HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION

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1 HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION MM. 100 Instructions :- 1. All questions are compulsy 2. Read the instructions given with questions carefully befe attempting them. 3. Marks of each questions are indicated against it. SECTION A Q.1. (A) Fil in the blanks with crect wds given in the brackets :- 05 i. He is good English ( at, in, with) ii. When he was young he Cross the river. (Can, could, may) iii. Ramayana is a holy book of Hindus. (a, an, the) iv. He has books (Much, Many, none) v. He will not leave the place I come back. (until, because, as) (B) Match the coloum A with column B and rewrite. 05 A B i) Jovial a large bag ii) Relucland Very Cheerful and friendly iii) Sack Farmur iv) Danger Unwilling v) Peasant a dark under ground room used as a prison. (C) Choose the crect alternative from the following questions and write them in your answer sheet - 05 i. The poet of the poem Light the lamp of they lar is a) Rabindra Nath Tage b) Ld Tennyson c) William wds wth. ii. The writer of the Discovery of india is a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Abdul Kalam

2 iii. Happiness is a) an inner state of mind b) given by external things c) given by our friends iv. At the time of salary, we prided ourselves on our a) fertile land b) spiritual greatners c) material well being v. It is natural f one to a) dislike one s own country b. Like one s own country c. Criticiz one s own country. (D) Write True False against the sentences. 03 i. Subuddhi bought pay to fill his house. ii. Bhama shah was a true pateriot. iii. The power of Determination is a real sty. Q.2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end. A man without discipline is like an engine without a brake, a society that has no rules whos membres do not confirm to its rules soon falls to pieces. In games to discipline is like an engine without a brake, a society that has no rules whose members do not confirm to its rules soon falls to pieces. In games to discipline is necessary. Every player has to obey his captain and carry his commands whether he likes them not. But discipline is me necessary in the army An army without discipline is no better than a lawless mob. In not run if the boys do not observe the rules and regulations of the institution teaching is impossible if they boys do not keep discipline in the class. Questions :- 1. What is a man without discipline? 2. What happens to a society without discipline? 3. Find out wds from the passage that mean similar to : a. Essential needful b. Orders

3 Q.3. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end A cheerful person is always me disposed to be happy than miserable. He tends to look at the bright side of things and thus often derivers pleasure from circumstances which would dinarily sadden a person A cheerful beggar is happiers than low spirited millionare. As a source of happiness neither wealth n fame n beauty n power n even health can be compared even f a moment with cheerful temperament. A great advantage of cheerfulness is that it enables man to do is wk me efficiently and prevents him from being easily exhausted. The labourer who whistles over his wk goes hameless tired ad can wk harder that another who braod are real imaginary troubles. Question i. Who is me happy? ii. What is the tendency of a cheerful person? iii. What can not be compared with cheerful moment? iv. Pickout the suffix used in the following wds. a). happiness b) Cheerful Q.4. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : One night as Disk lay fast asleep into his drawsy eyes. A great still light began to creep from out the silent skies. It was the larly moon s far when. He raised his dreamy head, Her surge of silver filled the pune and streamed across his bed, So, f a while, each gazed at each. Dick and the solemn moon till, climbing slowly on her way, She vanished and was gone. Questions 1. What made Dick wake up at night? 2. Why do you think Dick gazed at the moon? 3. What happened to the moon later? 4. Pick out four objectives from the poem?

4 SECTION B Q.5. You are shantance, living at 52, surya nagar Dewas, Write a letter to your friends, sonu congratulating him on passing the higher Sec School Examination with the first division. You are chareel sharma, a student of class X-A in st. mary H.S. School, Dhar your father has been transferred to Jabalpur, write an application to your principal requesting him to issue you your school leaving certificate. Q.6. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below : If you have a telephone in your house, you will admit that it rings when you least want it when you are asleep, in the middle of a meal a conversation, when you are just going out, when you are in your both. Are you strong minded enough to igne it to say to yourself, An well, it will be the same in a hundred years time? you are not You think there may be some imptant news message f you. Have you never rushed dripping from the both, cheuring from the table, angry from bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number?. You were told the truth. In my opinion all telephone numbers are wrong numbers. If, of course your telephone rings and you decide not to answer it. then you will have to listen to a stupid bell ringing and ringing in what is supposed to be the privacy of your own home you might as well buy a bicycle bell and ring it yourself. Questions 1. Make notes on the above passage and given title too. 2. Write the summary of the passage. Q.7. You, along with some of your friends, went on a picnic last week. Write a paragraph on How I Enjoyed the picnic. Write an essay on any one of the following topics in about 200 wds. a. Science Advantages and dis advantages. b. Imptance of games and spts c. An Indian Festival d. My Hobby. Fmatted: Centered Fmatted: Centered

