one sun one world one grid · 2) polyglot b) a person who studies languages 3) linguist c) a person...
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Section- A (Reading Comprehension)
30 m
(1-5): Read the following passage carefully.
He moved to Los Angles in 2007, and planned to
continue to travel the world. In 2009, he visited south
America the middle east. In 2008, Kanae Miyahara, a
beautiful young girl, whose mother was a Mexican
and whose father was Japanese, attended to a meet-
ing where Nick was guest speaker in Texas. Kanae
was attracted to Nick’s message. From that time, they
were in touch with each other to share their ideas on
giving hope to the needy and became close friends.
Finally, they fell in love and their engagement hap-
pened in August 2011. Nick put the engagement ring
on Kanae’s finger with his mouth and then said the
most beautiful words every girl wants to hear coming
out from her man’s mouth: ‘Baby, I love you.’
Nick and Kanae got married on February 12, 2012
and on February 13, 2013 they were blessed with the
birth of a healthy baby boy with full body.
Nick and Kanae wrote inspirational book, ‘Love
without limits’ together and it was published in 2014.
(Attitude is Altitude)
Now answer the following questions. 5 ´ 2 = 10 m
1. Why did Nick want to visit different countries?
2. Where did Kanae and her parents see Nick?
3. Match the following.
a) Nick’s engagement 1) 2014
b) Nick’s visit to America 2) 2011
c) Nick and Kanae’s book 3) 2007
published
A) a-2, b-1, c-3 B) a-3, b-2, c-1 C) a-1, b-3, c-2
4. The passage tells two things about Nick, they are
……….
A) He is a foot-ball player, he is a motivational
speaker
B) He is a fan of foot-ball game, he is a motivation-
al speaker
C) He is a surfing player, he is a motivational
speaker
5. The book ‘Love without limits’ is ………………….
A) An inspirational book B) A motivational book
C) A religious book
Q.no (6-8): Read the following carefully.
There is no reason to be proud,
and be on high cloud.
We have to go a long way,
we have to think seriously,
else we end up miserably.
(A plea for India)
Choose the correct answers to the following
questions. 3 ´ 2 = 6 m
6. The central idea of the poem is …………………
A) India is a strong nation
B) India needs to be developed
C) Indians are to be proud to have strong nation
7. ………. Be on a high cloud. This means………
A) Indians are high in character
B) Indians are high in intelligence
C) Indians are high in level.
8. The last two lines represent ……………
A) A warning B) An order
C) A piece of suggestion
Questions (9-10): Read the following passage
(conversation) carefully.
Abel: of course, it’s me. Don’t do that Amelia. What
the devil do you mean by this tomfoolery?
Mrs. Jordan: You took us by surprise, father. Are you
keeping quite well?
Abel: (trying to catch the words) Eh? What?
Mrs. Jordan: Are you quite well?
Abel: Aye, I am right enough but for a bit of headache.
(looking at Amelia) Amelia, what the dickens did
I do with my new slippers.
Now, answer the following questions. 2 ´ 2 = 4 m
9. What the dickens did I do with my new slippers?
The meaning of the sentence is…..
A) Abel made the Mrs. Jordan surprise.
B) Abel made the Mrs. Jordan happy.
C) Abel made the Mrs. Jordan confused.
10. Mrs. Jordan was surprised because…………
A) Abel wore new slippers, that they wanted to
steal
B) Abel suddenly made a sight whom they think he
was dead
C) Abel made an entry like a ghost
(11-15): Read the following data given in the
bar- diagram carefully.
Indian Mobile Phones Technology Forecast
Now answer the following questions. 5 ´ 2 = 10 m
11. How many years are being taken into account?
12. When were the least number of CDMA phones
sold?
13. The maximum number of GSM phones expected
to be sold in the year….........
A) 2005 B) 2007 C) 2009
14. The number of CDMA units in the year 2009
is……........
