GUIDANCE TUITION CENTRE ALAKODE

UNIT TEST 2

CLASS X

ENGLISH TIME-45MNTS

VERSION A SCORE- 20

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.



As we made the rounds,my interest was again provoked by their remarkable demeanor. They were childish enough, and in many ways quite artless.Jacopo was lively as a squirrel Nicolas smile was steady and engaging. Yet in both these boyish faces there was a seriousness which was far beyond their years.



What stuck one most was their willingness to work. During these summer days, under the hot sun, they shined shoes,sold fruits,hawked news papers,conducted tourists round the town, and ran errands.

1. “As we made rounds”Aho does we refer to? I

2. What raised the interest of the author? 1

3. What was most striking about the boys? 1

4. What were the jobs the boys did? 1

5. The author is very pleased with the boys.So he writes about them in his dairy. Imagine you as the author

and prepare a dairy. 3



Read the lines from the poem “home they brought her warrior dead”

Stole a maiden in her place ,

Lightly to the warrior stept,

Took the face cloth from the face

Yet she neither moved nor wept



Rose a nurse of ninety years,

Set his child upon her knee-

Like summer tempest came her tears-

“ Sweet, my child, I live for thee.”

6. Why did the maiden take the face cloth from the face of the dead soldier? 1

7. How did the woman respond when the face cloth of the soldier was removed ? 1

8. What did the nurse do to make the woman weep? 1

9. A simile compares two separate things. Indicate the points of comparison taking examples from the second stanza above. 1



10. imagine that Jacopo and Nicola decide to write a letter to the kind tourist who drove them in his car to the hospital. They reveal their family story to him.write a likely letter to him. 3



11. report the following dialogue

The author :I thought you picked fruit for a living .

Nicola :we do many things, sir, often we show visitors through the town. 1

12. frame suitable request for the situations given below using words in brackets.

You don’t know the way to the zoo. Ask a person standing there.(could) 1

13.complete the following paragraph choosing the right phrases from the boxes given below

Nicola had ……….. a jersey and kakhi pants . Jacopo , a shortened army tunic. Both of them ………. To the hospital at Poleta .On the way they ……. talking to each other. 2

(set out, put up , put on , kept on)

14. There are a few mistakes in the following passage . They are underlined for you.correct them .

The author look through the glass partition. Nicola and Jacopo sit at the left side of a girl of about twenty . The girl wear pretty jacket . A dish of fruits keep on a table nearby 2