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

Marking Scheme

SECTION – A (READING) 20 MARKS

Q1. Answers.

1 (d) All of the above
2 (b) does not have significant effect
3 (d) all of the above
4 (a) make it a habit
5 (b) to encourage people to stay outdoor
6 (d) The government of South Korea is planning to establish ’healing forests’ for its stressed-out citizens
7. (b) 2000 people.
8. (b) focus on nature prescription.

Q2. Answers.

2.1 (a) Life is governed by a system of cause and effect. It is a universal law, like the law of gravity. These laws are impartial.

(b) The law of Karma is compared to Newton’s law. It says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Action includes the desire, intention and thought behind it.

(c) Action is like a seed that grows into a sapling, plant and tree. It is the axle around which life revolves.
(d) The theory of reincarnation connects the unexplained disappearance of traits and aspirations at death with the inexplicable appearance of the same at birth.

2.2 (a) Universal
(b) Desire
(c) Grief
(d) Disappearance

Section – B (Writing and Grammar) 30 Marks

Q3. Answer.

H.No. 165, Sec. 4
Ambala

4 Jan. 20XX

The Superintendent of Police
Ambala

Sir

Sub: A complaint regarding students, who do not follow rules.

It is to bring to your notice that the school going students do not follow the traffic rules. There are many students who come to school riding their motor bikes and scooties. But they are habitual of not using helmets. Triple riding has become a fashion in the city. These students do not possess the driving licence even. They have no control on the speed of the vehicle. You may be aware of the accidents that take place in the city.

I humbly request you to check the underage driving and penalise the students who disobey the traffic
rules and oblige.

Yours faithfully

Raj

OR

Answer.

FASHION AMONG STUDENTS

Undoubtedly, pupils are fashion-crazy. They seek variety and novelty. They grow weary of dull uniformity of the regimented life. They need changes in house decoration, hair do, dress pattern, housing models and even in the manner of walking and talking. Gone are the days when the students were taught ‘simple living and high thinking’. Fashion is the order of the day in the brave new World. As soon as a student is promoted to high classes, his gait, talk, hair style, dress pattern go under a sea change. He starts following the celebrities. Fashion has also affected girls. Their short skirts show their craze for displaying their figures to the limit of immodesty. Their trousers do not let them sit properly. Smoking go on strike on petty issues, pass remarks on others, discuss polities and throw parties. Many bad habits have become the criteria for fashion.

Q4. Ans. Once there was an old man. He had four sons. They always quarreled with one another. He was worried about his sons. One day he became ill. His condition became critical. He wished to teach a lesson to his children. He asked them to bring some twigs. His children brought the twigs and stood before him. He asked them to break them one by one. The children broke the twigs easily. They did not face any problem. Then he asked them to tie the twigs together and asked them to break the log of wood. They tried to break that but could not succeed. The old man told them that unity is strength. People would use them and throw if they did not live together. Their unity would become the source of happiness and contentment. So, they should not fight with one another. His sons understood his words and promised that they would always live together and would never quarrel. The old man took his last breath with peace.

Q5. Answer.

(a) (i) with (b) (ii) is (c) (i) the (d) (iv) of

Q6. Answer.

Before        After
(a) man who does
(b) of a father 
(c) take the baby
(d) morning to pause

Q7. Answer.

(a) Employees are to grapple with changes in the workplace.
(b) The multi-talented people are respected everywhere.
(c) People have become receptive.
(d) Receptive people always become successful.

SECTION – C (LITERATURE) 30 Marks

Q8. Answer.

(i) (a) Coorgi homes have a tradition of hospitality.
(ii) (b) Coorg Regiment has received maximum number of awards for bravery.
(iii) Kodavus are the only people in India who are permitted to carry firearms without a licence.
(iv) Squirrels and Iangoors drop partially eaten fruit for the mischief of enjoying the splash and the ripple effect in the clear water.

OR

Answer.

(i) (a) The boy felt shocked at the loss of his ball.
(ii) (b) He was staring at the harbour where his ball had gone and lost.
(iii) The poet was not willing to give the boy a dime because he thought that the balls were bound to lose and it was useless to buy a new ball.
(iv) The name of the poem is The Ball Poem composed by Iohn Berryman.

