NORTH POINT SENIOR SECONDARY BOARDING SCHOOL WEEKLY TEST- 1 SUBJECT- ENGLISH Sere CLASS. x FULL MARKS: 30 SECTION- A [READING] Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:- [5] ‘One of the world’s greatest educators, who looked up to a child as an individual and a very special human being, w Maria Montessori. She gave the very young children the stimulating kindergarten, where children grew in an atmosphere of freedom and confidence. \ Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle near Ancona, Italy, in 1870. AS a little girl, she was 2 dull student, unable to grasp and retain what her teacher taught her. At the age of 10, she suddenly changed. Besides her heightened interest in religion, she felt she had a long way to go. ‘Maria began topping her class and her parents felt that she should become a teacher. But she was determined to become an engineer. At the age of 14, she attended a technical schoo! for boys. After a year she took up Biology an} decided to study medicine. In spite of a strong opposition from her father, she went ahead with medicine. Maria became the first Italian woman to receive a medical degree after she graduated from the University of Rome| in 1896, After getting her degree, she joined the University’s psychiatric clinic. As part of her duty, she had to visit the city’s mental asylum, where disabled children were housed with the insane. She watched the children shriek, stretching their hands out, with an urge to reach out or to touch something. Maria felt they needed a normal and friendlier environment and a contact with the world. She worked out ways by which she could help the disabled children. Dr. Bacelli opened an experimental state school for the disabled children with Dr. Maria Montessor!as its head. Maria spent long hours, almost 12 hours of the day with children, observing them and finding out what could] really help them. After two years of hard work, her students took the normal state school examination. In fact they proved that they were not hopeless cases. Later, Maria took up another important mission of her life. She first taught them to become tidy, learn self-discipline and then taught them to read and write. In her colourful, she provided them with innovative learning objects like cutout letters of sandpaper, it notes, Many more such innovations made her system of education! She started a kindergarten for the poor, normal childre! stimulating kindergarten, coloured blocks and musical bells with different stimulating, and even inspired the educationists. | 2. Who is credited with giving kindergartens? b. What facility do the children get in kindergartens? When was Maria Montessori born? d. How was she as a student? ‘e. Who opposed Maria's choict fe of study of medicine? What success did she get with her choice? SECTION- B [WRITING AND GRAMMAR) words on the topic ‘Right to Education’. You may use the ideas You are Devika/Dev. Write an article in about 120 from the clues given below: [4] Act passed in 2009 «Govt committed Rs. 2.31 lakh crore for the programme + Objectives: Provides no ground for discrimination, even private schools to enroll 25%, compulsory educatic + Challenges: ignoranviliterate parents, poor infrastructureOmission: (4) 3. Awicked man once went to Guru ’b. for initiation into spiritual life, Guru asked him to give up at least one bad d._-habit. He gave uttering falsehood Rearrange the jumbled sentence:- (3) a Certainly/the/laughter/is/medicine/best b. Ensures/life/it/longer/and/healthy . Lowers/pressure/by/circulation/it/blood/inereasing/blood SECTION- C {LITERATURE} Answer with reference to the context:- [3] Ladies with tiaras glittering In the interval sat twittering ‘And the frog observed them glitter With a joy both sweet and bitter a, Whois referred to the “Ladies with tiaras”? b. What interval is being referred to here? c. Why's the joy of the frog both sweet and bitter? Answer the following questions- [4] ‘a. How did the frog become the unrivalled king of the bog again? b. What led the boys to dislike the Germans? ‘They had always known a comfortable and cultured life’. hurdles and emerge as a winner’. On the basis of the story write a paragraph to support the above statement. [3] What kind of illness caught the child Helen? What type of experience was it for the child? [4] If one has got ‘family values one can surmount all the