had meant by the words. From these, they make definitions.

A dictionary,
in other words, is a collection of people’s opinions about what words mean
as other people use them.
Term-I Examination – 2024-25
th
Class 10 Subject MM. 75 Time 3:00hr Roll No- Questions :
English …………..
Students Name - ……………………………. Date …………… (i). How do children find out meanings when they are reading for pleasure?
Instructions: (ii). Does the passage suggest that a dictionary is essential for a good
1) Read the questions and write the answers against vocabulary? Why or why not?
the question number in your answer sheet. (iii). Write any one step in the process of making a dictionary.
It is mandatory to attempt all question. (iv). Define a dictionary in your own words.
Section-A(Reading) (v). Find the phrase in the passage which means ‘calculate/think about until
Q. 1 Read the passage and give the answers:(5 Marks) one understands.’
I. What exercise is to the body, reading is to the mind. There are different
purposes for reading. One of them is deriving pleasure. Children reading Q.2 Read the passage and give the answers: (7 Marks)
for their pleasure rarely stop to ask about the words. They want to get on I. Children’s social and cultural environments will affect the extent and use
with the story. If the word is important, they can usually make a good of their oral language. A large number of children come from homes in
guess about what it is. “He drew an arrow from his quiver”. Easy to see which English is not the primary language spoken. The most significant
that a quiver is some sort of gadget to put arrows in. More complicated variation among children, however, will be in the amount and quality of
words they figure out by meeting them in different contexts. People learn their previous literacy experiences. Some children will have read regularly
to read well and get a good vocabulary from books, not workbooks or and will be familiar with many books and stories. Their homes are literate
dictionaries. As a kid, I read years ahead of my age, but I never looked up environments in which reading and writing occur daily and are frequently
words in dictionaries and didn’t even have a dictionary. In my lifetime, I modeled as they observe their parents and others reading newspapers,
don’t believe I have looked at even as many as fifty words – neither have magazines, and books and writing letters, notes and lists. Such children are
most good readers. Most people don’t know how dictionaries are made. likely to emulate these behaviors. In contrast, other children will come to
Each new dictionary starts from scratch. The company making the preschool or kindergarten with very different experiences. They have seen
dictionary employs thousands of ‘editors’, to whom they give a list of print in the environment (on street signs and food containers, for example)
words. The job of the editor is to collect as many examples as possible of and on television. However, their parents have not read to them, and they
the ways in which these words are actually used. They look for the words have not seen reading and writing modelled functionally by adults.
in books, newspapers, and so forth and every time they find one, they cut Effective early literacy programmers acknowledge and extend
out or copy that particular example. Then after reading these children’s previous experiences, whatever they are, and relate them to the
examples, they decide ‘from the context’ what the writer in each case world of print.
 On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the following Section-C (Grammar)
questions: Q. 6 Fill in the blanks: (any five) (5 Marks)
a) Sanskrit is ------------- difficult language. (a/an/the)
(i). What affects the oral language of children? b) Mary wants ____________ apples displayed in the window.
(ii). ______________ causes ‘variation’ among children. (that/those)
(iii). ‘Such children are likely to emulate’___ Who are ‘such children’? c) You don’t like snakes ________ do i. (neither/ either )
(iv). ‘They have seen print ______________ ‘They’ means? d) They ___ finished their lunch. (has / have)
(v). The word ‘containers’ means. e) Our game _______ day by day. (is improving/are improving)
Section-B(Writing)
Q. 7 Do as Directed: (any five) (5 Marks)
Q.3Write an application to your Principal to issue you transfer certificate
a) Ram is teaching me English. (change into simple past tense)
because your father has been transferred to Indore. (4 Marks)
b) They study in the class. (change into past continuous tense)
Or
c) He jumps into the well food. (change into negative sentence)
Write a letter to your friend inviting him on your birth day party.
d) He worked hard.(change into interrogative)
Q. 4 Write an essay on any one of the following topics in about 150 words:
e) We go school.(change into past perfect tense)
1. My ambition in life 2. Importance of plants
3. My favorite Book 4. Value of games and sports Q. 8 Textual MCQs (From first flight) (4 Marks)
Or (5 Marks) (a)The postmaster asked money from?
Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 150 words: (a) his master (b) postmaster
1. The importance of education (c) lencho (d) his employees.
2. The impact of Education in our life. (b) where was the crow?
3. Environmental pollution and its effects (i) On hemlock tree (ii) on banyan tree
Q. 5write a paragraph about 80 words on the basis of the visuals given. (ii) On peepal tree (iv) on neem tree
(3 Marks) (c) Name the poet of the poem “Fire and Ice”.
(i) W. B. Yeast (ii) Robert Frost
(iii) Robert Burns (iv) William Wordsworth)
(d)In the poem, the animals is in the ___________
(i) forest (ii ) museum
(iii) zoo (iv) bushes

Q. 9 (A) Extract from prose (From first flight) (8 Marks)

10th May dawned bright and clear. For the past few days, I had been
pleasantly besieged by dignitaries and world leaders who were coming to
pay their respects before the inauguration. The inauguration would be the
largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil. The c) What did Lencho hope for?
ceremonies took place in the lovely sandstone amphitheatre formed by the d) Where did the crow? What did it do?
Union Buildings in Pretoria. For decades this had been the seat of white e) What contrasting element have been presented in the poem?
supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different f) Where does the ceremonies take place?
colors and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic,
non-racial government. Q. 11 Short Answer type questions (4 Marks)
1. When was the inauguration day in the story? a) What is the central idea of the poem “A Tiger in the Zoo”?
a.20 March b.10 May b) How does the poet suggest that you identify the lion and the tiger?
c.10 March d.20 May
Q. 12 Short Answer type questions (From supplementary) (4 Marks)
2. It was a celebration of South Africa's first ______ government.
a) What kind of a person do you think the narrator, a veterinary
a.democratic and racial b.autocratic and racial
surgeon’ is? Would you say he is as well as full of common sense?
c.monarch and non-racial d.democratic and non-racial
b) Why does Mrs. Pumphery say the dog’s recovery as triumph of
3. Where did the ceremonies take place?
surgery?
a.London b.Pretoria
c.New York d.New Delhi Q. 13 Long Answer type questions (From Prose) (3 Marks)
(B) Extract from poetry (From poem) Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why does he sign
"The way a crow the letter ‘God’?
Shook down on me Or
The dust of snow How did Mandela’s ‘hunger for freedom’ change his life?
From a hemlock tree"
a) What is the 'crow' symbolic of? Q. 14 Long Answer type questions (From Poetry) (3 Marks)
(i) sadness (ii) anger According to frost,what are the two different views about the end of
(iii) joy (iv) ugliness the world?
b) Where was the crow sitting? Or
(i) under the hemlock tree (ii) on the hemlock tree How has the tiger in a cage been subdued?
(iii) on the dust of snow (iv) on the small white flowers
Q. 15 Long Answer type questions (From supplementary) (3 Marks)
c) What does the hemlock tree signify?
What does courage mean to mandela?
(i) Youthfulness and joy (ii) hatred and anger
Or
(iii) Mindfulness and attentiveness (iv) death and fear
Why does MrsPumphrey think the dog’s recovery is ‘a triumph of
Q. 10 Short Answer type questions (12 Marks) surgery’?
a) Why is Mrs. Pumphery worried about Tricki’? --The End--
b) What is he “a fairy successful hand”?