Karnataka SSLC Maths Model Question Paper 4 with Answers

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Karnataka State Syllabus SSLC Maths Model Question Paper 4 with Answers

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I. In the following questions, four choices are given for each question, choose and write the correct answer along with its alphabet: ( 1 × 8 = 8 )

Question 1.
If the H.C.F of 65 and 117 is expressible in the form of 65m – 117, then the value of m is
a) 4
b) 3
c) 11
d) 2
Answer:
Solution:
The H.C.F. of 65 and 117 = 65m- 117
Now 13 = 65m- 117
65m 117+13
65rn = 130
m = 130/65 = 2
∴ The value of m = 2
∴ HCF(65, 117)
= 13
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Karnataka SSLC Maths Model Question Paper 4 with Answers

Question 2.
If sinx = sin 60° cos 30° – cos 60 sin 30!l, then the value of x is
a) 0°
b) 30°
c) 45°
d) 60°
Answer:
b) 30°
Solution:
Sinx = sin 60°cos30 – cos 60 sin 30
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Question 3.
The angle between the radius of a circle and the tangent drawn at the point of contact is
a) 0°
b) 60°
c) 90°
d) 30°
Answer:
c) 90°

Question 4.
The T.S.A. of a cuboid of dimension, l = 30cm, b = 20cm, c = 10cm, is ______
a) 600cm2
b) 60cm2
c) 6000cm2
d) 2200 cm2
Answer:

Question 5.
Which of the following is a polynomial
a) x2 – 5x + 3√x
b) x1/2 + x1/2 – x +1
c) \(\sqrt{x}-\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}\)
d) x2 – 4x + √2
Answer:
x2 – 4x + √2
Solution:
x2 – 4x + √2 because variable has no negative or decimal powers.

Question 6.
The value of p if x, 2x + p and 3x + 6 are in A.P.
a) p = 3
b) p = 2
c) p = 1
d) p = 0
Answer:
Solution:
x, 2x + p, 3x + 6 are inAP a, A, b are A.P.
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2(2x + p) = 2(2x + 3)
2x + p = 2x + 3
p = 2x + 3 – 2k
P = 3

Question 7.
In triangle PQR, The value of y is
a) 4√3
b) 6√3
c) 5√3
d) √3
Answer:
b) 6√3
Solution:
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QS2 = PS x SR
QS2 = \(\sqrt{9 \times 12}\)
QS = \(\sqrt{9 \times 4 \times 3}\)
QS = 3 x 2√3
QS = 6√3

Question 8.
When 2 unbiased coins are tossed at ‘ a time, the probability of getting 2 heads is _____
a) 1/4
b) 1/2
c) 1
d) 0
Answer:
a) 1/4
Solution:
S = {(H, H) (H, T) (T, H) (T, T)}
n(s) = 4
An event of getting 2 heads = A={(H, H)}
∴ P(A) = \(\frac{n(A)}{n(S)}=\frac{1}{4}\)

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II. Answer the following Questions : ( 1 x 8 = 8 )

Question 9.
If the product of zeros of polynomial f(y) = ay3 – 6y2 + 11y – 6 is 4 then find the value of ‘a’.
Answer:
α β γ = \(-\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{a}}\)
4 = \(\frac{-(-6)}{a}\)
4a = 6
a = \(\frac{6}{4}\)
a = \(\frac{3}{2}\)

Question 10.
What is the value of C, if ax2 + bx + c = 0 has equal roots?
Answer:
If ax2 + bx + c = 0 has equal roots then,
b2 – 4ac = 0
b2 = 4ac
4ac = b2
c = \(\frac{b^{2}}{4 a}\)

Question 11.
Find the second term if sum of the ‘n’ term of an AP is 2n2 + 1.
Answer:
Sn = 2n2 + 1
S1 = 2(1)2 + l= 2xl + l= 2+ l= 3
∴ S1 = T1 = a = 3
S2 = 2(2)2 + 1 =8+ 1 =9
a + T2 = 9
T2 = 9 – 3 = 6

Question 12.
State converse of Pythagoras Theorem.
Answer:
“The square on the greatest side of a triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, then the other two sides contian the right angle”.

