
ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUIZ CLASS 10
Quiz by Blessy Achankunju
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i. Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage:
1. Sprouted

2. yielding

3. protested

Answer the following questions.
1. Name the time of the year when the colour of the surrounding area is brightened up?

2. What does the phrase âunlikely places imply?

3. Describe the common sight along the road?

4. How do you know that the river was not in flood?

5. How can you say that his father had been in the army?

6. Why did they take time to start planting their saplings?

7. The writer and his father were finally successful in planting the trees. Pick a sentence that explains this point.

8. Why were they happy to see the rain clouds?

9. What was their vision for the âKeekar treeâ?

10. According to the author, how would this little island appear in a span of ten years?

11. Which tree is best suited for timber?

What steps does the author say and do in regard to trees and their uses?Â
12. At first

13. After having toiled for hours, they discuss that trees are used by ...

14. trees provide organisms with.....

15. Men also need trees as ...

16. How can a man help to conserve trees and increase the forest cover?

17. Â What will happen if there are no forests?

Put the appropriate tense of the verb in the blank spaces in the following sentences:
1. Answer the first question before you _________ further.
Just as Rani ______ the room, the clock struck.
Wherever he _______, people gathered to listen.
The teacher speaks as though he _____ very angry.
As soon as Sunil ______ the news, he wrote to me.
He ran because he __ in a hurry.
We shall wait here until he _______.
He walked so fast that I ____ not overtake him.
Always _______ to wash your hands.
I ________ reach home late tonight.
Read each sentence with its instructions. Choose the correct answer from the options provided beneath each:
1. The news is too good to be true.
He is the cleverest man in the town. (change into a negative sentence)
How well she sings! (change into Assertive sentence)
We passed an anxious night. (end: anxiety)
He worked hard, yet he did not succeed. ( Begin: Notwithstanding...)
He not only gave us money but also encouraged us. (end: ...encouraged us
He took his child and went away. ( Begin: Taking...)
Do as I tell you, or you will regret it. (Begin: Unless...)
I have found the book that I had lost. (End: ...found it)
In spite of his riches, he is unhappy. (End: ...unhappy)