SLE(ENGLISH) SET SEVEN

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SET 07

TIME - 2.30Hours                                       Full Marks - 100

PART-1

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

01.Write the answers of the following questions each in a word or a phrase. [1 x 5=5

(a) The prose piece ‘A letter to God’ ends with the word____ .

(b) What was the amount Lencho received from the post office?

(c) According to Nehru we should not encourage _____ .

(d) The leading allrounder of Pakistan was _____

(e) In which country has acid produced in Britain & France caused damage?

02. Write the answers of the following questions in a word or in a phrase. [1 x 5=5

(a) What is the meaning of ‘bridal song’?

(b) Where does the brook babble?

(c) A virtuous soul like seasoned timber never gives.

(What is the meaning of the underlined word here.)

(d) Where does the brook finally meet the river?

(e) “ He made them everyone”. Here ‘He’ refers to _____.

03.Fill in the blanks with suitable words.                                                                          [1 x 5=5

(a) How great is God Almighty___ has made all things well.

(b) Your ____ are in the loom.

(c) Quick was the _____ reply.

(d) The brook _____ round its cresses.

(e) At last the ______ world turns to coal.

04.Write the answers to the following questions each in a word or in a phrase.       [1 x 5=5

(a)Who did grandfather want to see to talk about Timothy?

(b) Who did Sergei hire to help him pack and haul his furniture?

(c) What did Samjhoo carry from the town market?

(d) Who was able to answer all the questions of the king?

(e) “Let Sahu have his own choice” - who said this?

05. Fill in the blanks.                                                                                                           [1 x 5=5

(a) Long live the God that is the _______.

(b) This time the ____ was sober, gloomy & silent.

(c) I know, I know, said grandfather ______ .

(d) The beggar lost his place as teacher through_____ .

(e) After transfer of the property Juman and his wife became harsh & _____ to the aunt.

06.Do as directed.                                                                                                               [1 x 5=5

(a) An act of writing letters. (Write a single word for the expression)

(b) Political - (Write its noun form.)

(c) Lencho knew his fields____(intimate). (Write the correct related word of intimate.)

(d) The food was heavily spiced. The food was tasteless.

(Join the two sentences using ‘although’ / ‘though’)

(e) The opposite word of ‘failure’ is ____. (Fill in the blank with the correct word)

07.Do as directed.                                                                                                               [1 x 5=5

(a) Define the word meteorologist.

(b) Gandhi was a shy boy. (Rewrite the sentence using ‘used to’)

(c) They thought of a plot to ____ the headman. ( fame)

( Use the appropriate prefix to fill in the blank with the word bracketed)

(d) Always speak the truth.

(Write the appropriate negative form to emphasize the idea given in the sentence)

(e) Let’s start the work ______ (fresh). (Put the correct related word & fill in the blank.)

08.Do as directed.                                                                                                               [1 x 5=5

(a) The cattle ____ (be) thirty. (Write the correct form of the verb)

(b) The teacher said “Have you worked out the sums?”

(Make reported speech)

(c) Your result has let your parents ____. (Put the appropriate preposition)

(d) Father let me go home. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with ‘I’)

(e) Come if you want. (Name the subordinate clause)

08.Do as directed.                                                                                                               [1 x 5=5

(a) He ____ laughs last laughs best. (Put an appropriate relative pronoun)

(b) The news that India won the Delhi Test was true.

(Write what role the noun clause plays here)

(c) Smoking is injurious to health.

( Identify the non-finite verb and the role it plays in the sentence)

(d) Your shirt needs ____ (wash).

(Put the correct form of the word in bracket in the blank)

(e) Honey tastes sweet. (Write the pattern of the sentence.)

08. Translate into English.                                                                                                  [1 x 5

ମୋହନ-କୁଆଡ଼େ ଯାଉଛ?

ସୁଧା-ଡାକ୍ତରଖାନାକୁ। ତୁମେ ଯିବ କି ?

