10th Model Papers

Tenth Class English Model Paper (Paper II)
Third Language – English Medium
Time: 2.30 Hours – Maximum Marks: 50

Section – I
(1-5) Read the passage given below. Then answer the questions that follow it. Write the answers in your answer book. 5 × 1 = 5
“As you know I married in haste and later regretted it. I had heard that if certain expenses were paid, I could get my freedom. This meant a lot to me, so I thought of asking for Sir Charles’ help. I wrote to him making an appointment. But finally I did not go as I received help in the interval from another source,” she said.
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
The Hound of the Baskervilles)
1. Who is the speaker? Whom did he/ she marry in haste?
2. How did he/ she suffer because of his/ her hasty decision?
3. What did the person mean by ‘freedom’? What were the
expenses to be paid?
4. What kind of help did the person expect from Sir
Charles? How did Sir Charles suffer when the appointment
was not kept?
5. Who is the listener?

(6-10) Read the passage given below. Then answer the
questions that follow it. Write the answers in your
answer book. 5 × 1 = 5
At lunch he spoke rudely to his father, spilled Jannie’s milk
and remarked that his teacher said that we were not to take
the name of the Lord in vain.
‘How was school today?’ I asked elaborately casual.
‘All right,’ he said.
‘Did you learn anything?’ his father asked.
Laurie regarded his father coldly. ‘ I didn’t learn nothing,’ he
said.
(Charles: Shirley Jackson)
6. Who is the ‘I’ in the passage? Who is the ‘he’?
7. What is it that his teacher said they shouldn’t unnecessarily
mention?
8. What did the narrator say when Laurie said –‘I didn’t
learn nothing’?
9. Who is Laurie? What could be his age?
10. What is the meaning of the word ‘coldly’?

SECTION – II
(11-19) Answer FIVE questions, choosing at least TWO from each set. 5 × 2 = 10
SET A
11. ‘Did you see Barrymore in the loft?’ Who asks this question?
Whom does he address? Why does he ask the question?
12. Who was Selden? Why was he on the moor?
13. Why did Holmes feel that Sir Henry had made a wise decision in deciding to go to his ancestral home?
14. Why did Laura Lyons help Stapleton in his evil plan?
15.Why did Holmes stay in the stone hut on the hill?

SET B
16. What are the two examples Durrell gives to prove that
man is capable of exterminating even the largest conglomerations
of animals?
17. Why did M.N.Srinivas feel claustrophobic? What did he
do to free himself from the feeling?
18. Why did Maxwell feel that Pitcher was losing his mind?
19. Why does Martin Luther King call himself a ‘trustee’?

SECTION – III
(20-21) Rearrange the scrambled sentences in each set
(A&B) to form a meaningful paragraph. Do not copy
the actual sentences in your answer-book. Write
only the letters corresponding to the sentences in
the proper order. 2 × 2 1/2 = 5

SET A
20. (a) Earth and Venus have very similar size and mass, and
they orbit the Sun close to the Sun in very similar orbits.
(b) Well, perhaps you could consider it the Earth’s evil twin.
(c) The size of Venus is only 650 km less than the size of Earth,
and the mass of Venus is 81.5% the mass of the Earth.
(d) Venus really is the Earth’s twin.
(e) But that’s where the similarities end.

SET B
21. (a) “Hey,” he yelled, “I thought your dog doesn’t bite!”
(b) Just then, the dog bit the mailman.
(c)”He doesn’t,” replied the boy, “but that’s not my dog.”
(d) “No,” replied the boy.
(e) The mailman said to the boy, “Does your dog bite?”

22. Read the following advertisement which appeared in a
newspaper. 5
Write a mail/ letter to the above address applying for the job, asking details that you may consider necessary.
23. Read the following dialogue. Then write a paragraph expressing your views on the topic discussed in the dialogue. 5
A: Why didn’t you come to school today? Didn’t you know we were supposed to write an exam today?
B: I know! A stupid English exam! I don’t want to waste my time on such things. I was preparing for the more important exams-Mathematics and Sciences.
A: How can you treat English so lightly? English carries weight in most competitive exams IELTS, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, ICET, CAT and others-whether you pursue higher studies in India or abroad. Even employment opportunities become bleak if you lack fluency in English…
(24-25) Read the newspaper report given below:
Two boys debarred for copying in exam Hyderabad: March 19: Two boys Ashish and Anuj were disqualified for writing the ongoing SSC exams and expelled from the examination hall when they were caught copying. The boys had brought pages torn from a guide and were caught while passing them to other students. The DEO cautioned the students and warned them that students found indulging in such practices would be severely dealt with.

24. Imagine you were one of the students in the examination hall in which the incident occurred. Write a letter to your friend in Chennai, expressing your views regarding what you think makes students indulge in copying, what they lose by doing so and how they can be dissuaded from doing so. 10

25. Imagine you were the invigilator in the room in which the incident occurred and write a letter to the DEO suggesting measures to prevent such incidents from happening in future. 5

Here is the model question paper for English Subject (Paper – II) of Tenth Class / SSC. The paper is for Telugu Medium students. The question paper consists of two parts. These are Part A and Part B. Duration is 2-30 hours and maximum marks are 50. See the model paper below:

PARTS A and B – TIME: 2. 30 HOURS MAX. MARKS: 50
Instructions:
1. Answer all the questions under Part-A on a separate answer book.
2. Write the answers to the questions under Part-B on the question paper itself.
3. Start answering the questions as you read them.

