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West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
English
QUESTION PAPER 2019
PART-A (MARKS: 60)
1. Answer any two of the following guestions each in about 100 words: 6x2-12
(a) "the giri got up and began to coliect her things."
Who is the girl ? when did she get up ? Why did she get up to collect her things? What had the speaker thought about the brief encounter he had with the girl? 1+1+1+3
(b) "His answer filled me with a strange energy and enthusiasm.
Who is the speaker ? Whose answer is being referred to here ? What was the answer ? 1+1+4
(c) "You gonna take me to jail ?"
Who asked this question and to whom ? When did the speaker ask this question? What reply did the speaker get ? 2+3+1
(d) How was the wounded man revived and nursed? Why did he ask forgiveness of the Tsar ? What did the Tsar do when he had gained the man for a friend? 2+2+2
2. Answer any two of the following questions each in about 100 words: 6 2-12
(a) How does the poet describe the growth of a tree over the years ? What are the different steps taken for killing the tree? 4+2
(b) "His smile
Is like an infant's..."
Whose 'smile' is being referred to here ? Why is his smile compared to the smile of an infant ? How does Nature take care of him ?? 1+3+2
(c) "But thy eternal summer shall not fade"
Who is being referred to as 'thy' ? What is meant by 'eternal summer' ? Why shall not thy eternal summer fade? 1+1+4
(d) How does Keats show that the 'poetry of earth' never cease ? 6
3. Answer any one of the following questions in about 100 words 6 1-6
(a) "why are you so formal in your get up "- Who is the speaker ? Who is being spoken to ? What led the speaker to make this comment? 1+1+4
(b) Lomov came with a proposal to marry Natalya Stepanovna. What logic does he give for his decision? 6
(c) "m the most unhappy of men
Who said this ? Why did he say so ? How did the speaker get rid of his unhappiness? 1+3+2
4. (a) Do as directed 1x6=6
(i)I don't intend to give up what i have. (Use the underlined word as a noun and rewrite)
(ii) The Tsar said, "I come to you, wise man, for an answer to my questions." (Change into indirect speech)
(iii) The man would have attacked you. (Change the voice) netao
(iv) The door was open. (Turn into a negative sentence)
(v) The sun began to sink behind the trees, the Tsar stuck the spade into the ground at last. (Turn into a complex sentence)
(vi) The most important thing in the world was science. (Change into positive degreel
(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and/or prepositions: 1/2 X 6=3
When my father came out. ........(i )...... the mosque after the prayers people of different religions would be sitting outside, waiting ..............(ii)............... him. Many of them offered bowls of water.... ......(iii)...... my father, who would dip his fingertips.........(iv)......... them and say...............(v)............. Prayer. This water was then carried home .........(vi).......... ..invalid.
(c) Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below 1x1=1
You might run that comb through your hair so you will look present.
Options: [presently/presentable/presenting]
5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Sometimes it is hard to believe that l've been up here in the hills all these years -fifty summers and monsoons and winters and Himalayan springs (there is no real spring in the plains) - because when I look back to the time of my first coming here, it seems ike yesterday.
That probably sums it all up. Time passes, and yet it doesn't pass; people come and go, the mountains remain. Mountains are permanent things. They are stubborn, they refuse to move. You can blast holes out of them for their mineral wealth; or strip them of their trees and foliage, or dam thei streams and divert their currents; or make tunnels and roads and bridges; but no matter how hard they try, humans cannot actually get rid of the mountains. That's what I like about them; they are here to stay.
I like to think that I have become a part of this mountain, this particular range, and that by living here for so long, I am able to claim a relationship with the trees, wild flowers, even the rocks that are an integral part of it. Yesterday, at twilight, when passed beneath a canopy of oak leaves, I felt that I was a part of the forest. I put out my hand and touched the bark of an old tree, and as I turned away, its leaves brushed against my face, as if to acknowledge me.
(a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write "T" for True and" for False. (You need not write the sentences, write only the numbers) 14-4
(i) The oak leaves formed a roof over the author
(ii) The author does not like the fact that mountains are permanent things.
(iii) The author means to say that he has lived through all the seasons in the mountains.
(iv) Humans cannot do away with the mountains.