5 SECTION C Q.8. Do as directed (Any 5) i. When my friend called I was (sleep) (Rewrite the above sentence using the crect fm of the verb given in bracket) ii. Who broke the jug? (Change into passive voice) iii. The boy is my friend. He is wearing a red shirt. (Combine the sentences using a relative clause) iv. Mr Sharma teaches me english. (Change into present perfect Tense). v. Unless you wk hard You can not pass (Rewrite the sent using If in place of Unless ) vi. I saw the room. The room was locked. (Combine the two sent, into a simple sentence) Q.9. Translate into english (any-5) 1. es /kj tk jgk gw A 2. rqegkjk uke D;k gsa \ 3. vkt lkseokj gs A 4. o"kkz gks jgh FkhA 5. og dy bunksj tk,xka 6. rqe dgk jgrs gks \ SECTION D Q.10. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end Mamta, I want you to start practising your gaml sereously from today. I am taking you in a basketball team. These wds of the basketball coach surprised everyone selections had been going on f the schools basket ball team and the coach had chosen Mamta who had joined the school only a month befe. Mamta could not believe on her ears. She had wanted to play basketball since she joined the school, but none of the girls in her class was ready to teach her. In fact Fmatted: Indent: Left: 0" Deleted: Deleted: Fmatted: Centered Fmatted: Indent: Left: 0"

6 some of the girls in the team had even laughted at her when they heard that the previous school in which she had studied did not even have a basketball court? Questions 1. Whom did the basketball coach ask to start practising the game seriously? 2. When had mamta joined the school. 3. What did Mamta want since she joined the school? 4. Which school did not have a basketball court? 5. Find out the wds, from the passage that mean similar to a. Amazed b. Prepared Q.11. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below : But the brave boy didn t want to die. He made up his mind that he would survive somehow, to the amazament of the physician, he did survive. When the mtal danger was past, he again heard the doct and his mother speaking quietly. The mother was told that since the fire had distrayed so much flesh in the lower part of his body it would have been better if he had died, since he was doomed to be a life time cripple with no use at all of his lawer limbs. Once me the brave by made up his mind the would. But unftunately from the waist he had no mot ability. His this legs just dangled there, all but lifeless. Questions : 1. What did the boy decide? 2. Why was the physician amazed? 3. What did the physician tell the boy s mothers? 4. What was the condition of his legs? Q.12. Answer the following questions in wds. Why did pratap singh call Bhamashab the Saviour of Mewar? How did Raosakta react f Bhama Shah? Q.13. Write answer in about wds what title did Pratap Singh give to Bhama Shah and why? What did Bhama Shah bring with him? Fmatted: Indent: Left: 0" Fmatted: Indent: Left: 0" Fmatted: Centered

7 Q.14. Read the extrat carefully and answer the questions given below : Come to me O-ye children? F I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished away. Questions 1. Whom does the poet address the poem? 2. What were children doing at the time? 3. What has vanished away? In my house, with thine own hands, hight the lamp of they love! They transmeeting lamp entrancing, wondrous are its ways. Questions 1. Who is the writer of this peom? 2. Who does They refer to? 3. Which lamp does the poet pray to god to light? Q.15. Answer any two of the following questions a. What does the poet say about books? b. What does the poet want to know about the wind? c. Who is noble, brave and wise as per the poem, Anger? Q.16. Write the central idea of the poem wind Q.17. Compare peace with anger. Fmatted: Indent: Left: 0" Fmatted: Centered, Space After: 0 pt Fmatted: Font: 12 pt, Bold Fmatted: Nmal Fmatted: Font: 12 pt, Bold

8 Anwer Sheet Fmatted: Font: 18 pt, Bold Fmatted: Centered Q.1. (A) i. in ii. could iii. The iv. many v. until (B) i. Very cheerful and frendly ii. Unwilling iii. a large bag iv. a dark underguarend room used as a prison. v. Farmer (C) 1. a. Rebindranath Tage 2. b. Jawaharlal Nehru 3. a. An inner state of mind 4. b. Spiritual greatness 5. b. Like one s own country. (D) i. False ii. True iii. True Q A man without discipline is like an engine without a brake. 2. A society that has no rules is without discipline soom falls to pieces 3. a. necessary b. commands Q.3. i. A cheerful person is me happy. ii. the tendency of a cheerful person is to look at the bright side of things/

