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SECTION A
READING
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow :-
Telescope is the main tool of the modern astronomer to study stars
and other celestial objects. Telescopes are arrangement of lenses and
mirrors which make objects look closer than they really are. However,
even with the biggest telescope a star looks like only a point of light
though this light carries very useful information about the star. The light
waves can reveal the make-up of the star and how hot the star is. A
telescope also receives the whole range of radiations like radio waves and
x-rays given out by a star. Astronomers do not see through telescope.
Instead they use them as big cameras to take photographs of the night sky.
Telescopes use curved mirrors to collect the light. The largest telescopes
have mirrors six metres across. Astronomers use two main kinds of
telescopes. They differ in the way they collect and focus the light from the
stars. Reflector is a kind of telescope that uses mirrors and the refractor is
a kind of telescope that uses lenses.

Questions
(a) How do the astronomers use telescope?
(i) they see through it.
(ii) they use it to take photograph of the night sky.
(iii) they use it at the time of travelling.

(b) Refractor telescope uses
(i) mirrors
(ii) mirrors and lenses both
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(iii) only lenses

(c) The word in the passage similar in meaning to ' a round shape'
is
(i) across
(ii) curved
(iii) lenses
(d) What is a telescope?
(e) What information about a star can be revealed by the light
waves coming from it?
(f) What are the two different kinds of telescope? How do they
differ?

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow :-
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and his younger brother Wilheim Carl
Grimm were the oldest of six children of a lawyer in Germany. Their
childhood days were idylic. In 1791, the family moved to Steiman,
another little town of Germany where the father was employed as District
Magistrate. Here they lived in a great style, in a large turreted stone house
that was also the local court-house. In 1796, came the tragedy that was to
change their lives - the death of their father. The family had to vacate the
government quarter and move into a smaller house. The boys had a
difficult time at school. They were alone and their schoolmates looked
down upon them because of their poverty. To forget their woes, they
devoted all their time to study, both became brilliant students. However,
the excessive physical effort caused Wilheim to fall ill with asthma. while
at university Jacob Chanced to meet a Law Professor, Friedrich Carl Von
Savingny. Impressed by the youth's interest in research, the professor gave
him access to his private library. He had a vast collection of rare
manuscripts of folklore and medieval literature. Jacob spent hours reading
these. He was filled with zeal to preserve these stories for posterity and to
protect Germany's endangered oral tradition of folklores, a zeal shared by
his brother. Thus Jacob and Wilheim began collecting ancient German
folktales from various storytellers. In 1812, they finally published their
first book "Children's and Household Tales'.

Questions
(a) The tragedy that changed the lives of the two brothers
was ...................... .
(i) the transfer of their father.
(ii) the death of their father.
(iii) the sickness of their father.

(b) What did the two brothers do to forget their woes.
(i) They started working in a school.
(ii) They started working in a library.
(iii) They devoted all their time to study.
(c) Supply one word for, 'the chest disease that makes breathing
difficult' ;

(i) asthma
(ii) heart attack
(iii) tuberculosis
(d) A copy of a book before it has been printed is called
its .......................
(i) rough copy
(ii) manuscript
(iii) library copy
(e) What hardships were faced by the two brothers, after their
father's death.
(f) How did Professor Friedrich help Jacob.
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Q.3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow :-
Olympic games were the most famous of the four great national
festivals of the ancient Greeks, the other three being the Isthmian Games,
the Pythian Games, and the Nemean Games. The ancient Olympic Games
were celebrated in the summer every four years in the sanctuary of the god
Zeus at Olympia. The history of the games dates from 776 B C.
Early in the year of the Games, envoys were sent throughout the
Greek world to invite the city-states to join in paying tribute to Zeus. The
city-states then dispatched groups to vie with one another in the splendour
of their equipment and the proficiency of their athletic feats. The
competitions were open only to honourable men of Greek descent.
The order of the events is not precisely known, but the first day of
the festival was devoted to sacrifices. The second day began, in all
probability, with footraces, for which the spectators gathered in the
stadium, an oblong area enclosed by sloping banks of earth. On other days,
Wresthing , boxing and the pancratium, a combination of the two, were
held. In the first of these sports, the object was to throw the antagonist to
the ground three times. Boxing became more and more brutal; at first the
fighters wound straps of soft leather over their fingers as a means if
deadening the blows, but in later times hard leather, sometimes weighted
with metal, was used. In the pancratium, the most rigorous of the sports,
the contest continued until one of the participants acknowledged defeat.
Horse racing, in which each entrant owned his horse, was confined
to the wealthy but was nevertheless a popular attraction. After the horse
racing came the pentathlon, a series of five events ; wrestling, discus
throwing, javelin hurling, long jumping and sprinting. The exact sequence
of the sports and the method used to determine the winner are not known.
The discuss was a plate of bronze, probably lens shaped. The javelin was
hurled with the aid of a strap wound about the shaft, producing a rotary
motion for greater distance and accuracy. The jumping event was judged
for distance, not for height.

