Class 10 English Sample Paper Term 1 Set C

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Please refer to Class 10 English Sample Paper Term 1 Set C with solutions below. The following CBSE Sample Paper for Class 10 English has been prepared as per the latest pattern and examination guidelines issued by CBSE. By practicing the English Sample Paper for Class 10 students will be able to improve their understanding of the subject and get more marks.

CBSE Class 10 English Sample Paper for Term 1

Section A Reading

I. Read the passage given below.

We are often insensitive to the poetry of living life wisely. We are caught in the prose of what we want rather than what is truly wise. It is said, “God has given us two ears and one mouth, to listen more and talk less”. Have we learnt the art of wise listening? We go to listen to lectures. Why? Have you asked this question to yourself? We collect more words, more concepts and they become our memory bank. Next time you listen to some other lecture, your memory bank becomes a kind of obstacle without your knowing it, for you have invested in what you know. Hence our knowledge of the past becomes our block. Is it not?
Are you reading this article more to confirm what you know or are you searching for something new? Listening or reading to find out something is very different from confirming what you know already. If you are listening more to confirm rather than to find out, then your listening has no significance, is it not? How can one’s listening be anchored in “finding out” rather than as confirmation of what one knows?

Try this out next time. When you listen to a lecture, be sensitive to the beginning and ending of any concept that is spoken and get the whole picture. See the “newness” of what the speaker is saying; see what is it that you can practise from what the speaker is saying, can you be alert to be “open” to what the speaker is saying and not allow your knowledge to interfere in your understanding?

Try this out and then you will learn how to find out. To find out something, one has to be open and fluid. If you have observed a river, how it flows, you will notice sometimes on the backwaters of the river, there are small ponds. Water stagnates in a pond, there are no fishes. But the river water is fresh, vibrant and flowing. If you become like a pond, you become stagnant to what you know, to your positionality, to your opinion, to your dogmas and so will end up missing the quality of freshness of the flowing river. Our listening, when it is caught in our opinion, in our dogmas, in our likes and dislikes, we miss the freshness and openness of listening.
When you are listening, learn to be open and flowing. Give space to the speaker, give space to your doubts, giving inner space, in being open. And from that openness when one listens, there is a different quality of understanding. Next time your boss is talking to you, don’t be caught in your disagreement, give space to your preferences and give space to what he is saying, then you can intuit what he is saying.
Next time your spouse scolds you, just be open, don’t get lost in what you want, give space for your spouse to say and from that openness listen to your spouse’s scolding. You will understand better and not be bitter. Once you are bitter, you get isolated and in that isolation, you can’t connect to your spouse. Isolation creates conflict and when in conflict, you get filled with frustration and your inner cup is filled with restlessness. Learn to empty your inner cup.
– Swami Sukhabodhananda ‘The Speaking Tree’

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any eight out of the ten questions by choosing the correct answer.

Question 1. The art of wise listening implies that
(a) we must listen cautiously
(b) we must concentrate on the words
(c) we must concentrate on what is being said
(d) we must keep silent while someone is speaking

Answer

C

Question 2. A collocation is a group of words that often occur together.
The writer says that everything we listen to becomes a part of our memory bank.
Select the word from the options that correctly collocates with ‘memory’.
(a) Refresh
(b) Rekindle
(c) Hazy
(d) Repetitive

Answer

A

Question 3. The central idea of the passage is that it is ………………… .
(a) important to understand and accept what is new
(b) important to connect to people through listening
(c) important to add to our memory bank through listening
(d) important to resolve our conflicts through listening

Answer

A

Question 4. Which signboard would the writer use to let people know who is a truly wise man?

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

Answer

C

Question 5. When does listening become useless?
(a) When we don’t listen to the beginning and end clearly.
(b) When we have preconceived notions about things.
(c) When we are hearing not listening.
(d) When we listen but only to confirm.

Answer

D

Question 6. What is the relationship between (1) and (2)?
(1) … your memory bank becomes a kind of obstacle without your knowing it…
(2) …. get the whole picture.
(a) (2) is the cause for (1).
(b) (1) repeats the situation described in (2).
(c) (2) elaborates the problem described in (1).
(d) (1) gives one solution for the problem describes in (2).

