MODEL QUESTION SET

SECTION
READING COMPREHENSION (SEEN)
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given
below:
make
Of course, there was nobody for us toplay with on the Big Half Moon. We just had to
the most of each other, and we did.
We live on the Big Half Moon island. We' are fatber and Claude and I and Aunt
Esther
and Mimi and Dick. It used to be only father and Claude and I. It is all on account of the kite
that there are more of us. This is what I want to tell you about.
Father is the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse. I am eleven years old. Claude 1s
twelve. In winter, when the harbour is frozen over. we all move over to the mainland. As SOon
as spring comes, back we sail to our own dear island.
The funny part used to be that people always pitied us when the time came for us to return.
They said we must be so lonesome Over there, with no other children near us. Ofcourse Claude
and I would have liked to have someone to play with us. It is hard to run pirate caves and
things like that with only two. But we used to quarrel a good deal with the mainland children
in winter. So it was perhaps just as well that there were none of them on the Big Half Moon.
Claude and Inever quarrelled.
To be sure, father didn't sem to have any relations except us. This used to puzzle Claude
and me. Everybody on the mainland had relations. Why hadn't we? Was it because we lived
on an island? We thought it would be so jolly to have an uncle and aunt and some cousins.
Once we asked ather about it, but he looked sosorrowful that we wished we hadn't. He said
it was all his fault. Claude and I didn't understand what he meant.
A. Choose the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences: lx5=5

(i) The narrator's father worked in a

(a) ship (b) lighthouse (c) police station (d) factory
(iü) The harbour is covered with ice in
(a) winter (b) summer (c) spring (d) autumn
(iii) The number of members in the narrator's family is now
(b) five (c) four (d) six
(a) three
(iv) Running pirate caves is a kind of game played by
(a) Mimi and Dick (b) the mainland children
(d) Aunt Esther
(c) the narrator and Claude
(v) To the narrator and Claude, having no relation was a
(a) shame (b) pride (c) puzzle (d) joy
against each statement: 1x3=3
B. Write T for true and F for false in the boxes
of playmates.
(i) Nobody felt for the narrator and Claude for their lack
Half Moon.
(ü) The narrator never quitted the Big
(ii), Claude and I hardly quarrelled. 2x2=4
C, Answer the folowing questions: in the Big HalfMoon?
(i) Whydid people feel that Claude and the narrator were lonesomhaye?
narrator wish to
(ii) Which kind of relations did Claude and the
 Z. Read the following extract and answer the questions below:
Once I crept in oakwood--I was looking for a stag.
Imet an old woman there-all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: Ihave your secret here inside my little bag.

Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.

She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake
Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
They said: We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Onless you make a promise now-now you are going to die.
Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant tw0.
Unless you swear the black oak bark will wrinkle over you
And root you among theoaks where you were born butnever grew.
A. Choose the correct alternativyes to complete the
(i) The poet found his own true following sentences: lx4=4
(a) the house
family in
(c) an oakwood
(b) the garden
(d) an old woman's house
(i) The poet quaked when the old woman
(a)cackled (b) walked
(iiü) The poet's secret was in the old womnan's
(c) appeared (d)vanished
(a) basket (b) bag
(iv) The 'staring tribe' refers to the (c) purse (d) diary
(a)oak-trees (b) old woman (c) animals
B. Answer the following (d) people
questions:
(i) When did the poet come twice 2x2=4
awake?
(iü) What are the complaints of the oak-trees?

