GROUP-A ||
SET-10
1) I saw him leaving
the house
A. He had been see
leaving the house
B. He was seen to be
leaving the house
C. Leaving the house he
was seen by me.
D. He was seen leaving
the house by me.
2) Your name was to be written on paper.
A. You were asked to
write your name on paper
B. You have to write your
name on paper
C. You will write your
name on paper
D. You were to write your
name on paper
3) My mother__ 42 year old next Monday.
A. Will be
B. Will have
C. Was
D. Is
4) She ____come yet, we’re still waiting for her.
A. Haven’t
B. Has
C. Hasn’t
D. Was
5) I speak the truth, I am not afraid of it.
A. I am not afraid to
speak the truth.
B. I was not afraid to
speak the truth
C. I will not afraid to speak
the truth
D. I have not afraid to
speak the truth.
6) _______ Fortune smile upon you!
A. Can
B. May
C. Must
D. Should
7) The patient __before the doctor arrived.
A. Died
B. Will die
C. Can died
D. Had died
8) He said, “Be quiet and listen to my words”.
A. He urged them to be
quiet and listen to his words.
B. He urged them and said
be quiet and listen to his words.
C. He urged they should
be quiet and listen to his words.
D. He said you should be
quiet and listen to his words.
9) He said he went for a walk every morning.
A.
He
said, “I went for a walk every morning”
B.
He
said, “I go for a walk every morning”
C.
He
said, “I will go for a walk every morning”
D.
He
said, “I goes for a walk every morning”
10) In addition to _______ I gave him five hundred dollars.
A.
Advising
B.
That
I advised
C.
Advise
D.
My
advising
11) I regret _______ Ram about the wedding.
A.
Tell
B.
To
tell
C.
Telling
D.
To
telling
12) I thought you were about ______
A.
Leave
B.
Left
C.
Leaving
D.
To
leave
13) This is the cause _____ the problem.
A.
On
B.
Of
C.
Off
D.
By
14) It was dark _____ the tunnel.
A.
Than
B.
By
C.
Inside
D.
On
15) The man is sitting _____ a table.
A. Off
B On
C. At
D. Over
16) Choose the correct sentence
A. He is the best student
of the class.
B. He is very good
student of the class.
C. He is a best student
of the class
D. He is the best student
of the class
17) Choose the correct sentence
A. I am too good
B. I am very good
C. I am at good
D. I am so good
18) Choose the correct sentence
A. He did not listen what
I said.
B. He will not listen
what I said
C. He had not listen what
I said
D. He did not listen to
what I said.
19) ___is impossible on this sandy ground.
A. Cycle.
B. Cycling
C. Will Cycling
D. Had Cycling
20) Do you mind______ it with you?
A. Take
B. Taking
C. To take
D. Taken
21) She makes a point of ______ to him once a week.
A. Having written
B. writing
C. Being written
D. Having been written
22) I like ______my bills online
A. Having pay
B. Paying
C. Pay
D. Paid
23) Amar Sharma ______ English, Spanish and bit of French.
A. Speaks
B. Speak
C. Speaking
D. Is speaking
24) A disease which spreads by contact is called______
A. Incurable
B. Contagious
C. Infectious
D. Fatal
25) The phone rang______
A. An ago few minute
B. An minute few ago
C. A minute few ago
D.
A few minute ago
26) Choose the best correct spelt word:
A. Dicotomy
B. Dichotomy
C. Dicotomy
D. Dechotomy
27) Choose the correct spelt word:
A. Millionair
B. Millionnaire
C. Millionaire
D. Millioneire
28) I _______ my ipad anymore.
A. Am not using
B. Don’t use
C. Didn’t use
D. Doesn’t use
29) What _____ in the evening?
A. You are doing
B. I you doing
C. Are you doing
D. Was you doing
30) I don’t know ______ money he has.
A. How
many
B. What many
C. How much
D. Where many
31) The sentence ‘Modern inventions are too maddening to
resist.’ Is from:
A. I have a Dream
B. Indian Civilization
and Culture
C. A child is Born
D. The Earth
32) ‘Bharat is My Home’ is written by
A. Gerrnaine Greer
B. Pearl S Buck
C. Shiga Naoya
D. Zakir Hussain
33) Dorothy L Sayers says that press is free
A. everywhere
B. somewhere
C. nowhere
D. at most places
34) Shiga Naoya is a ____short story writer
A. Japanese
B. Chinese
C. Malaysia
D. Korean
35) Benjy wanted to____his parents’s land
A. lend
B. sell
C. buy
D. give
36) Pearl S Buck was a/an____by birth
A. African
B. Indian
C. British
D. American
37) The name of Lomov’s dog is____
A. Guess
B. Leap
C. Star
D. Jacky
38) The line “ Nor the hope, the world can show, A fitter
love for mee___is from
A. Fire-Hymn
B. To Autumn
C. Snake
D. Sweetest Love I do not
Goe
39) “Leaves of Grass” is a collection of poem
A. John
Donne
B. W.H. Auden
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Walt Whitman
40) The Line “The voice of my education said to me, He must
be killed” is taken from ____
A. Snake
B. To Autumn
C. Now the leaves are
falling
D. Fire-Hymn
41) “Lamia” and Hyperion” are written by
A. William Wordsworth
B. P.B. Shellery
C. John Keats
D. S.T. Coleridge
42) T.S. Eliot is a____poet.
