Bihar Board Class 10 · English · Matric exam 2027
Bihar Board Class 10 English Model Paper 2022
The board’s 2022 model paper — all 105 questions as printed. Each question names its chapter, where that chapter’s most-asked questions are.
Time 3 h 15 min
Section A · Objective questions (94)
The pace of life was getting too much for the .............
- (A) doctor
- (B) lawyer
- (C) corn merchant
- (D) merchant's nephew
'You shouldn't burn those leaves. It's bad for air, .........'
- (A) Mr. Williams
- (B) Ms. Greene
- (C) the narrator
- (D) Mr Johnson
On the day of his death, Gillu did not .............
- (A) run
- (B) sleep
- (C) eat
- (D) drink
The truly Indian film should steer clear of .............
- (A) inconsistencies
- (B) imagination
- (C) controversies
- (D) integrity
Genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than .........
- (A) diamond
- (B) metal
- (C) copper
- (D) wealth
The boy and the girl climb into the ........ bed.
- (A) soiled
- (B) flower
- (C) warm
- (D) wagon
There can be no culture without .........
- (A) civilization
- (B) war
- (C) history
- (D) tolerance
When men started fighting, two girls began to dig a .............
- (A) river
- (B) ocean
- (C) stream
- (D) channel
In 'The Pace for Living', the chief character in the play was a corn-merchant in a small ............. country town.
- (A) Sussex
- (B) Welsh
- (C) Irish
- (D) Scottish
Mr. William, on seeing Jim, tried to pretend he's .........
- (A) at the hospital
- (B) sleeping
- (C) cooking
- (D) not home
Gillu had ......... eyes.
- (A) shining
- (B) dim
- (C) sad
- (D) vacant
The Indian films possess ............. tools of films-making.
- (A) other
- (B) tertiary
- (C) primary
- (D) secondary
The ideals of .........., according to Alexander Aris, should never be given up.
- (A) humanism
- (B) poverty
- (C) intellectualism
- (D) agriculture
The young people in 'Once Upon a Time' were unable to hold their .........
- (A) sadness
- (B) laughter
- (C) happiness
- (D) crookedness
The .......... built up a new civilization.
- (A) Harappan
- (B) Vedic
- (C) Pre-Aryans
- (D) Mohenjo-daro
The celebration time was ..........
- (A) Easter
- (B) Christmas
- (C) Thanksgiving
- (D) New Year
The source of light, according to William Cowper, in the villages in the evening is the .........
- (A) torch
- (B) sun
- (C) bulb
- (D) moonbeam
A happy man's days pass .............
- (A) happily
- (B)
- (C) smoothly
- (D)
The polythene bag cannot be ...........
- (A) destroyed
- (B) killed
- (C) loved
- (D) sown
........... thinks about Krishna all the time.
- (A) Sita
- (B) Rukmini
- (C) Draupadi
- (D) Radha
To gather gold, the rich man tried all ...........
- (A) avenues
- (B) tricks
- (C) methods
- (D) games
The porter ........... a distance of six miles.
- (A) walks
- (B) runs
- (C) swims
- (D) climbs
“Speak! Speak! Why are thy ........... so still ?”
- (A) leaves
- (B) roses
- (C) trees
- (D) garden
Martha had ........... eyes.
- (A) gray
- (B) blue
- (C) brown
- (D) black
Our groves were planted to console at ...........
- (A) noontime
- (B) morning time
- (C) dinner time
- (D) bed time
What slides soft away ?
- (A) Nature
- (B) Beauty
- (C) Wealth
- (D) Time
The polythene bag remains ........... within.
- (A) melted
- (B) buried
- (C) lost
- (D) burnt
Vidyapati’s poems recreate and reveal the world of ...........
- (A) Laila and Majnu
- (B) Heer and Ranjha
- (C) Radha and Krishna
- (D) Ram and Sita
Periasamy Thooran won the Padma Bhushan and ........... Award.
- (A) Gyanpeeth
- (B) Kalalmamani
- (C) Sahitya Akademi
- (D) Iyal
What keeps the Koel ..........., yet charred ?
- (A) sad
- (B) happy
- (C) angry
- (D) fresh
Like a bird, according to Laxmi Prasad Devkota, his heart is twittering, ...........
- (A) singing
- (B) jumping
- (C) panting
- (D) swinging
The children while listening to Martha’s stories, sat on their .........
- (A) chin lolled
- (B) elbow lolled
- (C) eyes lolled
- (D) head lolled
Jabra started barking when he heard the noise of some ...........