ମୋହନ-ହଁ। ବାପା ଡାକ୍ତରଖାନାରେ ଅଛନ୍ତି।

ସୁଧା-ତାଙ୍କର କଣ ହୋଇଛି?

ମୋହନ-ତାଙ୍କର ଆଖି ଅପରେସନ ହୋଇଛି।

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PART - II

SUBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

01. Answer the following questions each in about 50 words. [ 5 x 2 = 10

(i) What is acid rain ? What are its ill effects?

(ii) According to Lord Percy how should pupils spend their liesure hours?

02. Write an essay in about 250 words on any one of the following topics as per the outlines given. [ 12

(i) A visit to a historical place.

( The place you visited- your companions- journey to the place arrival and sight seeing - historical

monuments and important things you see – return journey)

(ii) Mobile phones.

( Introduction- mobile phone an wonderful invention how it is different from land phone - its use in many

ways - misuses - still a boon for modern man)

03. Write a letter to the officer- in- charge of your local police station complaining about the burglary that took

place in your house lastnight.                                                                                                                            [ 10

Or

You are Bijay Das . Write a letter to your friend thanking him for the brithday present he has sent to you.

04. Imagine you are Abinash, the monitor of class-X, of J.L. Vidyapith, Nandighore . Write a report on the Swachhata Divas observed in your school last week.                                                                                    [ 8

Or

Write a summary of the following passage in about 60 words.

                One day a king asked his minister if there was any ill-omened man in his kingdom. The minister informed

him that there was such a man. He added that if any man saw his face in the morning, he would get no food throughout the day. The king wanted to test the ill-omened man. Early next morning he looked at the man’s face and began his own work for the day. It so happened that the king remained very busy that day and could not make time to take his dinner. Calling the minister to his presence he said that man is really ill omened. Hang him at once till he is dead.” The minister thereupon said, “ your majesty saw his face in the morning and so could not take your food. you remained hungry for a day only. On the other hand he saw your own face in the morning before looking at the face of anyone else, and is now going to be hanged”. Hearing this, the king pardoned the man and let him go home.

05. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow, each in about 30 words. [ 2x5=10

                Hellen Keller was aged two when an illness took away her sight and hearing. Since she was deaf she also lost the ability to speak for we learn to speak by imitating what we hear. So, as a child she lived in a dark and silent world. At first it seemed impossible that she would ever understand others or be understood by them. Hers was thus a very lonely world. She was helped by a wonderful teacher called Miss sullivan. She was blind as a child but recovered her sight after an operation.

                Miss sullivan volunteered to help Hellen and taught her to speak, read and write. Hellen later went to a university and even gained a degree . She then spent the rest of her life working to help the blind and the deaf.

Questions.

(i) How did Hellen keller lose her sight and hearing? How old was she then?

(ii) Why did Hellen live in a dark and silent world?

(iii) Why was Hellen a lonely child?

(iv) Why did Miss Sullivan volunteer to help Hellen?

(v) How did Hellen make use of her education.?

SET - 7 1. (a) Lencho (b) 70 pesos (c) communalism (d) Imran Khan (e) Sweden 2. (a) marriage song (b) on pebbles (c) yields/dies (d) near Phillip’s farm (e) God 3. (a) who (b) bridal robes (c) little maid’s (d) loiters (e) whole 4. (a) the superintendent of the zoo (b) Lushkoff (c) Salt and oil (d) the old peasant’s grandfather (e) Algu 5. (a) Panch (b) waif (c) testily (d) intrigues (e) rude 6. (a) correspondence (b) politics (c) intimately (d) Although the food was heavily spiced, it was tasteless (e) success 7. (a) person who studies weather conditions (b) Gandhi used to be a shy boy (c) defame (d) Never tell a lie (e) afresh 8. (a) are (b) The teacher asked if we had worked out the sums (c) down (d) I was let to go home (e) If you want - Adverb clause of condition 9. (a) who (b) apposition (c) smoking - subject (d) washing (e) S+V+C