KARNATAKA SCHOOL EXAMINATION AND ASSESSMENT BOARD
Malleshwaram, Bengaluru – 560 003
S.S.L.C. SOLVED MODEL QUESTION
PAPER – 2023-24
Subject: First Language
— ENGLISH
Total Marks: 100 Subject Code : 14-E
CCE-RF : Regular Fresh
General Instructions to the Candidate:
1.
This question paper consists of 45 questions.
2.
Question paper has been sealed by reverse jacket. You have to cut on the right side to open the paper at the
time of commencement of the examination.
Check whether all the pages of the question paper are intact.
3.
Follow the instructions given against the questions.
4.
Figures in the right hand margin indicate
maximum marks for the questions.
5.
The maximum time to answer the paper is given at the top of the question
paper. It includes 15 minutes for reading the question paper.
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: 6 X 1 = 6
1.
Preethi
didn’t go to the office
today, ................ .
The appropriate question
tag to be added is
(A)
does she ?
(B)
doesn’t she ?
(C)
did she ?
(D)
didn’t she ?
Ans:
c) did she?
2.
He is .................. rich man in. whole town.
The appropriate articles
to be filled in the blanks are
(A)
an, the (B) the, an
(C) a, a (D) a, the
Ans:
d) a, the
3.
We have been............ cricket since ten years.
Choose the correct form of verb :
(A)
playing (B) play
(C) played (D) plays
Ans:
a) playing
4.
The plural of the word ‘life’ is
(A)
lifes (B) lives
(C) lifeses (D) life’s
Ans:
b) lives
5.
The word that takes ‘im’ as a negative
prefix is
(A)
moral (B) legal
(C) regular (D) connect
Ans:
a) moral
6.
Her eyes were shining like a star.
The figure of speech
used here is
(A)
Metaphor (B) Personification
(C) Alliteration (D) Simile
Ans: d) Simile
II.
Observe the relationship in the first pair
of words
and complete the second pair accordingly in the following: 4 x 1 = 4
7. Busy: Idle:: Deep : Shallow
8. Momentum: Speed :: Menace : threat
9. See : Saw :: Teach : taught
10. Neat : Neatness :: Generous : generosity
III.
Rewrite as directed:3 x 1 = 3
11.
Change the voice of the sentence :
Madhavi was cooking a nice meal.
Ans:
A nice meal was being cooked by Madhavi.
12.
Frame a question to get the underlined word as
answer :
Her early name was Babita.
Ans:
What was her early name?
13. Rewrite the following sentence
using ‘so .... that not’ : He is too weak to play football.
Ans:
He is so weak that he cannot play football.
IV.
Answer the following questions
in a sentence each: 4 x 1 = 4
14.
What did the narrator remark
about girl’s face?
Ans: The narrator decided to remark that the girl’s
face was interesting.
15.
Who won the cricket match?
Ans: No
one won the cricket match. The match was tied.
16.
How would Marion
identify Gaultier’s messenger?
Ans: Marion was going to
identify Gaultier's messenger by his actions. If the person kisses her hand,
that means he was sent by Gaultier.
17.
Why had Buttoo gone to Dronacharya?
Ans: Buttoo had gone to Dronacharya to learn the science of
archery.
V.
Answer the following
questions in two to three sentences each: 7 x 2 = 14
18.
Why did the narrator feel that he would never be able to discover
something about the girl’s looks?
Ans: The poet was totally blind while he was on this journey.
Hence, the narrator felt that he would never be able to discover something
about the girl's looks.
19.
Explain the success story of Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
Ans: The success of Pepsi and Coca-Cola can be
attributed, in large part, to their exceptional advertising and marketing
strategies
20. How is the end of the female crane explained in the poem?
Ans: The ending of the female
crane is very sad. She is hit by a sudden wave of sadness never experienced
before.
21.
Which are the four
stages of man’s life discussed
in the poem “That Time of Year”?
Ans: the four
stages of man’s life discussed
in the poem “That Time of Year” are childhood, youth, old age and death.
22.
How did Drona respond to Buttoo’s request
to teach him archery?
Ans: Buttoo was neither
from a royal family nor rich. Hence he was rejected
23.
What did Jim and his mother take from Billy’s sea chest before they fled the inn?
Ans: Jim's mother took as many
coins as would be sufficient to cover the old pirate's rent, and not a half
penny more, while Jim found an intriguing bundle of papers, wrapped in
oilcloth, which he pocketed as payment for his services.
24.
Why did Ulysses and his men enter the habitation of the Cyclop?
Ans:
VI.
Rewrite as directed: 3 x 2 = 6
25.
Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison :
Bengaluru is more populated than most other cities
in
Karnataka.
Ans: Positive: Very few cities are as populated as
Bengaluru in Karnataka.
Superlative: Bengaluru is one of the most populated cities
in Karnataka
26.
Combine the following
sentences using :
a)
As soon as
b)
No sooner........ than
He got angry. He started
to beat her.
Ans:
a) As soon as he got angry, he started to beat her.
b)
No sooner did he get angry than he started to beat her.
