KARNATAKA SCHOOL EXAMINATION AND ASSESSMENT
BOARD, MALLESHWARAM BENGALURU- 560003
MARCH/ APRIL 2024 EXAMINATION – 1
SOLVED QUESTION PAPER
SUBJECT CODE: 14E
SUBJECT: FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH
SSLC FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH – 2024 SOLUTIONS
KSEEB BOARD
REGULAR FRESH / PRIVATE FRESH / REGULAR REPEATER/ PRIVATE
REPEATER/ NSR/ NSPR
SSLC FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH SOLVED PAPER -2023-2024
DATE: 25/03/2024 MAX
MARKS: 100
I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following
questions incomplete statements. Only one of them is correct or not
appropriate. Choose the correct alternative and write the complete answer along
with its letter of alphabet: 6x1=6
1) We tried
hard, …………………
The
appropriate question tag to be added is
A) did
we? B)
didn’t we?
C) don’t
we? D) do we?
Ans: B) didn’t we?
2)
……………., Ganga is…………. sacred river.
The
appropriate articles to be filled in the blanks are
A) A, the B) An, the
C) The, an D) The, a
Ans: D)
the, a
3) Life
is a dream.
The
figure of speech used here is …………………
A) Simile B) Metaphor
C) Personification D) Alliteration
Ans: B) Metaphor
4) The
word that takes ‘un’ as a negative prefix is.
A) logical B) disciplined
C) polite D) educated
Ans: D)
educated
5) Give
the noun form of the word ‘confuse’.
A) confusingly B)
confusion
C) confused D) confusing
Ans: B) confusion
6) The plural of the word ‘photo’ is
A) Photos B) Photoes
C) Photo D) Photoess
Ans: A) Photo
II. Observe the relationship in the first
pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following: 4x1=4
7) Eye diseases: Oculist :: Nose diseases: Rhinologist
8) Ransack: Search :: Chronicle: Story
9) Mean: Meant :: Fight: Fought
10) Hope: Hopeful :: Glory : Glorious
III.
Rewrite as directed: 3x2=6
11) Change the voice of the sentence:
The mason
is building the wall
Ans: The wall is being built by the mason.
12) Frame
a question to get the underlined word as answer:
The milk
turns sour by a thunderstorm.
Ans: What turns the milk sour?
13) Rewrite
the following sentence using ‘so…..that…..not’
The
students were too tired to sit in the class.
Ans: The students were so tired that they
could not sit in the class.
IV.
Answer the following questions in a sentence each: 4x1=4
14) According
to the narrator, which is the best month to visit Mussoorie?
Ans: October.
15) Where
did both the teams spend the evening after the cricket match?
Ans: The Three Horse- Shoes
16) Why was Pierre pinched the previous month?
Ans:
For begging
17) What did Drona seek from
Buttoo as recompense?
Ans:
Buttoo’s right hand thumb
V. Answer the following
questions in two or three sentences each: 7x2=14
18) In the poem Sonnet 73, which are the four
stages of man’s life that the poet is speaking about? Where does the poet
imagine himself?
Ans: Childhood, youth, old age and
death. Old age
19) Why does Drona bless,
that men will link Buttoo’s name to Self-help, Truth and Modesty?
Ans: Self-help: Learnt archery himself,
Truth: Acknowledged that he had been inspired by Drona as he
received inspiration from him.
Modesty: Trusted/ believed that his master would not set a
task too hard for him- kept his promise.
20) How do you know that the
female crane was desperate to bring the male bird back to life?
Ans: With her beak she kissed a few feathers. Picked the ones
that wind had not taken away and sat to hatch the blood-stained feathers into a
toddling chick.
21) According to Cheriyan Alexander,
how can life be made meaningful and sustainable?
Ans: One should turn to the ‘commodities’ of the spirit. The
arts, culture, community life. This is ultimately a spiritual and philosophical
decision for both individuals and communities to make.
22) Why was Ben left
marooned on the island?
Ans: Ben had been on Cap’n Flint’s ship when the treasure was
buried. Cap’n Flint had taken six men ashore with him to hide the booty, and
murdered them all so its location remained a secret. Ben had returned on
another ship to look for the treasure three years back-when they could not find
it, his ship-mates left him marooned on the island.
23) Explain briefly to show
that Cyclops were not civilized in the art of cultivation.
