STATE LEVEL
SSLC PREPARATORY EXAMINATION SOLVED QUESTION PAPER– 2023
FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH
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. 6x1=6
1) John and
Mary were……………. each other.
The correct
phrase which can be filled in here is
a) made out b) made of c) made in d)
made for
Ans: d) made for
2) ……………cow is………….. useful animal.
The appropriate articles to be filled in
the blanks are
a) a, an b) the, a c) the, the d)
an, a
Ans: b) the, a
3) They
loved each other very much,………….
The
appropriate question tag to be added is
a) do they? b)didn’t
they? c)did they? d)don’t they?
Ans:b) didn’t they?
4) He is man…………. a fine sense of
humour.
The appropriate preposition to be filled
in the blank is
a) of b) for c) with d)
at
Ans: c) with
5) Choose
the correct one word medical term for the following:
Science of
the structure of the human body.
a) anatomy b)
pathology c) epidemic d) Urology
Ans: a) Anatomy
6) My legs
are pillars.
The figure
of speech used here is
a) Simile b)
Metaphor c) Personification d) Synecdoche
Ans: b) Metaphor
II. Observe
the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair
accordingly in the following: 4x1=4
7) Blue:
Blew:: Flu:…………….
8) Believed:
Belief:: Behaved: …………….
9) Gallant:
Brave:: Imputation: …………….
10)
Co-operation: Non Co-operation:: Finished …………….
Ans:
7) Flew
8) Behaviour
9) Accusation/ charge/ allegation
10) Unfinished
III.
Rewrite as directed: 3x1=3
11) Change
the voice of the following sentence:
Pasteur
received many honours.
Ans: Many honours were received by Pasteur.
12) Frame a
question to get the underlined word as answer:
Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing.
Ans: What is mankind’s greatest blessing?
13) Rewrite
the following sentence into an Exclamatory sentence:
It is very
cold.
Ans: How cold it is!
IV. Answer
the following questions in a sentence each. 4x1=4
14) Egypt
is full of life and vegetation. Give reason.
Ans: It is due to Nile river, Egypt is full of life and
vegetation.
15) How
much money did Della get for her hair?
Ans: Della god twenty dollars for her hair.
16)
According to Ruskin Bond which is the best month to visit Mussorie?
Ans: October is the best month to visit Mussorie.
17) What is
referred to as “Death’s second self?”
Ans: Sleep is referred to as “Death’s second self.”
V. Answer
the following questions in two to three sentences each: 7x2=14
18) What was Jim’s first reaction when
he saw Della without her lovely hair?
Ans:
Jim returned from his work and he entered his flat. He was very quiet and puzzled.
He did not say anything and stood froze.
19) What
are bacteria?
Ans:
Bacteria are little rod shaped plants which exist in the air, water,
soil and animal bodies.
20) What
kind of a listener does the father want his son to be?
Ans:
Abraham Lincoln wants his son to listen all but not to believe everything he
hears. He wants his son to filter all that he hears on a screen of truth.
21) When
does love become more strong?
Ans: When it is going to lose someone, at that time love becomes
more strong.
22) How has
John Masefield summarized about his birth?
Ans:
For the mother
all her pain and suffering during the birth of her child and for the son who
feels that it was because of his birth that his mother died, though partially.
23) Why was
a large crowd assembled in the arena?
Ans:
A large crowd assembled in the arena because the Pandavas and the
Kauravas had to exhibit their proficiency in the use of arms, which they had
learnt from their guru Kripacharya and from Dronacharya.
24) Why did
Ulysses and his men enter the habitation of the cyclop?
Ans:
Ulysses and his men entered the habitation of the Cyclops because they
wanted to travel around when they saw a huge cave which was built with stones
and big trees, it was outlandish cave.
VI. Rewrite
as directed: 3x2=6
25) Change
the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison:
Very few
materials in the world are as useful as iron.
Ans: Positive: Very few materials in the world are as useful as
iron.
Comparative: Iron is more useful than many other materials in
the world.
Superlative: Iron is one of the most useful materials in the
world.
26) Change
the following sentence to reported speech:
“It’s God’s
wish that I do not tell you what happened”, said Abhinandan.
Ans: Abhinandan said that it was Go’s wish that he did not tell
him what happened.
