AHSEC| CLASS 12| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER

AHSEC| CLASS 12| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2019| H.S. 2ND YEAR

2019
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 30
Time: Three hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions.

GROUP – A

(VIBFYOR)

(NEW SYLLABUS)

1. Give brief answers to any five of the following: 1x5=5

(a) What was the name of the Verger of St. Peter's Church? 1

(b) Where did the new Vicar come from? 1

(d) For how long did Narayan use his car? 1

(e) What is the full name of Mriganko Babu? 1

(f) Whose voice does Mriganko Babu recognize in the voice of the scarecrow? 1

(g) For what occasion did Della save money to nuy a gift? 1

(h) What is Jim's gift for Della? 1

(i) Who was Epictetus? 1

(j) What is the name of the American poet-philosopher whose work Robert Lynd read? 1

2. Answer any five of the following: 2×5=10

(a) How did the Verger regard his official dress? 2

(b) What impression did the Verger have about the new Vicar? 2

(d) What does Narayan begin to fear after every visit to the workshop? 2

(e) Why did Mriganko Babu never consult the almanac before travelling anywhere? 2

(f) Why did the driver go to Panagarh? 2

(g) What did Jim do to get a gift for Della? 2

(h) What did Della ask Madame Sofronie and what was he answer? 2

(i) Why was the author of 'On Not Being a philosopher' fearfully excited?

(j) Who is Zeus?

3. Give brief answer to any three of the following: 4x3=12

(a) Describe the circumstances under which the Verger had to lose his job in St. Peter's Church. 4

(b) What are the reasons for the author's impervious attitude towards his car? 4

(d) What moral lessons are stressed upon in "The Gift of the Magi"? 4

(e) Discuss the circumstances that lead to Lynd's reading Epictetus. 4

4. Explain with reference to the context on any two of the following: 4×2=8

(a) "Foreman, will you come into the vestry for a minute? I have something to say to you". 4

(b) For a fanatic of this sort the possession of a car is an anachronism; and especially the acquisition of a sophisticated, imported make, an irrelevancy and nuisance. 4

(d) She found it at last surely had been made for Jim and no one else. 4

5. Give brief answers to any five of the following: 1x5=5

(a) To whom does the narrator tell the story of Sita? 1

(b) Who is the poem 'Sita' about? 1

(d) What flowers grow by the brook for happy lovers? 1

(e) Who is Ozymandias? 1

(f) What kind of a poem "Ozymandias of Egypt" is? 1

(g) Where did the knight meet the lady? 1

(h) What season is referred to in the poem 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'? 1

(i) Who is the poet of the poem 'Village Song'? 1

(j) What is the name of the river mentioned in the poem, 'Village Song'? 1

6. Answer any four of the following: 2×4=8

(a) What 'mystic past' does the poet try to bring out in the poem 'Sita'? 2

(b) What does the brook do as it flows down? 2

(d) What did the lady give the knight in return? 2

(e) What do the birds referred to in the poem 'Village song' symbolize? 2

7. Answer any three of the following: 4×3=12

(a) How does Toru Dutt relate the past and present in her poem? 4

b) What is the refrain in the poem 'The Brook'? Bring out the profundity in it. 4

(d) Describe, in your own words, the experience of the knight.

(e) With what are the shadows of evening' compared in poem Village song'? 4

8. Explain with reference to the context on any one of the following: 5x1=5

(a) I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,

Among my skimming swallowness;

I make the netted sunbeam dance

Against my sandy shallows.

(b) Nothing beside remains round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

With horrid warning gaped wide,

And I saw awoke and found me here,

On the cold hill's side.

GROUP-B

(NEW & OLD SYLLABUS)

9. Change any five of the sentences given below as per instruction given, without changing their meaning: 1x5=5

(a) There is no rose without a thorn. (Change into affirmative) 1

(b) People call the lion the king of beasts. (Change into passive) 1

(d) He is expected soon. (Change into active) 1

(e) She tried all plans (Change into active) 1

(f) This is not the correct way of answering the question. (Change into interrogative) 1

(g) Everybody must admit that she is a good singer. (Change into negative) 1

(h) Let the game be finished. (Change into active) 1

10. Add appropriate questions tags to any five of the following: 1x5=5

(a) She is an excellent dancer. 1

(b) Now you can make question tags. 1

(d) The house needs immediate repairing. 1

(e) I have not done my homework yet. 1

(f) He kept his promise. 1

(g) They will not be there. 1

(h) Riyan has just arrived home. 1

11. Fill any five of the following blanks with suitable prepositions: 1×5=5

(a) His is senior ______me in respect of age. 1

(b) That cat ran ______the mouse. 1

(d) I am disappointed ______you. 1.

(e) Please didn't interrupt me

(f) Rini has recovered _____her illness. 1

(g) We saw a wounded tiger while passing

(h) In many countries people drive the left.

12. Rewrite any five of the following sentences using the verbs given in brackets in their correct forms: 1x5=5

(a) She ________to Europe last summer. (go)

(b) He _____a book when I entered his room. (read)

(d) Please sit here until my father _____. (come)

(e) I asked her if she ______him before. (see)

(f) They were building that bridge when I ______here last year. (be)

(g) I am grateful to him for what he ______. (do)

(h) I ______English for three years now. (study)

13. Read the passage given below and answer the question that follow:

Majuli, the world's largest river island, is situated in assam and is Kherketia in the north. the story of Majuli must start with an

bounded by the Brahmaputra to the south and Subansiri and auspicious day, a day after the monsoon mayhem, when the entire villages across its span deck up to pray to the river God "We try to tempt the river," Not only the blanks but also our culture and way of life. The prayer is so relevant today, when the international experts have launched a project to save the largest island from being completely devoured by a rampant river.

To get to this largest river island, you board a huge ferry from the sleepy town of Jorhat in Upper Assam. The ferry is large, very wide, packed with cars,scooters, men and material. It is Majuli's only link with the outside world, its life line. The boat traverses about 10 kms of river, that takes one and a half hours, before a huge landmass arises out of the water like the back of a tortoise. This is Kamalabari, the southern tip of majuli.

(a) Which is the world's largest river island? 1

(b) Where is Majuli? 2

(d) Why is the prayer to river god so relevant today? 3

(e) Mention the names of the rivers that bound the northern part of Majuli. 2

(f) Describe the ferry to Majuli. 4

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