Class 10 English Sample Paper Term 1 With Solutions Set D

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Sample Paper Term 1 Class 10 English With Solutions Set D

READING SECTION

I. Read the passage given below: 

1. As a rule, it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact start of a major literary movement. With the English romantic movement, however, a single book is cited as the impetus. In 1798, two young poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, needed money to finance a trip to Germany, so they pooled some of the verses into a book, Lyrical Ballads. The collection was amazingly popular, and it enjoyed numerous re printings. Most of the poems in Lyrical Ballads were penned by Wordsworth – only four were written by Coleridge. These two poets are usually referred to as the first generation romantic poets. They were soon followed by the second generation romantic poets – John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Other poets often included in this period are William Blake, Robert Burns, Walter Savage Landor, Leigh Hunt, and Robert Southey.

2. II. The use of myth and the supernatural. Several romantic authors were fascinated by the unusual, the exotic and mythology. Even literary works that weren’t focused on mythology, for example, often included allusions to classical mythology. An example of this is Wordsworth’s mention of Proteus and Triton, both sea-gods from Greek mythology, in “The World is Too Much with Us.”

3. Lord Byron, a second generation romantic poet, led a tumultuous, scandalous life and is often referred to as a fleshand- blood romantic hero. A romantic hero is a rebel who rejects the “proper” rules of society and is fiercely independent. Others might characterize the romantic hero as being powerful, brooding, and isolated. Romantic heroes are generally ruled by their emotions and intuition instead of by reason and logic. Sometimes society as a whole views these individuals as lacking morals.

4. Wordsworth and Coleridge were very close friends, and they often worked together. Even though both were romantic writers, they often used starkly different themes and explored different topics. Wordsworth saw positive power and inspiration in Nature, while Coleridge sometimes depicted Nature as violent and destructive. Also, Wordsworth enjoyed making the mundane appear fascinating, while Coleridge often attempted to make the supernatural and fantastic believable.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any eight out of the ten questions by choosing the correct option.

Question 1. Select the option that suggests the name of a poet who is not a Romantic.
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) P.B. Shelly
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Lord Byron

Question 2. Select the option that suggests the characteristic features of Romantic poetry.
(a) Myth and supernatural
(b) Logic and reason
(c) Benefits of industrial revolution
(d) Science and physics

Question 3. Select the option that approximately suggests the year of the beginning of Romantic Poetry.
(a) 1978
(b) 1798
(c) 1799
(d) 1897

Question 4. Name the book that apparently marked the beginning of the Romantic poetry.
(a) Lyrical Ballads
(b) Collection of Romantic Poems
(c) Songs of Innocence
(d) Songs of Experience

Question 5. Who was not a second generation Romantic poet?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) P.B. Shelly

Question 6. Define the romantic hero in accordance to the passage.
(a) A traditional who accepts the ‘proper’ rules of society and acts according to it.
(b) A rebel who rejects the ‘proper’ rules of society and is very independent.
(c) A person is confused whether to accept and reject the norms of the society.
(d) A person who accepts some and rejects some of the proper rules of society.

Question 7. Name the poem of William Wordsworth with the mention of sea-gods, Proteus and Triton from Greek mythology.
(a) Daffodils
(b) I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
(c) The World is Too Much with Us
(d) The Prelude

Question 8. Sometimes society as a whole views these individuals as lacking _______. Select the correct option to fill the blank.
(a) manners
(b) morals
(c) etiquette
(d) logic

Question 9. Select the correct option that appropriately fills the blanks. William portrayed Nature as positive power and _________,while Coleridge depicted Nature as violent and ________
(a) destructive, aspiring
(b) inspiration, destructive
(c) constructive, volatile
(d) motivating, mundane

Question 10. Select the correct pair of poets who sometimes worked together.
(a) John Keats, William Blake
(b) William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge
(c) Leigh Hunt, William Wordsworth
(d) P.B. Shelly, Robert Southey

II. Read the passage given below:

1. The high rates of illiteracy among Indian women-and the corollary gender gap in literacy attainment-are attributable to many social, economic and cultural factors. Even as the benefits of female education are public-including a more productive workforce, lower fertility and lower infant mortality-the costs such as tuition fees and school supplies as well as opportunity costs of forgone child labour, are privately borne by households. This leads to under investment in women’s schooling. Accentuating the disadvantage for women are the social restrictions on their mobility that prevent an educated woman from entering the labour force and offering support to her household. The educational gender gap, therefore, is not only a reflection of the low economic returns to female education but is also a symptom of the entrenched biases that discourage the aspirations of women and other marginalised communities.

