CBSE SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER – 2, 2019-20
English Language & Literature (Code 184)
Class X

 

Time: 3 hrs.                                                                                                                             M. Marks: 80

General Instructions:

1. This paper is divided into three sections. A, B and C. All questions are compulsory.
2. Separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary. Read these instructions very carefully and follow them.
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.

SECTION – A (READING) 20 MARKS

Q1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: (8 Marks)

It’s a medical fact: Spending time outdoors, especially in green spaces, is good for you. But one question has remained: How long, or how frequently should you experience the great outdoors in order to reap its great benefits? ls there a recommended dose? Just how much nature is enough? 

According to a paper published in ‘Scientific Reports’, the answer is about 120 minutes each week.

The study examined data from nearly 20,000 people in England who took part in the Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment Survey from 2014 to 2016, which asked them to record their activities within the past week. it found that people who spent two hours a week or more outdoors reported being in better health and having a greater sense of well-being than people who didn’t get out at all.

Spending just 60 or 90 minutes in nature did not have as significant an effect. And five hours a week in nature offered no additional health benefit. “What really amazed us was that this was true for all groups of people,” said Mathew P White, an environmental psychologist, who led the study “Two hours a week was the threshold for both men and women, older and younger adults, different ethnic groups, people living in richer or poorer areas, and even for those living with long term illnesses.”

It did not matter how close people lived to recreational spaces or how often they frequented them, as long as they accumulated two hours of outdoor time by the end of the week. ”Nature is not like a pill you get prescribed by your doctor that you have to take in small doses every day” White said. “What matters most is that you’re able to fit it into your lifestyle.” Teasing out the exact cause of these health benefits is difficult. Does being outdoors encourage physical activity? Would anything that gets you off
the couch and away from screens improve your health? Or are healthier, happier people simply more likely to spend time outdoors?

“Most studies like this are cross—sectional, so they only look at one point in time,” said Carla Nooijen, a researcher,—who has examined the effect of natural environments. Tracking habits and responses over time may help shed light on possible mechanisms, she said.

Still, nature prescriptions are growing in popularity. In Sweden, friluftsliv, the term for living close to nature, is so ingrained in everyday life-from commuting by bike to relaxing in lakeside saunas— that there are tax breaks offered as incentives for the lifestyle. In South Korea, the government is establishing “healing forests” for its stressed-out citizens. And last year, NHS Shetland, a national hospital system in Scotland, began allowing doctors at some medical practices to write scripts for outdoor activities as a routine part of patient care.

Questions:

1. What was the result of the study?

(a) Outdoor visitors had better health
(b) Outdoor visitors had greater sense of well- being
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) All of the above

2. What does the researcher say about spending 90 minute at green places?

(a) does have significant effect
(b) does not have significant effect
(c) has negative effect
(d) None of the above

3. What surprised the environmental psychologists?

(a) the principle is applicable to all age groups
(b) the principle has no values
(c) the principle is ineffective
(d) All of the above

4. What does White say about going outdoors?

(a) make it a habit
(b) never go outside
(c) going outside is the wastage of time
(d) None of the above

5. Why were tax breaks offered in Sweden?

(a) to discourage people to stay outdoors
(b) to encourage people to stay outdoor
(c) to continue themselves to house
(d) None of the above

6. What is the government of South Korea planning to do?

(a) to kill people
(b) to treat people
(c) to establish healing forests
(d) to run hospitals

7. The research involved ………………………………

(a) 20,000 people
(b) 21,000 people
(c) 15,000 people
(d) 10,000 people

8. The doctors ………………………………….

(a) do not prescribe pills
(b) focus on nature prescription
(c) prescribe only pills
(d) do not like nature

Q2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: (12 Marks)

1. Have you wondered why some people go through life smoothly while others face all kinds of challenges? The law of karma answers such questions. It states that life is governed by a system of cause and effect. lt is a universal law, like the law of gravity. These laws are impartial. There are no exemptions.

2. The law of karma is akin to Newton’s law. it says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Action includes the desire, intention and thought behind it. Action is like a seed that grows into a sapling, plant and tree. An apple tree will yield an apple tree. it cannot become a mango tree. Similarly a negative action will only result in grief and sorrow; it cannot give happiness. If you want happiness, you must sow happy seeds!

3. Karma, action, is the axle around which life revolves. You are a sportsperson because you desire it, with continuous investment of thought in that field, through vasana, deep rooted interest, your inclination for it. You are a combination of all your vasanas put together; they are the blueprint that determines the kind of body, family and environment you have.

4. Every action leaves a distinct footprint on your personality. A good act will create good vasana, a bad act deposits bad vasana. Musical acts create musical vasana, and business actions make business
vasanas. Vasana results in thought that consolidates as desire, which manifests as action. Action rebounds as more vasana. All living beings are victims of their vasanas. Only humans are gifted with choice of action. You can choose to passively follow your vasana or break free and chart your own course.

5. The theory of reincarnation connects the unexplained disappearance of traits and aspirations at death with the inexplicable appearance of the same at birth. lt says the inner personality of a person just moves from one physical body to another. The movement of mind, intellect and vasanas from one body to another is called death of the former body and birth of the latter.

6. Just as a person discards old clothes to don or wear new ones, a person discards a body and environment no longer conducive for the fulfillment of his desires and moves to another body and atmosphere that may fit the will. Thus death allows you to start afresh on your journey to enlightenment.

