AHSEC| CLASS 12| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER

AHSEC| CLASS 12| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2017| H.S. 2ND YEAR

2017
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.Answer any five of the following: 1×5=5

(a) What is the full name of the verger in the short story by the same name?

(b) Where does the verger work?

(d) What does an automobile mean to Narayan?

(e) Who is the author of the story, 'The Scarecrow'?

(f) Whom did Mriganko Babu's father call in to find the lost watch?

(g) What is the full name of Jim in the story, 'The Gift of the Magi'?

(h) How much used Jim to earn earlier?

(i) What is the name of the American poet philosopher whose work Robert Lynd has read?

(j) Whom does Lynd want to conduct the laborious quest for wisdom?

Ans: Lynd want to conduct the laborious guest for wisdom to the philosophers.

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

(a) What was the discovery that astonished the vicar?

(b) What was the verger told by the vicar in the vestry?

(d) Who fell on Narayan's car when it was parked in front of the hospital?

(e) Why did Mriganko Babu go to Durgapur?

(f) Who was Abhiram?

(g) Who were the Magi?

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

(i) In what context does Lynd mention Solomon?

(j) Who is Zeus?

3. Answer any three of the following: 4x3=12

(a) Narrate the circumstances under which the verger had to lose his job at St. Peter's.

(b) Why, do you think, the author, R. K. Narayan, regards himself as a fanatic in the context of walking?

(d) Show how the twist in the tale makes the story of Jim and Della a moral lesson.

(e) Why does Robert Lynd end his essay with the phrase, "it was only a dream"?

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

(a) "He's been nagging them he'as," said the verger to himself.

(b) I lack automobile sensibility and do not regret it.

(c) Mriganko Babu tried very hard but failed to remember. Yet, he felt sure that he had seen someone wear such a shirt, a long time ago.

(d) Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard.

5. Answer any five of the following: 1×5=5

(a) Who is the fair lady the narrator speaks of in Toru Dutt's poem?

(b) Where are the three happy children?

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

(e) Where does the traveller in Shelly's poem come from?

(f) Which country is referred to as an antique land?

(g) Who are the opening lines of 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' addressed to?

(h) Whom did the knight meet?

(i) What tempted the village girl to tarry?

(j) What is it that might smite the village girl?

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

(a) Name the birds and animals mentioned in Toru Dutt's poem.

(b) What is a brook?

(d) What did the lady give to the knight at Arms?

(e) What are the shadows of the evening compared to in 'Village Song'?

7. Answer any three of the following: 4x3=12

(a) How are the children affected by the mother's song?

(b) Describe the journey of the brook till it reaches Philip's farm.

(d) Attempt a description of the dream that the knight has in the cave.

(e) Briefly describe the fears of the village maiden.

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

(a) I chatter over stony ways,

In little sharps and trebles.

I bubble into eddying bays,

I babble on the pebbles.

(b) The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.

(c) And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge has wither'd from the Lake

And no birds sing.

Group-B

(Vibgyor & Effusions)

9. Change any five of the following sentences as per the directions given in brackets without changing their meaning: 1×5=5

(a) Only corrupt people are protesting against demonetization. (Change into negative)

(b) Is there any nation in the world that is not taking notice of in India today? (Change into affirmative)

(d) I left my phone behind at by our place. (Change into interrogative)

(e) Who does not know that the sun shines in the East? (Change into affirmative)

(f) She is known to me. (Change into active)

(g) He placed the book on the table. (Change into passive)

(h) Wasn't Kothanodi a unique film? (Change into assertive)

10. Add tag questions to any five of the following sentences: 1×5=5

(a) The new five-hundred-rupee note is smaller than the old one,

(b) Your house faces the river,

(d) They are going to Gangtok on an excursion,

(e) Rome was not built in a day,

(f) Our winters are very pleasant,

(g) You will show me your new bike,

(h) Your computer hasn't crashed,

11. Fill in any five of the blanks in sentences given below with suitable prepositions: 1x5=5

(a) A bird _______hand is worth two in the bush.

(b) Seeing the lion, the leopard ran _______the tree.

(d) I have left your watch ______the drawer.

(e) Who stole the cookie _______the cookie jar?

(f) He dived _______the swimming pool.

(g) I had just a few coins left is _____my pocket.

(h) The grocer's shop is just two blocks ______the road.

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

(a) He ______(commute) by bus every day.

(b) By the time the police arrived, the thief ______(flee)

(d) Jayalalitha _______(pass) away in December.

(e) The harder he ______(try) the better he gets.

(f) We ______(go) to Shimla last winter.

(g) It _______(snow) heavily when we got there.

(h) We ______(hunt) high and low for a foot to fit the slipper.

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

The mountains that clustered around Bafert were mauve and grey in the dim morning light, striped and patterned with deep purple and black in the valleys, where it was still night. The sky was magnificent, black in the West where the last stars quivered, jade green above me, fading to the palest kingfisher blue at the eastern rim of hills. I leant on the wall of the verandah where a great web of bougainvillaea had grown, like a carelessly flung cloak of brick-red flowers, and looked down the long flight of steps to the road below, and beyond it to the Fon's courtyard. Down the road, from both directions, came a steady stream of people, laughing and talking and beating on small drums when the mood took them. Over their shoulders were Long wooden poles, and tied to these with creepers were big conical bundles of dried grass. The children trotted along carrying smaller bundles of their saplings. They made their way down past the arched opening into the Fon's courtyard and deposited their grass in heaps under the trees by the side of the road. Then they went through the arch into the courtyard and there they stood about in chattering groups; occasionally a flute and a drum would make up a brief melody, and then some of the crowd would break into a shuffling dance, amid handclaps and cries of delight from the on-lookers. They were a happy, excited, eager throng.

(a) What is the name of the place being described? 1

(b) Attempt a description of the sky. 2

(d) Where is the author and what is he doing? 3

(e) What were the people carrying on their shoulders? 2

(f) Describe the scene in the Fon's courtyard. 4

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