to listen, Lord
To those nearest me
My family, my friends, my co-workers
Help me to be aware that
No matter what words I hear
The message is,
"Accept the person I am. Listen to me".
(i) Who is the poet asking for help?
(ii) What message does the poet refer to?
(iii) Who is the poet addressing? What does he ask for in this stanza?
[3 marks]
Q12.Why is the spring described as " a new comer"?
or
What do you think the wind is doing when the poet tells the child to listen?
[3 marks]
Q13.Answer any two of the following questions in one or two sentences each:
(a) What kind of a garment are the weavers weaving at the fall of night and for
whome?
(b) Why does the poet say nothing will never die?
(c) Where was the Inchcape bell? Who had put it there? [2+2=4 marks]
Q14. Describe the 'party Scene' between tricki and Mrs. Pumphrey's household.
or
What job did the narrator get after graduation? Did he like his work?
[7 marks]
Q15.Answer any two of the following questions in one or two sentences each?
(a) Who was in Ausable's room? What was in his hand?
(b) How did the thief realise that Anil knew that it had been stolen?
(c) When do tigers attack? In this context, how are human beings different
from tigers? [2+2 = 4 marks]
Q16. Answer any two of the following questions in one or two sentences each.
(a) What happened when Griffin didn't wake up in time?
(b) Why did Horace Danby rob every year? Was he a typical thief? If so, why?
(c) Why was Laszlo sent to Ranki Street? What did he find there?
[2+2 = 4 marks]
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