Bihar Board Class 10 · English · Matric exam 2027
Bihar Board Class 10 English Model Paper 2023
The board’s 2023 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)
In 'The Pace for Living', the author .......... rapid movement.
- (A) likes
- (B) hates
- (C) dislikes
- (D) enjoys
.......... is willing to do anything about ecology.
- (A) Student
- (B) Doctor
- (C) Teacher
- (D) Nobody
Gillu had been wounded by ..........
- (A) boys
- (B) cats
- (C) crows
- (D) dogs
There has yet been no Indian film, which could be .......... on all counts.
- (A) blamed
- (B) acclaimed
- (C) condemned
- (D) rejected
Where was Aung San Suu Kyi born ?
- (A) Seol
- (B) Beijing
- (C) Rangoon
- (D) Tokyo
Among her people, the old women is both the .......... and its transgression.
- (A) master
- (B) authority
- (C) rule
- (D) law
Who has delivered the speech, 'The Unity of Indian Culture' ?
- (A) Humanyun Kabir
- (B) Leo Tolstoy
- (C) Mahadevi Verma
- (D) Toni Morrison
It was an early .......... and sledging was only just over.
- (A) Christmas
- (B) Winter
- (C) Easter
- (D) Summer
Who began to howl so that she could be heard all down the street?
- (A) Malasha
- (B) Akoulya
- (C) Malasha's mother
- (D) Akoulya's mother
In Europe, the difference between masses and classes is at times very ..........
- (A) great
- (B) negligible
- (C) small
- (D) acute
The old woman knows only the .......... of the young people.
- (A) nationality
- (B) motive
- (C) condition
- (D) age
The whole international community has .......... the choice of the committee.
- (A) decried
- (B) applauded
- (C) recommended
- (D) derided
During the author's indisposition, Gillu would sit near her ..........
- (A) plate
- (B) table
- (C) chair
- (D) head
Jim found Mr. William burning ..........
- (A) leaves
- (B) plants
- (C) paper
- (D) plastic
When the narrator 'The Pace of Living' goes to the cinema, he has to turn to his wife for ..........
- (A) pleasure
- (B) happiness
- (C) enlightenment
- (D) excitement
Satyajit Ray is critical of the habit of shooting films ..........
- (A) outdoors
- (B) indoors
- (C) carelessly
- (D) unrealistically
According to Jim, who uses electric appliances the most ?
- (A) Women
- (B) Young girls
- (C) Men
- (D) Young boys
Gillu was buried under the .......... plant.
- (A) sonjuhi
- (B) dahlia
- (C) tulsi
- (D) rose
Binapani Mohanty is a .......... short story writer .
- (A) Bengali
- (B) Oriya
- (C) Assamese
- (D) Marathi
Allergens are of .......... types.
- (A) two
- (B) four
- (C) three
- (D) five
God made the country and man made the ..........
- (A) machine
- (B) car
- (C) house
- (D) town
The poet Alexander Pope wants to die ..........
- (A) sad
- (B) unlamented
- (C) happy
- (D) quickly
Only the pain caused by .......... comes back again and again.
- (A) disease
- (B) someone
- (C) happiness
- (D) hurt
Radha's tears have carved a ..........
- (A) river
- (B) lake
- (C) sea
- (D) pond
Who wrote the poem 'The Empty Heart' ?
- (A) Vidyapati
- (B) Periasamy Thooran
- (C) Puran Singh
- (D) Durga Prasad Panda
What keeps the Koel fresh, yet .......... ?
- (A) sad
- (B) charred
- (C) numb
- (D) lively
The porter's mind is very ..........
- (A) dull
- (B) intelligent
- (C) sharp
- (D) average
Martha has clear .......... eyes.
- (A) red
- (B) blue
- (C) grey
- (D) black
Martha's beauty would .......... as her voice ran on.
- (A) go
- (B) run
- (C) fade
- (D) melt
The .......... of the porter is shivering with cold.
- (A) wife
- (B) cap
- (C) son
- (D) load
The green garden .......... the Koel's heart.
- (A) touches
- (B) fires
- (C) burns
- (D) kicks
At times, Radha's friends banish ..........
- (A) happiness
- (B) hope
- (C) sadness
- (D) poverty
The polythene bag exudes a .......... smell when burnt.
- (A) pungent
- (B) strong
- (C) pleasant
- (D) sweet
Meditation, according to Pope, .......... the happy man.
