PUC-II YEAR MIDTERM ENGLISH EXAMINATION-2022, SOLVED PAPER

 

PUC-II YEAR MIDTERM ENGLISH EXAMINATION-2022, SOLVED PAPER

Time: 3 Hours 15 Minutes     SUBJECT: ENGLISH (02)  Marks: 100

Instructions: 

a) Follow the prescribed limit while answering the questions.

b) Write the correct question number as it appears on the question paper.

c) One-mark questions attempted more than once will be awarded zero.

d)Answer to question numbers 24 (a-j) and 25 (i-iii) should be in sequence and at one place

e) For multiple choice questions choose the correct answer and rewrite it.

 

I. Answer the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each

 
1) Whom does the word 'crows' refer to in 'Romeo and Juliet’?

Ans: The word ‘crows’ refers to other ladies.

 

2) How much did the Italy Government demand in the lesson "Too Dear I”?

Ans: 12000 francs.

 

3) According to the prophet what may be given to the children?

Ans: Love and affection.

 

4) Who is the best teacher, according to Vandana Shiva?

Ans: Nature

 

5) Where was 'Navadanya Farm' started by Vandana Shiva?

Ans: Doon Valley

 

6) Who had occupied Don Gonzalo's bench?

Ans: Three priests.

 

7) According Gonzalo the gallant lover in A Sunny Morning

a)  Friend             b) cousin         c) brother

Ans: b) cousin

 

8) What look did the woman's have once in 'When You Are Old’?

Ans: Soft look.

 

9) How many acres of land did Tammanna have in the beginning?

Ans: 10 acres.

 

10) When did Tammanna forget all his songs and ballads?

Ans: After the death of Basavaiah.

 

11) What would the foot like to be?

Ans: A butterfly or an apple.

 

12) Which is the most astounding invention of man in 'I Believe Books Will Never Disappear’?

Ans: Books.

 

Answer any EIGHT of the following questions (choosing at least two from poetry) in a paragraph of 80 to 100 words each: 8X4=32

13)  How do Romeo and Juliet describe each other?

Ans:

 

14) Write a note on Monaco kingdom.

Ans: Monaco was a tiny little kingdom, lies close to the boundaries of France and Italy. There were around 7,000 inhabitants in it. The kingdom was little to such an extent that if all the land in the kingdom were split between its inhabitants, there wouldn't be even a section of land of land for every inhabitant. But, this toy kingdom has a real kinglet and like some other real king, the kinglet lives in a palace with corutiers, ministers, a bishop, generals and a small army sixty men in all. The king lives by collecting taxes from people, on tobacco, wine and spirits and a poll tax. Besides, the king also received a large sum of money from a gaming housekeeper.

 

15) Why did the women led by Bachni Devi put up resistance to felling of trees?

Ans: Bachni Devi, a village woman in the Himalayan town of Adwani led the resistance against her own better half, who had acquired an agreement to cut trees. At the point when authorities showed up at the forests, the ladies held up lit lamps in wide sunlight. At the point when the forester requested that they clarify their activity, the ladies disclosed to him that they had come there to teach them forestry. At the point when the forester answered, calling them stupid ladies and found out if they knew the genuine estimation of the forests and found out if they understood what the forests bore, the ladies countered and sang in ensemble saying that the forests bore soil, water, and unadulterated air which support the Earth and all she bears. Their showing was extremely viable on the grounds that, the men society including the forester accepted that the town ladies were innocent and uninformed, yet despite what might be expected, they demonstrated that they were very proficient about the advantages of ranger service.

16) Describe the concept of 'Earth University' by Vandana Shiva.

Ans: The concept of the Earth University implies opportunity for all species to advance inside the trap of life, and the opportunity and obligation of people, as individuals from the Earth family, to perceive, secure, and regard the privileges of different species. The Earth University situated at Navdanya, a biodiversity ranch in the Doon Valley of the Himalaya, teaches Earth Democracy. Earth University is unique in relation to different universities since it is eco-centric, while different universities are anthropocentric. Eco-centrism alludes to the arrangement of thought where the attention is on saving the current eco-system that are expected to ensure and support the trap of life on the Earth. Actually, different colleges are human-centric. They center on ensuring and supporting the life of people as it were.