PART – A (TIME: 1. 30 HOURS MARKS: 30)
Note: Use a separate answer book to answer the questions in
this part.
[1-10] Answer any five of the following questions. Each
answer must be in a sentence or two. 5 × 1 = 5
1. Why did the people of Venice love and respect Antonio?
2. Why was Shylock against Jessica marrying Lorenzo?
3. Why did Shylock hate Antonio?
4. What did the golden casket contain?
5. Why was Antonio arrested and thrown into a prison
6. What did Portia tell Nerissa about their future plans?
7. Why was Shylock very angry with Antonio?
8. Why was Shylock eager to hear the judgement of Daniel?
9. What did Antonio write in his letter to Bassanio?
10. What kind of a bond did Shylock want from Antonio?

11. Read the following passage carefully:
“Usually I don’t lend or borrow money on interest. Still I have
agreed to borrow money on interest from you for the sake of
my friend”.
Now answer the following questions. 5 × 1 = 5
1. Who is ‘I’ in the passage
2. Who was the ‘friend’ mentioned?
3. Why did the friend need money?
4. Whom were the words addressed to?
5. Why did the speaker agree to borrow money on interest?

12. Write a story using the hints given below in about 200
words. Divide it into three or four paragraphs.

Hints: Forest – two travellers – meet bear – one climbs a tree
– other lies down – as if dead – bear smells – goes away – first
traveller asks what the bear said – beware of friends – who run
away in danger. 1 × 10 = 10
(or)

Hints: A wood cutter cutting tree on a river bank – axe slips
and falls into river – sad – god comes out of water – with a
golden axe – wood cutter refuses – god comes up with a silver
one – again refuses – god brings wood cutter own axe –
happy and accepts it. god pleased – gave all the three axes.

13. You have read in the newspaper about a certificate course in
English being offered by English and foreign languages, university,
Hyderabad.
Write a letter to the programme officer to send you the
prospectus of the course. 1 × 10 = 10
(or)
Write a letter to your father describing about the school
annual day held last week.

PART – B (TIME: 1 HOUR MARKS: 20)

Note: Write the answers to the questions in this part on the
question paper itself.
14. Read the following passage carefully.
A famous actor in a highly successful play once played the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned for twenty years. In the best act of the play, a jailor came on to the stage with a letter which he would give the prisoner. Eventhough the prisoner was expected to read the letter at each performance, he always insisted that it should be written out in full.
Now answer the following questions in a word or a phrase each. 5 × 1 = 5
a) What role did the famous actor play?
Ans: ____________________________
b) Who was imprisoned?
Ans: ____________________________
c) Who would bring the letter on to the stage?
Ans: ____________________________
d) What was expected from the prisoner?
Ans: ____________________________
e) What did the prisoner – actor insist on?
Ans: ____________________________

15. Read the following passage carefully.
Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy. His father was Italian and his mother Irish. He was educated first at Bologna and later in Florence. Then he studied physics at the technical school in Leghorn. It was here he had every opportunity to investigate electromagnetical work of James Clerk Maxwell and the experiments of Henrich Hertz, who first produced and transmitted radio waves. He also observed the experiments of Sir Oliver Lodge, who conducted
research on lightning and electricity. In 1894 he began experiments at his father’s estate near Bologna. He invented a successful system of radio telegraphy in 1896.

For his ingenious invention in communication system he received many honours. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for the development of wireless telegraphy. In 1929 he was nominated to the Italian senate and later chosen President of the Royal Italian Academy.
A) Now answer the questions: 4 × 1 = 4
1. Marconi’s father was
a) Irish b) Italian
c) American d) Negro ( )
2. He was first educated at
a) Florence b) Japan
c) Bologna d) Ireland ( )
3. When did marconi begin experiments
a) 1894 b) 1898
c) 1850 d) 1893 ( )
4. In which subject he received the Nobel Prize
a) Chemistry b) Physics
c) Astronomy d) Geology ( )
B) Six statements are given below Three of them are true.
Find the true statements and write (T) in brackets: 3 × 1 = 3
1. Marconi invented radio telegraphy ( )
2. James Clerk Maxwell produced radio waves ( )
3. His mother was also Italian ( )
4. Marconi was born in Italy ( )
5. He was awarded Nobel Prize for Physics ( )
6. He was later educated in Bologna ( )

16. Read the following passage carefully.
There are innumerable fish, creatures, plants and insects
living in the oceans. One of them is a shark. It is said that
sharks have lived on the earth for more than 180 million
years. Although they live in all the oceans of the world they
are found mostly in subtropical and tropical waters.
There are about 350 kinds of sharks. The largest sharks are
the whale shark and the basking shark, which feed on plankton
and smell fish. The adult shark grows about 13 meters
long, while the basking shark extends a little over 8 meters.
Most of the sharks are not ferocious. On the other hand,
there are a number of sharks which have killed swimmers.
These killer sharks include mako, the great hammer head
lemon, blue and of course the great white shark. The great
white shark is the largest and the most dangerous of all animals
known to attack humans. It weighs more than 1,300
kilogram. It can swim through rough water also at a speed of
32 kilometres per hour. However, the fastest swimmer in the
shark family is the blue shark, which can swim at a speed of
nearly 72 kilometres per hour.
Now answer the following questions. 2 × 1 = 2
a) What are the two waters where sharks are found?
(i) Ans: ____________________________
(ii) Ans: ____________________________
b) Chose the right words from the list. 4 × 1/2 = 2
List A: innumerable, ferocious, include, bask, feed.
List B: i) live on —-
ii) very dangerous and angry —
iii) countless —-
iv) sunbath —-
c) Complete the following sentences. 2 × 1/2 = 1
i) The largest shark is the —-
ii) A number of sharks have killed —-
d) The earth has two kinds of motions. What are they?
2 × 1 = 2
i) For how long have sharks lived on earth?
Ans: —-
ii) Which is the fastest swimmer of the shark family?
Ans: —-
e) Answer the following questions. 2 × 1/2 = 1
i) On what does the basking shark feed?
ii) Are all the sharks ferocious?