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DISTRICT COMMON EXAMINATION BOARD
PRE-FINAL EXAMINATIONS – FEBRUARY – 2026
Third Language – ENGLISH
PART – B
Class : X (Marks : 20) Time : 30 Min.
Instructions:
Q.No. (17-21) Read the following poem.
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun,
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea;
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder—everlastingly.
Dear child! That walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year;
And worshipp’st at the Temple’s inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.
Now answer the following questions.
17. What is the poet describing at the beginning of the poem?
A) A busy market scene
B) A calm and peaceful evening
C) A stormy night
D) A crowded city street
18. What is the sun doing in the poem?
A) Rising in the east
B) Setting in the west
C) Hiding behind clouds
D) Shining brightly at noon
19. What literary device is used in the line “The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea”?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Alliteration
20. What sound does the poet hear in the poem?
A) The sound of birds chirping
B) The sound of waves crashing
C) A sound like thunder
D) The sound of people talking
21. What is the poet suggesting about the child’s relationship with God?
A) The child is unaware of God’s presence
B) The child is disconnected from God
C) The child is too young to understand God
D) The child has a deep, innate connection with God
Q.No. 22-26 In the following passage, five sentences are numbered and each of them has an error. Correct them and re-write them.
“It happened on April the 26th 1986. (22) I remember the date because it was my mother birthday.
(23) We heard the explode early in the morning.
(24) We doesn’t worry, because there had been explosions before from Chernobyl.
(25) But this one was big.
(26) Everyone stopped who they were doing but listened.
22. __________
23. __________
24. __________
25. __________
26. __________
Q.No. (27-31) Complete the passage choosing the right word from those given below. Each blank is numbered and each has four choices (A), (B), (C), (D). Choose the correct answer and write A, B, C, D in the brackets given.
Maria Corina Machado Parisa is (27) ______ Venezuelan politician, activist, (28) ______ prominent leader (29) ______ the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.
She (30) ______ as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run (31) ______ a candidate in presidential elections. She is the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
27. A) the
B) an
C) a
D) none of above
28. A) but
B) or
C) because
D) and
29. A) off
B) half
C) of
D) up
30. A) has served
B) was serving
C) is serving
D) served
31. A) in
B) as
C) well as
D) as it is
Q.No. (32-36) Read the following passage with focus on the underlined parts. Answer them as directed in the space given.
Was it that even as a boy he (32) sense that in his own country he would be at the white man’s beck and call?
Could he, (33) with his age, divine a difference between himself and the white boy?
And did the little white youngster, so young, such a baby, realize that he would grow to dominate the black man?
Was there an indefinable quality in the white man that (34) enabled his baby, smaller and younger than his playmate, to make him slave?
I could find no answer.
I could not bring myself to (35) believe such a thing, and yet, with my own eyes I have seen a little dark boy take orders from a little white boy.
(36) obviously his social equal and younger and smaller.
32. Replace the underlined word with correct one.
33. Write the correct preposition.
34. Write the antonym for the underlined word.
35. Write the synonym for the underlined word.
36. Write the parts of speech for the underlined word.