ENGLISH REVISION TEST – 1 Class : X Lessons : 1, 2

Marks : 25 Time : 1 hour

I. Answer the following question

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1. How did the Nick’s parents help him to become independent? 2. What did Socrates Suggest as the secret to success? 3. Why do Jordans take a long time to get to the house of the Slater’s? What does it show about the two sisters attitude towards each other? 4. Discuss the irony in the title ‘The Dear Departed?

II. Answer the following questions

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5. What made the potter angry ? what made him more angry? 6. How did Murthy react when his father refused to send him to IIT?

III. Read the following passage 7. “Be quiet! It’s ours now, come, Henry, lift your end.” Now answer the following questions. 3x1: 3M a) Who is the speaker? b) Its ours now .What does it refer to? c) Why does the speaker ask the other person to be quiet? 8. Read the following passage. As a young cartoonist. Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors, who said he had no talent One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some Cartoons. Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. (Every success story is also a story of Great Failures) Now answer the following questions 2x1: 2M a) who is the speaker? b) What was walt Disney? 9. Read the following Passage. Dear wife he said never in my life will I ride a horse again. Please take this letter to our king and tell him that the enemy has run away. I am going to bed. His wife ran towards the palace with the letter. When the king read the letter, he was full of praise for his new

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Now answer the following questions a) who is the Speaker? b) Why is the speaker going bed? c) Who wrote the letter? d) What was Written in the letter? e) Why was the king full of praise for his new General ?

10. Complete the following passage choosing the right words and write A,B,C or D in the blanks. 4 x 1/2 :2M About 70 percent ______________(1) a Person’s body is made up of water. The Percentage of water decreases as _____________(2) Persons gets older _____________(3) infants and children have a much higher context of water _______________(4) adults. 1. A) in 2. A)a 3. A)so 4. A)to

B) on B) the B) therefore B) than

C) C) C) C)

of any but over

D) D) D) D)

with in some yet from

11. Complete the parts of the sentences under “A” Choosing the correct words under B 4 x 1/2 : 2M 1) 2) 3) 4)

A It I were a bird My father is so strong John wanted to know Don’t be either borrower

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B Where his pen was I would fly or a lender that he can fight with a lion

12. Study the following pair of sentences and answer the question a) Cheap clothes wear out soon. b) The flames wears off soon.

What will lessen slowly?

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