SSC Paper English Maharashtra Board
Q.1.A: Read
the extract and answer the following questions: (6)
An excited buzz broke out
among the crowd. It sounded like a lot of fun. No one was usually allowed to
enter the king’s special garden. He had planted trees from all over the world
in that garden and it was said to be filled with all kinds of beautiful and
strange plants.
Right on time the next day, everyone gathered at the gate
of the garden. At the time the king had told them, the guards opened the gates
and handed out the sacks. Men, women and children started roaming around the
beautiful garden. They spotted juicy apples and plump mangoes hanging from
trees. They picked these till they saw ripe pomegranates bursting with juice,
grapes and colorful flowers no one had seen before. People went about picking
whatever they wished for and filling their sacks with them.
1. How has the writer described the fruits in the
garden? (1)
2. What had the people heard about
the garden of the king? (1)
3. Rewrite the sentence using the
infinitive form of the underlined
word. (1)
He finished his prayers and started offering
the sweets to all.
4. Give the antonyms of the following
from the extract: (2)
Ordinary-
juiceless-
familiar-
ugly-
5. Fill in the blanks with appropriate
articles or prepositions: (1)
We went _____ the room to see
____ surprise in store for us.
Q.1.B: Read
the extract and answer the following questions: (5)
While I lay awake in bed,
God’s still small voice came to me
and said,
‘While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
But the children you love, you seem
to abuse.
Look on the kitchen floor,
You’ll find some flowers there by the
door.
Those are the flowers she brought for
you.
She picked them herself, pink, yellow
and blue.
1. What did the voice tell the mother
to do? (1)
2. Do you think we need to say sorry
to our parents when we hurt them? (1)
3. Pick out pairs of rhyming words
from the extract. (1)
4. Name and explain the figure of
speech: (2)
a)
‘the children you love, you seem to abuse.’
b)
‘God’s still small voice came..’
Q.2: Read
the following extract carefully and rewrite it from the point of view of the
daisy: (2)
How happy the daisy was!
No one has the least idea. The bird kissed it with its beak, sang to it, and
then rose again up to the blue sky. It was certainly more than a quarter of an
hour before the daisy recovered its senses. Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it
looked over to the other flowers in the garden; surely they had witnessed its
pleasure and the honor that had been done to it, they understood its joy. But
the tulips stood more stiffly than ever, their faces were pointed and red,
because they were vexed. The peonies were sulky, it was well they couldn’t
speak or they would have given the daisy a good lecture. The little flower
could very well see that they were ill at ease and pitied them sincerely.
Q.3.A: A
social worker is organizing an Anti-Drug campaign in your locality. Prepare 8
questions for interviewing him. (4)
Q.3.B: Prepare
a speech to be given on World Technology Day. The speech should be based on
‘Misuse of the Internet’. (3)