Answer

D

Question 7. According to the passage, ‘We are caught in the prose of what we want’. Such a person can be characterised as
(a) rigid
(b) ambitious
(c) flexible
(d) goal oriented

Answer

A

Question 8. By the phrase ‘Learn to empty inner cup’, the author means
(a) to give away all initial dogmas, views, beliefs, likes and dislikes
(b) to take our frustration and restlessness
(c) to give space to your doubts
(d) to listen everything with openness

Answer

A

Question 9. Which quote summarises the passage?
(a) “The biggest fool of all is he who cannot change his mind.” –Omar Cherif
(b) “Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.” – Charles A. Garfield
(c) “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” –Tony Robbins
(d) “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” –Albert Camus

Answer

A

Question 10. Choose the option that lists the situations when one gets bitter.
1. When we do not listen      2.When we do not give space
3. When we raise our voice    4.When we are arguing
(a) 1 and 3
(b) 2 and 4
(c) 1 and 2
(d) 3 and 4

Answer

C

II. Read the passage given below.

The Indian food industry is poised for huge growth, increasing its contribution to world food trade every year. In India, the food sector has emerged as a high-growth and high-profit sector due to its immense potential for value addition, particularly within the food processing industry.

The Government of India has been instrumental in the growth and development of the food processing industry. The government through the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) is making all efforts to encourage investments in the business. It has approved proposals for Joint Ventures (JV), foreign collaborations, industrial licenses, and 100 per cent export oriented units.
The Indian food and grocery market is the world’s sixth largest, with retail contributing 70 per cent of the sales. The Indian food processing industry accounts for 32 per cent of the country’s total food market, one of the largest industries in India and is ranked fifth in terms of production, consumption, export and expected growth.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimates that the food processing sectors have the potential to attract as much as US$ 33 billion of investment over the next 10 years and also to generate employment of nine million person. In context, some of the major initiatives taken by the Government of India are as follows:
– The Government of India aims to boost growth in the food processing sector by leveraging reforms such as 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in marketing of food products and various incentives at central and state government level along with a strong focus on supply chain infrastructure.
– In Union Budget 2017-18, the Government of India has set up a dairy processing infra fund worth ` 8,000 crore.
– The Government of India has relaxed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms for the sector, allowing up to 100 per cent FDI in food product e-commerce through automatic route.
– The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) plans to invest around ` 482 crore (US$ 72.3 million) to strengthen the food testing infrastructure in India, by upgrading 59 existing food testing laboratories and setting up 62 new mobile testing labs across the country.
– The Indian Council for Fertilizer and Nutrient Research (ICFNR) will adopt international best practices for research in fertiliser sector, which will enable farmers
to get good quality fertilisers at affordable rates.
– The Ministry of Food Processing Industries announced a scheme for Human Resource Development (HRD) in the food processing sector. The HRD scheme is being implemented through State Governments under the National Mission on Food Processing. The scheme has the following four components:
– Creation of infrastructure facilities for degree/diploma courses in food processing sector
– Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP)
– Food Processing Training Centres (FPTC)
– Training at recognised institutions at State/National level Way Ahead
Going forward, the adoption of food safety and quality assurance mechanisms offers several benefits. It would enable adherence to stringent quality and hygiene norms and thereby protect consumer health, prepare the industry to face global competition, enhance product acceptance by overseas buyers and keep the industry technologically abreast of international best practices.

Based on of your understanding of the passage, answer any six out of the eight questions by choosing the correct option.

Question 11. Select the correct inference with reference to the following:
The Indian food industry is poised for huge growth, increasing its contribution to world food trade every year.
(a) The Indian food industry grows every year.
(b) The Indian food industry is crucial for the world food trade.
(c) The Indian food industry needs to increase its contribution to the world food trade.
(d) The Indian food industry needs to grow every year.

Answer

A

Question 12. According to the passage, food industry has emerged as a high-growth and high-profit sector because of
(a) 100% foreign direct investment
(b) value addition in food processing industry
(c) exponential growth in online food delivery services
(d) All of the above

Answer

B

Question 13. Pick the option that lists statements that are NOT TRUE according to the passage.
1. Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has approved proposals for Joint Ventures (JV), foreign collaborations, industrial licenses and 100 per cent export oriented units.
2. The Indian food processing industry is the largest industry in terms of production,consumption, export and expected growth.
3. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) plans to strengthen the food testing infrastructure by upgrading food testing laboratories and setting up new mobile testing labs across the country.
(a) 1 and 2
(b) Only 1
(c) Only 2
(d) 2 and 3

Answer

C

Question 14. Based on your reading of the passage, select the appropriate counter- argument to the given argument.
Argument: The organised food business does not have a huge economic potential.
(a) The food production industry is growing everyday and is bound is brings huge investment in food processing industry and not the organised food business.
(b) With online food delivery players like FoodPanda, Zomato, Tiny Owl and Swiggy building scale through partnerships, the online food ordering business in India is witnessing exponential growth.
(c) The organised food industry is at its nascent stage and will grow once the foreign direct investment reach 100%.
(d) The organised food industry is increasing as the popularity of the industry is increasing daily.

