Unit Test-1
STD: XTH (Unit-1) Marks:
30
Date : English [Language-1] Time:
1 Hr
QI] Read the passage
and Answer the following questions: (10 marks)
I found myself in the maidan
and sat down on a bench. The night was chilly- It was early November – and
a light drizzle added to my discomfort. Soon it was raining quite heavily. My
shirt and pyjamas stuck to my skin, and a cold wind blew the rain across my
face. I went back to the bazaar and sat down in the shelter of the clock tower.
The clock showed midnight. I felt for the notes. They were damp from the rain,
Anil’s money.
In the morning he would probably have given me two or three
rupees to go to the cinema, but now I had it all. I couldn’t cook his meals,
run to the bazaar, or learn to read or write whole sentences any more. I had
forgotten about them in the excitement of the theft. Whole sentences, I knew,
could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter
to steal – and sometimes as simple as just to be caught. But to be a really big
man, was something else. I should go back to Anil, I told myself, If only to
learn to read and write.
I hurried back to the room feeling very nervous, for it is
much easier to steal something than to return it undetected. I opened the door
quietly, and then stood in the doorway, in clouded moonlight. Anil was still
asleep. I crept to the head of the bed, and my hands came up with the notes. I
felt his breath on my hand. I remained still for a minute. Then my hand found
the edge of the mattress, and slipped under it with the notes. I awoke late
next morning to find that Anil had already made tea. He stretched out his hands
towards me. There was a fifty-rupee note between his fingers. My heart sank. I
thought I had been discovered.
A1] Factual
Questions: (2marks)
Q) Choose the word from the text which means:
·
Felt depressed
·
wet
·
light rain falling in very fine drops.
·
robbery
A2] Interpretative
Questions: (2marks)
Q) Why did Anil employ Hari as a cook, although he could not
afford to pay him?
A3] Vocabulary
Questions: (2 marks)
Q) Give collocation of the following
·
Sentences
·
drizzle
Q) Give compound words of the following
·
Fifty-
·
-tower
A4] Do as directed: (2marks)
Q) I drew them out, without a sound. (Frame a ‘Wh’
question to get the underlined word as answer]
Q) write 2 sentences of your own to show the differences in
the following homophones.
(a) post (b)
type
A5] Do you feel
Anil’s way of handling a thief like Hari was effective? Justify your
answer (2marks)
QII] Read the passage
and Answer the following questions: (10 marks)
We instinctively turn to outdoor activities and nature as a
way of relaxing and enhancing our wellbeing. Nature soothes and nurtures.
Nature fulfils and motivates. Nature whispers and commands. Are you Listening?
When I do, it leaves me in complete awe. We have a hibiscus plant in our
garden. Every fortnight a flower blooms on it- big, bright and tender. Through
the day it smiles with the sun and dances with the wind, but as evening
approaches, it starts wilting. The morning after, it withers completely and by
evening it falls and becomes one with the earth again. The flower come to life
only for a day, yet it does so in full splendour. What if we too lived our
life, however short, to its fullest?
We went to a rocky beach and saw the spread of the majestic
ocean and the rocks alongside, carved, sculpted and shaped by the water. Water
is so gentle, rock so hard, yet as the water flows over it every day, for
years, the rock gives in. It takes the shape that the water commands. Our
problems are so colossal and we are so small, yet if we persist… We saw small
bits of grass peeping through the small cracks in a concrete pavement. It left
us thinking however impossible things may look, there is always an
opening… We saw a tree bare of all
leaves in the cold winter months. We though its chapter was over. But three
months passed, spring set in and the tree was back to its green majesty once
again. Full of leaves, flowers, fruits, birds, and life. What if we too had the
conviction that, however difficult things are right now, it will not remain so
for ever. Remember, this too shall pass.
A1] Factual
Questions: (2marks)
Q) Choose the word from the text which means:
·
enriching
·
great wonder and amazement.
·
Drying and dropping
·
Huge, massive.
A2] Interpretative
Questions: (2marks)
Q) What is the life cycle of a Hibiscus flower?
A3] Vocabulary Questions: (2 marks)
Q) what does the following question mean in your own words:
·
What if we too are consistent, organised ,
focused?
·
What if we too lived our lives however short to its fullest?
A4] Do as
directed: (2marks)
Q) One can witness and experience the beauty of heaven.
[Identify the verbs and state its function]
Q) A rainbow colours the entire sky[Identify the verbs and
state its function]
A5] “An oyster turns
a grain of sand into a pearl”. What can we learn from this example? (2marks)
QIII] Read the
passage and Answer the following questions: (5marks)
Where the mind is
without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge
is free
Where the world
has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow
domestic walls
Where words come
out from the depth of truth
Where tireless
striving stretches its arm towards perfection
Where the clear
stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary
desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is
led forward by Thee
Into
ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven
of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
-Rabindranath
Tagore
A1] Match the
following; (1 mark)
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Sonnet
|
Pastoral poem based on Gods
|
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Limerick
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Long narrative poem about heroic deeds
|
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Idyll
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14-line poem
|
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Elegy
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In song format
|
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Lyric
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Written in honour of the deceased
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Epic
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Short poems of 5 lines
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A2] Vocabulary
question (2marks)
Q) ‘Where come out from the depth of truth.’ Explain in your
own words?
Q) What qualities does the poet wish to inculcate in his
countrymen?
A3] from what
darkness of night should our nation awaken? (2mark)
QIV) Speech writing:
(5 marks)
Imagine that you have to deliver a speech on the occasion of
‘Independence Day’ or the ‘Republic Day’ in the school assembly. Prepare a
speech to deliver on “India of my dream”
Use the following steps:
·
Greeting and salutation
·
Self introduction
·
Introduction of the topic
·
Elaboration of the topic with examples
·
Conclusion
·
Vote of Thanks
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