Ans: Cyclops were giant shepherds that neither sow nor
plough. The earth untiled produced for them rich wheat, barley and grapes. Yet
they had neither bread nor wine.
24) Why did the narrator
remark that the girl had an interesting face?
Ans: The narrator had become quite daring. It was a safe
remark. Few girls can resist flattery.
VI. Rewrite as directed: 3x2=6
25)
Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison:
Sumudra
Gupta was one of the greatest Indian Kings.
Ans: Positive: Very few Indian Kings were as
great as Samudra Gupta.
Comparative: Samudra Gupta was greater than most other
Indian Kings.
26) Change
the following sentence into simple and complex:
I saw a
girl and she was very beautiful.
Ans: Simple: I saw a beautiful girl.
Complex: I saw a girl who was very beautiful.
27) Change
the following sentence to reported speech:
The
Prince said, “It gives me great pleasure to be here this evening.”
Ans: The Prince said that it gave him great
pleasure to be there that evening.
VII.
Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each: 6x3=18
28) Summarize
Basavanna’s opinion and message in the poem ‘Vachana’.
Ans: The rich people can build temples of gold. The
poor man cannot do what the rich man can do. His legs are compared to the
pillars of the temple body the shrine-head is compared to a dome or gopura of
the temple. Our body houses the soul and is therefore the temple of God. All
materials things are subject to destruction in the course of time. The,
spiritual person who moves according to God’s will be permanent.
29) How did the
speaker and his neighbour mend the wall?
Ans: They keep the wall
between them as they go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. Some
are loaves and some are nearly balls. They have to use a spell to make them
balance. Their fingers become rough handling the stones. Just another outdoor
game.
30) Explain how Lord Krishna recounts the
acts of Karna and the Kauravas which violated fair play and chivalry. (Any
three)
Ans: When Duryodhana, Duhsasana and Sakuni dragged Draupadi
to the Assembly and insulted her. Persuaded Dharmaputra to gamble and cheated
him. Refused to give Yudhishthira his kingdom. Conspired with the wicked men
who sought to poison and kill Bhima. Acquiesced (accepted without protest) in
the plot to burn the Pandavas alive when sleeping in the palace of wax. When
violent hands were laid on Draupadi, Karna enjoyed the sight and mocked at her.
When they slew young Abhimanyu.
31) The narrator was haunted
by a mysterious presence within him after the stolen boat experience. Justify.
Ans: The narrator left the
boat and he went homeward in a serious mood. After that spectacle, for many
days his brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense. Unknown mode of being
took over his thoughts. There hung a darkness- solitude or blank desertion. No
familiar shapes remained. No pleasant images of trees, sea or sky. No colours
of green fields, But he was troubled by huge and mighty forms, that did not
live, like living men moved slowly through his mind. During the day and his
dreams.
32) How did the young people and students
respond to a Hamburg student in March 1957?
Ans: More
than 2000 young people eagerly answered his appeal. Hundreds peddled on bikes
120 kilometres in lashing rain. Standing in front of one of the mass graves, a
seventeen year old school girl expressed what all felt. Anne Frank was younger
than them when her life so horribly ended. She had to die because others had
decided to destroy her race. Never again among them must such a diseased and
inhuman hatred arise.
33) Louis
Pasteur had a very busy and interesting life. Explain.
Ans: He
not only made exciting discoveries about germs but he was able to use his
discoveries about germs. Used his discoveries in very practical ways. Worked
hard in his laboratory with test tubes. All the time working to help people who
suffered in some special way from disease. Helped brewers, breeders of silk
worms, and cow keepers, all of whom were trying to carry on important
industries in France. He was always very proud of being able to help his
country in this way.
OR
What was
the attitude of men and women before the entry of the wrong man in Workers’
Paradise?
Ans: In workers’ Paradise
everything was found except leisure. Man exclaimed that they hadn’t a moment to
spare. Women whispered, let’s move on, time is flying. All exclaimed that time
was precious. They complained that their hands were full, they made use of
every minute and yet those words made them happy and exalted.
VIII.
Explain with reference to the context: 5x3=15
34) “What
do you want of me?”
Ans: Lesson: A Wrong Man In Workers’ Paradise
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Context: The
girl of the silent torrent to the idler/ painter / wrong man. When the girl
sets out for the torrent the following day, her hurrying feet were a little
less hurried than before. For a new sense seemed to have awakened in her, a
sense that seemed to have no meaning and no purpose at all. She saw the painter
standing and asked above question in confusion.