A) 15 B) 10 C) 5
15. Which of the following statements is correct?
A) The usage of CDMA phones is decreasing over
the years
B) The usage of GSM phones is increasing over
the years
C) The selling of both CDMA & GSM in the year
2003 is equal
Section-B (Grammar & Vocabulary)
16. Combine the following the sentences using
‘Which’ 1 ´ 2 = 2 m
The silk sarees are made in Benares. They are
popular all over the world.
17. Change the following into passive voice.
1 ´ 2 = 2 m
I will do it.
18. Combine the following sentences using 'as'
1 ´ 2 = 2m
The buses were full of passengers. He preferred
reservation.
19. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions given
in brackets. 2 ´ 1 = 2 m
a) The C.M ………………(in addition to/along
with/according to)the ministers attended the
assembly session.
b) The exams were postponed ............ (due to/in
spite of/ instead of) unwanted Corona
holidays.
20. Fill in the blanks with suitable verb forms.
2 ´ 1 = 2 m
I ………… (wash) my hands before I
……………(have) lunch.
21. Your brother is not wearing mask when he goes
out. Advise him to wear. 2 m
22. Change the following into polite request. 2 m
Srikar to Siddhu: I am busy. Call me in the
evening.
23. What do the following sentences mean 2 m
I) Be safe, stay at home
a) Order b) Request
c) Suggestion d) Permission
II) You are selected for IAS.
a) Giving information b) Giving advice
c) Giving permission d) Giving an order
24. Read the paragraph and write the synonyms of
the underlined words choosing from the words
given in the box. 4 m
Moving Comfort Enjoy Slowly Desired Tired
Father wanted to say something but the bus
started moving. I saw my father gradually receding
into the distance. I saw that the road we had come
by looking like a giant motionless rope. Father
would use the same road to go back home.
Simultaneously our journeys started in two
opposite directions, with me seated in the luxurious
seat of a bus and father walking back with weary
legs on the pebble-strewn road.
25. Read the paragraph and match the words under
‘A’ with their antonyms under ‘B’. (Write your
answers and their corresponding numbers in the
answer book.) 4 m
A large crowd gathered at our place the day I was
to live. People had come to wish me luck. It was
10:20 when I left for Dirang. My father had already
left. As I had to do a bit of catching up I walked fast.
Three kilometers down the road, I caught up with
my father. Father said, ‘you are late. Would you like
to rest for sometime’?
a) Gathered ( ) 1) Early
b) Luck ( ) 2) Slow
c) Fast ( ) 3) Uttered
d) Late ( ) 4) Unfortunate
5) Scattered
6) Small
26. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words
given in brackets. 4 m
That is why in 1975, at the very first United Nations
……………… (Conference/confer/conferred) for
the Women in Mexico, many of the women were
saying, ‘We need food, we need water, we need
clean ……………… (drink/drinkable/ drinking)
water, we need fodder for our animals’. And I was
wondering, what has happened? These are all
things that were there twenty years ago when I was
a child. The ……………… (environmental/environ-
ment/environmentation) had changed; and that’s
when I started this campaign to restore the
…………… (vegetation/vegetate/vegetarian) and
to restore the land and to rehabilitate the forests.
27. Complete the following spellings with ai, ia, au,
ua, or ea 2 ´ 1 = 2 m
Nick’s father was a computer programmer and
accountant and he t_ _ ght his little son how to type
with his little toe as just six years old. His mum
invented a spec_ _ l plastic device that meant he
could hold a pen and pencil.
28. Complete the words with correct suffixes given in
brackets. 2 ´ 1 = 2 m
a) He was too honour ....... (ble/able) to have gone
without paying his premium.
b) One thing we may as well decide now is the
announce ....... (ment/mant) in the papers.
29. Find the wrongly spelt words and write the correct
spelling. 2 ´ 1 = 2 m
a) Lethargy Purpose Physical Solution
b) Initially Luggage Admiration Belittled
30. Read the following dictionary entry of the word
“Pious” given below. 2 ´ 1 = 2 m
Now answer the following questions using the
information above.
a) What is the adverb of Pious?
b) Write the antonym of Pious ?