Question 13.
What is the form of \(\frac{p}{q}\) (p,q ∈ z q ≠ 0) form of 0.57 ?
Answer:
\(0.5 \overline{7}=\frac{57-5}{90}=\frac{52}{90}=\frac{26}{45}\)

Question 14.
If sinθ = \(\frac{1}{3}\) then find the value of (cot2θ + 2)
Answer:
AC2 = AB2 + BC2
BC2 = AC2 – AB2
= 32 – 12
= 9 – 1 = 8
BC = √8 = 2√2
cotθ = \(\frac{2 \sqrt{2}}{1}\) = 2√2
2cot2θ + 2 = 2(2√2)2 + 2
= 2 x 8 + 2
= 16 + 2
= 18
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Question 15.
In sin(A + B) = \(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\) and cos (A – B) = 1, 0< A + B < 90°, A ≥ B
Answer:
sin(A + B) = \(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\) = sin60°
A + B = 60° …. (1)
cos (A – B) = 1 = cos0°
A – B = 0 ….(2)
Solve (1) and (2)
A + B = 60
A – B = 0
2A = 60 or A = 30°
A + B = 60
30 + B = 60
B = 60 – 30° = 30°
∴ A = 30°, B = 30°

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Question 16.
The surface area of a sphere is same as the C.S.A. of a right circular cylinder whose height and diameter are 4 cm each. Find the radius of the sphere.
Soln:
4πr² = 2πrh
4R² = dh .
4R²= 4 x 4
R² = \(\frac{4 \times 4}{4}\) = 4
R = √4 = 2cm
A = 30°, B = 30°
∴ Radius of the sphere = 2cm.

III. Answer the following : ( 2 x 8 = 16 )

Question 17.
By Euclid’s division lemma, show that thte square of any positive integer is either of the form 3m or 3m + 1 for some integer m.
Answer:
Let x be any positive integer. Then it is of the form 3q, 3q+1 or 3q + 2.
Now, (3q)2 = 9q2 = 3(3q2) = 3m where m = 3q2
(3q + 1)2 = 9q2 + 6q+ 1 = 3(3q2 + 2q) + 1
= 3m + 1, where m = 3q2 + 2q and (3q+2)2 = 9q2 + 12q + 4
= 3(3q2 + 4q + 1) +1
=3m +1, where m = 3q2 + 4q + 1
Hence, it is proved.

Question 18.
Solve : \(\frac{x+y}{x y}\) = 2 and \(\frac{x-y}{x y}\) = 6
Answer:
x + y = 2xy
x – y = 6xy
2x = 8xy
2 = 8y
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Question 19.
Solve : y2 – (√3 + 1)y + √3 = 0
Answer:
y2 – √3y – y + √3 = 0
y(y – √3) – 1(y – √3) = 0
(y – √3)(y – 1) = 0
y – √3 = 0, y – 1 = 0
y = √3 and y = 1

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Question 20.
Show that the points (3, 2) (-2, -3) and (2, 3) are collinear Or non – collinear.
Answer:
Let A= (3, 2) B = (-2, -3) C = (2, 3)
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AC ≠ AB + BC
∴ They are non – collinear.

Question 21.
In the given fig ∆DGH ~ ∆DEF, DH = 8cm, DF = 12cm, DG = (3x – l)cm and DE = (4x +. 2)cm, Find the lengths of DG and DE.
Answer:
∆DGH ~ ∆DEF
\(\frac{\mathrm{DG}}{\mathrm{DE}}=\frac{\mathrm{DH}}{\mathrm{DF}}\)
\(\frac{3 x-1}{4 x+2}=\frac{8}{12}\)
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12 (3x – 1) = 8(4x + 2)
36x – 12 = 32x + 16
36x – 32x = 16 + 12
4x = 28
x = 28/4
x = 7
∴ DG = 3x – 1 = 3 x 7 – 1 = 21 – 1 = 20
DE = 4x + 2 = 4 x 7 + 2 = 28 + 2 = 30

