2/2/1 2019 Class 10 English Question Paper Solution
ENGLISH
(Language and Literature)
SECTION A – (Reading)
1) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1) Keep your watch accurate. For some people, moving up the time on their watch will help them get up earlier. For others, they will remember that the time on the watch is wrong and will disregard it altogether. It may be helpful to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead of five or ten.
2) Keep a clock, phone, computer or anything that displays time in each room of your house. One of the easiest ways to run late is simply by not realising that the time is passing as quickly as it is.
3) Set all your clocks and watches to the same time. Don’t be an optimist. Things usually take longer than what you’d expect, even without major delays. If you have a dinner appointment at 7·30 p.m., don’t think you can work till 7 p.m., then take a bath, dress and reach on time. Realistically, calculate the time you will take at each step and then add 10 minutes more to allow for unexpected delays, or you cannot get to your job in time.
4) Wake up when you are supposed to wake up. Don’t hit the snooze button, keep on lying in bed, and watch TV at the very start of your day. Maybe try even setting your clock 10 minutes earlier than you need. If you have difficulty with this, move your alarm clock to somewhere away from your bed; that way, you have to get up to turn it off. Commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything. If you have to reach your place of work at 8·00, don’t even tell yourself this. Just tell yourself (and everyone else who listens — but don’t annoy them or make them think that they are late or early!) ‘‘I have to be at work at 7·45.’’ If you do this, you will be on time even with little unforeseen delays. You will be on time even with a traffic jam.
1.1 Complete the following statements using words/phrases from the passage. Attempt any eight.
(a) Some people believe that if ______ it will help them be earlier.
Ans: they move up the time on their watch
(b) Many others know ___________ they disregard it altogether.
Ans: that the time on the watch is wrong
(c) Keep ___________ in each room.
Ans: clock, phone ,computer or anything that displays time
(d) One of the things that can be done is ________ of five or ten minutes.
Ans: to set your watch just two minutes ahead instead
(e) Many a time we do not realise that ___________ .
Ans: time is moving / passing very quickly
(f) Instead of pressing the snooze button ___________ .
Ans: wake up when you are supposed to wake up
(g) If you have difficulty in getting up ___________.
Ans: keep the alarm clock away from your bed
(h) It is a good habit to ________ somewhere away from your bed.
Ans: move the alarm clock
(i) It is good to commit yourself __________ for everything.
Ans: to being 15 minutes early
2) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1) Music is perhaps the most popular and widely practised form of Fine Arts, transcending all kinds of cultural and linguistic barriers. Any form of fine art is difficult to master and almost impossible to perfect and music is no exception.
2) Nature, it is learnt, has blessed almost two-thirds of the human race with musical ability of some sort. Music has the power to bring out the deepest emotions. It can make one cry or bring a smile on one’s face. In fact it is a magic medicine and many seek refuge in it when they are depressed or stressed. It is this intimacy that makes us listen to music or even hum or sing sometimes. This singing, or realistically speaking, expressing one’s emotion musically sometimes takes a serious turn. This desire to show musical expression in public then becomes a serious business profession. And from here the musical journey begins.
3) This desire to sing before an audience is innocent and beautiful and indeed it is perfectly alright to have such a genuine desire. But it is also important to understand that singing is an intricate art — a highly refined one at that, which requires systematic, prolonged and strict training, to be acceptable. This is an aspect we forget in our keen desire to reach the stage and perform. It is almost like preparing a formal meal for some specially invited guests, without even having learnt and trained in the basics of cooking. This is why we have more noise and less music nowadays.
4) This desire to sing before an audience is innocent and beautiful and indeed it is perfectly alright to have such a genuine desire. But it is also important to understand that singing is an intricate art — a highly refined one at that, which requires systematic, prolonged and strict training, to be acceptable. This is an aspect we forget in our keen desire to reach the stage and perform. It is almost like preparing a formal meal for some specially invited guests, without even having learnt and trained in the basics of cooking. This is why we have more noise and less music nowadays.