31. Arrange the following words under correct
headings. 8 ́ 14
= 2 m
aye-aye ping-pong bang-bang zig-zag
boo-boo tip-top chop-chop tick-tock
Duplicative expressions Alliterative expressions
32. Match the following one word substitutes in
PART-A with their meanings in PART-B.
(Write only the numbers and their corresponding
letters in your answer book.) 2 m
PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS - 2020
Time: 3 Hrs. 15 Min. ENGLISH PAPER - I & II Max. Marks: 100
TENTH CLASS MODEL PAPER
PART - A PART - B
1) Teetotaller a) A person who studies animals behaviour
2) Polyglot b) A person who studies languages
3) Linguist c) A person who studies human race
4) Pragamatist d) A person who hates alcohol
e) A person who knows many languages
f) A person who solves problem in a sensible way
Section - C (Creative Expression)
33. a) In the lesson, ‘The Journey ‘The narrator was waiting for a porter to carry his
luggage but he could not find anyone. Finally, his father decided to carry his
luggage. At first he protested as there was no chance he accepted.
Now, write a possible conversation between the Narrator and his father in this
context. 10 m
(OR)
b) In the lesson ‘Every success story is also a story of great failures’ a young
man asked Socrates to tell him the secret of success. The next day Socrates
took him to a river and made him know by doing practically.
Now, imagine that you are the student and write a dairy to this context.
34. a) Write a letter to your uncle asking for his advice in which group to join after
tenth class and also ask for future related courses to the groups concerned.
10 m
Include the following in your answer.
Which group to join- and benefits- related courses and employments- routes
both for government and private sectors- ways for preparations- recommend for
best colleges.
(OR)
b) You know that N.R Narayana Murthy is an Indian social worker and author.
He is the chairperson of Infosys. He is also a computer engineer and
scientist.
Now write a brief biographical sketch using the facts given below.
Birth : 20th August 1946
Place of Birth : Shidlaghatta, kolar , Mysore
Parents : N. Rama Rao (Father), Padmavathamma Murthy
(Mother)
Wife : Sudha Murthy
Education : B.Tech in NIT and M. Tech in IIT Kanpur
Occupation : Board of Director for United Nations Foundation, Member of
Advisory Board of Indusage Partners
Children : Roshan Murthy, Akshata Murthy
Awards : Padma Sri (2000), Padma Vibhushan (2008) Legion of
Honor (2008)
Books written : A Better India: A Better World
Career : Research Associate at IIM Ahmedabad
35. Read the following passage carefully focusing on the underlined parts.
Sudha Murthy, the wife of Narayana Murthy, is an Indian social worker and
author. Murthy began her professional career as computer scientist and
engineer. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. She has founded
several orphanages, participated in rural development efforts, supported the
movement to provide all Karnataka schools with computer and library facilities,
and established the ‘The Murthy Classical Library of India’ at Harvard University.’
Murthy also teaches computer science. She composed a fiction ‘Dollar Sose.’
One of her most successful stories is ‘How I Taught my Grandmother to Read &
Other Stories’.
Now, frame ‘WH’ questions to get the underlined parts in the passage as
answers. 10 m
(OR)
b) Study the following pie-chart
Amount of water we use for different purposes
Now, write a paragraph describing the information depicted in the diagram
above.
-G. Sudarshan
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Instant PAN
On 28 May 2020, the Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman launched a facility for instant allot-
ment of online PAN (Permanent Account
Number) card by giving the Aadhaar details.
Only those applicants who have a valid
Aadhaar number and have a mobile number
registered with Aadhaar can avail this facility.
This facility was introduced to ease the
process of PAN allotment. The allotment
process is paperless and an electronic PAN (e-
PAN) is issued to the applicants at free of cost.
