Unit Test 1 Lower English 10th state board

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 UNIT TEST:1 ENGLISH (LL)

CLASS: 10th. 

Marks 20 Time:40 Minutes


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Communication Skills in English For Engineers and Technologists


(Section I. Language Study)


Q. 1 Do as directed [05 Marks]


1. Identify the type of sentence: 

How beautiful my daughter is!

2. Punctuate the given sentence-

are you still hungry I asked faintly

3. Find out four meaningful words from the given word: 

Conversation

4. Arrange the given words in the proper alphabetical order. 

solution, security, sleep, suddenly 

5. Rewrite in Indirect narration

He said, "I am ready to listen to your speech."


(Section II Textual Passage)

Reading skills, vocabulary and grammar)


Q.2 Read the following passage and do the activities. (10 marks)

(1)True/False: (02 Marks)

1. The young seagull was not alone on the ledge.

2. He was fully confident while flying on the day before.

The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers arid his sister had already flown away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings he became afraid The great expanse of sea tretched down beneath, and it was such a long way down-mias down He felt certain that his wings would never support so he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole nder the ledge whete he slept at night. Even when each of his brothers and his little sister, whose wings were far shorter than his own, ran to the brink, flapped their wings, and flew away, he failed to muster up courage to take that plunge which appeared to him so desperate. His father and mother had come around calling to him shrilly, upbraiding him, threatening to let him starve on his ledge unless he flew away But for the life of him he could not move.


A(2) What did the young seagull feel about his wings? What did he do then? (02)

A(3) 1.Find out the synonyms from the passage for

 (1)scolding. (2)the edge of a steep place 

(01mark)

2. Find out the antonyms from the passage for:

(1)backward, (2) uncertain (01mark)

A(4) Do as directed:

1. He failed to muster up courage. (add a question tag) (01)

2. He could not move away (Rewrite using 'unable to') (01)

A(5) Personal response question 

What was your experience of cycling on the first day? 02


(Section III: Poetry)


Q.3. Read the extract and do the activities:

B(1) Complete the sentences with the help of the poem: 02

1. The speaker in the poem requests the lord to.........

2. He wants the god's help to say.


A Teenager's Prayer

Each day brings new beginnings, 

Decisions I must make 

I am the only one to choose

The road that I will take


I can choose to take the road of life, 

That leads to great success 

Or travel down the darkened road, 

That leads to great distress.


Please open up y cadear Lord, 

That I might clearly see 

Help me stand for what is right, 

Bring out the best in ine.


Help, Lord, to just say "no"

When temptation comes my way. 

That I might keep my body clean 

And fit for life each day.


B(2) Explain the meaning of the following lines in your own words: 02

"Help me stand for what is right, 

Bring out the best in me."

B(3) Find out two pairs of rhyming words from the poem :01



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