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1st PUC ENGLISH - SOLVED ANNUAL EXAMINATION PAPER -2022

 


1st PUC ENGLISH SOLVED ANNUAL EXAMINATION PAPER -2022

 

I. Answer any Twelve of the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each: 12x1=12

 

1) Why did the Commission of Enquiry not include a representation from man’s side in “The Gentlemen of the Jungle?”

Ans: There was no one well-educated from the man's side to know the intricacies of the jungle law.

 

2) The thing that is “costly” but worth the expense in “The Gentlemen of the Jungle” is  a) Violence               b)Conflict            c) Peace

Ans: c) Peace

 

3) What does “cage” metaphorically refer to in “The School Boy”?

Ans:  School

 

4) Mention one of things the boy likes to do in the poem “The School Boy”?

Ans: The boy loves nature. He enjoys the skylark's company and likes to hear birds sing

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5) ………… was highly valued in the city in which the narrator lived in “Oru Manushyan”?

Ans: b) Money

 

6)  Who had stolen the narrator’s wallet in “Oru Manushayan”?

Ans: A man with a red turban and white trousers.

 

7) Name the school founded by Babar Ali.

Ans: Ananda Siksha Niketan

 

8) What according to Babar Ali’s father, is true religion?

Ans: Education

 

9) How does the speaker in “If I was a Tree” want to be purified?

Ans: The speaker wants to be hacked into pieces of dry wood and burn in the holy fire and become pure.

 

10) According to the speaker in “If I was a Tree” the three hundred God’s shelter inside a

Ans: a) cow

 

11) Where did Mara hide himself before he first met the king in “Watchman of the Lake”?

Ans: Mara hid among the branches of a tree and jumped down from the tree in front of the king when the king passed that way.

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12) What did Bhima’s mother give him when he was a young boy?

Ans: Iron decoction

 

13) How many children does the speaker in “The Farmer’s wife” have?

Ans: Four children

 

14) Which crop did the farmer grow in “The Farmer’s wife?”

Ans: Cotton crop

 

15) Why does the old woman demand a fifty paise coin from you in “An Old Woman”?

Ans: The old woman offers to take the visitors to the Horeshoe shrine in exchange for fifty paise coins.

 

16) Who sticks to you like a burr according to the speaker in “An Old Woman”?

Ans: An old beggar woman

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17) Why were Jacopo and Nicola waiting in a deserted square?

Ans: To sell unsold newspapers

 

18) “Lucia” in Two Gentlemen of Verona” suffered from tuberculosis of

          a) the brain                   b) spine                c) the kidneys

Ans: b) spine

 

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II. Answer any eight of the following choosing at least two from poetry in a paragraph of 80-100 words each:                                                       8x4=32

 

19) Narrate the circumstances led to the dispute between man and elephant in “The Gentlemen of the Jungle”?

Ans: The dispute between the man and the elephant arose when it was raining the man had given shelter to the elephant as the elephant took advantage of man’s kindness and kicked him out of the hut and due to the fact that the elephant failed to show gratitude after being let in the man's house. The man did not intend to invite the elephant and leave the house, he only wanted to help the elephant keep away from the rain.

 

20) How did the elephant justify its occupation of the man’s hut in “The Gentlemen of the Jungle”?

Ans: The elephant had positively no apprehensions while supporting its regional control of the man's hut. It dismissed before the Commission that the man had requested that the elephant spare his hut from the hurricane and as the storm had accessed the cabin attributable to the abandoned space in the hut, the elephant had put the vacant, lacking space to a more financial use by involving it.

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21) Describe the boy’s experiences in the school with reference to the poem “The School Boy”?

Ans: The boy's involvement with school is brimming with dread and demoralization. The tyrant method of showing makes the kid moan with consternation. His fatigue and dread are reflected in the hanging way in which he sits and the anxiety that he shows. The books give him no satisfaction and the school causes him to feel exhausted.


22) How did the stranger save the day for the narrator in “Oru Manushyan”?

