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SECTION – A (Multiple Choice Question)
1. The doctor will examine him tomorrow. (Choose the suitable passive voice)
(A) He examined by the doctor tomorrow.
(B) He will be examined by the doctor tomorrow.
(C) He has the doctor examine him tomorrow.
(D) He may be examine at the doctor tomorrow.
2. He was given a prize by the teacher. (Choose the suitable active voice)
(A) The teacher gave him a prize.
(B) The teacher may have given him a prize.
(C) The teacher will have given him a prize.
(D) The teacher his give him a prize.
3. He promised that he …… hard. (Choose the suitable form)
(A) would work
(B) can work
(C) has work
(D) did work
4. It …… during the rainy season.
(A) rain
(B) rains
(C) has rained
(D) had rain
5. …… he live long! (Choose the best auxiliary verb)
(A) May
(B) Should
(C) Will
(D) Can
6. We …… read Shakespeare. (Choose the suitable auxiliary verb)
(A) must not
(B) must
(C) could not
(D) need
7. The price of mangoes …… gone up. (Choose the suitable form of the verb)
(A) was
(B) has
(C) were
(D) haves
8. The summons …… issued. (Choose the suitable option)
(A) is
(B) was
(C) were
(D) haves
9. We saw him ……. (Choose the suitable option)
(A) leave
(B) left
(C) will leave
(D) may leave
10. Somebody came here. I do not know him. (Choose the suitable option of combination)
(A) I will not know who came here.
(B) I do not know who came here.
(C) I cannot know who came here.
(D) I had not know who came here.
11. A man killed a girl. The police arrested him. (Choose the suitable combination)
(A) The police will arrest a man who killed a girl.
(B) The police can arrest a man who killed a girl.
(C) The police had arrested a man who kill a girl.
(D) The police arrested a man who killed a girl.
12. Nehru loved children. (Choose the suitable negative sentence)
(A) Nehru did not hate children.
(B) Nehru did not love children.
(C) Nehru cannot love children.
(D) Nehru has never loved children.
13. Her employer always finds fault …… her. (Choose the suitable preposition)
(A) by
(B) in
(C) at
(D) to
14. I have lived in this town …… childhood. (Choose the suitable preposition)
(A) since
(B) at
(C) in
(D) for
15. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) She lives to an apartment.
(B) She lives in an apartment.
(C) She lives of an apartment.
(D) She lives on an apartment.
16. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) How many people are in your family?
(B) How many families do you have?
(C) How big your family?
(D) How big have your family
17. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) I always wanted to singing.
(B) I always wanted to been a singer.
(C) I always wanted to be a singer.
(D) I always wanted to have singing.
18. St. Paul’s Cathedral in London was …… after the great fire of 1666.
(A) build
(B) builder
(C) built
(D) building
19. I’m very interested. I think the apartment is …… beautiful.
(A) extreme
(B) extremely
(C) will extreme
(D) will extremely
20. The owner seems nice, but she talk …… slow.
(A) awful
(B) awfully
(C) terrible
(D) terribly
21. He …… meal when the phone rang.
(A) have
(B) was taking
(C) having
(D) did having
22. Last year my English course …… thirty lessons.
(A) include
(B) will include
(C) including
(D) included
23. I …… the door quickly, when I heard a noise outside.
(A) shot
(B) shut
(C) shutted
(D) will shut
24. Choose the correct spelling-
(A) clauds
(B) Klouds
(C) clouds
(D) Klauds
25. Choose the correct spellings-
(A) Heratage
(B) Heretage
(C) Heiretage
(D) Heritage
26. How old is Mary?
(A) Mary has got 3 years old.
(B) Mary is 3 years old.
(C) Mary is not old.
(D) Mary was never old.
27. I always …… the car twice a week.
(A) washes
(B) wash
(C) watch
(D) watches
28. My friend and I …… our homework everyday.
(A) do
(B) does
(C) go
(D) goes
29. Paris is the …… city in Europe.
(A) clean
(B) cleaner
(C) most clean
(D) cleanest
30. …… you stop smoking, you’ll be seriously ill.
(A) But
(B) If
(C) Unless
(D) Can’t
Instruction : Questions from 31 to 50 are based on the prescribed texts.
