10TH CLASS ENGLISH REGULAR PREVIOUS PAPER 2018 JKBOSE PDF DOWNLOAD


10TH CLASS ENGLISH REGULAR PREVIOUS PAPER 2018 JKBOSE PDF DOWNLOAD

10TH CLASS ENGLISH REGULAR PREVIOUS PAPER 2018 JKBOSE PDF DOWNLOAD
SET X

Read the following extract and complete the summary by the writing words/expressions in the blanks:
When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart
My pack of unruly hounds! I cannot start them again on a
Quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt,
I can haul them and urge them no more.

A teacher is feeling very …………. . He is anxiously waiting for the …….. to ring. The teacher compares himself to a ………. And his students to the hounds. The hounds have been tugging the ……… for a long time and trying to break free. The teacher finds it impossible to set them on a …………. Because they hate to hunt. The teacher means to say that his ……….. hate to hunt in the quarry of knowledge.

Study the given expressions used by the poet and write appropriate meaning for each:
Expression
To suggest that

(a)     Tug
(b)   Leash
(c)    Hound



(i)                  ………………….
(ii)                …………………
(iii)               ………………….

(i)                  Speak softly
(ii)                To pull
(iii)               Amiss
(iv)              Abyss
(v)                A dog used for hunting
(vi)              A leather strap for holding hounds.
Read the extract below and answer the questions given at the end :
Belinda embraced him, Mustard licked him,
No one moured for the pirate victim.
Ink and blink in glee did gyrate
Around the dragon that ate the pirate

Questions:
Who did Belinda embrace and why?
What did ink, Blink and Mustard do?
Give the meaning of:
(a)    Mourned
(b)   Gyrate

Read the passage below and answer the questions:
Bholi was the fourth daughter of Ramlal. When she was ten month old, she had fallen off the cot on her head and perhaps it had damaged some part of her brain. That was why she remained a backward child and came to be known as Bholi. At birth she was very fair and pretty. But when she was two year old, she had an attack of small-pox. Only the eyes were saved, but the entire body was permanently disfigured by deep pockmarks.
Questions:
(a)    Give the antonyms of :
Old , Backward , attack, pretty
(b)   Fill in the blanks:
(i)                  Bholi damaged some part of her brain when ………..
(ii)                Bholi was very fair and pretty ……..
(iii)               She remained a backward child because ………….
(iv)              Her entire body was permanently disfigured because of  ………………

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