 17) Give instances to show Laura's witty remarks about Gonzalo in the play 'A Sunny Morning'.

Ans:  As the play "On Sunny Morning" opens, we find Dona Laura cheerfully addressing the pigeons which were feeding from the bread crumbs. When Don Gonzalo comes there searching for a seat, Dona Laura blames him for driving off her birds. In answer, Don Gonzalo tells her that it is a public area and he couldn't care about the birds. Dona Laura asks him for what good reason then, at that point, Don Gonzalo comes back to the same place to sit. She asks him for what valid reason he was seen there once more. However, when he tries to put her off saying that they had not met, she lets him know that she was just answering his gesture. At the point when he tells her that she should have just returned his Good morning, she comments that he ought to have taken her permission to sit on that seat. At last, with her clever comments, she makes him silenced and helpless. At the point when he murmurs to himself, saying that she was a senile old lady and she should be at home sewing and counting her beads, she asks him not to protest any longer. At the point when she finds him cleaning his shoes with his handkerchief, she insults him finding out if one purposes a handkerchief as a shoe brush. In answer, when Gonzalo asks her what right she needs to criticize his activities, she answers energetically that it was her right as a neighbor. At the point when Gonzalo attempts to put her off inconsiderately saying that he doesn't want to pay attention to gibberish, she indeed prods him commenting that he was exceptionally considerate. At the point when Gonzalo asks her contritely not to impede what doesn't concern her, she again tells him tenaciously that she by and large gets out whatever she thinks. From that point on their unconstrained trade takes a positive heading and soon they become friends.

 

18) How does speaker prove his true love in 'When You Are Old’?

Ans: The speaker asks his love to assume that she has become old and dim and is perched by the fire gesturing. At that point he requests her to peruse from her book from recollections and think back her past when she was in her excellent youth. While she is in this manner occupied with reviewing her past, the writer advises her that however she without a doubt had a considerable number of admirers who respected her magnificence and beauty and claimed 'love' which might be valid or bogus, he alone adored her genuinely.  He says that he adored her internal excellence and surprisingly the disappearing of her childhood and magnificence. The expression 'the number of' in the primary line in second stanza remains as opposed to 'Yet one man', in the third line in second verse. While numerous admirers cherished her magnificence and tastefulness, he alone adored her traveler soul just as the distresses of her evolving face.

 

19) How did the owner’s life style change after the arrival of the old man?

Ans: The owner had been endeavoring to improve his plantation; however there were numerous issues which he had not had the option to settle. In any case, when the elderly person met him, he came to realize that the elderly person was knowledgeable in horticulture and had local insight. In this manner he named him right away. His assumptions demonstrated right. The elderly person demonstrated his value in tackling every one of the issues. Therefore, the pay from the nursery improved significantly. This caused a detectable change in the way of life of the proprietor. He extended his manor. Be that as it may, he got lazy and avoided difficult work. His abundance and social glory additionally expanded. He obtained various companions in the following town just as in his own town. Despite the fact that he had priceless little to do, his life got swarmed with beautiful occasions. He developed umpteen indecencies including infidelity.

 20) Bring out the contrast between illusion and reality in 'To the Foot from Its Child'.

Ans: Pablo Neruda is the pen name and later the legitimate name of the Chilean writer representative and government official Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. The writer utilizes 'foot' as an allegory forever and centers around the progressions found in the change of a baby's foot into adulthood lastly passing. Generally we consider 'foot' as actually having a place with an individual however Neruda finds in a philosophical manner. In this sonnet, foot is a similitude forever. The artist utilizing the foot as an illustration investigates life' through its different stages from outset through adolescence till' the very end. The artist utilizes 'foot' as an illustration for the kid and depicts the fantasies and real factors of life. The child in the beginning.

 

21) Define Borges 'Definition of Poetry'.