Ans: At the point when the narrator is at the purpose of eliminating his pants however he has nothing inside, a blue-peered toward,' reasonable complexioned six-footer, with a red turban and white pants, intercedes and offers to pay the sum due from the storyteller to the eatery proprietor. He requests that the speaker go with him and when the appreciative speaker requests his name, he says he has no name. At the point when the speaker says 'Benevolence' must be his name, he doesn't respond and strolls on until they arrive at an abandoned extension. There, in the wake of ensuring that nobody is near, the more unusual takes out five wallets and solicits the speaker which from these is his. He cautions the speaker to disappear without pivoting and includes that the speaker ought not to admit to anybody that he has seen the man. He gives the wallet, which has been distinguished by the speaker, with the cash unblemished and leaves the spot wishing the speaker that he be helped by God. The speaker, on his part, trusts that God would support the outsider. Accordingly we see that the pickpocket helps the narrator at the café as well as outside by restoring the tote. This is the manner by which the thoughtful gesture picks up unimportance. Most importantly the pickpocket is adequate to help the one who faces embarrassment as he has lost his satchel.

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 23) Give an account of the big city in which the narrator lived in “Oru Manushyan”?

Ans: The occupants didn't show the goodness of mercy in their heart and were a cruel parcel. The place was a significant large city in the valley of a mountain. They were prepared to do anything for money. Stunning episodes like murder, theft, pick pocketing were the thing to get done. The occupants filled in as troopers, cash loan specialists and guardians in banks/plants/business foundations. They had no information on English and it was like they were content in their own little universe of evil and offensiveness.

 

24) Write a note on the role of Tulu Rani Hazra in association with Baba Ali’s school.

Ans: Tulu Rani Hazra is an illiterate fishmonger who earns her living by catching fishes.  She is a strict educator when she goes to Babar Ali's school and becomes a teacher for the underprivileged. She changes her attire to be dressed in white colour and carries a stick in hands to teach mischievous students a lesson.

 

 

25) How does Babar Ali’s school differ from other formal schools?

Ans: Babar Ali's school is absolutely extraordinary from different formal school. First of all, we do now no longer have a senior character as Headmaster. It is a younger boy-Babar Ali- who serves as Headmaster. The instructors also are extraordinary. All instructor volunteers are college students who use their loose time productively to train the much less fortunate, and the truth that they may be now no longer very senior to the scholars allows them in getting the eye in their pupils.

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26) The poem “If I was a Tree” is a satire on social discrimination. Discuss.

Ans:  By comparing the universe of nature and the universe of individuals, the artist calls attention to that people, who should be God's incomparable creation, have conflicted with the common request of nature and have made life hopeless for their kindred people. The poem is a social parody .The poem voices the bad form dispensed to specific areas of society for the sake of station. Standing is simply a man-made build and with this merciless thought, incredible areas of society have figured out how to put down the docile, age after age.

 

27) Bring out the significance of the sacred spot that Mara describes to the king in “Watchman of the Lake?”

Ans: As per Mara's portrayal, the spot was consecrated on the grounds that Hanuman remained there on the day Lakshmana lay in a dead weak in the combat zone at Lanka. Hanuman was guided by divine signs and went to the spot where the lord stood, and went up the mountain to discover sanjeevini, with which he resuscitated Lakshmana. In the spot of the sanjeevini a stream emerged and it streamed past the spot where the ruler stood. Subsequently, the spot was holy for two reasons. Above all else, the incomparable Hanuman came there; also, stream Veda, starting from the spot where sanjeevini developed, streamed there.

 

28) How did the village head man try to prevent Mara from approaching the king?

Ans: The headman was not justified in calling Mara a lunatic. Above all else, he gives Mara no meeting by any means. Directly from the earliest starting point, he has been exceptionally offending towards Mara as well as different workers. Regardless of whether he doesn't trust Mara's accounts, it isn't important to be so cruel towards Mara. He even goes to the degree of detaining Mara. Additionally, we see that the ruler has no questions about the tale of Mara. Subsequently, plainly the headman isn't supported in considering Mara a crazy person.

