Mock Test

2024
English
(For Regular & External Candidates)

Time: Three Hours Fifteen Minutes

(First fifteen minutes for reading the question paper only)

90-For Regular and Sightless Regular Candidates
Full Marks
100-For External and Sightless External Candidates

Special credit will be given for answers which are brief and to the point.
Marks will be deducted for spelling mistakes, untidiness & had
handwriting.

1. Read the following passage and answer the following questions.

We had a kite that was big and covered with lovely red paper. We pasted gold
tinsel stars all over it and had written our names full on it-Claude Leete and
Philippa Leete, Big Half Moon lighthouse. One day there was a grand wind for
kite-flying. I’m not sure how it happened, but as I was bringing the kite from the
house, I tripped and fell over the rocks. My elbow went clear through the kite,
making a big hole. We had to hurry to fix the kite if we wanted to send it up
before the wind fell. We rushed into the lighthouse to get some paper. We knew
there was no more red paper. We took the first thing that came handy-an old
letter lying on the bookcase in the sitting room. We patched the kite up with the
letter, a sheet on each side and dried it by the fire. We started out, and up went
the kite like a bird. The wind was glorious and it soared. All at once-snap! And
there was Claude, standing with a bit of cord in his hand, looking foolish. Our
kite had sailed away over to the mainland.
A. Write the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences.
1×5=5
(a) The kite they had was covered with –
(i) blue paper (ii) black paper (iii) red paper (iv) red cloth
(b) The author fell over the rocks and the kite –
(i) flew away (ii) was lost (iii) had a hole (iv) was stolen
(c) They found an old letter in –
(i) mainland (ii) island (iii) the sea beach (iv) the lighthouse
(d) The grand wind helped the kite to –
(i) fly (ii) tear (iii) soar (iv) fall
(e) The author of the text is –
(i) Katherine Pyle (ii) Lucy Montgomery (iii) Ralph Emerson (iv) Andrew
Barton Paterson
B. Write ‘T’ for True and ‘F’ for False statements in the right hand box.
Give suitable line from text in support of your answers. (1+1) × 𝟐 = 𝟒
(a) The narrator and Claude pasted red tinsel stars on the kite.
S.S: _______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
(b) They repaired the kite with an old letter.
S.S: _______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________

C. Complete the following sentences with information from the text.

1×3=3
 (i) A boy on the mainland showed ______________________________
________________________________________________________
(ii) On the kite Claude and the narrator pasted ______________________
________________________________________________________
(iii) Claude was standing with ___________________________________
________________________________________________________

2. Read the following poem and answer the following questions.

Once I crept in an oakwood - I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there - all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: ‘I have your secret here inside my little bag.’
Then she began to cackle and began to quake.
She opened up her little bag and came twice awake
Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
They said: “We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now-now you are going to die.”
A. Answer the following questions
(i) Why did the poet begin to quake? 2
Ans: ________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
(ii) What made the poet come twice awake? 2
Ans: _______________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
 ____________________________________________________________
B. Tick the correct alternative. 1× 𝟒 = 𝟒
a) The poet was looking for a
(i) female deer
(ii) male deer
(iii) male horse
(iv) female horse
b) The word ‘knobbly’ means
(i) unsteady
(ii) honesty
(iii) weakly
(iv) in a noble manner
c) The old woman was
(i) pretty
(ii) ugly
(iii) well-dressed
(iv) strong
d) Inside the little bag there was the secret of
(i) the old man
(ii) the old woman
(iii) the poet
READING COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)

3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
We can tell a man from a beast by his quality of virtue. It is something which
distinguishes him from all other creatures. It is his nature. It is his mark. It is his
character. Wonderful is it to think that man is distinguished from all other
creatures by this higher and grand standard of conduct we call virtue – the things
worthy of a man. He goes to rescue someone he has never seen – a woman in a
burning house, a child in a dark sea; why? Because he is a man. He goes to the
 stake or to the scaffold for an idea which he can never prove in this world to be
true; why? Because he is a man. What do we say when we read of some cruel
creature who had beaten a child or stuck a woman? We say, “He is no man!
What do we say of the traitor who sells his country to the foe? We say he is no
man. Something tells us at once that a man who could do such things as this is
‘no man’. He has played the traitor to himself. He has denied the man in his soul.