27. Change the following sentence
to reported speech :
Teacher said to her, “Don’t waste time and study carefully”.
Ans: Teacher
advised her not to waste time and study carefully.
VII.
Answer the following questions
in five to six sentences each: 6
x 3 = 18
28.
How did Della react when she saw Jim’s gift for her?
Ans: There
was an ecstatic scream of joy when Della saw Jim’s gift to her. Then
immediately, there was a quick change to hysterical tears and wails. She
recalled how much she had yearned for them. She hugged them to her bosom, and
at length, looked up with dim eyes and a smile and assured Jim that her hair would
grow very fast.
29.
What ideas of spirituality emerge from the study of Vachana ?
Ans: In this poem,
Basavanna tells us that we give a lot of prominence to physical things and
forget the spiritual things. constructing a temple does not make us great
devotees, nor it is a sign of devotion when God in fact resides in our heart. A temple of faith is immortal as human
beings live on generation after generation, but a temple of stone will perish
sooner or later. With this analogy, the lyricist is telling us that faith in
the heart is more important than cold stone structures dedicated to a God.
30.
Describe the effect that the spectacle
of
the
peak
had
on
the
poet’s mind when it upreared
its head.
Ans: The poet wanted to take the boat near
a craggy ridge, but the sudden appearance of the huge, black peak unnerved him.
The more he rowed the boat, the bigger the peak seemed to become in front of
him. Soon it seemed to move with a measured step like a living being towards
the poet. This made the poet turn back towards the rocky cave.
31.
Explain how the nature
and hunters disturb
the stones on the
wall.
Ans: In the poem Mending
Wall, it is clearly stated that nature is the main cause of stone wall deterioration. Secondly hunters used to
break the stone walls to get the rabbits from the wholes and they can damage
the walls badly. So, hunters and natural is the main cause of stone wall
damages. Natural abiotic components like strong winds, sometimes flowing water
and temperature affects the stones of the wall by the process of weathering. Natural
biotic components like We humans also sometimes destroy the walls for our personal
motives
32.
“Parashurama realised that Karna was not a Brahmana.” Illustrate.
Ans: One day, when Parashurama was resting
on Karna’s lap; it so happened that a bee stung Karna on the lower portion of
his thigh. However, fearing that if he moved his legs, he would awaken
Parashurama. Parashurama woke up and saw Karna bleeding. He asked Karna to tell
the truth that whether he was a Brahmin or a Kshatriya. Karna admitted that he
was a Kshatriya.
33.
Why did the elders
of the Workers’ Paradise become
anxious ?
Ans: The elders of Worker's Paradise became
anxious the work had begun to suffer of late. Many people who were previously
active, were now idle and wasting their precious time on useless things like
painting and sculpture.
OR
What finally forced Frank’s family to go into
hiding?
Ans: Anne has to go into hiding
in the Secret Annex. When Margot received a call-up to report
for a so-called 'labour camp' in Nazi Germany on 5 July 1942, her parents were
suspicious. They did not believe the call-up was about work and decided to go
into hiding the next day in order to escape persecution.
VIII. Explain with reference
to the context: 5 x 3 = 15
34.
“God! We haven’t a moment to spare.”
Ans:
35.
“Please God, make him think I am still pretty.”
Ans:
36.
“The holes
in your tunic don’t interest
me.”
Ans:
37.
“O, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,”
Ans:
38.
“My mother’s
life made me a man.”
Ans:
IX.
Quote from memory :1 x 4 = 4
39. I 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 the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.
X.
Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : 3 x 4 = 12
40.
List the values which the
poet father wants the teacher to teach his son ( any eight ).
Ans: Awareness of all kinds of people, good
and bad; importance of hard work; sportive spirit; a mind without any envy;
joys of reading and appreciating nature; honesty; self-confidence; gentleness
with people; toughness with people; Wisdom.
41. How does C. V. Raman explain that water is the basis for all life?
Ans: 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 neighborhood the Nile Valley is teeming with vegetation,
and people. The water of the Nile Valley has made all the difference. He says
that water is a wonderful thing and it has shaped the history and the
civilization of our earth. He also adds that the presence of water makes the
countryside 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 as well and provide us with cheap means of
internal transport. He tells us that water is fundamental for human welfare.
OR
Why does Gandhi say that moral act should be done without compulsion ?
Ans: Gandhiji says that a
moral act should be free from fear and compulsion. He says that there is no
morality whatsoever in a person’s act if he rises early out of the fear that,
if he is late to his office, he may lose his situation. Similarly, there is no
morality in his living a simple and unpretentious life if he has not the means
to live Otherwise. Plain, simple living would be moral if, though wealthy, the
person thinks of all the want and misery in the world about him – and feels
that he ought to live a plain, simple life and not one of east and luxury.
Likewise, it is only selfish and hot moral, of an employer to sympathize with
his employees or 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.
42. Explain the experiment conducted by Louis Pasteur to show 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.
OR
Man today is an unstoppable buying machine. Explain.
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.
XI.
Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given below: 1 x 4 = 4 (2 x 2)
43.
