GEMS PUBLIC SCHOOL

CLASS TEST 1-2022-23

SUBJECT: ENGLISH CLASS: X
TIME: 1 hour TOTAL MARKS: 25

SECTION A

I. Choose the correct answer from the brackets. (2 × 1=2)

1. Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete an online update.

The climate control comment by an activist ………………… on social media

yesterday.

a. blow up
b. blow down
c. blew down
d. blow off

2. Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction for the
following line, from a news report:

Last week a child was not allowed to board the plane at Ranchi airport.

Option no. error correction

a. child children
b. last previous
c. the a
d. at in

SECTION B

II. Read the following extract and answer the questions/complete the sentences
that follow: (4 x 1 = 4)

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,

What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over- there it is in the water!
3. The extract suggests that the poet is

a. an onlooker observing
b. a parent recounting the incident
c. the boy talking about himself
d. imagining the incident

4. The poet seems to have indicated the merry bouncing of the ball to

a. create a sense of rhythm in these lines

b. support the happiness of the experience of playing.
c. contrast with the dejected feeling of the boy.
d. indicate the cheerful mood of the boy.

5. The poem begins with a question. Based on your reading of the poem, the speaker

a. wants the boy to answer the question.

b. expects the passers-by to respond.
c. is looking for answers in a self-help book.
d. is thinking to himself.

6. Alliteration is a literary device that occurs with the same letter or sound at the
beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Pick the option that showcases an
example of alliteration from the extract.

a. what is the boy now

b. who has lost his ball
c. I saw it go
d. and then/ Merrily over

7. Annotate the following extract and answer the questions that follow: (4 x 1= 4)

Then a monstrous terror seized him and his heart stood still. He could hear nothing.
But it only lasted a minute. The next moment he felt his wings spread outwards. The
wind rushed against his breast feathers, then under his stomach, and against his wings.
– He could feel the tips of his wings cutting through the air. He was not falling
headlong now. He was soaring gradually downwards arid outwards, He was no longer
afraid.
He just felt a bit dizzy. Then he flapped his wings once and he soared upwards. “Ga,
ga, ga, Ga, ga, ga, Gaw-col-ah,” his mother swooped past him, her wings making a
loud noise. He answered her with another scream. Then his father flew over him
screaming. He saw his two brothers and his sister flying around him curving and
banking and soaring and diving.
 a. What did the young seagull feel the next moment?
b. What did the young seagull’s mother do?
c. Find out the word from the passage that means the same as ‘fly high in the air’.
d. Find out from the passage a word that means ‘to grab’.

SECTION C

III. As a responsible citizen, you are concerned about the condition of Marine Lines.
People have littered the entire place with plastic, masks and garbage. Write a letter to
the editor of a leading daily to spread awareness on the matter. You are Sudhir/Sweety
of 3-B DDA Flats, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi. (5 x 1= 5)

SECTION D

IV. Answer any 5 of the following questions: (5 x 2= 10)

a. What kind of risk is the pilot talking about taking in the text? Why do you think
he took the risk?
b. Did Hari like working for Anil? Give reasons in support of your answer.
c. How did the young seagull and his family celebrate his first flight?
d. What were the initial things that happened to the pilot in the storm that
frightened him?
e. State the events that took place on the night of the theft in 'The Thief's Story'.
f. Why does the poet think that it is useless to give the following suggestion to the
boy? ‘No use to say- ‘O there are other balls’: