AHSEC| CLASS 11| ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2022| H.S. 1ST YEAR
2022
ENGLISH
Full Marks: 90
Pass Marks: 27
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate
full marks for the questions
SECTION-A
(Reading)
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Life on our
planet earth began with the sea: it is the birthplace of life on the earth. The
earth is the only planet of the solar system so far known which contains plenty
of water and this water has made our earth colourful, pulsating with life of a
vast variety.
At present sea
occupies about 70 percent of the earth's surface. In the southern hemisphere it
occupies more area than that in the northern. About 97 percent of the total
water on the surface of the earth is found in the seas and the remaining three
percent, which is generally fresh, in lakes, rivers, ponds, etc.
Sea has given
food and shelter to countless creatures. It is a potential source of protein.
In 1900, the world population was only 150 crore (1500 million), now it is more
than 760 crore and it is increasing at a very fast rate.
As a result,
there is a terrible hunger in many parts of the world. In Africa, Asia and
South America, millions of people do not get enough to eat. Many die of
malnutrition. Sea, if used scientifically and judiciously, can meet most of our
demands.
Plankton or
algae mostly constitute the plant life. Some are tiny microbes which cannot be
seen by the naked eye but they are found in abundance in the sea.
These marine
plankton form the basis of entire sea life. Like plant plankton, there are also
animal plankton, the smallest living creatures of the sea. These animal
plankton feed on plant plankton and small fish. Thus there is an
unbroken chain
of life in the sea. Arctic and Antarctic seas abound in plankton and algae and
so in fish also. Blue whales, the largest living creatures of the world, are
also found in great number.
Some countries
have developed sea farming to a great extent. The Japanese and Hawaiians relish
eating sea plants but it is not in other countries though some use them to feed
their cattle or as manure in their fields. The fact is that sea plants contain
rich nutrients not found in other vegetarian food. It is good that even in our
country some scientists have developed some recipes for curries, jams, etc., to
be made from algae.
But we must
remember one thing that sea is not to be exploited indiscriminately. For
example, man in his greed has haunted whales and some other sea creatures so
recklessly that some of their species have either become extinct or are on the
verge of extinction. Now nations of the world have realized their folly and
have taken some joint decisions. For example, one such decision is that the
size of the holes in fishing nets should be big enough to let baby fish escape
through. Otherwise, killing of large quantities of very young fish would have
an adverse effect on the fish population. In the same way, another decision is
for the protection of the blue whales.
Questions
(a) Why is our
earth more colourful and full of life than the other planets of the solar
system? 2
(b Mention any
two uses of the sea. 2
(c)
"There is an unbroken chain of life in the sea." Explain 2
(d) How are
humans responsible for the extinction of Some species of sea creatures? 2
(e) Find the
words in the passage which mean the same as 'unfavourable' and wisely'. 2
(f) Choose
the appropriate option 1x2=2
(i) There is a
terrible hunger in many parts of the world due to
1. overpopulation
2. increase of
pollution level
3.
industrialization
(ii) Sea
plants contain rich nutrients not found in
1. other
vegetarian food
2.
non-vegetarian food
2. Read the following passage given below and answer the
questions that follow:
1. Cycling
survives as a popular pastime because it yields pleasure and benefits. First of
all, cycling provides exercise, the need of which is felt by most people. The
development of machinery tends to deprive us of adequate opportunities of
expending energy while earning a livelihood. Other opportunities should be
created through the medium of sports. Of cycling, many people hastily say that
it is 'hard work but a fit and practiced rider does not agree with this
verdict. The art of easy cycling must be cultivated, as will be shown later,
but once it has been acquired, a long day's run should not unduly tire any
rider endowed with a normal measure of health. Nobody has better described the
exercise of cycling than the late Twells Brex, who said enthusiastically,
speaking from experience: "You move along by your own glad effort."
Many of us wish to use our legs and our lungs, as well as our eyes. An active,
healthy person ought not to be contented to travel always as a mere
passenger-"Like an image pushed from behind", as Stevenson says. That
is not life. Those who would turn all active cyclists into sedentary
motor-drivers, or into idle passengers, would serve the nation better if they
restricted their attentions to the aged and infirm, for whom petrol-generated
propulsion is doubtless a blessing, and may be a necessity.
2. It is often
said that the cyclist cannot travel as fast or as far as the motorist.
Admitting this, the cyclist may be permitted to ask if it is always desirable
that travel should involve modern motoring speeds (or accidents). Is the
enjoyment of a traveller in search of pleasure to be measured merely in miles,
or, what is worse in miles-per-hour, or what is worse still, in
miles-per-gallon? Surely the cyclist, pedalling calmly along at a modest twelve
miles an hour is able to assimilate scenery more easily, more completely, and
with more enjoyment, than the hurrying occupant of a car! Cyclists believe that
their method of travel is a sensible and convenient compromise between walking
and driving. If bicycles were unobtainable, most keen cyclists would become
trampers rather than motorists.
3. There are at
least two distinct types of cyclists. The exercise of pedalling provides an
all-sufficient satisfaction for one type. This is the purely athletic rider who
travels in long, fast riders, in time trails, and other forms of strenuous
competition, and sometimes attacks records. This type of cyclist goes into
strict training, develops leg-thrust and perfect ankle action and thinks
nothing of pedalling at twenty miles an hour. The other distinct type is the
tourist, who takes no interest in racing but a deep interest in the countryside
and the pageant unfolded by the open road. Comparatively, few cyclists are
interested deeply in both racing and touring.
Questions
(a) On the
basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it and add a suitable
title to it. 5
(b) Make a
summary of the above passage in about 80 words.