- (A) cars
- (B) trucks
- (C) crowd
- (D) animals
Anti-histamines may provide ........... relief by masking the symptoms.
- (A) permanent
- (B) temporary
- (C) guaranteed
- (D) clinical
During the first year of his imprisonment, the lawyer played the ...........
- (A) violin
- (B) guitar
- (C) piano
- (D) drum
Mr. Gessler died of ...........
- (A) malaria
- (B) slow starvation
- (C) cancer
- (D) typhoid
Katherine Mansfield has sensitive perception of feelings especially of ...........
- (A) women
- (B) children
- (C) young men
- (D) the aged
In the letter, the daughter says that she tries to follow the advice of her ...........
- (A) husband
- (B) children
- (C) mother
- (D) the aged
The narrator in 'Love Defiled', lived with his girlfriend for ........... years.
- (A) five
- (B) six
- (C) two
- (D) eight
Premchand was a prolific writer of both Hindi and ...........
- (A) Urdu
- (B) Bengali
- (C) Tamil
- (D) Bhojpuri
Rana S. P. Singh has written a number of articles on ...........
- (A) medicinal plants
- (B) healthcare
- (C) pneumonia
- (D) diabetes
The old banker had given a party ........... years ago.
- (A) 17
- (B) 16
- (C) 15
- (D) 20
........... was John Galsworthy's first important work.
- (A) The Island Pharisees
- (B) The Skin Game
- (C) Strife
- (D) Loyalties
Katherine Mansfield's stories followed in the foot steps of ...........
- (A) Anton Chekov
- (B) John Galsworthy
- (C) Jane Austen
- (D) George Eliot
'I speak with prejudice, because I belong to the ........... of slow thinkers ‘
- (A) family
- (B) class
- (C) school
- (D) tribe
The beloved was the narrator's ...........
- (A) bed side
- (B) over confidence
- (C) alter ego
- (D) confused side
To whom does the author turn for enlightenment about movies ?
- (A) his brother
- (B) his wife
- (C) his sister
- (D) his friend
Alexander Pope is a poet of the early ........... century.
- (A) sixteenth
- (B) seventeenth
- (C) eighteenth
- (D) nineteenth
Leo Tolstoy's story is about ...........
- (A) two boys
- (B) three boys
- (C) two girls
- (D) three girls
According to Toni Morrison, 'language should be living and ...........'
- (A) simple
- (B) vibrant
- (C) complex
- (D) dull
Which word in 'Me and the Ecology Bit' is known as 'filth' ?
- (A) Garbage
- (B) Compost
- (C) Ecology
- (D) Lawn
'I developed cold feet when it came to tying the knot with the ...........'
- (A) saint
- (B) man
- (C) boy
- (D) girl
What does the Koel's voice do to the poet ?
- (A) attacks him
- (B) scares him
- (C) sings for him
- (D) wakes the poet's soul
Lord Krishna had not met ........... from some time.
- (A) Devaki
- (B) Radha
- (C) Yashoda
- (D) Sudama
'Gillu' is based on a beautiful friendship between a human being and a/an ...........
- (A) relative
- (B) sibling
- (C) animal
- (D) neighbour
'......... the germs of the disease keep on growing' is from the poem, ...........
- (A) Ode on Solitude
- (B) The Empty Heart
- (C) God Made the Country
- (D) Polythene Bag
'The Listener' and 'Arabia' are written by :
- (A) Walter de la Mare
- (B) T. S. Eliot
- (C) William Blake
- (D) John Keats
Jabra looked ........... at the fire.
- (A) sadly
- (B) fearfully
- (C) angrily
- (D) happily
The daughter wrote to her mother that she learned the mantra of loving ........... from her.
- (A) food
- (B) management
- (C) learning
- (D) pain and hardship
The children in 'Sun and Moon' were marched off to the nursery to ...........
- (A) sleep
- (B) play
- (C) get dressed
- (D) cat
Direction (61-66) : Choose the correct option of the following : Active voice of : 'By whom was it painted?'
- (A) Who painted it ?
- (B) Was it painted by whom ?
- (C) Who has painted it ?
- (D) It was painted whom ?
Active voice of : Let this door be shut.
- (A) You have shut this door.
- (B) They shut the door.
- (C) Shut this door.
- (D) He can shut this door.
Active voice of : 'Butter is made from milk by us.'
- (A) Butter made by us from milk.
- (B) We make butter from milk.
- (C) Butter is make with milk by us.
- (D) From milk butter is made by us.
Active voice of : 'I was shocked by the letter.'