35) “Please
God, make him think I am still pretty.”
Ans: Lesson: The Gift of Magi
Author: O’
Henry
Context: Della
whispered to herself. As Della waited for Jim’s return, she heard his step on
the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for a moment. She
had a habit of saying little silent prayers about the simplest everyday things
and whispered the above sentence.
36) “Thief,
dog, cut-purse, reptile, rapscallion, slubberdegullion! What have you done with
my pie?.”
Ans: Lesson: The Pie And The Tart
Author: Hugh Chesterman
Context: Gaultier
asked Jean. After Pierre sent Jean to fetch the tart. Jean informs Marion that
Gaultier had sent him to get the cranberry tart. Marion goes in to get it. When
Gaultier hears lean he runs out from the shop, begins to cudgel him and says
the above line.
37) “She
is won! We are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur.”
Ans: Poem: Lochinvar
Poet: Sir Walter Scott
Context: Lochinvar
said this. Lochinvar manages to fool Helen’s parents by saying that he had
attended the wedding with the intention of only having a dance with Helen and
drinking a cup of wine. As they danced, they reached the hall-door-he put Helen
on the horse and rode away saying the above line.
38) “My
mother’s life made me a man.”
Ans: Poem: C.L.M.
Poet: John Masefield.
Context: The poet said this. He says that he
born at the cost of his mother’s life. She destroyed a part of her life to make
him a man.
IX. Quote
from memory: 1x4=4
39)
My legs
are pillars, the body the shrine,
the head
a cupola of gold.
Listen, O
lord of the meeting rivers,
things
standing shall fall,
but the
moving ever shall stay.
OR
And it
grew both day and night,
Till it
bore an apple bright;
And my
foe beheld it shine,
And he
knew that it was mine.
X. Answer
the following questions in seven to eight sentences each: 3x4=12
40) List
the values which the poet-father wants the teacher to teach his son. (Any
eight)
Ans: There are both good and bad people in the world. It is
better to be away from envy. Never be afraid of bullies. It is better to fail
then to cheat. Knowledge is gained through books and through deep thoughts. To
be gentle with gentle and tough with tough. To have faith in his own ideas even
if others do not agree. Not to blindly follow the majority. Listen to all and
be able to differentiate the truth falsehood. Not to be ashamed of tears. Stand
to fight for right things. Not to sell his strength and intelligence to the
highest bidders. Teach him how to laugh with cynics, and to be careful with the
people who show too much sweetness. To have sublime faith in mankind.
41) “Water is the basis of all life.” Substantiate.
Ans: Water is the basis of
all life, animals, plants or human-beings. Water has the power to carry silt
which is very necessary for agriculture. C.V. Raman shows that water is the
elixir of life. He gives us the example of the Libyan desert where there is no vegetation
and not a single living thing visible. On the other hand, in the immediate
neighbourhood, the Nile valley is teeming with vegetation and people. The water
has shaped the history and civilization of our earth. The presence of water
makes the country side beautiful and it has enabled agriculture to thrive.
Water enriches soil and makes it fertile. If water is used judiciously, it can
improve our economy by generating electricity.
OR
How did Pasteur
show that air is full of dust particles?
Ans: Pasteur filled some bottles with
soup. Took some to a hotel bedroom where the air hardly ever changed. Broke
their necks off so that air could enter freely. Sealed them up again after a
few minutes. Took some bottles into a field and did the same result. Bottles
opened in the bedroom- completely mouldy- Those opened in the field-moudly but
not that bad-those opened on the mountain no germs at all.
42) Gandhiji
says that it is not enough for a moral act to be done with a good intention,
but it should have been done without compulsion, Explain with examples.
Ans: There is no morality in my act, if I rise early out of
the feat that, if I am late for my office, I may lose my situation. There is no
morality in my living a simple and unpretentious life if I have not the means
to live otherwise. But plain, simple living would be moral if, though wealthy,
I think of all the want and misery in the world about me and feel that I ought
to live a plain, simple life and not one of ease and luxury. It is only
selfish, and not moral, of an employer to sympathize with his employees or to
pay them higher wages lest they leave him. It would be moral if the employer
wished well of them and treated them kindly realizing how he owed his
prosperity to them. This means that for an act to be moral it has to be free
from fear and compulsion.
Or
The approach of the Sexton, the Postman, the Blacksmith and
the Banker to the game is typical of their profession Explain.
Ans: Sexton works for a Church, the postman- a Government official. A
Blacksmith a person who makes and repairs things made out of iron and baker is
someone who makes food by using an oven or another concentrated heat source.
Sexton and the Postman do not take risk as they are Government officials. These
men behave typical to their professions. They are not aggressive in taking runs
or bowling.
XI. Read the following passage carefully and answer the
questions given below:
Many of us believe that science is something ‘modern’, though
the truth is that man has been using science for a very long time. However, it
has probably had a greater affect on human lives in the last 25 or 30 years
than in the hundreds of years since the invention of the plough or the wheel. The
marvellous gifts of science, which make modern life so comfortable as well as
exciting, are there for everyone to see. But what cannot always be clearly seen
are the problems that science has brought us, which were unknown to man a few
years ago. Science is certainly very modern if we consider some of the problems
it has created for us today. One of these problems, which may become worse in
the years to come, is that of ‘Jet lag’.
With the coming of modern jets, flying at more than 900
kilometres an hour, the world has become very small indeed. Today you can leave
New Delhi at 6:00 in the morning, eat an early breakfast in the sky, over Kabul
and be in London in time for lunch, by about 1:00 p.m.
Questions:
43)
a) What is the false belief and truth about science?
Ans: Many of us believe that science is something ‘modern’
though the truth is that man has been using science for a very long time.
b) How has the world become very small?
Ans: With the coming of modern jets, flying at more than
900 kilometres an hour, the world has become very small indeed.
XII.
Write an essay of about 18-20 sentences on any one of the following topics:
44)
A) Noise
pollution- A growing concern.
Ans:
B) Internet-
Advantages and disadvantages.
Ans:
XVIII. Imagine you
are Abhi/ Aditi of Government High School, Kolar.
45) Write a letter to
your father seeking permission to go on a trip arranged by the school and
informing him of the expenditure involved.
Ans:
From,
Abhi
Government High School
Kolar
25th March, 2024
Dear Dad,
I hope this letter finds you well. I'm writing to you
today to ask for your permission to join a trip organized by our school.
The trip will be going to Mysore from April 1, 2024 to April
5, 2024. It's a 6 days trip, and we'll be visiting Mysore Palace, Brindavan
Garden, Zoo, etc. This trip is a great opportunity to learn more about history,
culture, etc. outside of the classroom and bond with my classmates.
The total cost of the trip is Rs. 10000. This includes transportation,
accommodation, meals, entrance fees, etc.
I understand this is a big decision, and I'm happy to
discuss any concerns you may have. There's a detailed itinerary and permission
slip attached to this letter that provides more information about the trip.
Please let me know your decision as soon
as possible. I really hope I can be a part of this trip!
Thank
you,
Yours
faithfully
Abhi
Imagine
you are Rimone/ Rishona of Government High School, Mandya.Write a letter to the
Editor of a newspaper, advocating the establishment of a ‘Free Library’ in your
town.
From
Rimone
Government High School,
Mandya
25th March, 2024
To
The Editor
Public Newspaper
Mandya
Subject:
Urgent Need for a Free Library in Mandya
Dear
Sir/Madam,
I am writing
to express my strong belief in the urgent need for a free public library in our
town of Mandya. As a student at Government High School, Mandya, I understand
the immense value knowledge and access to information hold in shaping young
minds and enriching lives.
Unfortunately,
many students in Mandya lack access to a diverse range of books and learning
materials. While some families struggle to afford buying books, others may not
have the space for extensive personal libraries. A free public library would
bridge this gap, providing a welcoming space for everyone to explore the
wonders of literature, research various subjects, and fuel their curiosity.
Beyond
students, a library would benefit the entire community. It would offer a
valuable resource for adults seeking to further their education, learn new
skills, or simply unwind with a good book. It could also serve as a community
hub, hosting events like author readings, book clubs, and educational
workshops.
The benefits
of a free library extend far beyond mere access to books. It fosters a love of
reading, promotes critical thinking skills, and encourages lifelong learning.
It provides a safe haven for intellectual exploration and a platform for people
of all ages and backgrounds to come together.
I urge the
concerned authorities and community leaders to consider the establishment of a
free library in Mandya. This investment in our town's future would reap
significant rewards for generations to come.
Thank you for
considering my plea.
Yours sincerely,
Rimone
Government
High School, Mandya
