MBOSE Class 10 Question Paper 2020 for English Additional New Course

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2020

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

( New Course )

( FOR CANDIDATES WITH INTERNAL ASSESSMENT )

Full Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 24

( FOR CANDIDATES WITHOUT INTERNAL ASSESSMENT )

Full Marks : 100
Pass Marks : 30

Time : 3 hours

( FOR ALL CATEGORIES OF CANDIDATES )

General Instructions :
(i) The candidates are advised to attempt all questions
accordingly.
(ii) Marks allocated to every question are indicated against
each.
(iii) Question Nos. 1 to 14 are to be answered by all
Candidates.
(iv) Question Nos. 15 to 18 are to be answered by
Candidates without Internal Assessment only.

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1. Answer any one of the following questions in about
100 words : 6

(a) Explain the relevance of the title, A High Dive.

Or

(b) ‘Nasty world’ muttered the husband with a sad
smile.
What made the husband say those words and how
did he try to explain the plight of his wife to the
passengers?

Or

(c) Describe the King’s semi-barbaric method of
administering justice.

2. Answer any three of the following questions in about
30–40 words each : 2×3=6

(a) Why did the man turn down such an excellent offer
from the circus-manager?

(b) Describe the appearance of the bulky woman.

(c) What did Rama Rao plan to do with the money after
they sell their bungalow?

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(d) What did Ratan say after the postmaster gave her
money as he was getting ready to leave?

(e) Why was the trial of the youth in the King’s arena
‘an especially important occasion’ ?

3. State whether the following statements are True or False
(any five) : 1×5=5

(a) Rama Rao sent out a dozen applications a day, and
wore his feet out looking for employment.

(b) The postmaster himself told Ratan that he had
applied for a transfer and his application had been
accepted.

(c) The manager stood for his wife’s proposal of another
Wall of Death.

(d) The woman’s grief had been greater in seeing that
none of the passengers could share her feelings.

(e) The arena of the King was built to widen and develop
the mental energies of the people.

(f) On the fateful day of the results Rama Rao opened
the journal and found that his blunders were few.

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4. Answer any one of the following questions in about
80 words : 5

(a) Describe the central idea of the poem, The Education
of Nature.

Or

(b) According to the poet, what is God’s plan for man in
The Man with the Hoe?

Or

(c) Explain what the poet means when he says that we
should treat ‘Triumph’ and ‘Disaster’ just the same.

5. Fill in the blanks with the correct options given in the
brackets (any five) : 1×5=5

(a) Where _____ dance their wayward round.
(rivers/rivulets)

(b) Back on the _____ beach I stood again.
(curving/bending)

(c) Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the _____.
(suns/stars)

(d) But _____ allowance for their doubting too.
(take/make)

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(e) People everywhere talked of the inches _____.
(rising/growing)

(f) And hers shall be the _____ balm.
(soothing/breathing)

6. Explain, with reference to the context, choosing any
one from each group : 5×2=10

GROUP—A
(a) He remembered the touch on his forehead of soft
hands, conch shell bangles.

(b) If country exists, if country is a natural necessity,
like bread, of which each of us must eat in order not
to die of hunger, somebody must go to defend it.

(c) His wife looked at his face, understood, and turned
in without uttering a word; the children took the cue
and filed in silently.

GROUP—B
(a) A moment there my frightened heart hung slack,
and then the rich, retarded blood came back.

(b) He said :
the river has water enough
to be poetic about
only once a year.

(c) If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch.

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7. Answer any one of the following questions in about
100 words : 6
(a) Why did Lysander and Hermia want to run away and
how did they plan to elope?
Or
(b) What was the power of the magic flower and how did
Oberon use it?
Or
(c) Describe what Bottom thought and did after the
charm of the love-juice was removed.

8. Answer any two of the following questions in about
2 or 3 sentences each : 2×2=4
(a) Who is Hippolyta?
(b) Why did Helena decide to break the news of
Hermia’s flight to Demetrius?
(c) What did Oberon tell Puck to do after Titania had
given the changeling boy to him?
(d) What did Oberon order his attendants to do at the
end of the play?