- (A) The shocked me with the letter.
- (B) The letter has shocked me.
- (C) I was shocked with the letter.
- (D) The letter shocked me.
Passive Voice of : 'Don't touch the switch'.
- (A) The switch don't be touched.
- (B) The switch must not be touched.
- (C) The switch does not be touched.
- (D) The switch need not be touched.
Passive Voice of : 'Someone is following us.'
- (A) We are following by someone.
- (B) We are followed by someone.
- (C) We are being followed.
- (D) We had been followed by someone.
Direction (67-72) : Choose the correct option of the following :- Direct speech of : 'The boy said that he had not stolen the book.'
- (A) The boy said, "I don't steal the book."
- (B) The boy said, "I didn't steal the book."
- (C) The boys says, "I hadn't stolen the book."
- (D) The boy said, "I haven't stolen the book."
Direct speech of : 'The Principal told us to wait there till he returned.'
- (A) The Principal told us, "Wait here till I return."
- (B) The Principal tells us, "Wait here till I returned."
- (C) The Principal ordered, "Wait till I returned here."
- (D) The Principal said, "Wait till I return."
Direct speech of : 'They said that they had lived there for a long time.'
- (A) They say, "We live here for a long time."
- (B) They said, "We have lived here for a long time."
- (C) They says, "We may live here for a long time."
- (D) They told, "We can live here for a long time."
Indirect speech of : I said to my sister, "I bought you a doll yesterday."
- (A) I told my sister that I had bought her a doll the previous day.
- (B) I told my sister that I had bought her a doll yesterday.
- (C) I told my sister that I bought her a doll yesterday.
- (D) I told my sister that I bought you a doll the previous day.
Indirect Speech of : "When did you meet my brother," she asked me.
- (A) She wanted to know when did I meet her brother.
- (B) She asked me when I had met her brother.
- (C) She asked when did I meet my brother.
- (D) She wants to know when I had met my brother.
Indirect speech of : He said, "How lovely the scene is."
- (A) He exclaimed that the scene is very lovely.
- (B) He exclaimed how the scene was lovely.
- (C) He exclaimed that the scene was very lovely.
- (D) He exclaimed that the scene is indeed lovely.
Direction : (73-79) Choose the correct form of verb. When I opened my eyes, I .......... a strange sight.
- (A) saw
- (B) see
- (C) seen
- (D) have seen
The headmaster .......... to talk to you.
- (A) wanting
- (B) have want
- (C) want
- (D) wants
Radha .......... with her in-laws.
- (A) living
- (B) lives
- (C) has living
- (D) has lived
We .......... America the next month.
- (A) visit
- (B) visited
- (C) shall visit
- (D) were visited
I .......... from Canada.
- (A) am
- (B) are
- (C) is
- (D) was
Lisa and Jane .......... really happy now.
- (A) am
- (B) were
- (C) was
- (D) are
Sincere students always .......... high marks.
- (A) are getting
- (B) get
- (C) will get
- (D) gotten
Direction (80-86) : Choose the most suitable preposition :- I congratulated him .......... his success.
- (A) about
- (B) for
- (C) on
- (D) at
It is our duty to get .......... the truth.
- (A) to
- (B) over
- (C) into
- (D) at
Kundan did not approve .......... his father's plan.
- (A) to
- (B) of
- (C) by
- (D) with
He threw a stone .......... the river.
- (A) in
- (B) into
- (C) on
- (D) to
Madhav is good ........... English.
- (A) in
- (B) at
- (C) on
- (D) with
Nidhi did not disclose the fact ........... her husband.
- (A) for
- (B) an
- (C) to
- (D) from
I am worried .......... the examination.
- (A) in
- (B) about
- (C) on
- (D) of
Direction : (87-93) Choose the correctly spelt word.
- (A) Charactor
- (B) Karacter
- (C) Character
- (D) Cheractor
Direction : (94-96) Choose the most suitable translation. तुम्हें जाना नहीं चाहिए था।
- (A) You should not have gone.
- (B) You should not go.
- (C) Should go you not.
- (D) Not you should go.
एक जज को ईमानदार होना चाहिए।
- (A) Judge honest must be
- (B) Must be a judge honest.
- (C) A judge must be honest.
- (D) Honest must a judge be.
तुम्हें घबराने की जरूरत नहीं है।
- (A) You worry not.
- (B) Need you not worry.
- (C) Worry you need not.
- (D) You need not worry.
