(English Medium)
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Date: April 2025
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- Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.
- You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
- This time is to be spent reading the question paper.
- The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.
- Attempt all five questions.
- The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].
- You are advised to spend not more than 30 minutes answering Question 1 and 20 minutes answering Question 2.
Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:
Write an original short story in which a woman, her strange neighbour and a police officer form the main characters.
Chapter: [0.04] Writing
Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:
Your teacher has asked you to form a group and work on a particular project. Write an account of how you worked together and what each of you learned from the experience.
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Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:
‘Peer pressure is a force for good.' Express your views either for or against this statement.
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Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:
Describe the locality in which you live. Give details of the things you see and hear as you walk around your locality. What do you especially like about the place?
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Write a composition (300-350 words) of the following:
Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what it suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it; however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition.
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Your uncle has promised to give you a gift of Rs. 1000/-. Write a letter thanking him for the offer, tell him how you plan to spend the money; and why you wish to spend it in this way.
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The garbage bins in your locality have not been cleared regularly, resulting in an overflow of garbage in the area. Write a letter to the Municipal Commissioner of your city/town complaining about the problem. Offer suggestions for the removal of the garbage and cleaning up of the place.
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Your school is hosting an Art and Craft exhibition. Write a notice informing the pupils at your school about the event.
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Write an e-mail to a local artist inviting him/her to inaugurate the exhibition and be the Chief Guest on the occasion.
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
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One day I found the pond occupied by several buffaloes. Their keeper, a boy a little older than me, was swimming about in the middle. Instead of climbing out on the bank, he would pull himself up on the back of one of his buffaloes, stretch his naked brown body out on the animal’s glistening hide, and start singing to himself. When he saw me staring at him from across the pond, he smiled, showing gleaming white teeth in a dark face. He invited me to join him in a swim. I told him I couldn’t swim, and he offered to teach me. His name was Ramu, and he promised to give me swimming lessons every afternoon, and so it was during the afternoons — especially summer afternoons when everyone was asleep — that we usually met. Before long I was able to swim across the pond to sit with Ramu astride a contented buffalo. Sometimes I would slip into the water. Emerging in shades of green and khaki, I would sneak into the house through the bathroom and bathe under the tap before getting into my clothes. One afternoon Ramu and I found a small tortoise in the mud, sitting over a hole in which it had laid several eggs. I presented the tortoise to Grandfather. He had a weakness for tortoises, and was pleased with this addition to his menagerie, giving it a large tub of water all to itself, with an island of rocks in the middle. If one of the dogs bothered it too much, it would draw its head and legs into its shell and defy all its attempts at rough play. Ramu came from a family of bonded labourers and had received no schooling. But he was well-versed in folklore and knew a great deal about birds and animals. “Many birds are sacred,” said Ramu, as we watched a blue jay swoop down from a peepul tree and carry off a grasshopper. Both Ramu and Grandfather were of the opinion that we should be more gentle with birds and animals and should not kill so many of them. “It is also important that we respect them, said Grandfather. We must acknowledge their rights. Birds and animals are finding it more difficult to survive, because we are trying to destroy both them and their forests.” Ramu and I spent long summer afternoons at the pond. I still remember him with affection, though we never saw each other again after I left Dehra. |
- For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the options provided: [2]
- hide (line 4)
- blanket
- fur
- undisclosed
- skin
- contented (line 12)
- cheerful
- lazy
- satisfied
- container
- hide (line 4)
- Which word in the passage is the opposite of ‘easy’? [1]
- sneak
- difficult
- labourer
- survive
- Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.
- What did Ramu like to do once he had climbed on the back of a buffalo? [2]
- What offer did Ramu make to the narrator? [2]
- Why do you think the narrator would bathe before entering the house? [2]
- Who was the large tub of water for? [1]
- How would the tortoise protect itself from the dogs? [2]
- Despite the lack of schooling what did Ramu know? How, according to Ramu and Grandfather, should we treat birds and animals? Answer in not more than fifty words. [8]
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Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space.
