Class X (English)
December 2024
Max. Marks: 20
(1) Read the following passage and answer the following questions: (5X1=5 Marks)
Many animals are able to communicate with each other very well. But none of them can talk as we do. That is, no animals use words. Birds cry out and make sounds that other birds understand. 1 Animals use smell, movement and sounds to show joy or anger or fear. Human speech is a very complex process. No animal can perform it. One reason can be that we use all speech organs together to make sounds to speak words. To speak vowels and consonants, our vocal chords shiver. Our lips, teeth and tongue move. It is something that animals cannot do. They cannot produce words to make sentences. Animals can't talk for another reason too. This is more important one. Words are only labels for objects, actions, feelings and ideas. The human brain uses words to mean these labels. The brain arranges them in a certain way to communicate something. This requires intelligence and that no animals have. So, they can't talk the way people do.
Q1. By which of the following ways do some of the animals and birds communicate:
- (a) by crying and making sounds
- (b) by smell
- (c) by different movements
- (d) by all of these
Q2. Why can't animals perform speech?
- (a) Speech is a very complex process.
- (b) Animals can't use all speech organs together.
- (c) Animals cannot produce words.
- (d) all of these
Q3. When humans talk which of following actions do not take place?
- (a) Their vocal chords shiver.
- (b) Their lips, teeth and tongue move.
- (c) Their brain arranges the words in a certain way to communicate something.
- (d) The animals and birds make sound.
Q4. What do words mean when the human brain uses words?
- (a) labels
- (b) representatives
- (c) expressions
- (d) meanings
Q5. Human speech is a very complex process. Which of following words is not the synonym of the underlined word?
- (a) complicated
- (b) easy
- (c) difficult
- (d) tricky
Section B (Literature and Poetry)
(II) Answer the following questions in 15 to 20 words each. (3X2=6 Marks)
- Q1. What were Phatik's last words? (The Home Coming)
- Q2. What was Holmes' condition when Watson saw him? (The Dying Detective)
- Q3. Write the central idea of the poem 'Razia the Tigress'.
Section C (Vocabulary, Grammar and Writing)
(III) Vocabulary
- i) He was killed in a bus _____ (accident/incident).
(IV) Grammar (Do as Directed)
- i) He will do his duty. (Change the Voice)
- ii) Identify the subordinate clause and name it.
- It is certain that Mohan will stand first.
(V) Write a letter to manager, Lyall Book Depot, Ludhiana, ordering books of your choice. (4 Marks) or
- Write a Paragraph on topic 'Fast food - A Health Hazard'
(VI) Translation: (2X1=2 Marks)
- i) The entire universe is one family.
- ii) ਅੱਜ ਹਵਾ ਬੰਦ ਹੈ।
