Class X ABTA PAGE 518
Madhyamik ABTA TEST PAPER 2024 PAGE 518
CLASS X ABTA PAGE 518
ENGLISH (Second Language)
READING COMPREHENSION (SEEN)
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
By the time Swami was ready to leave for school, Father had composed a long letter to the headmaster. He put it in an envelope and sealed it. "What have you written, Father?" Swami asked apprehensively.
"Nothing for you, Give it to your headmaster and go to your class."
"Have you written anything about our teacher Samuel?"
"Yes. Plenty of things."
"What has he done, Father?"
"Everything is there in the letter. Give it to your headmaster." Swami went to school feeling that he was the worst boy on earth.
His conscience bothered him. He wasn't at all sure if his description of Samuel had been accurate. He felt he had mixed up the real and the imagined.
Swami stopped on the roadside to make up his mind about Samuel. Samuel was not such a bad man after all. Personally he was much more friendly than the other teachers. Swami also felt Samuel had a special regard for him.
Swami's head was dizzy with confusion. He could not decide if Samuel really deserved the allegations made against him personality. The more he thought of Samuel, the more Swami grieved for him. To recall Samuel's dark face, his thin moustache, unshaven cheek and yellow coat filled Swaminathan with sorrow.
A. Write the correct alternative in the given space to complete the following sentences:
(a) (iv) Swami
(b) (ii) Samuel's personality
(c) (ii) the headmaster
(d) (iii) dizzy with confusion
(e) (iv) not clear.
(a) "What have you written, Father?" is the question asked by - (i) Swami's father (ii) Swami's mother (iii) Samuel (iv) Swami
(b) The confusion of Swami was born to decide about -
(i) Samuel's mentality
(ii) Samuel's personality
(iii) Samuel's oddity
(iv) both (i) and (ii)
Ans: (iv) both (i) and (ii)
(c) Swami's father instructed him to deliver the letter to -
(i) the peon
(ii) the headmaster
(iii) Samuel
(iv) his friend.
Ans:ii) the headmaster
(d) Swami's head was -
(i) filled with fear
(ii) filled with naughty ideas
(iii) dizzy with confusion
(iv) filled with father
Ans:iii) dizzy with confusion
(e) What Father wrote in the letter is about -
(i) Samuel's teaching
(ii) Samuel's dress
(iii) rude behaviour of Samuel.
(iv) not clear.
Ans: (iv) not clear
B. Complete the following sentences with information text:1x3=3
(i) To say about Samuel Swami mingled
👉i) To say about Samuel Swami mingled thoughts of the real and the imagined.
(ii) Swami's father sealed the letter after
Swami's father sealed the letter after composing and putting it in an envelope.
(iii) Swami asked his father if he had written anything about their teacher Samuel.
C. State whether the following statements are true or false.
Write 'T' for 'True' and 'F' for 'False' in the boxes given on the right hand side.Provide sentence/phrases/words in support of your answer: 2×2=4
(i) Swami's repeated thinking about Samuel made him more aggrieve
True
The more he thought of Samuel, the more Swami grieved for him
(ii) According to Swami Samuel was more affable than other teachers.
True - According to Swami,
Personally Samuel was much more friendly than other teachers.
2. Read the following lines and answer the question that follow :
They said: 'We are the oak-trees and your own true family
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now - now you are going to die.'
'Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
And root you among the oaks where you were born but never grew'.
This was my dream beneath the boughs, the dream that altered me.
When I came out of the oakwood, back to human company,
My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
A. Tick the right answer:1×4=4
a) (ii) the oak trees
(b) (i) two
(c) (i) beneath the boughs of oak trees
(d) (iv) men's unkind activity
(a) In the first line here 'we' refers to (i) the family (ii) the oak trees (iii) human company (iv) human children
(b) The number of trees, as sworn in, to be planted (i) two (ii) one (iii) four (iv) ten
(c) The dream dreamt by the poet-persona was (i) beneath the boughs of oak trees (ii) on the oak-tree (iii) beside the forest (iv) about man's kindness to trees
(d) If human beings chop down trees it is said to be
(i) the making of promise
ii) the breaking of promise
(iii) a satisfactory job
(iv) men's unkind activity
B. Answer the following questions:2×2=4
(i) What does the poet mean to say by the expression, ".....you were born but never grew."?
Ans:- The word 'grew' means the mental development of the poet. The oak trees want to say that the poet in spite of being born in the midst of oak trees, his mental development of protecting the oak trees does not grow.
Ans
(i) The expression ".....you were born but never grew." suggests that although human beings may belong to a place (born there), they do not contribute positively to the growth and well-being of that place
(ii) How was the poet-persona's heart changed into a tree?
Ans: The poet-persona's heart was changed into a tree through a dream beneath the oak trees, symbolizing a transformation in attitude towards nature.abolished
(GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY)
4. Write the correct alternative to fill in the blanks:
Throughout human history the leading causes of death ___(have been/has been/had) infection and trauma. Modern medicine ___ (had scored/has scored/scored) significant victories against both. Genetic risk factors___ (are known/were known/has known) for all the chronic degenerative diseases.
Ans :Throughout human history, the leading causes of death have been infection and trauma. Modern medicine has scored significant victories against both. Genetic risk factors are known for all the chronic degenerative diseases.
5. Do as directed:
A. Fill the blanks with appropriate article or preposition: 1x3=3
Valmiki is __original recorder____ Ram's life. Others may build ____their story, but that must be taken as a separate story.
Ans: Valmiki is the original recorder of Ram's life. Others may build on their story, but that must be taken as a separate story.
B. (i) It seems to be the most courageous step. (use 'most courageous' as positive degree and rewrite the sentence)
Ans:No other step seems to be as courageous as it is.
No other step is as courageous as it.
It seems to be a courageous step.
(ii) Bhumi said to her son, "Tigers are always ferocious." (change into indirect speech)
Ans:Bhumi told her son that Tigers are always ferocious.
(iii) Tell me the truth. (turn it into complex sentence).
Ans: Tell me what the truth is.
C. Choose the correct phrasal verbs from the list given below to replace the words underlined. Write the correct phrasal verbs in the boxes on the right hand side changing the form where necessary.
There is one extra phrasal verb in the list. (i) The old custom has been abolished
(ii) The scheme failed for the manager's negligence.
(iii) Deliver the child to his mother
[fall through, do away with, call on, hand mother]
Ans:
(i) The old custom has been done away with.
(ii) The scheme fell through due to the manager's negligence.
(iii) Hand over the child to his mother.
6. Given below are the meanings of four words which you will find in Question No.3. Find out the words and write them in the appropriate boxes on the right-hand side:
(i) caused to be apart. -Separated
(ii) fruitful-Effective
(iii) relieve - Alleviate
(iv) something received from an ancestor-Legacy
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