2020-21 MODEL QUESTION PAPER - 3
Subject: FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH Subject Code: 14E
Time: 3 hrs. 15 minutes Max. Marks: 100
REGULAR FRESH
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. Harish was............................... N.C.C. cadet.
The appropriate articles to
be filled in the blanks are:
A. An B. The
C. A D. Zero article
2. You are very lucky, .................The appropriate question tag to be added is:
A. are you? B. do you?
C. isn’t he? D.
aren’t
you ?
3. She was an elfin
pinnace. The figure of speech used here is:
A. Alliteration B.
Personification
C. Simile D.
Metaphor
4. God sees the truth, ................ waits.
The appropriate conjunction
to be filled in the blank is:
A. or B. and
C. but D. therefore
5. An assertive sentence ends with a .................
A. full stop B.
comma
C. question mark D.
semicolon
6. The government is encouraging
..................... national companies to invest in India.
Use a suitable prefix to complete
the sentence.
A. non B. multi
C. semi D.
under
II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and
complete the second pair accordingly in the following. 4 x 1 = 4
7. Some: sum:: Hair : __________
8. Success: Successfully: : Courage : __________
9. Argue: Argument: :Punish : __________
10. Gallant: Brave: : fresh : __________
III. Rewrite as directed. 3 x 1 = 3
11. Combine the following sentences using “too ... to”
Life is beautiful. I cannot think of ugly things.
12. Begin the sentence with ‘Hardly’.
As soon as they reached the playground it began to rain.
13. Change into an exclamatory sentence:
You are a great fool.
IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each. 4 x 1 = 4
14. What did Drona seek from Buttoo as recompense?
15. What is the girl’s movement on the road compared to?
16. Why did Buttoo revere Drona as his master?
17. What was the name
of Cyclop?
V. Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each. 7
x 2 = 14
18. What does “hurrying
feet” suggest? Why did
they become less hurried?
19. Why did Otto Frank decide to migrate to Netherlands?
20. Why did Pierre think he was dreaming?
21. How did the female bird react when the male bird was shot by the hunter?
22. How did Duryodhana
restore Karna’s honour?
23. How did Ulysses himself escape from the cave?
24. Why did
boy row boat back to cave?
VI. Rewrite as directed. 3 x 2 = 6
25. Change the
following sentence to reported speech:
“Krishna, what will I do without you?” said
Balarama.
26. Use the following
words in sentences of your own to bring out the difference in their meanings:
a) Pray b)
Prey
27. Change the
following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison:
Sachin Tendulkar is one of the most popular
cricketers.
VII. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each.
6
x 3 = 18
28. How has the writer compared Della’s hair to Queen of Sheba’s jewels and Jim’s watch to King Solomon’s treasures?
29. What are the
various causes of soil erosion?
How
can it
be prevented?
30. How does John Masefield describe his
mother’s suffering?
31. At the opening
ceremony of Pasteur Institute in Paris, Louis Pasteur talked about the opposing
laws. Which are the laws? Which one did he favor?
32. What does the writer say about the
rain-fed tanks?
33. How does the poet bring out the feelings of the female crane on the
death of its male partner?
OR
Narrate the instances to show how
the narrator tried his best to prove to the girl that he was normal sighted.
VIII. Explain with reference to the context. 5
x 3 = 15
34. “She was an interesting girl.”
35. “What shall I, a poor man do?”
36. “I brought a
wrong man into this Paradise”?
37. “I’m not as attractive
a travelling companion as the one who just left.”
38. “Louis
Pasteur was not a soldier, but he was a fighter.”
IX. Quote from memory. 1 x 4 = 4
39. And I water’d _________________
_________________________
_________________________
__________________ deceitful wiles.
OR
My legs _________________
_________________________
_________________________
__________________ shall stay.
X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences
each. 3 x 4 = 12
40. How did Anne’s diary open the eyes of the Germans to the viciousness of racial persecution?
41. Pick out any four values which the poet-father wants the teacher to teach his son and explain the necessity of those at present.
OR
What ideas of spirituality emerge
from
the study of the poem
“The Temple and the Body”?
42. Why did Wordsworth say that his moving
the
boat
is
an
act
of stealth ? Why was he guilty of his act?
OR
Critically describe the way Pierre
took away pie and tart.
XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the
questions given below. (2 x 2)
About a decade ago, Luis Alvarez, a
Nobel
Prize winner and his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist shocked the world with a
new
theory to explain why the dinosaurs disappeared
from
the face of the earth. They claimed
that an asteroid, 10 kames wide,
thundered
into the earth 66 million years ago making large number of animals including
the dinosaurs extinct.
Scientists have proposed many theories for the dinosaur’s extinction. These
include volcanic eruptions, vast forest fires, and acid rain.
Questions.
a) What are the other theories proposed by the scientists?
b) What is the science of rocks and soils called?
XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18 to 20 sentences on any one of
the following topics. 1 x 5 = 5
a) Problems of Population Explosion.
b) Impact of Covid-19 on studies.
XIII. 1
x 5 = 5
45. Imagine that you are a
student of Government High School. Write a letter
to the
editor of
local
newspaper
explaining the inconvenience caused by frequent power cuts in your area.
Or
Write
a letter
to your
friend describing your experience in a social service camp organized by your school.
