(Model Paper) UP Board: English Class X Model Test Paper Year 2011

MODEL PAPER (2011)
Class-X - English
(Only Question Paper)

Time: 03 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

Note:
(i) This question-paper is divided into two sections-‘A’ and ‘B’
(ii) All questions from the two sections are compulsory.
(iii) Marks are indicated against each question
(iv) Read the question very carefully before you answer them

SECTION-‘A’

1. Select one of the following passages and answer the questions given below it:
(a) But although many people loved the old man and delighted in his wisdom, there was some who did not approve of him. He taught that man’s own mind influenced his conduct more than the gods. This seemed to some people a new and wicked idea. He said that there were higher and nobler deeds than making sacrifices to Athens and the other gods of Greece and many people thought that he was leading the young astray questioning all that they had been taught to believe and filling the minds with doubt.
(i) Write the name of the lesson from which the above passage has been taken who is the author of the lesson? 1+1=2
(ii) Who is the old man referred to in the first sentence.? 02
(iii) What were the teachings of the old man which the people of Greece did not like? 02
(iv) How was the old man leading the young astray according to some people of Athens? 02
(v) Find out the words in the passage which have the following meanings :
(x) Very pleased
(y) to behave 1+1=2

(b) Akbar was greatly intrigued; he wanted to hear Hari Das but, emperor though he was, he could not get Hari to his court, so he and Tansen went to the Himalayas where in his ashrama dwelt the Swami, Tansen had already warned Akbar that the swami would sing only if he wanted to several days they stayed at the ashrama; but the Swami did not sing.
(i) Write the name of the lesson from which the above passage has been taken . Who is the author of the lesson? 02
(ii) Why was Akbar greatly intrigued ? 02
(iii) Where did Akbar and Tansen go? 02
(iv) What had Tansen warned Akbar of ? 02
(v) Find out the words in the passage which have the following meanings: 1+1=2
(x) fascinated
(y) lived

2. Answer one of the following questions in about 60 words: 7
(a) Who was Socrates? What did he teach the people.
(b) How died the people of the two villages treated Guru Nanak and Mardana ?
3. Answer one of the following questions in about 25 words: 4
(a) Why did Lencho write a letter to God? (2+2)
(b) Why does Nehru call the Ganga ‘the river of India’

4. Match the words of List –A with their meaning list-B - 4
List -A
Haggling
Abolish
Bulging
Bunch

List-B
Group
Coming out
Bargaining
To put an end to