English Question Paper -2014 - UP Board

Previous Year Question paper Class 10 UP Board 

SECTION-A - 

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
"The Ganga especially is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her racial memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats..."
(i) What does the Ganga symbolize?
(ii) What does the Ganga remind Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of?
2. Answer one of the following questions in about 60 words:
(a) What circumstances forced Lencho to seek help from God?
 
(b) What did Socrates ask his countrymen to do, to make Athens a perfect state?
 
3. Answer two of the following questions in about 25 words each:
 
(a) Why should we train ourselves in good citizenship?
 
(b) Why had Yama taken the form of Yaksha?
 
(c) What did Tansen do to make Hari Das sing?
 
4. Match the words of List A with their meanings in List B:
 
List A    List B
(a) stare    at length
(b) urged    possessions
(c) at last    insisted
(d) belongings    gaze
 
 
 
5. Read the following piece of poetry and answer the questions given below it:
Glorious fountain!
Let my heart be
Fresh, changeful, constant,
Upward like thee!
(a) Why is the fountain said to be 'glorious'?
(b) What qualities of the fountain does the poet wish to have?
6. Give the central idea of one of the following poems:
(a) The Nation Builders
(b) The Perfect Life
OR Write four lines from one of the poems given in your text-book.

7. Answer two of the following questions in about 25 words each:
(a) What did Edison find in his mother, his best teacher?
(b) Why did the guilty tremble when they came before Vikramaditya?
 
(c) What did Pierre de Coubertin say about the Olympic Games?
 
8. Point out true and false statements in the following:
 
(a) Jesse Owens was a German athlete.
 
(b) Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of modern Olympic Games.
 
(c) Vikramaditya loved injustice.
 
(d) Edison loved to experiment even in his childhood.
 
9. Select the most suitable alternative to complete the following statements:
 
(a) Edison got a beating from his mother because............
(i) he had sold the eggs
(ii) he had hatched the eggs
(iii) he had smashed the eggs and spoiled his shirt
(iv) he had eaten up all the eggs
(b) The angel took the judgment seat to............
(i) the sea
(ii) the hell
(iii) another kingdom
(iv) the sky
(c) Luz Long was a real sportsman because............
(i) he was a German
(ii) he was tall and well-built
 
(iii) his main object in games was, not conquering but fighting well
 
(iv) he loved Negroes
 
(d) The guilty trembled before Vikramaditya because............
 
(i) he was intelligent enough to discover their guilt
 
(ii) he looked fearful
 
(iii) he was very cruel
 
(iv) he was unjust

SECTION-B : Previous Year Question paper Class 10 UP Board 

10. Do as indicated against each of the following sentences:
(i) school not did to he go (Frame a correct sentence by re-ordering the words)
(ii) Help him. (Change into passive voice)
(iii) My friend said to me, "Will you go to Mumbai?". (Change into indirect speech)
(iv) His sister was _______ by her father. (Use correct form of the verb 'beat')
11.
(a) Choose the correct preposition: He was made aware _______ danger. (with, for, from, of)
(b) Complete sentence: The teacher will take extra classes to _______
(c) Complete spellings: (i) dev_t_on (ii) con_c_nce
(d) Punctuate using capital letters: he said to his friend ravi i can not write french.

12. Translate the following into English: ( Previous Year Question paper Class 10 UP Board )
"मीना कक्षा दस की विद्यार्थी है। वह इलाहाबाद पब्लिक स्कूल में पढ़ती है। वह पंद्रह वर्ष की है। वह बहुत अच्छी गायिका है। वह प्रायः स्कूल के सभी समारोहों में नृत्य करती है। वह स्वभाव से बड़ी मिलनसार है। वह अपने सहपाठियों से अच्छा व्यवहार करती है। उसने पाँच वर्ष की आयु से नृत्यकला सीखना शुरु कर दिया था। वह एक प्रसिद्ध नर्तकी बनना चाहती है।"

13. Write an application to your Principal requesting for a week long leave for arranging your sister's marriage.
OR Write a letter to your games teacher requesting him, to nominate you, the captain of college football team.

14. Write an essay on one of the following topics in about 60 words:
(a) My English Teacher
(b) Holi
(c) A Railway Coolie

15. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions set thereon:
"Milk is a complete food. It contains fats, protein and calcium. It is very good for growing children. We get milk from cows, buffaloes and goats. The milk should be boiled well before drinking..."
(i) How is milk a complete food?
(ii) What other eatable things can be prepared from milk?

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