Grammar-Gap Filling - CBSE Value Based Questions - type1
CBSE Class 10 English
Grammar
Value Based Questions
Grammar
Value Based Questions
TYPE: 2
Test type will include gapfilling to test the knowledge in using the words appropriately.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In the following passages, choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below to complete the passage. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Do not copy the whole passage.
Test type will include gapfilling to test the knowledge in using the words appropriately.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In the following passages, choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below to complete the passage. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Do not copy the whole passage.
1. Group (a) _________ is an (b) __________ conversation in which members of a group (c) _______ participate and exchange (d) _________ with a purpose. A problem is (e) _______ by raising questions and ________ suggestions. (½×6=3)
- i) discuss ii) discussion iii) to discuss iv) discursive
- i) organise ii) no organize iii) organised iv) organisation
- i) active ii) activity iii) actively iv) act
- i) ideas ii) ideal iii) ideally iv) idiom
- i) examination ii) to examine iii) examining iv) examined
- i) made ii) make iii) making iv) makes
Solution
1.
1.
- ii) discussion
- iii) organised
- iii) actively
- i) ideas
- iv) examined
- iii) making
2. It is (a) ___________ that faith cannot stand the test of (b) __________. In fact, they are not opposed to each other. They (c) _________ supplement each other. (1×3=3)
- i) belief ii) believed iii) believing iv) believe
- i) reason ii) reasonable iii) reasonably iv) reasoning
- i) certainty ii) certain iii) certainly iv) curtained
Solution
2.
2.
- ii) believed
- i) reason
- iii) certainly
3. The mind is the (a) __________ of human life. It can be the garden of joys or the (b) ______ path to (c)_______. One person is (d) _______ because he (e) _______ likes his occupation while another is (f) ______ because he fears death. (½×6=3)
- i) mysterious ii) mystery iii) mysteriously iv) sorry
- i) secretly ii) secrecy iii) secrets iv) secret
- i) sorrow ii) sorrowful iii) sorrowfully iv) sorry
- i) depression ii) depress iii) depressed iv) depressive
- i) hard ii) hardly iii) harden iv) harder
- i) misery ii) miserably iii) miserable iv) miserly
Solution
2.
2.
- ii) believed
- i) reason
- iii) certainly
3.
- ii) mystery
- iv) secret
- i) sorrow
- iii) depressed
- ii) hardly
- iii) miserable
4. Pollution is (a) _______ as the contamination of environment’s pure elements by the (b) _____ substances or increase in their percentage above a certain (c) _______ limit. Pollution of air is (d) ______ of pure air by noxious fumes. Pollution of water is a (e)________ of industrial development. It is our collective (f) __________ to check pollution.
- i) defining ii) defined iii) define iv) definition
- i) harmful ii) harm iii) harmless iv) harmfully
- i) permission ii) permissible iii) permit iv) permissibly
- i) contamination ii) contaminate iii) contain iv) contained
- i) consequent ii) consequence iii) consequently iv) consistence
- i) responsibility ii) responsible iii) response iv) respond
5. Liberty is not a (a) _________ affair only but a (b) ______ contract. It is an (c) _______ of interests. In matters which do not touch others liberty, I will be (d) _______ free and won’t (e) ________ anyone’s (f) __________ . (½×6=3)
- i) personally ii) person iii) personal iv) personality
- i) social ii) socially iii) society iv) socialise
- i) adjustable ii) adjustment iii) adjusted iv) adjust
- i) completion ii) complete iii) completely iv) completed
- i) requirement ii) requires iii) required iv) require
- i) permissible ii) permission iii) permitted iv) permit
6. Many animals are in (a) ______ of extinction unless (b) ________ efforts are made for their (c) ______ In India, the black buck is one of such (d) _________ animals. (e) _______ killing of animals (f) ______ our ecosystem adversely. (½×6=3)
- i) dangerous ii) endanger iii) danger iv) dangerously
- i) special ii) specially iii) specialty iv) specialize
- i) protect ii) protection iii) protective iv) protecting
- i) deplete ii) depleting iii) depletion iv) depeleted
- i) indiscriminate ii) discriminate iii) indiscriminately iv) indiscrimination
