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Section - A
Read the following passage and select the appropriate answer. [4]
As he walked along with the money in his pocket he felt quite pleased with his smartness. He realised, of course, that at first he dared not continue on the public highway, but must turn off the road, into the woods. During the first hours this caused him no difficulty. Later in the day it became worse, for it was a big and confusing forest which he had gotten into. He tried, to be sure, to walk in a definite direction, but the paths twisted back and forth so strangely! He walked and walked without coming to the end of the wood, and finally he realised that he had only been walking around in the same part of the forest. All at once he recalled his thoughts about the world and the rattrap. Now his own turn had come. He had let himself be fooled by a bait and had been caught. The whole forest, with its trunks and branches, its thickets and fallen logs, closed in upon him like an impenetrable prison from which he could never escape.
1. He went into the _________ to avoid contacting anyone.
(A) cloth-mill (B) iron-mill (C) jungle (D) garden
2. ‘He dared not...’ means
(A) did not have guts (B) did not think of (C) A and B (D) none of these.
3. ‘ Closed in upon him like......
(A) inescapable cage (B) quicksand (C) suffocation (D) green room
4. What was the bait for him that finally led him to the Rat-trap?
(A) movie (B) thickets (C) money (D) gold
Fill in the blanks with appropriate option from the brackets and write the answer only in your answer-sheet. [4]
[11.appreciable, 12.virtue, 6.contrary, 5.encouraging, 7.difficult,9. established, 10.companies, 8.career]
Answer the following questions in about six to seven sentences each. [12]
13. Comment on Mukesh’ mother’s attitude towards their poverty?
14. How did Stephen Spencer got involved in the story “Poets and Pancakes’?
15. What efforts did William Douglas put into conquering his hydrophobia ?
16. Describe Sophie’s father’s temperament.
OR
16. What was the main problem of sharecroppers with the landlords in Champaran?
Section -B
Read the following verse and answer the following questions. [2]
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
Gainst the hot season...
17. Who is referred by the word ‘simple sheep’? -Jesus Crist
18. What is the meaning of the word ‘rills’?
-small stream of water
Choose the correct figure of speech from the given options. [3]
19. “.... dad would kill me,Geoff....”
(A) Synecdoche (B) Anaphora (C) Pun (D) hyperbole
20. bright topaz denizens of a world of green....
(A) Anaphora (B) imagery (C) Hyperbole (D) Euphemism
21. .....my mother besides me, her face ashen like that of a corpse.....
(A)Pun (B)Irony (C) Alliteration (D) Euphemism
Answer the following questions in four to five sentences each. [6]
22. Comment on the contrast between the classroom’s decoration and the children’s lives.
23. Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’ ?
24. Explain : “....as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.”
Answer the following questions in about six to seven sentences each. [9]
25. Do you sympathize with Aunt Jennifer? Why?
26. What was the plea of the folk who had put the roadside stand?.
27. Throw light on the theme of the poem ‘ A Thing Of Beauty’.
OR
27. Explain the following verse.
Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example.
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal —
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night?
Section-C
Rectify the errors in the following sentence. [4]
Errors Corrections
I strucked at the water as I went down, expending my strength 28. ____________ _________________
as one in a nightmare fights a irresistible force. 29. ___________ _________________
I had lost all my breathe. 30. ____________ ________________
My lungs ached, my head did throbbed. 31. ____________ _________________
Rewrite the sentences using the correct meaning of the underlined phrase/idioms. [3]
32. I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen.
(put on, relied on, angry on)
33. He had resolved to beggary and petty thievery to keep body and soul together .
(to be smart, to survive, to die)
34. Mr. Vasan played right into the hands of Frank Buchman’s Moral Re-Armament Army.
( victim of the someone’s cunningness, surprised by, loved to)
35. Convert the following into indirect speech. [5]
“You never understand me,I am totally fed up.” Margaret grunted.
“As if you understand me fully.” John jeered.
“Yes, I definitely do but can’t expect you to get that.” She almost cried at the top of her lungs. John
shouted back, “ Why are you wasting time with me then, go find someone else then.”
Do as directed. [8]
36. You seem very agitated. ( make it exclamatory)
37. Don’t you have any job? (make it assertive)
38. Gandhinagar is one of the greenest cities in the world. (change the degree)
39. I could not afford a fancy life-style ever. (add a question tag)
40. An article was published on connection of the film-industry with mafia. (change the voice)
41. I have got a new sketch-book. (change into perfect past tense)
42. He is too weak to climb the stairs. (change into negative sentence without altering the meaning)
Section-D
Read the following paragraph and answer the following questions. [5]
The Armenian Genocide (also sometimes known as the Armenian Holocaust) was the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and adjoining regions by the Ottoman government between 1914 and 1923. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Angora (Ankara), 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases—the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Most Armenian Diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide. Other ethnic groups were similarly targeted for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy.
43. What is a genocide?
44. What is Constantinople currently known as?
45. When was the genocide carried out?
46. What are the two other ethnic groups are mentioned here who suffered the genocides as well?
47. What was the time period of this horrible event?
48. Paraphrase the following verses. [5]
He ransomed me from hell with blood,
And by His pow’r my foes controlled;
He found me wand’ring far from God,
And brought me to His chosen fold.
He cheers my heart, my wants supplies,
And says that I shall shortly be,
Enthroned with Him above the skies;
O what a friend is Christ to me …
Answer the following question after careful reading of the poem above. [2*5=10]
49. What is meaning of the word ‘foes’ ?
50. Why does the poet consider Christ to be his friend?
51. What is promised by the Christ to the poet?
52. How does Christ make poet’s life better?
53. What does the phrase ‘Above the sky’ mean?
Section-E
54. Write a report for your local news paper about the ‘sports day celebration’ [5]
55. You are Asha/ Ashwin Pandya from 254,plot no 265/2,sector 5,Patiyala. You came across an advertisement for the post of Chartered Accountant , Parle Products Pvt. Ltd. in Times of India. Apply for the same. Attach your detailed CV. [7]
56. Write an essay in about 250 words limit on ANY ONE of the following. [8]
Covid-9 Pandemic and social responsibility
Define the subject- various responses from different social/educational class- economic plight of daily wagers- who is responsible- solution.
Online Education
Define the subject- additional financial burden- effect on Government school children and
BPL families- plus points and minus points- -conclusion
Section - A
Read the following passage and select the appropriate answer. [4]
Months passed. Shukla was sitting on his haunches at the appointed spot in Calcutta when Gandhi arrived; he waited till Gandhi was free. Then the two of them boarded a train for the city of Patna in Bihar. There Shukla led him to the house of a lawyer named Rajendra Prasad who later became President of the Congress party and of India. Rajendra Prasad was out of town, but the servants knew Shukla as a poor yeoman who pestered their master to help the indigo sharecroppers. So they let him stay on the grounds with his companion, Gandhi, whom they took to be another peasant. But Gandhi was not permitted to draw water from the well lest some drops from his bucket pollute the entire source; how did they know that he was not an untouchable?
1. Shukla was a poor _______.
(A) servant (B) plumber (C) washer man (D) gardner
2. Who was considered untouchable by the servants of Rajendra Prasad?
(A) Gandhiji (B) Shukla (C) Both (D) Only Shukla
3. Shukla _______ Rajendra Prasad to help the sharecroppers.
(A) approached (B) angered (C) irritated (D) persistently requested
4. Sharecroppers means the farmers who pay _______ as rent of the farming land.
(A) Corpse (B) Crops (C) money (D) gold
Fill in the blanks with appropriate option from the brackets and write the answer only in your answer-sheet.[4]
(intently, manner, milk, discarded, canister, hole ,discoloured, barefoot)
Saheb too is wearing tennis shoes that look strange over his____5____ shirt and shorts. “Someone gave them to me,” he says in the ____6____of an explanation. The fact that they are____7_____ shoes of some rich boy, who perhaps refused to wear them because of a hole in one of them, does not bother him. For one who has walked ____8_____, even shoes with a____9_____ is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so ____10____is out of his reach. This morning, Saheb is on his way to the ____11____ booth. In his hand is a steel ____12____ .
Answer the following questions in about six to seven sentences each. [12]
13. How did Gandhi work for rural uplift during his stay in champaran?
14. Give a brief description of M.Hamel.
15. “Garbage to them is Gold.” Explain the statement in the light of the story ‘LOST SPRING’.
16. Comment on the end of the story ‘ RAT TRAP’.
OR
16. Who was Kothamangalam Subbu ? Describe his character in brief.
Section -B
Read the following verse and answer the following questions. [2]
Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor:
The tall girl with her weighed-down head.
