Name of the Board : CBSE Academic
Class : X STD
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Subject : English Language & Literature
Year : 2016 – 2017
Website : http://cbseacademic.in/SQP_CLASSX_2016_17.html
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English Language & Literature Question Paper :
Time allowed : 3 hours
Maximum Marks : 70
Instructions :
(a) The question paper is divided in to three sections.
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(b) Section A: Reading 20 Marks
Section B: Writing and Grammar 25 Marks
Section C: Literature/ Text Books & Long Reading Texts 25 Marks
(c) All questions are compulsory.
(d) Marks are indicated against each question.
Section – A – Reading – 20 Marks :
1. Read the passage given below :
volution has designated vultures to be the ultimate scavengers. Enormous wingspans allow them to circle in the air for hours. Their beaks, while rather horrifying, are weak by bird standards, made to scoop and eat flesh. However unappealing they may seem, vultures serve an important role in the ecological cycle: processing dead bodies of animals.
Vultures need large ranges to scan for food and undisturbed areas in which to nest. They also need an abundance of prey species since they rely more on chance than their own hunting skills to eat. All of these things have been reduced by human activity. Meanwhile, there is a dramatic increase in secondary poisoning. Vultures feed on carcasses laced with poison, intended to kill jackals or other predatory carnivores. Or they are poisoned by the lead in animals left behind by hunters.
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following questions briefly:
a. Who are the natural scavengers?
b. How do the special beaks and wings/ work?
c. How did their numbers decrease?
d. Why do we need these ‘scavengers’?
e. Why do vultures need more prey ?
f. Why are the dead bodies laced with poison?
g. What is ‘secondary poisoning’?
h. Give any two factors responsible for the death of vultures?
2 Read the passage given below :
1. Children in India live in diverse circumstances and have diverse needs and rights. Along with their need to be educated, healthy and skillful, they need, and have rights to adequate nutrition, to live in a safe and supportive environment, have opportunities to reach their optimal potential and generally lead healthy, joyful and fulfilling lives so that they can be productive and well adjusted citizens of tomorrow.
2. Children in our country face many challenges. Many of them are first generation learners and face myriad problems throughout their schooling. They, due to the socio-economic and cultural determinants may be vulnerable in many ways. Peer pressure and lack of positive role models may prompt them to make unsafe and unhealthy choices. Anxiety and depression amongst the students, to the point of turning them suicidal, have been a cause of concern in the recent past.
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following questions :
a. What makes girls’ lives more challenging?
b. How does malnutrition affect the children ?
c. How are well informed children better than the other children?
d. What are the social issues which the children have to deal with?
e. Identify the meaning of the word :- ‘a great number’ (para2 )
1. Vulnerable,
2. Determinant
3. Myriad
4. Peer pressure
f. Identify a word which means same as”easily hurt” (para 3)
1. Vulnerable
2. Discrimination
3. Malnutrition
4.Motivation
g. Identify a word which means the same as ‘a valuable person or thing’(para 4)
1.Appropriate
2. Asset
3.Adverse
4. Cognitive
h. Identify a word which means the opposite of ‘ covered’ (para 5)
1. Covert
2. Overt
3.Energy
4. Conservation.
SECTION B :
Writing And Grammar : 25 marks
3 You are Ajeet / Anika, a student of S.M. Public School, Delhi . You are concerned about the water crisis which has become very dangerous .Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper highlighting the need to provide water in drought hit areas and the dire need of creating awareness about the conservation of water through informative posters.
OR
You are Naman /Nalini .You feel that some of your friends are leading a life which is very harmful for their health as they use whats app all the time and waste a lot of their valuable time. They prefer living alone in their rooms and do not communicate with the members of the family or relatives Write an article on ‘Importance of Time Management” ‘ (100 -120 words )
4. Complete the story in about 150 -200 words :
My mother asked me to go to the market in the evening. Initially first I wanted to avoid but then thinking she needed milk for my little brother I left home reluctantly. I reached the market and was about to pay money for the milk, when suddenly I saw a ———————————-.
5 Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks by using the most appropriate word:-.
I was touched (e.g.) when I saw my neighbours sending off their son.
I could understand their pain (a )————– their only son leaving home .
It is always a difficult time for parents (b) ———–it is also inevitable.
How long can you keep the birds in cages (c) ———– their wings are strong and they are ready to fly.
6. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line against which a blank has been given. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank umber as given in the example. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.
Disasters often come suddenly ,with warning, and causes great suffering to those (e.g. without)
which are left alive. a.———
Because these tragedies need immediate help and b———
solution .who should be provided at the earliest. c———
d——–
7 Rearrange the following words or phrases into meaningful sentences :
One has been done for you as an example.
(e.g.) Red cross day / an / become /day / the / in /important /world /of / history / has
Red cross day has become an/important day in the history of the world
A. Celebrated /plays /annually /it / role / is / big /the /saving /to /in /lives /
B. Due / war / aims/ human beings / it / relief /distress / to /provide /the /in/to
C. this day/Various/ to celebrateare / held . /programmes /in the schools