- i) affect ii) effect iii) effective iv) affects
7. When my maternal uncle was alive, his only son (a) ________ made plans to settle in Germany with his wife. Without (b) _______ anyone, he bought tickets and sold all (c) ______ things at home. (1×3=3)
- i) quiet ii) quite iii) quietly iv) quieten
- i) inform ii) informing iii) information iv) informative
- i) moving ii) movable iii) move iv) moved
8. The biodiesel has (a) _________ as a (b) _________ solution to the pollution (c) _______ by emission of smoke into the atmosphere by vehicles and (d) _________ establishments. It is nothing but used vegetable oil that has been tested (e) _________ . It has made a vehicle called veggie Van run more than 16000 kilometres without (f) _________ the environment. (½×6=3)
- i) emerge ii) emerged iii) emerging iv) emerges
- i) usefully ii) usefulness iii) useful iv) used
- i) created ii) creating iii) creation iv) create
- i) industry ii) industrious iii) industrialisation iv) industrial
- i) satisfactory ii) satisfy iii) satisfactorily iv) satisfying
- i) harmed ii) harming iii) harmful iv) harm
9. Complete the passage given below choosing the correct alternatives [½x6 = 3]
There are (a) __________ 6,000 million people (b) __________ on our planet earth. The earth provides us with the air (c) __________, food to eat and water to drink. It (d) __________ us materials to build home and shelter (e) __________ for clothes, and it provides us with (f) __________ other things that we need to enjoy.
- i) more to ii) more than iii) many more than iv) the most of
- i) living ii) are living iii) lives iv) live
- i) breathes ii) breathe iii) breathed iv) breathing
- i) was giving ii) has given iii) gives iv) has been gives
- i) so well as ii) so much so iii) as well as iv) as good as
- i) much ii) more iii) many iv) most
10. Complete the passage given below choosing the correct alternatives [½x6 = 3]
Most (a) __________ institutions excel at (b) __________ the (c) __________ skills of students and prepare them for (d) __________ success. Teachers too (e) __________ on nurturing the (f) __________ minds in the best way possible.
a. i) education ii) educating iii) educationally iv) educational
- i) development ii) developing iii) developed iv) being developed
- i) intelligence ii) intelligent iii) intellectual iv) intellectually
- i) academically ii) academy iii) academical iv) academic
- i) concentration ii) concentrate iii) concentrating iv) concentrated
- i) youth’s ii) young’s iii) young iv) younger
11. Complete the passage given below choosing the correct alternatives [½x6 = 3]
We all know that (a) __________ is constant. There will be (a) __________ in our career when we need to move on. Hence avoid (c) __________ bridges when it is time for you to more on. The (d) __________ that the world is after all, a (e) __________ please becomes true when desperately (f) __________ an opportunity.
- i) Changes ii) change iii) a change iv) changing
- i) timing ii) times iii) time iv) timely
- i) burnt ii) burned iii) burning iv) has been burning
- i) sayings ii) said iii) saying iv) sentence
- i) smallest ii) smaller iii) short iv) small
- i) don’t need ii) needn’t iii) needed iv) need
12. Complete passage given below choosing the correct alternatives ½x6 = 3
Two days (a) __________ Mijbil escaped from my bedroom as I entered it, and I turned to see his tail (b) __________ round the (c) __________ of the corridor that (d) __________ to the bathroom. By the time I got there he was up on the end of the bath tub and (e) __________ at the chromium taps with his paws. I watched (f) __________; in less than a minute he had turned the tap.
Two days (a) __________ Mijbil escaped from my bedroom as I entered it, and I turned to see his tail (b) __________ round the (c) __________ of the corridor that (d) __________ to the bathroom. By the time I got there he was up on the end of the bath tub and (e) __________ at the chromium taps with his paws. I watched (f) __________; in less than a minute he had turned the tap.
- i) late ii) latter iii) later iv) latest
- i) disappear ii) disappeared iii) disappearing iv) disappearance
- i) bent ii) bend iii) bending iv) turning bend
- i) leads ii) led iii) lead iv) leading
- i) fumbling ii) fumbled iii) fumbles iv) fumble
- i) amazing ii) amazement iii) amaze iv) amazed.