HOLIDAY

HOMEWORK –

CLASS X SUBJECT: ENGLISH

DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

SECUNDERABAD

NACHARAM | MAHENDRA HILLS | NADERGUL

DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

SECUNDERABAD

NACHARAM | MAHENDRA HILLS | NADERGUL

READING

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

1. Then all the windows of the grey wooden house

(Miss Hilton used to live here. She expired last week.),

were thrown open, a thing I had never seen before. At the

end of the day, a sign was nailed on the mango tree: FOR

SALE.

2. Nobody in the street knew Miss Hilton. While she

lived, her front gate was always locked and no one ever

saw her leave or saw anybody go in. So even if you

wanted to, you couldn’t feel sorry and say that you missed

Miss Hilton.

3. When I think of her house, I see just two colours.

Grey and green. The green of the mango tree, the grey of

the house and the grey of the high iron fence that prevented you from getting at the mangoes.

4. If your cricket ball fell in Miss Hilton’s courtyard you never got it back. It wasn’t the mango season

when Miss Hilton died. But we got back about ten or twelve of our cricket balls.

5. The house was sold and we were prepared to dislike the new owners even before they came. I think we

were a little worried.

6. Already we had one resident of the street who kept on complaining about us to our parents. He

complained that we played cricket on the pavement; and if we were not playing cricket, he complained

that we were making too much noise anyway.

7. One afternoon, when I came back from school Pal, said, “Is a man and a woman. She pretty, but he

ugly like hell”. I didn’t see much. The front gate was open, but the windows were shut again. I heard a

dog barking in an angry way.

8. One thing was settled pretty quickly. Whoever these people were they would never be the sort of

people to complain that we were making noise and disturbing their sleep.

9. A lot of noise came from the house that night. The radio was going at full volume until midnight

when the radio station closed down. The dog was barking and the man was shouting. I didn’t hear the

woman.

Attempt the following questions on the basis of the passage you have read:

(a) Miss Hilton’s house had just 2 colours ………………………..

(i) Grey and Black (iii) Grey and Pink

(ii) Grey and Blue (iv) Grey and Green

(b) The sign ‘For Sale’ was hung on a ………………………..

(i) banyan tree (ii) mango tree

(iii) oak tree (iv) guava tree

(c) Whose front gate was always locked?

(i) Miss Clinton (ii) Miss Hilton

(iii) Henry Lovell (iv) Mrs. Diana

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(d) You would always get your cricket balls if they fell in Miss Hilton’s courtyard.

(i) She would say nothing (iii) False

(ii) True (iv) She would never come out

(e) The new owners of the house had a ………… .

(i) Horse (ii) kitten

(iii) rabbit (iv) dog

(f) The iron fence did not let the boys get at the____on the tree.

(i) grapes (ii) apples

(iii) mangoes (iv) litchi

(g) Find a word in paragraph 8 which means the same as “arranged”.

(i) pretty (ii) quickly

(iii) disturbing (iv) settled

(h) Find a word in paragraph 6 which means ‘raised path for pedestrians at the side of a road’.

(i) resident (ii) complaining

(iii) pavement (iv) quickly

(i) What did People hear at night-

(i) noise at full volume (ii) Silence

(iii) Dancing (iv) None

(j) What did the boys get when Hilton died-

(i) their shoes (ii) their books

(iii) their cricket balls (iv) None of the above

GRAMMAR

1. Which option displays the correct change of the following to reported speech?

He said to him, “Is not your name Anwar?”

a) He said that his name was Anwar.

b) He inquired whether his name was not Anwar.

c) He asked is his name was not Anwar.

Is not your name

Anwar?

d) He asked why his name was Anwar.

2. Which option displays the correct change of the following to reported speech?

Niraj remarked, “What a wonderful day!”

a) Niraj exclaimed that it was a wonderful day.

b) Niraj asked if it was a wonderful day.

c) Niraj said what a wonderful day.

d) Niraj asked what a wonderful day

WRITING

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING LETTERS BY CHOOSING THE CORRECT

OPTIONS TO FILL IN THE BLANKS:

I. You are Prabhu Kumar/Parvati of 17 E, Ravi Das Road, Kochi. Write a

letter to the editor of a newspaper about the nuisance caused by

loudspeakers in the city during examination days drawing attention of

the authorities concerned to the problem.

________ (1) _______

4 October 2021

The Editor

The Times of India

Kochi 68217

Kerala

Sir/Ma’am

Subject: (2) _______________________

Through the columns of your esteemed newspaper I would like to draw the attention of the

authorities concerned to the nuisance caused by the indiscriminate use of loudspeakers at

religious places, wedding processions, market places and jagrans during the examination days.

Students are unable to concentrate on the revision work during these days. The result is that

(3) _________ this leads to frustration and unhappiness among students. Their parents also

What a

wonderful

day!

suffer due to it. (4) ___________the authorities concerned take a serious note of this nuisance

and initiate remedial measures to check the problem.

Use of loudspeakers should be totally banned irrespective of the place where these are used. It

is not only a cause of nuisance but also adds to the noise pollution.