KEY ANSWERS
I.
1) A) An 1m
2) D) Aren’t you? 1m
3) D) Metaphor 1m
4) B) But 1m
5) A) Full Stop 1m
6) B) Multi 1m
II.
7) Hare 1m
8) Courageously 1m
9) Punishment 1m
10) Clean/ new/ recent1m
III.
11) Life is too beautiful to think of ugly things. 1m
12) Hardly did they reach the playground when it began to rain. 1m
13) What a great fool you are! 1m
IV.
14) Right hand thumb. 1m
15) A skilled hand on the strings of a guitar 1m
16) Buttoo got his inspiration and knowledge from the great
master. So, Buttoo revered Drona as his master. 1m
17)Polyphemus 1m
18) “Hurrying feet” suggests to torrent girl. The
meaningless was slowly becoming meaningful. 2m
19) Adolf Hitler had issued anti-Jewish decree and
Netherlands was safe for his family and for his business 2m
20) Pierre thought that he was dreaming because the eel pie
was in his hand and Marion had handed the eel pie to him. 2m
21) Circled the sky with the grace and came to place where her partner was
shot dead. / She kissed some feathers and hatched them with toddling chicks. 2m
22) Duryodhana
crowned Karna as the King of Anga and performed all the necessary rites 2m
23) Ulysses tied himself to the ram as he did with his other
men. The Cyclops touched the hair of Ulysses but he could not recognize it and
he thought it was fur of ram and Ulysses escaped from the cave. 2m
24) He was frightened by the “approaching peak.” 2m
VI.
25) Balarama asked Krishna what he would do without him. 2m
26) a) Pray: Everyone has to pray every day to get god’s blessing. 2m
b) Prey: A goat was kept as prey to catch the tiger.
27) Positive degree: Very few cricketers are as popular as Sachin Tendulkar. 2m
Comparative degree: Sachin Tendulkar is more popular than many other
cricketers.
28) –Della had let out her hair to dry as the Queen of Sheba’s jewels would
have lost their value by mere display of Della’s hair.
-King Solomon was the caretaker
-Jim would have pulled out his watch every time; he passed just to see
him pluck at his beard from envy.
29) –Sudden burst of excessively heavy rainfall
-Slope of land, removal of natural protective layer
- Existence of ruts
- Prevention: Construction of bunds
- Terracing of land, practicing of contour cultivation
- Afforestation.
30) –Extreme pain his mother faced to give birth her every child.
-Lost her beauty
-He sucked her blood as leeches
-Discrimination faced by society.
31) –Law of blood and death.
-Law of peace, work and health, which worked in deliver man from
disasters.
-Pasteur favoured second law because he believed that science obeyed
laws of humanity.
32) -Commonly used in South Indian
Agriculture.
-They are cheering sight when they are full.
-The colour of water varied due to silt.
-Sun set and rise would be beautiful to. 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 eyes are not here 3m
Author name: Ruskin Bond
Context:
-The above sentence is asked by the narrator to man.
-Author accompanied with a girl who got down at Saharanpur.
-He was excited to know about her.
35) Lesson name : The Temple and The Body 3m
Poet name: Basavana
Context:
-The above sentence was said by Basavana
-He said rich people might build temples but he couldn’t do it.
- He compared his body to temple.
36) Lesson name: A Wrong Man in Worker’s Paradise 3m
Author name: Rabindranath Tagore
Context:
-The above sentence was said by Aerial Messenger to elders
-It was his mistake that he brought idler.
- Idler was wasting his precious time and made others to idle.
- President of paradise was anxious by his behaviour.
37) Poem name : The Eyes are not here 3m
Author name: Ruskin Bond
Context:
-The above sentence was said by man who entered compartment.
-The author was curious to know about that girl.
-The man said that he was not attractive companion as that girl.
38) Lesson name : Louis Pasteur, Conqueror of Disease 3m
Author name: E.H. Carter
Context:
-The above sentence was said by teacher to students
-As Louis Pasteur’s father was soldier in the French army and he was
awarded for his bravery.
-Here Pasteur waged was war against disease.
39) And I water’d it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I stunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
X.
40) – German’s post war toiled people.
-The criminal nature of Nazi ruined every individual.
-Anne mentioned tragedy in a silence heavy remorse.
-Anne’s diary opened eyes of Germans and showed history.
-The drama was most humble pitiful terms of inhumanity.
41) -Abraham Lincoln writes the
letter to his son’s teacher. 4m
- The teacher should teach him how to deal with different kind of people
in society.
-There are good people also among the bad people.
-He says his son not to hear everybody but to believe in his own ideas.
- His son should be independent and have confidence in his own ideas.
42) –Poet saw a boat tied to a tree in a cave.
-He united and rowed it out and that was an act of stealth.
- He was glad to row under the beautiful moon and stars.
- But he felt guilty when he loomed over mountain crag like a giant.
- He rowed the boat back to the cave.
- Even he didn’t forget that act of stealth.
XI.
43) a) Scientist explained the theory
of why dinosaurs disappeared from earth. They have proposed many other theories
for dinosaurs’ extinction. 2m
b) The science of rocks and soil
is called as Geology. . 2m
XII.
44) Essay
Matter-2
Sequence-2
Language-1
45) Letter writing
Format – 2
Matter – 2
Language-1