Answer

B

Question 15. Select the option that displays the correct cause-effect relationship.

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Answer

D

Question 16. Which of the following correctly lists the estimations made regarding the food industry?
1. Increasing investments   2. Reducing unemployment
3. Increasing GDP                4. Reducing poverty
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 and 4
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 2 and 3

Answer

A

Question 17. The adoption of food safety and quality assurance will not promote
(a) quality
(b) food service training
(c) consumer health
(d) technological innovation

Answer

B

Question 18. Read the two statements given below and select the option that suitably explains them.
(1) The adoption of food safety and quality assurance mechanisms have become essential for the Indian Food production.
(2) Adherence to stringent quality and hygiene norms protect consumer health,prepare the industry to face global competition, enhance product acceptance by overseas buyers and keep the industry technologically abreast of international best practices.
(a) (1) is the problemand (2) is the solution for (1).
(b) (1) is false but (2) correctly explain (1).
(c) (1) summarises (2).
(d) (1) is true and (2) is the reason for (1).

Answer

D

Section B Writing Skills

III. Answer any four out of the five questions given, with reference to the context below.

You are P.K. Bansal of 57 Rajendra Park, New Delhi. Your pet dog Scabbie is missing.You have to write an advertisement for the same.

Question 19. Select the section of the newspaper wherein the advertisement will be published.
(a) Lost and Found
(b) Missing
(c) Situation Lost
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Answer

B

Question 20. Select the option with the information points to be included in the body of the advertisement.
1. Caring nature of dog   2. Color of dog
3. Breed of dog               4. Name of dog
5. Time of missing
(a) 2, 3, 4
(b) 2, 3, 4, 5
(c) 1, 2, 3
(d) 3, 4, 5

Answer

B

Question 21. Select the option that is the most appropriate way of giving the contact details.
(a) Contact P.K. Bansal, 57, Rajendra Park, New Delhi, Phone-99XXXXXXXX
(b) Contact P.K. Bansal
(c) Contact at 57, Rajendra Park, New Delhi
(d) Contact 99XXXXXXXX

Answer

A

Question 22. Would the advertisement need a picture of Scabbie?
(a) Yes, it can be used.
(b) No, it would become informal.
(c) Yes, it would add to given information.
(d) No, it will become costly for the advertisement.

Answer

A

Question 23. Which of the following information can be added to the notice?
(a) Inconvenience regretted
(b) Please help us find it
(c) Informer would be suitably rewarded
(d) How he is dear to you

Answer

C

IV. Answer any six of the seven questions given, with reference to the context below.

Reenu is part of the Helping Hand political group of her school. She has to write an article on how people can give back to the society or nation to make it great again.

Question 24. Select the option that lists an appropriate title for Reenu’s article.
(a) National Duties
(b) Duties of a Citizen
(c) A Responsible Citizen
(d) Becoming a Nation’s Perfect Citizen

Answer

B

Question 25. Which option, would help Reenu in elaborating points in her article?

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Answer

B

Question 26. Which option would help Reenu with the appropriate organisation of relevant ideas for this article?
(a) What are duties- Indian fundamental duties- How does its effect India-Conclusion
(b) Need of duties- Its effects- How can we become dutiful citizens- Conclusion
(c) Duties- Fundamental duties of India- How it effects India- Conclusion
(d) All of the above

Answer

B

Question 27. Which of the following can Reenu mention as a way of becoming dutiful citizens?
(a) Maximum utilisation of every resource
(b) Be kind and considerate
(c) One should respect the National emblems
(d) Both (b) and (c)

Answer

D

Question 28. Read a sentence from Reenu’s article draft and help him complete it by selecting the most appropriate option.
…………………… it is incumbent to discharge certain duties towards the Country as the Country’s responsible citizens. As it is said, “Rights comes with Responsibilities.” The citizens of a country are responsible for the growth and development of a country.
Thus, they should do all those duties essential for the wellbeing of the fellow citizens and the Country as a whole.
(a) When a Country grants some rights,
(b) If a Country grants many rights,
(c) As a Country grants many rights,
(d) Even though a Country grants many rights,

Answer

A

Question 29. Which quote should Reenu use to summarise the central idea of his article?
(a) “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.” Barack Obama
(b) “The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.” -Theodore Roosevelt
(c) “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy
(d) “Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

Answer

D

Question 30. Select the option that states the correct format of the article.

