MP Board Class 10th English Varshik Paper 2026- एमपी बोर्ड कक्षा 10वीं अंग्रेज़ी वार्षिक परीक्षा पेपर 2026 पीडीएफ़ डाउनलोड करे

SECTION-A (READING)

Q-1. Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below.    (5)

Today perhaps your only association with the word ‘polio’ is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty-five years ago, this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and the spinal cord, causes stiffening and weakening of the muscles, crip-pling and paralysis — which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with a huge 23-year gap between the first and the last. I was told that, unlike the others, I was so fair and brown-haired that I looked more like a foreigner than a Dawoodi Bohra. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.

Question:

Q i. The narrator of the passage is a patient of

(a) cerebral attack.           (b) polio                (c) diabetes                 (d) heart disease.

Q ii. To say something about the future is to

(a) verdict                        (b) predict.            (c) addict.                    (d) protect.

Q iii. The narrator was the seventh child in a family that had.

(a) one score children

(b) eight children

(c) nine children

(d) twenty-three children

Q iv. Polio, the dreaded disease, mainly affects the

(a) brain and spinal cord

(b) brain and nerves

(c) heart and spinal cord

(d) brain and heart.

Q v. What made the narrator look like a foreigner?

(a) He was fair and brown-haired                  (b) He was fair with red hair.

(c) He was fair and skinny                             (d) He was dark and blonde

Q-2. Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below.    (5)

There are three main groups of oils-animal, vegetable and mineral. Great quantities of an-imal oil come from whales, those enormous creatures of the sea, which are the largest of the animals remaining in the world. To protect the whales from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided them with a thick covering of fat, called blubber. When the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down. It produces a great quantity of oil which can be made into food for human consumption. A few other creatures yield oil, but none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and halibut, two kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil. Both cod liver oil and halibut oil are given to sick children and other invalids who need certain vitamins. Vegeta-ble oil has been known from very old times. No household can get on without it, for it is used in cooking. Perfumes may be made from the oils of certain flowers. Soaps are made from vegetable and animal products and the oils of certain flowers.

Question:

Q. i The main source of animal oil is____.

(a) whale                 (b) sea weeds                   (c) fish                     (d) plant

Q. ii Vegetable oil is mainly used for______.

(a) Cooking

(b) Making perfumes

(c) Making soap

(d) Making lubricants

Q. iii The ……. of fish yields nourishing oil.

(a) stomach            (b) eyes                            (c) liver                     (d) head

Q. iv The thick protective covering of fat on a whale is called a

(a) cells                  (b) blubber                        (c) skin                     (d) Fins

Q. v Write the noun form of the word ‘protect’ is _____.

(a) protected           (b) proactive                      (c) protectable         (d) protection

SECTION- B (WRITING) 

Q-3. Read the following passage carefully and make notes on them and also give a suitable title to them.                                                                                                      (4)

The heart is one of the most vital components of the human body. The heart of the human body has the continuous job to keep oxygen-rich blood flowing through the body. All the body’s cells need a constant supply of oxygen, particularly in the brain. The brain cells live only four to five minutes after the oxygen is cut off and death comes to the entire body. Heart disease can result from damage to the heart muscles, the valves or the pacemaker. If the muscle is damaged, the heart is unable to pump properly. If the valves are damaged, blood cannot flow normally. Dr. John Gibbon of the U.S.A. developed a machine in 1953 that could take over temporarily from the heart. Surgeons had the chance to repair or replace a defective heart. Many patients have had plastic valves inserted in their hearts when their hearts were faulty. Many people are now being kept alive with tiny battery-operated pacemakers.

Q-4. Write an application Transfer Certificate/School Leaving Certificate.                     (4)

Or

Write an application to the Principal of your school asking for three days leave as you are ill.

Q-5. Write an essay on any one of the following topic.                                                  (5)

(a) An Indian Festival                                    (b) Wonders of Science

(c) Importance of Trees                                 (d) My Hobby

Q-6. On the basis of the picture given below, write a short story in about 75 words and also give a suitable title to it.                                                                                          (3)

SECTION-C (GRAMMAR)

Q-7. Fill in the blanks choosing the correct alternative given in the brackets.                (5)

1. Ram is sitting …………………….. Radha and Sapna (between/among)

2. …………. moon walks slowly and silently (A/An/The)

3. Monday comes …………. Sunday (before/after)

4. We …………. obey our teacher (ought to/ should/must)

5. The book is …………. the table (on/upon)

Q.8   Do as directed.                                                                                                      (5)

1. They are selling their house. (Change into present perfect)

2. They have been playing here since morning. (Change the sentence into Past Perfect Continuous Tense)

3. He taught English. (Change the sentence into Present Indefinite Tense).

4. He has taken tea. (Change into interrogative)

5. in the park/were playing/Children/football

       SECTION-D (LITERATURE)

Q.9 Answer the following questions.                                                                              (4)

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow From

a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

Questions:

1. Who is the poet of the above poem?

(a) Carolyn Wells                     (b) Robin Klein                      (c) Robert Frost

2. Where was the crow?

(a) on hemlock tree                 (b) on banyan tree                 (c) on peepal tree

3. The poet’s mood got changed, when_____

(a) he falls asleep                    (b) dust of snow falls on him (c) he starts talking

4 The crow and Hemlock tree symbolize ____

(a) sorrow                                 (b) happiness                        (c) celebration

Q.10 (A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below-                (3)

Listen. The glass is breaking.

The trees are stumbling forward into the night.

Winds rush to meet them.

The moon is broken like a mirror, its pieces flash now in the crown,

of the tallest oak.

Questions:

1. From which poem have these lines been taken?

a. The Trees                          b. Fog                         c. Dust of Snow

2. The figure of speech used in the line “The moon is broken like a mirror” is

a. Metaphor                          b. Simile                      c. Oxymoron

3. Opposite of “forward” is

a. Coming                             b. Going                      c. Backward

(B) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below-                         (3)

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then move on.

Questions:

1. The fog is compared to ……………

A. A tiger                           B. A cat                        C. A city

2. The fog sits looking over …………….

A. Houses                         B.Harbour and City      C. Offices

3. Name the Poet of the above text.

A. Sylvia Plath                  B. Robert Frost             C. Carl Sandburg

Q.11 Answer the following questions?                                                                          (12)

1. What did Lencho hope for?

2. Who or what did Lencho have faith in? What did he do?

3. Who reads the letter?

4. What made Lencho angry?

5. What does Mandela thank the international leaders for?

6. Why were the two national anthems sung?

Q.12   Answer the following questions in about 30 words- (any 2)                                (4)

1. What is a ‘dust of snow’?

2. What does the poet say has changed his mood?

3. What does ‘fire’ stand for in the poem?

Q.13  Answer the following questions in about 30 words- (any 2)                                 (4)

1. Why was Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

2. How did Mrs. Pumphrey and her servant behave when Tricki was being sent to the Sur-gery?

3. What was Hari Singh a fairly successful hand at?

Q.14 Answer the following question in about 75 words-                                                (3)

How did the postmaster and post office employees help Lencho? How did he react to their help?

Or

How did the hailstones affect Lencho’s field? What was Lencho’s only hope?

Q.15 How did Mandela’s ‘hunger for freedom’ change his life?                                     (3)

Or

‘The sight of the food maddened him.’ What does this suggest? What compelled the young seagull to finally fly?

Q.16 Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the airplane into the storm.           (3)

Or

Give a pen portrait of a Goan village baker.

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