HS ABTA 2025 PAGE 112 SOLVED

 HS ABTA 2025 PAGE 112 SOLVED 

АВТA HIGHER SECONDARY TEST PAPERS page 112 2024-25

ENGLISH (Group-B)

1. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing th correct option from the alternatives provided: 1×12

PROSE

(i) The girl in the train compartment thought the narrator to be Gallant (b) Serious (c) Gallant and serious (d) Pretentious. 

(ii) The boy wanted to buy (a) Blue suit shoes (b) Black suede shoes (c) Blue suede shoes (d) Black suit shoes, 

(iii) Jainulabdeen's coconut grove was 4 miles from his house (a) One and half (b) Three (c) Four (d) Four an half. 

(iv) The bearded man had been wounded by- (a) The Tsar (b) T hermit (c) The bodyguard of the Tsar (d) His brother.

POETRY

(v) The Grasshopper is associated with the season Winter (c) Spring (d) Summer.

 (vi) The expression 'Eye of Heave means - (a) The Moon (b) The Sun (c) The Earth (d) The Stars. 

(vii) Th word 'miniature' means in the expression "Miniature boughs/ Which if unchecked will expand again" - (a) Small (b) Very small (c) Not so (d) Very big. 

(viii) The word 'green' in the poem "Asleep in the Valle signifies - (a) Monotony (b) Youth and life (c) Fatigue (d) Jealousy. (a) Autumn

DRAMA

(ix) The colour of Lomov's gloves is - (a) Grey (b) Red (c) Blue (d)White.

(x) Oxen Meadows touch the - (a) Birchwoods (b) Oakwood (c) Applewoods (d) Maplewood's. 

(xi) Both Natalya and Chubukov believe that Lomov is not a good - (a) Husband (b) Landlord (c) Hunter (d) Person. 

(xii) The word 'Milksop' refers to (a) Chubukov b) Natalya (c) Lomov (d) Anton Chekhov.

(Short Answer Type Questions)

2. Answer any four questions from 'PROSE' and any four question from 'POETRY', of the following questions, each in a complet sentence.

PROSE

(i) What, according to Jainulabdeen, was the relevance of prayer? 

Ans: According to Jainulabdeen, there was nothing mysterious about prayer rather prayer made communion of spirit between people.

(ii) How could the narrator guess that the girl was wearing slippers?

Ans: The narrator could guess that the girl was wearing slippers when he heard the sound of her slippers.

 (iii)Where was A.P.J Abdul Kalam born? 

Kalam was born in Rameswaram, Tamilnadu 

(iv) How old was Roger in th story 'Thank You Ma'am'? 

Ans: Roger was 14 or 15 years old.

(v) How did the hermit receive the Tsar?

Ans: The hermit received the Tsar with greeting when the went to meet him wearing simple cloth.

 (vi) What was the hermit widely renowned for?

Ans: The hermit widely renowned for his wisdom.

(vii) How are the hill in October in Mussoorie?

Ans: The hills are covered with wild dahlia in October in Mussoorie.

POETRY

(ix) What does the word, 'Crust' mean? 

Ans: The word, 'Crust'  means top layer of earth

(x) What shakes the 'darling buds of May'?

Ans: Rough wind shakes the 'darling buds of May

 (xi) What kind of sonnet is 'The Poetry of Earth'? 

The Poetry of Earth' is an Italian sonnet /petrarchan sonnet.

Xii What sprouts out of 'leprous hide?" 

Ans: Leave sprouts out of 'leprous hide".

(xiii) To whom is 'Shall I compare thee to a "Summer's Day' addressed?

Ans: Shall I compare thee to a "Summer's Day' is addressed to poet's young friend. (xiv) From where do the sunrays fall on the valley?

Ans: The sunrays fall  from the mountain on the valley.

(xv) Where was the dead soldier resting his head?the dead soldier resting his head?

Ans: The dead soldier was resting his head on pillow made of fern in the valley.

(xvi) Who hides in the cooling trees in summer?

The tired birds hide in the cooling trees in summer.

3. Answer any two questions from 'PROSE, two questions from POETRY' and one question from 'DRAMA', of the following questions. Each question, inclusive of subparts, should not exceed 100 words.

6×5-30

PROSE

(i) "Yes, this is the best time" - (a) Who is the speaker? (b) What is the best time? (c) Why does he describe it as the best time?

(ii) "Why don't you say this to the people who come to you.......?" - (a) Who says this and to whom?

(c) Why do the people come to the person spoken to?

(b) What is referred to by the word 'this'?

