SHRI MAHAVIR JAIN ENGLISH SCHOOL
I-Unit Test-Examination-2024-25
Std: 10th Marks: 20
Time: 8:00am to 09:00am Sub: English Date: 08-08-24
Q. 1 Do as directed (any six): (6)
1) Pick out an infinitive from the sentence:
Every child is free to grow.
2) Write 2 present participles in which the last letter is doubled.
3) Punctuate the following sentence:
after all he doesnt pay me.
4) Find out two hidden words of minimum four letters from the given word: Proclamation
5) I am taking a big chance. [ Rewrite the sentence beginning with ‘A big…..’]
6) Rewrite the sentence using ‘ No sooner—than’ As soon as we went to a rocky beach, we saw the
majestic ocean.
7) We must keep our promises. [Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function]
Q. 2 Read the following passage and complete the activities given below: (5)
A.1 Complete the following web: (1)
Role of Nature
in our life
We instinctively turn to outdoor activities and nature as a way of relaxing and enhancing our well
being. Nature soothes and nurtures. Nature fulfils and motivates. Nature whispers and commands.
Are you listening?
When I do, it leaves me in complete awe.
We have a hibiscus plant in our garden. Every fortnight a flower blooms on it-big, bright
approaches, it starts wilting. The morning after, it withers completely and by evening it falls and
becomes one with the earth again. The flower comes to life only for a day, yet it does so in full
splendour. What if we too lived our life, however short, to its fullest ?
We went to a rocky beach and saw the spread of the majestic ocean and the rocks alongside,
carved, sculpted and shaped by the water. Water is so gentle, rock so hard, yet, as the water flows
over it every day, for years, the rock gives in. It takes the shape that the water commands. Our
problems are so colossal and we are so small, yet if we persist..
We saw small bits of grass peeping through the small cracks in a concrete pavement. It left us
thinking : however impossible things may look, there is always an opening...
A.2 Name the following with reference to the passage: (1)
What things in nature teach us Name
1) Be persistent
2) Live our life to the Fullest
3) Nothing is impossible to achieve
4) Be humble and obey the commands
A.3 Do as directed:
1) The flowers comes to life only for a day. [Pick out the verb and state whether it is
Transitive or Intransitive] (1)
2) It leaves me in complete awe [Rewrite beginning with ‘I……………] (1)
A.4 Nature is my teacher. Justify (1)
Q. 3 A) Read the following extract and do the activities given below: (3)
A.1 Match the expressions with their meanings: (1)
, Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A.2 What qualities does the poet wish to inculcate in his countrymen? (1)
A.3 Name and explain the figures of speech- Where the clear stream of reason has lost its way. (1)
Q.3 (B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a
paragraph format: (3)
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
- William Shakespeare
* Title
* Name of poet
* Rhyme scheme
* Figure of speech
* Theme / central idea.
Q.4 Expand the given quote into a paragraph: (3)
, SHRI MAHAVIR JAIN ENGLISH SCHOOL
I-Unit Test-Examination-2024-25
Std: 10th Marks: 10
Time: 9:00am to 09:30am Sub: Hindi Date: 05-08-24
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I-Unit Test-Examination-2024-25
Std: 10th Marks: 20
Time: 8:00am to 09:00am Sub: English Date: 08-08-24
Q. 1 Do as directed (any six): (6)
1) Pick out an infinitive from the sentence:
Every child is free to grow.
2) Write 2 present participles in which the last letter is doubled.
3) Punctuate the following sentence:
after all he doesnt pay me.
4) Find out two hidden words of minimum four letters from the given word: Proclamation
5) I am taking a big chance. [ Rewrite the sentence beginning with ‘A big…..’]
6) Rewrite the sentence using ‘ No sooner—than’ As soon as we went to a rocky beach, we saw the
majestic ocean.
7) We must keep our promises. [Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function]
Q. 2 Read the following passage and complete the activities given below: (5)
A.1 Complete the following web: (1)
Role of Nature
in our life
We instinctively turn to outdoor activities and nature as a way of relaxing and enhancing our well
being. Nature soothes and nurtures. Nature fulfils and motivates. Nature whispers and commands.
Are you listening?
When I do, it leaves me in complete awe.
We have a hibiscus plant in our garden. Every fortnight a flower blooms on it-big, bright
approaches, it starts wilting. The morning after, it withers completely and by evening it falls and
becomes one with the earth again. The flower comes to life only for a day, yet it does so in full
splendour. What if we too lived our life, however short, to its fullest ?
We went to a rocky beach and saw the spread of the majestic ocean and the rocks alongside,
carved, sculpted and shaped by the water. Water is so gentle, rock so hard, yet, as the water flows
over it every day, for years, the rock gives in. It takes the shape that the water commands. Our
problems are so colossal and we are so small, yet if we persist..
We saw small bits of grass peeping through the small cracks in a concrete pavement. It left us
thinking : however impossible things may look, there is always an opening...
A.2 Name the following with reference to the passage: (1)
What things in nature teach us Name
1) Be persistent
2) Live our life to the Fullest
3) Nothing is impossible to achieve
4) Be humble and obey the commands
A.3 Do as directed:
1) The flowers comes to life only for a day. [Pick out the verb and state whether it is
Transitive or Intransitive] (1)
2) It leaves me in complete awe [Rewrite beginning with ‘I……………] (1)
A.4 Nature is my teacher. Justify (1)
Q. 3 A) Read the following extract and do the activities given below: (3)
A.1 Match the expressions with their meanings: (1)
, Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A.2 What qualities does the poet wish to inculcate in his countrymen? (1)
A.3 Name and explain the figures of speech- Where the clear stream of reason has lost its way. (1)
Q.3 (B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a
paragraph format: (3)
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
- William Shakespeare
* Title
* Name of poet
* Rhyme scheme
* Figure of speech
* Theme / central idea.
Q.4 Expand the given quote into a paragraph: (3)
, SHRI MAHAVIR JAIN ENGLISH SCHOOL
I-Unit Test-Examination-2024-25
Std: 10th Marks: 10
Time: 9:00am to 09:30am Sub: Hindi Date: 05-08-24
Ikz’u1 fuEufyf[kr ifjPNsn i<+dj lwpukvksa ds vuqlkj d`fr;k¡ dhft,A
1½ vkd`fr iw.kZ djksA% (1)
[ksk, gq, vkneh ds vkus ls
xk¡o dh cnyh gqbZ fLFkfr
2½ fuEufyf[kr ’kCnksa dk lekukFkhZ ’kCn ifjPNsn ls <w¡<dj fy[kksA (1)
i) ekStwnxh ii) izlUurk
3½ Loer vfHkO;fDrA (2)
^tkfr&/keZ ds uke ij HksnHkko dgk¡ rd mfpr gSA* fo"k; ij vius fopkj fyf[k,A
