MP Board Question Paper High School Examination – 2024 ENGLISH
High School Examination (Main) - 2024
अंग्रेजी
ENGLISH
Time: 3 Hours ] [Maximum Marks: 75]
Instructions :
(i) Read all the questions carefully.
(ii) Read the instructions given with the questions
before attempting them.
(iii) Marks allotted to each question are given
against them.
SECTION-A
1.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions
given below:- 1×5=5
What is the ultimate challenge these days? The
ultimate challenge is to make your mind calm. And the ultimate solution is
meditation. For a student, there can't be a more powerful technique to improve
long term performance in studies than meditation.
Calm mind, better retention, better health, focus and
concentration are the obvious benefits. When you practice meditation, you have
a sense of well being, happiness and spiritual growth.
There are many types of meditation. The simplest is of
course, focussing on breathing. Settle down in a cool place that has dim light
and relatively quiet. All you need to do is to keep focussing on breathing. If
you do it everyday, you will feel its magical effect.
Questions:
(i) The ultimate challenge these days is to
(a) make
money
(b) make
your mind calm
(c) get
education
(d) focus
on breathing
(ii) Meditation helps students
(a) to
improve long term performance in studies
(b) to
gain weight
(c) to
increase height
(d) to
get a job
(iii) The simplest form of meditation is
(a)
focussing on studies
(b) light
exercise
(c)
focussing on breathing
(d)
walking
(iv) The word 'meditation' is
(a) a
verb
(b) an
adjective
(c) a
pronoun
(d) a
noun
(v) Which word in this passage means 'an ability to
keep something in mind'?
(a)
challenge
(b)
retention
(c) sense
(d)
growth
2 Read the passage carefully and answer the questions
:-
If India wants to be a developed country, it must
concentrate on female education. The old African proverb says 'If you educate a
man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate an
entire family or entire nation. The root cause of all the problems like female
infanticide, dowry, female suicide, domestic violence, malnutrition, child
marriage etc. will be vanished if women are educated. Education provides an
essential qualification to fulfil certain economic, political and cultural functions
and improves women's socio-economic status. It brings reduction in inequality.
If we want to uplift the society, we should improve the life standard of our
women and for this education is a weapon.
Questions:
(i) The above passage is mainly about
(a) a
developed country
(b)
problems of women
(c) woman
education
(d)
upliftment of society
(ii) According to the old African proverb 'If you
educate a man you
(a)
educate a woman
(b)
educate a society
(c)
educate a nation
(d)
educate an individual
(iii) We should use education as a weapon
(a) to
improve the life standard of our women
(b) to
educate our men only
(c) to
make our society male-dominated
(d) to
get a job
(iv) Which word in the passage means 'demand of money
or other things before or during the marriage'.
(a)
malnutrition
(b) dowry
(c)
violence
(d)
domestic
(v) Woman education-
(a) helps
a nation become fully developed
(b)
brings down the ratio of inequality
(c) helps
the society in the upliftment of our people
(d) all
of these ((a), (b), (c))
SECTION-B (Writing)
3. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions
given below it.
There are some benefits of solar energy. First of all,
use of solar energy is good for our environment. Solar panels do not emit
harmful greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Solar panels require very
little maintenance because there are no moving parts. They are easy to install.
Their efficiency remained constant over the years. Our government offers
several benefits like subsidy, tax benefits and other incentives to those
people who install solar panels. One another benefit is that the solar energy system
can be used in the remote areas also. Because of its inexhaustible supply and
the potential to reduce our power bills, it is expected to become increasingly
attractive as a renewable energy source.
Questions: -
(i) Give
a suitable title.
(ii) Make
notes on it.
4. You are Jay/Jaya, a student of class 10A, in the
Govt. Model H.S.S. Ujjain. Write an application to your principal requesting
him/her to grant you three days' leave on account of your elder brother's
marriage.
OR
Write a letter to your friend Sonu congratulating him
on his brilliant success in the high school examinations. Mention yourself as
Vaidik, residing at 723, Sanskriti Park, Mhow.
5. Write an essay in about 150 words on any one of the
following topics:
(i) Importance of trees
(ii) Save water
(iii) My Hobby
(iv) The Game I like most
(v) Science in daily life
OR
Write a paragraph in about 150 words on 'Importance of
Games and Sports'.
6 Look at the visual input given below and produce a
small paragraph in about 75 words.
SECTION-C (Grammar)
7 Fill in the blanks: (any five) 1×5=5
(i) Your father is seriously ill. You ____ go home.
(a)
should (b) must (c) ought to
(ii) My father is a ____ teacher.
(a)
retired (b) retire (c) retiring
(iii) How ____ time is left?
(a) many (b) any (c)
much
(iv) He exclaimed "what ____ beautiful
flower!"
(a) a (b) the (c)
an
(v) Sita is ____ than any other girl.