(iii) "But you put yourself in contact with me..." speaker? (b) Analyse the character of the speaker? (a) Who is the

(iv) What were the three questions the Tsar wanted to be answered? Why did he need the answers? Why was he dissatisfied with the answers of the learned men?

POETRY

(v) Why is it not easy to kill a tree?

(vi) "His feet among the flowers, he sleeps." - (a) Where does this line

occur? (b) Who is the person referred to here? (c) Where is the person sleeping? (d) Describe the nature of the sleep?

(vii) How does Shakespeare present the triumph of poetry over mortality in 'Sonnet No. 18'?

(viii) "he rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed." (a) Who is 'he' here? (b) Where does he rest? (c) How does he enliven nature?

DRAMA

(ix) "And it's impossible for me not to marry ...." - (a) Why is the speaker so interested to marry? (b) Whom does he want to marry? (c)

Why does he want to marry her?

(x) Give a brief sketch of the character of Lomov in the play 'The Proposal".

(xi) 'We've had the land for nearly three hundred years...." - (a) Who is the speaker? (b) Who is spoken to? (c) What is referred to as 'the land'?

(d) What do you know of 'the land' from their conversation?

4. (a) Do as directed:

1×6=6

(i) "Then I won't turn you loose," said the woman to the boy (Change into Indirect speech). 

Ans: The woman told the boy that he would not turn him loose

(ii) She would forget our brief encounter (Change the voice), 

Our brief encounter would be forgotten by her.

( an affirmative sentence), 

(iv) Shut up. I'll shoot you like a partridge (Jon into a compound sentence),

Ans: You must shut up and I'll shoot you like a partridge

 (v) When at last the blood ceased flowing, the man revived and asked for something to drink (Split into simple sentences), 

Ans: At last the blood ceased flowing. Having revived, the man asked for something to drink

(vi) You alone can help me. (Make it nagative sentence)

No one but you can help me.

 (b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and/or prepositions:

As I was totally blind at the time,  my eyes were sensitive only  to light and darkness. I was unable to tell what the girl looked like; but I knew she wore slippers from the way they slapped against her heels.

(c) Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below : 

We lived in our ancestor house. Options: ancestral, ancient, ancestress

We lived in our ancestral house. Options: ancestral, ancient, ancestress

5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: Suryakanta Barik, 30, an English teacher at a private school in Sonarpur

in South 24 paraganas, had told his prospective in-laws well in advance that he would not accept any dowry. On May 14, when Barik arrived in Midnapore's Khejuri to marry Priyanka Bej, 21, a final year student of Music at Mugberia College, he was in for a pleasant surprise. In an unusual break from tradition, the Bej family decided to gift the bridegroom Rs. 1 lakh worth of books.

Barik, a resident of East Midnapore's Hirincli village, said, "I had made it clear that I would not accept any dowry. When I arrived for the wedding, I was pleasantly surprised to find a huge pile of books as gift", Priyank's father Asit Bej, a music teacher, and maternal uncle, Mahadeb Manna, a High School teacher, had travelled to Calcutta Street shops. They also visited the Udbodhan Karyalay, the publishing house of Ramkrishna Math and Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and Sister Nivedita. The gift included complete works of Rabindranath Tagore,

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The collection which was shipped 150 Km away to East Midnapore in a truck, also included a few Harry Potter books. [Extracted and edited from The Telegraph, Kolkata, 21.05.2019].

(a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write

'T' for True and 'F' for false: (You need not write the sentences, write the numbers only)

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(b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words.2×3-6

(i) Why did Priyanka's father and maternal uncle visit the Udbodhan Karyalaya? (ii) What did the gift include? (iii) What had Suryakanta Barik infromed his prospective in-laws in advance?

6. (a) Write a report on the seminar 'Plant Tree, Save Life and Water' organised by your school. The report will be published in your school magazine. Mention the roles of the students and teachers, purpose of the seminar, participation and response and so on. [Word limit: 150 words]. 2+8-10

Or, (b) Write a letter to the Editor of an English daily about the unhealthy food items sold in and around your school, affecting the health of the students. [Word limit: 150 words]. 2+8-10

Or, (c) Write a precis of the following passage. Add a title to it: 2+8-10 What is a machine? It is a big tool to help man to do his work. Man has been called a tool making animal and form his earliest days he has made tools and tried to improve them. His supremacy over other animals was established because of his tools. The tool was an extension of his hand or you may call it a third hand. Machine is nothing but an extension of the tool. Tool and machine raised man above the brute creation. They freed human society from the bondage of Nature. With the assistance from tool and machine man found it easier to produce goods. Machine has encouraged the growth of civilization and it has also encouraged growth of barbarism by producing terrible weapons of warfare and destruction. Instead of being servant of man tool has emerged as his master or mentor.