AHSEC| CLASS 11| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2018| H.S. 1ST YEAR
2018
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
Time: 3 hours
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full marks for the questions
UNIT – I
(Reading an Unseen Passage
and a Poem)
1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Echo was a lovely nymph, who was so fond of the sound of her own
voice that she seldom stopped talking. One day she met the goddess Juno, and
talked so much to her that she was rebuked for chattering. Echo answered the
goddess rudely and angered her.
“For punishment you shall lose your voice!” said Juno. “You shall
never speak again except to repeat the last words of others! Go and hide
yourself away among the hills, and do not dare to come forth and show yourself
until someone bids you do so!”
Echo ran away in dismay. When she tried to speak she found that her
voice was gone. It was only when she heard others that she could say anything –
and even then she could say nothing but the last word she heard.
One day there came to the hills a beautiful youth called Narcissus.
His body was straight and white, and his face was fairer than any nymph’s. His
black hair curled over his broad forehead, and his bright eyes sparkled and
shone. Eco peeped from behind a tree and saw him.
At once she fell in love with him, and longed for him to love her.
But how could she show herself to him, for Juno had forbidden her to come forth
from her hiding place unless someone bade her do so.
Echo followed the beautiful youth up the mountain. He heard a
rustling noise behind him, and stopped. He looked round, but could see no one.
On he went again – but soon stopped once more, certain that someone was
following him.
“Who is there?” he cried.
“There!” answered Echo, repeating his last word.
“Who are you?” asked the youth, seeing no one.
“You!” answered Echo.
“Do not mock me!” cried Narcissus angrily.
“Me!” said poor Echo.
“Come forth and show yourself here!” commanded Narcissus.
“Here!” Echo answered gladly, and stepped forth in all her
loveliness. But Narcissus was angry. He was very vain, and thought that Echo
had mocked him. He paid no heed to her loving looks, and when she put her arms
round him, he pushed her roughly away.
“I heard you mocking me!” he said angrily. “Why do you pretend to
love me? You are only making fun of me, and doubt your friends are behind the
trees, laughing. Go away!”
Sadly Echo obeyed him, murmuring “Away!” as she glided between the
trees, wishing with all her heart that the proud youth might himself love in
vain, and know what pain it was.
Narcissus went on his way up the mountain. Soon he felt thirsty, and
coming to a clear pool, he lay down to drink from it. Suddenly he saw in the
water the reflection of his own beautiful face – but he thought it was a nymph
looking up at him from the pool, and straightaway he fell in love with his own
reflection.
“Sweet nymph, between nymphs, will you not come from your pool and
play with me?” he begged. The lovely face in the water moved its lips as he
moved his – but Narcissus could hear no sound coming from them. He stretched
out his arms into the pool but no sooner did they touch the surface of the
water than the lovely face vanished.
He waited patiently until the water become smooth again, and then
once more he leaned over. He smiled at the face below, and was overjoyed to see
it smile back. He spoke again, and saw the lips move with his. But plead as he
might, the nymph would not come from the pool.
Echo, seeing him talking to someone in the water, peeped over his
shoulder to see who it might be. When she saw that there was only his own
reflection there, she longed to tell him that he had fallen in love with
himself. But she could not, for she could only repeat his last words. Then she
became very sad, for she saw that her wish had come true – Narcissus loved in
vain, for his reflection could never return the fondness he showed it.
The poor youth would never leave the pool. In vain he begged the
nymph to come forth, in vain he smiled and stretched out his arms. All day long
he lay there, and all night, for when the bright moon rode in the sky, he saw
his reflection clearly, and spoke to it lovingly.
Days went by, and still Narcissus lay by the water. He neither ate
nor drank, for he had forgotten everything save his love for nymph in the pool.
He wept tears into the water, but when he found that sent away his reflection,
and broke it up, he wept no more. He could not bear the nymph to go away.
Soon he grew thin and pale, and the nymph in the water did likewise.
Narcissus was very unhappy. Echo too was miserable, for she knew that he would
soon die – but she could say nothing to warn him.
One morning when the sun rose, the beautiful youth lay pale and
dead. So white he was and so lovely as he lay there by the pool, that the gods
themselves wept for him and his hopeless love. In pity they changed his body
into a flower as white and lovely as himself – the little Narcissus that loves
to grow by the side of water.