Ans: Borges accepts that verse is something so personal thus fundamental that it can't be characterized without misrepresenting it. At that point he says that verse isn't the sonnet and thinks that a sonnet might be just a progression of images. Borges thinks that verse is the tasteful demonstration that happens when the writer composes it and when the reader reads it. He accepts that verse is a mystical, strange and unexplainable albeit not a limitless occasion. He accepts that one should feel the poetic event after perusing it in any case the artist ought to be considered to have fizzled.

 22) What does Borges feel about his mother?

Ans: Over the span of his meeting with Alifano, Borges discloses to him that his mom was an unprecedented individual who gave him a lot of grace in his life. At that point he admits in a contrite tone that he was unable to satisfy his mom since he, at the end of the day, was not a cheerful man. He additionally admits that he ought to have shown a superior comprehension of his mom. This experience can be summed up on the grounds that what Borges says is valid for all kids. It isn't unexpected to know, when their moms bite the dust, most youngsters express that they had underestimated their mom while they were alive as they do with the moon or the sun or the seasons and are liable that they had mishandled their moms.

 

III. Answer the following in about 200 words:   1X6=6

23) The poem 'On Children' provides new insights into parent-children relationship. Discuss.

Ans: Gibran discloses to parents how they should deal with their children as 'stewards' in his message on children, in the initial segment. In the last piece of the message, the poet utilizes the illustration of the bow and the arrows to assist parents with picturing their part in raising children. In this metaphor, God, or the preeminent force, is the archer, parents are the bows and the arrows are the children. The archer utilizes the bow just as an instrument to send the arrows to their objective. The archer chooses the direction and the objective on the boundless way and pulls the string energetically. As he pulls the string, the bow needs to twist but then withstand the strain and weight caused in shooting the arrow. The bow ought not to snap in two. From this representation, it turns out to be evident that parents serve just as an instrument or as a vehicle to help the arrow fly to its objective and parents can't possess them.

(-Or-)

 

Comment on how the judgements were altered in the story 'Too Dear’!

Ans: The author’s will likely satire the endeavors of the cutting edge state to fiercely control wrongdoing. Monaco had a little population, a little armed force and was controlled by a kinglet. Individuals lived calmly yet by one way or another way a murder was committed. The criminal was attempted according to the current guidelines of the state and was at last condemned to death. However, there was neither a guillotine machine nor a killer in the state. Consequently the king and the ministers made true endeavors to get them from their neighbors the French Government and the King of Italy.

Subsequent to gauging the advantages and disadvantages of causing an immense consumption the king surrendered getting the criminal executed and transformed it to imprisonment for life. This cost the lord 600 francs. At the point when the king reflected over the cost, its truck him that the expense would turn into a major weight if the criminal experienced an additional few years. The king and his ministers planned to flee the criminal by excused the guard but criminal wouldn’t go. At last, the criminal was offered a little benefit and paid one third of his annuity as advance. He left the jail and moved to another nation. In this way, there is a dash of humor in the story.

 

 

IV. Read the following Passage and answer the questions set on it.          10X1=10

George Bernard Shaw, one of the greatest playwrights of all times was born in Dublin on 26^th July, 1856. As a young man he was terribly shy and to hide his shyness, he developed         a very gruff manner and voice which some people mistook as rudeness. However, his close friends understood him better as he was the very essence of kindness to those whom he loved and associated with.

At the early age of fourteen, he obtained employment as a junior clerk and though he was quite good at his work, he hated it. So he quit his job and went to London in search of other employment. Before long a newspaper office hired him and he took up employment as a critic of books, music and plays. His duty was to attend the various plays staged and give his opinion on them for publication. It was then that he decided to write his own plays. The plays he wrote and produced were a tremendous success. In no time he became World famous as a playwright. Many film companies approached him to use his plays for making movies but he never liked the idea and turned them down. Finally, he consented to allow his play Pygmalion" to be made into a musical hit film. This play depicts the story of a little flower girl, who was trained by an English professor to speak proper English. In fact the professor succeeded in transforming her from an uneducated flower girl into a refined lady.