OR

D is a point on the side BC of A ABC such that ∠ADC = ∠BAC. Prove that
\(\frac{\mathbf{C A}}{\mathbf{C D}}=\frac{\mathbf{C B}}{\mathbf{C A}}\)
Answer:
In ∆ ABC and ∆ DAC,
∠ADC = ∠BAC and
∠C = ∠C
∆ABC ~ ∆DAC
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Question 22.
A card is drawn at random from a box containing 21 cards numbered 1 to 21. Find the probability that the card drawn is
a) Prime number b) Divisible by 3.
Answer:
n(s) = 21
A= {2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19}
n(A) = 8
P(A) = \(\frac{n(A)}{n(S)}=\frac{8}{21}\)

b) n(S) = 21
B= {3,6, 9,12,15,18}
n(B) = 6
∴ P(B) = \(\frac{n(B)}{n(S)}=\frac{6}{21}=\frac{2}{7}\)

Question 23.
Draw a circle of radius 3cms. Construct a pair of tangents to it, from a point 5cm away from the circle.
Answer:
r = 3cm d = 3 + 5 = 8cm
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Question 24.
Express sinA and sec A in terms of cot A.
Answer:
W.K.T cosec2A = 1 + cot2A
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OR

If tanθ + sinθ = m and tan θ – sin θ= n, S.T m2 – n2 = 4\(\sqrt{\mathbf{m} \mathbf{n}}\)
Answer:
L.H.S = m2 – n2 = (m +n) (m – n)
= {(tan θ + sin θ ) + (tan θ – sin θ )x(tan θ +sin θ) – (tan θ – sin θ)}
= {(2tanθ) x (2sinθ) = 4tanθsinθ
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= 4\(\sqrt{\mathbf{m} \mathbf{n}}\)
= RHS.

IV. Answer the following : ( 3 x 9 = 27 )

Question 25.
The sum of the numerator and denominator of a fraction is 24. If 4 is subtracted from the numerator and 5 from its denominator, then it reduces to 1/4. Find the fraction.
Answer:
Let the fraction be \(\frac{\mathrm{x}}{\mathrm{y}}\)
sum of its numerator and denominator = 24.
x + y = 24 ……..(1)
If 4 is subtracted from the numerator and
5 from its denominator we get = 1/4
⇒ \(\frac{x-4}{y-5}=\frac{1}{4}\)
4(x – 4) = 1(y – 5)
4x – 16 = y – 5
4x – y = -5 + 16
4x – y = 11 ……..(2)
From (1) and (2)
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Consider,
x + y = 24
7 + y = 24
y = 24 – 7
y = 17
∴ The fraction is \(\frac{x}{y}=\frac{7}{17}\)

OR

Two women and five men can together finish an embroidary work in 4 days. While three women and 6 men can finish in 3 days. Find the time taken by one women alone and also that taken by one man alone.
Answer:
Let 1 woman can finish the embroidary in x days and 1 man can finish the embroidary in y days.
1 woman’s 1 day’s work = \(\frac{1}{x}\)
1 man’s 1 day’s work = \(\frac{1}{y}\)
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Let \(\frac{1}{x}\) = u, \(\frac{1}{y}\) = v
2u + 5v = \(\frac{1}{4}\)
3u + 6v = \(\frac{1}{3}\)
solve (1) and (2)
(8u + 20v = 1) x 9
(9u+ 18v= 1) x 8
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v = \(\frac{1}{36}\)
Put v = \(\frac{1}{36}\)…….(1)
2u + 5v = \(\frac{1}{4}\)
2u + 5\(\frac{1}{36}\) = \(\frac{1}{4}\)
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Thus, 1 woman alone can finish the embroidery in 18 days and 1 man alone can finish it in 36 days.

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Question 26.
If two zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = x4 – 6x3 – 26x2 + 138x – 35 are 2 – √3 and 2 + √3. Find the other two zeroes.
Answer:
The two zeroes of p(x) are,
(2 – √3) and (2 + √3)
⇒ [x – (2 – √3] and [x – [2 + √3] are the factors p(x).
⇒ [ x – 2 + √3] [x – 2 – √3]
(x – 2)2 – (√3)2
x2 – 4x + 4 – 3
⇒ x2 – 4x + 1 is a factor of p(x)
Divide p(x) by x2 – 4x + 1 to get quotient
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Consider the quotient, x2 – 2x – 35 = 0
x2 – 7x + 5x – 35 = 0
x(x – 7) + 5(x – 7) = 0
(x – 7) (x + 5) = 0
x-7 = 0 orx + 5 = 0
x = 7 or x = -5
∴ The other two zeroes are 7, -5.

