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GUARDIAN SCHOOL Std.: X Date: 24/11/2020 FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2020-21 Sub: English (Paper I) Time: 2 Hrs. Marks: 80 Answer to the paper must be written on the answer sheet provided separately. Students are instructed to use the reading time of 15 minutes for reading the question paper only. The time to answer the paper is 2 hours. Do read the questions carefully and choose the correct option as and when needed. Write the proper answer number as per the questions. Question 1. Write a composition (300-350 words) on any one of the following: [20] a) You met a young child recently in the park and while talking with him or her you came to know that even he or she is passionate about the same genre of music your choice. Narrate your experience vividly and explain what impressed you most about him. b) Wild fires have become a serious threat for natural habitat nowadays . Describe various factors that enhance it as well as suggest a few remedial measures to overcome it. c) Democracy has lost its culture and spirit in our democracy . Give your opinion for or against this statement with suitable illustrations. d) Write a story which illustrates the truth of the statement, Trouble is the most common denominator of life . e) Study the picture given below. Write a short story or description of what it suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it. Question2. (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question) Select one of the following. [10] (a) You are fond of organising charity event in your society and you want to take this to the next level. Write a letter to the President of your society expressing you interest to form a charity club in your society, sharing your vision behind it. (b) You are to be awarded a Special Prize at the Annual Prize Day ceremony of your school. Write a letter to a cousin giving her the news. Be sure to include details of the prize that you are to receive and tell her why you have been chosen for this honour. Question 3. [5+5] a) You are the Secretary of the Social Service Club of your school. Your club has initiated a new year donation campaign in your city. Draft a notice inviting students to be part of the committee for the campaign. b) Write an email to the Principal of a neighbouring school seeking permission to display a notice regarding the New Year Donation Campaign initiated by your School s Social Service Club and invite the students to be a part of this programme too. Question 4. Read the following passage and answer the questions a, b, c, and d given below: La Nina is an atmospheric phenomenon when the equatorial waters of eastern Pacific Ocean turn unusually cold. It is the opposite of El Nino when the eastern waters are warmer than usual. Both events create the greatest global impact in winter time. La Nina The Little Girl has enormous adverse effect globally since showing itself in mid-2010. La Nina and it s equally unruly relative, El Nino, occur when the waters of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean along the equator become uncommonly cold or warm. These changes in the Pacific bring forth changes in atmospheric pressure, winds, temperature, and rainfall that have a worldwide influence. These conjugated with changes in the ocean and atmospheres are jointly called the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). For India, an El Nino is of grave concern as it negatively affects the southwest monsoon. La Nina, on the contrary, is frequently advantageous for the monsoon, particularly in the second half. The La Nina that happened in the Pacific in 2010 possibly assisted last year s south-west monsoon in its last half advantageously. Yet, it also brought in the flood in Australia, which turned out to be one of worst natural disasters with large regions of the north-east under water and also caused similar mayhem in south-eastern Brazil and actively caused the heavy rains and accompanying deluging in Sri Lanka. The impact of ESNO is obviously aggravated by global warming The Indian Ocean is warming quickly. We can already observe the glimpses of the sinister influence of a La Nina of the rising warming along with the increase in temperature of the western Pacific. In all probability the increased ocean temperature might have influenced the weather associated issues in the past few months. In spite of the beneficial aspects of the La Nina that evolved in mid-2010 to the south-west monsoon, the high temperature of the tropical Indian Ocean may have impeded a more even-handed distribution of rainfall in some of the northern Indian states. The warming up of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific almost certainly supplied the additional moisture and energy for the inordinately heavy rains that Australia and Sri Lanka went through. That might be the cause for the excess of rain India the north-east monsoon which, as is commonly witnessed, checked by a La Nina. From this it possible conclude that the climatical changes brought ushered by agents like ESNO will be aggravated by the global warming rendering severe weather phenomena such as droughts and floods more regular. (a) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage: 1. Assisted: 2. Influenced: 3. Aggravated: [3] (b) Answer briefly in your own words the following questions: 1. What is a La Nina? [1] 2. Who is its relative? How do they occur? [2] 3. What was the impact of La Nina that happened in the Pacific in 2010? [2] 4. What is La Nina of great concern to India? [2] 5. How has El Nino influenced the monsoon in different parts of India? [2] (c) Write in not more than 50 words the effect of La Nina on the weather conditions. [8] Question 5 (a) Complete the paragraph given below with the correct form of the word given in brackets. There is no need to write the whole passage; but the words in the correct order. [4] He is very violent, especially with boys who _____________ (0) come late. Some days ago, a boy _____________ (1) make to stay on his knees for a whole period in a corner of the class because he came late, and that after ______________ (2) get six cuts from the cane and having his ears ____________. (3) twist I wouldn t like to go late to Mr. Samuel s class. If he is so violent, why not ____________ (4) tell your headmaster about it? They say that even the headmaster is afraid of him. He is such a violent man. And then Swami gave a lurid account of Samuel s violence; how when he started caning, he _____________ (5) will not stop till he saw blood on the boy s hand, which he made the boy ____________ (6) press to his forehead like a vermillion marking. Swami _______________ (7) hope that his father would be made to see that he couldn t go to his class late. But Father s behaviour took an unexpected turn. He became excited. What do these people mean by ______________ (8) beat our children? They must be driven out of service. I will see (b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. (Do not rewrite the sentence.) i. He poured the tea ___________ the cup and with a smile walked away. ii. As the van stopped ____________ my home, I ran to get some ice cream. iii. Kesha got __________ the stage to greet one her fans while performing her song Praying . iv. The vendor walked _____________ the street to sell fruits. v. ___________ the time Jill arrived; Mathew had already left the party. vi. We all sat __________ each other during the movie. vii. Peter was hiding ______________ the cupboard among the clothes. viii. We waited _______________ the boys came home to open up the presents. (c) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so: (i) Mathew has learnt to cook. He has yet to learn to grill. (ii) The child helped her mother to make breakfast. She washed the tomatoes. [4] [4] (iii) They bought a new car. They can travel long distances. (iv) Sunita opened her purse. She found the money missing. (d) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence. [8] (i) As soon as the bus hit the road, the children started to sing. (Begin: No sooner ) (ii) Sita said, What a beautiful deer! (Begin: Sita exclaimed ...) (iii) Harish was so tired that he could not keep his eyes open. (Begin: Harish was too .) (iv) As soon as the assembly got over. The students dispersed. (Begin: Hardly had ) (v) The Himalaya is the best place in our country. (Rewrite using good ) (vi) The nutritionist gave me some amazing tips. (Begin: I was .) (vii) My friend said to me, I can help you with your Christmas decorations. (Begin: My friend told me .) (viii)Amit goes to a park which has over a thousand trees. (Begin: There )
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