CBSE Class 10 English Language & Literature Syllabus 2019 - You will find here Solved Question Papers of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) English Language & Literature for academic session 2019-20.
Section - A : Reading
Q.1 Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow. Once upon a Time (Gabriel Okara)
Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow.
There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts: but thats gone, son.
Now they shake hands without hearts: while their left hands search my empty pockets.
"Feel at home! „Come again: they say, and when I come again and feel at home, once, twice, there will be no thrice – for then I find doors shut on me. So I have learned many things, son.
I have learned to wear many faces like dresses – home face, office face, street face, host face, cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles like a fixed portrait smile.
And I have learned too to laugh with only my teeth and shake hands without my heart.
I have also learned to say, „Good bye, when I mean „Good-riddance; to say „Glad to meet you, without being glad; and to say "Its been nice talking to you, after being bored.
But believe me, son.
I want to be what I used to be when I was like you.
I want o unlearn all these muting things.
Most of all, I want to relearn how to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror shows only my teeth like a snake sbare fangs!So show me, son, how to laugh; show me how I used to laugh and smile once upon a time when I was like you.
1. Who is the poem addressed to?
2. What does the poet want to relearn?
3. What is the poet asking his son to show?
4. Pick out a word from the poem which means. “either of two long sharp teeth at the front of the mouths of some animal”.
5. What is the poet trying to convey through the poem?
Q.2 Read the passage given below and answers the questions that follow:
If it weren't for the tastes of coffee drinkers in Saudi Arabia, the cardamom traders in the Indian state of Kerala might well run out of business,” quoted a leading cardamom exporter in Kerala, which is a major source of cardamom for all Gulf countries, where the spice is used as an essential ingredient in coffee – „Qahwah.
The Cardamom Hills, situated amidst the Western Ghats in Kerala, produce a wide variety of spices and fruits including tea, coffee, teak, pepper, cardamom, rubber and jackfruit. It is cardamom, tea and rubber that make Kerala one of the most prosperous states in Indi(A) Its per capita GDP at Rs. 11,819 far exceeds the national average. At present, the southern state accounts for around 70 percent of domestic and 60-66 percent (next only to Guatemala) of world cardamom output.
During 1998-2000, Indias cardamom exports accounted for less than 4 percent of its total production compared with Guatemalas 100 percent. Indias average yield of cardamom was a mere 60kg per acre while that of Guatemala was 147 kg per acre during the same period Thanks to its increasing productivity and cheap labour, Guatemala supplied almost 64 percent of all cardamom traded worldwide while India's exports declined to 30 percent during late 1990's from its peak level of 50-60 percent of world cardamom exports in the 1970. Thus, Guatemala gave India's cardamom exporters a run for their money, leading to the loss of its key markets such as Kuwait, Oman, and Japan in late 1990's. However, India retained Saudi Arabia as the largest importer of Indian cardamom.
There are several factors that had contributed to the declining trend in the export competitiveness of cardamom (during 1985-2007). While the growers attributed this to the rising cost of cardamom due to the high labour costs, the exporters stated that high cardamom production in Guatemala resulted in it pushing the entire production in the export market at cheaper rates. Hence, it became difficult for the Indian exporters to compete with them on the price front. Besides, deteriorating quality of their produce and high cost of financing their export operations were cited as the reasons why India lost her dominant position in the world market.
1 The cardamom hills of Kerala produce
(A) spices
(B) coffee
(C) rubber
d. all the above
2 What makes Kerala the most prosperous state in India?
(A) it is situated amidst the Western Ghats
(B) its per capita GDP is less than the national average
(C) it produces cardamom, tea and rubber
d. it produces coffee
3 Guatemala supplied 64% of all cardamom traded in the world because of its.
(A) increased productivity.
(B) costly labour.
(C) low pricing.
d. aggressive marketing.
4 What is used as an essential ingredient in Qahwah?
(A) coffee
(B) spices
(C) cardamom
d. pepper
5. India lost her dominant position in the world market due to
(A) the high cost
(B) poor quality of its produce
(C) expensive export operations
d. all the above
Q.3 Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets.