- (A) saddens
- (B) worries
- (C) pleases
- (D) disturbs
The .......... departs scared and the nightingale is mute.
- (A) satellite
- (B) wanderer
- (C) thrush
- (D) God
'The Empty Heart' highlights man's ..........
- (A) love
- (B) anger
- (C) hate
- (D) greed
The porter is out of ..........
- (A) breath
- (B) energy
- (C) money
- (D) courage
Who switched on the heater for Gillu ?
- (A) The servant
- (B) The house manager
- (C) The gardener
- (D) The author
'Her voice and her narrow chin' is from ..........
- (A) The Sleeping Porter
- (B) The Empty Heart
- (C) Koel
- (D) Martha
The polythene bag makes a .......... noise.
- (A) musical
- (B) singing
Premchand was a prolific writer of ..........
- (A) Hindi
- (B) English
- (C) Hindi and Urdu
- (D) Urdu
The .......... banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study.
- (A) young
- (B) old
- (C) angry
- (D) upset
The clinical use of .......... steroids is currently gaining ground.
- (A) exhaled
- (B) inhaled
- (C) healed
- (D) unhealed
Mr. Gessler's shop has a certain quiet ..........
- (A) look
- (B) quality
- (C) decoration
- (D) distinction
Katherine Mansfield's stories followed in the footsteps of the Russian writer ..........
- (A) Tolstoy
- (B) Turgenev
- (C) Gorky
- (D) Chekhov
The daughter tried to change everything and build new ..........
- (A) relations
- (B) dreams
- (C) ideas
- (D) alliances
In the story 'Love Defiled', the only person who understood the narrator was his ..........
- (A) mother
- (B) girlfriend
- (C) father
- (D) sister
The mother's advice to her daughter is : 'Never try to become an .......... child'.
- (A) innocent
- (B) peaceful
- (C) rude
- (D) naughty
The narrator realised that the louder he talked about his .........., the faster he made a fool of himself.
- (A) intelligence
- (B) drawbacks
- (C) virtues
- (D) degrees
Sun and Moon watched .......... of the guests secretly.
- (A) behavior
- (B) dress
- (C) faces
- (D) shoes
Mr. Gessler was not successful in his ..........
- (A) examination
- (B) game
- (C) plan
- (D) trade
After reading the lawyer's note, the banker .......... the lawyer's head.
- (A) patted
- (B) touched
- (C) kissed
- (D) hit
For allergy, there are .......... and environment risk factors.
- (A) congenital
- (B) psychological
- (C) genetic
- (D) temperamental
While jumping over the fire, Halku .......... his legs.
- (A) singed
- (B) wounded
- (C) hurt
- (D) scratched
According to the banker, 'life imprisonment kills by ..........'
- (A) degrees
- (B) seconds
- (C) minutes
- (D) hours
Who is the writer of the article 'Allergy' ?
- (A) Binapani Mohanty
- (B) Giridhar Jha
- (C) Rana S. P. Singh
- (D) John Galsworthy
Halku and Munni had saved money to buy a ..........
- (A) wrapper
- (B) blanket
- (C) shawl
- (D) quilt
The lawyer read books with .......... themes in his first year of confinement.
- (A) serious
- (B) light
- (C) violent
- (D) sad
What did the pitchers contain ?
- (A) Gold coins
- (B) Copper Coins
- (C) Silver coins
- (D) Lead Coins
Humanyun Kabir was a ..........
- (A) doctor
- (B) orator
- (C) lawyer
- (D) political thinker
Direction (61-64) : Choose the correct option : Synonym of 'Banish'.
- (A) Exile
- (B) Fade
- (C) Hate
- (D) Clean
Synonym of 'Yell' :
- (A) Boast
- (B) Claim
- (C) Shout
- (D) Pull
Antonym of 'Detain'.
- (A) Silence
- (B) Forget
- (C) Prosper
- (D) Release
Antonym of 'Fluid'.
- (A) Decent
- (B) Solid
- (C) Liquid
- (D) Afraid
Direction (65 – 71) : Choose the most suitable preposition. I got your parcel .......... Tuesday.
- (A) since
- (B) at
- (C) for
- (D) on
I am very proud .......... my son.
- (A) by
- (B) at
- (C) of
- (D) on
We have made all preparations .......... the marriage.
- (A) to
- (B) of
- (C) for
- (D) on
There are coconut trees .......... the river.
- (A) along
- (B) into
- (C) at
- (D) over
They are very grateful .......... your kindness.
