SSC (English Medium) १० वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

Arrange the following words in the alphabetical order.

inventions, indisputable, interactions, inequity, institutions, inquisitive, indiscriminately

Draft a speech that you would give at your School Assembly convincing junior students that the secret of true happiness lies in Giving and Sharing more than in Receiving and Taking.

Write it with the appropriate steps in your notebook.

Fill in the blank using the appropriate form of the verb from the bracket:

I did not ______ it at all. (understood/understand)

Make a meaningful sentence using the following phrase:

to look into

Prepare a speech to be delivered on (15^th October) “Reading Inspiration Day” in your school assembly: 

The subject given to you is “Importance of Reading”.
Use the following points:

1. increases knowledge
2. keeps one updated
3. ideal way to keep occupied
4. develops your vocabulary
5. develops the power of expression

Prepare a speech to be delivered by you in the ‘Interschool Elocution Competition,’ on account of the ‘Teacher’s Day’.

Topic: ‘Salute to the teachers’

Hints:

• An excellent educator
• Brightens a soul with its light
• Teaches from the heart, not just from the book
• Resourceful and dedicated
• Hard-working and motivated

Speech:

Prepare a speech to be delivered by you on account of the Republic Day.

Topic: ‘How to build a new India.’

Hints:

• unity in diversity
• sacrifices of the freedom fighters
• education
• pollution free

Find out 4 hidden words having at least four letters from the given word:

'Proclamation'

Arrange the following words in alphabetical order:

invention, indisputable, interactions, inquisitive.

Prepare a speech to be delivered in your school assembly on the topic:

'Giving is Receiving'

Use the following points:

• makes us feel happy.
• promotes co-operation and social connection.
• develops feeling of contentment.
• develops feeling of empathy.

Prepare a speech to be delivered in an inter school competition. The subject given to you is 'Importance of Festivals in Indian Culture.' Use the following points:

• Testimony to our diverse tradition and culture
• An environment of cultural harmony
• Celebration irrespective of religion, caste, and bond of humanity
• Forgetting the enmity bond of love.
• Moral, ethical, and social values of life entertainment.

Speech Writing-

You have been appointed as the Head Boy/Head Girl of your school. Write a speech on this occasion. You may include the following points.

• Gratitude for the opportunity
• Leadership qualities that you possess
• Importance of discipline
• Expectations from the students and classmates

You have been selected as the representative of your School for delivering a speech on World Environment Day on the topic "Global Warming". Prepare a speech.

Speech Writing:

The impact of social media on teenagers is becoming severe. Being a responsible part of the Student Committee of your school, deliver a speech on the topic. You can use the hints given below.

• Pros and cons of social media
• Fake accounts and frauds
• Privacy risks
• Effect on mental well being

Prepare a speech to be delivered in the school assembly on "Save Nature'. Use the following points : 

• We survive only if nature survives.
• All our resources directly or indirectly come from nature.
• Prevent deforestation.
• Balancing nature by saving plants, animals and birds.
• Add your own points.

Complete the following word by using the correct letter:

Ad_lt

Find out any two hidden words of minimum four letters from the given word:

reverberated

Prepare a speech to be delivered in your school assembly: The topic given to you is:

“Nothing is more important than self-study.”

You may use the following points:

• Learn more efficiently
• Learn at your own pace
• Encourages curiosity
• Boosts student's self-esteem

During the devastating July 2005 floods that hit Mumbai, Rajen Dutia received an urgent call from a relative, Lopa Vyas late in the evening. “A friend’s mother is stranded near your home, Rajen. Can you please take her home? Her name is Rashmi,” Vyas told him.
Mumbai had come to a halt and people were trapped everywhere. Despite power failure and raging rain, Dutia stepped out and made his way to the spot, where he found Rashmi as well as a dozen other people. They were stranded in the dark, shivering in the rain. They all lived far away and had no place to go for the night.
Rajen took all of them to his one-bedroom flat, where he served them dinner and invited them to spend the night.
"By doing so," says Rajen, "I was simply fulfilling my karma, paying the universe back for the good it had done for me."

"God is kind. My daughter had just started her new job that day, and had gone for her training. She was stranded too. While she was trying to get to our relatives, she almost drowned, but a young stranger saved her. He and his friends even dropped her to my relative's place and phoned me to say she was safe. One good turn deserves another."

