Bihar Board Class 10th English 2017 Question Answer : प्रिय विद्यार्थियों, “Mindbloom Study” (#1 Online Study Portal For Bihar Board Exams) आपके लिए लाया है Bihar Board Class 10th English 2017 (Second Sitting) Previous Year Question Paper ।
SECTION-A
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words :
Once a poor woman came to Buddha. She implored him to give her any medicine to restore her dead son to life. The great teacher decided to pacify her by making her feel the hard realities of life. He asked her to bring handful of mustard seeds from any house where death had never entered. At one the sorrowful mother went from door to door for the mustard seeds. At one place a girl said, ‘I have lost my father’. At another place a man said, ‘My young son passed away last night’. The woman returned with a heavy heart to Buddha after hearing similar tales of sorrow form every house. Buddha, the great teacher, consoled her, ‘My daughter’, one who is born is sure to die. So you must stop shedding tears and perform the last rites of your son.
Questions :-
(i) Why did the woman go to Buddha?
(ii) What did Buddha ask her to do at the end?
(iii) What did she hear in every house?
(iv) How did Buddha console the woman?
2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words :
One day some people saw two women named Kamla and Leela quarrelling fierecly over a baby. The people took the women and the baby to the court of two wise king, Vikram. Kamla told the king that the baby was hers. Leela also claimed the baby as her own. King Vikram patiently heard the two women, thought over the matter for a few minutes and then said to one of his officers. ‘fetch me a sowrd’. The officer brought him a sword and then the king said”. Divide the baby into two and give half to the one and half to the other. At this Kamla began to cry bitterly and said, “Oh! My Lord, please don’t kill the child. Let Leela have it.” But Leela said, It shall be neither mine nor hers, divide it, King Vikram, pointing to Kamla said, “Give her the child, she is the mother of it”, and ordered Leela to be sent to prison.”
Questions :-
(i) Why were the two women quarrelling?
(ii) Who was Vikram?
(iii) Why did Kamla begin to cry bitterly?
(iv) What did Leela say?
SECTION-B
3. Write a letter to young younger brother living in Patna about the effects of noise pollution due to congested traffic.
OR, Write an application to your headmaster to grant you full free-student ship.
4. Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 80 words.
(i) Teachers Day
(ii) Holy
(iii) Your Village
(iv) A life of begger
5. Your have lost your wrist watch playing cricket in the play-ground. Write a notice in about 80 words regarding the lost watch. Put the notice in a box.
OR, You recieved a prize for writing story. Prepare a speech to be delivered while accepting the prize.
SECTION-C
6. Do as directed :-
(i) The teacher beats the child. (change into passive voice)
(ii) What a lovely garden! (into assertive sentence)
(iii) The Policeman catches thieves. (change into active voice)
(iv) Shyam is richer than Gopal. (into positive degree)
7. Fill in the blanks with appropriate form of vebs given in the brackets :
(i) The bunch of keys …….. been lost. (has, have)
(ii) Measles ……. a serious disease. (is, are)
(iii) Smoking and drinking …….. injurious to health. (are, is)
(iv) The rest of the books ……. Published. (was, were)
8. Change the following sentences into indirect form of speech.
(i) He said to me, “Please wait for me at the station.”
(ii) The boys said to the teachers, “Please teach us English grammer”.
(iii) Sonal said to her husband, “Please put a Shawl on me”.
9. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions given in the brackets :
(i) I am waiting ………. my father. (for, from)
(ii) Ram goes to school …… bus. (by, from)
(iii) The police ran ……. the thief. (after, to)
(iv) He deals ……. his friend about the proposal. (in, with)
10. Translate any five of the following into English.
(i) तुम मेरी सहायता कैसे करोगे?
(ii) क्या इस बगीचे में फूल हैं?
(iii) गीता प्रतिदिन सुबह चार बजे उठती है।
(iv) सब लड़के घर चले गये।
(v) आज बहुत गर्मी है।
(vi) रीता साइकिल चलाना सीख रही है।
(vii) वह ट्रेन से मुंबई गया।
(viii) उसका जन्म एक गरीब परिवार में हुआ था।
SECTION-D
11. Read the extract carefully and answers the following questions :
During the course of my indispositon, he would sit near my head on my pillow and gently stroke my forhead and hair, and his moving away was like the going away of a nurse or attendant!
When I used to work during summers afternoons, Gillu would abstain from going outside or sitting in his swing. To keep him-self close to me and also to tackle the summer heat, he had discov ered a totally new method. He would lie prostrate on the ‘Surahi’ kept near me and thus remain both close to me as well as be cool!
Questions :
(i) Who is the author of this passage?
(ii) How would Giilu nurse the narrator during her indisposition?
(iii) What would Gillu do during summer afternoons when the narrator used to work?
(iv) How would he keep himself close to the narrator and tackle the summer heat?
(v) Which word in passage means ‘lying on the ground’?
12. Read the extract carefully and answers the following questions.
There you have a mind which has trianed itself to work in high gear-though as as a matter of fact it can work in other gears just as well. But my point is that most of my fellow-patients in the cinema do think fast enough to keep up comfortably with rapid changes of scene and action. They think much faster than people did thirty years ago: possible because those who do not think fast in the high street now a days may not get another chance in this world to think at all.
Questions :
(i) Name the essay and its author.
(ii) What does the writer say about the mind of a modern man?
(iii) Why do people in the cinema think fast?
(iv) What may happen to the people who do not think fast now a days?
(v) Find a word in the passage which means ‘fast’.
13. Answer any one of the following in about 80 words –
(i) What did the narrator feel at the death of Gillu? Describe her feelings in your words.
(ii) Do you think that Indian films have certain basic weaknesses? Give reasons for your answer.
(iii) What is the capacity of readjustment exhibited in Indian society? It is the strength or the weakness of Indian society?
14. Answer the following Question in about 30 words each –
(i) What is ecology? It is essential to preserve it.
(ii) What does Satyajit Ray say about the lack of maturity in Indian film?
15. Read carefully the stanza given below and answers the questions that follow :
God made the country, And manmade the town:
What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts
That can alone make sweet the bitter draught
That life holds out to all, should most abound
And least be threaten’d in the fields and groves?
Question :-
(i) Who wrote these lines?
(ii) Who made the town?
(iii) What do we get in the countryside?
(iv) Who made the countryside?
16. Answer any two of the following questions in about 40 words –
(i) What does Martha do in the hazel glen?
(ii) Why was the tree called unkind?
(iii) How does the want to die?
17. Answer any one of the following questions –
(i) What had the prisoner written in his note?
(ii) What is allergy? How can allergic disease be treated?
18. Answer any two of the following questions –
(i) What had the mother advised her daughter?
(ii) Who was Jabra?
(iii) What were the two special qualities of Mr. Gessler’s shoes?
(iv) How did the lawyer violate the agreement with the banker?
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