5) It is observed that those who have attained the so called partial success, suddenly feel that they lack the required knowledge and are not learned enough. But it is too late by then. It should be understood here that the stage or a performance brings in a different mindset within the artist. It is always recommended and rightly said, that while on stage, cover the mistakes and weaknesses if any, and get along. But the contrary is true when it comes to acquiring knowledge and during the learning process. While under training, the student is expected to make mistakes but then rectify those mistakes under the supervision and guidance of the teacher. Therefore, it is good to make mistakes and then be corrected during the process of learning as this subsequently makes one flawless and educated. This is a different mindset. And these two mindsets discussed above, (those of a performer and that of a student) cannot co-exist.
2.1) On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each :
(a) The desire to sing in public overcomes the need to train. Elaborate.
Ans: desire to sing before audience is innocent / perfectly alright to have such a genuine desire; music helps bring out deep emotions and reduces stress – a highly refined art which requires systematic, prolonged and strict training.
(b) How can we say that music is a magic medicine ?
Ans: music – magic medicine because it can makes one cry or bring a smile on one’s face; people seek refuge in it when depressed or stressed.
(c) What is best described as ‘Crash Courses’ ?
Ans: crash courses – hurried shortcuts and half-hearted attempts to gain some knowledge and training.
(d) What should be the mindset of a student of music ?
Ans: mindset of a student of music should be to make mistakes and rectify them under the supervision and guidance of the teacher while under training.
(e) Why is singing a refined and intricate art ?
Ans: music requires systematic / prolonged and rigorous training / to be acceptable.
2.2) On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer any four of the following :
(a) Almost _________ of human population is blessed with musical ability of some sort.
(i) two-thirds
(ii) one-third
(iii) half
(iv) one-fifth
Ans: (i) two-thirds
(b) Any form of ________ ________ is difficult to master.
(i) visual art
(ii) audio-visual art
(iii) fine arts
(iv) design art
Ans: (iii) fine arts
(c) ‘Transcending’ in para 1 means
(i) drown under
(ii) rise above
(iii) surrender
(iv) fail
Ans: (ii) rise above
(d) ‘Refuge’ in para 2 means
(i) shelter from rain
(ii) shelter from storm
(iii) shelter from unhappiness
(iv) shelter from sun
Ans: (iii) shelter from unhappiness
(e) ‘Partial’ in para 5 means
(i) unfair
(ii) incomplete
(iii) whole
(iv) total
Ans: (ii) incomplete
SECTION B – (Writing and Grammar)
3) As a health conscious person, you have noticed an advertisement in a newspaper on yoga classes in your neighbourhood. Write a letter in 100 – 120 words to the Organiser, Yoga for Public, R.K. Puram, New Delhi requesting him/her to send you information about the duration of the course and other relevant details. You are Shweta/Srikar of 15, R.K. Puram, New Delhi .
Ans: Objective: – To use an appropriate style and format to write a formal/an informal letter
Note: – No marks are to be awarded if only the format is given. Credit should be given
for the candidate’s creativity in presenting his/her own ideas.
Format – 1 Mark
i.) sender’s address
ii.) date
iii.) receiver’s address
iv.) subject/Heading
v.) salutation
vi.) closing
Content – 4 Marks
Expression: 3 Marks (coherence, relevance of ideas (1½ mark)
(Accuracy, appropriate words and correct spellings (1½ mark)
(Value points are suggested in the question paper itself)
or
You have noticed that the number of vehicles is steadily increasing in your city. There are long traffic jams causing a lot of inconvenience to the road users. Write an article in 100 – 120 words on the topic, ‘Problem of Traffic Jams in Metropolitan Cities’. You are Renu/Rajan.
