10th Class English Past Paper 2021 Evening

Note: English 2nd Time Paper of 10th Class.

Group-I (OBJECTIVE)

I. Choose the correct form of verb and fill up the bubbles sheet

1. Girls were ______.
(A) Song
(B) Sang
(C) Sings
(D) Singing

2. The Sun ______ in the west.
(A) Set
(B) Sets
(C) Has setting
(D) Setting

3. It is ______ .
(A) Raining
(B) Rain
(C) Rains
(D) Rained

4. You ______ since morning.
(A) Have been resting
(B) Rest
(C) Rests
(D) Resting

5. She ______ the door softly.
(A) Is shut
(B) Have shut
(C) Shutting
(D) Shut

II. Choose the word with correct spelling and fill up the bubbles sheet

6. Correct spelling is:
(A) Merriage
(B) Mariage
(C) Marriage
(D) Meriage

7. Correct spelling is:
(A) Necessary
(B) Necesary
(C) Nesessary
(D) Nesesary

8. Correct spelling is:
(A) Ansestor
(B) Ancester
(C) Ancestor
(D) ancesstor

9. Correct spelling is:
(A) Recepient
(B) Racipient
(C) Racepient
(D) Recipient

III. Choose the correct option and fill up the bubbles sheet

10. ‘Custom’ means:
(A) Law
(B) Rule
(C) Practice
(D) Clear

11. ‘Foe’ means:
(A) Friend
(B) Enemy
(C) Classmate
(D) Relative

12. The synonym of ‘firm’ is ______
(A) Persistent
(B) Fast
(C) Difficult
(D) Expensive

13. The antonym of ‘abandon’ is ______
(A) Desert
(B) Discard
(C) Difficult
(D) Support

14. The antonym of ‘fail’ is ______
(A) Unsuccessful
(B) Succeed
(C) Give up
(D) Flourish

IV. Choose the correct option according to the grammar and fill up the bubbles sheet

15. Who is the man at the door? The underlined word is a / an ————
(A) Reflexive pronoun
(B) Relative pronoun
(C) Interrogative pronoun
(D) Indefinite pronoun

16. ‘A clever trick was played successfully by the cat.’ The underlined word is an adverb of———-
(A) Manner
(B) Place
(C) Time
(D) frequency

17. By the time we got to the cinema the film ———-, so we missed the first five minutes.
(A) Starts
(B) Have start
(C) Started
(D) Had started

18. ‘They invited us to their home yesterday’. What tense is it?
(A) Past Indefinite
(B) Past continuous
(C) Past Perfect
(D) Past perfect continuous

19. ‘Flying above the lake at this time of night seems a little dangerous.’
(A) Adjective phrase
(B) Gerund phrase
(C) Infinitive phrase
(D) Prepositional phrase

SUBJECTIVE

Section – I

2. Write short answers to any Five of the following questions. (5 x 2 = 10)
(i) How were people of Makkah convinced of the Rasool’s (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم خاتم النبیین) Justice even before his Nabuwat?
(ii) When does Chinese New Year start?
(iii) How many times should we try and why? (Try Again)
(iv) What were some famous careers for the young people in the past? (Selecting the Right Career)
(v) What happened to the Prisoner’s wealth after his death?
(vi) Why were Sahabas (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہم) worried? (Faithfulness)
(vii) What does the word ‘depleted’ mean? and what other word you can use to replace “optimum”?
(viii) What does the author want to imply by mentioning his co-curricular activities? (Little by Little One Walks Far!)

Section – II

3. Translate the following paragraph into Urdu: (8)
Each medium has strengths that the other does not. Each makes use of strong points that the other lacks. Television news is like having a fast food meal whereas reading newspapers is like having a ten course dinner. The ideal seems to be, if one has the time, to both read the news and watch it on television.

OR

Alternative question for Foreign/English medium candidates:
Re-write the above paragraph in simple English.

4. Write the summary of the poem “Peace” by Dr. Hartmann. (5)
OR
Paraphrase the following lines into simple English with reference to the context:
All that other folk can do,
Why with patience should not you?
only keep this rule in view,
Try again.

5. Write an essay of 150-200 words on any ONE of the following topics: (15)
(a) My Favourite Book
(b) Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(c) A Railway Journey
OR
Write a paragraph of 100-150 words on any ONE of the following topics:
(a) A Picnic
(b) A Meena Bazaar
(c) How to keep our town Clean?

6. Change any five of the following sentences into indirect form: (5)
(i) She said to me, “You are a lazy boy.”
(ii) He said to her, “I live in this building.”
(iii) She said, “Where do you live?”
(iv) The boy said, “What do you want me to do?”
(v) The father said to his son, “Get up early in the morning and go for a walk.”
(vi) He said, “Alas! I am ruined.”
(vii) He said, “May Allah help me do my duty.”
(viii) He says, “I want to speak to you.”

7. Use any FIVE of the following pair of words in your own sentences: (5)
(i) Beside, Besides
(ii) Diary, Dairy
(iii) Invent, Discover
(iv) Metal, Mettle
(v) Prey, Pray
(vi) Urbane, Urban
(vii) Berth, Birth
(viii) Principal, Principle

8. Translate the following paragraph into English: (8)
والدین کی عزت کرنا ہمارا اخلاقی فرض ہے۔ وہ ہمارا بہت خیال رکھتے ہیں۔ وہ ہمیں خوراک دیتے ہیں۔ وہ ہمیں لباس دیتے ہیں۔ وہ ہمیں تمام چیزیں مہیا کرتے ہیں جن کی ہمیں ضرورت ہوتی ہے۔ وہ ہمیں سکول بھیجتے ہیں تاکہ ہم تعلیم حاصل کرنے کے بعد ان کی خدمت کریں۔ اس سے ہمیں راحت ملے گی۔

OR

Alternative question for Foreign/English medium candidates:
Write ten sentences about “TV is taking away the Habit of Reading Books“