2020-21 MODEL QUESTION PAPER - 2
Subject: FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH Subject Code: 14E
Time: 3 hrs. 15 minutes Max. Marks: 100
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATE
· This question Paper consists of objective and subjective types of 45 questions.
· Follow the instructions given against both the objective and subjective types of questions.
· Figures in the right hand margin indicate maximum marks for the questions.
· 
The maximum time to answer the paper is given at the top of the question paper. It includes 15 minutes for reading the question paper.
I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions / incomplete statements. Only one of them is correct or most appropriate. Choose the correct alternative and write the complete answer along with its letter of alphabet. 6 x 1 = 6
1. ................. universal meet is being planned to discuss the measures to control carbon emission.
The appropriate
articles to be filled in the blanks are:
A. An B.
The
C. A D.
Zero article
2. A
few students
participated in
the
marathon, ................... The appropriate
question tag to be added is:
A. haven’t he? B.
didn‟t they ?
C. isn’t he? D.
did they
?
3. And I sunned it with smiles. The figure of
speech used here is:
A. Alliteration B.
Personification
C. Simile D.
Metaphor
4. The boy jumped
...................
the wall ................... the garden.
The appropriate
preposition to be filled in the blank is:
A. up, in B.
above, in
C. over, into D.
upon, to
5. I ....................... a dictionary to find out the meanings of difficult
words.
The correct phrasal
verb to be filled in the blank is:
A. look up B.
look in
C. look after D.
look down
6. Your boss would have
sanctioned
your leave if you
................ ( give ) a genuine reason.
The correct form of the
verb to be filled in the blank is:
A. give B.
had given
C. gave D. have given
II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and
complete the second pair accordingly in the following. 4 x 1 = 4
7. Nose: knows: : Meet : __________
8. Herd: Elephant: : Pack : __________
9. Deep: Shallow: : Honest : __________
10. Plentiful: Abundant: : Gallant : __________
III. Rewrite as directed. 3 x 1 = 3
11. Change the voice of
the sentence:
Let him do
that
work.
12. Change the
assertive sentence into negative interrogative sentence:
The Don was immediately arrested
after he arrived at
the
airport.
13. Frame a question to
get the underlined words as answer:
I took up this
profession to please my father.
IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each. 4 x 1 = 4
14. What is the „cheering sight‟ mentioned by Sir C. V. Raman?
15. What did
the hunter do
with the dead
male sarus
crane?
16. Why
did the female sarus crane sit on
the
blood stained feathers?
17. Where did Otto Frank and the others hide themselves in, when the
Nazis invaded Netherlands?
V. Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each. 7
x 2 = 14
18. What are the subsidiary purposes served by controlling the movement of water and by its conservation?
19. Why
did Jean
lie
to Pierre and send him to fetch the
tart?
20. How did Parashurama realize that Karna was
not
a Brahmana?
21. How did Ulysses introduce himself and his group to the Cyclop?
22. What justification
did
Drona give for his unfair demand?
23. Why
did
Ulysses not attack the Cyclop with his
sword?
24. Why Buttoo severed his
right hand
thumb.
VI. Rewrite as directed. 3 x 2 = 6
25. Change the
following sentence to reported speech:
“Did you attend the classes yesterday ?” said Shyam.
26. Use the following
words in sentences of your own to bring out the difference in their meanings:
a) Principal b)
Principle
27. Change the
following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison:
No other virus is as deadly as Corona.
VII. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each.
6
x 3 = 18
28. What changes were noticed in the movement and attitude of the girl of the silent torrent after the man
gave
her the
painted pitcher?
29. Why
does
the narrator say that
October is
the best
time in
Mussoorie
? Being blind, how could he describe
it?
30. Describe the experiment conducted by Pasteur on anthrax.
31. Explain
the ideas of
spirituality emerging
from
the study
of the
Vachana “The temple and the body”.
32. What mishap happened to Karna’s chariot?
33. How does the poet bring out the feelings of the female crane on the
death of its male partner ?
How does the poet bring out the intense love of the female sarus
crane towards its partner?
VIII. Explain with reference to the context. 5
x 3 = 15
34. “I‟m me
without my
hair, ain‟t I?”
35. “If you can cure animals, you can cure my
son.”
36. “With her beak she kissed a few feathers
picked the ones that wind had not taken away”.
37. “Aunts are usually
formidable creatures”
38. “Go
away. I’ve got nothing for you. My wife is away and I am busy. You’d better go
to the next street.”
IX. Quote from memory. 1 x 4 = 4
39. And it grew _________________
_________________________
_________________________
__________________ was mine.
OR
And into _________________
_________________________
_________________________
__________________ beneath the tree.
X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences
each. 3 x 4 = 12
40. What illustrations does Gandhiji give to justify that all good actions need not be moral
acts?