The great popularity of greeting cards, began in 19th Century England and America, with cheap, efficient, colour printing methods and low postage rates. By the 1880s there were hundreds of varieties of mass-printed Christmas, New Year's and Valentine cards. But it was Esther Howland, a 19 –year-old American girl, who turned it into a global event.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1828, she was the youngest of three children. She recognized the potential in mass-producing Valentine's Day cards, when she received a fancy card from her father's friend. She felt she could make a better one. She designed her first card and showed it to her father, who was impressed. He encouraged her to make more cards.
She sent several cards with her brother, when he went on a sales trip to New York. Much to her surprise, he returned with more than $5000 in orders. Faced with the huge order, she asked her three best friends to help her. A Valentine assembly line was born at the Howland home. Esther placed her first ad in the local paper the Daily Spy on February 5, 1850. Business grew rapidly and in 1879 the New England Valentine Company was born. She rented a building and moved the business. She published 31 pages of verse in a small book called. The New England Valentine Co.'s Verse Book for 1879 and this book allowed the customer to choose the verse for the card.
1. Esther Howland recognized the potential in mass production of valentine cards when …………………
(A) she received a card from her father.
(B) she received a card from her father's friend.
(C) she read as article on st Valentine.
(D) her brother told her about St Valentine.
2. Whom did she ask for help?
(A) her three friends
(B) father
(C) local publishers
(D) her brother.
3. How did the customer choose the verse for the cards?
(A) From the verse book Esther published.
(B) From what the customers brought.
(C) From calendars hanging on the walls of the shop.
(D) Esther wrote it for them on demand.
4. In which newspaper did Esther place her first advertisement.
(A) The Daily Spy
(B) The Valentine
(C) The New England Valentine
(D) Valentine assembly
5. Find the antonym of „discourage from the passage.
Session - B: Writing
Q.4 You are Manal / Malini of B-2/96, Kamal Vihar, Delhi. Your relative has been hospitalized with severe eating disorder. You have come to know that many young people are suffering from similar troubles. Write a letter to the Editor of the local daily highlighting how obsession with personal appearance is affecting the self confidence and the health of the youth. Mention how the latest and personal products shown on T.V. are affecting the mental and physical health of the people. (120-150 words)
Or
You are Mikha / Ruben of A-3, Paschim Vihar , Delhi, write a letter to your friend living in Mumbai telling him about CCE. Explain to him the benefits of the system and how the various activities have helped you gain confidence and improve your academic performance too.(120-150 words)
Q.5 Internet has become an integral part of today's youth. They spend a good amount of their leisure time in front of computers. Using the hints given below write an article for your school magazine elaborating the role that computers can play in shaping the present generations outlook. (120-150 words)
Or
Over the last few decades extinction of wildlife has accelerated due to increased human interference. Write a speech for the morning assembly on how we can help in wildlife conservation. (120-150 words)
Q.6 The classification of the society in India is based on caste – the word that has been misunderstanding over the ages. The classification of society was done on the basis of the profession of people. The issues related to „caste have acquired and ugly torn. Write a debate in about 120-150 words that there should not be any biases in the society.
Q.7 Complete this story in 120-150 words. “Once a farmer and his wife lived in a village with their small son. They loved him very much. „We must have a pet…
Or
REPORT WRITING
Your school had organized a „Van Mahotsav on a grand scale. Write a report 120-150 words describing various programmes / events organized at this occasion. You are Aneesh / Amy the Head girl / Head boy of the school.
Session - C: Grammar
Q. 8 Fill in the blanks choosing the most appropriate words from the given options.
It was 5 am on 6 August, 1762. John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich,
(a) …………. at the gambling table for 24 hours and he was determined to go on. He was too busy to have had his meals. An attendant
(b) ………. him some „fast food in the form of minced meat put between two slices of toasted bread. Others noticed it and probably
(c) …………. this food and in a few days this kind of food came to be known as „Sandwich.
(A) (i) have been (ii) had been (iii) has been (iv) had
(B) (i) bring (ii) bringing (iii) brought (iv) has brought
(C) (i) tried (ii) is trying (iii) try (iv) will try
Q.9 Read the following conversation and complete the dialogue by choosing the correct alternative from those given below.
Father : Archy, where were you ?
Archy : I was at the garden.
Father : Wash your hands and come (a) ………………………
Archy : No, I am not hungry Papa.
Father : Tomorrow I am going to Agra (b) …………………….
Archy : No I am not coming.
Father : Then you will stay with your Mom.
Archy : Yes Papa.
Father : (c) ……………………………..
Archy : No, I don't like that school.
