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GROUP – A
1. Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
In every country people imagine that they are the best and the others are not so good as they are, the Englishman thinks that he and his country are the best, the Frenchman is very proud of France and everything French. The Germans and the Italians think no end of their countries and many Indians imagine that India is in many ways the greatest country in the world. This is not right. Everybody wants to think well of himself and his country. But really there is no person who has not got some good in him and some bad. And in the same way there is no country which is not partly good and partly bad. We must take the good wherever we find it and try to remove the bad wherever it may be. We are, so course, most concerned with our own country, India. Unfortunately, it is in a bad way today and most of our people are poor and miserable. They have no pleasure in their life. We have to find out how we can make them happier. We have to see what is good in our way and customs and try to keep it, and whatever is bad, we must throw away. If we find anything good in other countries, we should certainly adopt it.
Questions :
(a) What do people think about their country?
(b) What does the author say about India?
(c) What should we take from other countries?
(d) State whether the following statements are True or False :
(i) The Germans are ashamed of their country.
(ii) All countries are partly good and partly bad.
(iii) Indians are rich and prosperous.
2. Make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title :
Some people think that the aim of education is only to give knowledge. These people want students to read books, and do nothing else but add to their knowledge. Others believe that knowledge which enables a man to earn his living can be called education. Such people think that bread is more important than anything else. Still others believe that education should aim solely at making good citizens. All these people see only one of the several purposes of education. As a matter of fact, education should aim at all these three things together. It should give them knowledge, make them self-dependent and enable them to serve others. Education should not produce citizens who while they love their own freedom, take away the freedom of others. It should produce men and women who love their own country and do not harm the freedom of others.
3. Choose the correct tense forms of the verbs given in brackets and fill in the blanks with them : 3
(a) You can’t leave until he ……. (come)
(b) Mohan …… (get) a job last year.
(c) When I see you next, I …… (tell) you everything.
4. Change the following sentences into passive voice :
(i) Release the prisoner.
(ii) The news surprised us.
(iii) She has taught me.
5. Use the following idioms and phrases in sentences of your own so as to bring out their meaning clearly :
(a) Break into
(b) Look for
(c) Instead of
6. Combine the following sentences into one sentence each :
(i) The thief saw the police. He ran away.
(ii) You must help your neighbour. It is your duty.
(iii) The boy is very weak. He cannot lift the box.
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable modal auxiliary verbs :
(i) It …… rain today.
(ii) …… you post this letter for me?
(iii) Anyone …… make mistake.
8. Change the following sentences into indirect speech :
(i) I said to my friends, “Can I write with your pen?”
(ii) The boy said, “Mother, I am hungry”
(iii) She said to the teacher, “Please explain the question to me”.
9. Transform the following sentences as directed without changing the meaning :
(i) This man does not know English. (Into interrogative)
(ii) He is one of the richest men in the country. (Into positive)
(iii) The beggar is too weak to walk. (Remove ‘too’)
10. Translate the following sentences into English :
(i) रामायण प्रसिद्ध पुस्तक है।
(ii) आप कौन-सा रंग पसंद करते हैं?
(iii) कुआँ के पास मत खेलो।
(iv) यह कलम मेरी नहीं है।
(v) तुम वहाँ रोज जाते हो न।
11. Write an essay in about 100-150 words on any one of the following : 10
(a) Secularism
(b) Cleanliness
(c) Environmental Pollution
(d) Terrorism
GROUP-B
12. Name the poets who wrote the following lines :
(a) But beauty vanishes, beauty passes.
However, rare – rare it be and when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?
(b) I harbour for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
(c) O how feeble is man’s power.
That if good fortunes fall,
cannot adde another houre,
Nor a lost houre recall.
(d) Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
(e) I looked round, I put down my pitcher,
I picked up a clumsy log.
And threw it at the water trough with a clatter.
13. Match the poets given in list-A with appropriate titles from list- B :
List-A List-B
(a) WH Auden (i) The Solider
(b) DH Lawrence (ii) Now the leaves are falling fast
(c) Kamala Das (iii) Macavity : The mystery cat
(d) Rupert Brooke (iv) Snake
(e) TS Eliot (v) My Grand Mother’s House
14. Write a summary of any one of the following poems :
(i) Sweetest love I Do Not Goe
(ii) My Grand Mother’s House
(iii) Song of Myself.
(iv) The Soldier
GROUP-C
15. Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false :
(a) Survival was never a problem for homo sapiens.
(b) All technological changes cause social developments.
16. Name the author of the following prose pieces :
(i) Ideas that have helped mankind
(ii) The Artist
(iii) How free is the press ?
17. Write a summary of any one of the following pieces :
(i) A pinch of snuff.
(ii) Indian civilization and culture
(iii) The earth
GROUP-D
18. Name any five British Poets.
Or, Name any five Indian English writers.
19. Write a short note on English as an international language.
Or, Write a short note on the importance of English in India.
20. Name the author of the following works :
(i) Tom Jones
(ii) Pygmalion
(iii) The Guide
(iv) Macbeth
(v) Hard Times
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