FA1 Question Paper For Class 10 ENGLISH

FA1 Question Paper For Class 10

SECTION – A – Reading Comprehensions ( FA1 Question Paper For Class 10 )

Read the PASSAGE carefully
I cannot remember my mother,
Only sometime in the midst of my play
A tune seem to hover over my play things,
The tune of some song that she used
To hum while rocking my cradle.

Answer the following Questions.

1. What did the mother usually do while rocking his cradle?
2. What did his play things remind him of?
3. What memories does autumn bring on?
4. What tune does he realize?
5. What is the theme of the poem?

Read the PASSAGE carefully and answer the Questions that follow it.

Most middle aged people worry about their health. .They are afraid of old age. They don’t want
to be old, sick and alone. They would like to be strong, fat and young again, but they think they
are ‘over the hill’ to old.

“Geriatrician’ are the doctors who are studying how people grow old.They are learning how
people might be healthy at any age. First, it is important to exercise. For example swim, walk
play tennis, dance or play a team sport such as volleyball. Exercise is for everyone, not only for
young people.

Secondly, people need to exercise their minds to think. It is important at every age to study,
read and talk to people. Thirdly people need to eat a lot of vegetables and fruits and much
meat sugar. Fourth, everyone needs to relax. People might try meditation. A 1989 study tells us
something interesting. If older people meditate, they remember more and live longer.

Choose the BEST options

1. What do middle aged people do?
2. There are four things that are necessary to be healthy? What are they?
3. How does the meditation help?
4. Can you explain the expression ‘Over the hill’?
5. What message does this passage give to middle-aged people?

SECTION – B – Vocabulary

Choose the CORRECT option that is similar in meaning to the words in bold.

1. His mother made a futile attempt to get up.
   (A) barren (B) limited (C) useless (D) empty
2. It’s all tattered now.
   (A) spoiled (B) old (C) dirty (D) torn
3. There is a cold mist in the mornings
   (A) ice (B) snow (C) fog (D) wig
4. It’s just like a ball of knotted yarn.
   (A) very small (B) rounded (C) joined (D) tied
5. I can’t make both ends meet with my salary.
   (A) earn a lot of money
   (B) spends lot of money
   (C) earn just enough money
   (D) give all that one has

Complete the following PASSAGE choosing the right words from those given below.

Tell him to ___(1)___a blanket. There is a cold a mist in the mornings. If I catch cold it does not leave me for a long time. Tell him to send ___(2)___ blanket, ___(3)___, you?. A red one. I had a blanket, the one he ___(4)___ for me when he was studying in Madras. It is all tattered now, just a ball of knotted yarn. Tell him ____(5)___ send me a red blanket will you?

1. (A) sent (B) send (C) sending (D) has sent
2. (A) an (B) a (C) the (D) only
3. (A) will (B) won’t (C) have (D) haven’t
4. (A) bring (B) bringing (C) brought (D) had
5. (A) to (B) for (C) of (D) too

SECTION – C

Creative Writing

Everyday you come across many child beggars near the traffic signals and road sides. You are
concerned about their education and childhood enjoyment.
Write a diary entry sharing you views