MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Time: 3 hrs 15 min
Full Marks: 90
Section – A
Reading Comprehension (Seen)
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :
It is always lovely on the Big Half Moon in summer. When it is fine, the harbour is blue and calm, with little wind and ripples. Every summer, we had some hobby. The last summer before Dick and Mimi came, we were crazy about kites. A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make them. Back on the island we made plenty of kites.
Claude would go around to the other side of the island and we would play shipwrecked mariners signalling to each other with kites.
We had a kite that was big and covered with lovely red paper. We pasted gold tinsel stars all over and had written our names full on it – Claude Leete and Philippa Leete, Big Half Moon Lighthouse.
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:
a) The part of the narrator’s body that went through the kite was his –
(i) Elbow ✔, (ii) Ankle, (iii) Knee, (iv) Fingers
b) The narrator and her brother patched the kite up with a –
(i) Ribbon, (ii) Wire, (iii) Letter ✔, (iv) Paper
c) The above text is –
(i) A report, (ii) A story ✔, (iii) An essay, (iv) None of these
d) "Leete" is a –
(i) Food, (ii) Drink, (iii) Title ✔, (iv) Juice
e) They had some hobby in every –
(i) Spring, (ii) Autumn, (iii) Summer ✔, (iv) Winter
B. Complete the sentences:
1. The name of the lighthouse was Big Half Moon Lighthouse.
2. A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make kites.
3. The children pasted gold tinsel stars all over the kite.
C. Answer the questions:
1. Describe the harbour in summer.
Ans : In summer the harbour looked blue and calm with little wind and ripples.
2. What made Claude look foolish?
Ans: Claude looked foolish when the string of the kite snapped and it sailed away, leaving only a bit of cord in his hand.
2. Read the poem and answer the questions that follow:
The Mountain and the Squirrel
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter
“Little Prig.”
Bun replied, “You are doubtless very big,
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry:
I’ll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back
Neither can you crack a nut.”
A. Tick the correct alternative:
a) The thing that differs is – (i) Courage, (ii) Strength, (iii) Talent ✔, (iv) Ugliness
b) The mountain made fun of the squirrel’s – (i) Moral attitude ✔️ (ii) Energy, (iii) Ability to crack a nut, (iv) Inability to carry a forest on its back
c) The squirrel tried to convey that the mountain and the squirrel are – (i) Different , (ii) Similar, (iii) Identical, (iv) Equal✔️
d) One who is full of vanity in the poem is – (i) Forest, (ii) Mountain ✔, (iii) Squirrel, (iv) Poet
B. State True or False (with supporting lines):
1. Everything or creature has its own functions, abilities and inabilities. – True
Supporting line: “Talents differ; all is well and wisely put.”
2. The characters in the text had peace between themselves. – False
Supporting line: “The mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel.”
Reading Comprehension (Unseen)
3. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
(Passage on Paris Paralympics 2024, India’s 29 medals, Navdeep Singh, Simran, etc.)
A. Tick the correct alternative:
1. The Paralympic Games 2024 was held in – Paris (b)
2. India won silver medals – 9 (b)
3. The final medal won by India was – Gold (a)
4. Sun Pengxiang of China threw – 44.72 m (d)
5. Simran won bronze in – 200m (b)
6. India won gold medals in track-and-field events – 4 (d)
True/False with Supporting Sentence: (1+1)×3=6
(i) Pakistan was the only country at the 79 position.
False (F)
Supporting sentence: “The country is placed 15 in the overall standings, led by China with a whopping 208 medals.”
(ii) Puja Ojha failed to qualify in women’s 200m track-and-field event.
False (F)
Supporting sentence: “24.75 sec to finish with a bronze in the women’s 200m event.”
(iii) Simran is the current world champion in women’s 200m track-and-field events.
True (T)
Supporting sentence: “The 24-year-old from Delhi… is the reigning world champion in this event.”
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