The previous year Class – X Special English Subject question paper for preparation of exam conducted by Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education is as follows:
SECTION A
READING
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :-
Telescope is the main tool of the modern astronomer to study stars
and other celestial objects. Telescopes are arrangement of lenses and
mirrors which make objects look closer than they really are. However,
even with the biggest telescope a star looks like only a point of light
though this light carries very useful information about the star. The light
waves can reveal the make-up of the star and how hot the star is. A
telescope also receives the whole range of radiations like radio waves and
x-rays given out by a star. Astronomers do not see through telescope.
Instead they use them as big cameras to take photographs of the night sky.
Telescopes use curved mirrors to collect the light. The largest telescopes
have mirrors six metres across. Astronomers use two main kinds of
telescopes. They differ in the way they collect and focus the light from the
stars. Reflector is a kind of telescope that uses mirrors and the refractor is
a kind of telescope that uses lenses.
Questions
(a) How do the astronomers use telescope?
(i) they see through it.
(ii) they use it to take photograph of the night sky.
(iii) they use it at the time of travelling.
(b) Refractor telescope uses
(i) mirrors
(ii) mirrors and lenses both
(iii) only lenses
(c) The word in the passage similar in meaning to ' a round shape' is
(i) across
(ii) curved
(iii) lenses
(d) What is a telescope?
(e) What information about a star can be revealed by the light waves coming from it?
(f) What are the two different kinds of telescope? How do they differ?
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :-
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and his younger brother Wilheim Carl
Grimm were the oldest of six children of a lawyer in Germany. Their
childhood days were idylic. In 1791, the family moved to Steiman,
another little town of Germany where the father was employed as District
Magistrate. Here they lived in a great style, in a large turreted stone house
that was also the local court-house. In 1796, came the tragedy that was to
change their lives - the death of their father. The family had to vacate the
government quarter and move into a smaller house. The boys had a
difficult time at school. They were alone and their schoolmates looked
down upon them because of their poverty. To forget their woes, they
devoted all their time to study, both became brilliant students. However,
the excessive physical effort caused Wilheim to fall ill with asthma. while
at university Jacob Chanced to meet a Law Professor, Friedrich Carl Von
Savingny. Impressed by the youth's interest in research, the professor gave
him access to his private library. He had a vast collection of rare
manuscripts of folklore and medieval literature. Jacob spent hours reading
these. He was filled with zeal to preserve these stories for posterity and to
protect Germany's endangered oral tradition of folklores, a zeal shared by
his brother. Thus Jacob and Wilheim began collecting ancient German
folktales from various storytellers. In 1812, they finally published their
first book "Children's and Household Tales'.
Questions
(a) The tragedy that changed the lives of the two brothers was ...................... .
(i) the transfer of their father.
(ii) the death of their father.
(iii) the sickness of their father.
(b) What did the two brothers do to forget their woes.
(i) They started working in a school.
(ii) They started working in a library.
(iii) They devoted all their time to study.
(c) Supply one word for, 'the chest disease that makes breathing difficult' ;
(i) asthma
(ii) heart attack
(iii) tuberculosis
(d) A copy of a book before it has been printed is called its .......................
(i) rough copy
(ii) manuscript
(iii) library copy
(e) What hardships were faced by the two brothers, after their
father's death.
(f) How did Professor Friedrich help Jacob.
Class – X Special English Question Paper Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education