SECTIONB
READING COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)
3. Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given below:
West Bengal is finally making efforts in
Reserve, where no tiger sightings have been reintroduing big cats in North Bengal's Buxa Tiger
The proposal was submitted to the National reported in the.past two decades.
Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
recently. Though state chief wildlife warden Pradip Shukla gave a guarded response and said
a detailed Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP)
had been submitted, a senior forest
official confirmed that a proposal on th¹ road ahead for department
relocation-was in the report. Shukla, however, admitted Buxa--including scope for tiger
the
that a tiger augmentation' plan
features intheTCP.
Experts say this is an admission by the state that there is no tiger in Buxa now
"Apart from habitat improvement, recruitment of forest guards and setting up of protection
camps, the realignment, of core and buffer areas, reintroduction of tigers and relocation of
villagerswill also be taken up for the reserve," said a forester whodidn't want to be named.
 Though Buxa field director Uijwal Ghosh refused to comment, NTCA's deputy inspector
general Sanjay Pathak confirmed receiving a plan for Buxa.
A senior Bengal forester said once realignment of core and buffer areas is done, some
villages will also be relocated. "We have a plan to reintroduce a few tigers-both males and
breeding femalesfrom forests in the north-east which share habitat identical to Buxa. We
have plans to construct an enclosure spread over an area of more than 4 sq km where we will
keep the tigers before reintroducing them in the wild," he said.
1x6= 6
A. Choose the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences:
(i) Buxa Tiger Reserve is in
(a) East Bengal (b) North Bengal (c) South Bengal (d) Kolkata
(iü) The name of Buxa field director is
(a) Uijwal Ghosh (b) Sanjay Pathak (c) Pradip Shukla (d) Uijwal Pathak
(iüü) Some tigers willbe shifted to Buxa from
(a) the Sundarbans (b) NTCA (c) North East (d) abroad
(iv) Before the introduction of tigers in the wild, they will be kept within
(a) zoo (b)circus (c) enclosure (d) cage
(v) In Buxa Tiger Reserve no tiger sightings have been reported in the last
(a) two years (b)twenty years (c) thirty years (d) two months
(vi) TCP stands for
(a) Tiger Conservation Plan (b) Tree Conservation Plan
(c)'Turtile Conservation Plan (d) Tigress Conservation Plan
B. State whether the following statements are True' or False'. Provide sentences/
phrases/expressions in support of your answer: (1+1)x3=6
) Tourists are deprived of tiger sightings in Buxa Tiger Reserve.
Supporting Statement:
(ii) The area of the proposed enclosure willbe 4 sq km.
Supporting Statement:
(iii) Only tigresses willbe reintroduced in Buxa Tiger Reserve.
Supporting Statement:.
C. Answer the following questions: 2x4=8
(i) What was the opinion of an anonymous forester?
(ii) Who was Pradip Shukla and what did he admit?
(iii) What does NTCA stand for? Which proposal was submitted to them?
(iv) What will have to be done before the relocation of some villages?
SECTION C
GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
4.A. Choose the correct alternatives in the brackets to fill in the blanks: lx3=3
Father (is/was/were/has) the keeper oftheBig Half Moon lighthouse. I
(is/am/was/have been) eleven years old. Claude (washs/will be/had been) twelve.
B. Rewrite as directed: lx6=6
(i) What a horrible sight! (Turh ihtóan asertive sentence)
(ü) Boys said to the teacher, " When will the game start?" {Change into nd1rect speech)
(ii) Anishbabu is one of the richest men in the locality. "Change positivedegree)
(iv) The fog dispersed. The sun rose. (Turn into a simple sentence)
 (v) He went and brought the children here. (Split into two simple sentences)
(vi) He rebuked me angrily. (Rewrite by using noun form of 'angrily')
C. Fl in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions: 1x3=3
Topass the time away he sometimes watches mouse-hole for an hour or twojust
tokeep himself dying boredom.
D.Given below are the meanings of four words which you will find in Question No.
"3Unseen), Find out the words and write them in the appropriate boxes on the
right-hand side: 2x4=8

(i) an area of land between two opposing forces

(ii) increasing the value, size or amount of anything
(iii) similar in every detail
(iv) person in charge of protection
SECTION D
WRITING
with headphone
5. Suppose you find a boy/girl who has just crossed the road between the boy/
on the ears. Write an imaginary dialogue (within 100 words)
girland you urging him/her to stop using that and pointing out the dangers10
of using it.
camp in your
6. Write a newspaper report on the incident of blood donation
local club using the following points:
[Points: date and time place-donorsarrangements--purpose-precautions10
enthusiastic responserefreshments for the donors]
100 words) based on the hints
7. Write a biography of APJ Abdul Kalam (within 10
given below: Jainulabdeen and
[Hints: Born on 15th October, 1931, Rameswaram: parents:
-long 40 years
Ashiamma; Education: B.SC. Physics and Aerospace Engineering major role, Pokhran 11
worked for development of ballistic missile launch vehicle
27th July, 2015.)
nuclear tests -Bharat Ratna President of India; Death