JAC Board Class 10 Question Paper 2024 English

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ANNUAL EXAMINATION 2024

Class - X

Subject : ENGLISH

1. Read the passage given below carefully and choose teh correct
options to answer the questions:

Good health is the most important thing in our life. Wealth or education
is of little use to a person suffering from ill health. So, it can be said
that health is wealth. A sick person always feels uncomfortable. Such a
person can never be enlightened in life. Instead of becoming an asset,
he becomes a liability to his family and even society. Again a diseased
body makes the mind sick. If a person is always suffereing from various
diseases, he loses his cheerfulness and becomes irritable, fearful and
timid. A person should maintain good health to enjoy life and make the
best of it. And stay physically healthy, he should eat untritious food and
do exercised.

1. What is the most important thing in life?

(a) Wealth

(b) Good health

(c) Fame

(d) Education

2. How does a sick person feel?

(a) Comfortable

(b) Happy

(c) Uncomfortable

3. Why is a person suffereing from ill health considered to be of little
use?

(a) He is unable to contribute to society

(b) He is unable to enjoy life

(c) He is a liability to his family

(d) All of these

4. How does a diseased body affect the mind?

(a) It makes the mind healthy

(b) It makes the mind sick

(c) It has no effect on the mind

5. What is the way to mainatain good health?

(a) Eating junk food

(b) Avoiding physical activity

(c) Eating nutritious food

(d) Smoking and drinking alcohol

6. Which word in the passage mean's 'numerous'?

(a) Various

(b) Asset

(c) Liability

II. Choose the correct option given in Question Nos. 7-12 and
complete the letter given below:

Birsa Vihar

Ranchi,

10 March, 2024

My dear Rohit,

I have just ..........7......... your progress report from your ............... school.
I am shocked......... 8.......... that you have miserably failed in English and
Maths. Your attendance is below 70%. It seems that you ......... 9 .........
your studies. You have definitely fallen into a bad company. If so, you
should mend your ways before it is to late. It is high time that
you...........10...... avoid bad company and pay attention to your studies.
Always remember that hard work is the key to...........11............... I hope
you will act upon my advice and start working hard ..........12....today.
With love,

Your loving brother,

Rahul.

7. (a) Received

(b) Recieved

(c) Receives

(d) Recieving

8. (a) Seeing

(b) See

(c) To see

(d) Seen

9. (a) Was neglecting

(b) Are neglecting

(c) Neglecting

10. (a) Can

(b) May

(c) Should

(d) Might

11. (a) Success

(b) Succes

(c) Sucess

12. (a) For

(b) From

(c) On

(d) Of

III. Choose the correct option and answer the following questions:

13. The Passive voice of "I am reading a book" is

(a) A book is read by me

(b) A book is being read by me

(c) A book was read by me

(d) A book was being read by me

14. Do you know...............he lives?

(a) When

(b) Which

(c) What

(d) Where

15. He worked hard so that

(a) He may pass

(b) He might pass

(c) He can pass

16. .............dogs seldom bite.

(a) Bark

(b) Barked

(c) Barking

IV. Read the passage given below and choose the correct options to
answer the questions:

The baker usually collected the 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. He, his family and his
servants always looked happy and prosperous.

17. When did the baker collect his bills?

(a) Daily

(b) Once in a week

(c) End of the month

18. Where did the baker record his accounts?

(a) Paper

(b) Wall

(c) Calendar

(d) Diary

19. Which word in the passage means 'Occupation'?

(a) Profession

(b) Profitable

(c) Prosperous

V. Choose the correct option and answer the following questions:

20. How much money did Lencho demand?

(a) 30 pesos

(b) 70 pesos

(c) 100 pesos

(d) 130 pesos

21. What food did the seagull's mother get for it?

(a) Insects

(b) Fish

(c) Lizard

(d) Earthworms

22. Who was kitty?

(a) Anne's diary

(b) Anne's mother

(c) Anne's sister

23. Who did Maddie think would win the contest?

(a) Wanda

(b) Peggy

(c) Maddie

(d) Amanda

24. Where is Coorg?

(a) Kerala

(b) Karnataka

(c) Kashmir

(d) Assam

25. Who has written the poem "Amanda"?

(a) Leslie Norris

(b) Robert Forst

(c) Walt Whitman

(d) Robin Klein

26. How did Tricki look?

(a) Very small

(b) Very thin

(c) Like a bloated sausage

(d) Like a lion

27. What did Max Want?

(a) A report

(b) A pistol

(c) Keys

28. In which class was Richard Ebright when he lost at the Country
Science Fair?

(a) Five

(b) Six

(c) Seven

(d) Eight

29. Matilda was born into a family of

(a) Clerks

(b) Teachers

(c) Nurses

30. What was Bholi's real name?

(a) Surekha

(b) Sulekha

(c) Sumedha

(b) Sulekha

Section-B

Question Nos. 31 to 38 are Very Short Answer Type Questions and
carry 2 marks each. Answer any six of these questions)

Read the passage carefully and answer any six of the following
questions:

Forests are the true wealth of a country. They are called the 'Green
Gold' because they are a country's wealth. There are numberous
advantages of having lush green forests. They given us a numebr of
valuable products. We get timber for building our houses, wood for
furniture, fuel for cooking food etc. Besides these, we ge many other
useful products such as honey, wax, gum, oil, herbs, lac and dyes. The
medicinal value of the trees is well established. Peepal tree gives
maximum of oxygen gas which is very necessary for life. Neem tree has
its own value. It is the most antispectic tree. Many medicines are made
from its leaves.

31. Why are the forests called the 'Green Gold'?

32. What products do the forests give us?

33. Which gas is very necessary for life?

34. Which is the most antiseptic tree?

35. Which word in the passage means 'many"?

36. Complete the following sentences:

(i) They give us a number of …………………

(i) Neem tree has………………..

37. Make sentences with the given words:

(i) Valuable

(ii) Necessary

38. Which tree gives maximum of oxygen gas?

Section - C

(Question Nos. 39 to 46 are Short Answer Type Question and carry 3
marks each. Answer any six of these question in at most 150 words)

39. Fill in the blanks with suitable modals given below (Can, Must, May)

(a) ……………….. you live long

(b) She ………...... speak English fluently.

(c) Candidates……………….answer all teh question

40. Transform the following sentences as directed.

(a) The bird is too small to fly.

(Remove 'too')

(b) I will remember you

(Into Negative)

(c) Sheela said to me, "I am writing a poem."

(Into Indirect Speech)

41. You visited a historical place in India. Write a para describing the
same.

42. Read teh extract given below and answer the question that follow:

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

(a) Name the poem from where this extract taken?

(b) Who has written these lines?

(c) Where was teh dust of snow?

43. What twin obligations does Mandela mention!

44. What was Valli's strongest desire? What did fulfil it?

45. Describe the narrator's experience as he flew the aeroplane into the
storm.

46. Mention three things that humans do and animals do not.

Section - D

(Question Nos. 47 to 52 are Long Answer Type Questions carry 5
marks each. Answer any four of these questions in at most 250
words)

47. Write a letter to your uncle thanking him for a nice birthday gift.

48. How is Coorg a worth visiting place.

49. Write a paragraph like most". on "My hobby" or "The season you

50. Give a character sketch of Horace Danby.

51. How would you assess Griffin as a scientist?

52. Why did Lencho write a letter to God?

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