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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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
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.
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.