 

29) Why did the speaker’s husband commit a suicide in “The Farmer’s wife”?

Ans: The speaker’s husband committed suicide because the farmer was unable to pay his loan and he didn’t have crop to earn money. He was broken down to tolerate the humiliation and did not want to beg for help from anyone.

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30) What does the poet comment on the old woman who forces to take to horse shoe shrine?

Ans: At the point when youthful they may have accomplished more profitable work and brought in cash. In any case, in their mature age, with their physical wellness diminished, they are decreased to the degree of driving themselves upon vacationers who need to dispose of them. The old woman portrays each one of the individuals who live beneath the neediness line in India. On the off chance that this is a typical issue of numerous in view of the issue of joblessness, the lady's age is a marker to the way that the issue is more articulated on account of the old.  This can be a difficult encounter for the individuals who have lived with pride from the start however are abruptly diminished to the status of being viewed as burr.

 

 

31)How were the two boys useful to the narrator in “Two Gentlemen of Verona”?

Ans: The boys were very useful to the narrator. Whenever the narrator demanded anything they were arranging it for him quickly. They acted as guide and took narrator and his companion around Verona. They arranged American cigarettes, tickets for opera for the narrator.

 

32) What information did the narrator gather from the nurse in “Two Gentlemen of Verona”?

Ans: The German invaded Verona, during the war a bomb was blasted and their house was destroyed, in that blast the two boys lost their father and their sister was injured and all three became homeless. The narrator received lot of information from Lucia’s nurse as, the two boys were orphans, only Lucia, their sister was one from their family was alive. The boys visited every week to hospital and paid bills for their sister’s treatment.

 

III. Answer the following in about 200 words:

33) “An act of kindness is misunderstood as a Weakness”. Discuss with reference to the story “The Gentlemen of the Jungle”.

Ans: The man's thoughtful gesture of letting the elephant put his trunk inside the hovel so as to shield the storage compartment from the hefty downpour is exploited by the elephant. The elephant doesn't have the effortlessness to comprehend a thoughtful gesture and accepts it as an indication of shortcoming. In its self-centeredness, it does extraordinary shamefulness to a companion who meets people's high expectations in the genuine soul of a companion out of luck. Further, the elephant takes plan of action to the contention that different creatures in his position would have done likewise.

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OR

 

“Nature is both protective and destructive” How does the play. “Watchman of Lake” bring out this idea.

Ans: “Nature is both protective and destructive”. The play makes it exceptionally evident that nature is both defensive and dangerous and that we are helpless before nature. We consider that to be waterway Veda as the life-provider, life maintainer and life destroyer. The play shows it as the impulse and extravagant of the Goddess, for whom Waterway Veda is a toy. Yet, what the creator attempts to show is that nature can affect us in various manners at various occasions and we are not in a situation to comprehend why it goes about as it does. However, what is significant is that we ought to secure nature and not misuse it.

 

OR

 

The farmer’s wife reveals the speaker’s grit to accept the struggle for life. Substantiate.

Ans: The farmer was not used to being compliant to other people. He was unable to tolerate twisting his head or extending his hand before the loan bosses. Be that as it may, being a lady, the rancher's better half was utilized to submission and cruel treatment and could pull on in any event, when offended and denied. Also, being a lady, her nurturing intuition made it unthinkable for her to abandon her kids helpless before destiny. Subsequently we see that the distinction between the man and the lady lies in the manner people are commonly treated in the public arena and the manner by which men treat ladies at home. Despite the fact that the possibility of raising four youngsters even with distinct destitution is overwhelming, she faces the test and doesn't take response to the simpler departure course of self destruction.  However, the redeeming quality is the way that the unfairness dispensed to ladies in the public eye and at home makes them solid and gives them the fearlessness to grasp life and battle forever.

 

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IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it.        10x1=10

          Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in 1934 in Hampstead, London to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris- Goodall and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph, a novelist from Milford Heaven. The family later moved to Bournemouth, and Goodall attended Uplands school, an independent school in nearby poole.