27) Combine
the sentences using:
a) As soon
as
b) No
sooner…………than,
Vijay saw
the news. He called Sanjay.
Ans: a) As soon as Vijay saw the news, he called Sanjay.
b) No sooner did Vijay see the news than he called Sanjay.
VIII.
Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each: 6x3=18
28) Explain
how water is the basis of all life.
Ans:
Water is the basis of all life, each creature and each plant contains a
significant extent of free or joined water in its body, and no sort of
physiological action is possible in which the fluid doesn't have an essential
part, and that implies it helps living things with existing.
29)
Describe the effect that the spectacle of the peak had on the poet’s mind after
going home.
Ans:
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 then it was very
difficult for him to forget those things and they remained for a long time on
poet’s mind.
30) What
qualities of Daniel Webster does Gandhiji mention?
Ans: According to Gandhiji the qualities of Daniel Webster
mentioned that he had a great sense of the heroic and the sublime. He was also
very intellectual.
31) How did
the hunters kill and carry the bird?
Ans:
The hunters killed the bird and treat the body in cruel manner or we
considered it as inhuman. They threw dead male crane into a coarse bag as if it
was dirty linen in a washing bag. The lifeless body was not respected by the
hunters.
32) How
does Basavanna explain his devotion and faith in God?
Ans:
The temple and the body (Vachana) a beautiful poem, Basvanna tells us
that rich man can build temples for Shiva but a poor man cannot afford it. He
compares his body as temple, where his legs as pillars, his body as shrine and
his head as cupola. He says that things, structures could destroy as passes but
the soul which is a part of God cannot destroy, it is eternal.
33) Explain
how Anne compares herself to a song-bird.
Ans: Anne compares herself to a song bird because she feels that
her wings have been brutally torn out and who is flying in utter darkness
against the bars of its own cage.
OR
Explain the
two opposing laws talked by Pasteur at the opening ceremony of Pasteur
Institute in Paris.
Ans:
The first law was of blood and death, opening out each day new methods
of destruction, forces nations to be ready for battle. The second law was of
peace, work and health, whose aim was to deliver man from the disasters which
surround him.
VIII.
Explain with reference to the context: 5x3=15
34) “What
kind of work would you like?”
Ans: Lesson: A wrong man in a workers’ paradise
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Context:
The above words were said by silent torrent girl to the wrong man. When she had
seen idler then she asked him if he had any work to do. Later she asked him
what kind of work would he like. The idler asked the silent torrent girl to
give pitcher to draw picture on that.
35) “Where
are your money and jewels?”
Ans: Lesson: The girl who was Anne Frank
Author: Louis De Jong
Context:
The above sentence was said by one of the four Dutch Nazi policemen. Otto
Frank’s family and Van Daan’s family were hiding in secret place which was
known as Annexe. When Adolf Hitler declared anti – Jew decree that time Otto
Frank had decided to hide there. Everything was fine until sixteen months.
Suddenly on 4th August, 1944, one German and four Dutch Nazi
Policemen stormed upstairs and asked them where their money and jewels were.
36) “Go
away I’ve got nothing for you,”
Ans: Lesson: The Pie and The Tart
Author: 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.
37) To lead
but one measure,
drink one cup of wine.
Ans: Poem: Lochinvar
Poet: Walter Scott
Context:
The above words were said by Lochinvar to Bride’s father. Lochinvar had reached
Netherby Hall where the wedding of his beloved Ellen about to take place.
Bride’s father asked Lochinvar why had he come, whether to fight, or dance.
Lochinvar replied bride’s father that there were so many maidens who wanted to
marry him. He had come to Netherby Hall to drink one of wine and dance in the
wedding.
38) “Good
fences make good neighbours.”
Ans: Poem: Mending Wall
Poet: Robert Frost
Context:
The above words were said by poet’s neighbour to the poet. The wall between
poet and his neighbor had fallen down, poet did not want fence between them but
the poet’s neighbor said it was good to have distance between them, so that the
relations would remain healthy all the times.
IX. Quote
from memory: 1x4=4
39) It
was………………………………………..
…………………………………………………..
…………………………………………………..
…………..…………………………..did
grow.
Or
My
legs………………………………………….
…………………………………………………..
