ABTA Madhyamik Test Paper 2024 English Solution Page 1002
ABTA Madhyamik Test Paper 2024 English Solution Page No. 1002. ABTA Class 10 Solved English Page No. 1002 for the students of West Bengal.
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1) Read the passage carefully and answers the questions that follow:
As he entered the school gate, an idea occurred to him. He would deliver the letter to the headmaster at the end of the day. There was a chance Samuel might do something during the course of the day to justify the letter.
Swami stood at the entrance to his class. Samuel was teaching arithmetic. He looked at Swami – Swami hoped Samuel would scold him severely.
“You are half an hour late,” Samuel said.
“I have a headache, Sir,” Swami said.
“Then why did you come at all?”
This was an unexpected question from Samuel.
Swami said, “My father said I shouldn’t miss school, Sir.”
Samuel looked impressed. “Your father is quite right. We want more parents like him.”
“Oh, you poor man!” Swami thought, “You don’t know what my father has done to you.”
“All right, go to your seat.”
Swami sat down, feeling sad. He had never met anyone as good as Samuel.
The teacher was inspecting the home lesson. To swami’s thinking this was the time when Samuel got most angry. But today Samuel appeared very gentle.
“Swaminathan, where is your home work?”
“I have not done my homework, Sir” Swami said.
“Why – headache?” asked Samuel.
“Yes, Sir.”
“All right, sit down,” Samuel said.
When the bell tang for the last period at 4.30, Swami picked up his books and ran to the headmaster’s room. He found the room locked. The peon told him the headmaster had gone on a week’s leave. Swaminathan ran away from the place.
As soon as he entered home with the letter, Father said, “I knew you wouldn’t deliver it.”
“But the headmaster is on leave,” Swami said.
Father snatched the letter away from Swami and tore it up.
“Don’t ever come to me for help if Samuel scolds you again. You deserve your Samuel,” he said.
A) Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences: 1×5=5
(i)Swami was unable to do his homework due to –
(a) toothache (b) leg pain (c) headache (d) blurred vision.
ANS:(c) headache
(ii) Father knew – (a) Swami would deliver the letter (b) Swami would not deliver the letter (c) Swami would not tear the letter (d) Swami would throw away the letter.
ANS:(b) Swami would not deliver the letter
(iii) The question of Samuel appeared to Swami as –
(a) absurd (b) illogical (c) stupid (d) unexpected.
ANS:(d) unexpected.
(iv) The final bell rang at – (a) quarter to four (b) quarter past four (c) half past four (d) sharp at four.
ANS:(c) half past four
v) As he was late, Swami hoped Samuel would –
(a) keep him standing outside the class (b) scold him severely (c) punished him (d) love him dearly.
ANS:(b) scold him severely
B) Complete the following sentences with information from the text: 1×3=3
(i) The teacher Samuel got most angry when _____________.
ANS:The teacher Samuel got most angry whenhe was inspecting home lessons.
(ii) As Samuel sir appeared to be very gentle Swami _____________.
ANS:As Samuel sir appeared to be very gentle Swamifelt sad.
(iii) The peon informed Swami That___________.
ANS:The peon informed Swami thatthe headmaster gone on a week’s leave.
B) State whether following sentences are True or False. Write T forTrue and F for False in the boxes on the right hand side. Also pick out suitable line(s) phrases(s) from the passage in support of your answer: (1+1)x2 = 4
(i) Swami decided to deliver the letter immediately after reaching school.
ANS: False.
Supporting Statement:He would deliver the letter to the headmaster at the end of the day.
(ii) Swami’s sir was very pleased with Swami’s father.
ANS:False.
Supporting Statement: Samuel looked impressed.
2) Read the poem and answer the questions given below:
Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag.
I met an old women there – all knobly stick and rag.
She said : ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.”
Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake –
Surrounded by a string tribe and me tried to a stake.
They said : ‘We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now – now you are going to die.’
‘Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew.’
A) Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences: 1×4=4
(i) The old women opened up her –
(a) purse (b) vanity bag (c) little bag (d) suitcase
ANS:(c) little bag
(ii) The poet was tied to a/an –
(a) pillar (b) stake (c) iron-rod (d)lamp post.
ANS:(b) stake
(iii) To the plight of the oak trees the poet –
(a) Remains indifferent (b) feels pain (c) rejoiced (d) plants more trees
ANS:(a) remains indifferent
(iv) The port was looking for a –
(a) dog (b) hen (c) cow (d) male deer
ANS:(d) male deer
B) Answer the following question: 2×2=4
(i) Describe the women the poet met in the Oakwood.
