Class 10 English Question Paper 2025 Download PDF : UP Board Class 10 English Model Paper 2025 PDF Download UPMSP Class 10th English Model Paper 2025 Download PDF Download Class 10 English Sample Paper 2025 Class 10 English Pre Board Model Paper
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Name…………
917 817 (DM)
2025
ENGLISH
Time : 3 hours 15 minutes. [Max. Marks : 70 ]
General Instructions :
- First 15 minutes are allotted to the candidates for reading the question paper
All the questions are compulsory. - This question paper is divided into two parts : Part- A and Part B.
Part-A consists of 20 multiple choice questions carrying 1 mark each. - Read the question wise instructions and mark your answer on the given OMR sheet. Do not erase, cut or use whitener on the OMR sheet.
- Part – B consists of descriptive type questions.
- Marks are indicated against each question.
PART-A
Multiple choice questions
(Questions No. 1-3) Read the following passage carefully and choose the correct option to answer the questions that follow.
Work experience so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is known in the proverbial phrase it is the busiest man who has time to spare. Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spend in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in in composition and twenty minutes in deciding weather or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the next Street. the total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes all told may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt anxiety and toil.
1.What does the expression pillar box stand for ?
- A box in the pillar
- A box attached to the pillar
- Box office
- A pillar type post box
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2. Which word in the passage is opposite to the world ‘ idle ‘ ?
- Busy
- Laborious
- Naughty
- Elderly
3. Who is is the person likely to take more time to do work ?
- A busy man
- A man of leisure
- An elderly person
- An exhausted person
( Questions No. 4-8 ) choose the correct option to answer the following questions :
4. He bought a beautiful dress.
Identify the world ‘ beautiful ‘.
- Verb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Adjective
5. Which of the following word is Misspelt?
- Miletary
- Temporary
- Ordinary
- Century
6. Rearrange following word clusters to make a meaningful sentence and choose the right arrangement :
she / a / lot / of / borrowed / has / them / from
- He has from them a money of lord borrowed
- He has borrowed a lot of money from them
- Money a lot of them from borrowed has a
- Them from a of money not borrowed
7. Fill in the gap a suitable preposition :
Fruits world distributed………………..those five friends .
- In
- Between
- Into
- Among
8. The thing that has been created by somebody is called :
- Search
- Learning
- Invention
- Promotion
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(Questions No. 9-10 ) read the following passage given below and choose the correct option to answer the questions that follow.
But then I slowly saw that only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed but the freedom of everyone who look like I did that is when I join the African National Congress and that is win the hunger of my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people.
9. Mr. Mandela joined the African National Congress when :
- He found he was free
- He found himself in jail
- He found that he was unsuccessful
- He found that his freedom and the freedom of everyone who look like him was curtailed
10. Mr. Mandela was not free but his brothers and sister were :
- Free
- Praying
- Apologising
- also not free
(Questions No. 11-13 ) choose the correct option to answer the following questions :
11. Which party did Mandela join ?
- Indian National Congress
- African National Congress
- National African party
- He did not join any party
12. The bus fare from Valli’s village to the town was………….. paise one way.
- Forty
- Thirty
- Fifty
- Twenty
13. Lencho wrote a letter to God asking for a…………pesos.
- Hundred
- Thousand
- Ninety
- Sixty
(Questions No. 14-15) read the given extract and choose the correct option to answer the following questions.
He Stalks in the vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet
In his quiet rage.
14. What is the title of the poem ?
- Fire and ice
- Animals
- A Tiger in the Zoo
- The Trees
15. Who is the poet of the poem from which the above stranger has been extracted ?
- Walt Whitman
- Leslie Norris
- Robert Frost
- Robin Klein
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( Questions No. 16-20 ) choose the correct option to answer the following questions.
16. Bholi was the daughter of
- Collector Ramlal
- Tahsildar Ramlal
- Inspector Ramlal
- Numberdar Ramlal
17. When the thief awoke the next morning, he found :
- Anil had left him.
- Adil had cheated him.
- Anil had made the tea.
- Anil had deceived him
18. Ebright was born in :
- Liverpool
- London
- Reading
- Oxford
19. During treatment of the dog the doctor
- Operated the dog
- Give the dog many things to eat
- Kept an eye on the dog giving the food but plenty of water
- Give the dog a lot of food but no water
20. Numberdar Ramlal had seven children :
- Two sons and five daughters
- Five sons and two daughters
- Three sons and four daughters
- Four sons and three daughters
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PART – B
(Reading)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
A poor women vansh came to Buddha to ask him whether he could give her any medicine to restore her that child to life. The holy man touched by the great sorrow of the women, sold her that there was only one medicine which could revive her son. He bade her bring him a handful of mustard seed from a house where death had never entered. The sorrowing mother made from the door to door seeking the mustard seed but every door see made with sad replies one side I have lost my husband and other side our youngest child died last year.”She returned with a heavy heart to teacher who told her tenderly that he must not think much of her own grief, since sorrow and death are common to all.
- Which word in the passage means ‘softly’
- What did the holy man tell her ?
- What were the sad replies that people gave her ?
- Why did the poor woman go to Buddha ?
( Writting )
2. Write a letter to your friend asking him to spend his summer vacation with you.
OR
Write an application to the principal of your college requesting him to make your library active , which is almost dead.
3. Write an article on ‘ A visit to a Zoo ‘ in 80-100 words.
(Hints- introduction, visit to the zoo,scene at the zoo, over all experience )
OR
Write a report on the Independence Day celebration in your school in about 80-100 words on the basis of given below :
(Hints- decoration of school building, flag hoisting ceremony, Singing of national anthem , cultural programs , principal’s speech , distribution of sweets )
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4. (a) Rewrite the following sentence by changing into indirect speech :
The teacher said to me , “what are you doing ? “
(b) change the following into passive voice :
The King shot the Tiger.
( c ) Panctuate the following :
ramesh said to shyam are we still away from the city
(d) Translate the following into English.
मैं अपने माता-पिता के साथ रविवार को लखनऊ जाना चाहता था । गाड़ी प्लेटफार्म नंबर 1 पर खड़ी थी, गाड़ी में भीड़ नहीं थी, इसलिए हम लोग आसानी से बैठ गए, गाड़ी सही समय पर चल दिए ।
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Literature
5. Answer the following questions in about 30 – 40 word each :
1.What was Lencho’s remark for the post office employees ?
OR
What is coorg famous for ?
2. What was the meaning of ‘freedom’ from Mandela ?
OR
Who was Anne Frank ? where did she write a diary ?
6. Answer any one of the following in about 60 words :
- How did the bus conductor receive Valli?
- How did Mandela’s ‘ hunger for freedom ‘ change his life ?
7. Describe the contrast between the tiger in the zoo and the tiger in its natural habitat ( in about 40 words)
OR
Write the four lines of any poem prescribed in your syllabus.
(Do not copy the line given in the question paper )
8. Write the central idea of any one of the following poems in about 40 – 50 words :
- Dust of snow
- Animals
- A tiger in the zoo
9. Answer one of the following in about 30 – 40 words ;
- What was the real disease that Tricki was suffering from ?
- Why was Bholi’s father worried about her ?
10. Answer any one of the following in about 60 word :
- What are the qualities that go into the making of a scientist ?
- What would have happened to matilda had see confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace ?
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