SSC (English Medium) इयत्ता १० वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

B1. Read the following passage and do the activities:

1. International World Heritage Program is administered by ______.
   1. UNESCO
   2. WHO
   3. WHC
   4. UN
2. World Heritage Sites are significant ______.
   1. Naturally and culturally
   2. Naturally and traditionally
   3. Naturally and literary
   4. None of these
3. Which site played a role in historical Chinese art and literature?
   1. Aswan High Dam
   2. Mount Huangshan
   3. Abu Simbel Temple
   4. Egyptian artefacts
4. UNESCO launched an international campaign in ______.
   1. 1950
   2. 1959
   3. 1958
   4. 1957

B2. Briefly describe the international campaign launched by UNESCO in 1959.

B3. Make sentences using the following phrases.

1. Play a role
2. Scores of

B4. Rewrite the following sentences using 'not only' and 'but also'.

1. World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural areas.
2. Egypt started plans to build the Aswan High Dam to collect and control water from the Nile River.

B5. How do you think can an individual conserve and protect a World Heritage Site?

Read the following passage and do the activities.

A1. Fill in the blanks:

Mary Korn is an ______ personality. (inspire/inspirational) ______ has been a neglected area in Indian sports. (nutrients/nutrition) ______ played a role in shaping the boxing scene in India. (OCQ/OGQ) Mary Korn gained weight by eating ______. (saturated fat/healthy food)

A2. Choose the correct alternative.

1. How many Olympic medals did India win in 2012?
   1. 16
   2. 60
   3. 66
   4. 6
2. Which one of these is an unhealthy food constituent according to the passage?
   1. Unsaturated fats
   2. Saturated fats
   3. Proteins
   4. Vitamin C

A3. Complete the given table:

A4. Do as directed:

1. Write the antonyms of the following from the text.
   1. Ignorance
   2. Rare
2. Write the synonyms of the following from the text.
   1. Company
   2. Unattended

A5. Do you think sports can be a successful career? Why or why not?

Read the following passage and do the given activities:

A1. State whether the following statements are 'True' or 'False':  (2)

1. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer.
2. We should be trapped by dogma.
3. Have the courage to follow our heart and intuition.
4. Our time is unlimited.

A2. Complete the following web.   (2)

A3. Fill in the blanks using the phrases given in the brackets:   (2)

[Signed off, drown out, turned out, trapped by]

1. We should not be ______ superstitions.
2. The movie ______ to be a disappointment.
3. ______ with a very important message for all of us.
4. We should not let the opinion of others ______.

A4. Do as directed.   (2)

1. It was their farewell message. [Add a question tag]
2. I lived with that diagnosis all day.  [Underline the verb and state its tense]

A5. Personal Response:  (2)

What is your opinion regarding the farewell message 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish'? 

Read the following passage and do the given activities:

B1. Complete the following sentences from the passage:    (2)

1. He was only fifteen and _______.
2. Her apartment was not big but _____.
3. Whenever they came to Bombay _____.
4. He was already able to compose his own tunes _____.

B2. Why did Smita become nervous?   (2)

B3. Match the pairs with proper antonyms from the passage:   (2)

B4. Do as directed:   (2)

1. He was learning to play the sitar.
   [Frame 'Wh' question to get the underlined part as an answer]
2. He could be treated at the cancer hospital in the city.
   [Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function]

B5. Personal Response   (2)

What would you prefer: music or sports? Give reasons to support your answer.

Read the following extract and do the given activities:

(A1) Complete the web:   (2)

(A2) List down two impacts of beautiful things on us:  (2)

1. _______
2. _______

(A3) Write down the Rhyme - scheme of the first four lines.  (1)

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

The following line is given to you. Find its appropriate meaning after discussing it with your partner.

If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it.

The following line is given to you. Find its appropriate meaning after discussing it with your partner.

Lose all your terror of opposition for it.

The following line is given to you. Find its appropriate meaning after discussing it with your partner.

With all your capacity, strength and sagacity.

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

reverberated

Read the following passage and do the given activities:

(A1) Name the following with reference to the passage:   (2)

(A2) Complete the following web diagram:  (2)

(A3) Fill in the blanks choosing the correct phrases in their proper form from the bracket. (2)

(to get fired, devastating, begin to dawn on)

1. On committing persistent mistakes the employee ______ from his post.
2. When the teacher explained the solution of the problems in Maths, it ______ the students that the problems were easy.

(A4) Do as Directed:   (2)

1. Identify the tense of the underlined verb:
   If you haven’t found yet, keep looking
2. I found what I loved to do early in life.
   (Identify the main and subordinate clause.)

(A5) Personal Response:  (2)

‘Failure is the key to success.’ Explain in your own words.

Read the following passage and do the given activities:

(A1) Complete the following web chart:     (2)

(A2) Complete the following table:   (2)

(A3) Match the words in Column ‘A’ with their meanings in Column ‘B’:    (2)

(A4) Do as Directed:    (2)

1. You can choose a place of your dreams.
   (Use the modal auxiliary showing compulsion and rewrite the sentence)
2. Kerala is the land of magic and ayurvedic massages
   (Rewrite the sentence using ‘not only .………. but also’)

(A5) Personal Response:   (2)

Why is the tourism industry important for the Indian Economy to flourish?

