biharboard.ac.in X Matric Model Question Paper 2017 : Bihar School Examination Board

Organisation : Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB)
Class : X Matric
Subject : English
Document Type : Model Question Papers
Year : 2017

X Matric Examination Model Question Paper :

Subject : English
Set – 1 :
Time : 3 Hours 15 minutes
Full marks : 100
Instructions to the candidate :
1. Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
2. Figures in the right hand margin indicates full marks.

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3. Write group number and question number with every answer.
4. While answering the candidates should adhere to the word limit as far as practicable.
5. 15 minutes of extra time has been allotted for the candidate to read the questions.

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Answer all Questions :
Section – A : (Reading)
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions in your own words : 4×3=12
Television is changing people’s lives quiet dramatically. They are sleeping less, reading less, comminuting less with their families. In a countrywide survey, a tenth of television viewers have admitted that the care of children and elderly is getting neglected.

Question :
(i) What changes do we notice in the lives of the people under the influence of television?
(ii) Why do parents feel that their children’s studies are affected while television is increasing their general knowledge?
(iii) Why many parents have cut off cable TV connection?
(iv) What are two advantages of Television especially for children?

2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words : 4 × 2 = 8
Old people say that childhood is the best part of life. They look back at their childhood and remember all their happy days, the jolly games, the fun they had to school, jokes they used to play and the endless discussion they had among friends on almost every topic.
Questions :
(i) How do old people describe childhood?
(ii) When old people look back at their childhood, what do they remember?
(iii) Why did the father scold the boy?
(iv) What happened when the father wished to be a boy?

Section-B :
Writing :
3. Write a letter to your father describing the prize giving ceremony held in your school in about 100 words : 8
Or
Write an application to your Headmaster for the help from Poor Boys Fund.

4. Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 60 words : 1×4=4
(a) The game you like most
(b) Life in a village.
(c) An Ideal Teacher
(d) A visit to a zoo.

5. Write a notice in about 80 words for you school notice board to invite students of you school to participate in a Drama Competition. You are the cultural secretary of the school 5
Or
Last week you went on an Educational trip. Write a paragraph on this trip and you experiences that you fell on this trip.

Section-C :
6. Transform the sentence as per direction in the bracket : 4×1=4
(i) Tea is too hot. (change into remove too)
(ii) He is the best boy in the class. (change into positive degree)
(iii) How beautiful she is! (change into assertive sentence)
(iv) I can do it. (change into passive voice)

7. Change the following sentences into indirect form of speech : 4×1=4
(i) The teacher said, “The earth moves round the sun.”
(ii) She said to me, “Why are you crying?”
(iii) He said to his friend, “Please give me your note-book.”
(iv) He said to his father, “Are you going to market with me?”

8. Fill in the blanks with appropriate form of verbs given in the brackets : 4×1=4
(i) Lots of people …………… coming here. (is / are)
(ii) Five years …………… is not a small period. (is / are)
(iii) All that glitters …………… not gold. (is / are)
(iv) A parcel of books …………. be received. (has / have)

9. Fill in the blanks with appropriate form of verbs given in the brackets : 4×1=4
(i) She gets up ……………. 6 o’clock in the morning.. (at / in)
(ii) He was born ……………. Mumbai. (on / in)
(iii) I always study ……………. the evening. (with / in)

10. Translate any five into English 5×1=5

Section-D :
11. Read the extract carefully and answer the following questions : 5×1=5
I saw a play in Dubline not long ago in which the chief character was an elderly corn-merchant in a small Irish country town. He was a man of many anxieties, his heart was dicky, his nephew was cheating him, his wife had the fantastic notion of spending £ 10 on a holiday. Altogether the pace of life was getting too much for him, and in a moment of despair he uttered a great cry from the heart. They tell me there is an aeroplane now that goes at 1000 miles an hour. Now that is too fast.
Questions :
(i) Name the essay and its author.
(ii) What kind of man was the corn-merchant?
(iii) What was his nephew doing?
(iv) What was his wife doing?
(v) Who was the chief character in the play?

13. Answer any one of the following in about 80 words : 1×6=6
(i) What is the most dominant influence of Indian films?
(ii) How is the Indian culture different from the cultures of other countries?
(iii) What did the writer (Mahadevi Verma) do with the wounded squirrel?

14. Answer any two of the following questions in about 30 words : 2×2=4
(i) What is more precious than diamond or silver or gold?
(ii) In which situation, does R.C. Hutchinson find himself in the cinema?
(iii) Why did Akaulya shout at Malasha?
(iv) What is the old woman’s position in the neighbourhood?

14. Answer any two of the following questions in about 40 words : 2×3=6
(i) What was the reason of man’s death?
(ii) Why does the poet call the Koel “a rain of sparks’?
(iii) Why does the poet believe that God made the country?
(iv) What does the poet want to live and die stealthily? Why?

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