English SSC Paper
Q.1. Read the passage and complete the activity
given below (10)
It was now
about two o'clock of a moonless night; clouds hung black and low. Bodwell was at the window in
a minute, shouting, frothing a little,
shaking his fist. "We'll sell the house and go back to Peoria," we could hear Mrs. Bodwell
saying. It was some time before Mother
"got through" to Bodwell. "Burglars!" she shouted.
"Burglars in the house!"
Herman and I hadn't dared to tell her that it was not burglars but ghosts, for she was even more
afraid of ghosts than of burglars.
Bodwell at first thought that she meant there were burglars in his house, but finally he quieted down
and called the police for us over an
extension phone by his bed. After he had disappeared from the window, mother suddenly made as if to
throw another shoe, not because there
was further need of it but, as she later explained, because the thrill of heaving a shoe through
a window glass had enormously taken
her fancy. I prevented her. The police
were on hand in a commendably short time: a Ford sedan full of them, two on motorcycles, and
a patrol wagon with about eight in it
and a few reporters. They began banging at our front door. Flashlights shot streaks of gleam up and
down the walls, across the yard, down
the walk between our house and Bod well's. "Open up!" cried a hoarse voice. "We're men from
Headquarters!" I wanted to go
down and let them in, since there they were, but mother wouldn't hear of it. "You haven't a stitch
on," she pointed out. "You'd catch
your death." I wound the towel around me again. Finally the cops put their shoulders to our big heavy front
door with its thick beveled glass and
broke it in: I could hear a rending of wood and a splash of glass on the floor of the hall. Their
lights played all over the living-
room and crisscrossed nervously in the dining-room, stabbed into hall- ways, shot up the front stairs and finally
up the back. They caught me standing
in my towel at the top. A heavy policeman bounded up the steps. "Who are you?" he
demanded. "I live here," I said. "Well, whattsamatta, ya hot?" he asked. It
was, as a matter of fact, cold; I went
to my room and pulled on some trousers. On my way out, a cop stuck a gun into my ribs. "Whatta you
doin' here?" he demanded. "I
live here," I said.
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1. State
whether the following statements are true or false:
i. It
was a moonless night.
ii. Mother
was not at all afraid of ghosts.
iii. The
cop named Roy picked up the zither.
iv. The
policemen never disturbed anything in the house.
2. Find
out the correct alternative and complete the sentences. (2)
i. Mother
shouted ________________.
a. Burglars!
Burglars! In the house.
b. Ghosts!
Ghosts! In the house.
c. Snakes!
Snakes! In the house.
ii. Mothers
flung the shoe of the ________________.
a. Neighbour
b. Grandfather
c. Author
iii. Number
of policemen in front of the hall way stairs were ________________.
a. Half
a dozen
b. A
dozen
c. Twenty
five in numbers
iv. One
of the policemen found an old ________________.
a. Mark
b. Bag
c. Zither
3. Match
the collocations: (2)
i. Dining
ii. Flash
iii. Living
iv. Patrol
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a. Wagon
b. Room
c. Light
d. table
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4. Grammar:(2)
i. I
prevented her. (Change the voice).
ii. They
caught me standing in my towel at the top. (Add a question tag).
5. Has
any such incident taken place in your family? How did you tackle it? (2)
Q.2. Read the poem and answer the questions: (5)
But did you
ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
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'All right!'
you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
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1. Write
any four pairs of rhyming words: (2)
2. Why
is excessive watching of T.V (2)
3. Explain
the figure of speech: (1)
“His
brains becomes as soft as cheese.”
Q.3. Letter Writing: (5)
Write a letter to
the head of the municipal corporation regarding the worst condition of the road
in your locality.
