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Std. X (SSC) English (HL)

Marks : 80 Preliminary Paper - 3 Time : 3 Hours

Note : 1. All questions are compulsory.

2. Use of calculator is not allowed
3. The numbers to the right of the questions indicate full marks.
4. Draw neat/graphs wherever necessary
5. Answer should be written in blue or black ink.

SECTION I : LANGUAGE STUDY

Q. 1. (A) & (B) Language study
A1. Do as directed : (Any FOUR) [4 Marks]
1) Write the ‘root word’ after dropping the prefix or suffix : relationship.
2) Punctuate the following sentence :
after all he doesnt pay me
3) Make a meaningful sentence of your own using the following phrase : to look into
4) Choose the appropriate alternative :
Amit spoke in an ........... tone. (excited/excitedly)
5) Change the given simple sentence into complex sentence :
He took me to a gramophone room.

A2. Do as directed : (Any TWO) [4 Marks]

1) Make two sentences of your own to show the difference in homophones :
knew, new
2) Arrange the following words in the alphabetical order :
spot, space, system, success
3) Complete the word chain of objectives :
wild, .........., ..........., .........., ............

Q. 1. (B) Do as directed : (Any ONE) [2 Marks]

1) Prepare the word register of four words related to the given word :
music
2) Rewrite the sentence bu using ‘No sooner.......... than’ :
As soon as we went to a rocky beach, we saw the spread of the majestic ocean.

SECTION-II : TEXTUAL PASSAGES

Q. 2. (A) Read the following passage and do the activities : [10 Marks]
A1. Complete the following :
1) The profession of the narrator : .............
2) The lady was free ................ .
3) At the time was free when the writer met the lady, he was living in a ............... .
4) The lady wanted to meet the narrator to ................. .
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 I caught sight of her at the play and in answer to her call. I went over during the
interval and sat down beside her. It was long since I had last seen her and, if someone
had not mentioned her name, I hardly think I would have recognised her. She addres-
sd me brightly.
“Well, it’s many years since we first met. How time does fly ! We’re none of us
getting any younger. Do you remember the first time I saw you? You asked me to lu-
ncheon.”
Did I remember ?
It was twenty years ago and I was living in Paris. I had a tiny apartment and I was
earning barely enough money. She had read a book of mine and had written to me
about it. I answered, thanking her, and presently, I received from her another letter
saying she was passing through Paris and would like to have a chat with me. But her
time was limited and the only free moment she had was on the following Thursday
and would I give her a little luncheon at Foyot’s afterwards? Foyot’s is a restaurant
and it was so far beyond my means that I had never even thought of going there. I had
eighty francs (gold francs) to last me the rest of the month and a modest luncheon
should not cost more than fifteen. If I cut out coffee for the next two weeks, I could
manage well enough.

A2. Who said these words/sentence? Under what circumstances?

It’s many years since we first met

A3. Choose the correct option from the bracket and fill in the blanks given below.
(caught sight of, passing, interval, addressed, luncheon)
1) The chief guest .......... the students.
2) I invited my relatives for ............
3) The author ........... the guest at the play.
4) The author’s guest was ........... through Paris.

A4. Do as directed :
1) Rewrite the following sentence using the antonym of the underlined word.
We’re non of us getting any younger.
2) She had read a book of mine. (Begin the sentence with ‘Hadn’t ........?)

A5. If you were in the place of the narrator, how would you have reacted in the given
situation?

