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GREEN MODEL HR. SEC. SCHOOL DODA

GOLDEN TEST NO. 01

New pattern of examination year 2011 single paper scheme

Class: 12th M.M: 100

Sub: English Time: 03 hrs.

SECTION A

Q.1 Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end:

Mriganko Shekhar Mukhopadhyay was a fmous and popular writer. A club in Durgapur had invited him to a cultural function in order to felicitate him. He could not get a reserved seat on the train, hence his departure by car. He had left for Durgapur quite early in the morning , soon after a cup of tea. He was now on his way back. He was not one to believe in superstitions and certainly never consulted an alinanac before traveling anywhere.

i. Who was Mrigankoshekhar Mukhopadhyay? (1)

ii. Where he supposed to go and why? (1)

iii. Do you think he was a superstitious man? Why? (1 ½ )

iv. How and when did he leave for Durgapur? (1 ½ )

“The frequency with which the facts in the anti biographies and speeches of statesmen are challenged suggests that the world has not yet begin to produce ideal statesmen-men who like poets have the genius of memory and of intellect combined.”

i. What has been said about poets in the paragraph? Have they been praised or criticized? (2)

ii. Who could be called an ideal statesman? (2)

iii. Give the meaning of ‘Frequency’ and ‘Intellect’? (1)

Q.2 Read the passage and answer the questions given there under:

“Doctors say that most of the diseases are water borne. Today we don’t have safe drinking water. Ground water is becoming arsenic due to poisonous affluents from the factories and excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers by the farmers. Water bodies are becoming dumping ground for filth and diat. So water is being polluted unscrupulously.”

Fill in the blanks from the words and phrases from the paragraph: (1x5=5)

i. The __________ mostly come from industries and chemical fertilizers.

ii. We are __________ polluting the water.

iii. Water-borne diseases are mostly caused by _________ drinking water.

iv. Our lakes, streams and rivers should not used as _______ for______.

‘When most people believed in an essentially static and unchanging universe, the question of whether or not it had a beginning was really one of metaphysics or theology. But in 1929, Edwin Hubble made the land mark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving away from us. In other words, the universe is expanding rapidly.

Fill in the blanks with words and phrases from the paragraph:

i. There was a belief that universe was _______ and ________.

ii. Metaphysics and theology was made to explain the _________ of the universe.

iii. Hubble observed _________ going farther and farther from our galaxy.

iv. Hubble did __________ work in cosmology.

Q.3 Read these poetry lines and answer the question that follow:

For all

That struck the earth,

No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,

Went surely to the cider-apple heap

As of no worth.

i. Why is the poet careful to see that his apples don’t fall to the ground? (2)

ii. What causes bruises and injuries to the fruit? (1)

iii. What is the cider-apple heap? (1)

iv. Name the poem and poet of these lines? (1)

My mind has found

An adult peace. No need to remember

That picnic day when I lay hidden

By a hedge.

i. Whose mind is referred to by the poet in these lines? (1)

ii. What do you understand by ‘adult peace’? Explain (2)

iii. What had happened to the poet on the picnic day? (2)

Q.4 Read the stanza given and fill in the blanks given at the end:

‘A plump little girl and a thin little bird

Were out in the meadows together.

‘How cold that poor little bird must be

With out any clothes like mine,’said she,

‘Although it is sunshining weather?”

i. The little girl was plump ______ the bird was thin. (1)

ii. Meadows are ___________. (1 ½ )

iii. The little girl ___________ for the little bird. (1)

iv. “The little bird was without ______ said the little girl. (1 ½ )

Or P.T.O

Down the street with laughter and shout,

Glad in the freedom of school let out,

Come the boys like a flock of sheep.