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

Answer

C

Section C Literature

V. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow :
Hearing him, one wonders if he has achieved what many have failed in their lifetime.
He has a roof over his head!
The cry of not having money to do anything except carry on the business of making bangles, not even enough to eat, rings in every home. The young men echo the lament
of their elders. Little has moved with time, it seems, in Firozabad. Years of
mind-numbing toil have killed all initiative and the ability to dream.

Question 31. Why has the poet used an ‘!’ after ‘he has a roof over his head’?
(a) To show her dilemma
(b) To show how he is better off than most others
(c) To highlight her irritation with the negativity of the man
(d) To show the hopeless condition of the people like him

Answer

A

Question 32. Of the four meanings of ‘echo’, select the option that matches in meaning with its usage in the extract.
(a) A close parallel to ideas
(b) have shared characteristics with
(c) a copy
(d) be reminiscent

Answer

D

Question 33. The author says ‘hearing him’, ‘him’ here refers to …………………… .
(a) Mukesh
(b) Mukesh’s elder brother
(c) Mukesh’s father
(d) Mukesh’s neighbor

Answer

C

Question 34. In the given lines, the tone of the author is
(a) pessimistic
(b) empathetic
(c) sympathetic
(d) Unenthusiastic

Answer

B

Question 35. ‘Little has moved with time.’Why?
1. Because the profession has surpassed generations as children also start working in same conditions.
2. Because the work exhausts them to a point where they cannot fight the suppressive forces.
3. Because no one has the courage to stand against the oppressive forces.
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 2 and 3
(d) All of these

Answer

D

VI. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:

I went to a pool and practiced five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor put a belt around me. A rope attached to the belt went through a pulley that ran on an overhead cable. He held on to the end of the rope and we went back and forth, back and forth across the pool, hour after hour, day after day, week after week. On each trip across the pool a bit of the panic seized me. Each time the instructor relaxed his hold on the rope and I went under, some of the old terror returned and my legs froze. It was three months before the tension began to slack.

Question 36. The given lines show that the author overcame his fear with
(a) courage and determination
(b) with love and care
(c) with motivation derived from mothers words
(d) with fear and panic

Answer

A

Question 37. Select the option that lists the correct inference based on the information in the extract.
(a) Douglas hired an instructor to help him get over his fear.
(b) Douglas hired an instructor to learn how to swim.
(c) Douglas hired an instructor to handle the ropes and cables that would help him swim.
(d)Douglas hired an instructor to save him from any mishaps related to his fear.

Answer

B

Question 38. How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
(a) By making him practice
(b) Step-by-Step
(c) By motivating him
(d) With the help of ropes and belts

Answer

B

Question 39. The ‘panic’ referred to in the extract points towards
(a) Narrator’s past misadventures
(b) Narrator’s fear of death
(c) Narrator’s fear of water
(d) Narrator’s fear of failure

Answer

C

Question 40. Douglas says that with the instructor’s methodology and his practice, his fear began to slack.
He means that his fear
(a) became his strength
(b) started to reduce
(c) had left him
(d) became inconsequential for him

Answer

B

VII. Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow.

Driving from my parent’s
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away,

Question 41. The poet uses color to highlight the …………………… of her mother’s face.
(a) dullness
(b) signs of aging
(c) wrinkles
(d) sadness

Answer

A

Question 42. The line in the extract are written without a full-stop with a lot of commas. What does this indicate?
(a) The poets dilemma
(b) The intermingling of lots of thoughts together
(c) Continuation of one thought
(d) The extent of emotions felt by the poet

Answer

C

Question 43. Select the correct option to fill in the blank.
From the very beginning, the poet has presented that …………… .
(a) Death and loss are an inevitable part of life.
(b) Childhood fears can resurface in adulthood.
(c) Human relationships are always changing.
(d) Aging is natural to all things present on earth.

Answer

A

Question 44. The poet compares her mother’s face to that of a corpse. Why do you think she has done so?
(a) To show the paleness of her mother’s skin
(b) To show the impending death of the mother
(c) To show that she needs to take care of her mother
(d) To show the signs of old age in her mother

Answer

B

Question 45. Why was the realisation painful?
(a) The poet was going away from her mother.
(b) Her mother was ill and sad.
(c) Because it included loss and separation.
(d) Because the poet couldn’t stay with her mother.

