QUESTION PAPER
When Thomas was fifteen, he was a very intelligent and generous boy. He spent his day only reading, eating and sleeping. Other than that, he didn’t do anything. When the teachers of his class asked him any question, he would answer it very immediately.
He always kept himself away from social activities, but once when he was going to his school, he saw a very old man begging on the roadside.
At first, he thought that he should stop there and ask him why he was begging because he was too old to do that, instead, he should rest. At the same time, he realized that if he stopped there, he would be late for school.
He thought for a while and went to the old man. He saw that everyone was passing by him but no one was giving him alms. After seeing the incident, he took out twenty rupees from his pocket and gave them to the beggar. By doing that, he felt very good and reached the school gasping.
Question
1. How did Thomas spend his day?
(a) Only doing social activities
(b) Only reading, eating and sleeping
(c) Only eating and sleeping
(d) None of the above
Ans. Only reading, eating and sleeping
2. Who did Thomas see on his way to school?
(a) A hermit
(b) A poor man
(c) An old man
(d) A poor woman
Ans. An old man
3. What did Thomas want to ask the old man?
(a) The reason for begging
(b) To eat healthy food.
(c) To beg as much as he could
(d) To rest instead of begging
Ans. To rest instead of begging
4. What is the synonym of gasp?
(a) Heave
(b) Breath
(c) Blow
(d) Inhale
Ans. Heave
5. How much money did Thomas give to the beggar?
(a) Thirty rupees
(b) Twenty rupees
(c) Fifteen rupees
(d) Twenty-five rupees
Ans. Twenty rupees
Section-B
(Writing skills)
Q1. You plan to sell your bike. Draft a suitable advertisement in not more than 50 words to be inserted in the classified columns of a local daily, giving all necessary details of the bike. You are Vandana/Raju Pradhan, 55, Rawatpura Colony Raipur
Ans.
For Immediate Sale
Bajaj Pulsar, 2020 model. Excellent running condition. All necessary accessories intact. Average around 45 kms per litre. Used for less than a year. Documents complete in all respects. Price negotiable but not less than 50,000. Interested persons may contact, Raju Pradhan 55, Rawatpura Colony Raipur or Mobile – 9999×××456.
OR
As the sports secretary of your school, write a notice for the school notice board inviting students of classes VI to X to give their names for the various sports events to be held at the school grounds on the occasion of Annual sports day
Q2. Write a letter to the commissioner of Mahasamund Corporation, complaining about the poor drainage system in your city during rainy days.
Q.No 15 A
Basant Vihar
To
The Municipal Commissioner,
Mahasamund Chhattisgarh
Dear Sir
I am sorry to report that the drainage system in our locality leaves much to be desired. The present drainage system is so defective that a good shower would create the whole area into a collection of small lakes and pools. The clogging of rain-water in some of these parts of the city becomes as deep as three feet. Consequently the whole traffic is dislocated and life comes to a grinding halt during rains.
Really it is shocking that the town council authorities have not taken any steps for improving the system so far. Many a time this problem has been brought to the notice of the concerned authorities through the press and other means but nothing has been done. May we hope now that you would immediately look into this matter and take urgent steps to avoid such public nuisance?
Yours faithfully
Surya
Section C
Long Compositions.
Importance of Games and Sports
Ans. Sports and games are very important for us. They keep us healthy and fit. They offer us a change from the monotony of daily life. It is a useful means of entertainment and physical ac tivity. Sports and games help in character build ing. They give us energy and strength.
Sports and games are means of mental and physical growth during sports we come to learn many things. We learn now to maintain mental balance in the midst of hopes and despair. They make us learn how to tackle the difficult situa tion. Sports develop a senseof friendliness. They shape our body and make it strong and active. They give us energy and strength. They remove tiredness and lethargy. They improve blood cir culation. This improves our physical well being. Sports and games improve our capability. They improve our efficiency. Either study or work alone makes us exhaust. We remain no longer efficient to do any work. Sports remove our mental ex haust. Sports are integral parts as education. Edu cation without sports is incomplete. Sports are a part of academic curricula.
Or
Text based Questions.
Q1. What are the results of the CT scan?
Ans. The CT scan scanned the mummy head to toe, creating 1,700 digital X-ray images in cross section. His neck bone appeared very clearly, his head scanned in 0.62mm. slices registered its intricate structures. So were the other images a hands and several views of rib cage and skull and other parts of the body.
Q2. Explain the concept of Shanshui?
Ans. Shanshui literary means ‘mountain water’ refers to a style of Chinese painting that involves natural landscape, the landscape which is an inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space. It represents the two complementary poles (Yin and Yang) reflecting the Daoist view of the universe.
Q3. What is the meaning of the line”Both wry with the laboured ease of loss”?
Ans. Both the narrator and her mother suffer a sense of loss. The mother loses her cheerful childhood days, which cannot come back to her again. In a way this seems to be the narrator’s loss as well because she cannot see her mother’s smiling face again. The loss is immense, but both of them suffer it quietly with a tolerable ease.
Q4. To what is the bird’s movement campared?What is the basis for the comparison?
Ans. The bird’s movement is compared to a lizard. The basis of the comparision is the sleek, abrupt and alert movements of a lizard.
Q5. Who was Khosrove? Why was he considered crazy?
Ans. Uncle Khosrove was an enormous man with a powerful head of black hair and the largest moustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He was very furious in temper, irritative and impatient man. Once his house was caught fire, but he said, “It is no harm, pay no attention to it.” He was considered to be the true inheritor of that crazy streak of the Garoghlanian tribe.