As for the poor Nymph Echo, she pined away in sorrow, until there
was nothing left of her but a voice. You may hear still, among the hills,
repeating your last words – but never again will she be seen.
a)State
True or False: 1/2x2=1
i. Juno completely took away Echo’s power of speech.
ii. Echo’s friends were hiding behind the trees and mocking Narcissus.
b)
Why did Juno curse Echo? 1
c) Why was Narcissus angry with Echo? 1
d)
What did the gods change
Narcissus’s dead body into? 1
e)What did
Narcissus look like? 2
f) Narrate in your own words what happened when Narcissus went near the
pool. 2
g) How did Narcissus die? 2
2. Read the poem given below and on the
basis of your reading answer the questions given below:
Children’s Song
We live in our
own world,
A world that is
too small
For you to
stoop and enter
Even on hands
and knees,
The adult subterfuge.
And though you
probe and pry
With analytic
eye,
And eavesdrop
all our talk
With an amused
look,
You cannot find
the centre
Where life is
still asleep
Under the
closed flower…
a) Find a word in the poem which means “listening without the speaker
knowledge”. 1
b)
Why are adults not able to
enter the world of children?
c) The adults in the poem look at the children with concern/curiosity/a
feeling of delight. Tick the correct option. 1
d)
What do the children do in
their world? 1
e)Describe the
children’s world. 1
UNIT-II
(POETRY AND PROSE)
3. Answer either (a) or (b):
a) … it stripped them down to
the skin,
Left their ebony bodies naked.
It shook out their hearts, the yellow leaves,
Scattered them over the ground.
Anyone could trample them out of shape
Undisturbed by a single moan of protest.
I. Answer any two of the
following: 1x2=2
i. What does the word “ebony” mean?
ii. What is the “it” referred to in the above lines?
iii. What are the trees compared to?
II. Describe in your own words
the leaves as portrayed in the given lines. 3
b)
And I have learned, too,
To laugh with
only my teeth
And shake
hands without my heart.
I have also
learned to say, “Goodbye”
When I mean
“Good-riddance”;
I. Answer any two of the following:
1x2=2
i. Who is the “I” in the above lines? Who he talking to?
ii. What does “Good-riddance” mean?
iii. What does “shake hands without my heart” mean?
II. What are the different kinds of laugh that the poet talks
about? 3
Or
What are some of the qualities of the modern man which the poet does
not like? 3
4. Answer any one of the following questions
in about 80 words: 5
a) What impact do the
daffodils have on Wordsworth’s life?
b)
Describe in your own words some
of the faces that a modern man wears as described by Gabriel Okara in “Once
Upon a Time”.
5. Answer any three of the following
within 25 words each: 2x3=6
a) Why are the daffodils
compared to the Milky Way?
b)
Who does the poet pray to and
for what?
c) Describe in your own words
the Listeners.
d)
What according to Okara are the
“many things” that he has learnt?
6. Answer any two of the following in
about 40 words each: 3x2=6
a) Describe after Wordsworth
the waves. In what ways are they similar to or different from the daffodils?
b)
Describe in your own words the
house to which the traveler goes to meet the Listeners.
7. Answer any three of the following in
one sentence each: 1x3=3
a) What happens to the poet
when he is in a “vacant or pensive mood”?
b)
The birds sang about their
dreams. (State True/False)
c) What disturbs the bird
from its nest in the turret?
d)
What does the father in “Once
Upon a Time” want to be?
8. Answer either (a) or (b):
a) “You’re getting married, I
hear!” said one of his friends to Pyotr Petrovich Milkin at the summer ball.
“When are you going to throw your stag party?”
i. What is a ‘stag party’? 1
ii. How does Pyotr react to his friend’s query? 1
iii. Describe the situation which leads to Pyotr’s friend asking this
question. 3
b)
“What colour would you have a
man to be, who has been setting up long leaders for a daily paper all right?”
i. Who says this and to whom?
1
ii. What is the profession of the speaker? 1
iii. What kind of a mood is the speaker in? 1
iv. What does “setting up long leaders for a daily paper” mean? 2
9. Answer any one of the following: (80
words) 5x1=5
a) Attempt a character sketch
of Councillor Kondrashkin.
b)
What is bio-diversity? Why is
it important in our lives?
c) Describe in your own words
the incident about the stout old lady of Petrograd. What is Gardiner conveying
through this example?
