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1 1 | P a g e / KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN / HYDERABAD REGION QUESTION BANK OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 2021-22 CLASS X SUBJECT English Language & Literature (184) CHIEF PATRON SRI K. SASEENDRAN, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER PATRON DR (SMT) V. GOWRI, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER COORDINATORS 1. SHRI. N CHANDRA MOULI, PRINCIPAL, KV BOWENPALLY 2. SHRI. BONTHA SHEKAR, PRINCIPAL, KV KAKINADA PREPARED BY SUBJECT TEACHERS VETTING TEAM 1. SHRI. B M VIJAY KUMAR 2. SMT. J SUDHA 3. MS S CHIPPI 4. MS NETAL 5. SHRI. V R SRIDHAR 6. MRS. G RADHA MURTHY 7. SHRI. VSS PRASAD 8. MRS. MOROMI SHARMA 9. MRS. SMITHA NAIR 10. MS. MANSI HATHI 1. MRS. VARGINIA 2. MRS. SWARNA LATHA 3. MRS. ZAKIRUNISSA 4. MRS. JABEEN FAZIL 5. MRS. NISSI K PAUL 2 | P a g e INDEX S NO TOPIC PAGE NUMBER READING SECTION 1 UNSEEN PASSAGES 04-45 WRITING 2 LETTER OF COMPLAINT 47-51 3 LETTER TO THE EDITOR 52-55 GRAMMAR 4 GAP FILLING 57-59 5 REPORTED SPEECH 60-63 LITERATURE READER PROSE (FIRST FLIGHT) 6 1) A Letter to God 65-71 2) Nelson Mandela.

2 Long Walk to Freedom 72-77 3) Two Stories about Flying 78-80 4) From the Diary of Anne Frank 81-95 5) The Hundred Dresses I 96-118 6) The Hundred Dresses II 119-130 POETRY (First Flight) 7 1) Dust of Snow 131-134 2) Fire and Ice 135-138 3) A Tiger in the Zoo 139-140 4) The Ball Poem 141 Supplementary Reader (Footprints without Feet) 8 1) A Triumph of Surgery 142-158 2) The Thief s Story 159-170 3) Footprints Without Feet 171-180 3 | P a g e READING COMPREHENSION 4 | P a g e DISCURSIVE PASSAGES Read the passages given below and answer the following QUESTIONS : Passage 1 (1) Have you ever failed at something so miserably that the thought of attempting to do it again was the last thing on your mind? (2) If your answer is yes, then you should understand that you are not a robot.

3 Unlike robots, we human beings have feelings, emotions, and dreams. We are all meant to grow despite our circumstances and limitations. Flourishing and trying to make our dreams come true feels great when life goes our way. But what happens when it does not? What happens when you fail despite all your hard work? Do you stay down and accept defeat or do you get up again? If you tend to persevere and keep going, you have what experts call grit . (3) Falling down or failing is one of the most agonising, embarrassing, and scary human experiences. But it is also one of the most educational, empowering, and essential parts of living a successful and fulfilling life. Did you know that perseverance (grit) is one of the seven qualities that has been described as the key to personal success and betterment in society?

4 The other six are curiosity, gratitude, optimism, self-control, social intelligence, and zest. Thomas Edison is an example of grit for trying more than 1,000 times to invent the light bulb. If you are reading this with the lights on in your room, you will realise the importance of his success. When asked why he kept going despite hundreds of failures, he merely stated that they had not been failures, they were hundreds of attempts towards creating the light bulb. This statement not only revealed his grit but also his optimism for looking at the bright side. (4) Grit can be learnt to help you become more successful. One of the techniques that help is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a practice that makes an individual stay at the moment by bringing awareness of his or her experience without judgement.

5 This practice has been used to quieten the noise of fears and doubts. Through this simple practice of mindfulness, individuals have the ability to stop the self-sabotaging downward spiral of hopelessness, despair, and frustration. (5) What did you do to overcome the negative and self-sabotaging feelings of failure? Reflect on what you did, and try to use those same powerful resources to help you today. (1) The reason why you are not a robot is that: (a) You fail miserably at tasks (b) Failure and success can affect your emotions (c) You work hard (d) You have limitations 5 | P a g e (2) Choose the option that best captures the central idea of the passage from the given quotes. (a) Option (1) (b) Option (2) (c) Option (3) (d) Option (4) (3) What is the tone of the following context: Falling down or failing is one of the educational, empowering, and essential parts of living a successful and fulfilling life.

6 ? (a) Humorous (b) Optimistic (c) Horrifying (d) Solemn (4) Which of the following sentences makes the correct use of grit , as used in the passage? (a) Get rid of that grit in your shoes. (b) She had a bit of grit in her eye. (c) The road had been covered with grit. (d) Her grit never made her give up. 6 | P a g e (5) To develop perseverance one must: (a) become more aware (b) work hard (c) be in the moment and be aware without judgement (d) seek guidance (6) What do you understand from this line, Falling down or failing is one of the most agonising, embarrassing, and scary human experiences. ? (a) Falling down makes us angry. (b) Failure can deeply affect our emotions (c) Stay positive and be optimistic (d) Self-control is empowering (7) What is the message conveyed in the last paragraph of the passage?

7 (a) Always aim for the best (b) Live life king size (c) Through mindfulness we can overcome the negative impact of failure (d) Social intelligence is crucial for a successful life Passage 2 In the second week of August 1998, just a few days after the incidents of bombing the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, a high-powered, brain- storming session was held near Washington , to discuss various aspects of terrorism. The meeting was attended by ten of America s leading experts in various fields such as germ and chemical warfare, public health, disease control and also by the doctors and the law enforcing officers. Being asked to describe the horror of possible bio-attack, one of the experts narrated the following gloomy scenario.

8 A culprit in a crowded business centre or in a busy shopping mall of a town empties a test tube containing some fluid, which in turn creates an unseen cloud of germ of a dreaded disease like anthrax capable of inflicting a horrible death within 5 days on any one who inhales it. At first 500, or so victims feel that they have mild influenza which may recede after a day or two. Then the symptoms return again and their lungs start filling with fluid. They rush to local hospitals for treatment, but the panic-stricken people may find that the medicare services run quickly out of drugs due to excessive demand. But no one would be able to realize that a terrorist attack has occurred. One cannot deny the possibility that the germ involved would be of contagious variety capable of causing an epidemic.

9 The meeting concluded that such attacks, apart from causing immediate human tragedy, would have dire long-term effects on the political and social fabric of a country by way of ending people s trust on the competence of the government. The experts also said that the bombs used in Kenya and Tanzania were of the old-fashion variety and involved quantities of high explosives, but new terrorism will prove to be more deadly and probably more elusive than hijacking an aeroplane or a gelignite of previous decades. According to Bruce Hoffman, an American specialist on political violence, old terrorism generally had a specific manifesto-to overthrow a colonial power or the capitalist system and so on. These terrorists were not shy about planting a bomb or hijacking an aircraft and they set some limit to their brutality.

10 Killing so many innocent people might turn their natural supporters off. Political terrorists want a lot of people watching but not a lot of people dead. Old terrorism sought to change the world while the new sort is often practised by those who believe that the world has gone beyond redemption, he added. Hoffman says, New terrorism has no long term agenda but is ruthless in its short-term intentions. It is often just a cacophonous cry of protest or an outburst of religious intolerance or a protest against the West in general and the US in particular. Its perpetrators may be religious fanatics or diehard opponent of a government and see no reason to show restraint. They are simply intent on inflicting the maximum amount of pain on the victim.