10 Eng 1 Revised 2
10 Eng 1 Revised 2
10 Eng 1 Revised 2
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASS – X
Question 1
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
My father and I left the hall and made our way out to walk across to headquarters. There
were street lights round the square, but underfoot the cobblestoned ground was dark and
lumpy. My father tripped on the uneven surface and went down on one knee, trying not to
fall entirely. At exactly the same moment there was a loud bang and a sharp zinging sound
and a scrunch of glass breaking.
I bent over my father and saw that his eyes were stretched wide and his mouth grim with
pain.
“Run,” he said. “Run for cover. For God’s sake, Ben! That was a gunshot!”
We were halfway across the square, easy immobile targets. He struggled to get to his feet
and told me again to run: and for once I disobeyed him.
People ran out of the hotel, drawn by the bang that re-echoed around the square. There
was confusion and people saying, “What happened, what happened?” and hands stretching
down to my father to help him up. When he was well surrounded, he finally took my arm.
Putting his left foot down caused him much discomfort.
Everyone looked round, but it was far too late to see the rifle, let alone the person
shooting. My father put his arm round my shoulders for support, and indicated that we
should set off.
I went to the open door, looking across the square to the hotel.
I remembered the zing of the bullet. If the bullet had been aimed at my father, and if he’d
stumbled at the exact second that the trigger was squeezed, and if the bullet had smashed
some glass so that I heard the tinkle, then why was every pane of the window in the
headquarters intact?
I told myself that the whole thing had been a coincidence and turned to go back inside, and
saw for an instant a flash of light on broken glass down on the ground.
It was a window of the shop next door that had been hit.
Zing. Ricochet. Smash. The straight line could have been deflected by the curve of a
cobblestone.
The police arrived at headquarters, and it was nearly two o’clock when I finally reached
home and closed and bolted the doors and switched off the lights.
My father moved himself into one of the single beds in the bedroom. I lay on the second,
not at all sleepy.
After a while, I said, “I’d say it was a .22 rifle with a high-velocity bullet. Hitting you in the
body, it quite likely won’t kill you. You need to hit the head or the neck to be lethal. All I did
was shield your head.” There was a silence. Then he said, “I’d forgotten you could shoot.”
“I was in the school team. We were taught by one of the country’s best marksmen.” I
smiled in the dark. “You paid for it, you know.”
(i) Immobile
1) Lumpy
2) Grim
3) unmoving
(ii) Anguished
2) Scrunch
3) Grim
(iii) Intact
1)Exact
2) Uneven
b)
(i)What two things happened simultaneously when Ben and his father were walking to the
headquarters? [1]
1. His father tripped and the lights of the square lit up.
(ii). What did Ben see when he looked at his father on the ground? [1]
2. His eyes were open and there was a serious look on his face.
3.His eyes were open and he was shouting about being hit.
(iii)Why did Ben’s father tell him to run and why did Ben disobey him? [1]
3. To avoid being aimed at again; Ben felt that being immobile would protect them.
4. To avoid being aimed at again; Ben was not known to be a fast runner.
(iv) What was Ben’s logical answer to his father explaining why he did not obey him? [1]
1.He was shadowing his father as a shot to the head or neck would be lethal.
2. He was shadowing his father as he was on the ground and could not move.
(v)What was it that Ben did not understand when his father told him, “You don’t
understand...” [1]
(vi) What is the probability theory that Ben refers to here? [1]
(vii) Why did the people run out of the hotel? [1]
(viii) Why did the father put an arm around his son? [1]
2) The bullet
(x) Why could the boy not sleep although it was way past midnight? [1]
(1)
(i)
(iv) The son then helped the father walk towards [1]
1)the hotel.
2)The headquarters
(v) The son realized that the incident had been deliberate when he saw [1]
(vi) The father felt safe at the end of the day because [1]
QUESTION 2.
a)
Fill in each blank with the appropriate form of the verb. There are 4 choices made available
for the purpose for each blank. [4]
We decided to travel by car and _________ (i) the house early. We_____(ii)on the road for
two hours, when our car________(iii) a stone that_______(iv) in the middle of the road.
Choose the correct option for the blanks in each sentence: [4]
1) At
2) Behind
3) Beside
1) In
2) From
3) Against
1) To
2) For
3) Under
1)Over
2) Above
3) On
c)
Choose the correct option to join the following sentences without using and, but, or so
(4)
3. The weather was fine and we had gone out for a swim.
d) Read the sentences with the instructions. Choose the correct answer from the options
provided beneath each [8]
(Begin ‘besides’)
3.. The forests were revived by the heavy showers of rain around.
iii) The men were forced to continue digging though the light was poor.
I. In spite of the light being poor the men were forced to continue digging.
2. In spite of the poor light the men were asked to continue digging.
iv) No sooner did we see the flash of light than we heard a loud explosion nearby.
(Begin’Her’)
3.. Her choice was between a dry pen and writing with a pencil.
(Begin ‘No’)
(Use ‘so’)
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