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GROUP – A
1. Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follows :
There is an incident which occurred at an examination during Gandhiji’s first year at the High School. Mr. Giles, the Inspector, had come on a visit. He had set up five words as a spelling exercise. One of these words was ‘Kettle’. Gandhiji had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt Gandhiji but he would not be prompted. He would not copy the spelling from his neighbour’s slate. The result was that all the boys except Gandhiji were found to have spelt each word correctly. Only he had been stupid. The teacher later tried to bring the stupidity home to him, and prompted him to copy it out from his neighbour’s slate but without effect. He could never learn the art of copying.
Questions :
(a) Who was Mr. Giles and why had he come to school?
(b) What task was set by Mr. Giles to the students?
(c) What did the teacher do?
(d) What was the effect of the teacher’s action on Gandhiji?
2. Make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title :
One of the major problems we have to face is that of unemployment. It is a big problem, a human problem, which we cannot ignore. Yet in looking at it, it has to be remembered that merely giving some kind of occupation to large number of people does not ultimately increase employment or lessen unemployment. Employment comes from newer and more effective means of wealth production. Do not imagine that we can effectively deal with the problem of unemployment without the progress of technology. Every country which is proud of full employment today is a country which is technologically advanced. A country which is technologically not advanced has to face unemployment or underemployment. Therefore, if India is to advance, she must advance in science and technology. The fact is that our poverty is due to our backwardness in science and technology. If we remedy that backwardness, we create not only wealth but also employment.
3. Choose the correct tense forms of the verbs given in brackets and fill in the blanks with them :
(a) I …… (write) a letter now.
(b) They …… (leave) for Mumbai two hours ago.
(c) She …… (like) watching films.
4. Change the following sentences into passive voice :
(a) Let him do it.
(b) They can do it easily.
(c) Who won the first prize ?
5. Use the following idioms and phrases in sentences of your own so as to bring out their meaning clearly :
(a) bring up (b) look after (c) for want of
6. Combine the following sentences into one sentence each :
(a) The sun rose. The fog dispersed.
(b) He opened the drawer. He took out a pistol.
(c) The rose is the sweetest of flowers. This is certain.
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable modal auxiliary verbs :
(a) He …… run as fast as you.
(b) We …… finish this before we go.
(c) …… they come here again?
8. Turn the following sentences into indirect speech :
(a) He said to me. “Do you know English?”
(b) The teacher said to the students, “Slow and steady wins the race”
(b) The poor man said, “Alas! I am ruined.”
9. Transform the following sentences as directed without changing the meaning :
(a) He has never seen a ship. (Into Interrogative)
(b) What a wonderful story he has written! (Into Assertive)
(c) Manju is more beautiful than her sister. (Into Positive)
10. Translate the following sentences into English :
(a) पत्र लिखना कला है।
(b) क्या तुम्हें पत्र लिखना आता है ?
(c) अरुण और अहमद साथ-साथ खेलते हैं।
(d) वे एक दूसरे से कभी नहीं झगड़ते।
(e) तुम्हें भी किसी से झगड़ा नहीं करना चाहिए।
11. Write an essay in about 100-150 words on any one of the following :
(a) Bihar of my dream (b) Evils of caste system
(c) Beggars (d) Democracy
(e) A journey by train
GROUP-B
12. Name the poets who wrote the following lines :
(a) Dead in hundreds at the back
Follow wooden in our track.
(b) I who have lost
My way and beg now at strangers’ doors to Receive love, at least in small change ?
(c) He’s broken every human law,
He breaks the law and gravity.
(d) I never forgot, and twenty years since
As I consigned my first-born to the flames.
(e) Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness.
13. Match the poets given in List-A with appropriate titles from List-B :
List-A List-B
(a) John Donne (i) Macavity : The Mystery Cat
(b) John Keats (ii) Fire-Hymn
(c) Kamala Das (iii) To Autumn
(d) T.S. Eliot (iv) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
(e) Keki N. Daruwala (v) My Grand Mother’s House
14. Write the summary of any one of the following poems :
(a) Now the leaves Are Falling Fast
(b) Macavity : The Mystery Cat
(c) The Autumn
(d) Snake
GROUP-C
15. Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false :
(a) Ratiram was the son of Sohanlal Ratiram.
(b) Survival was never a problem for homo sapiens.
16. Name the authors of the following prose pieces :
(a) Bharat is My Home
(b) How Free is the Press
(c) A Pinch of Snuff
17. Write the summary of any one of the following pieces:
(a) Ideas That Have Helped Mankind
(b) Bharat is My Home
(c) How Free is the Press
GROUP-D
18. Name any five Indian English novelists.
Or, Name any five English dramatists.
19. Write a short note on English as the second language of India.
Or, Write a short note on future of English.
20. Name the authors of the following works :
(a) Pickwick Papers (b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Mac Flekcnoe (d) Untouchable
(e) Chitra
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