2. Data shows that the gender gaps in education, occupation and wages have shrunk sharply between 1983 and 2010 in most indicators; the gaps have narrowed most sharply for the youngest cohorts in the workforce.However, these data are aggregate India-wide; given the variation in policies and outcomes across states, it would be worthwhile to analyse dis aggregated data to better identify the causal channels at work.This brief examines the gender gap in literacy in both national and state levels. It uses National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data from rounds 43, 50, 55 and 64 of the Employment and Unemployment Survey, round 71 of the Social Consumption (Education) Survey and the Periodic Labour Force Survey (2017-18).

3. About three decades ago, the adult male literacy rate in India was almost twice that for adult females. While this gap has narrowed substantially over the years, adult male literacy rate still surpasses the adult female literacy rate by 17 percentage points.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any six out of the eight questions by choosing the correct option.

Question 11. On what does educational gender gap reflect upon, other than low economic returns of female education?
(a) Encouragement of woman education
(b) Encouraging women to be career-oriented
(c) Discouraging the aspirations of women and other marginalized communities.
(d) Emancipation of women’s position in society.

Question 12. Between which years, the gender gaps between education, occupation and wage have sharply narrowed down?
(a) 1993-20 20
(b) 1924- 2012
(c) 1983 – 2010
(d) 1973- 2006

Question 13. According to Table 1, the literacy gap between male and female is the lowest in which year (s)?
(a) 2007-08
(b) 2014
(c) 1987-88
(d) 2017-18

For the Visually Impaired Candidates
State the approximately figure of number that suggests how many females in India still cannot read and write in any language.
(a) 186 million
(b) 189 million
(c) 188 million
(d) 187 million

Question 14. About three decades ago, the adult male literacy rate in & India was almost ________ that for adult females. Select the option that suitably fills the blank.
(a) thrice
(b) twice
(c) four times
(d) six times

Question 15. Select the option that states the percentage points by which male literacy rate exceeds female literary rate.
(a) 18
(b) 16
(c) 17
(d) 19

Question 16. By reading the passage, we can perceive the educational gender gap has its root in the-
(a) households
(b) schools
(c) colleges
(d) offices

Question 17. Select an option that states one of the reasons why women cannot join the labour force.
(a) Preventing their mobility
(b) Pursuing higher education
(c) Will to learn more
(d) Travel enthusiasm

Question 18. The corollary gender gap in literacy attainment are attributed to-
(a) only economic factors
(b) social and cultural factors
(c) only social factors
(d) social, economic and cultural factors

WRITING

III. Answer any four out of the five questions given, with reference to the context below.

St. Columbus School
NOTICE
Shikha, the Cultural Head of Sunrise High School, has to put up a notice regarding the celebration of the Annual Day of School.

Question 19. Select the appropriate heading for the notice.
(a) Annual Day- an Extravaganza.
(b) B. Upcoming Annual Day
(c) C. Fun Day Coming
(d) D. Events for Annual day

Question 20. Select the option that lists the informative points to be included in the notice.
(1) Date and venue of the event.
(2) Deadline for registration.
(3) Preference of snacks.
(4) Types of events
(5) Budget for the programme.
(a) All the 5 points
(b) 3
(c) (1), (2), and (4)
(d) (2), (3) and (5)

Question 21. Select the most suitable opening line for the notice.
(a) Annual day is being organised…
(b) This to inform all the students that the cultural team is organising Annual Day….
(c) It is our duty as students to organise…
(d) It is for all of our best interest…

Question 22. Select the most appropriate ending for the notice.
(a) Cooperation expected.
(b) All are welcome for enthusiastic participation.
(c) Refer to the guidelines properly.
(d) Last chance to participate.

