X English 2008
X English
Question No. 1
Write an essay of 150 to 200 words on any ONE of the following topics.
i. Importance of Unity in the Muslim World
ii. Role of Media in Education People
iii. The Annual Function of your School
iv. General Elections 2008 in Pakistan.
Question No. 2
Write an application to the headmaster/headmistress of your school to issue you a provisional certificate.
OR
Write a letter to your father informing him about your reparation for the forthcoming S.S.C Part II examination.
OR
Write dialogue between two friends discussing democracy in Pakistan.
Question No. 3
Do As Directed
i. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. (Insert suitable articles, where necassary)
ii. He has been suffering from fever since last sunday. (Insert suitable prepositions)
iii. Does she help the poor? (Change into an assertive sentence)
iv. He gets up early in the morning. (Change into a negative sentence)
v. The doctor gave the medicine to the patient.(Change into an interrogative sentence)
vi. I drank orange juice. (Change the verb into present perfect tence)
vii. They caught butterflies in the garden. (Change the sentence into future indefinite tense)
viii. A road links his village to the town. (Change the voice)
ix. Let the door not be opened. (Change the voice)
x. The teacher was teaching English. (Change the voice)
xi. We are taught English by a good teacher. (Change the voice)
xii. I said to the headmaster, “May I come in, sir”. (Change into the indirect form of narration)
xiii. The teacher said that man is mortal. (Change the form of narration)
xiv. Table, chair, sofa, almirah etc. (Give one word for the group of words)
xv. She said i am sorry i could not reach on time. (Punctuate and use capital letters, where necassary).
Question No. 4 (A)
Answer any SIX of the following question in two/three sentences each.
i. What are the qualities of a good teacher?
ii. What do you learn from the life of the holy Prophet (SAW)?
iii. What are the various customs of the valley of Mehran?
iv. What is the Khyber Pass and how long is it?
v. How did Sultan Nasiruddin earn his living?
vi. How did King Faisal develop his country?
vii. What is the difference between the old and the modern methods of farming?
viii. What is the difference between beef and mutton?
ix. How id the Caliph find out the real owner of the horse?
Question No. 4 (B)
i. What message does the poet give in his poem “The Voice of God”?
ii. What kind of men can lift the country to the sky?
iii. What lesson do we learn from the poem “Casabiance”?
iv. Who wrote the poem “Little Things”? What makes our world an Eden?
v. Whose hands are praised in the poem “Beautiful Hands” and why?
vi. Why did King Bruce decide not to give up his effort?
Question No. 5
Fill in the blanks of any FIVE of the following choosing the correct answer for each from the brackets.
i. The Holy Prophet (SAW) practised what he Preached. (Believed, Sought, Preached)
ii. The farmers use Chemical Fertilizers to enrich the soil. (Insecticides, Chemical Fertilizers, Medicines)
iii. Brave men work while the other sleep. (Sleep, Smile, Weep)
iv. A Fisharies Technological Laboratory has also been set up at Karachi. (Lahore, Karachi, Quetta)
v. About One-third of or earth is covered with water. (One-third, Three-fourth, One-fourth)
vi. Africa consists of more than independent Twenty Five countries. (Twenty five, Thirty, Thirty Five)
Question No. 6
Use any three of the following structures in sentences of your own.
with open arms, black and white, to wind up, by and by, to nip in the bud.
Question No. 7
Completer the following story from the given outline.
A farmer has three sons ________ they are always quarrelling with one another ________ father asks them to bring a bundle of sticks ________ asks them to break it ________ none succeeds ________ unties the bundle ________ each son breaks the sticks.
Question No. 8
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below
The universe is a very strange kind of place. The empty spaces in the universe are immeasurable. The distance from our son to the nearest collection of about 3,00,000 million stars. About thirty million similar collections are known to exist in the universe.
i. What is immeasurable in the universe.
ii. What is the distance between the sun and the nearest star?
iii. What is meant by a light year?
iv. How many groups of stars are known to exist?
v. Write the noun forms of “Exist” and “Measure”.
Question No. 9
Make the precis of the following passage.
The great advantage of early rising is that one can start one’s work long before others have done so. The early riser has done a large amount of hard work before other men get out of bed in the early morning when the mind is fresh and no sound or noise disturbs him/her. The work done at such times is general well done. Also one finds time to take some exercise in the fresh morning air. Exercise supplies him with a good deal of energy that enables him to work hard til the evening.
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