CBSE Class 10 English Communicative Sample Paper 2014 Set E

SECTION - A

READING

1. Read the poem given below and complete the summary by filling in the appropriate word. Supply only one word for each blank.

YOUNG, GIFTED BUT BLACK

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was three years old

His mother told him, that if he wanted

To be a big strong man

He’d have to drink all his milk ---

And he did.

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was five years old

His teacher told him

That if he wanted

To go to a grammar school1

He’d have to try harder with his homework ---

And he did.

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was fifteen years old

His lecturer told him

That if he wanted to be a lab technician

He’d have to go to University ---

And he did.

So ten years later

When Mebula Ramsandra

Was twenty-five years old

A big, strong, clever, educated postgraduate -----

The man on the other end of the telephone said

If he wanted to work for him,

He’d have to be big, strong, clever, educated postgraduate ----- and White.

A young Mebula Ramsandra was advised by his mother to consume (a) _________ if he wanted to be big and strong. At the age of five his teacher warned him that if he didn’t put in (b) _______ work, he wouldn’t be able to go to Grammar School. When he was in his teens, he was told that he would have to go to University to be a lab (c) _________. After ten years his job application was rejected because he was (d) _______. Surely the man on the other side of the telephone was (e) __________. 

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