…………………………………………………..
……..…………………………………shall
stay.
Ans:
39) It was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end,
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Or
My legs are pillars,
the body the shrine,
the head a cupola,
of gold.
Listen, O lord of meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.
X. Answer
the following questions in seven to eight sentences each: 3x4=12
40)
Describe briefly how Buttoo fulfills Drona’s wish?
Ans:
The great qualities of Buttoo: Buttoo’s devotion towards his teacher
Dronacharya: Buttoo was dedicated student to his teacher even though his
teacher had refused him to teach him science of archery. But Buttoo was
completely devoted himself to his teacher. Buttoo’s determination to learn
science of archery was great quality expressed by him. Buttoo was very humble
and modest person and he was not envious of Arjuna as his teacher refused him
for Arjuna. Buttoo had given his right hand thumb to his teacher as recompense
when his demanded him and he kept his promise, Buttoo was truthful in that occasion.
The most important quality of Buttoo was his respect towards his teacher.
Buttoo had dedicated his whole life for his teacher.
41) Man of
today is an unstoppable buying Machine. Elucidate with examples.
Ans:
Man today is an unstoppable buying machine. It is absolutely true which
is mentioned by the author. The author brings to the readers to see their own
ways of managing money. Is there shopping meeting their essential necessities
or would they say they are enjoying superfluous buys? He needs the readers to
comprehend why they are shopping and what are they looking for. A case of it
would purchase enhanced beverages with no nutritive worth. He considers
publicists and huge companies liable for making an enticing business sector
where the customers become relentless purchasing machines.
Or
Explain how
Pasteur showed, the difference between pure and stale air.
Ans: Pure air is different from stale air; Louis Pasteur had
proved this by his experiment with soup in bottles. He kept soup bottles in three
different areas, one in hotel bed room, second in field and third on mountain.
He found that the soup in hotel was completely moldy, the soup in field
somewhat was moldy and there were no germs in soup which he had kept on high
mountain. Hence, he proved that pure air had no germs comparing stale air.
42) How does “uncertainty and
disorganization” among the ranks of the invaders add to the humour?
Ans:
There was a great deal
of vulnerability and disorder. At the point when the ball hit by the smithy,
which had taken off high uncertain, started it’s respectable, all the fielders
started rushing to get under it to get it. There was no understanding among the
fielders. They continued taking a gander at the ball and not at different
fielders running, not one of them seemed, by all accounts, to be mindful that
any other person existed. All ran together, ran into one another and tumbled
down. The way that the entirety of the players was running from their
situations to get one ball add to the humor. This disarray was aggravated by
the conflicting directions given by Hodge.
Or
How did Anne’s Diary open the eyes of
Germans to the Viciousness of racial persecution?
Ans:
Anne’s Diary received a remarkable response from the German audience.
Packed audiences received the tragedy of Anne Frank in silence heavy with
remorse. After the war, it was assessed, of the many Jews extradited from the
Netherlands somewhere only few endure. An expected some Jews stayed in the
Netherlands, with numerous individuals helped by the Dutch underground. Anne's
journal gave them knowledge into a universe of annihilation from the
perspective of a youngster caught in a horrible world. An expression of scorn
that ought to have destroyed her soul, however actually, it did something contrary
to Anne and she clutched her expectation in humankind more emphatically than
any time in recent memory.
XI. Read
the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: 2x2=4
Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full
of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite young he had been given to drink,
and was riotous when he had too much; but after he married he gave up drinking,
except now and then.
One summer Aksionov was going to the Nizhny fair, and he bade
good-bye to this family, his wife said to him, “Ivan Dmitrich, do not start, I
have had a bad dream about you”. Aksionvo laughed and said “you are afraid when
I get to the fair. I shall go on a spree.”
His
wife replied “I do not know what I am afraid of; all I know is that I had a bad
dream. I dreamt you returned from the town and when you took off your cap, I
saw that your hair was quite grey.”
Aksionov laughed “that’s a lucky sign,” said he “see if I don’t
sell out all my goods, and bring you some presents from the fair.”
Questions:
43) a)
Describe Aksionov’s character and appearance.
Ans:
He "was a handsome,
fair-haired, curly headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing."