Question 23. What should be the tone of the notice?
(a) Formal yet attractive
(b) Informal
(c) Narrative
(d) Descriptive

IV. Answer any six of the seven questions given, with reference to the context below.

Rita, a resident of Elgin Road, Kolkata, wants to write a letter to the Editor of “The Times of India”, appealing to try to stop the reckless driving on roads.

Question 24. Select a suitable subject for the letter.
(a) Block Roads
(b) Ban motor vehicles.
(c) Appeal to control reckless driving on roads
(d) Inefficient traffic control.

Question 25. Select the option that suggests a suitable opening line for the letter.
(a) I want to tell the concerned authority…
(b) This letter is to bring to your notice the poor infrastructure quality…
(c) Through the columns of your esteemed newspaper, I wish to bring to the notice of the authorities concerned…
(d) The letter should find itself at the hand of the concerned authority…

Question 26. What should be the tone of the letter?
(a) Formal and appealing
(b) Informal
(c) Forgiving
(d) Sympathetic

Question 27. Select the option that suggests what should not be included in the letter.
(a) Address of Rita’s school.
(b) Problems faced by people.
(c) Address of the Newspaper Company
(d) Residential address of Rita.

Question 28. Select an option that mentions the most appropriate opening line for the conclusion part of the letter.
(a) I would like if you tell the concerned authority…
(b) Hence, through the columns of your esteemed daily, I would like to appeal to the concerned administrative authority of the city…
(c) The authority must take necessary steps to…
(d) You should make immediate contact between the concerned authority and me, and we will discuss further about…

Question 29. The concerned authority which is to be mentioned in the conclusion part refers to
(a) The mayor of the city
(b) B. The President of the country
(c) C. Local police officer
(d) D. The Chief Minister of the state

Question 30. Select the option that lists the appropriate suggestion of the problem mentioned in the letter.
(a) Roads should always be kept busy.
(b) Rules should be made stricter and efficient traffic police should be hired.
(c) Transportation by motor vehicles should be banned.
(d) The higher administrative authority should resign.

LITERATURE

V. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:

Mukesh’s family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh’s eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt. We walk down stinking lanes choked with garbage, past homes that remain hovels with crumbling walls, wobbly doors, no windows, crowded with families of humans and animals coexisting in a primeval state.

Question 31. What the law can do with the 20,000 children engaged in bangle making?
(a) The law, if enforced can take all the children out from the hot furnaces where they work to make bangles.
(b) The law, if enforced would put the children in prison for lifetime.
(c) The law, if enforced would ban bangle making in the area.
(d) The law, if enforced would take the parents of the children out from the hot furnaces.

Question 32. Select the option that mentions one of the health problems faced by the children for working in the hot furnaces.
(a) Causes polio
(b) Causes damaging of brightness of their eyes
(c) Causes thyroid
(d) Causes night blindness

Question 33. What did Mukesh’s sister-in-law do when his father entered the house
(a) Went to the kitchen to serve lunch
(b) Went to the bathroom to arrange for his bath
(c) Went to the room to hide from her father-in-law
(d) Went behind the broken wall and brought her veil closer to her face

Question 34. In the native language, daughter-in-law is called as?
(a) Bahu
(b) Didi
(c) Buya
(d) Chachi

Question 35. Select the option that mentions a synonym for ‘wobbly’-
(a) Unstable
(b) Strong
(c) Sound
(d) Secure

VI. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:

I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know the first word about them. For a moment I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright!

