Class X – 2nd Summative Evaluation-2025 Muninagar Radhakanta Vidyapith (H.S.) 📚 2nd Summative Evaluation – 2025 ✏️ Subject: English 🕰 Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes 📋 Full Marks: 40

Class X – 2nd Summative Evaluation-2025 Muninagar Radhakanta Vidyapith (H.S.)

📚 2nd Summative Evaluation – 2025

✏️ Subject: English

🕰 Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

📋 Full Marks: 40

1.Reading Comprehension (Seen)

Read the passage and answer the following questions:

A month later a letter came for Father. After he finished reading it, his eyes looked as if he had been crying.

“Do you want to know what became of your kite?” he said.

Then he sat down beside us and told us the whole story. Father had a brother and a sister. He had quarrelled with his brother and left home.

Years afterward, he felt sorry and when he went back, he found his brother had died and he couldn't find his sister. The letter Father had just received was from his sister, Aunt Esther, mother of Dick and Mimi. She was a widow who lived hundreds of miles inland.

 

A. Fill in the chart: (1×4 = 4)

i) Person who sent the letter -Aunt Esther

ii) Number of sisters father had -One

iii) Reason for father's leaving home ---He had quarrelled with his brother

iv) Aunt Esther is the mother of-Dick and Mimi

 

B. Answer the following questions: (1×2 = 2)

i) When did the narrator's father tell the children the whole story?

Ans: He told them after receiving a letter from his sister.

ii) What did the narrator's father find when he returned home?

Ans: He found that his brother had died and he could not find his sister.

 

📝 2. Reading Comprehension (Poetry)

I met an old woman there all knobbly stick and rag.

Once I crept in an oakwood – I was looking for a stag.

She said: “I have your secret here inside my little bag.”

 

A. Answer the following: (1×2 = 2)

i) How did the old woman look?

Ans: She looked old, knobbly, and carried a stick and rag.

ii) Where did the poet creep in?

Ans: The poet crept into an oakwood.

 

B. True or False: (1×2 = 2)

i) The poet was looking for a male deer.

✅ True

ii) The woman held the poet's secret in her bag.

✅ True

 

📝 3. Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

A deepening depression over the Bay of Bengal brought pre-monsoon showers...

(Source – The Statesman, 25th May, 2025)

 

A. Complete the following sentences: (1×4 = 4)

i) The main cause of pre-monsoon showers is:

A deepening depression over the Bay of Bengal.

ii) The wind speed is expected up to:

50 km/h.

iii) The source of the passage is:

The Statesman, 25th May 2025.

iv) Risks of landslides may be seen in:

Darjeeling and Kalimpong.

 

B. Answer the following questions: (1×3 = 3)

i) For which districts has orange alert been issued?

Ans: Orange alert has been issued for Howrah, Hooghly, Jhargram, Purulia, Bankura, North and South Burdwan, and others (10 districts total).

ii) Why are the fishermen advised not to go into deep sea?

Ans: The fishermen are advised not to go into deep sea because sea conditions will remain rough near the Bay of Bengal coast.

iii) What measures have been taken by the authorities in coastal areas?

Ans: Authorities have launched awareness campaigns and activated relief shelters.

📝 4. Grammar & Vocabulary

 

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb: (1×3 = 3)

Tintin is the main character and the young hero of Herge’s most famous comic series.

Tintin first appeared in 1929 in the newspaper Le Petit Vingtieme.

He lives at Marlinspike Hall.

 

B. Do as directed: (1×3 = 3)

i) The girl said to Moumita, "Will you go to the field today?"

Ans: The girl asked Moumita if she would go to the field that day.

ii) He nursed the bird. It was wounded by an arrow.

Ans: He nursed the bird which was wounded by an arrow.

iii) How beautifully she danced!

Ans: She danced very beautifully.

 

C. Replace the underlined verbs with Phrasal Verbs: (1×2 = 2)

i) Rabindranath was born in a rich family.

Ans: Rabindranath came of a rich family.

ii) The man wore a new dress.

Ans: The man put on a new dress.

 

D. From the unseen passage, find words that mean: (1×2 = 2)

i) Predicted = Forecast

ii) Warning = Alert

 

📝 5. Writing Skill (Notice Writing – 10 marks)

 

Notice PKG WAY, Notice no. 23