(A)
1. let us have supper.
2. let us had supper.
3. let us have had supper.
4. let us have been supper.
(B)
1. can you like to come.
2. would you like to come.
3. may I come with you.
4. I will come with you.
(C)
1. you must go to school, then
2. then you were go to school.
3. then you must not go to school.
4. I shall not go to school.
Q.10 Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange then to form meaningful sentences as shown in the example.
Example: the smallest / coorg / district / or kodagu / of Karnataka. Coorg, or kodagu the smallest district of Karnataka.
A. home/ is / forest/ to evergreen/ and coffee/ spices/ plantations.
B. Evergreen/ covers/ rainforest/ thirty percent/ of this/ district.
C. It pours/ during/the monsoons / to keep/ enough/ many/ away/ visitors.
Q.11 The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number as given in example.
Growth during adolescence was was – is (example)
very fast and physical change (a) …………………
that adolescents undergo had (b) …………………
a direct influence on their nutritional need. (c) …………………
adequate nutrition intake during (d) …………………
this period could have serious consequences (e) …………………
during adolescence, adulthood of beyond. (f) …………………
Session - D: Literature (Textbooks)
Q.12 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
(A) At about the age of twenty five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights so moved him that he at once become a beggar and went out into the world to seek enlightenment concerning the sorrows he had witnessed. He wondered for seven years and finally sat down under a fig tree, where he vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the BO Tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and share his new understandings. At that point the become known as (the Buddha the Awakened or the Enlightened).
1. Who is „he in the above lines?
2. What did he see when he was about twenty-five years old?
3. How did Budha get his name?
4. Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following:
to pledge.
Money, clothes and food that are given to the poor.
Q.13 Read the extract given below and answers the questions that follow:
(B) The creature that emerged from this sack on to the spacious tiled floor of the consulate bedroom resembled most of all very small, medievally, conceived, dragon from the head to the tip of the tail he was coated with symmetrical pointed scales of mud armour between whose tips was visible a soft velvet fur like that of a chocolate brown mole. He shook himself, and I half expected a cloud of dust, but infact it was not for another month that I managed to remove the last of the mud and see the Otter, as it were, in his true colours.
1. Which creature is being talked about here.
2. Explain the phrase “in his true colours”.
3. What was visible between the tips.
4. Find a word from the passage which means „to look like‟.
Q. 14 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate options from those given below.
A. Belinda paled, and she cried Help! Help!
But Mustard fled with a terrified yelp,
Ink trickled down to the bottom of the household.
And little mouse Blink strategically mouse holed.
1. Why did Belinda cry for help ?
A. because Mustard yelped.
B. because Blink strategically mousehold.
C. because Belinda saw a pirate with a pistol.
D. because ink trickled.
2. What did Mustard do ?
A. Mustard trickle of down.
B. Mustard fled with a yelp.
C. Mustard mouse holed.
D. Mustard cried Help! Help!
3. How did ink react ?
A. Ink trickled down to the bottom of house.
B. Ink trickled down to the bottom of the ship.
C. Ink fled with a yelp.
D. Ink cried for help.
B. “I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
1. Whom does „I' refer to here ?
A. The young man.
B. God
C. The old man
D. The lady.
2. What had the man found?
A. God
B. a text
C. the old man
D. Anne.
3. What did the man hear?
A. that only God could love the young lady for her own sake and not for her yellow hair.
B. that only the lady can love herself.
C. that only the man could love the lady for her own sake and not for her yellow hair.
D. that nobody can love her.
Q 15 Answer any three of the following questions in 30-40 words each.
1. What is the story about the Kodavu peoples descent?
2. Why was the Otter named Maxwell‟s Otter?
3. What was Valli's deepest desire?
4. What are the legends related to the discovery of tea?
Q.16 Answer the following questions in 100 words.
On the basis of your understanding of the story, sketch the character of Bholi.
Or
The course of the Loisels life changed due to the necklace – comment.
Q 17. Answer any two of the following questions in 50-60 words each.
1. Why do you think Lutkin's neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?
2. What does Noodle suggest Think- Tank about the books. ?
3. How did Ebright's mother help him in his learning?
Q.18 Answer the following questions in about 120-150 words.
How did Valli plan her bus ride? What did she find out about the bus, and how did she save up the fare? What characteristics made Valli plan her bus ride? Are there traits of the character which need to be developed consciously? Mention any two and explain why those traits need to be developed?
