2ND SUMMATIVE EVALUATION
ENGLISH QUESTION PAPER
CLASS 10 (X) WBBSE

Set-1

Second Summative Evaluation : 40 Marks (August)
Internal Formative Evaluation : 10 Marks
Textbook: ‘Bliss’

Syllabus—
Lesson :
4. My Own True Family – Ted Hughes
5. Our Runaway Kite-Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. Sea Fever-John Masefield

Second Summative Evaluation
Class: X Sub: ENGLISH
Time: 1 hr 30 m. Full Marks : 40

Name: ______________________________

Section : __________ Roll No : ________

READING COMPREHENSION
(SEEN)

1. Read the text given below and answer the questions that follow:

(5. Our Runaway Kite-Lucy Maud Montgomery)

The funny part used to be that people always pitied us when the time came for us to return. They said we must be so lonesome over there, with no other children near us. Of course Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us. It is hard to run pirate caves and things like that with only two. But we used to quarrel a good deal with the mainland children in winter. So it was perhaps just as well that there were none of them on the Big Half Moon. Claude and I never quarrelled. To be sure, Father didn’t seem to have any relations except us. This used to puzzle Claude and me. Everybody on the mainland had relations. Why hadn’t we? Was it because we lived on and island? We thought it would be so jolly to have an uncle and aunt and some cousins. Once we asked Father about it, but he looked so sorrowful that we wished we hadn’t. He said it was all his fault Claude and I didn’t understand what he meant.

A. Choose the correct alternative : 1×2=2

(a) The game the narrator and Claude wanted to play was –
(i) Water Cruze (ii) Crazy River
(iii) Pirate Caves (iv) Try Den

(b) When asked about relations, Father looked –
(i) happy (ii) angry (iv) sorrowful
(iv) irritated

B. Complete the following sentences:
1×2=2

(i) The funny part used to be __________________________________.

(ii) Father didn’t seem to be __________________________________.

C. Answer the following question: 2×1=2

(i) What used to puzzle the narrator and Claude?
Ans. ______________________________
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2. Read the following text and answer the questions that follow :

(6. Sea Fever-John Masefield)

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the sead again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yam from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

A. Choose the correct alternative :
1×2=2

(a) The poet would go down to the sea for the call of the-
(i) running tide (ii) bird (iii) sun (iv) star

(b) The sea-gullos are –
(i) fishing (ii) quarrelling (iii) crying
(iv) singing

B. Answer the following questions : 1×2=2

(i) What can the poet not deny ?
Ans. ______________________________
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(ii) What type of life does the peot want ?
Ans. ______________________________
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READING COMPREHENSION
(UNSEEN)

3. Go through the following text and answer the following questions :

Man has won his dominant position on this planet by his command over technology. Other animals
have to take nature as they find her. They must fit into the environment she has thrust him into. Man
alone changes the shape of this world. Technology is the sum total of all the different techniques by
which man changes his world, manages his basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, even transportation
and communications, and makes it more hospitable for him.
However, no technology is an unmixed bliss until and unless we learn to use it effectively with the
best of care, caution and intention. Mobile is such a great boon to us. If we do not use a duty, we are
sure to lag behind in managing our basic needs successfully. But it is bound to be bane both to us and
our associates if we use it recklessly ignoring our respective duties and responsiblities.

A. Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ in the boxes on the right : 1×4=4

(i) Technology has made man dominant on the earth.

(ii) Man’s intellect is creative by nature.

(iii) We are always sensible to our basic duties and responsibilities.

(iv) Other animals have to adopt nature for their adaption.

B. Answer briefly : 2×3= 6

(i) What is technology ?
Ans. ___________________________________________________________

(ii) When can mobile be turned into a bane from a boon ?
Ans. ___________________________________________________________
(iii) How should we use technology ?
Ans. ___________________________________________________________

GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

4. A. Frame Wh-questions by using the Wh-words given: 1×4=4

(i) Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. (Who)
Ans. ________________________________
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(ii) None is happy here. (Who)
Ans. ________________________________
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(iii) They work by day. (When)
Ans. ________________________________
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(iv) They met the Chief Minister. (Whom)
Ans. ________________________________
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B. Change the narrations : 1×2=2

(i) He keeps saying, “I am very lucky.”
Ans. ________________________________
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(ii) The boy said to his friend, “I went to school yesterday.”
Ans. ________________________________
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C. Join the following sentences to form a single sentence: 1×3=3

(i) Columbus died in 1506. He discovered America.
Ans. ___________________________________________________________

(ii) This is the place. Here poet Rabindranath was born.
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

(iii) I hear a scream. The scream is frightening.
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

D. Do as directed : 1×1=1

(i) As soon as I saw the snake, it ran away. (Use “No sooner”)
Ans. ____________________________________________________________

Writing

5. As the Group Captain of the Educational Tour Team of your school, write a notice for the students
of your school mentioning the following points. 10
(i) Date, time and place of assembly;
(ii) things to be taken;
(iii) date and time to returns;
(iv) inoculation certificates needed;
(v) Gurdian’s consent letter to be submitted;

Or,

Write a Report (in about 100 words)
for a newspaper on a road accident using the following information given below:
Date and time – location – Cause of accident – persons injured – rescue work – road blockade by
local people – arrival of the police – normalcy restored.
Ans.
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