Questions
(a) Pentathlon is a series of five events which are;
(i) Wrestling, boxing, badminton, hockey, race.
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(ii) Wrestling, discus throwing, javeline hurling, long jumping
and sprinting.
(iii) Javeline hurling, high jumping, discus throwing, sprinting
and long jumping.
(iv) Boxing discus throwing, javeline hurling, sprinting and long
jumping.

(b) The discus was
(i) a discussion about the game
(ii) a dispute of players
(iii) a plate of bronze
(iv) a plastic ball

(c) The word similar in meaning to ' messengers ' is
(i) to invite
(ii) envoys
(iii) footraces
(iv) entrants
(d) The one word used for, ' violent and cruel ', in the passage
is .......................
(i) rigorous
(ii) fighting
(iii) brutal
(iv) defeat

(e) Name the four famous festivals of the ancient Greek.
(f) When and where were the ancient Olympic games played?
(g) What were the two main motives behind the Olympic games?
(h) How did boxing become more and more brutal?
(i) When was a wrestler declared to be the winner?

SECTION B
WRITING
Q.4 Write a short paragraph on the following topic
" How you celebrated the New Year ".

OR
Your Younger brother has fallen ill and was directed to take
complete bed-rest for a fortnight. He doesn't want to do so. Write a
paragraph telling him that " Health is Wealth "
Q.5 You are Alok/Anjana, the captain of St.Xavier's Convent School,
Indore. Your school has decided to take the students of class IX and
XI for an excursion to Rajasthan. Write a notice informing the
students, asking them to submit their name, money and permission
letter.
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OR
Your younger sister stays in a hostel and finds it difficult to manage
with the money your father sends her. Write a short postcard to her
suggesting proper money management.
Q.6 Imagine yourself to be ' Sue ' of the Last Leaf. Make a diary entry
of the sacrifice made by Mr. Behrman to save Johnsy's life.

OR
Your are A.N. Singh Living at 55 Model Town Indore, You feel
highly disturbed to see the deteriorating standered of the television
programmes. Write a letter to the editor of a local daily pointing out
the bad influence of the television programmes on young minds.
Q.7 " Education For All " programme has made the parents conscious
about their duties to send their children to school. Various attractive
scheme are introduced to make them send their child to schools.
Write a paragraph about "The importance of education in our life".

OR
Read the following table about the total loss of forests upto the year
2010. Write a paragraph on the Importance of forests - Stop
deforestation.
Estimated Total Loss of Forests upto 2010
Country Loss %
Indonesia 10
Brazil 33
Colombia 33
Thailand 67
India 47

SECTION - C
GRAMMAR
Q.8 (A) Read the following Paragraph and fill in the blanks with the
correct form of the verbs given in brackets.
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An armed man (a) ..................(break) into a house yesterday in
broad daylight and (b) ......................(take away) gold and cash. The
incident (c) .....................(happen) When no one (d)...............(be)
there in the house.

(B) Fill in the blanks with Non-finites. 02
I know how (a) ............... (swim). I had learnt (b) ................ (swim)
When I was a child. I like (c) ................. Climb mountains also. But
it is very difficult and dangerous (d) ..................... (climb) the steep
rocks.

(C) Fill in the blanks with the correct Prepositions. 02
Reeta has returned (a) ................ UK and has decide (b) ................
help her father (c) .............. his business. His father is Proud
(d) ................ his daughter.