Q. 2. (B) Read the following passage and do the activities : [10 Marks]
B1. Choose the correct alternatives from the given options and rewrite the sentences :
(appealing, casually, flattery, well-oiled)
1) I followed .......... .
2) Anil talked about the ............. wrestlers.
3) I gave him my most ........... smile.
4) A little .......... helps in making friends.
I was still a thief when I met Anil. And though only 15, I was an experienced and
fairly successful hand.
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 Anil was watching a wrestling match when I approached him. He was about 25- a
tall, lean fellow - and he looked easy-going, kind and simple enough for my purpose.
I hadn’t had much luck of late and thought I might be able to get into the young man’s
confidence.
“You look a bit of a wrestler yourself,” I said. A little flattery helps in making frie-
nds.
“So do you,” he replied, which put me off for a moment because at that time I was
rather thin.
“Well,” I said modestly, “I do wrestle a bit.”
“What’s your name?”
“Hari Singh,” I lied. I took a new name every month. That kept me ahead of the
police and my former employers.
After this introduction, Anil talked about the well oiled wrestlers who were grunt-
ing, lifting and throwing each other about. I didn’t have much to say. Anil walked aw-
ay. I followed casually.
“Hello again,” he said.
I gave him my most appealing smile. “I want to work for you,” I said.
“But I can’t pay you.”
I thought that over for a minute. Perhaps I had misjudged my man.
I asked, “Can you feed me?”
“Can you cook?”
“I can cook,” I lied again.
“If you can cook, then may be I can feed you.”
He took me to his room over the Jumna Sweet Shop and told me I could sleep on
the balcony. But the meal I cooked that night must have been terrible because Anil
gave it to a stray dog and told me to be off. But I just hung around, smiling in my
most appealing way, and he couldn’t help laughing.

B2. Complete the following hart :

Anil’s virtues

B3. Find similar meanings from the passage for the following :
1) endearing - 2) miscalculated -
3) humbly - 4) awful -

B4. Do as directed :
1) I can’t pay you. (Rewrite making it affirmative)
2) I took a new name every month. (Change the voice)

B5. Explain. “We should learn from our own mistakes.”

SECTION-III : POETRY
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Q. 3. (A) Read the following extract and do the activities : [5 Marks]
A1. Complete the web :

Things that can turn

you away from goals

If you simply go after that thing that you want with all
of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and
confidence and stern pertinacity.
If neither cold or poverty, famished or gaunt
or sickness or pain
of body and brain
can keep you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
with the help of GOD you’ll get it!

A2. Complete the web with suitable response. Tell the class what all things te poet
wants us to do to win :
The poet wants us to

A3. Find the line from the extract which mean :

Extremely poor condition

Q. 3. (B) Read the following poem and write the appreciation of it with the help of
the given points in a paragraph format : [5 Marks]
The Pulley
When God at first made Man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said He) “pour on him all we can:”
Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.
So strength first made a way;
Then beauty flow’d, then wisdom, honour, pleasure:
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that alone of all His treasures
Rest in the bottom lay.

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 For if I should (said He)
Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
lived thousands of years ago,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature.
So both should losers be.
Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness:
Let him be rich and weary, that at last,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.
- George Herbert

Points :
* Title and Poet of the poem
* Rhyme Scheme
* Figure(s) of Speech
* Central Idea/theme
SECTION IV : NON-TEXTUAL PASSAGES

Q. 4. (A) Read the following passage and complete the activities : [10 Marks]
A1. State whether the following statements are True or False :
1) Writer came to Charleston.
2) Writer is Abraham Lincoln.
3) Letter is for sister Honston.
4) No crop was raised.

Dear Brother John Honston,

When I came into Charleston day before yesterday, I learnt that you were anxious
to sell the land where you live, and move to Missouri. I have been thinking of this
ever since, and cannot but say such an idea is quite foolish. What can you do in Mis-
souri better than here? Is the land any richer? Can you, there, any more than here,
raise corn and wheat without work? Will anybody there, any more than here, do your
work for you? If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where
you are; if you do not intend to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Crawling about
from place to place can do you no good. You have raised no crop this year. What you
really want is to sell the land, get the money and spend it. Part with the land you have
and - my life upon it - never after will you own a spot big enough to bury you. Half
of what you will get for the land; you will spend in moving to Missouri. And the oth-
er half you will eat, drink; wear out and no foot of land will be brought. Now I feel it
my duty to have no hand in such a piece of foolery.
Now do not misunderstand this Setter.! do not write it in any unkindness. I write
it in order, if possible, to get you to face the truth which truth is, you are poor and
needy because you have idled away your time. Your thousand excuses for not getting
along better are all nonsense. They deceive nobody but yourself. To go to work is the
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 only cure for your case.
Affectionately,
Your brother,
Abraham Lincoln.