Hailing the snow, piled white and deep.

i. The boys were _______ after the school was _______. (2)

ii. It was _______ season and there was snow _______ in the streets. (2)

iii. ‘come the boys like a flock of sheep’ is a _______ called simili. (1)

SECTION B (LITERATURE)

Q.5 Answer any two of the following question in about 100 to 150 words: (2x4=8)

a. How did Jimmy’s friend prosperin life? How do you know?

b. What major idea is the writer trying to get across to the readers in this story? How far has he achieved this? (The Sniper)

c. Describe Christie Brown as a baby? Why was every one tense in the room when they saw him attempting to write?

Q.6 Describe in about 150-180 words the character sketch of Shahmal or Mriganko Babu. (1x5=5)

Q.7 Answer any four of the following questions briefly: (4x2=8)

a. What does the ‘pane of glass’ refer to? What is the poetic device used in this description?

b. What does apple picking refer to? Why has the poet given the poem this title?

c. Why did Christie remain in hospital with out a name for sometime?

d. “Throwing words at me like pots and pans” and “the years have sped along”. What figures of speech have been used in these two expressions? (Punishment in Kindergarten)

e. Give the examples of ‘sound’ and ‘visual’ imagery from punishment in kindergarten?

f. Do you think people use double talk very often? Give the examples of double talk from the poem ‘once upon a time’?

Q.8 Explain with reference to the context the following extracts: (one from prose and one from poetry)

a. Most of us, I fear, are born with prosaically efficient memories. If it were not so the institution of family could not survive in any great modern city.

‘How old is the bridge’? He does not know. It is as if it had always been there like the stupas, like the small wayside shrines. The spirit of Ladakh has changed it into a shrine, an object of worship.

‘Do you know what happened to me after I left’? he now asked. I never worked anywhere else. I couldn’t, because I fell ill. I got dropsy, and it became serious. But I had no money to go to a doctor, or buy medicine, or even eat properly. I never recovered”.

b. My mind has found an adult peace,

No need to remember that picnic day,

When I lay hidden by a hedge.

So show me, son how to laugh;

Show me how I used to laugh and smile

Once upon a time when I was like you.

For all that struck the earth,

No matter if not bruisted or spiked with stubble

went surely to the cide-apple heap,

As of no worth.

Q.9 Objective type questions:

a. Give one word for: ( ½ x 2=1)

1. One who leaves his country to settle elsewhere ___________

2. One who dislike other people _____________

b. Choose the correct meanings of:

1. Muzzle: a. the sudden backward movement.

b. the open end of a given barrel.

c. a loud noise of a shot.

2. Reeling: a. a trick intended to deceive someone.

b. crying loudly

c. moving from side to side, as if about to fall.

SECTION C

Q.10 Study the following clues and expand them into an article of 200-250 words: (5)

Global warming- Drastic climatic changes- A severe threat to the planet-precautionary measures taken by different countries to fight the problem. Or

Man verses woman- wheels of life’s vehicle-incomplete with other-Man took to dominance from the beginning-Now woman also gaining importance-Educate them-Give them responsibility and respect their love, patience, coolness keeps them above man.

Q.11 You are head-boy of the school. Write a letter to the principal of you school requesting him to take care of the cleanliness of toilets and classes and developing the playground. (5)

Or P.T.O

Your school is arranging Annual Day Function on 1st October 2011. Write a letter to your friend who is in Jammu, inviting him to attend the function.

Q.12 Read the following paragraph carefully and make notes, and also give it a title. (5)

A loud and powerful blast of a high density bomb hidden in a briefcase on Wednesday ripped through a crowded reception for passes outside the main gate of Delhi High Court, barely a km from the Parliament House, leaving 11 dead and 70 wounded, with the possible bomber also among them. The deadliest attack in the capital in nearly three years came at 10:14 am just 16 minutes before the court assembled. N/A has taken up the investigation.

You are the sniper who killed his brother like friend. Write a diary entry of your feelings for civil war and the day’s events. Talk about your plans for the future. (Diary entry)

Q.13 Imagine you have been to Jaie in Bhaderwah for picnic and suddenly you find your old friend there. Write a short dialogue on what was exchanged between you and him/her. (5)

Send a news report on Heavy rainfall in Doda yesterday. Its damages and devastations.