Direction : (97-100) Choose the correct option Synonym of : Deny
- (A) Regain
- (B) Refuse
- (C) Repair
- (D) Reduce
Synonym of : Renowned
- (A) Notorious
- (B) Great
- (C) Brave
- (D) Famous
Antonym of : Urban
- (A) Civil
- (B) Rustic
- (C) Foreign
- (D) Rural
Antonym of : Quiet
- (A) Strong
- (B) Incomplete
- (C) Violent
- (D) Uncertain
Section B · Written questions (11)
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Kovalam is one of the most beautiful beaches in Kerala. This beach attracts tourists from all over India and abroad. On the shore there are tall green coconut trees. On the west we can see the vast Arabian sea. During the months of December and January, there is a great rush of the tourists. The sea-shore is clean and tidy. The sunset is a beautiful scene from the shore. According to the tourists, the beach is a coastal paradise of Kerala. Questions (i) Where is Kovalam beach? (1) (ii) Which sea is there on the west of Kovalam beach ? (2) (iii) Which trees are there on the shore ? (2) (iv) Why is the Kovalam beach called the coastal paradise of Kerala ?(2) OR There are many temples and water bodies inside the Chittorgarh fort. We visited the Meera Bai Mandir, the Kalika Mata Mandir and Tulja Bhawani Mandir. We saw the Gaumukh and some other ponds. Chittorgarh fort is the symbol of bravery and patriotism of the people of Mewar. They fought against the foreign invaders to save our motherland. We are proud of Chittorgarh and the brave warriors of Mewar. Questions (i) What was inside the Chittorgarh fort ? (1) (ii) What did the people see there ? (2) (iii) What is Chittorgarh fort the symbol of ? (2) (iv) Why did the people of Mewar fight against the foreign invaders? (2)
2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : We know that success tastes sweet. It may be achieved by even ordinary people by hard work, perseverance and steady application. Success is like a seed that needs a balanced proportion of all the elements of life. No one can achieve success in a day. They have to go through and face different conditions in life for being successful. Above all, success is the feeling of fulfilment that one feels when one achieve his or her goal. Questions (i) How does success taste ? (1) (ii) How can success be achieved ? (2) (iii) What does success need ? (2) (iv) What is the feeling after one gets success in life ? (2) OR Every point of time or phase of life has its own importance and we need to recognize that. Time is important because it helps us learn from our mistakes. Committing mistake is an unavoidable part of our life. But what is more important is that we keep patience, have faith in time and realize our shortcomings. This makes us self-reliant and successful. Questions : (i) What should we recognize ? (1) (ii) Why is time important ? (2) (iii) What is an unavoidable part of our life ? (2) (iv) Make sentences with: Success; Patience. (2)
3. Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: How do you like to go up in a swing ? Up in the air so blue ? Oh, I do think it is the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the country side. Questions (i) What is the pleasantest thing a child can do ? (2) (ii) What does the child see over the wall ? (2) (iii) What more can the child see in the country side ? (2) OR There's dirt on my shirt And leaves in my hair There's mud on my boots But I don't really care Playing outside is so much fun To breathe the clean air And feel the warm sun To stomp in a puddle Or climb a big tree Makes me quite happy Just look and you'll see. Questions (i) What does the child not really care about ? (2) (ii) What is so much fun ? (2) (iii) What makes the child really happy ? (2)
4. Answer any five of the following questions: (5x2=10) A. What made the young people want to laugh ? B. Do Indian film-makers possess the primary tools of film making ? C. Which spirit underlies the changes of Indian history ? D. Which animal messes up Ms. Green's yard ? E. What can make our life sweet ? F. How did the man try to gather gold ? G. How did Martha sit to tell the story ? H. Who is challenging the mountain ? I. How did Halku warm himself in the orchard ? J. What is 'allergy march' ?
5. Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 60-70 words: (1x5=5) (i) How I celebrate My Birthday (ii) A Road Accident (iii) Morning Assembly in My school (iv) Value of time (v) All is well that ends well
6. You are Tina, the President of the Music Society. Write a notice in about 60-70 words informing about the Inter-school Music Competition.
7. Write a report in about 60-70 words about your visit to the pandemic affected areas.
8. Write an application to your Principal for a week's leave to attend to your mother who is hospitalized.
9. Write a letter to your friend, asking him to send some information regarding the date of the Board Examinations as your have no internet facility in your village.
10. You are Gauri, Write a speech in about 60-70 words as 'Importance of education for women'.
11. You are Gopal, Write a message in about 30-40 words asking your cousin to come to your house for a surprise party organized on your mother's birthday.
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