A. Twentyienth Century
B. Eighteenth Century
C. Seventeenth Century
D. Sixteenth Century
43) The poetess in “My Grand Mother’s House” just wanted to
listen to the ___air
A. flowing
B. cold
C. frozen
D. hot
44) ‘The line ‘Light of step and heart was she’ is from;
A. Fire-Hymn
B. The soldier
C. An Epitaph
D. Snake
45) The Major linguistic change is known as____
A. Old English
B. The Great Vowel Shift
C. Printing technology
46) ‘Untouchable’ and ‘Coolie’ are written by ___
A. R.K Narayan
B. M.R Anand
C. B.C Chattopadhyay
D. S.C Chatteryee
47) ‘Tughlaq’ is written by ______
A. Asif Currimbhoy
B. R.N Tagore
C. G.B. Shaw
D. Girish Karnad
48) ________ Languages will be one common languages for use.
A. Global Standard
English
B. Middle English
C. American English
D. British English
49) The word “drama” come from a___word
A. Latin
B. Indian
C. Scadinavian
D. Greek
50) The Romantic Revival is often associated with ______
A. John
Dryden
B. Alexander Pope
C. Willian Wordsworth
D. John Milton
GROUP-B || SET-10
1)
Write and essay in
about 150-200 words on one of the following-8
1) Value of Newspapers
2) If I were a Millionaire
3) Work is Worship
4) My hobby
5) My favourite poet
6) My favourite game
2) Explain any
one of the following–4
a) “The life of the
Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination
b) “This work, as I see
it, has two aspects.”
c) I must confess that I
am over whelmed by the trust my people have paced in me by electiong me to the
highest office in the land
d) India has always been
part of the background of my life, but I had never seen it whole and for myself
until now
e) At
mother’s insistence, I had taken two days’ leave from the office, and in the
afternoon, I drove Nanukaka to the North Block
3) Explain any
one of the following–4
(a) I harbour for good or bad, I
permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
(b) For he’s the master criminal
who can defy the law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland yard, the Flying Squad’s despair.
(c) Where are the songs of spring?
Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too –
(d) There is a house now far away
where once
I received love. That
woman died,
The house withdrew
into silence, snakes moved.
4) Write a letter to your younger sister, encouraging her to
take part in
games and sports—4 Or
Write an application to the Princiapl of your School to issues you the
School leaving Certificate
5)
Answer in 40-50
words five of the following-10
1.
Why is Macavity termed a crimianal?
2.
Why did the speaker like the snake ?
3.
How did Nanukaka impress Sohanlal Ratiram?
4.
What does the poet in “Fire Hymn” see at the burning ghat?
5.
What does the poet observe in summer in “Song of Myself”?
6.
What is according to Om Lomov, the main defect of Natalia’s dog?
7.
Why does the poet call Macavity, a mystery cat?
8.
Name four countries where English is used as mother tongue?
9.
Why did the speaker in the poem “Snake” decide to wait?
10.
How old the speaker of “Song of Myself” was?
6)
Answer any three
question—3*5=15
a)
Write
the summary on one of the following
1)
Ode to autumn
2) Song of Myself
3) An Epitaph
b)
Write
the summary on one of the following
1)
The Earth
2) The
Artist
3) A Pinch of Snuff
c)
Match the poets given in List – A with appropriate titles
from-4
(a) John Keats (I) The Soldier
(b) Rupert Brooke (II) Song of Myself
(c) Walt Whitman (III) To Autumn
(d) D.H. Lawrence (IV) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(e) T.S. Eliot (V) Snake
d)
Translate the following sentences into English–4
मेरी माँ 5 बजे सुबह से काम कर रही है
मैंने उसे पार्क में बैठे हुए देखा
गंगा को प्रदूषित नहीं करना चाहिए
हमें सत्य बोलना चाहिए
हमें झूठ नहीं बोलना चाहिए
यदि मैं पक्षी होता तो आकाश में
e) Write a short note
on American English
f) English is an international
language. How?
7)
Make a precis of the following passage and suggest a
suitable title : -5
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. He was a self-made man. His father was a
poor farmer. Abraham Lincoln worked first as a wood-cutter. But he wanted to make
progress in life. He learnt how to read and write. He got a job as clerk, then
he was a store-keeper and then a postmaster. He studied law in spare time. He
became a lawyer. He took up politics. Soon he was well-known as an orator. In
1860 he made a famous speech against slavery. At that time, slaves were kept in
the southern states of America. Same year he was elected president of America.
He was a great and good man. He was the greatest President of the United
States.
Read carefully the passage given below and answer the question
Jumman had an old relation, a maternal aunt, who had some property. Thus she
transferred to him by a deed on the understanding that she would be well looked
after. So long as the deed remained unregistered, non was so obliging to the
old lady as her nephew, non so considerate to her. Her every wish was
anticipated and cheerfully carried out. But everything changed the moment the
deed was registered. Jumman, who used to wait dottingly on his old aunt now
became supremely indifferent. His wife, Kariman, went even further. She grudged
even the little food that the old lady ate. No meal was now serve to her
without Kariman letting loose a barb or two dipped ingall. The very bread that
the aunt ate seemed to be seasoned with the meal of abuse. And this went on
mounting. Kariman would say, “How long is the old hag going to live?”
by giving us a few acres of waste land, she thinks she had bought us.
Questions
:–(Amar’s Classes for English)
(i) Who had a maternal aunt?
(ii) Who was Kariman?
(iii) Whose wish was anticipated and cheerfully carried out?