41. How is the precious soil eroded and
how
can this be prevented?
OR
Narrate the events where we see the glimpses of Nazi cruelty in the write-up of Louis De Jong.
42. Describe the effect that the spectacle of the peak had
on the poet’s mind.
OR
Teach him to listen to
all men ...
but teach him also to
filter all he hears
on a screen of truth.‟
Bring out the different ideas
conveyed in
these lines.
XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the
questions given below. (2 x 2)
Tia Geminiuc, an insurance wholesaler, was making a quick stop at a chemist when she overheard
an
elderly woman asking for directions to a nursing home. Geminiuc tried to explain the route by city bus but it was
clear that the trip would be
complicated. So she said to the woman, “If you wouldn‟t mind, I would like
to drive you there”.
Doing so would take her
out of
her way and make her late for an important meeting with a client, but
Geminiuc believes in reaching out. “The feeling
you get from making someone‟s day is something you can‟t purchase,” she says.
Heading to the nursing home, the older woman explained that she was
going to see her husband. “Because I gave her a lift, she got to spend an
extra two hours with him,” says Geminiuc. “At that moment, she needed me more than anyone else did.”
It‟s lovely to think that we
do
good
deeds simply because we like
making someone‟s day, but there must
be a deeper motive at
play.
Human behaviours have evolved over thousands
of
generations and do not persist
unless they support our survival. “Natural selection minimizes any behaviour that supports others but is costly to us unless there are
compensating benefits,” says a Canadian Psychologist.
Questions.
a) What inconvenience would Geminiuc be put to by helping the old lady?
b) What extra benefit did the old lady get
by the good deed of Geminiuc ?
XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18 to 20 sentences on any one of
the following topics. 1 x 5 = 5
a) Environmental awareness
b) Importance of active and
responsible mass media in our country.
XIII. Letter writing 1
x 5 = 5
45. Imagine that you are a student of Government High School.
Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper expressing the inconveniences faced
by commuters due to traffic jams in Metropolitan cities.
Or
Write a letter to your friend explaining to him the different
options before him to take up as a career after completing his tenth standard.
KEY ANSWERS
I.
1)
C) A 1m
2)
B) Didn’t they? 1m
3)
A) Alliteration 1m
4)
C) Over, into 1m
5)
A) look up 1m
6)
B) had given 1m
II.
7)
Meat 1m
8)
Wolves / dogs 1m
9)
Dishonest 1m
10) Brave 1m
III.
11) Let that work be done by him. 1m
12) Was not the don immediately arrested after he arrived
at the airport? 1m
13) Why did I take up this profession? 1m
IV.
14) When rain fed tanks are full. 1m
15) Hunter threw the dead male sarus crane like dirty
linen in washing bag. 1m
16) To hatch. 1m
17)Annexe. 1m
V.
18)Value to the life of the countryside. 2m
19) Jean was beaten by M. Gaultier black and blue
and he wanted Pierre should get same punishment which he had. 2m
20) Parasurma recognized Karna was not a brahmana when he
saw Karana had bore pain of a stinging worm. 2m
21) Ulysses told the Cyclops that they had come
not to steal or for business. They were Grecians who had lost their way. 2m
22) Dronacharya had already promised Arjuna that
there would be no one greater than Arjuna in archery and he would be the best
archer ever. Thus to keep his promise Drona asked his unfair demand. 2m
23) Ulysses restrained himself because without help of
Cyclop they would perish, Polyphemus could remove mass of stone from the
entrance. 2m
24)Recompense (Gurudakshina). 2m
25) Shyam asked whether he had attended the classes the
previous day. 2m
26) a) Principal: Principal has rewarded many students for
their achievements. 2m
b) Principle: Gandhij’s principles (truth &
non-violence) should be inculcated by all.
27) Superlative degree: Corona is the deadliest virus. 2m
Comparative degree: Corona is deadlier than any other
virus.
28) - The
girl of the silent torrent felt sorry for the man because did not have any work
to do and he was wasting his time. 3m
- the
girl was fascinated with work of that man and she spent lot of time in finding meaning..
- she had
been wasting her precious time in those ribbons.
- The
girl had fallen in love with the art and her attitude to life had changed.
29) - The
narrator describes Mussoorie dependent on his recollections. 3m
-the narrator was not generally visually
impaired
-and had visited Mussoorie when his vision
was acceptable.
- Narrator explained about beautiful flowers
in month of October.
30) - Louis
Pasteur developed the idea of immunity when he doing experiment on anthrax
which was killing cows and sheep in France. 3m
-He found that cow would not have anthrax
second time.