It was hot in the railway compartment and the fan ______ (1) (not work). The elderly lady ______ (2) (use) up all her water because she had cheerfully shared it with her fellow passengers. She knew that the train ______ (3) (halt) at the station for only three minutes. Calling a shoeshine boy she said, ‘Will you help me? I ______ (4) (need) a bottle of cold water and here is the money,' and she put a twenty rupee note in his hand. The boy snatched the money and ______ (5) (disappear) into the crowd on the platform. A fellow passenger ______ (6) (cannot believe) what he had witnessed. ‘What ______ (7) (you do)?’ He said, ‘You ______ (8) (never see) your money again.' Just then the whistle was heard and the train began to move. At that moment the child appeared at the window with the water. 'Your water,' he gasped, out of breath. ‘And the change.'
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We can cut ______ this field instead of taking the main road.
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Passengers are advised ______ standing on the footboard of a moving bus.
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They have been working on the project ______ years now.
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Ever ______ the accident, he has been afraid of boarding buses.
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It is a hard climb ______ the hill.
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She turned ______ the offer because she did not like the terms and conditions.
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I will need to speak ______ my parents before I sign up for the school trip.
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The sports teacher was taken ______ when he heard how enthusiastic the team was.
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Join the following sentence to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.
Stay still. We cannot take your photograph otherwise.
Stay still, else we cannot take your photograph otherwise.
Stay still because we can take your photograph otherwise.
Unless you stay still we cannot take your photograph.
If you stay still we cannot take your photograph.
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Join the following sentence to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.
Roy’s mother rang up the school office. She wanted to enquire about the swimming classes at the summer camp.
Roy’s mother rang up the school office as she want to enquire about the swimming classes at the summer camp.
Roy’s mother rang up the school office to enquire about the swimming classes at the summer camp.
Roy’s mother has rung up the school office to enquire about the swimming classes at the summer camp.
Roy’s mother rang up the school office wanting enquiry about the swimming classes at the summer camp.
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Join the following sentence to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.
I left my keys somewhere. Do you know where they are?
Do you know where I had left my keys?
Do you know where my keys were left behind?
Do you know where I left my keys?
Do you know where I would have left my keys?
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Join the following sentence to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so. Choose the correct option.
The captain should not be blamed for the team’s defeat. The players should not be blamed for the team’s defeat.
The captain should neither be blamed nor the players should be blamed for the team’s defeat.
Neither the captain nor the players should be blamed for the team’s defeat.
The captain should not be blamed for the team’s defeat as the players should not be blamed for the team’s defeat.
The captain should not be blamed for the team’s defeat but the players too should not be blamed for the team’s defeat.
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The audience broke into loud applause as soon as he finished speaking.
(Begin with: No sooner...)
No sooner he finished speaking that the audience broke into loud applause.
No sooner had he finish speaking when the audience broke into loud applause.
No sooner did he finish speaking than the audience broke into loud applause.
No sooner the audience broke into loud applause than he finished speaking.
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The news surprised everyone in my family.
(Begin with: The news took ...)
The news took everyone in my family by surprise.
The news took everyone in my family with surprise.
The news took with surprise everyone in my family.
The news took everyone in my family for a surprise.
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Yesterday was so much fun.
(End with a question tag)
Yesterday was so much fun, would you say?
Was yesterday much fun?
Yesterday was so much fun, isn’t it?
Yesterday was so much fun, wasn’t it?
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I wouldn't eat that food if I was not really hungry.
(Use: ‘unless’)
Unless I eat that food I will remain really hungry.
I wouldn't be really hungry unless I ate that food.
I wouldn't eat that food unless I was not really hungry.
I wouldn't eat that food unless I was really hungry.
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It is so hot and humid that I cannot sleep.
(Use: too)
It is hot and humid too sleep.
It is too hot and humid to sleep.
It is hot and humid too, so I cannot sleep.
It is too hot and humid such that I cannot sleep.
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I prefer going out with friends to staying alone at home.
(Begin with: I would rather ...)
I would rather go out with friends than stay alone at home.
I would rather prefer going out with friends than staying alone at home.
I would rather prefer to go out with friends than stay alone at home.
I would rather go out with friends to staying alone at home.
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"Why were you absent yesterday?" the teacher asked me.
(Begin with: The teacher asked me why ...)
The teacher asked me why was I absent yesterday.
The teacher asked me why I had been absent yesterday.
The teacher asked me why I had been absent the day before.
The teacher asked me why was I absent the day before.
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Very few dancers are as graceful as she is.
(Begin with: She is ...)
She is one of the most graceful dancers.
She is the most graceful dancer.
She is more graceful than all the other dancers.
She is more graceful than a few other dancers.
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