Q.14 You plan to sell your car. Write an advertisement of 40-50 words to be published in the local daily as classified column giving all necessary details of the car. (3)

Draft a poster announcing sale of readymade garments at ‘Hatrick’ New Bus Stand from ________ to ________. Discount- 40%. Lottery on the last day. Bills beyond Rs. 1000/- shall get a lottery ticket.

Q.15 Write an e-mail to your ailing friend in hospital, expressing your inability to visit him there. (2)

Write an SMS to your friend asking him some money.

SECTION D

Q.16

a. Using appropriate forms of the verbs, complete the given below sentences: (4)

i. Be careful, lest somebody ________ your pocket. (pick)

ii. He _________ here for the past five years. (Work)

iii. He _________ asleep while he was driving home. (fall)

iv. The patient had died before the doctor _________. (come)

b. Change voice: (4)

i. Call in the first witness.

ii. English was taught to HSP II by Mr. Robert.

iii. He invited his friend to the party.

iv. Don’t laugh at the poor and needy.

c. Change the narration: (4)

i. He said, “Will you listen to such a man?”

ii. The speaker said, “Be quiet and listen to my words.”

iii. “My sons,” said he, “a great treasure lies hidden the estate I am about to leave you.”

v. They shouted, “Hurrah! We have won the match.”

d. Do as directed: (4)

i. I have a black colour car. (change into complex sentence)

ii. My friend derives a car which belongs to his uncle. (Make simple)

iii. Two and two make four. (Make complex)

iv. Ravi was wearing a heavy golden chain. (Make compound)

e. Combine the following pairs of sentences, turning one of them into a phrase as shown in the example: (3)

Example: Mine was a difficult birth. Both mother and son almost died.

Mine being a difficult birth, both mother and son almost died.

i. A whole army of relation queued up outside the hospital until the sm all hours of the morning. They waited for the news.

ii. Doctors examined me. They then labeled me a very interesting but also a hopeless case.

iii. I took the chalk out of my sister’s hand. I made a wild sort of scribble with it on the state.

f. Fill in the pronouns: (3)

i. Look at the little kitten MAYON washing ______ in the stream.

ii. I want you to talk to the principal _______.

iii. Lonely people often talk to ________.

(Paper Setter: Sh. Gh. Abbas Zargar)

GREEN MODEL HR. SEC. SCHOOL DODA

GOLDEN TEST NO. 01

New pattern of examination year 2011 single paper scheme

Class: 10th M.M: 100

Sub: English Time: 03 hrs.

SECTION A

Q.1 Read the following poem carefully:

In childhood, I stood alone in my courtyard

And waves of our brought the sound of cymbals

We regret that the days gone by do not return

How to call back times past and gone!

From perusal of above extract, complete the following paragraph: (3)

i. The poet recalls the days of his __________. He remembers how he used to stand alone in __________. The __________ would bring the sound of ___________ being rung somewhere. The poet feels sad that, the days gone by ___________. He finds no way to _________ that are past and gone.

ii. There are some suggestions from the above stanza. Write the suggestion in your own words what the poet wanted to express? (3)

Q.2 Read the given extract and answer the questions:

My house was named

The house of the flowers, because everywhere

geraniums exploded; it was

a beautiful house

with dogs and little children.

i. What was the poet’s house called? (2)

ii. Describe his house briefly? (2)

iv. Give the meanings of the following words:

a. geranium b. exploded (1)

Q.3 Read the passage:

In the disguise of a serving man, all his greatness and pomp laid aside, this good earl proffered his services to the king, who, not knowing him to be kent in that disguise, but pleased with a certain plainness or rather bluntness in his answers, which the early put on (so different from that smooth oily flattery which he had so much reason to be sick of, having found the effects not answerable in his daughter), a bargain was quickly struck and lear took kend into his service by the name of caius as he called himself, never suspecting him to be his once great favourite, the high and mighty earl of kent.