He used to drink but had changed his ways and became a good man. He was accused
of murdering a fellow merchant and robbing him. Even though he maintained his
innocence, he was convicted of the crime and sent to prison.
b) What did
Aksionov’s wife say about her bad dream?
Ans: Aksionov’s wife said that she did not know what she was afraid of; all she knew was
that she had a bad dream. She dreamt that he returned from the town,
and when he took off his cap, he had seen that his hair was quite grey.”
XII. Write an essay of about 18-20
sentences on any one of the following topics: 1x5=5
44) a)
Environmental pollution
Ans:
We have been exposed to an environment where resources were plentiful.
Hence there is a lack of appreciation for these resources that are easily
accessible. Environment is a valuable endowment of nature. It comprises of the
air we inhale, the water which we drink, the earth on which we live.
Environment pollution is the negative adjustment of our environmental factors,
completely or to a great extent as a result of man's activities, through
immediate or roundabout impacts of changes in energy designs, radiation levels,
synthetic and actual constitution. Pollution can happen in water, soil or air
when substances delivered into them are past their ability of absorption.
Water is the most important and valuable
component in our life. Water is needed in huge amounts for modern purposes
while the waste is later unloaded in streams or into the ocean. Network
squanders, for example, sewage and trash from metropolitan settlements are
released into streams. Water that streams on the outside of developed fields
where composts, pesticides, bug sprays and other agrochemicals are utilized,
contributes a lot to the contamination of water. The earth is made up of 30%
land and 70% water, the water bodies includes oceans, rivers, streams, ponds,
lakes, glaciers and underground water. Changing our outlook is the most
important objective of every citizen to conserve water.
OR
b)
Importance of Mass Media.
Ans:
Mass media is very important in everyone's life. Today our life is brimming
with mass media. Our day starts with a newspaper delivered to us with our
morning cup of tea. A few of us switch on to radio or television while
preparing for the afternoon and attempt to retain the most recent developments
since the newspaper went to bed the previous evening.
Both on radio and television commercials are sandwiched between
news things and melodies songs as the case may be. These advertisements attempt
to impact our minds about what we ought to eat, drink, wear or purchase
overall.
They
even caution us against sicknesses like remind us about polio drops, HIV AIDS,
illuminate us about upcoming movies and motivate our thinking in a subtle way.
Before leaving to venturing out from home for the day a few of us check and
answer our messages like we used to see our post boxes.
XIII. Imagine you are Shiny/ Sharon
studying in Government High School, Indiranagar, Bangalore.
45) Write a letter to your friend
describing the 75th Independence Day celebration in your school.
Ans:
Shiny
Government High School,
Indira nagar
Bangalore
27th February, 2023
Dear Pooja,
Wish
you happy 75th Independence Day. You have wanted to know how we observed our
75th Independence Day in our school.
We observed the 75th Independence Day of
our country at our school with incredible ceremony and magnificence. We
remained in rows in the school ground which was well brightened with little
banners and trims. The Guest-in- chief on this occasion was our District
Commissioner. The National Flag was hoisted by our President of school. We all saluted
the flag and sang our national anthem in melody.
Pass my best respects on to your parents and
love to your siblings.
Yours
truly,
Sd/-
Shiny
To,
Pooja
Biradar,
Rajkumar
layout,
Mysore
Or
Imagine you are Sunitha/ Suman of
Government High School, Mysore.
Write a letter to the Editor of a
newspaper expressing your concern on uncontrolled increase in prices of
essential goods.
Ans:
Suman
Government
High School,
Mysore
27th
February, 2023
The
Editor,
Deccan
Herald,
Mysore
Respected
sir,
Subject: Uncontrolled increase in prices of essential
goods.
I,
Suman would like to drag your kind attention towards subject mentioned above
that inconveniences caused by the high price rise of essential goods
The costs of essential goods are ascending huge amounts at a
time. This is bringing a lot of hardship to the people. Now, such price – hike
is totally unexpected and this is the gravest problem which our country faces
now. The worst affected people are those who live below the poverty line. The
main reason for this price-rise is the artificial scarcity of goods made by
dishonest businessman.
Thus,
I think the Government should take necessary steps against the hoarders and
black marketers to bring down the price-rise of commodities in the market.
Yours
faithfully,
Sd/-
Suman
