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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHANDIGARHSummative Assessment-I (2013-14)Class-XEnglish CommunicativeTIME : 3 Hrs Maximum Marks : 80Instructions:The question paper is divided into four sections.Section A: Reading 15 marksSection B: Writing 20 marksSection C: Grammar 15 marksSection D: Literature 30 marksSECTION - A (Reading 15 Marks)VALUE YOUR TIME1. It is a bad thing if we constantly obsess over time. But sometimes, we needto be conscious of it. The reason for this is simple we dont get time back. Whateverposition you happen to be in, ask yourself some serious questions. In the past, haveyou used time wisely? Most people wont worry about time passing by. But, if we useour time wisely, it will make us more confident of our future. Whether you like it ornot, whether you choose to ignore it, time will pass by anyway no matter what. Ifyou think about it, anything can be exchanged for. We can exchange money for anitem, and we can exchange an item for money. But we cannot exchange money formore time, and we cannot exchange an item for more time.2. Everybody, more or less, has time. Not everybody has a nice house and noteverybody has a nice car, but everybody has time. Its really what we do in that timethat separates successful people from unsuccessful people. If youre a busy personthen you probably have a busy schedule such as going to work from 7 in themorning to 5 in evening, coming home and having dinner with the family, doingsome paper work, watching some TV, then going to bed at 11 and then waking upat 6. I know some people who go to school and work at the same time and haveonly a couple of hours of the day of free time3. But there are people who just wake up in the morning at 11 or 12, eat brunchor lunch, go on the internet or maybe watch some TV for a couple of hours, eatsomething that makes them tired so they take a 1 or 2 hour nap, wake up andreceive a phone call to go out with friends for dinner, come home late, go on theModelTestPaperClass X (English) Sample Paper Page 2 of 7 Summative Assessment-I (2013-14)internet or play computer games until 2 or 3 in the morning, then go to sleep. This isan example of not using time wisely. If youre trying to make more money, or setsome type of business, or just have a project that you have in mind that is going tobe a lot of hard work, time is your best friend. Whatever project that you have inmind, chances are that hundreds of thousands of people that you dont knowabout are doing the same thing, except they are using time in doing it while othersare wasting their time not doing it.4. Be aware of time. You can leverage your time. People dont value time thesedays, because, well, its not money. Its not something that you can touch or hold inyour hands. You cant really see time. You can see time passing by on a clock butthats not too exciting, is it? Time in fact is one of the most precious things we ashuman beings have. Time really is more powerful than money. With 10 hours work,one can earn money worth 100 dollars. But with $100, one cannot get 10 hours backin his or her life. Those 10 hours are gone forever. Each hour that passes by is anopportunity to make money.5. The most important thing I think we should understand is that time is goingto pass us by anyway so we have the option to choose to let it pass by and just let itpass by with nothing really happening, or choose to let it pass by but knowing thatsomething positive will result in the future because we are doing something rightnow. And it doesnt have to be just for money, it can be for a skill that you want tolearn like playing an instrument or any other type of goal you wish to achieve suchas losing more weight or gaining more muscle. Whatever it happens to be,understand that time doesnt wait for us. It always continues. And it is what youchoose to do with time right now that will ultimately determine the outcome of yourfuture.1.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage, complete the statements thatfollow. (1x4=4)(a) We need to be conscious of time because __________ .(b) We do not wish to let time pass by, but, whether __________ .(c) The example of not using time wisely is __________ .(d) We have to understand that time __________ .1.2 Answer the following questions in brief. (1x2=2)(a) How is time the most important thing for human beings?(b) How can we utilize time for a better future?1.3 Find words from the passage that mean the same as following: (1x2=2)(a) time-table (Para 2)(b) force (Para 4)2. Read the poem given below.1 The only joy of his old agehe often said was his grandson.Their friendship straddledClass X (English) Sample Paper Page 3 of 7 Summative Assessment-I (2013-14)eight decades, three generations.5 They laughed , playedquarrelled, embracedwatched television togetherand while the rest had littleto say to the old man10 the little fellow wasa fountain of endless chatter.When death rattledthe gate at fiveone Sunday morning15 and took the old man awayothers trumpeted theirgrief in loud sobsand lachrymose* blubber.He never shed a tear20 just waved one of hissmall inimitable goodbyesto his grandfatherand was sad the old mancould not return his gesture.(* lachrymose = tearful or given to weeping)2.1 On the basis of your reading of the poem, choose the correct option from thosegiven below. (1x7=7)(a) The old man led a rather .(i) happy life (ii) long life(iii) healthy life (iv) lonely life(b) The rest in line 8 refers to .(i) other members of the family(ii) other old men in the neighbourhood(iii) other children in the family(iv) other children in the neighbourhood(c) The poets comments on the grown up members pretence are full of ..(i) praise (ii) approval(iii) sarcasm (iv) wonder(d) Which lines speak of the old mans death ?(i) lines 1-4 (ii) lines 12-15Class X (English) Sample Paper Page 4 of 7 Summative Assessment-I (2013-14)(iii) lines 7-10 (iv) lines 21-24(e) The boy never shed a tear probably because (i) he didnt know that his grandfather was dead(ii) he was indifferent(iii) he was not pretentious like others(iv) he was an insensitive boy(f) The old man could not return the boys gesture because ..(i) he could not see the boy(ii) he was angry with the boy(iii) he was dead(iv) he was more impressed to see the sobs of others(g) The word rattled in the above passage means (i) scared (ii) knocking sounds(iii) shout (iv) angered