Section - A : Reading
Q.1 Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow. Once upon a Time (Gabriel Okara)
Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow.
There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts: but thats gone, son.
Now they shake hands without hearts: while their left hands search my empty pockets.
"Feel at home! „Come again: they say, and when I come again and feel at home, once, twice, there will be no thrice – for then I find doors shut on me. So I have learned many things, son.
I have learned to wear many faces like dresses – home face, office face, street face, host face, cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles like a fixed portrait smile.
And I have learned too to laugh with only my teeth and shake hands without my heart.
I have also learned to say, „Good bye, when I mean „Good-riddance; to say „Glad to meet you, without being glad; and to say "Its been nice talking to you, after being bored.
But believe me, son.
I want to be what I used to be when I was like you.
I want o unlearn all these muting things.
Most of all, I want to relearn how to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror shows only my teeth like a snake sbare fangs!So show me, son, how to laugh; show me how I used to laugh and smile once upon a time when I was like you.
1. Who is the poem addressed to?
2. What does the poet want to relearn?
3. What is the poet asking his son to show?
4. Pick out a word from the poem which means. “either of two long sharp teeth at the front of the mouths of some animal”.
5. What is the poet trying to convey through the poem?
Q.2 Read the passage given below and answers the questions that follow:
If it weren't for the tastes of coffee drinkers in Saudi Arabia, the cardamom traders in the Indian state of Kerala might well run out of business,” quoted a leading cardamom exporter in Kerala, which is a major source of cardamom for all Gulf countries, where the spice is used as an essential ingredient in coffee – „Qahwah.
The Cardamom Hills, situated amidst the Western Ghats in Kerala, produce a wide variety of spices and fruits including tea, coffee, teak, pepper, cardamom, rubber and jackfruit. It is cardamom, tea and rubber that make Kerala one of the most prosperous states in Indi(A) Its per capita GDP at Rs. 11,819 far exceeds the national average. At present, the southern state accounts for around 70 percent of domestic and 60-66 percent (next only to Guatemala) of world cardamom output.
During 1998-2000, Indias cardamom exports accounted for less than 4 percent of its total production compared with Guatemalas 100 percent. Indias average yield of cardamom was a mere 60kg per acre while that of Guatemala was 147 kg per acre during the same period Thanks to its increasing productivity and cheap labour, Guatemala supplied almost 64 percent of all cardamom traded worldwide while India's exports declined to 30 percent during late 1990's from its peak level of 50-60 percent of world cardamom exports in the 1970. Thus, Guatemala gave India's cardamom exporters a run for their money, leading to the loss of its key markets such as Kuwait, Oman, and Japan in late 1990's. However, India retained Saudi Arabia as the largest importer of Indian cardamom.
There are several factors that had contributed to the declining trend in the export competitiveness of cardamom (during 1985-2007). While the growers attributed this to the rising cost of cardamom due to the high labour costs, the exporters stated that high cardamom production in Guatemala resulted in it pushing the entire production in the export market at cheaper rates. Hence, it became difficult for the Indian exporters to compete with them on the price front. Besides, deteriorating quality of their produce and high cost of financing their export operations were cited as the reasons why India lost her dominant position in the world market.
1 The cardamom hills of Kerala produce
(A) spices
(B) coffee
(C) rubber
d. all the above
2 What makes Kerala the most prosperous state in India?
(A) it is situated amidst the Western Ghats
(B) its per capita GDP is less than the national average
(C) it produces cardamom, tea and rubber
d. it produces coffee
3 Guatemala supplied 64% of all cardamom traded in the world because of its.
(A) increased productivity.
(B) costly labour.
(C) low pricing.
d. aggressive marketing.
4 What is used as an essential ingredient in Qahwah?
(A) coffee
(B) spices
(C) cardamom
d. pepper
5. India lost her dominant position in the world market due to
(A) the high cost
(B) poor quality of its produce
(C) expensive export operations
d. all the above
Q.3 Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets.
The great popularity of greeting cards, began in 19th Century England and America, with cheap, efficient, colour printing methods and low postage rates. By the 1880s there were hundreds of varieties of mass-printed Christmas, New Year's and Valentine cards. But it was Esther Howland, a 19 –year-old American girl, who turned it into a global event.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1828, she was the youngest of three children. She recognized the potential in mass-producing Valentine's Day cards, when she received a fancy card from her father's friend. She felt she could make a better one. She designed her first card and showed it to her father, who was impressed. He encouraged her to make more cards.