Culture is the cultivation of plant or garden, not the eradication of its roots. It is an understanding of the roots and seeds,
their patient care and instructed
nourishment. By culture, I mean first of all what the anthropologists mean:
the way of life of a particular
people living together in one place.
Culture is made visible in their arts, their social system, their
habits, their customs
and their religion.
It is an aggregate of customs, institutions, manners, standards, tastes,
morals and beliefs. Now these are transmitted rather by the family than by the school; hence when family life fails to play its part, we must expect
our culture deteriorate.
Questions:
a)
What is culture according to this passage?
Ans: the way of life of a particular people living together in one
place.
b)
How culture is made visible?
Ans: Culture
is made visible in their arts, their social system, their habits, their customs
and their religion.
XII.
Write an essay of about 18-20 sentences on any
one of the following topics :1 x 5 = 5
44.
a) Advantages
of Computer
Ans: Computers have revolutionized every aspect of our lives,
transforming them into efficient and interconnected worlds. Their advantages
are undeniable. From mind-boggling speed and accuracy to mammoth storage
capacity, computers handle tasks that would take humans years in seconds.
Research and learning are revolutionized with instant access to
information through the internet. Communication transcends borders, fostering
collaboration and global understanding. Businesses thrive on the computer's
ability to manage data, automate tasks, and facilitate remote work.
The world of entertainment flourishes with digital music,
movies, and games. Even creativity receives a boost with design software and
powerful tools for artists and innovators.
In essence, computers are more than machines; they are powerful
companions that empower us to learn, connect, and achieve more than ever
before.
b) Importance of Health and Hygiene.
Ans: Health and hygiene are the intertwined pillars of a fulfilling
life. Good health allows us to experience the world with energy and vibrancy,
while hygiene acts as a shield, protecting us from illnesses that can steal
that vitality.
Maintaining hygiene is the first line of defense. Simple
practices like regular handwashing and keeping our surroundings clean
significantly reduce the spread of germs, preventing a host of diseases. This
not only safeguards our own well-being but also protects those around us.
Beyond physical health, hygiene fosters self-confidence. Taking
care of our appearance allows us to feel presentable and boosts our social
interactions. It contributes to a positive self-image, which is vital for
mental and emotional well-being.
Healthy habits, like a balanced diet and regular exercise,
further strengthen our physical foundation. These practices fuel our bodies,
improve our immune system's function, and enhance our overall energy levels.
Investing in healthy habits allows us to live life to the fullest.
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XIII.
45. Imagine you are Mohan / Mohini of Government High School, Dharwar.
Write a letter to your friend explaining annual day
celebrations in your school. 1 x 5 = 5
Ans:
Mohan
Maheshwari Colony
Government High School
Dharwar
15th January, 2024
Dearest Monu,
Guess what? Our school's annual day is finally here! The whole
place is buzzing with excitement, and I can barely contain myself! It is going
to be a spectacular event, and I just had to write and tell you all about it.
This year's theme is Change. The decorations are incredible –
the stage is all decked out with the decorations. We have been practicing for
weeks for the cultural program. I am a little nervous, but mostly excited to
show everyone what we have been working on. There is also going to be other
performances you know of – it is going to be a real showcase of talent!
The best part, of course, is the prize distribution. I am hoping
to win an award for student of the year, but even if I don't, it'll be a fun
night to celebrate everyone's achievements.
I know you wish you could be here! If only you could see how
much fun we are having. Maybe next year, you can convince your parents to let
you visit during our annual day – it is an experience you would not want to
miss!
Write back soon and tell me what you have been up to.
Lots of love,
Mohan
(Government High School, Dharwar)
OR
Imagine you are Prem /
Prema of Government High School, Belagavi.
Write a letter to the
Chairman of City Corporation requesting
him to take necessary action to clear the garbage
stock from your school campus.
Ans:
Prem
Government High School,
Belagavi
20th January, 2024
To,
The Chairman,
City Corporation,
Belagavi.
Subject: Urgent Request for Garbage Removal from
Government High School Campus
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you today on behalf of the student body of
Government High School, Belagavi, to bring to your urgent attention the issue
of a significant garbage stockpile accumulating on our school campus.
This growing pile of waste is not only unsightly but also poses
a serious health hazard. The unpleasant Odo emanating from the garbage attracts
insects and rodents, creating an unsanitary environment for students and staff.
Additionally, the decaying waste can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria,
potentially leading to the spread of diseases.
We understand the importance of proper waste management and have
been making efforts to minimize on-campus garbage generation. However, the
current situation necessitates immediate action from the City Corporation.
We kindly request your prompt intervention in arranging for the
complete removal of the accumulated garbage from our school premises.
Additionally, establishing a regular garbage collection schedule for the school
would be highly appreciated.
A clean and healthy learning environment is essential for the
well-being of students and staff. We trust that you will take our concerns
seriously and take the necessary steps to address this issue at the earliest.
Thank you for your time and attention to this urgent matter.
Yours sincerely,
Prem
Government High School,
Belagavi