ANS: Poet looking for male deer by chance, he met an old women. The woman was old and in rags. She was unsteady and was holding a stick.
(ii) How did the oak trees plan to punish the poet if the poet if the failed to keep his promise?
ANS:the oak trees plan to punish the poet if the poet if the failed to keep his promise that oak trees wrinkle over poet. Oak trees root poet among the oaks where poet was born but never grew.
Reading Compression (Unseen)
3) Go through the extra and answer the question that follows:
…It is the efficiency rather than the inefficiency of human memory that compels my wonder.
…There are, it must be admitted, some matters in regard to which the memory works with less than its usual perfection. It is only a very methodical man, I imagine, who can always remember to take the medicine his doctor has prescribed for him. This is the more surprising because medicine should be one of the easiest things to remember. As a rule, it is supposed to be taken before, during or after meals and the meal itself should be a reminder of it. The fact remains, however, that few but the moral giants remember to take their medicines regularly. Certain psychologist tell us that we forget things because we wish to forget them, and it may be that it is because of their antipathy to pills and potions that many people fail to remember them at the appointed hours.
This does not explain, however, how it is that a life-long devotee of medicines like myself is as forgetful of them as those who take them most unwillingly. The very prospect of a new and widely advertised cure-all delights me. Yet, even if I have the stuff in my pockets, I forget about it as soon as the hour approaches at which I ought to swallow it. Chemists make their fortunes out of the medicines people forget to take.
The commonest form of forgetfulness, I suppose, occurs in the matter of posting letters.
…The absent – minded man is often a man who is making the best of life and therefore has no time to remember the mediocre. Who would have trusted Socrates or Coleridge to post a letter? They have souls above such things.
…The poets I have known have had better memories than the stock brokers I have known. Memory, indeed, is half the substance of their art.
On the other hand, statesmen seem to have extraordinary bad memories… The frequency with which the facts in the autobiographies and speeches of statesmen are challenged, suggests that the world has not yet begun to produce ideal statesman – men, who like great poets, have the genius of memory and of intellect combined.
A) Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences: 1×6=6
(i) The author is a life-long devotee of –
(a) medicines (b) books (c) toys (d) walking sticks.
ANS:(a) medicines
(ii) Poets have better memories than –
(a) painters (b) sculptars (c) dancers (d) stock brokers
ANS:(d) stock brokers
(iii) The inefficiency of human memory compels the author to –
(a) rejoice (b) wonder (c) worry (d) mourn
ANS:(b) wonder
(iv) The best of life is enjoyed by people who are –
(a) serious (b) gloomy (c) absent – minded (d) intellectual.
ANS:(c) absent – minded
(v) The easiest thing to remember is to –
(a) paint a picture (b) take medicine (c) keeping umbrella (d) dusting room.
ANS:(b) take medicine
(vi) Extraordinary bad memory is possessed by –
(a)doctors (b) painters (c) statesman (d) poets.
ANS:(c) statesman
B) Complete the following chart with information from the passage: 2×3=6
Cause | Effect |
(i) Socrates and Coleridge have souls above mediocre things. | (i) |
(ii) | (ii) Chemists make their fortunes. |
(iii) Some men are very methodical. | (iii) |
ANS:
Cause | Effect |
(i) Socrates and Coleridge have souls above mediocre things. | (i)They are able to make the beat of life and therefore has no time to remember to mediocre. |
(ii)People forget to take medicine. | (ii) Chemists make their fortunes. |
(iii) Some men are very methodical. | (iii)they can always take medicine their doctor has prescribed for them. |
C) Answer the following questions: 2×4=8
(i) What do certain psychologists tell about our forgetfulness?
ANS:Certain psychologists tell about our forgetfulness that we forget things because we wish to forget them, and it may be that it is because of their antipathy to pills and potions that many people fail to remember them at the appointed hours.
(ii)How can we say that statesmen have extraordinary bad memories?
ANS:statesmen have extraordinary bad memories becausethe frequency with which the facts in the autobiographies and speeches of statesmen are challenged, suggests that the world has not yet begun to produce ideal statesman – men, who like great poets, have the genius of memory and of intellect combined.
(iii) What is the relation between taking a meal and taking medicines ?
ANS:The relation between taking a meal and taking medicines is supposed to be taken before, during or after meals and the meal itself should be a reminder of it. The fact remains, however, that few but the moral giants remember to take their medicines regularly.
(iv) What delights the author?
ANS:The very prospect of a new and widely advertised cure all delights narrator.
