Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s

C.N.M. School & N.D. Parekh Pre-Primary School

CLASS MUST KNOW REVISION- 1
2022-23
X ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Number of printed pages-4 Revision Paper 1

Question 1
Write a composition (300 - 350 words) on any one of the following:
a) The life of a student is full of interesting and humorous events. Write a composition
describing some of the humorous incidents during your school life.
b) Narrate an incident when you were caught in a traffic jam for an hour. Give a vivid account
of your feelings at that time.
c) It is said that communication through computers prevents us from developing interpersonal
skills and limits our ability to have meaningful relationships with others. Give your views
either for or against for the statement.
d) Write an original short story by continuing the following:
“As the ticket collector asked for the ticket, I dug my hand into my pocket only to discover
that the purse along with the ticket had disappeared …”
e) Study the picture given below. Write a story or an account of what the picture suggests to
you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or may take suggestions
from it; but there must be a clear connection between the picture and the composition:

Question 2
Select any one of the following:
a) Your city is experiencing severe problems of electricity failure nowadays. As a result
people’s lives have become miserable due to uncertain cuts and no attention is paid to the
complaint. Write a letter to the Editor of a national daily to draw the attention of the
concerned officials.
b) You are to be awarded a special prize at the Annual Day of your school. Write a letter to a
relative giving her the news. Be sure to include details of the prize that you are to receive
and tell her why you had been chosen for this honour

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Question 3
(a) Your school is hosting an Inter –school music competition. Write out a notice to be
put up in your school informing students about the event and inviting them to
participate in the Inter-school music competition.
(b) Write an e-mail to the Principal of a neighbouring school requesting him/her to send a team
to participate in the event.
Question 4
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Luckily she reached him just in time to catch him in her arms, but as soon as she had done so, she
almost let him fall in her astonishment. It was neither a drunken man nor a hunchback, but a child of
ten in an overcoat, who was crying and who said in a weak voice: “I beg your pardon Madame. If
you only knew how hungry and cold I am.”
“Poor child!” she said, putting her arms around him. And she carried him off with a happy heart.
Tall Fanny opened her cupboard and took out a box of biscuits, some coffee powder and a few
lumps of sugar in a cup. With that and some water out of a jug she concocted a sort of broth, which
he swallowed ravenously, and when he had donehe wished to tell his story, which he did, yawning
all the time.His grandfather, who had been a painter had died about a month ago, but before his death
he had said to him: “When I am gone, little man, you must go to Paris, for you have an aptitude for
painting, and only there can you hope to become an artist and my brother who lives there will help
you.”
But when he got to Paris the dead man’s brother had left the place six months before; nobody
knew where he had gone, and so the child was alone.
The next day he dined together with Fanny at a common eating house on money that she had
borrowed, and when it was dark she said to the child, “Wait for me here, I will come for you at closing
time.” She came back sooner, however, about ten o’clock. She had twelve francs which she gave
him.
An hour later, however, she was arrested by the police.And the child began his wretched
vagabond life in the streets again with only the twelve francs to depend on.
Fifteen years later, the newspapers announced one morning that the famous Fanny Clariet, the
celebrated queen of frail beauties, for whom three men had committed suicide, had been shut up in a
lunatic asylum.
“No, certainly not!” Francois Guerland, the painter, said to himself when he read the notice of it
in the papers. “No, the great Fanny shall certainly not end like that.” For it was certainly she; there
could be no doubt about it.
Now the time had come for him to pay his debt and he paid it. Francois Guerland took her out of
the asylum, installed her in a splendid apartment and went to live with her there. She did not
recognise in him the poor little lad on whom she had taken pity in the days gone by, nor did he remind
her of the circumstances.

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 a) Give the meaning of the following words used in passage. One word answers or
short phrases will be accepted.
i. concocted
ii. vagabond
iii. installed

b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:

i. Describe the mental and physical state of the child when he first met Fanny.
ii. How did Fanny take care of the child when he was helpless?
iii. Why was the child disappointed when he reached Paris?
iv. Why was Fanny said to be famous? Why do you think she was she kept in a lunatic asylum?