Ans:
Format = 1 Mark
Title– ½ mark &name of the writer – ½ mark
Content = 4Marks
Expression = 3Marks
– coherence and relevance of ideas and style –1½ mark
– grammatical accuracy, appropriate words and spellings – 1½ mark
Value points
- number of vehicles steadily increasing
- long traffic jams causing a lot of inconvenience
- wastage of time and fuel
- causing road rage and tempers run high
- people disobey traffic rules to reach their destination
4) Complete the story in 200 – 250 words, which begins as the following, providing an appropriate title also. 10 Mukesh, the grocer, was very greedy. He would mix stones in pulses and coloured sand in spices and sell them to the poor villagers. The villagers complained to him but he turned a deaf ear to them, as his was the only grocery store in the village. The villagers, then decided …. …. ….
Ans: Format = 1 Mark
Title– ½ mark &name of the writer – ½ mark
Content = 4Marks
Expression = 3Marks
– coherence and relevance of ideas and style –1½ mark
– grammatical accuracy, appropriate words and spellings – 1½ mark
Value points
number of vehicles steadily increasing
long traffic jams causing a lot of inconvenience
wastage of time and fuel
causing road rage and tempers run high
people disobey traffic rules to reach their destination
OR
It was 10 p.m. I was alone at home. Suddenly I heard a knock on the door … …. ….
Ans: Title & Moral – 1 Mark
Content – 4 Marks
Expression – 5 Marks (Coherence, relevance of ideas) (2½ marks)
(Accuracy, appropriate words and correct spellings (2½ marks)
5) Fill in the blanks in the paragraph given below by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones that follow. Attempt any four. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.
The caves of Ajanta and Ellora (a) the magnificent works of sculpture.
Whoever (b) there (c) spellbound. Thousands (d) tourists visit these
places every year. One can stay (e) the guest houses.
(a) (i) is (ii) are (iii) was (iv) were
->( ii) are
(b) (i) go (ii) going (iii) goes (iv) went
->(iii) goes
(c) (i) becomes (ii) became (iii) becoming (iv) has become
->(i) becomes
(d) (i) for (ii) of (iii) from (iv) at
->(ii) of
(e) (i) on (ii) over (iii) upon (iv) in
->(iv) in
6) In the following paragraph, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it against the correct blank number. The first one has been done for you. Attempt any four.
The tiny island of Rameswaram South India e.g. Rameswaram in South
is one of the four Dhams. According to legend (a) ________ _______ ________
it was from here that Lord Rama the help of (b) ________ ________ _______
Hanuman and Sugreev and his monkey force
built a stone bridge Lanka just 24 kilometres (c) ________ ________ _______
away. The main attraction of island (d) ________ ________ _______
is the Ramanathaswamy Temple is a (e) ________ ________ _______
magnificent example of Dravidian architecture.
Ans:
Word before |
Missing Word | Word After |
(a) to | a |
legend |
(b) Rama |
with | the |
(c) bridge | to |
Lanka |
(d) of |
the | island |
(e) Temple | which |
is |
7) Rearrange any four of the following groups of words/phrases to make meaningful sentences :
(a) of mankind / reading is / one of / pleasures / the greatest
->Reading is one of the greatest pleasures of mankind.
(b) we / enjoy / the / much more / borrowed ones / our own books / reading / than
-> We enjoy reading our own books much more than the borrowed ones.
(c) book / carefully / must be / with / a borrowed / treated
->A borrowed book must be treated with care.
(d) book / afraid of / you should / writing notes on / not be / your own
->You should not be afraid of writing notes on your own book.
(e) should begin / one / a private library / one’s youth / building / in
->One should begin building a private library in one’s youth.
SECTION C – (Literature)
8) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
The baker usually collected his bills at the end of the month. Monthly accounts used to be recorded on some wall in pencil. Baking was indeed a profitable profession in the old days. The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique was an open testimony to this. Even today any person with a jackfruit-like physical appearance is easily compared to a baker.
(a) Where did the baker record his accounts ?
Ans: on the wall in pencil.
(b) Why did the baker and his family never starve ?
Ans: never starved because baking was a profitable profession.
(c) Which word in the extract is a synonym of ‘rich’ ?
Ans: prosperous’.
(d) How can a baker be identified in Goa ?
Ans: any person with a jackfruit – like physical appearance is easily identified as a baker.
OR
Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,
And the little gray mouse, she called him Blink,
And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,
But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.
