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HS English Question 2016
HIGHER SECONDARY EXAMINATION- 2016
Part-A (Marks: 60)
1. Answer any two of the following questions, each in about 100 words:6×2=12
(a) "She would forget our brief encounter"-Who said this and about whom? Why is the brief encounter referred to here? Why did the speaker think so? 1+1+2+2
(b) What had remained the routine for Abdul Kalam's father even when he was in his late sixties? What does Abdul Kalam say about his emulation of his father? 3+3
(c) "I would teach you right from wrong" Who said this, to whom and when? How did the speaker transform the person spoken to here?
(d) What were the questions that had occurred to the Tsar? Why did he need correct answers to those questions What did he do when he was not satisfied with the answers of the learned men?
3+1+2
2. Answer any two of the following questions, each in about 100 words: (a) Justify the title of the poem 'On Killing a Tree."
(b) "A soldier, very young, lies open-mouthed"-Who is the soldier referred to here? Narrate in your how the soldier lies in the valley.
(c) How does Shakespeare compare the beauty of his friend to that of a Summer's day in Sonnet 18?
(d) What picture of summer is presented in 'The Poetry of Earth? How has it been carried on to the way?
3. Answer any one of the following questions, each in about 100 words:6×1=6
(a) Why did Lomov think about taking a decision about getting married? Whom did he want to marry? Why?
(b) Describe the character of Chubukov as a sensible father.
(c) "Forgive us Ivan Vassilevitch, we were all a little heated."--Who is the speaker? Who are referred to by 'us'? Why were the persons referred to "a little heated"? Why does the speaker ask for forgiveness?1+1+2+2
4. (a) Do as directed:1×6=6
(1) "Then I won't turn you loose", said the woman to the boy. [Turn into indirect speech]
(ii) I found the window. [ Change the voice)
(ii) A man, getting into the compartment, stammered an apology. [Split into two simple sentences]
(iv) This is not a correct approach. (Rewrite as an affirmative sentence]
(v) She was silent. [Rewrite as a negative sentence]
(vi) She did not leave door shut.
[Turn into affirmative sentence]
(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions:1/2 x6 =3
I was prepared ___(i)__- sit there __(ii)__ almost any length___ (iii)___ time, just to listen____(iv)___ her talking.Her voice had____(v)___sparkle ____(vi)___ a mountain stream.
(c) Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below:1x1=1
They seemed very ancient about her comfort.
[Options: anxious/anxiety/anxiously]
5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: Time is invaluable. It flows ceaselessly on without any consideration for the convenience of any man, however important or high-placed he may be. And time once given gone forever. Lost wealth may be regained but industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance and medicine but lost time cannot be recovered by any means. Many do not realise this. They waste their time, thinking that they would make up the loss in future. But the hope may never be realised. Every moment of our time has its particular duty. Putting off our works, therefore, means over-burdening us, that is making our tasks heavier and more difficult in future. This is why students who neglect their studies from day to day often fail in spite of very hard labour before the examination. They can neither acquire knowledge nor build up character and suffer all their life in consequence. Besides, who can say what this future will be, whether it will not be worse than the present? Some unforeseen obstacles may arise, we may suddenly taken ill; there may be some family calamity; financial difficulties may fall upon us, and then we shall find that the task has become much harder, if not too hard. Moreover, if we begin to pour off things, we shall soon get into the habit of indolence and thus slowly bring about our won ruin.
(a) State whether the following statements are True or False.
Write T for True and 'F' for False" 1x4=4
(i)The loss of time can be regained.
(ii)A wise man always wastes time
(iii)A man cannot make up his health.
(iv) A lost moment is loss forever.
2×3=6
b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words:( Name the things that can be recovered by man.
(i) How can one make one's task harder?
(ii)How can a student fail in the examination?
6. (a) Write a report on the annual sports of your school to be published in the school magazine. (Word limit: 150 words)2+8=10
OR
(b) Your company makes wooden furniture and a customer wants to buy 15 chairs. Write a reply to the customer's enquiry. Mention the rates, time needed for delivery, delivery cost in your letter.
