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ICSE Class X Board Exam 2026 : English Paper 1 (English Language)

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Quarterly Examination 2017-2018 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE Time: 2 hrs. 15 min. Std.: X F.M.: 80 Q1. Write a composition a. (400) words in about four hundred You and your friends played a practical joke on on any one (25) of the following: the students of another class at school. However, the joke misfired and allof you were punished. Give a vivid account of the incident. b. A person who is presumed to have died in an accident returns home after three years. Relate clearly what happens on his arrival home. man's world. Give arguments either for c. It is, and will always be, d. Imagine that you e. Study the picture given below. Write are a a lottery ticket seller and describe you. Ensure that there is Q2. Select a. a a significant story a role in a school play. Write expressing your happiness about this and a letter to the Editor of a following 'You speak passage giving him a a letter to your father brief account of your role in newspaper showing your concern for the lack of children in the school buses and vans. carefully and safety of Suggest suitable counter measures. answer Spanish?' said Thacker thoughtfully. 'And you're from Texas. And you can't be 'Have you picture suggests to your composition and the picture. of what the (10) You have been selected for Read the or an account day. of the following: one Write against the statement. your life for just a connection between the play. b. or (25) the questions that follow:: 'You look like a more than twenty or Spaniard, too,' he continued. twenty-one.' got a deal of some kind to put through?' Llano Kid asked Thacker. 'Are you open to a proposition?' said Thacker. 'What's the use of denying it?' said the Kid. Thacker got up and closed the door. window he pointed to a two-storey white house with wide galleries. 1 Through the 'In that house,' said Thacker, live old Santos Urique and his wife. Twelve years ago they lost their child. No, he didn't die. Some Americans filled his head with big stories about the States; month after they left, the boy disappeared, too. He was eight then. The boy was seen once afterwards in Texas, it was thought, but they never heard anything more of him. Old Urique has spent thousands of dollars having him looked for. The mother was broken up worst of all. She still believes he'll come back to her some day. On the back of the boy's left hand was tattooed aflying eagle carrying a spear in his claws. That's old Urique's coat of arms. and about a 'Here's the scheme. In Urique. is a week I'll have the eagle bird tattooed In the meantime I'll furnish to hand. Then I'll notify old you with all of the family history I can find simple. If they take you in only for a while it's $50,000 on your $100,000 in his house all the out. The rest of it Urique keeps anywhere from long enough. Old time in a little safe that you could open with a screwdriver. You get it and we'll be gone.' dispatched a note to the intended victim informing him about his long lost son. The man and the lady arrived at the consulate. Senora Urique bent upon the young man and gave a long look of the most agonised questioning. Then her great black eyes turned, After two weeks Thacker and her gaze rested upon his left hand. And then with sob she caught Llano Kid to her heart. a A month afterwards Kid came to the consulate in response to a message sent by Thacker. doing?' asked Thacker. 'You're not being fair to me. You've been acting as the for four weeks now. What's the trouble? What are you waiting for?' asked couple lost Thacker, angrily. 'Don't you forget that I can upset your apple cart any day I want to?' 'What are you son of the might just well tell you now, that things right now,' said Kid. 'The scheme's off.' 'I as are going to stay just 'What do you mean?' asked Thacker. 'You're going to throw 'Sure,' said me as they are. They're about down, then, are you?' now I'll tell you why. I have had no lady, this artificial mother of mine, who dotes on me. I've got to keep her fooled. Once the lady stood it; twice she won't.' 'There's one more reason,' he said Kid cheerfully. 'Throw you down. That's it. And mother to speak of. But here's a slowly, 'why things have got to picture on his left hand.' a. Give the meanings of the following words as used ii. notify i. tattooed b. stand as they are. The fellow I killed in Laredo had the in the passage. In what way could Kid look like (12) What did iii. What iv. What did Thacker v. vi. Urique's Urique do after his son Lady Urique then? ii. was How did Why didn't was lost? What was the reaction of do after Kid had gone to to Urique's house? Urique's house? and his wife react after meeting Kid at the Kid abide by the plan proposed by Thacker? 2 (2) last son? Thacker's intention in sending Kid Urique (3) iii. agonised Answer the following questions: i. same Consulate? (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) C. d. a) words, briefly state the plan made by Thacker and In not more than 60 at the Give end. a suitable title to your summary in 3 In the following (c) and justify the (8) how it failed (2) same. passage, fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not copy the passage, but write in correct serial order, appropriate to the blank space. the word or phrase Fleming was a day Scottish farmer. One at work in a field, he heard a cry for [4] help. deep bog, in which a boy was stuck up. Fleming 2 (pull) the boy to safety. The next day a carriage 3 (arrive) at Fleming's farmhouse. A well-dressed man 4 (step) out and introduced himself as the father of the boy whom Fleming5 (save). "You saved my son's life," said the man to Fleming, "How can I repay you?" _1_ (follow) the sound, Fleming "I don't want any came to a payment," Fleming replied. At that moment, Fleming's own young appeared at the farmhouse door. "Is he your son son?" the man asked. "Yes," said Fleming proudly. "I have an idea. Let me pay for your son's education. If he's like his father, he 6 (grow) to be a man we'll both be proud of." And so the visitor did. The farmer's son later became the world-renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist and discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming. It 7 boy, was (say) that many years later, the grown 8 (strike) with pneumonia. Churchill, the former Prime Minister of (b) Fill in the blanks with an was as a Sir Winston England. (4) appropriate word: for Raju when he was wrongly accused of stealing money. i) The teacher spoke ii) We can visit her in the hostel iii) The Sinhas iv) Little children v) Sneha has applied vi) It took Ahmed many months to vii) She turned 3 pm and 5 pm on have lived in New are up man who'd been saved from the bog Penicillin saved his life. He 1943. Delhi often afraid the dark. a _ Saturdays. scholarship. the loss of his friend. get the generous offer made by the manager. viii. We were asked to take out footwear as we were entering a place of worship. (c) (4) Combine the following sentences without using and, but or So: ideas. Then start i) Try to find ii) He is meek and gentle. He is iii) I rewarded her with iv) I met her after new a a a task. sly and cunning. watch. She had saved my long time. I congratulated 3 her child on from drowning. her success in the art world. (d) Rewrite the fallowing sentences according to the given instructions: i) I do not intend to take up the job. (Begin: I have.........). ii) But for my help, she would not have succeeded. (Begin: Had I.........) iii) Kalidas was one of the greatest dramatists of the Gupta period. (Begin: Very few......) iv) Keep the papers in your file or you may misplace them. (Use: lost) v) As soon as Sonia sat down to study, the lights went off. (Begin: No sooner.......) vi) As soon as the function got over, the crowd dispersed. (Begin Hardly...........) vii) Harish was so tired that he could not keep his eyes open. (Use: too ............. to) viii) I prefer reading a book to watching a movie. (Begin: Iwould rather.........) 4 (8)

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