(a) Name the poem and its poet.
Ans: ‘The Tale of Custard the Dragon’; OGDEN NASH
(b) What is the colour of Belinda’s dog ?
Ans: yellow
(c) What were the kitten and the mouse called ?
Ans: the kitten was called Ink and the mouse was called Blink by Belinda.
(d) Which word in the stanza is the antonym of ‘dull’ ?
Ans: sharp
9) Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each :
(a) Why did Lencho write a letter to God ?
Ans: crops completely destroyed / wrote a letter to God to seek help because He was the only hope / asked Him to send hundred pesos to sow his field again / support his family.
(b) How did Chubukov react when Lomov asked for the hand of his daughter in marriage ?
Ans: was excited; embraced and kissed Lomov and blessed him.
(c) Where in the classroom does Wanda sit and why ?
Ans: Wanda sits in the seat next to the last seat in the last row in room thirteen / comes all the way from Boggins Heights / her feet normally caked with dry mud.
(d) How did Ebright’s mother help him in becoming a scientist ?
Ans: Ebright’s mother encouraged his interest in learning; took him for trips, bought him telescopes, microscopes, cameras, mounting materials and other equipments.
(e) Why does Anil not hand Hari Singh over to the police ?
Ans: Anil forgives Hari Singh to give him an opportunity to reform himself.
10) Answer the following question in 100 – 120 words :
Mme Forestier proved to be a true friend of the Loisels. Elaborate.
Ans:
- a friend to Loisels –Mme Forestier helps her in their hour of need.
- Mme Loisel needs necklace to wear in the party.
- generous: opens up the entire array of her jewels for Loisels to choose from.
- considerate when Loisels delay the return of the necklace.
- at the end of the story honestly reveals to Matilda that necklace was fake.
- Mme Forestier – like a true friend feels bad for her unnecessary sufferings .
OR
Why did Gotami go to the Buddha ? What lesson did he teach her ?
Ans:
- her only son died.
- in grief she carried the dead son to all neighbours for medicine.
- a man asked her to go to the Buddha to get medicine to cure him.
- The Buddha asked her to bring a handful of mustard seeds from a house where no
- one had died.
- Kisa Gotami could not find the house where some beloved had not died.
- came to know that death is common to all.
- The Buddha made her realize that humans are mortals.
11) Answer the following question in 200 – 250 words :
Justify the title, ‘The Diary of A Young Girl’.
Ans:
- The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank – a thirteen year old Jewish girl; she did not have any friend to share her feelings and emotions.
- description of her life, family and companions and their situations.
- confided in it and treated Kitty as a friend.
- recorded her feelings, fears, frustrations and all kinds of issues .
- recorded her anger the way the Jews were treated by the Germans .
- the whole book written in diary form and revolves around the life of Anne Frank.
Hence the title is justified.
OR
Write a character sketch of Anne Frank.
Ans:
- Anne born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt Germany.
- very intelligent and perceptive and a voracious reader / wanted to become a writer.
- strong feelings for Peter.
- developed dislike towards her mother, had a feeling that her father loved her more than her mother.
- an optimistic girl who learnt from her sufferings.
- made her diary her friend and expressed all her feelings in it.
OR
What type of relationship did Miss Anne Sullivan and Helen share ?
Ans:
- Anne Sullivan- Helen’s instructor.
- Miss Sullivan filled Helen’s life with brightness.
- both shared a wonderful relationship.
- Sullivan was like a mother to her .She taught her spellings of words by writing them into her hand.
- after improving her vocabulary she taught Helen how to make sentences.
- Sullivan accompanied her everywhere and Helen looked up to her whenever she wanted to know about something.
- their relationship lasted for 49 year
OR
Write a character sketch of Alexander Graham Bell.
Ans:
- famous American innovator
- kind and helpful to Helen and extended support to her
- showed and explained many of his experiments
- in World Fair, told Helen about auto phones and other inventions
- humorous and poetic
- fond of children
- did a lot to improve the life of disabled
- modest, noble, sympathetic person.
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