10. Answer any two of the following
within 25 words each: 2x2=4
a) How does Kondrashkin
respond when Pyotr tells him that he is a runaway convict?
b)
What does Gardiner mean when he
says that liberty is not a personal affair?
c) What is bio-piracy? How
can it be prevented?
d)
List some of the complaints
that Cox makes to Mrs. Bouncer at the beginning of the play.
11. Answer any two of the following
questions within 40 words each:
3x2=6
a) Why does Pyotr go to
Fituyev? What does the latter tell him?
b)
What is a blue book? Describe
very briefly the incident that occurs inside the railway carriage.
c) List three areas mentioned
in “The Many and the None” where bio-diversity can be seen.
d)
Narrate the series of incidents
which led Box and Cox to discover that they were living in the same room.
12. Give the meaning of any five of the
following words: 1x5=5
a) Suitor
b)
Grumble
c) Effluvia
d)
Charismatic
e) Farce
f) Alias
g) Protuberant
h)
Dumbfounded
UNIT-III
(GRAMMAR)
13. Make sentences with any two pairs of
words to illustrate the difference in meaning between them. 2x2=4
Meddle, medal; sole, soul; idle, idol; coarse, course; main, mane;
lessen, lesson.
14. Fill in the blanks with the suitable
form of the verbs given in the brackets: (any three) 1x3=3
a) I could repair the roof
myself if I ________ (have) a ladder.
b)
If I see him I _______ (give)
him a lift.
c) Ice ______ (turn) to water
if you heat it.
d)
If I had known that you were in
hospital I _______ (visit) you.
e) If you go to Delhi where you ______ (stay)?
15. Add tag questions to the following:
(any four) 1/2x4=2
a) You found your passport,
_______?
b)
They couldn’t understand him,
______?
c) Neither of them complained
________?
d)
Everyone warned you, _______?
e) You can swim, ________?
f) He is coming tomorrow,
________?
g) No salt is allowed,
_______?
16. Fill in the blanks with appropriate
prepositions: (any six) 1/2x6=3
a) He insisted _______ seeing
the documents.
b)
He is always ______ a hurry.
c) I am not very good ______
games.
d)
He has been missing _____ two
days.
e) The train goes ______ Delhi from Guwahati.
f) He threw stones ______ his
attackers.
g) The house is ______ fire.
h)
The situation was brought
______ control by the police.
17. Fill in the blanks with appropriate
articles where necessary: (any six)
1/2x6=3
a) We shook our hands with
______ host.
b)
There’s been ______ murder
here.
c) I want to meet _______ Mr.
Das who signed the paper.
d)
_______ Youngest boy has also started going to
school.
e) He was sent to ________ prison for six
months.
f) He broke his leg in _____
accident.
g) This is ______ one-way
street.
h)
________ Man is a reasoning
animal.
18. Identify five nouns and five
adjectives in the sentences given below:
1/2x10=5
On hot summer nights, Rohan and the other boys sleep out in the
yard. They put up a tent in a dark corner, where the trees and bushes are
thick.
UNIT-IV
(CREATIVE WRITING SKILL)
19. Write a paragraph about 180 to 200
words on any one of the following: 8
a) My favourite subject
b)
Tea
c) What makes me happy
d)
How I see myself five year from
now.
20. Develop a story from the given
outline: 7
Once upon a time – a old man and his wife – pet goose – laid golden
eggs – Becoming rich slowly – became greedy – wanted to become rich quickly –
Kill goose thinking gold comes from stomach – Disappointed – inside goose looks
like other goose – They repent their greed.
Or
Write a substance of the passage given below: 7
Look round the room you are in and think of all the different kinds
of workers that have been needed to make it what it is. First there are the
walls. If they are made of bricks, a digger had to dig up the clay; then a
maker made they clay into bricks and another one built them up into a wall; and
a mover had to move the bricks from the place where they were made to the place
where the builder wanted them.
Think of all the other makers who made the furniture and the
windows, pictures, and different utensils-carpenters and artists iron-founders-and
of all the engine drivers and carriers and perhaps sailors too who helped to
bring these things to your house. Then you will see how many different kinds of
workers there are, all busy in helping to provide the things that people want.
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