31. Dr. Zakir Husain entered the office in a spirit of …… humility.
(A) special
(B) prayerful
(C) long
(D) new
32. European civilization will mean …… for India.
(A) want
(B) living
(C) real
(D) ruin
33. Nanukaka wrote a cheque for a …… rupees.
(A) thousand
(B) hundred
(C) five hundred
(D) ten thousand
34. The ‘bark of justice’ is ……
(A) bankrupt
(B) highway
(C) staggered
(D) struggled
35. Has civilization taught us to be more …… towards one another?
(A) enemy
(B) angry
(C) upset
(D) friendly
36. Anton Chekov began his career by writing ……
(A) drama
(B) poetry
(C) comic sketches
(D) novels
37. Benjy was the son of ……
(A) Robinsons
(B) Stevensons
(C) Rocksons
(D) Johnsons
38. Gibbon is associated with ……
(A) Italy
(B) Sweden
(C) Russia
(D) America
39. ‘Piers the Plowman’ is written by
(A) Spenser
(B) Miton
(C) Langland
(D) Congreve
40. ‘The god of small Things’ is written by
(A) Anita Desai
(B) Kamala Das
(C) Toru Dutt
(D) Arundhati Roy
41. The name ‘Augustan’ was given to the early …… century.
(A) 17th
(B) 18th
(C) 19th
(D) 20th
42. The year AD 1066 is taken to be the end of the …… period.
(A) Middle English
(B) Old English
(C) Modern English
(D) None of the above
43. The poetess in ‘The grand Mother’s House’ begs at …… doors.
(A) friend’s
(B) family’s
(C) stranger’s
(D) enemy’s
44. ‘And gathering swallows twitter in the skies’ is taken from
(A) Snake
(B) The soldier
(C) Ode to Autumn
(D) An Epitaph
45. The poet in ‘The Soldier’ is depicting the miseries of ……
(A) war
(B) nature
(C) relation
(D) love
46. Mungojerrie and Griddlebone are also ……
(A) dogs
(B) monkeys
(C) birds
(D) cats
47. ‘Hoping to cease not till death’ is a line from
(A) Sweetest love I Do Not Goe
(B) Song of Myself
(C) The Soldier
(D) Fire-Hymm
48. Macavity is an ……
(A) outlaw
(B) criminals
(C) looter
(D) diplomat
49. A sonnet is a poem of …… lines.
(A) 16
(B) 14
(C) 18
(D) 20
50. ‘An Epitaph’ is written by
(A) John Keats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Walter De La Mare
(D) W.H. Auden
SECTION – B (Descriptive Type Question)
1. Write an essay in about 150-200 words on any one :
(i) The Child is Father of the Man
(ii) Time is Money
(iii) A Visit to a Museum
(iv) Drug Addiction
2. Explain any two of the following :
(a) A woman who observes all the prohibitions and carries out all the rites will be actively involved in holding the unknown at bay.
(b) It seemed to them that the girl was about to take Benjy away from them.
(c) Another cleanliness was that our food was served on fresh green banana leaves instead of plates.
(d) Must die at last, ‘tis best,
To use myself in jest.
(e) And the nightingale is dumb.
And the angel will not come.
(f) And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells.
4. Write a letter, in about 100 words, to the Publication House, for the return of damaged books supplied by them.
OR, Write a letter in about 100 words to your cousin about your plans to visit his place after the examinations.
5. Answer in about 40 to 50 words, any five of the following :
(i) What is the meaning of the fire forgetting its dead?
(ii) What is the poet’s impression of the lady in An Epitaph?
(iii) What happened to the house after the grandmother died?
(iv) Write names of the Indian-English writers.
(v) Write names of two works of John Dryden.
(vi) What is the difference between the East and West in the matters of mother-child relationship?
(vii) How did the domestication of animals start?
(viii) What does Martin Luther King’s speech reveal?
6. Answer in about 100-120 words, any three of the following :
(a) Write the summary of any one of the poems :
(i) An Epitaph (ii) The Grand Mother’s House
(b) Write the summary of any one of the prose pieces :
(i) A Child is Born (ii) The Artist
(c) Write a note on Indian English.
(d) Discuss English as a world language.
(e) Match the names of poets given in List A with their works in List-B
List-A List-B
(a) Keki N. Daruwala (i) Macavity : The mystery cat
(b) T.S. Eliot (ii) Snake
(c) D.H. Lawrence (iii) An Epitaph
(d) Walter De La Mare (iv) Fire Hymn
(e) John Keats (v) Ode to Autumn
(f) Translate any five of the following :
(i) हमें सादा भोजन खाना चाहिए।
(ii) वह कब तक आएगा?
(iii) मेहनती लोग हमेशा सफल होते हैं।
(iv) कड़वी बोली मत बोलो।
(v) राधा बहुत ही अच्छा गाती है।
(vi) रमेश का घर पास ही है।
(vii) तुम क्या खरीदोगे?
7. Answer either of the following :
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow :
Children should be educated without pressure. They should enter into adulthood free from damaging effects of education. Free expression of thought must be given to the children. A child once asked Krishnamurthy – “Is it four hobby to give lecture?” Don’t you get tired of talking? Why are you doing it?” Krishnamurthy replied. “I am glad you asked that question. You know if you love something, you never get tired of it.”
Questions :
(a) How should the children be educated?
(b) What type of expression should be given to the children?
(c) What did the child ask Krishnamurthy?
(d) What did Krishnamurthy reply?
OR,
Write a precis of the passage and give a suitable title to it :
The best friend a man has in their world may turn against him and became his enemy. His son or his daughter that he has reared with loving care, may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest to us, may become traitors. The only unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world is his dog. The one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
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