Question 36. What is the moral that Alphonse Daudet wants to bring out?
(a) not to put off things that one can do that day
(b) old order changed to new
(c) one should accept everything that happens
(d) teachers should be respected

Question 37. What was M. Hamel going to question Franz about?
(a) Participles
(b) Adjectives
(c) old primer
(d) Ba be bi bo bu

Question 38. Why did the villagers come to meet M. Hamel in the school?
(a) to complain
(b) to say goodbye
(c) to gossip
(d) to show gratitude

Question 39. What did Franz find on reaching the school?
(a) People were dancing
(b) school was closed
(c) Police patrolling
(d) strange silence

Question 40. What did M. Hamel bring for his class on his last day in the school?
(a) new pens
(b) new notebooks
(c) sweets
(d) story books

VII. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands

Question 41. What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
(a) Happy
(b) Content
(c) Dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness

Question 42. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
(a) to find more fish
(b) to go deeper into the sea
(c) to think and stop harming the fish
(d) None of the above

Question 43. While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment?
(a) he will stop dropping it
(b) he will look at the ground
(c) he will walk carefully
(d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands

Question 44. What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?
(a) hours of the day
(b) months of a year
(c) it will help to create peace and harmony
(d) all of the above

Question 45. Why is the moment of silence called Exotic?
(a) because of the beautiful scenery around
(b) because of the gathering
(c) because of large gathering
(d) because of perfect peace and harmony

VIII. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:

That night, among my oldest first-day covers, I found one that shouldn’t have been there. But there it was. It was there because someone had mailed it to my grandfather at his home in Galesburg; that’s what the address on the envelope said. And it had been there since July 18, 1894 – the postmark showed that – yet I didn’t remember it at all. The stamp was a six-cent, dull brown, with a picture of President Garfield. Naturally, when the envelope came to Granddad in the mail, it went right into his collection and stayed there – till I took it out and opened it. The paper inside wasn’t blank.

Question 46. What did the letter state?
(a) That everything is okay
(b) that Sam is joining them
(c) Third level does exist and Charley was advised to keep looking for this place
(d) None of the above

Question 47. What was Sam invited for according to the letter?
(a) for a farewell party
(b) for a wedding party
(c) for a bachelor’s party
(d) for a lemonade party

Question 48. Whose signatures were there on the letter?
(a) Charle’s teacher
(b) Charle’s friend
(c) Sam
(d) All of the above

Question 49. What was the Third Level?
(a) a third tier on the station
(b) a third storey on the station
(c) an imaginary discovery of the narrator’s mind
(d) none of the above

Question 50. Why was the narrator seeing this Third Level?
(a) as a wish to visit Galesberg
(b) wanted to meet his office friends
(c) wanted to take a break from office
(d) As a result of stress, anxiety and worry in his mind

IX. Attempt the following

Question 51. How did Douglas in the story ‘Deep Water’ make sure that he had conquered the old terror?
(a) By visiting California
(b) By jumping into the waters
(c) By taking a lesson from the instructor
(d) By swimming in the lake Wentworth

Question 52. What does the style of the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ symbolise, that the poet used to write in?
(a) Desires
(b) Happiness
(c) Hope
(d) desire and hope

Question 53. Who is Mukesh in the story ‘Lost Spring’?
(a) Student
(b) Worker
(c) Bangle maker
(d) Ragpicker

Question 54. How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?
(a) For Charley’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third Level
(b) It presents imagination
(c) imagination happens on Central Station
(d) None of the above

Question 55. What does the poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’ revolve around?
(a) poet’s fears
(b) poet’s love for her mother
(c) Theme of old age
(d) All of these

Question 56. What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?
(a) meeting with people
(b) talking with people
(c) interaction with the people
(d) Soul searching

Question 57. Why did Douglas hire an instructor?
(a) To be confident in swimming
(b) To compete with others
(c) To flaunt
(d) To overcome his fear of water and learn swimming

Question 58. Why did the poet look at her mother again in the poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’?
(a) because she was busy
(b) because she was going away
(c) because she wanted to stay back
(d) because of fear and insecurity

Question 59. What is the metaphorical symbol of Seemapuri in the story ‘Lost Spring’?
(a) Poverty
(b) Exploitation
(c) Enjoyment
(d) A little hell

Question 60. What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem ‘A Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’?
(a) shut the doors
(b) blocked the passage
(c) clocked the Sunlight
(d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth