PUC- II - ENGLISH SOLVED MOCK PAPER - 2( MODEL QUESTION PAPER )2023 -2024
II PUC, MOCK PAPER-2
Time: 3 Hrs. 15 Mins Subject:
English (02) Max. Marks: 80
Instructions:
a.
Follow the prescribed limit while answering the questions.
b.
Write the correct question number as it appears on the question paper.
c.
For multiple choice questions, choose the correct answer and rewrite it.
d.
Answer question number 25 (a to j), 26 (i to iv), and 29 (i to viii) should be
in sequence and in one place.
I. Answer the following questions by choosing the right
option:10 x 1=10
1. What according to
Romeo was not seen by him until he saw Juliet?
a) Love b)
Friend c) True beauty d) Power
Ans: c) True beauty
2. In “Too Dear!” the
criminal received ………………… of his annuity in advance before leaving King’s
domain.
a) half b)
one-fourth c) one-third d) one-fith
Ans: c) one-third
3. The Metaphor,
“bows and arrows” signifies …………………
a) parents and prophet b)
prophet and children
c) parents and children d)
children and people
Ans: c) parents and children
4. Navadanya Farm was
started in the year …………………
a) 1970 b)1994 c) 1987 d) 1977
Ans: c) 1987
5. Match 'Column A' with 'Column B' with reference to the Play "A
Sunny Morning", and choose the correct option:
Column 'A' Column
'B'
i. Don
Gonzalo a.
gives a book
ii. Don
Laura b.
snuff box
iii.
Juanito c.
bread-crumbs
a) i-b, ii-c, iii-a b)
i-c, ii-a, iii – b c) i-b,
ii-a, iii – c d) i-a, ii-b, iii – c
Ans: a) i-b, ii-c, iii-a
6. Identify the
sequence of events that made Tammanna become a famous poet in his time in
"The Gardener"?
a) Tammanna thought of a plan-he left the village-
Basavaiah died- Tammanna forgot poems.
b) Basavaiah died- Tammanna forgot poems- he left the
village- Tammanna thought of a plan
c) Tammanna thought of plan- Basavaiah died- he left the
village- Tammanna forgot poems.
d) He left the village- Tammanna thought of a plan-
Basavaiah died- Tammanna forgot poems
Ans: a) Tammanna thought of a plan-he left the
village- Basavaiah died- Tammanna forgot poems.
7. Which Library was
said to be attacked by flames in the dream of Jorge Luis Borges?
a) His Father’s Library b)
Central Library
c) Library of Alexandria d)
His Library
Ans: c) Library of Alexandria
8. According to the
speaker, the tender sunshine leans on ………………….
a) Moon b)
Heaven c) Earth d) Verdant Garden
Ans: d) Verdant Garden
9. ‘Exquisitely
well-mannered people’ refers to ………………….
a) Indians b)
Japanese c) Americans d) Chinese
Ans: b) Japanese
10. Name the quarry
worker and Arivolli volunteer who trains other women
a) Manohar b)
P. Sainath c) Manormani d) Fathima
Ans: c) Manormani
11. Fill in the
blanks by using the right form of the verb given in the bracket: 2×1=2
Roof’s spirits…………………. (fell) but he let no one see it. All morning
he…………………. (mask) his deep worry with a surface exertion which was unusual.
Ans: Roof’s spirits was fallen but he let no one see
it. All morning he was masked
his deep worry with a surface exertion which was unusual.
12. Fill in the
blanks with the right linker given in the bracket: 3×1=3
(instead, in turn,
which)
Basavaiah sent word that he was prepared to buy Tammanna’s 200 acres of
land. This made Tammanna furious. …………………. He said he was prepared to buy all
the land …………………. Belonged to Basaviah.
…………………. Basavaiah forcibly acquired 200
acres of Tammanna’s land.
Ans: Basavaiah sent
word that he was prepared to buy Tammanna’s 200 acres of land. This made
Tammanna furious in turn. He
said he was prepared to buy all the land which
belonged to Basaviah. Instead
Basavaiah forcibly acquired 200 acres of Tammanna’s land.
13. Match the
following 'Column A' with 'Column B': 5×1=5
'A' 'B'
a. leaps and bounds i.
monitor a broadcast
b. Listen – in ii.
Toy Kingdom
c. Monaco iii. Cycling social movement
d. Japanese iv. Very quickly
e. Pudukkottai v. well-
mannered people
Ans:
a. leaps and bounds - iii. very quickly
b. Listen – in - i. monitor a broadcast
c. Monaco - ii. Toy Kingdom
d. Japanese - v. well-mannered people
e. Pudukkottai - iii. Cycling social movement
II. Answer any SIX of
the following [choosing at least TWO from poetry] in a paragraph of 80 -100
words. 6
x 4 = 24
14. How does Romeo
describe Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’?
Ans: He compares Juliet’s beauty to nature. Romeo says that
even the bright light of a torch would look dull before the brightness of
Juliet. It looks like she hangs on the cheek of night. Romeo says that the
beauty of Juliet is like a jewel that is hung in the ear of an African
woman. Romeo says Juliet is too beautiful to belong to Earth. Juliet’s
beauty is so vast that she cannot die and be buried in the Earth. The earth
cannot contain her beauty. He further says Juliet is like white snow that is
flying with other common people who belong to the species of crows. Romeo just
wishes t express that Juliet belongs to the divine world and living among the
ordinary and common people. Romeo proposes to find the place where Juliet
stood and wants to touch her blessed hand and make his own rude hand blessed.
Romeo further asks a question whether he ever loved before. He feels this is
true love. Romeo thinks he has never seen a beautiful woman like Juliet before
this night.
15. What is the
message given by the poet to the parents and the children in ‘On Children’?
Ans: The poet argues
that children have resulted in these present circumstances earth as Life's
longing for itself and are conceived as children and they are not made by
parents. The poet tells the parents that they are not the owners of their
children. Henceforth, parents can't have
them. The poet needs parents not to view their children as their manikins thus
as not to force their religion, legislative issues, and thoughts on the
blameless children. Parents may give their own adoration however not their musings,
in light of the fact that the children have their own spirits. They have the
choice to do however they see fit have a brain. They are allowed to have an
independent mind. Parents simply go about as 'controlling lights' for their
children. They have the will to go about as what their identity is and lead
their own life and not how their folks need them to. The children have their
own future, parents have a place with the previous days, yet kids having a
place with the days to come. We should just give as much love as possible and
should allow them to develop as indicated by their own latent capacity. We may
endeavor to resemble them however we ought to never confide in our past on
them. We should oppose the enticement of making our kid a duplicate of
ourselves.
16. How is the
journey of life from childhood to death brought about with the imagery of Foot
“ To the Foot from its child”?
Ans: The poet Neruda utilizing the foot as a
similitude to investigate 'life' through its different stages from outset
through childhood till the very end. At the point when the poem starts, the
'foot' is the baby's foot which recommends man's 'adolescence'. The kid's foot
doesn't realize that it is hatching. This state alludes to the innocence of
youth where 'Man' has numerous fantasies and desires. The kid's desire to turn
into a butterfly or an apple represents man's yearnings and dreams. When the
youngster's foot enters this present reality, it kicks off strolling more than
stones, pieces of glass, roads, stepping stools, and the unpleasant surface of
the earth. Consequently, as the youngster develops throughout some stretch of
time, the kid's foot understands that it is just a 'foot' and can't become
organic product or a butterfly. At that point, since it needs to serve its part
as in progress, it is detained in a shoe. Inside the shoe, it attempts to
comprehend the world alone, in segregation. The kid's foot, as it develops old,
fills in as the foot of a man or a lady working in the fields, or market or
mines or services and works hard day and night until it passes on. At the point
when it bites the dust, the foot loses its human mindfulness and that is the
reason when it is covered the foot again gets its youngster like honesty. It
again fantasies about turning into an apple or a butterfly. It is this
excursion from adolescence through adulthood and the last demise that the
sonnet centers around. Pablo Neruda is saying that life and demise are
essential for a constant cycle. Furthermore, the artist wishes to say that the
opportunity of adolescence is lost when an individual turns into a grown-up and
faces an existence of steady work and battle. Accordingly, life removes
individuals' nonconformists until they are liberated again by death.
17. Describe the
beauty in nature that makes the earth a heavenly place.
Ans: Having convincingly argued that we do not need to seek heaven in the
skies, and this very earth is heavenly in reality, the poet presents the
splendour of harvest and the beauty of the moonlit night. The poet calls these
chunks of heaven. The poet wishes the reader to bring to mind the harvest
season when in every bit of agricultural land do we see heaps of grains,
covering the land. He then presents a beautiful picture of the different forms
of nature which make this earth a heaven. The poet claims that the roaring
streams that tumble down fast from the top of the hills, the rolling surf at
the edge of the waves that come rolling across oceans and seas, the tender rays
of the sunbathing the vast green forests and the gentle sun warming up the
earth make this earth a heaven.
Secondly, he
mentions the moonlit night on which, the whole earth seems to be bathed in
silvery light. Finally, the poet tells the reader that the poets who enjoy such
heavenly sights imbibe the beauty of nature and spill the nectar of heaven
through their poetry. This way the poet creates heaven on earth and celebrates
the joys of heaven through his poetry.
18. How does “Too
Dear” picture the inefficiency of the King to stand on his words with reference
to the murder trial?
Ans: The king had
ordered imprisonment for life as the punishment, the ministers with great
difficulty managed to find a place to keep the criminal imprisoned. They put
him in it and placed a guard to watch over him. This way the criminal spent one
year in prison. This arrangement cost the king 600 francs a year. When the king
thought over it, it struck him that the criminal was young and may live for
another fifty years. The king became apprehensive about the cost of keeping the
criminal imprisoned for life. Therefore, he summoned his ministers and asked
them to find a cheaper way of punishing the criminal. The ministers met and
discussed the issue and came to the conclusion that the only way to save money
was to dismiss the guard. They believed that the criminal would run away and
their problem would be solved. The king agreed to their suggestion and the
guard was dismissed accordingly.
However, they waited curiously to see what the criminal would do. The
criminal came out of his prison at dinner time, collected his food from the
palace kitchen, and returned to the prison, shut the door on himself and stayed
inside. Later, the Minister of Justice asked him why he had not run away, as
there was no guard to watch over him. They even assured him that the prince
would not mind his running away. But the prisoner told them that he had nowhere
to go as his character had been ruined and people would turn their backs on
him.
19. How does Vandana
Shiva bring out the importance of Navodanya Farm in her essay?
Ans: Vandana
Shiva describes ‘Navdanya’ as a movement for biodiversity conservation and
organic farming which she started in 1987. Later, when she realized that they
needed a farm for demonstration and training, she set up the Navdanya Farm in
1994 in the Doon Valley in the lower elevation Himalayan region of Uttarakhand
province. She states that they have conserved and grown 630 varieties of rice,
150 varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species. She also says that they
have set up more than 100 community seed banks across India. She also claims to
help farmers make a transition from fossil-fuel and chemical-based monocultures
to bio-diverse ecological systems nourished by the sun and the soil.
20. Why does Tammanna
feel that human nature can be strange?
Ans: According to Tammanna, though man needs wealth, education
and many more things, they do not give him a compelling reason to live. In his
opinion ‘Man lives for some kind of unbearable vengefulness’. He arrives at
this inference based on his own experience of life. As long as he was staying
in his village, Basavaiah had considered him his rival and had gone on trying
to out beat him in wealth, health, art and so on. The very fact that there was
a rival to him and he had to strive to compete with him in every aspect, gave
him sufficient reason to live. It is here that one finds human nature strange.
All through his life, though man struggles to earn wealth, education,
food etc., he does not find real happiness in these things. But he derives a
kind of pleasure when he finds that there is someone competing with him in
these areas. Though it is the making of his own imagination yet he finds
pleasure accepting his imaginary rival as real and fighting to out beat him.
This gives him the real reason for his existence.
Having come away from Basavaiah, to punish him with the news of his
death, Tammanna realizes that human nature is very strange. After the death of
Basavaiah, he realises that he had become a non-entity and had lost his name
and fame. He tells his own story along with the truth that he had realized,
only to convince the owner’s wife that she needs to mend her husband.
21. According to Borges ‘Poetry is magical, mysterious and unexplainable,
although not incomprehensible event. Elaborate.
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.
As indicated by Borges, verse is an aesthetic act; and poetry
is not the poem. The graceful demonstration happens when the writer composes it
and the reader reads it and it generally occurs in a marginally extraordinary
way. At the point when the wonderful demonstration happens, Borges accepts that
we become mindful of it. That is the reason he calls verse as a supernatural,
puzzling, and unexplainable occasion. If one does not feel the poetic event
upon reading it, Borges thinks that we need to infer that the poet has fizzled.
22. “The Voter”
ridicules the power and selfishness of Marcus Ibe. Explain.
Ans: Marcus was a not-too-successful mission school teacher.
When he was almost on the verge of dismissal on the basis of a female teacher’s
complaint, he joined politics, got elected as a representative of Umuofja and
was made Minister of Culture. In about five years, people see a great many
changes in Marcus’ life. Their elected representative becomes wealthy, is
awarded chieftaincy titles and doctorate degrees besides many other honours. He
also builds a huge mansion in his native village. In a satirical tone, the
writer says that Marcus had christened his new house ‘Umuofia Mansions’ in
honour of his village and had slaughtered five bulls and countless goats to
entertain the people on the day it was opened by the Archbishop. Marcus
believed that, by entertaining people thus, people would respect him and would
hold him in high esteem.
But the people are not naive and ignorant. They know where his ‘power’
and money come from. The people know that he had acquired all this only after
they had elected him their representative giving their votes free of charge
five years ago. Even after five years, the people and their village remained
the same as before but Marcus had changed completely. But the people are not
naive and ignorant. They know where his ‘power’ and money come from. The people
know that he had acquired all this only after they had elected him their
representative giving their votes free of charge five years ago. Even after
five years, the people and their village remained the same as before but Marcus
had changed completely.
23. What benefits,
according to P. Sainath has cycling brought into the lives of rural women?
Ans: P. Sainath
presents an eye-witness report of 'cycling' turning into a social movement. He
discloses to us how tens of thousands of women in the Pudukkottai district of
Tamil Nadu got started to master cycling. The Arivoli activists drove by N.
Kannammal spearheaded the 'cycling' development. As a part of their incredible
literacy drive, these activists learned cycling. Afterward, they coordinated
'cycling training camps' for different ladies. Subsequently, it got social
assent. When the movement turned into a major power, each lady in Pudukkottai
elected to learn cycling. Towards the finish of the article, Sainath says,
other than giving women opportunity, mobility, and freedom, it likewise has
distinct monetary implications. It supports their family pay. Sainath reports
that a segment of the ladies sells horticultural or different items inside a
gathering of towns. For them, cycling eliminates time squandered in hanging
tight for transports. Furthermore, it gives them considerably more an ideal
opportunity to zero in on selling their produce. Thirdly, it grows the region
they wish to cover. In conclusion, it can build their recreation time. Taking
everything into account, he says, cycling achieves changes past monetary gains
moreover. 'Cycling' gives them a self-appreciation regard which is crucial to
their feeling of prosperity. Consequently, Sainath says that this modest
vehicle has become a metaphor for opportunity for these women.
III. Answer the following in about 200 words. 1×6=6
24. Bring out the changes in Gonzalo’s attitude before and after
occupying the bench in the park.
Ans: As soon as Don Gonzalo enters the park along with
Juanito, he discovers that his usual seat has been occupied by three priests.
He is annoyed and comments rudely saying that the priests were idling their
time away when they should be saying mass in the church. Then, when Juanito
suggests that he should sit on the bench where Dona Laura was sitting, Don
Gonzalo tells Juanito that he wants a bench to himself. Then Juanito informs
him that there is no other bench vacant. Don Gonzalo points at the bench that
he usually sat on. When Juanito tells him that there are three priests sitting
on that bench, Don asks him to send them away. Later, he comments bitterly
saying that the priests were sitting there as if they were glued to the seat.
Then he and his servant walk towards the place where the birds are feeding on
the bread crumbs. When Dona Laura angrily asks him to look out, Don asks Laura
whether she was speaking to him. Then, when she complains that he had scared
the birds away, he answers rudely that he does not care about the birds. But
she tells him that she cared for the birds and indirectly tries to make him
feel guilty. But he tells her rudely that it is a public park suggesting that
she was not right in complaining about him about birds being scared away in a
public park. Dona tries to counter him asking why he – had complained that the
priests had taken his seat.
Feeling discomfited, Don Gonzalo tries to snub her telling her that she
was a stranger and was not right in taking the liberty to address him. A little
later, Don Gonzalo sits at the extreme end of her bench and prepares himself to
read a book by wearing glasses and adjusting his lenses. Dona sympathizes with
him for having to read with all those glasses.
OR
How does the speaker
of ‘Water’ trace the journey of water using it as a witness?
Ans: The poem ‘Water’ by Swaroopa Rani presents the struggle,
the humiliation, the anguish and the suffering undergone by the Dalits to
obtain their rightful share of water, which is a natural resource. The speaker
cites ‘water’ as the witness to the practice of untouchability. Water has been
a witness to the plight of the Dalits who have been fighting for their right to
their share of water. She declares that this water has been witness to the
age-old strife between the upper caste people and the Dalits. The speaker
expresses the agony of the panchama who waits for water the whole day and the
humiliation of the Wada girl, who has to collect the water thrown at her from a
distance and in this act how she has to bear the humiliation caused by the
water that falls on her. The speaker mentions an incident in which a Dalit
woman comes to the rescue of a Dalit boy who is about to be thrashed by Kamma
landlords.
The speaker also mentions how they craved for a glass of water with
parched throats. The speaker confesses regretfully and nostalgically how they
awaited the day of their bath in a week while the other people in the village
enjoyed the luxury of bathing twice a day. Finally, the speaker recalls how
several thatched huts in Malapalle got reduced to ashes for want of a pot of
water to douse a rising fire.
IV. Read the
following passage and answer the questions set on it. 10 x 1=10
25. Catch the rain where
it falls was point behind the construction of several thousand tanks in
Karnataka by our forefathers. They have been the lifeline of people and were
protected as the main source of water supply for drinking and irrigation. These
water bodies have served as habitats for plants, frogs, fish etc. Some of them
also support thousands of birds in certain seasons, including migratory ones
from distant lands.
Things have changed
over the years. Tanks have been used for dumping garbage, waste constructions
materials etc. They are also trained to convert the land into housing sites,
bus stands and stadiums. The Sampangi tank in Bangalore has been drained to make
Kanteerava stadium. The famous Dharmambudhi tank has been drained to make a
majestic bus stand. A recent study shows that 40% of water bodies are polluted
due to the inlet of sewage
The same has been the
case with several of the twenty thousand or more tanks in the other parts of
the state. It is time we reverse this trend and make efforts to conserve this
life-saving resource.
(a) What was the
point behind the construction of tanks in Karnataka?
Ans: Catch the rain where it falls was the point behind
the construction of tanks in Karnataka
(b) Who constructed
several tanks?
Ans: Our forefathers constructed several tanks
(c) Why were the
tanks protected?
Ans: The tanks were protected as the main source of water
supply for drinking and irrigation.
(d) For whom have
these water bodies served as habitats?
Ans: These water bodies have served as habitats for
plants, frogs, fish etc.
(e) What do tanks
also support?
Ans: Thousands of birds in certain seasons of the year.
(f) Tanks support
birds including …………………. (migration/ migratory) ones from distant
lands.
Ans: Migratory
(g) What have the
tanks been used for?
Ans: The tanks
have been used for dumping garbage, waste construction materials etc.
(h) Why are tanks
drained?
Ans: Tanks are
drained to convert the land into housing sites, bus stands and stadiums.
(i) Give an example
of a tank that has been drained.
Ans: Sampangi tank in Bangalore has been drained to make
Kanteerava stadium.
(j) Write the antonym
of the word ‘inlet’.
Ans: Outlet
26. What do the
underlined words in the following paragraph refer to?4 x 1 = 4
Catch the rain where it
falls was the reason behind the construction of tanks. They have been
the lifeline people. But now most of them have been used for dumping
garbage which is a bad habit.
i. it: …………………. ii)They:
………………….
iii. them: …………………. iv)which: ………………….
Ans: i. it: rain
ii. they: tanks
iii. them: tanks
iv. dumping garbage
V. Complete the
following dialogue. 3×1=3
27. Deepak : Rani
today my boss told me that I could take a vacation.
Rani: Wow! ………………….
(Congratulating)
Deepak: ………………….
(Suggesting a place)
Rani: …………………. ; it
will be too cold. (Disagreeing)
Ans:
Deepak : Rani today my boss told me that I could take a
vacation.
Rani: Wow! Congratulations, I glad that you can enjoy it.
Deepak: Now, I have so many days of leave, why not go to
Shimla.
Rani: Oh no; it will be too cold.
28. Report the
following conversation. 4x1=4
Dona Laura: Do you
use a shoe brush as a handkerchief?
Don Gonzalo: What
rights have you to criticize my actions?
Dona Laura: A
neighbor right
Don Gonzalo: I do not
care to listen to nonsense
Ans: Dona Laura asked
Don Gonzalo whether he used a shoe brush as a handkerchief. Don Gonzalo asked
her what right she had to criticize his actions. Dona Laura replied that she
had a neighbor’s right. Don Gonzalo replied rudely that he did not care to
listen to nonsense.
VI. 29. Read the
Following Passage and Make Notes by Filling the Boxes Given Below. 8×2=4
Ans:
30. Write a letter of
application in response to the following advertisement, which appeared in ‘Times
of India” dated 5th February 2024. (Write XXX for name and YYY for
address.) 1x5=5
Wanted
Journalists
Qualification: M.A. in Journalism Mass Communication Candidates with 3
years of
Experience will be given preference. Should have excellent communication
skills.
Apply to:
The Edior,
India Today
No. 1, M.G. Road
Bangalore- 560 006
Ans:
XXX
YYY
16th February, 2024
The Editor,
India Today
No.1, M.G. Road
Bangalore- 560 006
Respected Sir,
Subject: Application for the post of Journalist
Reference: “Times of India” dated 5th
February, 2024
I am writing to express my interest in the Journalist that I saw
advertised in the newspaper. I have been working as a journalist for the past three
years, where I have gained a wealth of experience in a variety of areas,
including:
I am a highly skilled and experienced communication
skills and even I am experienced computer operator with a strong understanding
of the principles and practices of computer operations. I am also proficient in
a variety works. Even I know English, Kannada, and Hindi typing.
I am eager to learn new things and I am
always looking for ways to improve my skills. I am also a quick learner and I
am confident that I can quickly adapt to your company's systems and procedures.
I am available for an interview at your
earliest convenience. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Yours
Sincerely,
XXX
XXX
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