A2. Order
Look at the following sentences from the passage and put them in the correct sequence: (2)
(a) He took them to his one-bedroom flat.
(b) Rajen found Rashmi as well as a dozen other people shivering in the rain.
(c) Mumbai had come to a halt and people were trapped everywhere.
(d) Rajen Dutia received an urgent call.

A3

During the devastating July 2005 floods that hit Mumbai, Rajen Dutia received an urgent call from a relative, Lopa Vyas late in the evening. “A friend’s mother is stranded near your home, Rajen. Can you please take her home? Her name is Rashmi,” Vyas told him.
Mumbai had come to a halt and people were trapped everywhere. Despite power failure and raging rain, Dutia stepped out and made his way to the spot, where he found Rashmi as well as a dozen other people. They were stranded in the dark, shivering in the rain. They all lived far away and had no place to go for the night.
Rajen took all of them to his one-bedroom flat, where he served them dinner and invited them to spend the night.
"By doing so," says Rajen, "I was simply fulfilling my karma, paying the universe back for the good it had done for me."

"God is kind. My daughter had just started her new job that day, and had gone for her training. She was stranded too. While she was trying to get to our relatives, she almost drowned, but a young stranger saved her. He and his friends even dropped her to my relative's place and phoned me to say she was safe. One good turn deserves another."

A2. Order
Look at the following sentences from the passage and put them in the correct sequence: (2)
(a) He took them to his one-bedroom flat.
(b) Rajen found Rashmi as well as a dozen other people shivering in the rain.
(c) Mumbai had come to a halt and people were trapped everywhere.
(d) Rajen Dutia received an urgent call.

A3(i). Fill in the blanks :
Select the words given in the passage (1)
(i) Thousands Of pilgrims were …………….. due to the cloud burst in Uttarakhand.
(ii) The tiger was ……………… by the hunter.

(ii). Antonyms:
Select the correct antonyms for the given words from the alternatives :
(1) Please :
(a) unplease (b) displease (c) misplease
(2) Safe: '
(a) insafe (b) safeless (c) unsafe

A4(i) Tags :
Select the correct tag for the alternatives given below :
One good turn deserves another.
(a) Doesn’t it? (b) don’t it (c) does it?

(ii). Guess:
Choose the correct answer : (1)
Rajen can you please take her home? ‘Can’ indicates :
(a) Obligation (b) ability (c) permission

A5. Personal Response :
‘ one good turn
Deserves another.’
Explain with an
example of your own.

Look at the balloons. Which are the qualities inculcated in the author by her teacher? Write them. (2)

Sister Monica, however, wasn't quite as lenient as that, and spent most of the time telling me about the importance of regularity and hard work. She made me realise that success is, like genius, 99 per cent perspiration and 1 per cent inspiration. It's a lesson that has stood me in good stead.
The teachers I'm most grateful to, though, are not those who have taught me the most, but those who have simply been friends to me, believed me and believed in me. Prominent among them is Sudha Ramasubramanium-Rambo, as we used to call her. I didn't know her too well. She taught me in college, and apart from being incredible in class unless one missed class, she also believed that I actualIy had a Problem when I developed an injury (which several doctors found difficult to diagnose). Despite my missing an exam-the HSC, of all exams- she was the only person who told me to concentrate on my health and assured me that I could take the exam off the top of my head any time I wanted to.
I'm not even certain she remembers it, but at the time, it felt like one of the only rays of hope in an extremely dark tunnel. Perhaps few teachers realize how far their influence extends or how much of a difference their actions and words can make. A number of my teachers have unfortunately taught me kindness and tolerance and patience by being precisely the opposite, and quite obviously, they aren't the people I like to think about. But many of my teachers have been extraordinary people, who have not only taught me in class but also helped mould me and my character in every other way. I only hope that I live up to what their endeavors were undoubtedly mean to create.

B2.Answer
(1) What kind of teachers are disliked by the author?                                                                (1)
(2) What was Sudha Ramasubramanium's advice to the author when she was going to miss her HSC exam. ?                                                                                                                                 (1)

B3. Match :
Match the words with their appropriate meanings :                                                                     (2)

B.4(i) ‘Wh question’
She made me realize that success is, like genius.                                                                  (1)
(Frame a ‘Wh’ question to get the underlined part as an answer)

(ii) She taught me in college.                                                                                                (1)
(Begin the sentence with ‘I’ and rewrite).

B5. Personal Response
Do you agree that a teacher should also be your good friend? Justify your answer.                    (2)