3
SECTION-B
(Writing)
3. Your younger brother has joined a boarding school. He
wants to know how to prepare for the board exam. Give him a few tips in not
more than 100 words. 6
OR
As an active
member of the interact club of your school, you had participated in a summer
camp organized by the Rotary Club of your district. Write a report on it in 100
words. You are Geeta/Gyan of XYZ Public School. 6
4. You are Niraj/ Neena. You feel highly disturbed when you
read about the hike in the prices of essential commodities like gas, pulses,
vegetables, etc. Write an article on Price-hike of Essential Commodities for
publication in a local daily, suggesting certain steps to curb this menace. 6
OR
Write an
article for your schoo1/college magazine on the importance of cleanliness in
the school/ college campus. 6
5. You are Pritam/Parul. You would like to apply for the
post of Assistant Manager in a reputed company in Guwahati. Write an
application to the Public Relation Officer, Bikash Enterprises, Guwahati in
response to the advertisement. Prepare a bio-data to be enclosed. 8
OR
Write a letter
to the Editor of The Assam Tribune' about the inadequate parking facilities in
Commercial Street in your locality, which is causing lot of inconvenience to
the people. Also suggest some measures.
8
SECTION-C
(Grammar)
6. (a) Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners (any
two): 1/2x2=1
(i) Do you have
_____complaint against me?
(ii) All the boys
went to the beach but only _____could swim.
(iii) _____rich
cannot buy happiness with their money.
(iv) ____his
friends deserted him at the hour of need.
(b) Rewrite
any two of the following sentences with the correct form of the verb given in
the brackets: 1/2x2=1
(i) We ______(go)
to school at 9 o'clock every day.
(ii) I wish I
_____ (be) a king.
(iii) It
____(rain) since morning.
(iv) They
_____(send) my books by next week.
(c) Fill in
the blanks with appropriate modal auxiliaries: 1/2x2=1
(i) He ______pay
his dues before he can be allowed to sit at the examination. (Compulsion)
(ii) He
_____listen to what his parents say. (Moral duty)
(d) Correct
the following: 1/2x2=1
(i) He is senior
than me.
(ii) Neither Ram
nor Rahim are present in the meeting.
7. (a) Complete the following piece of conversation by
choosing the correct alternatives from the brackets: 2
I said to her,
" ______(How/When) are you?" She replied, "I am fine. It's nice
to see you ____(returned/come/back) in our village."
(b) Rearrange
the words in the following to form meaningful sentences (any two): 1x2=2
(i) in the class
one of the tallest girls she is
(ii) a day an
apple away the doctor keeps
(iii) a river is
Ganga holy
(iv) tiger I a
seen never have
8. Rewrite the following sentences as directed (any two):
1x2=2
(a) No other boy
in the class is as tall as he. (Change it into comparative degree)
(b) On seeing
the lion, he ran away. (Change it into compound sentence)
(c) I know where
he lives. (Change it into simple sentence)
(d) He could not
come to school due to his illness. (Change it into complex sentence)
SECTION-D
(Textual
Questions)
9. Read any one of the stanzas given below and answer the
questions that follow:
(a) The
cardboard shows me how it was
When the two
girl cousins went paddling.
Each one holding
one of my mother's hands,
And she the big
girl-some twelve years or so.
All three stood
still to smile through their hair
At the uncle
with the camera."
(i) What does
the cardboard show the poet? 1
(ii) How did
the girls go to the sea beach? 1
(iii) Why did
the two girl cousins hold one of the poet's mother's hands? 1
(iv) Who
clicked the three girls in the cardboard?
1
(v) What kind
of a childhood do the quoted lines project? 4
(b) "And
forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure
and beautify it:
(For song,
issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering
Reck'd or
unreck'd, duly with love returns.)"
(i) What does
the rain give to her own origin? 1
(ii) What are
the two things that the rain does to the place of her own origin? 2
(iii) Where
does the song issue from? 1
(iv) Describe
the never-ending cycle of rain. 4
10. Answer any three of the following questions: 2x3=6
(a) How did the
poet's mother laugh at the snapshot? What did this laugh indicate?
(b) How did the
poet's mother look at the time of taking the photograph?
(c) What will happen
if it does not rain?
(d) Write in
your own words what the rain speaks about itself.
(e) Why does the
poet say that his childhood went to some forgotten place?
(f) Why was the
father unhappy in the poem, Father to Son?
(g) What does
the poet of the poem, Childhood speak about adults?
11. Answer any five of the following questions: 2x5=10
(a) How do you
know that author's grandmother was a deeply religious person?
(b) How did the
grandmother celebrate the homecoming of the author?
(c) Why did the
grandmother always accompany the author to the school?
(d) Contrast the
Chinese view of art with the European view.
(e) What do you
understand by 'sustainable development'?
(f) Who was Wu
Daozi? What did he paint for the Emperor?
(g) Who is the
most dangerous animal and why?
(h) What
differences does Verrier Elwin draw between the Game Sanctuaries of Kenya and
Kaziranga?
(i) What is the
Sola topi?
12. Describe the changing relationship between the author
Khushwant Singh and his grandmother. Did their feeling for each other
change? 6
OR
What are the
principal biological systems of the earth? How are these systems systematically
destroyed by man? 6
13. Answer any one of the following questions: 6
(a) What steps
did the narrator take to get Ranga married to Ratna?
(b) Were the
teachers interested in understanding Albert Einstein and bringing out his
potential?
14. Answer any two of the following questions in brief:
2x2=4
(a) How did
music help Albert?
(b) What kind of
a student was Einstein?
(c) What does
narrator say about Hosahalli?
(d) What
happened when Ranga returned to his village from the city of Bangalore?
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