She sent several cards with her brother, when he went on a sales trip to New York. Much to her surprise, he returned with more than $5000 in orders. Faced with the huge order, she asked her three best friends to help her. A Valentine assembly line was born at the Howland home. Esther placed her first ad in the local paper the Daily Spy on February 5, 1850. Business grew rapidly and in 1879 the New England Valentine Company was born. She rented a building and moved the business. She published 31 pages of verse in a small book called. The New England Valentine Co.'s Verse Book for 1879 and this book allowed the customer to choose the verse for the card.
1. Esther Howland recognized the potential in mass production of valentine cards when …………………
(A) she received a card from her father.
(B) she received a card from her father's friend.
(C) she read as article on st Valentine.
(D) her brother told her about St Valentine.
2. Whom did she ask for help?
(A) her three friends
(B) father
(C) local publishers
(D) her brother.
3. How did the customer choose the verse for the cards?
(A) From the verse book Esther published.
(B) From what the customers brought.
(C) From calendars hanging on the walls of the shop.
(D) Esther wrote it for them on demand.
4. In which newspaper did Esther place her first advertisement.
(A) The Daily Spy
(B) The Valentine
(C) The New England Valentine
(D) Valentine assembly
5. Find the antonym of „discourage from the passage.
Session - B: Writing
Q.4 You are Manal / Malini of B-2/96, Kamal Vihar, Delhi. Your relative has been hospitalized with severe eating disorder. You have come to know that many young people are suffering from similar troubles. Write a letter to the Editor of the local daily highlighting how obsession with personal appearance is affecting the self confidence and the health of the youth. Mention how the latest and personal products shown on T.V. are affecting the mental and physical health of the people. (120-150 words)
Or
You are Mikha / Ruben of A-3, Paschim Vihar , Delhi, write a letter to your friend living in Mumbai telling him about CCE. Explain to him the benefits of the system and how the various activities have helped you gain confidence and improve your academic performance too.(120-150 words)
Q.5 Internet has become an integral part of today's youth. They spend a good amount of their leisure time in front of computers. Using the hints given below write an article for your school magazine elaborating the role that computers can play in shaping the present generations outlook. (120-150 words)
Or
Over the last few decades extinction of wildlife has accelerated due to increased human interference. Write a speech for the morning assembly on how we can help in wildlife conservation. (120-150 words)
Q.6 The classification of the society in India is based on caste – the word that has been misunderstanding over the ages. The classification of society was done on the basis of the profession of people. The issues related to „caste have acquired and ugly torn. Write a debate in about 120-150 words that there should not be any biases in the society.
Q.7 Complete this story in 120-150 words. “Once a farmer and his wife lived in a village with their small son. They loved him very much. „We must have a pet…
Or
REPORT WRITING
Your school had organized a „Van Mahotsav on a grand scale. Write a report 120-150 words describing various programmes / events organized at this occasion. You are Aneesh / Amy the Head girl / Head boy of the school.
Session - C: Grammar
Q. 8 Fill in the blanks choosing the most appropriate words from the given options.
It was 5 am on 6 August, 1762. John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich,
(a) …………. at the gambling table for 24 hours and he was determined to go on. He was too busy to have had his meals. An attendant
(b) ………. him some „fast food in the form of minced meat put between two slices of toasted bread. Others noticed it and probably
(c) …………. this food and in a few days this kind of food came to be known as „Sandwich.
(A) (i) have been (ii) had been (iii) has been (iv) had
(B) (i) bring (ii) bringing (iii) brought (iv) has brought
(C) (i) tried (ii) is trying (iii) try (iv) will try
Q.9 Read the following conversation and complete the dialogue by choosing the correct alternative from those given below.
Father : Archy, where were you ?
Archy : I was at the garden.
Father : Wash your hands and come (a) ………………………
Archy : No, I am not hungry Papa.
Father : Tomorrow I am going to Agra (b) …………………….
Archy : No I am not coming.
Father : Then you will stay with your Mom.
Archy : Yes Papa.
Father : (c) ……………………………..
Archy : No, I don't like that school.
(A)
1. let us have supper.
2. let us had supper.
3. let us have had supper.
