AHSEC| CLASS 11| ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2019| H.S. 1ST YEAR
2019
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:
According to a survey, over 26 million people in India defecate in
the open. Around 60 per cent of Indians do not have access to safe and priae
toilets. Such overwhelming majority of those without access to sanitation
facilities poses a formidable obstacle in the development of the nation.
In 1999, the Union Government rolled out the Total Sanitation
Campaign (TSC). Its objective was to spread awareness among the rural people
and generation of demand for sanitary facilities. The scheme was implemented
with emphasis on community-led initiatives. The government provided financial
incentives to the families which were Below Poverty Line (BPL). The government
assistance was also extended for construction of toilets in the primary
schools, the Anganwadi Centres and the Community Sanitary Complexes (CSC).
The Government of India also launched the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP)
to recognize contributions in this field. NGP became a success which prompted
the Government to rename CSC as the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). Its objective
was to accelerate the sanitation coverage in the rural areas. This scheme was
handled by the Ministry of Rural Development.
Under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the government adopted the
community-centric strategies. The demand driven approach continued highlighting
awareness creation and demand generation for sanitary facilities in houses,
schools. It also emphasised on a cleaner environment.
On October 2,2014, the campaign was renamed and launched as Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Misin (SBM)to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi's
vision of 'Clean India'. SBM has two sub-Missions Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural)
and Swachh Bharat Mission (Uran). The focus now is to achieve a clean, defecation
free India by October 2, 2019, i.e. Mahatma Gandhi's 150" birth
anniversary. If we can improve the levels of cleanliness in the country and
make it Open Defecation Free.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has become a 'Jan Andolan' receiving
tremendous support from the people. Citizens too have turned out in large
numbers and pledged for a neat and cleaner India. Taking the broom to sweep the
streets, cleaning up the garbage, focusing on sanitation and maintaining a
hygienic environment have become a practice after the launch of the Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan. People have started to take part and are helping spread the
message of 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Questions:
(a) (i) What was the objective of TSC? 1
(ii)
How was CSC renamed? 1
(iii)
What is the present focus of SBM? 1
(iv)
What is the message of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan? 1
(v)
What causes a formidable obstacle to the nation? 2
(vi)
How was the total Sanitation Campaign carried out? 2
(vii)
Write how SBM is receiving support from the citizens. 2
(b) Pick out words from the passage that mean the following: 1X2=2
(i)
difficult to deal with
(ii)
a solemn promise or undertaking
2. Read the passage given below and
answer the questions that follow:
1. How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to
people who carefully choose the shows that they watch. Television can increase
our knowledge of the outside world; there are high quality programs that help
us understand many fields of study, science, medicine, the arts, and so on.
Moreover, television benefits very old people, who cannot often leave the house
as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers non-native speakers the
advantage of daily informal language practice. They can increase their
vocabulary and practice learning.
2. On the other hand there are several serious disadvantages of
television. Of course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend
our free time, but in some countries, people watch the 'boob-tube' for an
average six hours or more a day. Many children stare at a television screen for
more hours each day than they do anything else, including studying and
sleeping. It's clear that the tube has a powerful influence on their lives and
that its influence is often negative.
3. Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of television,
a person's brain 'relaxes' the same way that it does just before the person
falls asleep. After effect of television on the human brain is that it seems to
cause poor concentrate o a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes. They earn
pay attention only for the amount of time between commercials.
4. Another disadvantage is that television often causes people to
become dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life does not seem as exciting
to these people as the life of an actor in the screen. To many people,
television becomes more real than reality and their own lives seem boring. Also
many people get upset or depressed when they can't solve problems in real life
as quickly as television actors seem to.
5. Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven
thousand murders on the tube. He or she begins to believe that there is nothing
strange about fight, killings and other kinds of violence. Many studies show
that people become more violent after certain programmes. The may even do the
things that they see in a violent show.
6. The most negative effect of 'boob-tube' might be people's
addiction to it. People often feel a strange and powerful need to watch
television even when they don't enjoy it. Addiction to a television screen is similar
to drug or alcohol addiction, People almost never believe that they are
addicted.
