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ENGLISH (ONLINE TEST SERIES) CLASS - X
MAJOR TEST # 03 DATE : 19 - 01 - 2020
TIME : 3 HRS. MAX. MARKS : 80
8 THE QUESTION PAPER IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS:
SECTION A : READING 20 MARKS
SECTION B : WRITING AND GRAMMAR 30 MARKS
SECTION C : LITERATURE 30 MARKS
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :
8 ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY.
8 YOU MAY ATTEMPT ANY SECTION AT A TIME.
8 ALL QUESTIONS OF THAT PARTICULAR SECTION MUST BE ATTEMPTED IN THE CORRECT ORDER.

SECTION-A
READING (20 MARKS)
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow briefly.
Great people are born to produce an influence on society. One such personality, who was so humble
and lived his complete life with determination and purpose to achieve certain aims, was Ishwar Chandra
Vidyasagar. He was a great social reformer, writer, educator and worked endlessly to transform the
society. He strongly protested against polygamy and child marriage. He favoured widow remarriage
and women's education in India. The Widow Remarriage Act was passed in 1856 making the marriage
of widows legal because of his efforts to solve these problems.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar refined the way Bengali language was written and taught. His book 'Borno
Porichoy' (Introduction to the Alphabet) is still used as the introductory text to teach Bengali alphabet.
Thus, he brought about a revolution in the Bengali Education System. Vidyasagar is credited with the
role of completely changing the old method of teaching which prevailed in Sanskrit College. As a
professor in Sanskrit College, he brought modern outlook into the method of teaching. He included
English and Bengali as mediums of learning, besides Sanskrit. He, also introduced courses in European
History, Philosophy and Science alongside Vedic scriptures. He encouraged students to study these
subjects and make the best of both the worlds.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a strong advocate of women education. He rightly viewed education
as the primary way for women to achieve emancipation from the society's oppression they had to face
at that time. He exercised his power to open schools for girls and even outlined suitable curriculum to
educate them. He went from door to door, requesting heads of families to allow their daughters to be
enrolled in schools. Ishwar Chandra was a man who defined his own path of action. He never listened
to what others said about his work and made decisions based on his own judgement. He was famous
for all these qualities. He was also known for his great courage. Vidyasagar had a very soft heart that
sympathised with those in trouble. He was easily moved to tears when he saw someone in pain and
was always the first one to offer his help to colleagues and friends in distress. After his death,
Rabindranath Tagore said, "One wonders how God, in the process of producing forty million Bengalis,
produced a man !"

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Answer briefly the following questions.
(a) What was Vidyasagar's contribution as a professor in the Sanskrit college? (2 marks)
(b) How did Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar promote women education? (2 marks)
(c) How can we say that Vidyasagar was a softhearted man? (1 mark)
(d) Choose meanings of the words given below with the help of options that follow: (3 marks)
(i) Influence
(1) income (2) insidious (3) impression (4) attraction
(ii) Transform
(1) improve (2) encourage (3) change (4) insist
(iii)Encourage
(1) oppression (2) sympathise (3) motivate (4) enroll
2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow briefly.
(1) Humour is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle or
sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds people together and increases happiness and intimacy. In
addition to the domino effect of joy and amusement, laughter also triggers healthy physical changes
in the body. Humour and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain
and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free and
easy to use. Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain and conflict. Nothing works faster or more
dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humour lightens your
burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others and keeps you grounded, focused and alert.
(2) With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is tremendous resource
for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationship and supporting both physical and emotional
health.
(3) Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving
your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes afterwards. Laughter also boosts the immune system. It
decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving
your resistance to disease. It triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural 'feel-good' chemicals.
Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
(4) Laughter protects the heart. It improves the functioning of blood vessels and increases blood flow,
which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.
(5) Laughter makes you feel good; and the good feeling that you get when you laugh remains with you
even after the laughter subsides. Humour helps you keep a positive, optimistic outlook through difficult
situation, disappointments and physical or emotional loss.
(6) More than just a respite from sadness and pain, laughter gives you the courage and strength to find
new sources of meaning and hope. Even the most difficult of times, a laugh or even simply a smile can
go a long way toward making you feel better. And laughter really is contagious. Just hearing laughter
primes your brain and readies you to smile and join in on the fun.
On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer of the following questions briefly. (8 marks)
(a) What physical and emotional benefits do humour and laughter together give us?
(b) How does humour beneficially help our mental makeup?
(c) In what ways does laughter improve our bodily health?
(d) How is laughter contagious?
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Choose the correct option to answser the following. (4 marks)
(e) Which word in the given passage means the same as 'infectious'?
(1) Boost (2) Contagious (3) Immune (4) Resistance
(f) Which word in the given passage means the same as 'closeness'?
(1) Happiness (2) Trigger (3) Focussed (4) Intimacy
(g) The synonym of 'overcoming' as given in the passage is __________.
(1) Tremendous (2) Surmounting (3) Improving (4) Damaging
(h) The antonym of 'intensifies' as given in the passage is __________.
(1) Subsides (2) Alert (3) Infectious (4) Sniffle