(a)
intelligent (b) more intelligent (c) most intelligent
(vi) I ____ this book yesterday.
(a) read (b) reading (c) reads
(vii) ………… work hard, you will fail.
(a) If (b) As long as (c) Unless
8 Do as directed: (any five) 1×5=5
(i) (a)
Lencho wrote a letter to God.
(b) Lencho was a peasant
(Combine the pair of sentences using
'who')
(ii) (a) My sister is very intelligent.
(b) She
can solve any problem.
(Combine the pair of sentences using
'so.......that')
(iii) He knows me.
(Change the sentence into a passive
voice)
(iv) noise the class room / making/a/girls/ in / were
/ some
(Rearrange these words and make a
sentence)
(v) We are living in this city since 2005.
(Correct the sentence and rewrite)
(vi) I do exercise regularly.
(make an interrogative sentence)
(vii) To find error in others is easy.
(Rewrite the sentence beginning with 'It')
SECTION - D (Text-Books)
9. Choose the correct answer: 1×4=4
(i) Why did Lencho get only seventy pesos?
(a) It
was God's mistake to send him only 70 pesos.
(b) The
postmaster stole the rest of money.
(c) The
postmaster could collect only seventy pesos for an act of charity.
(d)
Lencho made a mistake while counting the money.
(ii) When Anne Frank decides to write a diary, she was
____ schoolgirl.
(a) a
ten-year old
(b) a
thirteen-year old
(c) a
fourteen-year old
(d) an
eighteen-year old
(iii) 'The Proposal' is a one act play about-
(a)
Russian wedding culture
(b)
Indian wedding culture
(c)
Japanese wedding culture
(d)
Chinese wedding culture
(iv) 10 May in South Africa is-
(a) a
winter day
(b) a
monsoon day
(c) a
summer day
(d) an
autumn day
10 (A) Read the extract carefully and answer the
questions : 1×3=3
The baker usually collected his bills at the end of
the month. Monthly accounts used to be recorded on some wall in pencil. Baking
was indeed a profitable profession in the old days. The baker and his family
never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked prosperous. Their
plump physique was an open testimony to this.
Questions:
(i) Monthly accounts of the baker were recorded on
(a) a
note book
(b) the
main door of the house
(c) some
wall in pencil
(d) the
floor
(ii) Which word in the extract means 'a pleasant fat
body'?
(a) plump
(b)
prosperous
(c)
profitable
(d)
testimony
(iii) The baker and his family never starved because
(a) they
were doing some other business also
(b)
baking was a profitable profession
(c) the
village people used to feed them
(d) they
were already very rich
(B) Read the extract carefully and answer the
questions: 1×3=3
I am an
orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern
soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The
silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.
Questions:
(i) From which poem of your text book has this extract
been taken?
(a) Fog (b) The Ball Poem (c) Amanda (d)
For Anne Gregory
(ii) The word 'orphan' means:
(a) a
child having no friend
(b) a
child having no father and mother
(c) a
child who roams the street
(d) a
child who likes freedom
(iii) What does the girl actually want?
(a) she
wants freedom and silence
(b) She
wants to be an orphan
(c) She
wants to remain bare feet
(d) She
wants to walk on soft dust.
11 Answer the questions in about 30 words (any six) 2×6=12
(i) Who
or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?
(ii) Why
was the young seagull afraid to fly?
(iii)
What does Mandela thank the international leaders for?ا
(iv) Why was Mr. Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did
he ask her to do?
(v) What
is the story about the Kodavu people's descent?
(vi) What 'experiment' did Maxwell think Camusfearn a
would be suitable for?
(vii)
What was a source of unending joy for Valli?
(viii) What does Kisa Gotami ask for the second time
she goes from house to house? Does she get it? Why?
12 Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
(any two) 2×2=4
(i) How
does the fog come?
(ii) What
happens to the house when the trees move out of it?
(iii) What do the 'crow' and 'hemlock' represent in
the poem 'Dust of Snow'?
13 Answer the following questions in about 30 words
(any two) 2×2=4
(i) What
does the thief get from Anil in return for his work?
(ii) How
is Ausable different from other secret agents?
(iii) What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not
win anything at a science fair?
14 Answer the questions in about 75 words: (any one) 3×1=3
(i) Why does the postmaster send money to Lencho? Why
does he sign the letter 'God'?
(ii) Why does the narrator of the story 'The Black
Aeroplane say, "I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old
Dakota...."?
15 Answer the following questions in about 75 words:
(any one) 3×1=3
(i) Write
the central idea of the poem 'The Ball Poem'.
(ii) What do 'desire' and 'hate' stand for in the poem
'Fire and Ice'? What does Robert Frost say about how the world will end?
16 Answer the following questions in about 75 words:
(any one) 3×1=3
(i) Why
does Mrs. Hall find the scientist eccentric?
(ii) Why
was the twentieth century called the 'Era of the Book'?
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