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CONTINUOUS & COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
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Third Language
ENGLISH - PAPER - I
X CLASS
Max Marks : 40]
Note : 1.
[Time : 2 : 45 hrs
This question paper contains three sections (A, B and C)
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15 Minutes time is allotted exclusively for reading the question paper and 2 : 30 hours for
writing the answer
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All the answers are to be written in the answer booklet only.
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Students can make use of the last pages of the answer booklet for rough work, While
answering the discourses.
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SECTION - A
Reading Comprehension (15 Marks)
(Q 1- 7) Read the following passage
NHK Radio :
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What was the environment like when you were young and how did you go about
saving it ?
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When I was a child, which is almost more than fifty years ago, the environment was
very pristine, very beautiful, and very green. We were a British colony, and the British
government at that time started to clear cut the indigenous forests in our forested
mountains because they wanted to establish commercial plantations of exotic species
of trees such as the pines from the northern hemisphere and the eucalyptus from
Australia. These trees are very nice, they grow tall, and they grow very fast, but as
they grow they destroy all the local biological diversity. All the flora and fauna
disappeared. So although we were getting commercial timber for the growing timber
industry, we also destroyed our local flora and fauna.
As a result, these forests, which were the waster towers, were no longer able to
contain the water, so when the rains fell the water ran downstream and ended up in
the lakes and ocean instead of going down into the underground reservoir so that it
could come back to us in the form of rivers. One thing we noted is that not only did
the rain patters change, became less, but also the rivers started drying up. We lost our
local biological diversity. So that’s a lot of damage to our environment.
That is why in 1975, at the very first United National Conference for Women in
Mexico, many of the women were saying, “We need food, we need water, we need
clean drinking water, we need fodder for our animals.” And I was wondering, what
has happened ? These are things that were there twenty years ago when I was a child.
The environment had changed; and that’s when I started this campaign to restore the
vegetation and to restore the land and to rehabilitate the forests.
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Now, Answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer and
write A, B, C or D in your answer booklet.
4×1=4
1.
To clear cut the indigenous forests means
(a) to destroy the forests clearly
(b) to destroy the native forests
(c) to restore the native forests
(d) to clear the forests in the mountains
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Exotic species of trees are
(a) trees like pine and eucalyptus
(b) trees that are not common in that area
(c) trees that are never grown in that area
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(d) trees used for commercial plantations
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What does flora and fauna refer to ?
(a) Pine and eucalyptus
(c) plants and animals
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What types of text is this passage ?
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(a) a narrative
(c) an interview
(b) lakes and oceans
(d) flowers and fruits
(b) a report
(d) a play script
Answer the following questions in two or three sentences
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When I was a child - - - - - - - - -
Who is the speaker ? What do you
Know about that person ?
6.
The speaker mentions two things that led to the loss of local biological diversity. What are
they ?
7.
These are the things that were there twenty years ago when I was a child. What are the ‘things’
that are referred to here ?
(Q. Nos. 8 - 12) Read the following excerpt from The Brave Potter
When they passed a young tree, the potter grabbed a branch. But the horse did not stop. Instead
the tree was pulled out of the ground. A sentry from the enemy camp saw the potter galloping towards
the camp with a tree in one hand and his reins in the other. ‘That must be the General who captured a
tiger with his bare hands’, he thought. “Now he has uprooted a tree with only one hand! He is not an
ordering man – his a giant! “Run, run, save yourselves! The famous Tiger – General is coming at the
head of a large army to attack us. He has the strength of a giant! He has uprooted a tree with one
hand!”.
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The frightened soldiers fled. Their kind was left by himself in his tent. Hurriedly he wrote a letter
begging for peace and apologizing for attacking the country. He left this letter in the tent. Then he
jumped on his horse and followed his soldiers. When the potter’s black horse reached the deserted
camp it stopped with shaking hands the polter untied his fact and fell to the ground. When he looked
around he was surprised to find the camp empty. He looked in the King’s tent and found the letter. The
puzzled polter walked back to the city with the letter in his pocket. He went to his wife and gave her
the letter.
Now, Answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer and
write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
3×1=3
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When they passed a young tree .......... ‘they’ refers to
(a) the potter and his wife
(b) the potter and the sentry
(c) the potter and his horse
(d) the potter and the young tree
The potter was puzzle because
(a) he walked back to the city
(c) the energy had run away
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(b) he found a letter
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(d) he uprooted a tree
He’s not an ordinary man. He is a gaint
The literasy device used in the sentence underlined is
(a) simile
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(c) metaphor
(b) satire
(d) personification
Now answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
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Why did the sentry think that the potter was not an ordinary man ?
12.
The potter found a letter. Who wrote the letter and to whom was it written ?
2×1=2
SECTION - B
Vocabulary and Grammar
(Q. Nos. 13 - 17) Read the passage give below. Five sentences in the passage numbered (13 - 17)
at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an error. Correct and re-write them in the answer
booklet.
5×1=5
‘I know what you’re thinking’, I said.
(13) You’re thinking that may be the black race is superior than the white, because you just saw
the little dark youngster on the lawn ordering the little white boy around. Don’t think that, it’s a
game they play. (14) Alternate days one is the boss, on other the servant. It’s a grand game. I used
to play it and may be so did you. (15) Yesterday I have seen the little white boy bossing the dark
one. (16) and I worried all day over the dark boy’s realisation of his inferiorness so young in life!
(17) We are silly, we grown-ups, isn’t it’?
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(Q.No. 18 - 22) Complete the passage choosing the right word from those given below it. Each
blank is numbered and for each blank four choices (A), (B), (C) and (D) are given. Choose the
correct answer from these choices and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet.
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Work
(18) the foundation had starated. Dattaram Vadar
(19) the contract
(20) Foundation trenches were filled with mud, bits of stone and other
of construction.
fillings. Work progressed
(21) speed. One day Bayaji saw Kondiba coming towards him
and greeted him. ‘It’s with your blessings that I
(22) on this storeyed house.
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or
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(D) with
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gave
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give
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(D) giving
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An
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A
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by
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had ventured
(B) had been ventured
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have ventured
(D) have been venturing
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SECTION - C
Creative Writing (Discourses)
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Read the following story
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One evening Ali was cycling home after a cricket match. As it was getting dark he took the
shortest way to reach home and he happened to pass by his uncle’s watch factory.
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He saw a lorry outside the factory and the gate was open. He thought something was wrong and
quickly went behind a tree. He then saw four men carrying boxes into the lorry. Ali thought they were
tieves. He waited until they had gone back into the factory, ran to the lorry and let out air from all the
tires. After that he got on his bicycle and cycled at top speed to the police station. He reported the
matter to the police. Soon Ali and the police reached the factory and caught the thieves and took them
to the police station.
The inspector took Ali home in his car. Ali’s parents were worried.
Based on the story write a possible conversation between Ali’s father and the police Inspector
about Ali and his act of bravery.
(OR)
On hearing the news about this incident, a newspaper reporter came to Ali’s house to interview
Ali. Write an interview between the News reporter and Ali.
24.
Read the following
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Imagine you are Shruthi / Shravan.
You went on an excussion from your school to Agra. When you saw the beautiful Taj Mahal, you
thought of your best friend Priya / Pavan who could not come due to ill health.
Write a diary entry about those memorable moments.
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