(Word limit: 150 words)
2+8=10
OR
(c) Write a precis of the following passage. Add a suitable title.2+8=10
Vidyasagar has both the originality of a genius and the sterling strength of a heroic character. He thought out a new technique of teaching Sanskrit more easily to beginners and wrote a series of primes in the Sanskrit language and literature adapted to modem needs. He also arranged for the collection and preservation of old Sanskrit books. In Bengali prose, Vidyasagar's work was a landmark. He began an elegant, although a bit too stately and chaste style of writing which impressed everybody.
Between 1847 and 1863, he wrote a series of books in Bengali which became classics to the students of literature. In these, he drew his material impartially from the Indian epics and popular tales as well as from wester fables and biographies. His "Bengali Primer" for beginners is even today in household use. But Vidyasagar was no mere scholar or man of letters. As an educational reformer, he opened the Sanskrit College to non-Brahmin boys and provided for classical scholars some English education as well. As an administrator of vision, he rendered splendid service in his capacity of government inspector and in four districts he organised a total of 35 girls' schools and 20 model schools. He was closely associated from its early days with the institution which now bears his name and which under his fostering care became the outstanding example of a non-official, secular and popular institution for higher education with a purely Indian teaching staff. He was equally interested in women's higher education,and was secretary to the Bethune School for sometime. [256 words]
PART-B (Marks: 20)
Multiple Choice Type Questions (MCQ) & Short Answer Type Questions (SAQ) of 1 mark
1. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided:1x4=4
(i) Mrs. Jones gave the boy
(a) five cents
(b) five dollars
(c) ten cents
(d) ten dollars
(ii) The blind girl said that she would get off at
(a) Nainital
(b) Mussoorie
(c) Dehra
(d) Saharanpur
(iii)The bearded man was wounded-
(a) the Tsar's son
(b) the Tsar's
(c) the Tsar himself
(d) the Tsar's bodyguard
(iv) Kalam's father would take him to the mosque for
(a) pre-dawn prayers
(b) evening prayers
(c) mid-day prayers
(d) afternoon prayers
2. Answer any four of the following questions, each in a complete sentence:1x4=4
(i) Where did Mrs. Jones work?
(ii) What according to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's father does adversity always present?
(iii) Why did the man want to take revenge?
(iv) Whom did the hermit receive?
(v) What, according to the narrator of Ruskin Bond's story The Eyes Have It' is the best time to visit the hills?
(vi) Where did Roger fall on losing his balance?
(vii) Who broke into the narrator's reverie?
(viii) In which town was Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam born?
3. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided:1x4=4
(i) The winds that blow in summer in Shakespeare's 'Sonnet No. 18' are
(a) balmy
(b) weak
(c) hot
(d) rough
(i) The bark of the tree is described as "leprous" because
(a) it is rough and smooth
(b) it is wounded by the knife
(d) it is glossy and shining
(c) it is rough and has marks
(iii) The grasshopper is associated with the season
(a) winter
(b) autumn
(c) summer
(d) spring
(iv) One hand of the soldier is on his
(a) face
(b) gun
(c) breast
(d) side.
4. Answer any four of the following questions, each in a complete sentence:1x4=4
(i) Where do all the birds hide in Keats's 'The Poetry of Earth"?
(ii) How is the "gold complexion" of the sun dimmed?
(iii) Who has "never done with his delights"?
(iv) "And summer's lease hath all too short a date" - What is meant by 'summer's lease'?
(v) How does the stream look like in the poem 'Asleep In The Valley'?
(vi) What does the phrase 'earth cave' refer to?
(vii) Why does the poet ask nature to keep the soldier warm?
(viii) What scorch and choke the tree after it is pulled out?
5. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided: 1x4=4
(i) Chubukov is a
(a) landowner
(b) lawyer
c) merchant
(d) physician
(ii) Lomov comes to Chubukov's house
(a) to propose to his daughter
(b) like a good neighbour
(c) for a formal meeting
(d) to borrow money from Chubukov
(iii) When Lomov arrived, Chubukov was surprised by his
(a) evening dress
(b) palpitations
(c) shyness
(d) impudence
(iv) The name of Natalya's dog is
(a) Squeezer
(b) Mirnov
(c) Guess
(d) Ivan
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