Section: B (GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY)
4) Write the correct alternative to fill the blanks: 1×3=3
We had to hurry to _______(fixing/fix/fixed) the kite if we wanted to send it up before the wind__________((had fallen/fall/fell). We (rushed/rush/had rushed) into the lighthouse to get some paper.
ANS:
We had to hurry to fixthe kite if we wanted to send it up before the windfell. We rushedinto the lighthouse to get some paper.
5)A) Fill the blanks with appropriate articles or prepositions : 1×3 =3
Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar wished _________set up ____________hospital in Pune in the memory _______ her father Dinanath Mangeshkar.
ANS:
Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar wished toset up ahospital in Pune in the memory ofher father Dinanath Mangeshkar.
B) Do as directed:
(i) As soon as he went out, the dog jumped on the table. (Make it negative)
ANS:
No sooner had he gone out than the dog jumped on the table.
(ii) They will surely do it. (Change the voice)
ANS:
It willsurely be done it.
(iii) The police said to the gang of boys, “Leave the place at once.”(Indirect speech)
ANS:
The police ordered the gang of boys toleave the place at once.
C) Choose the correct phrasal verbs from the list given below to replace the words underlined. Write the correct phrasal verbs in the boxed on the right-hand side, changing the form where necessary. There is one of the extra phrasal verb in the list: 1×3=3
[List: run after, put out, keep up, call of]
(i) The dog was chasing a rabbit.
ANS:
The dog was running aftera rabbit.
(ii) They cancelled the afternoon meeting.
ANS:
They called offthe afternoon meeting.
(iii) They must maintain the prestige of the school.
ANS:
They must keep upthe prestige of the school.
6 Given below are the meanings of Four words which you will find in the passage in Question No. 3 Find out the words and write them in the appropriate boxes on the right-hand side: 2×4 =8
(i)Luck
ANS: Fortune
(ii) Of only average quality
ANS: Usual
(iii) A deep-seated feeling of aversion
ANS: Antipathy
(iv) Panacea
ANS: Cure-all
Section-C (WRITING)
7) Write a newspaper report on the demise of K K with the help of the following points: 10
[Points: Incident – Untimely death of K K (Krishna Kumar Kunnath) – Date: 31.05.2022 – Place: Nazrul Manch, South Kolkata – Cause: Cardiac arrest, wildly packed auditorium and suffocation, excessive excitement – Steps taken: he was taken to nursing home, took enough time to reach – Result: Doctor announced dead, Mayocardial infraction for nearly 3 hours performance.]
ANS:
Death of Krishna Kumar Kunnath
1 June 2023, Kolkata:Krishnakumar Kunnath, died in Nazrul Manch, South Kolkata Kolkata on 31.05.2022 at the age of 53. Cause of Krishna Kumar Kunnathdeath wasCardiac arrest.According to sources, KK felt unwell during the concert. He complained of uneasiness during the interval but performed till the end of the event. He was taken to nursing homebut took enough time to reach to the hospital. Doctors performed nearly 3 hours forMayocardial infraction. After 3 hours doctors declared the death of Krishna Kumar Kunnath.
8) Write a letter to your niece telling her the importance of solving a good test paper: 10
[Hints: Trasure house of question – different teachers, different outlooks – variety of standing questions – plenty of practices – growth of confidence – perfection in learning through self-assessment.]
ANS:
Shubham Pawar
45, Sambhaji Maharaj Road,
Pune, 413723
1 November 2023
To Shyam,
I write this letter to telling the importance of solving a good test paper. Solving test papers building our self-confidence about our study. Various test papars, question banks made by different teachers gives variety of patterns of question papars. Which inform that how to tackle question papars in the exams. After solving number of test papars build our confidence and we get perfect through self-assessment. So I told you to please solve good test papars about your exam.
Yours Loving Brother
Shubham Pawar
9) Use the following flow-chart to write a paragraph describing how you can bloom flowers in pots. 10
[Points: pots bought – potting mix prepared as per plants – saplings bought from nursery – planted in pots – watered – manure added as per requirement – proper care taken – flowers bloom – gardener’s joy knowing no bounds.]
ANS:
Bloom flowers in pots
We see different flowers in nursery. In this paragraph we are see that how to bloom flowers in pots. Firstly number of pots bought from market at reasonable price. Now we potting mix as per plants. Now various saplings Bought from nursery. We planted these saplings in different pots. Now we watering these pots. We add fertilizers as per requirement. We take proper care of plants. After few days flowers are bloom on plants. Seeing different flowers on plants gardener’s joy knowing no bounds..