2.1 Answer the following questions in 30-40 words: 2X4=8

(a) What governs life? (2)
(b) How is the law of Karma compared to Newton’s law? (2)
(c) What does the writer say about ‘action’? (2)
(d) What does the theory of reincarnation connect? (2)

2.2 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following:

(a) The synonym of ‘Cosmopolitan’ is …………………………….
(i) universal (ii) gravity (iii) impartial (iv) wondered

(b) The synonym of ‘aspiration’ is ………………………………………
(i) grief (ii) desire (iii) chart (iv) combination

(c) The antonym of ‘happiness’ is ……………………………… (para 2)
(d) The antonym of appearance is …………………………….. (para 5)

Section – B (Writing and Grammar) 30 Marks

Q3. The school going students do not follow traffic rules. You are worried about the students who violet the rules. Write a letter to the Superintendent of Police, expressing your concerns about the violation of rules in not more than 150 words. You are Raj / Rajni. (8 Marks)

OR

The modern youth is fashion crazy. Craze for fashion among students is very strong. Taking help from the verbal stimulus given below, write an article expressing your opinion and experiences about ‘Fashion Among Students’ in about 150 words: (8 Marks)

1. A modern man is a tailor-made man. 2. They are weary of dull uniformity of routine life they want change in everything. 3. They want change in house decor, hair do, dress pattern, housing models, even in the manner of walking and talking. 4. They copy their favourite film heroes. Girls are not lagging behind. They follow the popular actress blindly in all sorts of lifestyle. 5. Students discuss politics, drink and smoke, make fun of their lecturers, throw parties, etc.

Q4. Complete the following story: (150—200 words) (10)

Once there was an old man. He had four sons. They always quarreled with one another. One fine day ……………………………..

Q5. Complete the paragraph given below by filling in the blanks choosing the correct option from those that follow: (4 Marks)

Change is often met (a) ………………….. .. suspicious, and the rapidly raging SMS culture (b) …………….. no exception. As the World and its children went ‘mobile’, the cell phone’s most-loved feature—Short Message Service (SMS)—became (c) ……………….. handiest tool (d) ……………………. communication.

(a) (i) with (ii) to (iii) from (iv) by
(b) (i) are (ii) is (iii) am (iv) were
(c) (i) the (ii) a (iii) am (iv) these
(d) (i) in (ii) at (iii) from (iv) of

Q6. In the passage given below one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined as shown. (4 Marks)

Good memory so common that we regard                 …memory is so…
a man does not possess it as accentric                   (a) …………………..
l have heard of father who, having offered               (b) ………………….
to take baby out in a perambulator. was tempted     (c) ………………….
by the sunny morning pause on his journey and      (d) ………. ………..
slip into a public house for a glass of bear.

Q7. Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences. The first one has been done as an example. Write the correct sentences in your answer sheet. (4 Marks)

change/challenge/dealing/huge/with/is/as/a/perceived.
Dealing with change is perceived as a huge challenge.

(a) are/to/employees/workplace/grapple/the/changes/ with/in
(b) everywhere/the/people/multi-talented/respected/are
(c) receptive/become/people/have
(d) successful/people/always/receptive/become

SECTION – C (LITERATURE) 30 Marks

Q8. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (4 Marks)

Coorgi homes have a tradition of hospitality, and they are more than willing to recount numerous tales of valour related to their sons and fathers. Coorg regiment is one of the most decorated in the Indian army, and the first Chief of Indian army, General Cariappa, was a Coorgi. Even now, Kodavus are the only people in India permitted to carry firearms without a licence. The river Cauvery obtains its water from the hills and forests of Coorg. Mahaseer a large fresh water fish-abound in these water. Kingfishers dive for their catch, while squirrels and Iangoors drop partially eaten fruit for the mischief of enjoying the splash and the ripple effect in the clear water.

Questions:

(i) What is famous about the Coorgi homes?

(a) hospitality
(b) food
(c) clothes
(d) culture

(ii) Name the regiment that has received maximum number of awards for bravery.

(a) Kodavus Regiment
(b) Coorg Regiment
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above

(iii) Name the only people in india who are permitted to carry firearms without a licence.
(iv) What do squirrels and Iangoors drop in the clear water?

OR

An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
And he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days, into the harbour where
His ball went, I would not intrude on him
A dime, another ball, is worthless

Questions:

(i) How did the boy react to the loss of his ball?
(a) felt shocked (b) grieved (c) happy (d) ecstatic

(ii) Where was the boy staring down?
(a) at the river (b) at the harbor (c) at the drain (d) all of the above

(iii) Why was the poet not willing to give the boy a dime to buy a new ball?
(iv) Name the poem and the poet.

Q9. Answer any five of the following questions in 30-40 words: (2X5=10 Marks)

(a) What did Lencho write to God in his first letter?
(b) Why did Mandela join African National Congress? What did he gain? What did he lose?
(c) Why was the young seagull alone on the ledge?
(d) How did Max enter Ausable’s room? Could he enter through the window?
(e) Why did Horace decide not to collect paintings?
(f) What did Wanda’s father write in the letter?

Q10. Answer any one of the following in 100-150 words: (8 Marks)

Do you think hunger was the only motivation which made the young seagull fly his maiden flight?

OR

What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about? Does this practice still exist? Discuss the things that are used nowadays?

Q11. Answer any one of the following questions in about 150 words: (8 Marks)

“…I came to know New Mullion better than I did the city…” Elucidate.

OR

Who was Bishamber Nath? What kind of a person was he? What did Bholi say to her father about Bishamber?

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