Years later, this play was made into a musical hit the legendary, 'My Fair Lady". And it became a worldwide success. Shaw used the huge money earned from this to worthy causes, such as the enlargement of National Gallery of Ireland, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the British museum. The film 'My Fair Lady' is about how complicated English language is and the difficulties faced by Eliza, the flower girl to learn and master this language. He lived long enough to see people all over the World enjoy his plays. He died at the ripe old age of ninety four.

 

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

a)  How did Bernard Shaw try to hide his shyness?

Ans: He developed     a very gruff manner and voice which some people mistook as rudeness.

 

b)  How old was Bernard Shaw when he took up his first job?

Ans: fourteen.

 

c) Where did Bernard Shaw go after quitting his job?

Ans: London.

 

d) Which of his plays was made into a first film?

Ans: Pygmalion

 

e)  Name the little flower girl who appears in the musical hit 'My Fair Lady'.

Ans: Eliza.

 

f) Add suitable prefix to the word 'educated' to form its antonym,

Ans: Uneducated.

 

g)  Mention any one of the causes which Shaw contributed the money earned by him.

Ans: The enlargement of National Gallery of Ireland, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the British museum.

 

h) Who trained the flower girl to become a refined lady?

Ans: English Professor.

 

i) How old was Shaw, when he died?

Ans: Ninety four.

 

j) English language is full of   (complicated/ complication)

Ans: Complication

 

25) Read the following lines and answer the questions set on it: 3X1=3

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill

of things unknown, but longed for still

And his tune is heard on the distant hill

for the caged bird sings of freedom.

 

i) How does the caged bird sing?

Ans: With a fearful trill.

 

ii) Where is the bird's tune heard?

Ans: On the distant hill.

 

iii) What does the bird sing of?

Ans: Freedom.

 

 

V.26) Complete the following by filling the blanks using the right form of          the verb given in brackets        :

Basavaiah had 200 acres less land than Tammanna. So Tammanna…………….. (ask) to sell his 200 acres to Basavaiah. This……………………. (reject) by Tammanna. Instead, a demand………………… (place) that Tammanna was ready to buy all his land.

 

Ans: Was asked, was rejected, was placed.

 

27) Report the following conversation:

Petra                     : The guard is waiting for me.

Dona Laura         : Do you like to chat with your friend?

Petra                     : He is not mine.

Dona Laura         : Wait a moment.

Petra                     : What does the Senora wish?

Ans: Petra told Dona Laura that the guard was waiting for her. Dona Laura asked whether she liked to chat with her friend. Petra replied that he was not hers. Dona Laura told Petra to wait a moment. Petra asked Dona Laura what did the Senora wish.

 

28) Complete the following dialogue:                                                        4x1=4

Mohan       :  Hi, Ramesh Good Morning.

Ramesh      : ……………………..(Responding to greeting)

Mohan       : ……………………. (Your cell phone for a moment requesting)

Ramesh      : Sure, no problem…………….. (offering)

Mohan       : It will only be a minute or two.

Ramesh      : Take your time. No rush.

Mohan       : …………………… (Expressing gratitude)

 

Ans: Mohan :  Hi, Ramesh Good Morning.

Ramesh       : Very good morning (Responding to greeting)

Mohan        : Would you provide me your cell phone? My cell phone battery is dead. (Your cell phone for a moment requesting)

Ramesh       : Sure, no problem you can use it. (offering)

Mohan        : It will only be a minute or two.

Ramesh       : Take your time. No rush.

Mohan        : Thanks a lot (Expressing gratitude)

 

29) Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate expressions given in brackets: 2x1=2

(got out of the way, behanged, turn their backs)

The criminal said that people would ……………….. on him if he did so. He also said that he had………………. of working.

 

Ans: The criminal said that people would turn their backs on him if he did so. He also said that he had got out of the way of working.

