English Model Paper
Syllabus:
(A) Attitude is Altitude
(B) Every Success Story is a Story of Great Failures
(C) I will Do It
‣ READING COMPREHENSION
1. Read the following passage carefully.
‘She was amazing,’ said Nick. ‘She taught me how to surf and I was terrified at first, but once I got up there it felt absolutely fantastic and I caught some waves pretty well. ‘ (Attitude is Altitude)
Now, answer the following questions (3 X 1 =3)
(a) What was the amazing thing about her according to the speaker?
(b) Who was she and what was she?
(c) What did she teach the speaker?
2. Read the following passage carefully.
Ask yourself after every setback; What did I learn from this experience? Only then you will be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
(Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures)
Now, answer the following questions (3 X 1 =3)
(a) What is a setback according to the speaker?
(b) What does the speaker ask us?
(c) What is the meaning of ‘to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone’?
3. Read the following passage carefully.
The teenager was disappointed. It seemed his dreams had burnt to ashes. He was so near to fulfilling his fondest hope, yet so far. His heart sank in sorrow.
(I will Do It)
Now, answer the following questions (3 X 1 =3)
(a) Who was referred to as ‘the teenager’ in the above passage?
(b) Why was the teenager disappointed?
(c) What was his fondest hope?
GRAMMAR
4. Edit the following passage correcting the underlined parts. ( 5 X ½= 2 ½ )
Agriculture has been the chief source of income and main occupation for our state with 60% of population engaged at (a) agriculture and related activities. Four important rivers of India, a (b) Godavari, Krishna, Penna, and Tungabhadra flow through the state, providing irrigation. Recently, crops used for vegetable oil production such as sunflower and peanuts have gaining (c) favour. There are many multi-state irrigation projects in development, including Godavari River Basin Irrigation Projects but (d) Nagarjuna Sagar Dam. The state was among the very few states in the country who (e) went in for the Green Revolution in rice cultivation in the 1970s.
Ans: (a) ……………… (b) ……………… (c) …………… (d) ………………… (e) ……………
5. Combine the following sentences using ‘who’. (1 mark)
Napolean died at St. Helena. He won the French honour.
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6. Combine the following sentences using ‘which’. (1 mark)
The silk sarees are popular all over the world. They are made in Benares.
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7. What do the following sentence mean. Put a tick (✓) mark against the right answer. (½ mark)
If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.
(a) Confirmation ( )
(b) Attitude ( )
(c) Curiosity ( )
(d) Responsibility ( )
VOCABULARY
8. Read the passage and write the synonyms of the underlined words choosing from the words given in the box. (4 X ½ = 2)
charged, chose, particular, tough, biggest, finest
His parents decided (a) not to send him to a special (b) school – a decision he said was very hard (c) for him, but which may have been the best (d) decision they could have made for him.
Ans: (a) ………....……… (b) ……….....……… (c) ……....……… (d) …………...………
9. Read the passage and write the antonyms of the underlined words. (4 X ½ = 2)
At age ten Nick tried to drown (b) himself in the bath but luckily (b) the attempt was unsuccessful (c). I felt there was no purpose when you lack purpose and strength (d).
Ans: (a) ……………....… (b) ………....……… (c) ……....……… (d) ………...…………
10. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words given in brackets. (4 X ½ = 2)
He visited Sough America and the Middle East. In 2008, Kanae Miyahara, a ........................... (a) (beautiful / beautifully) young girl, whose mother was a Mexican and whose father was a .............................. (b) (Japan / Japanese), attended to a ....................... (c) (meet / meeting) where Nick was the guest ............................ (d) (speaker / speaking) in Texas. Kanae was attracted to Nick’s message.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
11. (a) In the lesson ‘Attitude is Altitude’, you read that Nick was interested in playing games. He wanted to learn surfing and met Bethany Hamilton who was a great surfing master.
Now, write a possible conversation between Nick and Bethany Hamilton in the context given above. (5 marks)
OR
(b) In the lesson, ‘Every Success Story is Also a Story of Great Failures’, you read about many great people who failed many times in their life in getting success. Their lives tell us that there is no success without failures. Failures are a part of our success. They help us learn many things. Thus failures are the stepping stones to success.
Now, write a script for a speech on the statement ‘Failures are the stepping stones to success.’ to deliver before your class in your English class.