_________ (5)____________

Prabhu Kumar

(1) The correct format of the sender’s address is:

a. Prabhu Kumar/Parvati, 17 E, Ravi Das Road,

Kochi

b. Parvati, 17 E, Ravi Das Road, Kochi

c. 17 E, Ravi Das Road, Kochi

d. Prabhu Kumar, 17 E, Ravi Das Road, Kochi

(2) What should be the subject of the above letter?

a. Nuisance caused by loudspeakers in the city

during examination days.

b. Parents suffering

c. Students’ exams

d. Remedial measures for exams

(3) The result is that ________________________ this leads to frustration and unhappiness

among students. Complete the sentence.

a. they are unable to sleep and

b. they are bored by their lessons and

c. they fare badly in the examinations and

d. they become rebellious and

(4) __________________________ the authorities concerned take a serious note of this

nuisance and initiate remedial measures to check the problem. Complete the sentence.

a. It’s too late for

b. It’s high time

c. It’s a waste if

d. It’s not necessary

(5) The subscription of the letter has to be:

a. Yours lovingly

b. Yours faithfully

c. Dear sir

d. Sir/madam

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II. You wish to do Spanish learning course from the institute ‘Learn a Language’. Write a letter

to enquire about course details, fees, duration etc. Sign yourself as Kritika/Kartik.

584, Defence Colony

Dehradun

Uttarakhand- 24801

_______ (24) _____

The Manager

_____ (21) _______

Connaught Place

Uttarakhand- 248001

Subject- _________(22) ________

Sir/ Ma’am

I wish to enquire about the Spanish learning course

offered by your institute. Since I have basic

knowledge of Spanish language priorly, I wish to

learn the language at an advanced level.

I request you to provide the following details

relating to the advance level Spanish learning

course-

i. Fee of the course

ii. Duration of the course

iii. Course material

iv. Class schedule

v. Batch size (if any) and;

vi other relevant details

Please attach the complete brochure along with the letter. I look forward to a quick response

regarding the enquiry.

Thanking you

Yours faithfully

____ (23) ______

21. What is the name of the recipient institute?

a) Joy of Learning

b) Cambridge Institute

c) Oxford Institute

d) Learn a Language

22. What should be the subject of the letter?

a) To place an order

b) Enquiring about Spanish learning

course

c) To complain

d) None

23. Who is the sender of this letter?

a) Rohan/Reeta

b) Sohan/Seema

c) Kritika/Kartik

d) None of the above

24. Appropriate format for the date should be:

a) 12/02/2021

b) 21 February 2021

c) Feb.12, 2021

d) 02.12.2021

25. What information may the sender seek?

a) About the duration of the course

b) About the Fee

c) Course Schedule

d) All of the above

LITERATURE

TERM 1- STAND ALONE QUESTIONS

1. Given below are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read both the

statements carefully and choose the correct alternative from the following:

Assertion (A): Postmaster collected the money.

Reason (R): The postmaster didn’t want to shake Lencho’s faith.

(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.

(c) A is true, but R is false.

(d) A is false, but R is true.

2. How did Mandela’s hunger for freedom change his life?

(a) turned from frightened to bold

(b) turned from law-abiding attorney to a criminal

(c) turned a life-loving man to live like a monk

(d) all of the above

3. Which of the pilot’s instruments stopped working first?

(a) compass

(b) radio

(c) both stopped together

(d) both were working

4. Why was writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne?

(a) she had never written anything before

(b) she didn’t know how to write

(c) neither she nor anyone else would be interested in it later

(d) Both A and C

5. Why did Peggy say “and I thought I could draw”?

(a) she’d won the medal always

(b) Wanda’s drawings were amazing

(c) she thought Wanda could draw

better

(d) All of the above

6. Given below are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read both the

statements carefully and choose the correct alternative from the following:

Assertion- (A) The poet had been in the sorrowful and depressive mood in the poem ‘Dust

of Snow’.

Reason – (R) The poet had seen a crow on a hemlock tree.

a) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true and R is NOT the correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false

d) A is false but R is true.

7. In The Ball Poem, the poet feels that there is no point consoling the boy as

a) it would give him false hope.

b) he might demand for a new ball.

c) it might distress him further.

d) whatever he has lost is irretrievable.

8. Mr. Herriot compared Tricki with ‘bloated sausage’. Which of the following image

describes the metaphor?

(1) (2) (3) (4)

a) Option 1 b) Option 2 c) Option 3 d) Option 4

9. What can you infer from the lines given below?

“But I knew that Anil’s face, when he discovered the theft, would show only a

touch of sadness. Not for loss of money, but for the loss of trust.”

1. The thief knew a person’s feeling by looking at his face.

2. The thief knew that Anil would care about him and the money.

3. The thief knew if Anil had caught him, he would have called the police and got him

imprisoned.

4. The thief knew that his action would sadden Anil.

a) Only option 2 can be inferred.

b) Options 2 and 3 can be inferred.

c) Only option 4 can be inferred.

d) Options 1 and 4 can be inferred.

10. Match the dialogues in Column A from the story ‘Footprint Without Feet’ with their

speakers in Column B.

A B

A. “Surrender” i. Jaffers

B. “My reason for coming to Iping is a desire for solitude.

ii. Mrs. Hall

C. “I want to know what you have been doing to my chair

upstairs”

iii. Clergyman

iv. Griffin

a) A-i, B-iv, C-ii

b) A-ii, B-iv, C-iii

c) A-iii, B-iv, C-ii

d) A-iv, B-i, C-iii

Solve the following sample paper:

http://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassX_2021_22/EnglishL-SQP.pdf