- (A) for
- (B) with
- (C) to
- (D) towards
He sat .......... me.
- (A) for
- (B) after
- (C) into
- (D) beside
He is .......... leave today.
- (A) Upon
- (B) For
- (C) By
- (D) On
Direction (72 – 74) : Choose the most suitable translation. वह कहाँ जा रहा है ?
- (A) Where is he going ?
- (B) Where was he going ?
- (C) Where he is going ?
- (D) Where is he go ?
अमर पटना में रहता है।
- (A) Amar living in Patna.
- (B) Amar lives in Patna.
- (C) Amar living on Patna.
- (D) Amar living to Patna.
वह दो दिनों से बीमार है।
- (A) He has sick from two days.
- (B) He is sick since two days.
- (C) He has been sick from two days.
- (D) He has been sick for two days.
Direction (75 – 80) : Choose the correct option of the following : Indirect speech of : He said to them, “Let us wait for your teacher.”
- (A) He proposed that they should wait for their teacher.
- (B) He requested that they would wait for their teacher.
- (C) He proposed that they shall wait for their teacher.
- (D) He proposed that they can wait for their teacher.
Indirect speech of : She said, “I am leaving for Delhi.”
- (A) She said that she has been leaving for Delhi.
- (B) She said that she is leaving for Delhi.
- (C) She said that I was leaving for Delhi.
- (D) She said that she was leaving for Delhi.
Indirect speech of : She said to me, “Start”.
- (A) She forbade me to start.
- (B) She asked me to start.
- (C) She requested me to start.
- (D) She told me to start.
Direct speech of ; ‘You told me that I would pass the examination’.
- (A) You said to me, “You will pass the examination.”
- (B) You told to me, “You have to pass the examination.”
- (C) You asked to me, “You should pass the examination.”
- (D) You requested to me, “You can pass the examination.”
Direct speech of : ‘I told that he would write a letter’.
- (A) I can say, “He will writing a letter.”
- (B) I will say, “He should write a letter.”
- (C) I say, “He may write a letter.”
- (D) I said, “He will write a letter.”
Direct speech of : ‘The old women wished that he might live long.’
- (A) The old woman is saying, “Can you live long ?”
- (B) The old woman said, “May you live long !”
- (C) The old woman says, “Might you lived long !”
- (D) The old woman prays, “May you living long !”
Active voice of : By whom are you being bothered ?
- (A) Who did bother you ?
- (B) Bothering you is who ?
- (C) Who is bothering you ?
- (D) You is bothering who ?
Active voice of : English is spoken all over the world.
- (A) People speak English all over the world.
- (B) English speak people all over the world.
- (C) All over the world are people speak English.
- (D) People in the world over are speaking English.
Active voice of : It is time for the match to be started.
- (A) Match should be started in time.
- (B) Time is to starting the match.
- (C) It is time to start the match.
- (D) Start the match on time.
Passive voice of : Hema will write the letter.
- (A) The letter would be written by Hema.
- (B) The letter is being written by Hema.
- (C) The letter will have to be written by Hema.
- (D) The letter will be written by Hema.
Passive Voice of : I have been invited to the party.
- (A) Someone had invited me to party.
- (B) I am being invited to the party.
- (C) Someone has invited me to the party.
- (D) To a party I had been invited.
Passive Voice of : The doctor was examining him.
- (A) He was being examined by the doctor.
- (B) He had been examined by the doctor.
- (C) He has been examined by the doctor.
- (D) He was already been examined by the doctor.
Direction (87 – 93) : Choose the correct spelt word.
- (A) Remeins
- (B) Remains
- (C) Rameins
- (D) Rimiens
Direction (94 – 100) : Choose the correct form of verb. Oil and water ………. not mix.
- (A) does
- (B) were
- (C) have
- (D) do
Everyone .......... this.
- (A) know
- (B) would knowing
- (C) knows
- (D) knowing
Raju .......... here yesterday.
- (A) come
- (B) coming
- (C) will come
- (D) came
The news .......... alarming.
- (A) have
- (B) are
- (C) is
- (D) were
We have not .......... him for a year.
- (A) see
- (B) seen
- (C) seeing
- (D) saw
He .......... the poor yesterday.
- (A) fed
- (B) will feed
- (C) feeding
- (D) feed
She .......... French very well.
