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English (Communicative) – 2009
Comptt.
(Set II – Delhi)

Time allowed : 3 hours
Maximum marks : 100

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
This paper consists of four Sections:
Section A-Reading – 20 marks
Section B-Writing – 30 marks
Section C-Grammar – 20 marks
Section D-Literature – 30 marks
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Do not write anything in the question paper.
3. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet provided to you.
4. Attempt all questions in each Section before going on to the next Section.
5. Read each question carefully and follow the instructions.
6. Strictly adhere to the word limit given with each question.

SECTION A (READING) 20

Q. 1. Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow: 8

THE COROMANDEL FISHERS

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light.
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull’s call,
The sea is our mother,the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives,
Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea. __Sarojini Naidu

Q. 1.1 Read the summary of the poem and supply the missing word in each case. 1 x 8=8
Addressing the fishermen as (a) _____________ the poet is exhorting them to set their fast sailing (b) _____________ free to catch the fish which are leaping with the tide in the ocean. Being the (c) _____________ of the sea, they have the sole right to claim possession of that (d) _____________. Even the sea gulls are calling them out to the (e) _____________, so they should no longer (f) _____________ but make haste, for the sea, the cloud and the waves, all are their relatives. There is no point to fear, for the sea-god who controls all things in nature will undoubtedly (g) _____________ their lives. The poet tells the fishermen that living in the company of other objects of nature is sweet but the love of the sea and the adventure they experience is (h) _____________ than any other experience.

Ans. (a) brothers (b) catamarans (c) kings (d) wealth (e) sea (f) delay (g) protect (h) sweeter

English Communicative 2009 Question Papers Class X
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