17. What does ‘rootless weeds’ stands for ?
18. What colour is the face of the children here?
Choose the correct figure of speech from the given options. [3]
19. I lost my heart, I lost my soul, I lost everything that matters.
(A) Synecdoche (B) Anaphora (C) Pun (D) Understatement
20. We will be together forever...
(A) Anaphora (B)Litotes (C) Hyperbole (D) Euphemism
21. The predator got hunted down ...
(A)Pun (B)Irony (C) Alliteration (D) Epithet
Answer the following questions in four to five sentences each. [6]
22. How is Aunt Jennifer’s tiger different from her?
23. What is the ‘childish longing’ that poet refers to in his poem ‘A ROADSIDE STAND’? Why is it ‘vain’?
24. Explain the line: ‘History is theirs whose language is the sun.’
Answer the following questions in about six to seven sentences each. [9]
25. What poetic devices have been used by the poet in the poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’?
26. Discuss the central idea in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’.
27. Draw out the similarity of the theme between the lesson ‘Lost Spring’ and ‘An Elementary School Classroom In a Slum’.
OR
27. Explain the following verse.
And yet, for these Children,
These windows, not this map, their world,
Where all their future’s painted with a fog,
A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.
Section-C
Rectify the errors in the following sentence. [4]
Errors Corrections
I started for school very later that morning 28. ____________ _________________
and was in great dread of a scold, especially because 29. ___________ _________________
M. Hamel had said that he would question us in participles, 30. ____________ _________________
and I did not knew the first word about them. 31. ____________ _________________
Rewrite the sentences using the correct meaning of the underlined phrase/idioms. [3]
32. I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen.
(put on, relied on, angry on)
33. He had resolved to beggary and petty thievery to keep body and soul together .
(to be smart, to survive, to die)
34. Mr. Vasan played right into the hands of Frank Buchman’s Moral Re-Armament Army.
( victim of the someone’s cunningness, surprised by, loved to)
35. Convert the following into indirect speech. [5]
“ Promise me ,you will tell no one.” – Sophie said.
“There is nothing to tell !” – Geoff shrugged.
“Promise, Geoff- Dad would kill me...” –Sophie didn’t blink.
“only if he would think it is true.” – Geoff explained in a matter of fact way and added
“ Fine. Don’t worry. I won’t tell dad.”
Do as directed. [8]
36. You don’t have to interfere in everything I do. ( make it interrogative)
37. What an extra-ordinary book-collection you have! (make it assertive)
38. Her biggest achievement is to win a Gold in national games. (change the degree)
39. Flying is still the safest medium of transportation. (add a question tag)
40. Depositions by about thousand peasants were written down. (change the voice)
41. I had been done with dancing for almost ten years at that time. (change into progressive perfect future
tense)
42. She is a fantastic artist. (change into exclamatory)
Section-D
Read the following paragraph and answer the following questions. [5]
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked like it was stuck. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings. The man didn’t think anything of it and sat there waiting for the wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn’t happen. The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny wings and a swollen body. Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself for flying once it was out of the cocoon. Our struggles in life develop our strengths. Without struggles, we never grow and never get stronger, so it’s important for us to tackle challenges on our own, and not be relying on help from others.
Questions:
43. What is a cocoon?
44. Why do you think butterfly couldn’t fly even after getting help?
45. Does the story tells you not to help others?
46. Why the struggles in life are essential?
47. Why did the man decided to help the butterfly?
Paraphrase the following verses. [5]
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Answer the following question after careful reading of the poem above. [2*5=10]
49. What is the theme of the poem?
50. Point out two figures of speech used in a poem with their examples.
51. How the tree is praying according to the poet?
52. With whom the tree has a close relationship?
53. Where has the Robin make his nest ?
Section-E
54. Write a report for your local news paper about the celebration of ‘World Environment Day’ in your
school. [5]
55. You are Mehul/ Maahi Varma from 58, Bhakti Nagar Society, Nadiyad. You came across an advertisement
for the post of Sr. Lab assistant in Navgujarat Samay. Apply for the same to HR Manager,Cadila
Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad. [7]
56. Write an essay in about 250 words limit on ANY ONE of the following. [8]
> Earth: 100 years before and 100 years after
> India : Nation of Diversity
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