SECTION-B
WRITING & GRAMMAR (30 MARKS)
3. Answer any one of the following questions. (8 marks)
Influence of friends can have both positive and negative impact on the students. Write a letter to
the editor of national daily in about 100-120 words discussing how we can make it more positive
and productive. You are Arun / Aruna, living at 24 Mall Road, Chennai.
OR
You are S. Rajul / S. Ratna, Principal, M.S. Shukla Sr. Secondary School, Jabalpur. Write a letter
to the Sales Manager of Geeta Publishers, Jabalpur enquiring about the undue delay in the
delivery of books for your school library for which you placed an order three months ago. Also
send a warning that you may cancel the order in case the books, particularly for classes X and
XII are not delivered to the Library within a week.
4. Answer ANY ONE of the following. (10 marks)
Write a story in about 200-250 words, using the following hints.
Rama holds out a piece of bread to a dog - the dog jumps forward to take it - Rama hits him with a stick
- a man watching all this called the boy - offers him a one rupee coin
OR
Proper diet and regular exercise improve memory and learning. Taking help from the following points,
together with your own ideas, write an article in about 120 words on the topic, 'Exercise Enhances
Momory'.
• An hour's daily workout
• Walking, cycling regularly for six months to a year, (even among the elderly) increases the size of
crucial parts of the brain
• Spread awareness through posters and morning assembly talks
• Go out and exercise for better performance at academics
5. Fill in the blanks with words that you consider to be the most appropriate. (4 marks)
RJ International School (a) ________ (will / could) celebrate its Silver Jubilee this year. The authorities
have (b) __________ (decided / deciding) to organise a poetry night (c) __________ (on / in) the
first day. The second day has been reserved (d) __________ (for / of) exhibitions displaying
(e) ______ (student's / students) creative ideas. (f) ______ (Many / Much) renowned educationists
(g) ______ (and / for) politicians (h) ______ (could have invited / will also be invited).

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6. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect
word and the correction against the correct question number. Remember to underline the
word you have supplied. (4 marks)
Incorrect Correct
A lot of people is involved e.g. is are
with nature conservation, take (a) _________ _________
care for the plants and animals (b) _________ _________
which share the planet. Until the
beginning of a 20th century, people (c) _________ _________
thought we can conserve nature (d) _________ _________
by look after individual (e) _________ _________
species, by put wild animals (f) _________ _________
in zoos, or plants into botanical (g) _________ _________
gardens. Now we understand that we
need for conserve whole habitats, (h) _________ _________
the places where these plants and animals live.
7. Rearrange the following jumbled words / phrases to make meaningful sentences. (4 marks)
(a) entirely / blame the / we / public / cannot
(b) them / educate / have / we / to
(c) its life / an animal / could / cost / road / on the / candy / throwing / a / even
(d) need / work / it / we / to / together / aganist

SECTION-C
LITERATURE (30 MARKS)
8. Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow. (Any One) (4 marks)
Paris was about 150 kilometres behind me when I saw the clouds. Storm clouds. They were
huge. They looked like black mountains, standing in front of me across the sky. I knew I could
not fly up and over them, and I did not have enough fuel to fly around them to the north or
south.
(a) What happened when the pilot was about 150 kilometres away from Paris?
(b) What does the author compare the clouds to?
(c) Find out the word similar in meaning to 'sufficient' from the given extract.
(d) Why was the pilot worried?
OR
My head is full of whispers which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
into the night winds rush to meet them.
(a) What is echoing in her mind? When will these be silent?
(b) What is breaking and why?
(c) Where are the trees stumbling forward?
(d) Who rushes out to meet the trees?
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9. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words (ANY FOUR). (2 × 4 = 8 marks)
(a) What is the message that Robert Frost wants to convey to the readers in the poem 'Dust of
snow'?
(b) Why did Anil hire Hari Singh?
(c) Why did Valli keep on watching the street? What was the most fascinating scene for Valli in
the street?
(d) With what request does Lomov come to Chubukov? What is his state of mind at that time?
(e) What message do you get from the poem 'A Tiger In The Zoo'?
(f) Describe the gradual progress of Tricki at the surgery.
(g) Why did Bill take the narrator to Bill's terrible mother in the end? Why had she once 'almost'
taken Bill's skin off?
10. Answer any one of the following in 100-120 words. (8 marks)
Why was the baker, the friend, companion and guide of the children? Why the children didn't
even care to brush their teeth or wash their mouths properly when the baker arrived?
OR
Why does the poet say, 'I would not intrude on him?' Why doesn't he offer him money to buy
another ball?
11. Answer any one of the following in 200-250 words. (10 marks)
How did Ebright discover an unknown insect hormone?
OR
Why did the woman in red threaten to telephone the police? Why did Horace mistake the young
lady in red as the lady of the house?

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