As a child as an alternative to a teddy bear, Goodall’s father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee. Her fondness for animals started very early in life. She had dozens of books about animals. The walls of her bedroom were covered with pictures of animals, just as other girls of her age had posters of pop stars.

She used to keep animals in garden and if she could, brought them into the house too. Usually, however, her mother caught her. “Get those animals out of here”, she used to shout. “If you must keep them, use the shed end of the garden!” Most of Jane’s animals were quite small: rabbits, mice, birds that sort of thing. But one day something quite big came her way.

Jane’s mother noticed that she was spending quite a lot of time in the shed. She also noticed that food was disappearing from the house, especially bread and fruit. One evening she decided to go down to the shed to see for herself.

As she stood outside the door of the shed, she could hear Jane talking to someone inside, “She’s got a friend in there with her” she thought. She opened the door and looked in. At first she could only see Jane sitting on the ground. Then she made out the shape of an animal sitting beside Jane. Two huge eyes started up at her. She nearly screamed. It was a gorilla!

“Jane! Where on earth……….?” She started to say. But then she remembered. A few days before, a young Gorilla escaped from the Zoo and, inspite of every effort to find it, the animal simply vanished.

“I found it wandering through the park, Jane explained. It seemed so lonely! I talked to it and we became friends at once. And then it followed me back here……”

“Well, you know you can’t keep it you’d better phone the police and explain”, her mother said.

Not long after, the police came and also a van from the Zoo. Nobody was even angry with Jane when she told her story. The police knew all about Jane and her animals. And Zoo keeper said, “I can see that Gor likes you. But we need him back at Zoo! But you can come and see him as often as you like. We’ll send you a free pass”.

These days Jane has almost given up collecting small animals, but you can often find her talking to her friend Gor at the Zoo.

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Answer the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:

34) When was Jane Goodall born?

ANs: In 1934

 

35) Jane’s father was a …………… a) novelist b) business man   c) sailor

Ans: b) Business man

 

36) What did Jane’s father give her instead of a teddy bear?

Ans:A stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee

 

37)When did Jane’s fondness for animals start?

Ans:  Her fondness for animals started very early in life.

 

38) Who was sitting with Jane in shed?

Ans: A gorilla

 

39) Name one of the small animals mentioned in the passage.

Ans: rabbits, mice, birds

 

40) The walls of Jane’s bedroom were covered with the pictures of

a) Pop stars                   b) animals            c) Gors

 Ans: Animals

 

41) Where had Jane found the gorilla?

Ans: In the park

 

42) Where had the gorilla come from?

Ans: Zoo

 

43) What did the Zoo keeper offer Jane?

Ans:  Free pass

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V. A. Fill in the blanks appropriate articles and prepositions given in the brackets:                                                                                                          4x1=4

44) Verona is a lovely city, rich at history, with quiet medieval streets and splendid buildings of an exquisite pale honey colour.

 

B. Fill in the blanks with suitable form of the verbs given in brackets: 4x1=4

45) As soon as he built another hut. Mr. Rhinoceros charged in with his horn lowered and ordered the man to quit.

 

C. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject:      3x1=3

46) Debarita and Babar Ali teach in “Anand Skisha Niketan”. Babar Ali is not a trained teacher. He gives his lessons just the way he has heard them from his teachers.

 

D. Correct the following sentences and rewrite them:                              2x1=2

47) The huts are already occupied from jungle lords

Ans:  The huts are already occupied by jungle lords.

 

48) Why you are laughing?

Ans: Why are you laughing?

 

E) Rewrite as directed:                                                                              6x1=6

49) This shop sells stationery. (statinary/ stationery)

(Fill in the blank with appropriate word given in brackets)

 

50) I saw in my imagination (imagine/ imagination) a man standing, stark naked in the crowd.

(Complete the sentence with the right form of the word given in brackets)

 

51) We/hear/man/the/will/speak/himself

(Rearrange the segments to form a meaningful sentence)

Ans: We hear the man will speak himself.

