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SAMPLE PAPER
CLASS 10 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Time Allowed : 180 mins Maximum Marks : 80

General Instructions:

1. The Question Paper contains THREE sections - READING, GRAMMAR & WRITING
and LITERATURE.

2. Attempt questions based on specific instructions for each part.

3. All Questions are compulsory.

Section A

1 Q. 1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions/complete [10]
the sentences that follow: (8 marks)
Sniffer dog Tucker uses his nose to help researchers find out why a
killer whale population off the northwest coast of the United States is on
tKe decline. He searches for whale faeces floating on the surface of the
water, which are then collected for examination. He is one of the elite
team of detection dogs used by scientists studying a number of species
including right whales and killer whales.

Conservation canines are fast becoming indispensable tools for

biologists according to Aimee Hurt, associate director and co-founder of
Working Dogs for Conservation, based in Three Forks, Montana.
Over the last few years, though, so many new conservation dog projects
have sprung up that Hurt can no longer keep track of them all. Her
organization’s dogs and their handlers are fully booked to assist field
researchers into 2012.

“Dogs have such a phenomenal sense of smell”, explained Sam Wasser,

director of the Center for Conservation biology at the University of
Washington in Seattle. He has worked with scat-detection dogs since
199(g). Scientists have been using Conservation Canines in their
research since 199(g). These dogs have enabled them to non-invasively
access vast amount of genetic and physiological information which is
used to tackle conservation problems around the world. Such
information has proved vital for determining the causes and
consequences of human disturbances on wildlife as well as the actions
needed to mitigate such impacts.

The ideal detection dog is extremely energetic with an excessive play

drive. These dogs will happily work all • day long, motivated by the
expectation of a ball game as a reward for sample detection. The
obsessive, high energy personalities of detection dogs also make them
difficult to maintain as pets. As a result, they frequently find themselves
abandoned to animal shelters, facing euthanasia. The programme
rescues these dogs and offers them a satisfying career in conservation
research.

Unseen passage with questions and answers class 10 English: (1×8 = 8

marks) (Board 2014, Set 8L1922Q)
(a) According to the text there are a few________ detection dogs like
Tucker.
(b) Tucker sniffs for whale________
(c) The dogs are special because they assist in research without ________
(d) The ideal detection dog ________
(e) The dogs expect________ as a reward of their hard work.
(f) ________of these dogs make it difficult to keep them as pets.
(g) These dogs find career in ________
(h) The word ‘euthanasia’ means ________

2. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

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 done 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. May be you can 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 will 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. Complete the following analogy appropriately, based on your

understanding of paragraph 3.

We can say that the situation of people being optimist about things is
comparable to students preparing only the important questions for the
final exam leaving the textbook untouched because ________.

2. Fill the blanks with the appropriate option from those given in
brackets, based on your understanding of paragraph 4. The statement
that, commit yourself to being 15 minutes early for everything, is a
________ (fact/opinion) because it is a ________ (subjective
judgement/objective detail).

3. Justify the following, in about 40 words.

We are advised to keep our watch accurate in paragraph.

4. Based on the given ideal schedule, what is the ideal time for the
students to wake up and rest?

5. State an inference aboutwhere the students spend their maximum

time.

6. Select the option that correctly displays what snooze signifies.

(Reference - Paragraph 4)
 a. (i), (iv), and (v)

b. Only (ii)

c. Only (iii)

d. (iv) and (v)

7. Infer the remedy provided in the passage to tackle unforeseen delays.

(Answer in about 40 words)

8. Which of the following is NOT one of the takeaways from the study
mentioned in the passage?

a. Wake up at a fixed and favourable time as per your schedule.

b. To reach your workplace on time and calculate the time before

starting any work.

c. Planning to be ready or reach at least 30 minutes earlier than

the required time.

d. People fail to realise that the clock is ticking fast, and we will
run out of time soon.

SECTION B –GRAMMAR

2 Complete the following tasks, as directed [10]

1. Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word in the bracket,
 for the given portion of a letter:

Dear Madam

This is with reference to posters ________ (bear) the message of ‘crash

diet’ being posted around our school premises.

2. Identify the error in the given sentence, from a report from the News
for Kids site and supply the correction.

But in recent years, insect numbers have been dropped sharply.

Use the given format for your response.

3. Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option.

According to the studies, dolphins, whales and ________

(any/many/much) other sea creatures use highly sophisticated
navigation systems.

4. Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks by choosing
the most appropriate words from the given options.

