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MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Subject
Max.
Marks
Time

Name
50

Year

2 hrs

Date

Roll no.:

Instructions:
Answer all questions.
Only answer the questions in the spaces provided for each.
1 mark is awarded for handwriting.
FICTION
SECTION A.1: READING
[1-7] Read the following passage from Cider with Rosie and answer the
following questions.
I felt this was overdoing it rather, but I said no more after that. I arrived at the school
just three feet tall and fatly wrapped in my scarves. The playground roared like a
rodeo, and the potato burned through my thigh. Old boots, ragged stockings, torn
trousers and skirts, went skating and skidding around me. The rabble closed in; I
was encircled; grit flew in my face like shrapnel. Tall girls with frizzled hair, and
huge boys with sharp elbows, began to prod me with hideous interest. They plucked
at my scarves, spun me round like a top, screwed my nose, and stole my potato.
I was rescued at last by a gracious lady the sixteen-year-old junior-teacher who
boxed a few ears and dried my face and let me off to The Infants. I spent that first
day picking holes in paper, then went home in smouldering temper.
1. Who wrote Cider with Rosie?

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2. Pick out the word which means kind.

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3. Find out a word or phrase which tells the reader that the place described in the
passage was crowded.
4. What does the word rescue mean?

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SECTION A.2: WRITING

5. How would you have felt if you were there? Explain in detail.

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SECTION A.3: GRAMMAR

6. Specify the subject pronoun of this narration and its type?
7. Write the prefix, root and suffix of encircled.

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Read the following extract and rewrite it by using compound and complex
sentences.

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8. One day Phil and Leon went to the canal. They were going fishing. There
seemed to be no-one else around. They chose the best place. They started to get
out the rods. Then there was a loud splash. Then there was a scream. Phil and
Leon looked up. They saw something moving in the water. Then they saw a
hand waving. Someone had fallen in the water.
Read the following extract and rewrite it by using simple sentences.

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9. Like all animals, human beings need food in order to live because every part of
the body needs a steady supply of food so that it can work properly, but first the
food has to be broken down through a process called digestion so that it can
dissolve in the blood and travel around the body.
Join the underlined word to the correct part of speech. The first one has been
completed for you.
10.She looked down to the floor.
11.Dinah thought muzzily.

(3 x = 1)
12.Those books are mine.
Preposition
Verb
Adverb

Adjective

Possessive pronoun
POETRY
SECTION B.1: READING

[13-15] Read the following poem Drops by Constance Levy and answer the
following questions.
A tear drop
looks like sadness
and has a salty taste.
A raindrop
tastes of sky
and brings a shower.
A dewdrop is a new drop,
a taste-of-morning-brew drop
and is probably delicious to a flower.
13.The poets message in the poem Drops is to

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A. tell the reader a story about dewdrops.

B. persuade the reader to go out into the rain.
C. explain how tears are like dew.
D. describe different kinds of drops.
14.What does the poet mean by A dewdrop is a new drop?

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15.Write the rhyme scheme of the poem.

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SECTION B.2: WRITING

[16-Read the given lines from April rain song by Langston Hughes and answer
the following questions.

Let the rain kiss you.

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night
And I love the rain
16.Line 6 of April Rain Song says, The rain plays a little sleep-song. Which
phrase means the same as sleep-song?

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A. silver liquid drops

B. a lullaby
C. still pools on the sidewalk
D. the gutter
17.Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Explain the characteristics of rain picturised here.

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18.In the last line of the poem April Rain Song, the poet writes, And I love the
rain. Explain how the poet shows his feelings about the rain throughout the
poem. Use specific examples from the poem to support your answer.

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NON-FICTION
SECTION C.1: WRITING
19.Prepare a safety notice for an aeroplane.
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20.Prepare an official constitution for the Science club in your school.
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21. Suppose you a teacher in your school and wants to make a report on the habits
of the students like what are their hobbies and when do they go to sleep. Prepare
a questionnaire to inquire the students about their habits.
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