UNIT TEST
ENGLISH
(Unit -2)
CLASS :
10 MARKS
: 60
I.
Write
the synonyms of the following words 5
×1 = 5
1. profound 2. figure out 3. articulate 4. master 5. irreverent
1. external 2. ancient 3. permanent 4.
fortunate 5. imprisoned
III.
Expand the following abbreviations 3 ×1 = 3
1. SAT 2. SSC 3. NGO
IV.
Split the following words into syllables 4 ×1 = 4
1. astronomy 2. permanent 3. survival 4.
internal
V.
Rewrite as directed 2 × 2 = 4
1. From the context of
the two sentences given below form a single sentence using ‘too’…….’to’.
Kiran is very ill.
She cannot go to school today.
2. From the context of
the two sentences given below form a single sentence
She opened the door.
She started cleaning the room.
VI.
Answer any 5 of the following questions 5 × 2 = 10
1. How is music
different from astronomy?
2. Why did art find a
place, even in concentration camps?
3. What is the
significance of art?
4. How did people
express their grief?
5. What are the two incidents
that stress the importance of music as an essential art?
6. What can artistes do
to save the planet?
VII.
Answer any one of the following questions in a
paragraph 2 × 5 = 10
1. Describe the
courageous way the Americans overcame the ‘Fall of the Twin Towers’.
2. What are the poet’s
reminiscences about his childhood days?
3.
How did the
author’s mother overcome her disappointment of not being able to play the
piano? What does it tell you about the attitude of the woman?
VIII.
Read the following set of poetic lines and answer
the questions 5× 1 = 5
1.
“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me”
a. Who is singing?
b. Who is the woman
referred here?
2.
“Down in the flood of remembrance, …….”
a. Identify the figure
of speech employed in the above line.
3.
“And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano
guide”
a. Pick out the
onomatopoeic word from the above line.
4.
“A child is sitting under the piano, in the boom of
the tingling strings”
a. Who is the child
referred here?
IX.
Read the following sentences and identify the character/speaker 4 ×1 = 4
1.
He got a job in an
accounting firm.
2.
“Well, My baby
boy”
3.
“What is the
weather like up there?”
4.
“Enough is enough”
X.
Match the following 5× 1 = 5
1.
Dad -
Good night Irene
2.
The piano was
positioned - with an
accounting firm
3.
Dad’s new job -
A Flying officer
4.
Mum had seen the
piano - in living room
5.
Neighbours sang - at the Catholic
kindergarten
XI.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 5× 1 = 5
At the height of
Mum’s happiness, however, I began to notice that Dad was moping around the
house and looking increasingly sad and worried. It turned out that, since
returning from the war, he’d been unable to find a job. At that time I was too
young to understand why anyone would get sad and worried about that. Then a few
weeks later, I observed the same big horse pulling a cart down our street and
it clip-clapped right up to our driveway. Soon two men began to load Mum’s
piano on to the wagon while all the neighbours gathered around to watch. Mum
stayed in the kitchen, sobbing. She was the proud person and couldn’t bear to
see her beloved piano sitting on the top of the wagon. Dad sat out in the
backyard next to the kitchen shed, looking sadder than I had ever seen him.
Suddenly it all became clear to me, no job, no money to pay back the loan, no
piano.
Questions:
1. Why was the mother happy?
2. Why did Dad look sad and worried?
3. Why did the horse pulling cart come
there?
4. Why was the mother sobbing in the
kitchen?
5. Why did they lose the piano?
Prepared
by - S. Gopinath B.A., B.Ed.,Graduate
Teacher (Eng)
Govt Boys Hr Sec School, Valappady, Salem.