Answer

C

VIII. Read the given extract to attempt the questions follow :

“It would be best if he could be quietly killed,” the General said. “Not by you, but by someone who does not know him. I have my own private assassins. Suppose I send two of them to your house tonight or better, any night. You need know nothing about it. It is now warm — what would be more natural than that you should leave the outer partition of the white man’s room open to the garden while he sleeps.”

Question 46. Why is there a need to assassinate ‘him’?
(a) He was an American Prisoner of War
(b) He was a convicted criminal
(c) For the safety of Dr. Sadao’s family
(d) For the nation, Japan

Answer

A

Question 47. Why did the General offer to get ‘him’ assassinated?
(a) To come out as a kind person
(b) Because he needed Dr. Sadao to do his surgery
(c) To save Dr. Sadao from bad reputation
(d) As a favour

Answer

B

Question 48. Select the option that characterises the General as per the extract.
1. Humanist      2. Self-centered
3. Kind person  4. True Patriot
5. Manipulative
(a) 1 and 3
(b) 2 and 5
(c) Only 2
(d) Only 3

Answer

C

Question 49. Select the option that displays a cause-effect set.

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Answer

A

Question 50. Why do you think the General quickly suggest that Sadao need not know anything about the assassination?
(a) Because it would morally inflict him
(b) Because Sadao cannot be a part of killing
(c) Because Sadao had saved the man from dying
(d) All of the above

Answer

D

IX. Attempt the following.

Question 51. ‘But that’s the reason, he said and my friends all agreed. Everything points to it, they claimed.’
‘Everything’ here includes
(a) stamp collecting
(b) getting lost in the Grand Central Station
(c) desire to go to Galesburg 1894
(d) All of the above

Answer

D

Question 52. Pablo Neruda has used symbolism in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ to promote
(a) fraternity and peace
(b) peace and happiness
(c) introspection and self doubt
(d) equality and fraternity

Answer

A

Question 53. Choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below.
(1) Sadao’s decision of sending the POW to a point where he can be safe is based on his fear of the reaction of the family against assassination.
(2) Sadao’s mental conscience agonises regarding assassination and thus he decides to take the matters in his own hands.
(a) Statement (1) is true, but Statement (2) is false
(b) Statement (1) is false, but Statement (2) is true
(c) Both Statement (1) and Statement (2) can be inferred
(d) Both Statement (1) and Statement (2) cannot be inferred

Answer

C

Question 54. ‘And not move our arms so much.’Herein, ‘arms’ has been used for
1. Weapons  2. Force  3.Hands  4. Conflicts
(a) 2 and 4
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 2 and 3

Answer

B

Question 55. M. Hamel concluded his last lesson with writing ‘Vive la France’, it shows that M. Hamel
(a) was overwhelmed with emotions
(b) wanted to distract everyone so as not to feel sorry
(c) was keen on not leaving the country
(d) wanted to teach French participles through it

Answer

A

Question 56. For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach. Select the option that explain it with reference to ‘Lost Spring’.
(a) He will never be able to learn it.
(b) He will never have proper equipment to participate in it.
(c) Tennis was a game only for the rich.
(d) He would never be accepted within the tennis community.

Answer

D

Question 57. Classify (1) to (4) as fact (F) or opinion (O), based on your reading of ‘The Third Level’.
1. Charley must have fallen asleep in the train and imagined the third level.
2. Charley just like everyone must be tensed in the melancholy of modern life and this finds solace in imagining things.
3. Charley’s friends are correct in stating that Charley is an escapist.
4. Charley craves for the pre-war simpler times and thus wants to go back to his grandfather’s times.
(a) F – (1) and (4); O – (2) and (3)
(b) F – (2) and (3) ; O – (1) and (4)
(c) F – (1) and (2); O – (3) and (4)
(d) F – (2) and (4) ; O – (1) and (3)

Answer

D

Question 58. The children’s faces in the elementary school classroom are compared to ‘rootless weeds’. This means they
(a) are insecure
(b) are ill-fed
(c) are dirty
(d) All of these

Answer

D

Question 59. What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’? (An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum)
(a) The apathy of important people
(b) Injustice against slum children
(c) The negatives of the highly commercial world
(d) The need for inclusive education

Answer

A

Question 60. Douglas was determined to get over his fear of water
(a) because he wanted to enjoy his social life.
(b) because his friend had challenged him.
(c) because he had a bet on it.
(d) because he wanted to conquer his fear.

Answer

A