(b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words 2x3-6
i) What can man do to mountains ?
(ii) What does the author claim a relationship with ?
(iv) wny is it hard to beieve tor the suthor that he has lived in the hills for tity yeat
6. (a) Write a report on a campaign on 'Educate the Girl Child' organised by vour school. Mention the role of both students and teachers, purpose of this campaign participation, response and so on. The report will be published in your school magazine. {Word limit 150 words) 2+8=10
Or, Write a letter to the headmaster/headmistress of your school requesting him/ her to make more variety of books available in the library. (Word limit: 150 words) 2+8-10
Or, (c) Write a precis of the following passage. Add a suitable title:
Charlie Chaplin once said, "In this age of scientific inventions, we think too much we feel too little." Science boosts up the modern craze for material prosperity. It has revolutionized our lives. It has made life more comfortable with various amenities. It is undoubtedly the driving force behind any human excellence. But it kills the soul of a man. Our skills and habits are changed by science. Excessive mechanization brings unhappiness because human facuities are slighted. A person starts believing that machines will do all for him, and this tendency becomes fatal in this high-tech world. But none can doubt that science has helped us to discover the hidden truth in nature. Can we ever imagine the modern age without computers, lasers, antibiotics, biotechnology or different electronic gadgets ? That is why it is said that science gives knowledge and power but not wisdom.
PART B (MARKS: 20)
1. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided: 1x4=4
(i) The girl in the train compartment thought the narrator to be -
(a) gallant.
(b) serious
(c) gallant and serious
(d) pretentious
(ii) Abdul Kalam's father would aonvey complex spiritual concepts in simple, down-to-earth
(a) Arabic. L (b) Urdu
(c) Tamil. (d) Telugu
(ii) On entering her room Mrs. Jones asked Roger to
(a) eat dinner
(b) comb his hair
(c) wash his face
(d) take rest for a while
(iv) The wounded man was actually
(a) enemy of the hermit
(b) enemy of the Tsar
(c) friend of the Tsar
(d) disciple of the hermit
2. Answer any four of the folowing questions, each in a complete sentence 1x4=4
(i) Who did the narrator of 'The Eyes Have It' think to be formidable creatures?
(ii) What did Abdul Kalam's father use to avoid?
(ii) What shoes and jeans was Roger wearing?
(iv) What was the hermit doing when the Tsar came to take leave of him ?
(v) Whom did Kalam consider tobe à very close friend of his father?
(vi) what, according to the, hermit, is the most important thing to do ?
(vii) when and where iid Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones meet?
(viii) where was the girl in the story 'The Eyes Have It' getting off ?
3. Complete each of the following sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided 1x4=4
(I) Green twigs that rise from ciose to the ground are
(a) straight. (b) curled
(c) crooked. (d) crinkled
(ii) Nature is pleaded to keep the soldier (c) asleep (d) peaceful
(a) pleasant. (b) warm
(c) asleep. (d) warm
(iii) .. his gold complexion dimmed." Here 'his' refers to
(a) the sun . (b) the sky
(c) poet's friend. (d) poet himself
(iv) Being tired, the Grasshopper rests beneath
(a) green hedge. (b) bushes
(c) pleasant weed. (d) grassy hills
4. Answer any four of the following questions, each in a complete sentence: 1x4= 4
(i) Where does the tree's strength lie ?
(ii) Where does the soldier lie stretched?
(iii) What kind of a poem is 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
(iv) Where do the birds hide when they are faint with the hot sun' ?
(v) What might one hear on a lone, cold and silent winter evening?
(vi) What shall death not brag about in Shakespeare's poem?
(vii) Where does the stream leave 1ong strands of silver ?
(viii) "Slowly consuming the earth" What does the expression 'consuming the mean?
5. Complete te each of the follcwing sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided: 1x4=4
(i) Lormov wanted to remind Natalya that her dog was
(a) ugly. (b) old
(c) overshot. (d) lame
(ii) The worst of Lomov's physical problems is
(a) the way he sleeps
(b) his palpitations
(c) his headache (d) his limp
(iii) Natalya suggested that Lomov should not go after foxes but
(a} catch black beeties
(b) go after horses
(c) shoot partridges
(d) go to the doctor