Ray & Martin Madhyamik Question Bank 2024 Page -68,Bishnupur High School

Ray & Martin Madhyamik Question Bank 2024 

Page -68,Bishnupur High School

 Reading Comprehension (Seen)

1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :

It is always lovely on the Big Half Moon in summer. When it is fine, the harbour is blue and calm, with little wind and ripples. Every summer, we had some hobby. The last summer before Dick and Mimi came, we were crazy about kites. A boy on the mainland showed Claude how to make them. Back on the island we made plenty of kites. Claude would go around to the other side of the island and we would play shipwrecked mariners signalling to each other with kites.

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.

A. Write the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:

(a) The summer in Big Half Moon is (i) beautiful, (ii) warm, (iii) hot, (iv) calm.

(b) The narrator and her brother indulged in a kind of hobby in - (i) winter, (ii) autumn, (iii) summer, (iv) rains.

B. Complete the following sentences with information from the text:

(i) The full name of the narrator was

(ii) During the summer, the sea water is

C. Answer the following question :

Describe the harbour in summer.

2. Read the poem and answer the questions that follow :

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.'

A. Tick the right answer:1x2=2

a) The narrator was looking for a/an- (i) oakwood, (ii) male deer, (iii) old woman, (iv) tribe.

( (b) The woman whom the narrator met was

(i) young and beautiful, (ii) old and fat, (iii) old and well-dressed, (iv) old and wretched. 

B. Answer the following questions:

(i) Where did the narrator meet the old woman ?

(ii) What did the old woman say to the narrator?

1x2=2

Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. "How happy we are here!" they cried to each other.

One day the Giant came back and saw the children were playing in the garden. "What are you doing here?" he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children ran away in fear.

A. Tick the right answer:1×4=4

(i) The children used to play in the Giant's garden

(a) in the morning, (b) in the evening, (c) at dawn, (d) in the afternoon. 

ii) In the garden, the children were very - (a) sad, (b) happy, (c) upset, (d) angry.

(iii) The grass was (a) soft and green, (b) hard and blue, (c) green, (d) soft.

(iv) The children ran away in - (a) joy, (b) fear, (c) sadness, (d) none of these.

B. Each of the following statements is either 'True' or 'False'. Write 'T' for 'True' and 'F' for 'False' in the boxes on the right-hand side:

1×4=4

(i) The Giant's garden was a large ugly garden.

(ii) The Giant had sweet voice.

(iii) There were no fruit in autumn.

(iv) The number of peach trees in the garden was 11.

C. Answer the following question:

Describe the peach-trees in the Giant's garden.

Answer: