AIMS Question Bank,Page: 403 solved,Madhyamik Examination Practice Set 2024
### Reading Comprehension (Seen)
**1. Read the following passage and answer the questions set below it:**
Of course, there was nobody for us to play with on the Big Half Moon. We just had to make the most of each other, and we did.
We live on the Big Half Moon Island. 'We' are Father and Claude and I and Aunt Esther and Mimi and Dick. It used to be only Father and Claude and I. It is all on account of the kite that there were more of us. This is what I want to tell you about.
Father is the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse. I am eleven years old. Claude is twelve. In winter, when the harbour is frozen over, we all move over to the mainland. As soon as spring comes, back we sail to our own dear island.
The funny part used to be that people always pitied us when the time came for us to return. They said we must be so lonesome over there, with no children near us. Of course, Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us. It is hard to run pirate caves and things like that with only two. But we used to quarrel a good deal with the mainland children in winter. So, it was perhaps just as well that there were none of them on the Big Half Moon. Claude and I never quarrelled.
**A. Tick (✔) the correct alternatives:**
(i) In the Big Half Moon the narrator lived
(a) alone
(b) with her father
(c) with her father and brother
(d) with her brother
**Answer:** (c) with her father and brother
(ii) The people of the mainland pitied the narrator at the time of -
(a) arrival
(b) journey
(c) stay
(d) return
**Answer:** (d) return
(iii) Claude and the narrator quarrelled with
(a) their father
(b) mainland children
(c) each other
(d) their aunt
**Answer:** (b) mainland children
**B. Complete the following incomplete sentences with information from the text:**
(i) In winter the narrator's family moved over to _______the mainland_________.
(ii) When the spring came the family came back ________to their own dear Big Half Moon Island.
(iii) The narrator and her brother used to quarrel with ________the mainland children in winter_________.
**C. State whether the following statements are True or False in the boxes. Also quote statement in support of your answer:**
(i) The narrator loved the Big Half Moon Island.
**Answer:** True
**Supporting Statement:** "As soon as spring comes, back we sail to our own dear island."
(ii) With the coming of winter the family returned to the island.
**Answer:** False
**Supporting Statement:** "In winter, when the harbour is frozen over, we all move over to the mainland."
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### Reading Comprehension (Unseen)
**2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:**
Tiger of Mysore is more than a salutary epithet coined by the historians. Tipu (1750-99) was obsessed with the tiger. It was a recurring theme of his life. He made it the emblem of his state and stamped its image on every valuable item he possessed, including guns and swords.
Tipu, the son of Haider Ali and Fakhr-ka-Nissa, was born on November 20, 1750, at Devanahalli village near Bangalore. He was named after a great Sufi saint Tipu Mastan Aulia. Haider Ali was uneducated but knew the value of knowledge. He wanted Tipu to be a learned man. By the time he was an adolescent, Tipu could fluently converse in six languages—Kannada, Arabic, Urdu, Sanskrit, French, and English—in addition to being proficient in Mathematics and Science. He was a voracious reader and maintained a personal library of over 2000 books in different languages.
Tipu was a secular ruler in the great Indian tradition and respected all religions. This warrior king was also aware of the need for sustaining the environment. While on a visit to a gunpowder factory on the banks of the Cauvery river, he noticed the fishes were dying because of poisonous effluents. He immediately shifted the factory to a place where the effluents were not dumped into the river. He had an unusual interest in science and technology. He had developed Thagrak, a native rocket, which was later used by the British to defeat the French.
**A. Tick (✔) the correct alternatives:**
(i) Tipu Sultan was obsessed with -
(a) bear
(b) deer
(c) panther
(d) tiger
**Answer:** (d) tiger
(ii) Tipu was named after a—
(a) Hindu priest
(b) Sufi Saint
(c) Christian priest
(d) Buddhist Monk
**Answer:** (b) Sufi Saint
(iii) Thagrak a native rocket was developed by—
(a) Haider Ali
(b) Tipu
(c) British
(d) French
**Answer:** (b) Tipu
**B. Each of the following sentences is either 'True' or 'False'. Write "T' for 'True' and 'F' for 'False' in the boxes on the right-hand side. Also pick out suitable line(s) or phrase(s) from the passage in support of your answer:**
(i) Tipu Sultan respected all other religions.
**Answer:** True
**Supporting Statement:** "Tipu was a secular ruler in the great Indian tradition and respected all religions."
(ii) He loved gun and sword rather than reading book.
**Answer:** False
**Supporting Statement:** "He was a voracious reader and maintained a personal library of over 2000 books in different languages."
(iii) Haider Ali was uneducated.
**Answer:** True
**Supporting Statement:** "Haider Ali was uneducated but knew the value of knowledge."
**C. Answer the following questions:**
(i) Where was the gunpowder factory situated?
**Answer:** The gunpowder factory was situated on the banks of the Cauvery river.
(ii) Who knew the value of knowledge?
**Answer:** Haider Ali knew the value of knowledge.
(iii) What do the historians coin?
**Answer:** The historians coin the salutary epithet "Tiger of Mysore."
(iv) What were the languages Tipu was conversant in?
**Answer:** Tipu was conversant in Kannada, Arabic, Urdu, Sanskrit, French, and English.
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Grammar and Vocabulary
**3. Do as directed:**
(a) Padmasi said, "We will walk." (Change the mode of narration)
**Answer:** Padmasi said that they would walk.
(b) Are not dogs faithful animals? (Change into an assertive sentence)
**Answer:** Dogs are faithful animals.
(c) Everybody will admit that he is honest. (Change into a negative sentence)
**Answer:** Nobody will deny that he is honest.
Everybody will not deny that he is honest.
(d) He is the tallest boy in the class. (Change the degree of comparison)
**Answer:** He is taller than any other boy in the class.
(e) Did you see it? (Change the voice)
**Answer:** Was it seen by you?
(f) I have no money to spare. (Make it a complex sentence)
**Answer:** I do not have any money that I can spare.
(g) The box is so heavy that I cannot lift it. (Use 'too...to')
**Answer:** The box is too heavy to lift it.
**Fill in the blanks with prepositions:**
(i) Increased amounts ___of___ carbon dioxide ___in___ the environment allow it ___to___ trap more heat and lead to climatic changes.
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### Writing
**4. You are the secretary of the Eco-Club of your school. Write a notice for the fellow students to observe a plastic-free week. Mention — (a) The period, (b) time (c) activities (d) carry bags and other plastic refuse to be removed (e) seminar to be held on the closing day.**
*Answer - NOTICE**➡️
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