9. (a) Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the text
choosing from the options given in the brackets
(any three) : 1×3=3

(i) Lysander tells Hermia that he has a widow _____.
(cousin/aunt)

(ii) Oberon asks for the changeling boy to be his
_____.
(follower/disciple)

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(iii) Titania tells Bottom that she finds him both wise
and _____.
(beautiful/handsome)

(iv) Egeus wants the law of the land on Lysander’s
_____.
(shoulders/head)

(b) State whether the following statements are
True or False (any three) : 1×3=3
(i) The Duke tells Hippolyta that he feels sorry
because he hurt her and her people in the war.
(ii) Oberon tells Puck that he wants to murder
Titania using a ‘love-in-idleness’ flower.
(iii) Flute says that Bottom is the epitome of
sweetness of voice.
(iv) Theseus thinks that lovers, like madmen, have
minds which can turn out fantastic stories.

10. Amplify any one of the following : 5
(a) Silence is golden
(b) Nature is the best physician
(c) Strike while the iron is hot

11. Summarize the given passage : 5
Nevertheless the past is over and it is the future that
beckons us now—that future is not one of ease or resting
but of incessant striving so that we might fulfill the

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pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take
today. The service of India means the service of the
millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and
ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The
ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been
to wipe out every tear from every eye. That may be
beyond us but so long as there are tears and suffering,
so long our work will not be over. And so we have to
labour and to work and to work hard, to give reality to
our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are
also for the world, for all the nations and the people are
too closely knit together today for anyone to imagine that
it can live apart.
Or
Write a diary entry on the following : 5
While walking home from school you saw an eight-year-
old child begging by the street. You were moved by the
scene. Describe your feelings about what you saw.

12. You want to sell your Maruti car. Draft a suitable
advertisement in about 50 words to be published in the
‘For Sale’ column of a newspaper. 4

13. Rewrite the following sentences replacing the underlined
words with a single word. Make changes where
necessary (any five) : 1×5=5

(a) The period between childhood and youth is
considered as a period of storm and stress.

(b) John is a professional rider of horses in a race.

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(c) Bill Gates is a man who loves mankind.

(d) My mother always advise us to look at the bright
side of things.

(e) Draw an eight-sided figure.

(f) Don’t be a person who spends money lavishly.

14. Write an essay on any one of the following topics : 8

(a) Life without modern gadgets.

(b) Your favourite book

[ For Candidates without Internal Assessment ]

15. Name the writer/poet and the lesson from which each of
the following extracts has been taken : 1×5=5

(a) Grace that shall mould the maiden’s form by silent
sympathy.

(b) There’s the old Mermaid’s tank. It’s just the thing.
Get somebody to fetch it.

(c) Paternal love is not like bread that can be broken
into pieces and split among the children in equal
shares.

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(d) She raised her hand and made a slight, quick
movement toward the right.

(e) The wet stones glistening like sleepy crocodiles.

16. Develop a story based on the outline given below and
suggest a suitable title to it : 5

Sun and wind challenged—would be stronger—would
strip the clothes off—first passer-by—wind puffed up all
air in lungs—man drew clothes—feeling cold—pulled on
cloak—sun only shone—man felt hotter—took off
clothes—wind felt ashamed—sun smiled—dispute
settled.

17. Fill in the blanks with the correct options given in the
brackets : 1×5=5

(a) This _____, I to myself will take.
(girl/child)

(b) _____ I rose to meet the cat-like sea.
(Swiftly/Quickly)

(c) O _____, lords and rulers in all lands.
(masters/kings)

(d) Yours is the _____ and everything in it.
(World/Earth)

(e) The new poets still ____ the old poets.
(quoted/imitated)

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18. Match the following words in Column—A with their
appropriate meanings in Column—B : 1×5=5

Column—A Column—B

(a) Bewitch (i) praise by clapping

(b) Meadow (ii) a young woman

(c) Wandering (iii) to cast a spell over

(d) Applaud (iv) a piece of grassland

(e) Maiden (v) travelling aimlessly from
place to place

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