Questions:
(a) On the basis of your reading, of the above passage; make notes
on it, using recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary. Add a suitable
title to it. 5
(b) Make a summary of the above passage in about 80 words.3
SECTION-B
(Writing)
3. You are arranging a week-long
Educational Tour to Sivasagar in the last week of April. Describe your
preparations to your classmates in about 100 words. 6
Or
Your School/College observed the "World Environment Day" o
5th June. The students took part in a plantation program and took out a rally
to create awareness among the people. Prepare a report in about 100 words on
the event to be published in your school/college wall-magazine. 6
4. Write a speech.to be delivered in the
morning assembly of your school/college on the topic. "Books are our best
companions." 6
Or
Write an article for your school/college magazine on the role of
students in keeping our environment clean and green. 6
5. You are Nikita/Nitin. You have seen an
advertisement in "The Assam Tribune" for a post of an Assistant
Teacher in an L.P. School in Silchar. Write an application for the post, giving
detailed CV. 8
Or
There is no bus-stop within a radius of two kilometers from your
locality, causing a lot. of inconvenience to the residents. Write a letter to
the Editor of "The Sentinel" drawing attention of the concerned
authority for early solution.
SECTION-C
(Grammar)
6. (a) Fill in the blanks with suitable
determiners: 1/2x2=1
(i) There is still _____milk in the jug. (some/little)
(ii) Kamal received _______encouragement from his teachers.
(many/much)
(b) Rewrite the following sentences with the correct form the verb
given in brackets: 1/2x2=1
(i) I with I (listen) to my parents' advice.
(ii) I (study) in this college for the last two years.
(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal auxiliaries (the sense
of the sentence is indicated in the bracket): 1/2x2=1
(i) When I was young, I _______run faster. (ability)
(ii) All candidates _______bring their admit. cards on the day of
the examination. (compulsion)
(d) Correct the following: 1/2x2=1
(i) He is one of the best boy in the class.
(ii)· Neither Ram nor Rahim are present in the meeting.
7. (a) Complete the following piece of
conversation by choosing the correct alternative from the brackets: 2
I
said to John,"______(How/What) is your business going at this
moment?" John replied, "Shall we meet later tonight to discuss it
over ______?" (lunch/dinner)
(b) Rewrite the following sentences as directed: 1x2=2
(i) He confessed his crime. (Make it a complex sentence)
(ii) No other girl in the class is as good as Sita. (Use the
superlative degree of 'good')
8. Rearrange the words in the following
to form meaningful sentences: 1x2=2
(i) want do me see you at to the airport off?
(ii) the an truth honest speaks man always.
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
(i) Who was 'the big girl'? 1
(iii) How old was the poet's mother when the photograph was clicked?
1
(iv) Who clicked the photograph? 1
(v) Write briefly what the girls did on the sea beach. 4
Or
(b) When did my childhood go?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realised that Hell and Heaven,
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore' could not be,
Was that the day.
(i) Where do these lines occur? 1
(ii) When, does the poet think that he lost his childhood? 1
(iii) Find the synonyms of 'stopped' in the stanza. 1
(iv) What does the poet learn about Hell and Heaven? 1
(v) How does the poet describe the process of being grown up? 4
10. Answer any two of the following
questions: 3×2=6
(a) Write in your own words what the rain speaks about itself.
(b) Briefly evaluate the poet's attitude towards life as seen in the
last stanza of the poem, ‘A Photograph'.
(c) Why does the poet say that his childhood "went to some
forgotten place"?
(d) Whom do you hold responsible for the atmosphere of mutual
distrust that prevails between the father and the son? Give a reasoned answer.
11. Answer any five of the following
questions: 2x5=10
(a) Why have the sparrows refused to eat the crumbs of the bread on
the death of the author's grandmother?
(b) What are 'Yang' and 'Yin'?
(c). How are the Earth's principal biological systems useful to us?
(d) What role Industry has to play in the new Era of Responsibility?
(e) What is the difference between the Game Sanctuaries of Africa
and India?
(f) “You have a great treasure there". What treasure is Verrier
Elwin referring to and what is his suggestion about the treasure?
12. (a) Give
a description of the author's grandmother after your reading of. "The
Portrait of a Lady". 6
Or
(b) Discuss why it has been pertinently said that "forests precede
mankind; deserts follow". 6
13. Narrate the events leading to
Ranga's marriage. 6
Or
"I think it's not facts that matter, but ideas". Evaluate
briefly Albert Einstein's concept of real education in the light of this
statement.
14. Answer any two of the following
questions in brief: 2x2=4
(a) What was the Mathematics teacher Koch's opinion about Albert's
mathematical knowledge?
(b) What is highlighted as the basic difference between the idea of learning as advocated by Elsa and Albert during their short conversation?
(c) Describe the quality of mangoes of Hosahalli village.
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