A. Choose the correct alternative. 1× 𝟔 = 𝟔

(i)The writer separates a man from other creatures by – (a) virtue (b) cruelty (c)
limbs (d) characteristics
(ii) The mark of his manliness is his – (a) thinking (b) nature (c) house (d) stake
(iii) His character decides he is a – (a) man (b) beast (c) a child (d) a creature
(iv) A man is distinguished from other creatures by – (a) behavior (b) grandeur
(c) rescuing woman (d) childishness in the sea.
(v) An idea leads a man – (a) to die by scaffold (b) to escape selfishly (c) to sell
his country (d) to make peace with foe.
(vi) As he is a man, so he – (a) cannot play the traitor (b) beat a child (c) burn a
house (d) can be cruel

B. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or ‘False’.

Give supporting statements. (1+1) × 𝟑 = 𝟔
(i) A higher and grandeur behavior is called virtue.
S.S: _______________________________________________________
(ii) We call a creature who has beaten a child or struck a woman ‘a no man’.
S.S: ________________________________________________________
(iii) We call him still ‘a man’ when no one sells his country to the foe.
S.S: ________________________________________________________
C. Answer the following questions. 2× 𝟒 = 𝟖
(i) How does a man distinguish himself from other creature?
Ans:_________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
(ii) Why does an idea lead a man?
Ans: _________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
(iii) When do we call a man ‘no man’?
Ans: ________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
(iv) Who has played the traitor to himself? Why?
Ans: ________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
SECTION – B (GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY)

4. Write the correct alternative to fill in the blanks. 1×3=3

One wintry night an old infirm beggar, shivering with cold ___________
(knock/was knocking/knocked) at the door of a farmer who ___________
(sit/sat/was sitting) with his children around his hearth. In a feeble voice she
__________ (beg/had begged/begged) for shelter and hospitality.

5. Fill up with appropriate articles and prepositions : 𝟏 ×3=3

The transport minister had constituted ____________ one-man committee to
look __________ the demand of transport operators for an increase _______
fares.
6. Do as directed.
(i) Ramesh has drawn a beautiful picture. (Change the voice) 1
Ans: _______________________________________________________
(ii) He said, “Let us go home.” (Change into indirect Speech) 1
Ans: _________________________________________________________
(iii) We can’t but feel pity for her. (Rewrite omitting the word ‘but’) 1
Ans: __________________________________________________________
7. Choose the correct phrasal verbs from the list given below to replace
the words underlined. Write the correct phrasal verbs in the boxes on the
right-hand side changing the form where necessary. 𝟏 ×3=3
a) Rafika extinguished the candle.
b) The little boy was unable to remember what
he had seen.
c) The patient will recover soon.

[come round, blow out, fall out, call up]

8. Given below are the meanings of four words which you will find in
Question No.3. Find out the words and write them in the appropriate
boxes. 2× 𝟒 = 𝟖
(i) Separate by some mark or quality ____________________________
(ii) A stick pointed at one end __________________________________
(iii) A stage for the execution of a criminal ________________________
(iv) One who helps the enemies of his country ______________________
SECTION – C (writings)
9. Write a paragraph (within 100 words) on Sandhya Mukherjee using
the following points. 10
[Hints : birth : 4th October, 1931, birthplace : Dhakuria, Kolkata, parents –
Narendranath Mukherjee and Hemprova Devi, famous for – playback singing in
Bengali language, awards – National Film Award for Best Female Playback
Singer in 1970, Banga Bibhushan in 2011, death – 15th February 2022, COVID-
19 and cardiac arrest]
10. Write a letter to your friend over your feelings during COVID – 19
period. (in about 100 words) 10

11. Write a story using the given points. 10

A crow lived on a tree – a snake lived in a hole at the foot – it ate up the
crow’s young ones – crow stole a necklace of the prince – dropped it into the
snake’s hole – the king’s men traced it – dug into the hole – snake killed.