Read the following passage and complete the activities:

(B1) State whether the given statements are true or false:  (2)

1. The age of the girl was six.
2. The boy on the bed was fast asleep.
3. Pandit Ravi Shankar was a tabla maestro.
4. She had seen how the doctors had shaken their heads gravely.

(B2) Complete the following statements, giving reasons:  (2)

1. Anant was better than his sister in playing sitar because ______.
2. The girl was excited because ______.

(B3)                                                                                            (2)

1. Find any two adverbs from the passage ending with ‘ly’.
2. Find any two compound words from the passage.

(B4) Do as Directed:       (2)

1. "I’ve always wanted to hear him and see him," he said.
   (Change into indirect speech.)
2. His mother sprang to his side.
   (Add a question tag.)

(B5) Personal Response          (2)

Describe your experience of any musical concert that you have attended.

Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph:

Points:

• The title and the poet of the poem.      (1)
• Rhyme scheme        (1)
• Figures of speech      (1)
• Central Idea/Theme      (2)

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)

A1. Guess
Select the correct alternatives from the boxes : (2)

(1) The Olympic Games were originally held in honour of:
(a) The Priests (b) The Greeks
(c) The Spartans (d) Zeus

(2) The Olympics were held after every …………..
(a) Year (b) Four years
(c) Three years (d) Two years

(3) All came to know of Olympia from the:
(a) Olympics (b) Spartans
(c) Syracusans (d) Athenians

(4) Altis was the name of a :
(a) God (b) Race
(c) Festival (d) Enclosure

Olympia, the original site of Olympic Games in ancient Greece is situated in a quiet, beautiful valley. The old ruins are shaded by evergreen oaks, pines and poplars, as well as olive trees. Olympia was never a city but a sacred ground occupied by temples and dwellings for the priests. At the centre was the enclosure known as Altis, dedicated to Zeus, the god of gods. It was in honour of Zeus that the quadrennial festival and the games were held.

The fame of Olympia rests largely upon Olympic Games. They were a great national festival of the entire Greek race. During the week of the festival the Athenians, the Spartans, the Syracusans and other groups, all forgot their narrow identities. They regarded an Olympic victory as the highest honour. The simple reward of a twig of wild olive immortalized the victor and his family.
The Olympic Games were held regularly in peace and in war at an interval of four years for over a thousand years from 776 B.C. till 393 A.D. Originally, men who spoke Greek as their mother tongue were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. No married women were allowed to be present. The athletic programme was varied by the presence of historians, orators and writers. After each event a herald announced the victor's name and handed him a palm. On the last day the successful competitors were each given a garland of wild olive.

A2. Select
Select the word each from the circle which mean the following:                                              (2)
(1) Occurring at the interval of four years
(2) Wreckage
(3) Take part in a game
(4) One who wins.

A3. Complete :
Complete the table and frame your sentence with anyone word : (2)

A4. (i) The old ruins are, shaded by evergreen oaks, pines and .poplars as well as olive trees.
(Insert not only ……. but also and rewrite).                                                                            (1)
(ii) No married women were allowed to be present. (Remove 'No' and rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning)                                                                                                         (1)

A5. Personal response
How are the winners in Olympics rewarded today?                                                                 (2)

B1. Choose
Choose the correct alternatives and complete the sentences (2)
(1) The narrator is :
(a) an astronaut
(b) an engineer studying in BITS Pilani
(c) in the team of astronauts.

(2) Armstrong said, 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind which means:
(a) one step on the moon means, many steps on the earth.
(b) he felt like a giant on the moon.
(c) one moon mission had opened up many avenues in science and technology for mankind.

It was late evening of July 20. 1969, when we turned up the hostel radio. I was an engineering student at BITS, Pilani. I still remember the feverish excitement that gripped us from July 16 when Apollo 11. the US space rocket, took off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Neil Armstrong and his team of astronauts, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, were to land on moon, for the first time in human history. We listened 'with rapt attention when Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
His death on Saturday, August 25, is a moment to salute the romance of space science that Apollo 11 unleashed. It has changed forever the way we look at our planet Earth and its satellite, the moon.
Standing on powdery moondust, Armstrong put up his thumb, shut one eye and found his thumb blotting out the Earth. "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth” he said later. "I felt very, very small." But behind that humbling realisation stood a giant truth:

The effort to explore the universe united mankind in technology and knowledge. Each moon mission, about 110 till date, provided more confidence to take on bolder projects.

B2. Complete                                                                                                                         (2)
(1) Armstrong describes the earth as ……………
(2) The effort to explore the universe has ………………
(3) Apollo 11 unleashed and changed forever ………………
(4) The author came to know about Apollo 11 mission when he …………..

B3. Solve
Solve the crossword with the clues given below. Refer to the passage for your answers:              (2)

Down :   (1) The area beyond the earth's atmosphere .
             (2) The name of the spacecraft that Armstrong travelled.
Across : (3) A person trained to travel in space.
             (4) Y A natural satellite of the earth.

B4. Begin the sentence
(i) With-For the first time .......and rewrite                                                                               [1]
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were, to land on the moon for the first time.
(ii) Insert 'that' appropriately and rewrite.                                                                               [1]
Armstrong found his thumb blotting out the Earth.

B5. Personal Response
Would you like to be an astronaut? Give reasons.