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Class X Ray and Martin Question Bank 2025 Page 86
Class 10 Ray and Martin Question Bank 2025 Page 86
🟦 Section – A
✅ Reading Comprehension (Seen)
📘 Passage – 1: Kite Flying
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One day there was a grand wind for kite-flying. I'm not sure how it happened, but as I was bringing the kite from the house, I tripped and fell over the rocks. My elbow went clear through the kite, making a big hole.
We had to hurry to fix the kite if we wanted to send it up before the wind fell. We rushed into the lighthouse to get some paper. We knew there was no more red paper. We took the first thing that came handy—an old letter lying on the bookcase in the sitting room. We patched the kite up with the letter, a sheet on each side and dried it by the fire. We started out and up went the kite like a bird. The wind was glorious and it soared. All at once—snap! And there was Claude, standing with a bit of cord in his hand, looking foolish. Our kite had sailed away over to the mainland.
🔹 A. Tick the correct alternative: (1×2 = 2)
1. The above extract is taken from a story written by –
(i) R. K. Narayan
(ii) Nayantara Sehgal
✅ (iii) Lucy Maud Montgomery
(iv) Andrew Barton Paterson
2. The torn kite was mended with a/an –
(i) red paper
(ii) old paper
✅ (iii) old letter
(iv) art paper
🔹 B. Complete the following sentences: (1×2 = 2)
1. The narrator had to hurry to –
👉 fix the kite before the wind fell.
2. One day there was –
👉 a grand wind for kite-flying.
🔹 C. Short Question: (2 marks)
Who rushed into the lighthouse and why?
👉 The narrator and Claude rushed into the lighthouse to get some paper to mend the torn kite before the wind stopped.
📗 Poem Comprehension
Poem Extract:
Once I crept in an oakwood—I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: "I have 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.
🔹 A. Tick the correct alternative: (1×2 = 2)
1. 'Staring tribe' refers to –
✅ (i) oak-trees
(ii) pine-trees
(iii) all trees
(iv) none of these
2. As the woman began to cackle, the poet began to –
(i) shout
(ii) laugh
✅ (iii) tremble
(iv) sweat
🔹 B. Answer the following questions: (1×2 = 2)
1. "I came twice awake." – Who came twice awake?
👉 The poet came twice awake.
2. When did the poet become twice awake?
👉 The poet became twice awake when the old woman opened her bag and he found himself tied to a stake, surrounded by a staring tribe.
🟩 Section – A (Unseen)
📙 Passage: Sound Waves
Sound comes from vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves which move through mediums such as air and water before reaching our ears. Our ears vibrate in a similar way to the original source of the vibration, allowing us to hear many different sounds. Dogs can hear sound at a higher frequency than humans, allowing them to hear noises that we cannot hear. Sound is used by many animals to detect danger, warning them of possible attacks before they happen. Sound can't travel through a vacuum. The speed of sound is around 1125 feet per second. Sound moves around four times faster in water than when it travels through air.
🔹 A. Tick the right answer: (1×4 = 4)
1. Sound is used by many animals to –
(a) trace prey
✅ (b) sense danger
(c) track paths
(d) meet other animals
2. The speed of sound is –
(a) 1120
(b) 1152
✅ (c) 1125
(d) 1225 feet per second
3. Sound comes from –
(a) light
(b) iron
(c) wood
✅ (d) vibrations
4. Sound can't travel through –
(a) air
(b) water
(c) wood
✅ (d) vacuum
🔹 B. Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False: (1×4 = 4)
1. Humans have a higher capacity to hear than dogs.
👉 F
2. We can hear everything.
👉 F
3. Our ears vibrate in a different way to the original source of the vibration.
👉 F
4. Sound moves slower in air.
👉 T
🔹 C. Answer the following question: (2 marks)
How can we hear many different sounds?
👉 We can hear many different sounds because our ears vibrate in a similar way to the original source of the sound vibrations.
🟨 Section – B: Grammar and Vocabulary
🔹 4. Fill in the blanks with the correct alternative: (½×2 = 1)
1. One day I ___ the children of the bazaar (am found / had found / ✅ found)
2. ______a retarded boy .
(torture / ✅ torturing / tortured)
🔹 5. Do as directed: (1×5 = 5)
1. We have enjoyed the cricket match.(Voice Change)
👉 The cricket match has been enjoyed by us.
2. Samir said to me, "Do as I tell you."(Narration)
👉 Samir told/ordered me to do as he told me.
3. Most of the boys have turned up. I have noticed it. (Join with noun clause)
👉 I have noticed that most of the boys have turned up.
4. I am as good as you.(Comparative Degree)
👉 You are not better than I am.
5. She dances beautifully.
👉 She is a beautiful dancer. (Adjective form)
🔹 6. Vocabulary from the unseen passage: (2×2 = 4)
1. To notice or discover something –
👉 Detect
2. Void or emptiness –
👉 Vacuum
🟥 Section – C: Writing
Writing
সমস্ত রাইটিং এখানে পাবে।
➡️STORY
➡️PROVERB
➡️REPORT ,
➡️LETTER,
➡️NOTICE
🔹 7. Paragraph Writing (10 marks)
Topic: Benefits of Walking Daily
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🔹 8. Newspaper Report (10 marks)
Topic: Fire Breaks Out in Local Market
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