-He made two lots of cows which were twenty
four in each lot.
-He thought of injecting the animals with
weak germs to improve immunity.
-Later he conducted experiment on cows and
sheep and he found success in it.
31) -Basvanna
tells us that rich man can build temples for Shiva but a poor man cannot afford
it. 3m
-He compares his body as temple, where his
legs as pillars, his body as shrine and his head as cupola.
-He is comparing the human body to a temple
because the speaker was unable to construct temple and the speaker compared his
body a temple.
-As human soul is a part of God, similarly
God’s idol is placed in the temple as the soul lives in the body.
32) - Lord Krishna pushed the chariot down five
fingers into the mud as he was Arjuna’s charioteer.
-Thus dazzling arrow which was shot in the
direction of Arjuna which flew spitting out fire struck Arjuna’s helmet and
Arjuna was saved by Lord Krishna.
-Karna’s chariot left wheel suddenly sank
into the mud puddle. 3m
33) - Female
crane was broken into pieces when she saw dead body of her beloved into front
of her eyes. 3m
-Those hunters so cruelly killed that male
crane, the female bird circled the sky in deep sorrow over his disgraceful end.
-When hunter went away she came down to spot
where blood stained feathers scattered.
-The female crane kissed a few feather of her
partner and she went away beyond Hume’s words beyond the legends and fables of
human love.
34) Lesson name: The Gift of Magi. 3m
Author name: O. Henry.
Context:
-The above sentence was said by Della to Jim.
-Della had cut her hair to buy a present.
-She sold her hair for Jim.
-Jim was looking at her weirdly.
-Della felt that she would not look pretty.
35) Lesson name : Louis Pasteur, Conqueror of Disease 3m
Author name: E.H. Carter
Context:
-A mother said these words to Louis Pasteur.
-Her son was bitten by a mad dog.
-She requested Louis to cure her son as Pasteur had
cured so many animals.
-Pasteur inoculated that boy with some weak rabies
germs and the boy recovered.
36) Lesson name: To A Pair of Sarus Cranes. 3m
Poet name: Manmohan Singh.
Context:
-The above sentence is said by the poet.
-Female crane circled the spot where male crane was
dead.
-She went to spot after hunters had gone away.
-She kissed few feathers and picked few of feathers
and sat on them to hatch them.
37) Poem name : The eyes are not here 3m
Author name: Ruskin Bond.
Context:
-The author said these words to the girl.
-Author enquired that girl about her destination.
-The girl said that she would get down at Sharanapur
where her aunt would come to receive her.
- The author said the following words.
38) Lesson name : The pie and the tart 3m
Author name: Hugh Chesterman
Context:
-The above sentence was said by M. Gaultier to Pierre.
- Pierre was starving and he went to M. Gaultier house
to beg.
- Pierre begged M. Gaultier to take pity on him and feed
something to eat.
- M. Gaultier asked him to go another street, as his wife
was away and he was busy.
39) And it grew both day and night, 4m
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
Or
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veild the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
X.
40) - A moral act should be without any fear or compulsion. 4m
-One should do good deeds without inner heart
-And does not to expect anything back.
- When act is done by compulsion, it is not classified
as moral action.
41) - The various causes of soil erosion are heavy
rainfall, slope of land,
-absence of bunds, removal of the top natural
protective layer,
-the absence of checks to flow water.
-It can be prevented by terracing of lands,
constructing bunds,
-by the practice of contour cultivation and
planting appropriate vegetation.
Or
-Hitler gave one enemy of Jewish declaration
after another which constrained the Jews to either seek total isolation or move
to different spots.
-The Jews were moved in steers trucks filled
path past limit. On appearance, the grown-ups were generally taken
straightforwardly to the gas chambers.
-Anne was fifteen and gotten away from the
gas chamber alongside her mom and sister. In any case, starvation, malady, and
typhus executed them in the holocaust camps.
-Human pride was stripped in these camps and
consistently was a battle genuinely and inwardly. The Nazis had no sympathy for
ladies and youngsters as well.
-Ladies and kids were kept in extremely
disgraceful conditions without legitimate food or clothing.
42) - When
the boy took a boat that was in rocky cave and moored to a willow tree.
-He was glad with his act and rowed in river
but when came near craggy ridge then he saw huge, black, threatening peak which
was following him.
-The boy rode the boat back to the cave and
rushed back to home but the it was very difficult for him to forget those
things and they remained for a long time on poet’s mind..
XI.
43) a) Answer 2m
b) Answer 2m
XII.
44) Essay
Matter-2
Sequence-2
Language-1
45) Letter writing
Format – 2
Matter – 2
Language-1