4. let us have been supper.
(B)
1. can you like to come.
2. would you like to come.
3. may I come with you.
4. I will come with you.
(C)
1. you must go to school, then
2. then you were go to school.
3. then you must not go to school.
4. I shall not go to school.
Q.10 Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange then to form meaningful sentences as shown in the example.
Example: the smallest / coorg / district / or kodagu / of Karnataka. Coorg, or kodagu the smallest district of Karnataka.
A. home/ is / forest/ to evergreen/ and coffee/ spices/ plantations.
B. Evergreen/ covers/ rainforest/ thirty percent/ of this/ district.
C. It pours/ during/the monsoons / to keep/ enough/ many/ away/ visitors.
Q.11 The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank is given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number as given in example.
Growth during adolescence was was – is (example)
very fast and physical change (a) …………………
that adolescents undergo had (b) …………………
a direct influence on their nutritional need. (c) …………………
adequate nutrition intake during (d) …………………
this period could have serious consequences (e) …………………
during adolescence, adulthood of beyond. (f) …………………
Session - D: Literature (Textbooks)
Q.12 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
(A) At about the age of twenty five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights so moved him that he at once become a beggar and went out into the world to seek enlightenment concerning the sorrows he had witnessed. He wondered for seven years and finally sat down under a fig tree, where he vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the BO Tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and share his new understandings. At that point the become known as (the Buddha the Awakened or the Enlightened).
1. Who is „he in the above lines?
2. What did he see when he was about twenty-five years old?
3. How did Budha get his name?
4. Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following:
to pledge.
Money, clothes and food that are given to the poor.
Q.13 Read the extract given below and answers the questions that follow:
(B) The creature that emerged from this sack on to the spacious tiled floor of the consulate bedroom resembled most of all very small, medievally, conceived, dragon from the head to the tip of the tail he was coated with symmetrical pointed scales of mud armour between whose tips was visible a soft velvet fur like that of a chocolate brown mole. He shook himself, and I half expected a cloud of dust, but infact it was not for another month that I managed to remove the last of the mud and see the Otter, as it were, in his true colours.
1. Which creature is being talked about here.
2. Explain the phrase “in his true colours”.
3. What was visible between the tips.
4. Find a word from the passage which means „to look like‟.
Q. 14 Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate options from those given below.
A. Belinda paled, and she cried Help! Help!
But Mustard fled with a terrified yelp,
Ink trickled down to the bottom of the household.
And little mouse Blink strategically mouse holed.
1. Why did Belinda cry for help ?
A. because Mustard yelped.
B. because Blink strategically mousehold.
C. because Belinda saw a pirate with a pistol.
D. because ink trickled.
2. What did Mustard do ?
A. Mustard trickle of down.
B. Mustard fled with a yelp.
C. Mustard mouse holed.
D. Mustard cried Help! Help!
3. How did ink react ?
A. Ink trickled down to the bottom of house.
B. Ink trickled down to the bottom of the ship.
C. Ink fled with a yelp.
D. Ink cried for help.
B. “I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
1. Whom does „I' refer to here ?
A. The young man.
B. God
C. The old man
D. The lady.
2. What had the man found?
A. God
B. a text
C. the old man
D. Anne.
3. What did the man hear?
A. that only God could love the young lady for her own sake and not for her yellow hair.
B. that only the lady can love herself.
C. that only the man could love the lady for her own sake and not for her yellow hair.
D. that nobody can love her.
Q 15 Answer any three of the following questions in 30-40 words each.
1. What is the story about the Kodavu peoples descent?
2. Why was the Otter named Maxwell‟s Otter?
3. What was Valli's deepest desire?
4. What are the legends related to the discovery of tea?
Q.16 Answer the following questions in 100 words.
On the basis of your understanding of the story, sketch the character of Bholi.
Or
The course of the Loisels life changed due to the necklace – comment.
Q 17. Answer any two of the following questions in 50-60 words each.
1. Why do you think Lutkin's neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?
2. What does Noodle suggest Think- Tank about the books. ?
3. How did Ebright's mother help him in his learning?
Q.18 Answer the following questions in about 120-150 words.
How did Valli plan her bus ride? What did she find out about the bus, and how did she save up the fare? What characteristics made Valli plan her bus ride? Are there traits of the character which need to be developed consciously? Mention any two and explain why those traits need to be developed?
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