c) In not more than 50 words of your own, state how much Francois was indebted to Fanny
and how he repaid his debt.
Question 4
a) In the following passage, fill each numbered black with the correct form of the
word given in brackets.
Fleming was a Scottish farmer. One day at work in a field, he heard a cry for help.
…….1……(follow) the sound, Fleming came to a deep bog, in which a boy was stuck up. Fleming
…..2….(pull) the boy to safety. The next day a carriage ….3… (arrive) at Fleming’s farmhouse. A
well -dressed man …4… (step) out and introduced himself as the father of the boy whom Fleming
….5… (save). “You saved my son’s life” said the man to Fleming, “how may I repay you?”
“I don’t want any payment,” Fleming replied. At that moment, Fleming’s own young son appeared
at the farmhouse door. “Is he your son?” the man asked. “Yes,” said Fleming proudly.
“I have an idea. Let me pay your son’s education. If he’s like his father he ….6…(grow) to
be a man we’ll both be proud of.” And so the visitor did. The farmer’s son later became the world
renowned Nobel Prize- winning scientist and discoverer of Penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming. It
….7… (say) that many years later, the grownup man who’d been saved from the bog as a boy, was
…..8…(strike) with pneumonia. Penicillin saved his life. He was Sir Winston Churchill, the former
Prime Minister of England.

b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:

i. He is too miserly to part ______ money.
ii. I was to impress ______ you the need for hard work.
iii. Five kilometres are roughly equal ___ three miles.
iv. He didn’t look up, but carried ____________ working.
v. Please fill _____ the details in the form.
vi. He must make ________ some story to explain his absence.
vii. What does F.I.R stand _____?
viii. I agreed with him ______ all points.

c) Join the sentence without using and, but or so:

i. You are looking sad. Can you tell me why?

a] Can you tell me the reason why you are looking sad?

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 b] Can’t you tell me why you are not looking happy?
c] Can you tell me why you are looking sad?
d] Can you tell me the reason why you are so sad?

ii. We had better leave now. We might miss our flight.

a] We had better leave now else we might miss our flight
b] We had better leave now otherwise we might miss our flight
c] We had better leave now else we miss our flight.
d] We should better leave now else we miss our flight.

iii. He was praised. He was rewarded.

a] He was praised as well as rewarded.
b] He was praised not only but he was rewarded also.
c] He was not only praised but he was rewarded also.
d] He was praised as well as also rewarded.

iv. There was heavy traffic. I reached the office in time.

a] Even though there was very heavy traffic, I reached the office in time.
b] Though there was heavy traffic, I will reach the office in time.
c] Since there was heavy traffic, I reached the office in time.
d] Although there was heavy traffic, I reached the office in time.

d) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Make other changes
that may be necessary but do not change the meaning of the sentence.
i The room was too small for the five of them to share.
(Begin: The room was so …..)
a] The room was so small that five of them could not share it.
b] The room was so small that even five of them could not share it.
c] The room was so small for five of them to share it.
d] The room was so small that five of them could share it.

ii As soon as the Principal arrived, the function began.

(Begin: No sooner….)
a] No sooner did the function begun than the Principal arrived.
b] No sooner had the Principal arrived than the function begun.
c] No sooner did the function beginned than the Principal arrived.
d] No sooner did the Principal arrive than the function began.

iii But for his help, I would have drowned.

(Begin: Had he……)
a] Had he helped, I would have drowned.
b] Had he not helped, I would have drowned.
c] Had he not helped, I would not have drowned.
d] Had he not helped, I could have drowned.

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iv Girls do not have to attend the evening classes.
(use: exempted)
a] Girls are not exempted from attending the evening classes.
b] Girls are exempted from attending the evening classes.
c] Girls are also exempted from attending the evening classes.
d] Girls are exempted for attending the evening classes.

v As I see more of him, I like him less.

(Begin: The more…..)
a] The more I see him, the less I like him.
b] The more I like him, the less I see him.
c] The less I see him, the more I like him.
d] The more I see him, the more I like him.

vi My house is too small to accommodate all guests.

(Begin: My house isn’t…)
a] My house isn’t so small that it can accommodate all guests.
b] My house isn’t so big that it cannot accommodate all guests.
c] My house isn’t so big that it can accommodate all guests.
d] My house isn’t so small that it cannot accommodate all guests.

vii The five terrorists were arrested by the police.

(Use: custody)
a] The five police are under the custody of the terrorists.
b] The five terrorists are beyond the custody of the police.
c] The five terrorists are under the custody of the police.
d] The five terrorists are not under police custody.

viii Being poor, he cannot afford such an expensive treatment.

(Use: as)
a] Since he is poor, he can afford such an expensive treatment
b] He can afford such an expensive treatment because he is not poor.
c] He cannot afford such an expensive treatment as he is poor.
d] Though he is poor, he cannot afford such an expensive treatment.

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