 

30) Fill in the blanks with the right linkers:

(But, when, so, and)

A murder was committed in Monaco. …………………. the king heard of this, he ordered to arrest the murderer. The murderer was arrested………… sentenced to death.

…………….. the king realized that punishment was very expensive……………….. it was converted into life imprisonment

 

Ans:

A murder was committed in Monaco. When the king heard of this, he ordered to arrest the murderer. The murderer was arrested and sentenced to death. But the king realized that punishment was very expensive so it was converted into life imprisonment

 

VI. 31)Read the following passage and make notes by drawing and filling in the boxes given below:                                                                  8x ½  =4

Kathak is one of the forms of Indian classical dance. The name Kathank is derived from ‘Sanskrit’ word ‘Katha’ meaning story. This dance form traces its origins to the Nomadic bards of ancient Northern India, known as Kathakas or story tellers. There are three major schools of Kathak the gharanas of Jaipur, Lucknow and Varanasi born in the courts of the Kachawaha Rajaput Kings, the Nawab of Oudh and Varanasi respectively.

 

Kathak

The name is derived from

i)

The dance form traces its origins to

ii)

The three major schools are the gharanas of

iii)                         iv)                         v)

Born in the courts of

vi)                         vii)                        viii)

 

 

Ans:

Kathak

The name is derived from

i) Sanskrit

The dance form traces its origins to

ii) Kathakas

The three major schools are the gharanas of

iii) Jaipur    iv) Lucknow          v) Varanasi

Born in the courts of

                vi) Kachawaha Rajaput Kaings vii) Nawab of Oudh viii) Varanasi

 

32) Write a letter of application in response to the following advertisement which appeared in “The Indian Express” dated 5^th September 2022. (Write XXX for your name YYY for address)

Wanted

“Project Assistants”

Qualification: PUC with minimum 60% marks good communication skill in English and Kannada. A good knowledge of Computer is required.

Apply to: The Manager,

Shweta Enterprizes,

312/A Jhanabharathi, B.R. Ambedkar Road,

Bengaluru- 560014.

 

Ans:

 

XXX

YYY

10^th September 2022

The Manager,

Shweta Enterprises,

312/A Jhanabharathi, B.R. Ambedkar Road,

Bengaluru-560014

Sub: Application for the post of Projects Assistants.

Sir/Madam,

I saw your advertisement in “The Indian Express” dated 5th September 2022 for the post of Projects Assistants and I would like to apply for the same. I finished my PUC with 75%. I passed my B.Sc. in Karuna College of Education. I have three years of experience as of one year. I have excellent communication skills in English and Kannada languages. Therefore, I request you to allow me an opportunity to deliver my administrations at your reputed institute. My resume is enclosed for your consideration.

Looking forward for a positive reply.

 

Thank you,

 

Yours faithfully
Signature

(XXX)

Enclosure: Resume.

 

33) Imagine that you are celebrating “International Women” and you are required to speak on the occasion as the secretary of your College Union. Using the hints given, below, write a speech in about 100 words.

* Women empowerment

* Importance of Education

* Treating women with respect

* Ensuring safety at work places

* Gender equality

 

Or

 

A survey was conducted to find out how teenagers spend their free time. Following trends were observed. Using the data given in the pie chart, write a report of about 100 words on this chart.

 

 

Ans: Matter: 2Marks

          Sequence: 2Marks

          Language: 2Marks

 

VII. 34) What do the underlined words in the following extract refer to: 4x1=4

Bernard Shaw’s legendary musical hit became a popular film. It is the story of an English professor who meets a young flower girl in a train, where she was singing and selling flowers. He was attracted by her voice and appearance. So he decided to train her and teach her English. Very soon he transformed her into a refined lady.

i) it              :

ii) where     :

iii) her         :

iv) he          :

 

Ans:

i) it              : Film

ii) where      : train

iii) her         : flower girl

iv) he           : Bernard Shaw

 

 

35) Rewrite the jumbled segments to form a meaningful sentence:

agriculture/ was/ in / well/ versed/ the oldman

 

Ans: The old man was well versed in agriculture.