9 iii. Walth, power, fame, beauty health can not be compared with cheerful moment. iv. a. _ness b. ful (Full) Q The silvery light of the moon made Dick wake up at night. 2. Dick gazed at the moon to see her beauty. 3. She vanished later 4. Still, silent, lovely, dreancy. SACTION B Q SuryaNagr Dewas 10 th March 12. My deat sonu, I am extremely happy to know that you have passed the H.S. School Exam in the 1 st division. Please accept my congratulations f your well deserved success. Please convey my regards to your parents. I hope you will keep writing to one Your Sincerely Shantanu Patten 1 mark f solutation 4 marks f body 1 mark f subscription [note: content should be follow the pattern crect sentence fmation] Q Title Nuisance Notes Telephone at home causes problems may ring while you are i) asleep ii) middle of meal etc iii) in bathroom Difficult to igne

10 i) expert some impt. news, ii) message Stupid bell ringing causes i) lose of privacy ii) place. 2. Summary It can be marked accding to wd limit/no, cect sentece fmation etc. It should be sht and crisp. Q.7. Note :- Paragraph include the following points 1. Introduction 2. About picnic spot 3. Care and wk 4. about interesting places 5. conclusion. a) Science.. 1. Introduction 2. Uses 3. Advantage and disadvantage 4. Conclusion Fmatted: Indent: Left: 1.5", No bullets numbering Fmatted: Indent: Left: 0.5" b) Impt of games.. 1. Introduction 2. Impt of games & spts 3. Advantages/disadvantage 4. conclusion c) An Indian. 1. Introduction 2. Why do we celebrate 3. When do we celebrate 4. Reason

11 5. Conclusion d) My Hobby 1. Introduction 2. My Hobby 3. Conclusion Essay should be written upto the point, crect sentence fmation necessary points and quotations, no repeat of sent) SECTION C Q.8. Do as i. When any friend called me I was sleeping. ii. By whom was the jug-broken? Who was the jug broken by? iii. The boy who is wearing a red shirt is my friend. iv. Mr. Sharma has taught me english. v. If you can not wk hard you can not pass. vi. I saw the room locked. Q I am going to home. 2. What is your name? 3. Today is Monday 4. It was raining. 5. He will went to Inde tomrow. 6. Were do you live? SECTION D Q Mamta 2. Only a month befe 3. She wanted to play basket ball 4. Mamtas previous school 5. a. surprised b. ready

12 Q The boy decided that the would not die, but survive 2. The physician was amazed to see that the boy really survived. 3. The physician told the boy s mother that the fire had dutroyed so needs flesh in the lower part of his body, it would have been better if he had died. 4. His this legs just dangled here, all but lifeless. Q.12. Pratap singh had lost all hope to liberate Mewar. He was in exite Bharmashah gave all his gold and wealth to him to raise an army and fight the enemy. It is because Pratap Singh called Bhama shah had arranged sixty braves hsenen f every mile from the camp to Dawer seeing this man agement Rao sokta react that if Akbar knew, he would exchange half his captains f such a one. Birbal was a mere shadaw of shrewd Bhamashah. Q.13. Pratap singh hacted Bhama Shah as Saviour of Mewar. He also called him a golden counsell and the noblest man because he gave all the hoarded wealth to liberate Mewar. Bhama shah brought all his gold and property to offer to Pratap Singh. Q.14. i. The poet addresses the poem to children ii. They were playing. iii. The questions that perplexed the poet have vanished away. i. Rabindra nath Tage ii. They refers to God iii. The poet prays to God to light the lamp of his love. Q.15. a. The poet says that books are dull and endless strife b. The poet wants to know about the wind if it is young old. c. A man who conquers and rules himself is noble. brave and wise. Q.16. The wind makes the kites go up and the birds fly in the sky. It blows all day long. When it blows fast, it makes a loud sound. The wind remains unseem, though it makes greed things happen. Sometimes it bring disaster and Sometimes it is cool and pleasant.

13 Q.17. Peace is frank, waven and soft Anger is ugly and hard, Peace adds beauty and wharm to the face, Anger snatches it.

Total No. of Question-22 High School Examination-2013 Sub. - General English Class-X (Second & Third Language)

1 Total No. of Question-22 High School Examination-2013 Sub. - General English Class-X (Second & Third Language) Time: 3 Hours Maximum Marks-100 Instruction: 1. All questions are compulsory. 2. Read each