(D) Fill in the blanks with Suitable Modals : 02
If we sit in an incorrect Posture, it (a) ................(will/should) strain
our back. As far as possible this (b) ...............(must/can) be
avoided. If the posture becomes a part of habit, a low back pain
invariably develops. It (c) ....................(can/must) be cured if we
become conscious of our posture. We (d) .................... (should/will)
also take time out to perform a new exercise.

(E) Fill in the blanks choosing the correct word given in brackets. 02
(a) Are there ............... more books? I have read all these old
ones. (some, any)
(b) .................... is well that ends well (each/all)
(c) She knew all about my friend and ................ (I/me)
(d) Rice and Curry ..................... a good food (is, are)

Q.9 Do as Directed :- (any five) 05
(a) Please bring me a glass of water.
(Change the voice)
(b) He kept us waiting.
(Change the voice)
(c) Her winning the prize has pleased me very much.
(Rewrite replacing the noun Phrase by a noun clause)
(d) This chair with carved legs belongs to me.
(Rewrite replacing the adjective Phrase by adjective
clause)
(e) The Captain Said," Hurrah! We have won the match".
(Change the narration)
(f) The boy said to her," Why do you work so hard".
(Change the narration)
(g) We prefer to travel by air.
(Rewrite the Sentence using gerund)

SECTION D
TEST BOOK
Q.10 Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow.
(i) " To seek the did I often rove
through woods and on the green ;
And thou wert still a hope, a love ;
still longed for never seen ".
Questions
(a) The poem from which these lines have been taken is
(i) Good will
(ii) If
(iii) The Bridge Builder
(iv) To the cuckoo
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(b) In these lines ' thee ' refers to :
(i) Cuckoo
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(ii) Flowers
(iii) Spirit
(iv) Country
(c) What did the poet do to find ' thee ' ? Was he successful ?

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(ii) And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket
sings ; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow.
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
(a) The poet of these lines is
(i) John Keats
(ii) William Wordsworth
(iii) W.B. Yeats

(iv) Rabindra Nath Tagore
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(b) What does ' there ' stand for
(i) Hammersmith
(ii) Lake Isle of Innisfree
(iii) Dublin
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(c) How does peace come to the poet there ?
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Q.11 How did the Masters establish that the Thirty Year's war lasted
only 7 metres ?
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OR
How did Gerrard finally confine the intruder into the cupboard ?

Q.12 What were the two most precious things in the city that the angel
brought to God ? Do you agree with the angle ?
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OR
What works did the boys do to earn some money ? Why did they
do so ?

Q.13 Describe the different kinds of training given to the children at
Tolstoy Farm.
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OR
Who emerged as a better human being - the lawyer or the banker ?
...............xx..............

5.MODEL ANSWERS
SECTION A
Q.1 (a) they use it to take photograph of the night sky.
(b) only lenses.
(c) curved.
(d) Telescope is the main tool of the modern astronomer to study
stars and other celestial objects.
(e) The light waves reveal the make up of the star and how hot the
star is.
(f) The telescopes are of two two kinds :- Reflector and Refractor. In
reflector telescopes mirrors are used whereas lenses are used in
refractor telescope.

Q.2 (a) the death of their father
(b) they devoted all their time to study
(c) asthma
(d) manuscript
(e) The family had to vacate the govt. quarter and move into a small
house. Their schoolmates looked down upon them because of
their poverty.
(f) Prof. friedrich helped him by giving access to his private library
where he got an opportunity to read manuscripts of folklore and
medieval literature.

Ans.3 (a) Wrestling, discus throwing, javeline hurling, long jumping,
sprinting.
(b) a plate of bronze
(c) envoys
(d) brutal
(e) The four festivals of ancient Greek are the Isthmian Games, the
Pythian Games, the Nemean Games, the Olympic Games.
(f) The Olympic games were played in the summer every four years
at Olympia.
(g) Paying tribute to Zeus and to test the proficiency of their athletic
feats were the two main motives.
(h) In boxing the fighters, at first wound straps of soft leather over
their fingers as a means of deadening the blows, but in later times
hard leather, sometimes weighted with metal was used. Thus
boxing became more brutal.
(i) A wrestler was declared to be the winner if he threw his opponent
to the ground three times.