A2. How, according to Lincoln, would his brother spend the money coming from
selling the land? :

A3. i) Find out two words with prefix from the passage :
ii) Write two different words on your own by using the same prefix :

A4. Do as directed :
1) She forgot to wish me on my birthday and did not even apologize.
(Rewrite the sentence using ‘Not only ........ but also.’)
2) The workers built the dome. (Change the voice)

A5 Lincoln wishes to have no hand in selling the land. Justify.

Q.4 (B) Write a short summary of the passage given in Q. 4 (A) and suggest a
suitable title. [5 Marks]
SECTION V : WRITING SKILLS

Q. 5. Letter writing : [5 Marks]

Look at the following situation.
Kavita/Kalpesh Rane residing at Galaxy Apartment, Ram Nagar, Nashik witnessed an
accident near St. Blaise High School, Nashik where a child fell down and was hurt b-
adly after a hit and run incident. Many people were standing around, but did not know
what to do. Finally the child was carried to the hospital by a taxi driver.

A1. Formal Letter A2. Informal Letter

Write a letter to the editor ‘The Times Write a letter to your mother expres-
of India’, Churchgate, Mumbai telling OR sing your feelings about how people
in short about the incident and reque- fail to provide necessary help to an
sting him to write an article on the accident victim.
importance of road safety in his new-
spaper.

Q. 6 (A) Information transfer : [5 Marks]

A1. Verbal to Non-verbal
Read the following information and complete the table given below. Give a
suitable title.
Turtles and tortoises are closely related. They are both reptiles from the same fam-
ily (Testudines or Chelonian). The main difference between the two is that turtle is the
name given to water-dwellers and tortoise is the name given to land- dwellers. They
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 are easily identified by the presence of a shell from which their head and limbs protr-
ude.
Turtles are found in Africa and America. Its shell is lighter and more streamlined
than that of a tortoise. To enable swimming, it has webbed feet with long claws. Turt-
les are omnivores, eating both vegetation and meat. Their lifespan is shorter than that
of the tortoise with an average of 20-40 years and a maximum of 86 years.
Tortoise are found mainly in Asia and Africa, but also in America. It has a rounder,
bumpier, heavier shell than a turtle. Its bent legs are short and sturdy. Tortoises are
usually herbivores, but some eat meat, their lifespan is longer than that of the turtle
with an average of 80-150 years and a maximum of 188 years.

Features Turtles Tortoises

1) Habitat
2) Places Found in
3) Shell
4) Lifespan

OR

A2. Non-verbal to verbal

Observe the following table and transfer the information into a paragraph :
State wise Distribution of Urban and Rural Population in India

States Population in millions

Rural Urban
Maharashtra 560 410
Gujrat 320 190
Madhya Pradesh 440 160
Chhattisgarh 170 40
Andhra Pradesh 550 210
Karnataka 350 180

Q. 6. (B) Speech Writing OR View-Counterview : [5 Marks]

B1. Speech writing :
Prepare a speech to be delivered in the school assembly on ‘Save Nature’. Use the
Following points :
* We survive if nature survives
* All our resources directly or indirectly come from nature
* Prevent deforestation
* Balancing nature by saving plants, animals and birds.
* Add your own points.
OR
B2. View - Counterview :
Prepare a paragraph of counterview on the given topic.
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 Life of a bird is better than that of a human being
* tension free life * no bondages
* no studies * no parental control
* free to do anything

SECTION VI : CREATIVE WRITING

Q. 7. (A) Do any one of the following : [5 Marks]

A1. Expand the Theme :
Expand the following idea into 100 words :
‘Education is the most powerful weapon ti change the World.’

OR

A2. News Report :

Read the following news headline and write a report based on the same :
“Government encourage classroom to go digital”

Q. 7. (B) Developing a Story OR Narrating an experience : [5 Marks]

B1. Developing a Story :
Develop a story in about 80 – 100 words with the following ending.
Give a suitable title :
................. and so I learnt a lesson - Never trust strangers.

OR

B2. Narrating an experience :

Narrate an experience in about 80-100 words leading to the following beginning :
Give a suitable title :
It was Saturday and my parents were not at home. Being alone I could not sleep
peacefully .............

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