- (A) spoken
- (B) speaks
- (C) speak
- (D) speaking
Section B · Written questions (11)
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : I am thrilled that May is finally here. Now I can enjoy what I call ‘the sweet taste of summer’. Watermelons are in the stress and I plan to eat one every day for the next three months. I think watermelons taste better than any other fruit. Peaches, plums, and strawberries are also great in the summer. I enjoy eating those too. But they just don’t taste as good to me as a sweet, sweet watermelon. My whole family likes eating watermelons. We ate at least three watermelons a week last year. This year, I am going to eat watermelon every day, all summer long. Questions (i) Why is the author excited that May has arrived ? (1) (ii) How long will the watermelons be available ? (2) (iii) What other summer fruits does the author enjoy ? (2) (iv) What does the author plan to do all summer ? (2) OR Plants need sunlight and water to make their own food. You can do an experiment to test if this is true. Place a bucket over a patch of green grass. After a few days, lift the bucket. You will see that the grass is not as green anymore. If you leave the bucket in place for a week, the grass will become very dull. This happens because the grass cannot make food in the dark. Remove the bucket. In a few days, the grass will start turning green again. Questions (i) What do plants need to make food ? (1) (ii) What happens when a bucket is kept on a patch of grass ? (2) (iii) Why does this happen ? (2) (iv) What happens when the bucket is removed ? (2)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow : Hari lives in a big city. He is a tailor. He is a very poor man so he is not able to get enough food for his family. He has wife and a small son. His son, Sonu is very naughty and a lazy boy. He never listens to his parents. He plays in the streets with other naughty boys. One day his father takes him to a school. There he sees many children who obey their teachers. They learn many good habits in the school. They also read and write well. Sonu feels sorry and starts changing himself. His parents are very happy now. Questions (i) Where does Hari live ? (1) (ii) What does Hari's son do ? (2) (iii) Where is Sonu taken to ? (2) (iv) What happens when Sonu starts going to school ? (2) OR Sardar Patel is known as the Iron Man of India. He was a great leader in the 20th century. He died almost two years after the death of Mahatma Gandhi. Sardar Patel was a very skilled person, who had the capacity to select the right people for the right posts. He was the Home Minister of India when India-Pakistan war took place in 1947. He died on 15th December, 1950. Questions : (i) What is Sardar Patel known as ? (1) (ii) What was Sardar Patel able to do ? (2) (iii) In which century was Sardar Patel a great leader ? (2) (iv) Which war took place when he was the Home Minister ? (2)
Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow: Within a prison cell, All night I lie awake. My thoughts go back to all at home. My heart begins to ache. No food at all was left, What will the children eat ? The wife is in bed unfit to work, ............. Who will provide the meal ? My crime was drive fast, I could not pay the fine. But why should those poor innocents, Suffer for a fault of mine ? Questions (i) Where is the narrator in the poem ? (2) (ii) Why is the narrator sad ? (2) (iii) What is the scene at his home ? (2) OR The moon has a face like the clock in the hall She shines on thieves on a garden wall. On streets and fields and harbor quays, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. The squalling cat and squeaking mouse, The howling dog by the door of the house, The bat that lies in bed at noon, All love to be out by the light of the moon. Questions (i) What is the moon compared to ? (2) (ii) Name the animals that like to be out by the moon light. (2) (iii) Is the moon described as male or female ? Quote the line which shows the moon's gender. (2)
Answer any five of the following questions: A. Which animal messes up Ms. Greene's yard ? B. In which situation does the writer find himself in the cinema ? C. What do 'bird' and 'woman' symbolize in the story 'Once upon A Time' ? D. How is Indian culture different from the cultures of other countries? E. What type of smell does the porter emit ? F. What did the rich man do to gather gold ? G. According to William Cowper, why is life bitter in towns ? H. How do the germs of diseases grow ? I. How did Halku warm himself in the orchard ? J. What did Sun and Moon see in the refrigerator ?
Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 60-70 words: (i) Culture of India. (ii) A Trip to Rajgir. (iii) Cleanliness (iv) A Railway Journey (v) Honesty is the best policy
Write a letter to your younger sister congratulating her on securing good marks in class 9.
You are Amar, the secretary of the Sports Council of your school. Write a notice in about 60-70 words informing the students about Annual Sports to be held shortly.
Write a report on the visit of the Education Minister to your school.
Write an application to the Principal of your school drawing attention towards unsatisfactory drinking water facility for students.
You are Saurabh. Write a speech in about 60-70 words on 'Keeping Your Locality Clean.'
You are Ritik. Write a message in about 30-40 words asking Ravi to come over to your house in the evening for combined study.
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