Rohini wrote to her mother that she (a) ______ into the boarding school.
She wrote "I now have (b) ______ friends also. One of them is Anne. I (c)
______ you a picture of the two of us by e - mail. I (d) ______ really very
happy".

a. (i) settled (ii) has settled (iii) had settled (iv) has been settled

b. (i) a few (ii) the few (iii) few (iv) little

c. (i) send (ii) sent (iii) am sending (iv) is sending

d. (i) is (ii) was (iii) am (iv) will be

5. Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction
for the following line, from a news report:

The roof and the backside of the bus were blown off by the blast that
occurred on Thursday, but no one was injured.

6. Complete the line from a self - awareness song, by filling the

 blank with the correct option.

"I ________ an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it ________, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight."

a. has shot, flew

b. shot, flown

c. have shot, has flown

d. shot, flew

7. Identify the error and supply the correction, for the following:

Use the given format for your response.

SECTION B – CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS

3 You are Rajan Sharma living at D - 25, Anand Sector, Hyderabad. Write a [5]
letter to the editor of the Daily Times, Hyderabad, regarding the poor living
conditions of child Labourers in tailoring units, jewelry making units and
restaurants in your city. Give suggestions to improve their conditions and
their right to education. You can use the following clues:

4 The given bar graph shows the most preferred choices of customers of a [5]
famous restaurant about savoury dishes. Analyse the given data and write an
analytical paragraph.
 SECTION C - LITERATURE

5 Read the given extracts and answer the questions - [5]

1. Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow:

The following Sunday Lencho came a bit earlier than usual to ask if
there was a letter for him. It was the postman himself who handed the
letter to him while the postmaster, experiencing the contentment of a
man who has performed a good deed, looked on from his office.
Lencho showed not the slightest surprise on seeing the money; such
was his confidence - but he became angry when he counted the
money. God could not have made a mistake, nor could he have denied
Lencho what he had requested.

a. Why was Lencho not surprised on seeing the money? Answer in

about 40 words.(2)

b. Complete the sentence with the appropriate option. Lencho

became angry when he got the money because ________.(1)

i. He was only given 70 pesos when he had asked for 100

pesos.

ii. He wanted more money.

iii. He wanted money directly from God.

iv. He understood that The postmaster collected money for

him.

c. Identify the irony used in the above stanza.(1)

d. State any one inference about the postmaster from the given
context: It was the postman himself who handed the letter to
him while the postmaster, experiencing the contentment of a
man who has performed a good deed, looked on from his office.
(1)

6 Read the given extracts and answer the questions - [5]

1. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:

The trees inside are moving out into the forest,

the forest that was empty all these days

Where no bird could sit

no insect hide
 no sun bury its feet in shadow.

a. Complete the sentence appropriately.(1)

It is clear that Personification is the poetic device used for ’No

sun bury its feet....’ because (Clue: explain how personification
applies here)

b. State whether the following statement is True or False:(1)

The extract uses trees as a symbol for conservative people.

c. Select the appropriate option to complete the sentence,

according to the extract. The idea of a forest that has been
’empty all these days’ is ________.(1)

i. unnatural

ii. scary

iii. magical

iv. legendary

d. Which three things cannot happen in a treeless forest?(2)

7 Answer ANY FOUR of the following five questions, in about 40 - 50 [12]

words

1. What methods did his parents apply to make him fly?

2. How has the poet observed nature in the poem Dust of Snow ?

3. What twin obligations does Mandela mention?

4. Why did Mr. Keesing not like Anne Frank and what did he do?

5. Recount your reaction to the loss of a favourite object as a very young

child. Would you have behaved the same way now? Explain with
reason. (The Ball Poem)

8 Answer ANY TWO of the following three questions, in about 40 - 50 [6]

words.

1. Imagine Mrs. Pumphrey came to know how Tricky was actually

treated.

Write a brief note to the narrator on her behalf.

You may begin this way:

 Dear Mr. Herriot

I recently met Mrs. Mallard when she brought her Pixie to visit dear
Tricky. I spoke to her about the great triumph of surgery that had
brought him back to me. Imagine my surprise when she told me how
mistaken I was! I am writing to you to share... (continue)...

2. Who is the real culprit in the story A Question of Trust ?

3. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?

9 Answer ANY ONE of the following two questions, in about 100 - 120 [6]
words

1. Write a brief description of Coorg with special reference to its beauty,

people main crops, tourist seasons and speciality for army?

2. Throughout the poem, Amanda is constantly day - dreaming. Describe

her dreams in detail.

10 Answer ANY ONE of the following two questions, in about 100 - 120 [6]
words.

1. Describe Jaffers’s fight with Griffin at the village of Iping.

2. Write a brief character - sketch of Hari Singh in the light of his

honesty. Express your opinion also.