Q9. Answer.

(a) Lencho’s corn was completely destroyed. He wrote to God that if he did not help him, his family would die of starvation. He requested God to send him a hundred pesos so that he could sow his field again and survive until the harvest of the crop.

(b) The black and coloured people did not have any freedom. Mandela joined African National Congress to struggle for the freedom of his people. He lost his home, job and family but he gained courage and people’s trust.

(c) The seagull could fly but he felt terrified and scared. His two brothers and the sister had flown away but he stayed behind. He thought that his wings would not support him. So, he was alone on the ledge?

(d) Max had a pass key. He unlocked the door to enter Ausable’s room. He could not come through the window. It was on the sixth floor and there was no balcony beneath it.

(e) Horace was tempted to collect paintings for a moment. But he decided to break the safe to buy books because paintings took too much room.

(f) Wanda’s father informed the teacher that Wanda and ]ake would not come to school. Now, they would go to a big city where people would not make fun of their names. This letter was replete with humiliation and frustration.

Q10. Answer. Certainly, it was hunger that motivated the young seagull fly his maiden flight. The members of his family had already deserted him because he could not muster his courage to fly. His parents rebuked him in shrill voice. They threatened him that he would starve to death if he did not fly. He was desperate with hunger. He screamed to his mother for food. His mother flew quite close to him with a piece of fish in her beak. But she stopped when she came opposite to him. He, ultimately, realised that he must do something to get food. As such, he dived to catch the food from his mother’s beak. This was his first attempt to fly. In doing so, he opened up his wings outwards. He saw that he was flying and not falling. His fear was gone. He had made his first flight.

OR

Answer. The elders in Goa are often heard reminiscing nostalgically about those good old Portuguese days, the Portuguese and their famous loaves of bread. Those eaters of loaves might have vanished but the makers are still there. They still have amongst them the mixers, the moulders, and those who bake the loaves. Those age-old, time-tested furnaces still exist. The fire in the furnaces has not yet been extinguished. The thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo, heralding his arrival in the morning can still be heard in some places. May be the father is not alive but the son still carries on the family profession. These bakers are even today, know as pader in Goa. The practice of selling loaves of bread in Goa still exists. The elderly people recollect the past to make the young generation aware of the past practices.

Q11. Answer. Bill and the narrator were searching Lutkins. The narrator was delighted to get the hack driver’s help and support. They sat on the hilltop and looked over the pastures and creek among trees. Bill talked of New Mullion and painted a picture in words of all the people in it. He noticed everything, but no matter how much he might laugh at people, he also understood and forgave their foolishness. He described the minister’s wife who sang the loudest in church when she was most in debt. He commented on the boys who came back from college in fancy clothes. He told about the lawyer whose wife could never succeed in getting him to put on both a collar and a tie on the same day. He made them all alive. The narrator came to know New Mullion better than he did the city and to love it better. Bill had no idea of colleges and cities. But he had travelled around a lot of the country. From his adventures he had brought back a philosophy of simplicity and laughter.

OR

Answer. Bish.amber Nath was a well-to-do grocer. He came with a big party of friends and relations with him for the wedding. Bholi’s father was overjoyed to see such pomp and splendour. He had never dreamt that his fourth daughter would have such a grand wedding. But Bishamber Nath demanded five
thousand rupees to marry Bholi. Ramlal requested him not to play with their honour. But he was adamant and got five thousand rupees. On Bishamber’s greedy face appeared a triumphant smile. He had gambled and won. But Bholi was a bold and confident girl. She refused to marry him. She said that she gave her consent to marry the same old man for the sake of the family’s honour. But she would not have a mean, greedy and contemptible coward as her husband. She also called him a heartless creature. Bholi took a bold decision and proved that girls were not dumb-driven cows. Bishamber Nath returned. But her father was grieved and sad. He stood rooted to the ground. Bholi set an example before the society and her teacher felt happy to see all this.

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