PMMSY
To bring Blue Revolution through sustainable
and responsible development of fisheries sec-
tor, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had given its approval
for implementation of the Pradhan Mantri
Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).
The Scheme will be implemented during 5
years between FY 2020-2025. PMMSY aims to
enhance fish production to 220 lakh metric tons
by 2024-25 from 137.58 lakh metric tons in
2018-19 at an average annual growth rate of
about 9% and generate about 55 lakh direct
and indirect employment opportunities in the
fisheries sector along with the supply and value
chain.
The PMMSY had two components namely,
Central Sector Scheme and Centrally
Sponsored Scheme (CSS) at a total estimated
investment of
Rs. 20,050 crore comprising of Central share of
Rs. 9,407 crore, State share of Rs. 4,880 crore
and Beneficiaries share of Rs. 5,763 crore.
Repo rate Reduced
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das announced a
cut in the repo rate by 40 basis points to 4 per
cent, while the reverse repo rate was simulta-
neously reduced to 3.35 per cent, after the
Monetary Policy Committee meeting held on 22
May 2020. The marginal standing facility (MSF)
rate and the Bank Rate reduced to 4.25 per
cent from 4.65 per cent and he also said that
the loan moratorium will be extended by three
months till 31 August 2020, making it a six-
month moratorium. As a part of monetary policy
review, RBI announced few measures that can
be divided into four categories to improve the
functioning of markets, to support exports and
imports, to ease financial stress by giving relief
on debt servicing and better access to working
capital and to ease financial constraints faced
by State Governments.
PAi
To improve digital financial inclusion, National
Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) launched
an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot, PAi.
The chatbot creates awareness around its
products like FASTag, RuPay, UPI, AePS on a
real time basis. PAi is available on a 24x7 basis
and users can ask their queries via text or voice
on the websites of NPCI, RuPay, and UPI
Chalega. The global RuPay Cardholders also
can access PAi chatbot.
New PM of Lesotho
On 20 May 2020, Moeketsi Majoro was sworn
in as Lesotho’s new Prime Minister.
Majoro was the former finance minister of the
nation, who promised to tackle COVID-19. He
said that removal of poverty and unemployment
his main priorities. The ex-Prime Minister
Thomas Thabane, resigned under pressure
over a scandal involving the killing of his wife.
Tsai Ing-wen again
Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as the president of
Taiwan for the second term. She represents the
ruling Democratic Progressive Party which
strongly advocates the country’s formal inde-
pendence from China. She said that Taiwan
plays a more active role in the peace, stability
and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific region and
opposes ‘one country, two systems’ theory. On
the other hand, China sees Tsai Ing-wen as a
threat and has repeatedly said it will use force to
prevent the independence of the island nation.
OSOWOG
India has come up with a ‘One Sun One World
One Grid’ (OSOWOG) initiative to develop and
build a global ecosystem of interconnected
renewable energy resources that can be seam-
lessly shared. The Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy (MNRE) started the
process to design a road map and institutional
framework for implementing the ambitious
OSOWOG plan. The initiative plans to build
global consensus about sharing solar
resources among more than 140 countries of
West Asia and South- East Asia. International
Solar Alliance (ISA) was the initiation of India
which aims to deploy over 1,000 GW of solar
generation capacity globally. It also mobilizes
investment of over $1 trillion by 2030.
Sources: American Water Works Association Research Foundation. "Residential
End Uses of Water". 1999
National
General
Awareness
International
International Day of UN Peacekeepers
International Day of United Nations
Peacekeepers celebrated to honour the con-
tribution of fallen security personnel on 29
May every year. On this day, people pay trib-
ute to military, police or civilians who served
in UN Peacekeeping programs and opera-
tions. The theme is 'Women in Peacekeeping:
A Key to Peace’. The theme has been chosen
as it is the 20th anniversary of the adoption of
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on
Women, Peace and Security.
‘Gender Advocate of the year Award’
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Others
- Amara Veeraswamy
One Sun One World One GridTsai Ing-wen