 

52) It was a quite a big city. (Add a question tag)

Ans: wasn’t it?

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53) The elephant thanked his friend.

(Change into a question beginning with the right form of “do”)

Ans: Did the elephant thank his friend?

 

54) Hanuman found Sanjeevini on the crest of the mountain.

(Frame a Wh question so as to get the underlined words as answer)

Ans: What did Hanuman find on the crest of the mountain?

 

VI. A. Refer to the following table showing social and economic indicators of four countries in 1994 and answer the questions set on it:                           4x1=4

 

Indicators

Canada

Japan

Peru

Zaire

Annual income per person (in $US)

11100

15760

160

130

Life expectancy at birth

76

78

51

47

Daily calorie supply per person

3326

2846

1927

1749

Adult literacy rate %

99

99

68

34

 

55)

a) Which country has the highest annual income per person in ($US)?

Ans:  Japan

 

b) Name the country that has lowest literacy rate.

Ans: Zaire

 

c) How many calories per day are consumed by each of the Canadians?

Ans: 3326

 

d) The country that reports highest life expectancy is …………

Ans: Japan

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B.

56) Write a letter to your principal of your college requesting him/ her to issue your transfer certificate. Provide valid reason.

Ans:

Anjali Rai

Veerashaiva PU. College

Bangalore

 

March 31, 2022

 

The Principal

Veerashaiva P.U. College

Bangalore

 

Dear Sir,

 

Sub: Requesting to issue a transfer certificate

 

With due respect, I Anjali Rai, am a student of PU I, Section B, would like to inform you that I need a transfer certificate to move into a new college. My mother is a Government employee and she has been transferred to Mumbai for her job. This is the reason for me to change my current college and get admission into a new college in a new city. Modern Delhi College has given me a lot of learning opportunities and built my foundation.

I am fortunate to be a part of this reputed institution. However, owing to the current situation, I need to change this college and for which I urgently need a transfer certificate. I would be highly obliged if you take my situation into consideration and issue me a transfer certificate at the earliest. 

 

Thank you.

 

Yours faithfully,

Anjali Rai

 

 

 

VII. A. Match the expressions under column ‘A’ to its corresponding language function under ‘B’:                                                                               5x1=5

 

57)              A (Expressions)                                          B (Functions)

1)    I am grateful to you                                  a) complementing

2)    What you say may be right, but…           b) greeting

3)    Hello, good evening                                   c) requesting

4)    Could you please pass me the book?                 d) disagreeing

5)    You look stunning in these new clothes    e) expressing gratitude

 

Ans:

1) I am grateful to you – expressing gratitude

2) What you say may be right, but – disagreeing

 3) Hello, good evening – greeting

4) Could you please pass me the book? – requesting

5) You look stunning in these new clothes – complementing

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B) Complete the dialogue: (Between the student and principal)

58)  Nikhil:           Good Morning Sir

Principal:     Very Good Morning, what do you want?

Nikhil:        Sir, I need leave for three days.

Principal:     Why do you need? Where are you going?

Nikhil:        Sir, I want to attend my sister’s marriage. It is in Mumbai.

Principal:     Ok.

Nikhil:        Thank you sir.

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C) Dialogue Writing:                                                                                 1x3=3

59) Nikita has gone to a mobile store to buy a smart phone. She enquires at the store for a few brands. Write a dialogue between Nikhita and the Sales executive.

Ans:

Nikita:         Excuse me, sir. Can you please show me some of the popular smart phones.

Sales Executive:    Of courser mam, here are some of the top brands like iphone, Redmi, Oppo, Vivo, LG and Samsung.

Nikita:                  Can I have a view of this new model of Oppo, sir.

Sales Executive:    Yes mam, here you go.

Nikita:                  May I get catalogue of it?

Sales Executive:    Yes mam, take this.

Nikita:                  Thank you sir.

Sales Executive:    It’s my pleasure.

 

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