Question 27.
A two digit number is such that the product of its digits is 18. when 63 is subtracted from the number, the digits interchange their places. Find the number.
Answer:
Let the two digits be x and y.
⇒ The two digit number is = 10x + y
The product of three digits = xy = 18
When 63 is subtracted from the number, the digits interchange their places.
10x + y – 63 = 10y + x
10x – x – 10y + y = 63
9x – 9y = 63
9(x – y) = 63
x – y = 63/9 = 7
x – y = 7
x = 7 + y
Consider xy = 18 and substitute x = (y + 7) in it.
y(y + 7) = is . .
y2 + 7y – 18 = 0
y2 + 9y – 2y – 18 = 0
y (y + 9) – 2(y + 9) = 0 –
(y + 9) (y – 2) = 0 .
y + 9 = 0, y -2 = 0
y = -9 or y = 2
xy= 18
x(2) = 18
x = 18/2 = 9
x = 2
But negative digit is not considered.
∴ The two digit number is
= 10x + y
= 10(9) + 2 = 92

OR

A plane left 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and in order to reach its destination 1500 km away in time it has to increase its speed by 250 km / hr from its usual speed. Find its usual speed.
Answer:
Let the usual speed of the plane be x km / hr. Time taken to cover 1500 km with the usual speed.
\(\frac{1500}{x}\) hrs
Time taken to cover 1500 km with the speed of (x + 250) km / hr = \(\frac{1500}{x+250}\)
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2(1500 x 250) = x2 + 250x
x2 + 250x-750000 = 0
x2 + 1000x – 750x – 750000 = 0
x(x + 1000) – 750(x + 1000) = 0
(x+ 1000)(x-750) = 0
x + 1000 = 0 or x – 750 = 0
x = -1000 or x= 750 ,
x = 750
Hence, the usual speed of the plane = 750 km/hr.

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Question 28.
If the co – ordinates of the mid points of ∆ ABC are D(1, 2) E(0, -1) and (2, -1). Find the respective co – ordinates of ∆ ABC.
Answer:
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D is the midpoint of BC.
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x1 + x2 = 4 and y1 + y2 = -2 ………(1)
E is the mid point of BC
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x2 + x3 = 0 and y2 + y3 = -2 …….(2)
F is the mid point of BC
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x1 + x3 = 4 and y2 + y3 = -2 ….(3)
Solve (1) and (3)
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x2 = 0
x2 = 0
0 + x3 = 0
x3 = 0
x1 + x3 = 4
x1 + 0 = 4
x1 = 4 – 0 = 4
x1 = 4

y2 = -i
y2 + y3 = -2
-1 + y3 = -2
y3 = -2 +1
y3 = -1
y1 + y3 = -2
y1 + (-1) = -2
y1 -1 = -2
y1 = -2 + 1 = -1
y1 = -1
A(x1,y1) = A(4,-1)
B (x2 y2) = B(0, -1)
C(x3, y3) = C(0,-1)

OR

Find the length of the median through the vertex A(5,1) drawn to the triangle ABC where other two vertices are B(1, 5) andiC(-3, -1)
Answer:
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Question 29.
Prove that the tangents drawn from an external point are equal.
Answer:
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Data : ‘O is the centre of the circle PA and PB are the two tangents drawn from an external point P. OA and OB are radii of the circle.
To prove that : ∠APB + ∠AOB = 180°
∠OAP + ∠OBP = 90°
(∵ Angle between the radius and tangent at the point of contact is 90°)
OP = OP (Common side)
OA = OB (Radii of the same circle)
According to RHS postulate
∆APO = ∆BPO
∠ OAP = ∠OBP = 90°
∠OAP + ∠OBP = 90° +90° =180°
⇒ Opposite angles of OAPB quadrilateral are supplementary.
OAPB is a cyclic quadrilateral
⇒ ∠ APB + ∠ AOB = 180°

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Question 30.
If a chord of circle of radius 10cm subtend an angle of 60° at the centre of the circle. Find the area of the corresponding segment of the circle.
(Take π =3.14, √3 = 1.7)
Answer:
O is the centre of the circle having radius 10 cm.
∠ AOB = 60° is angle subtended at the centre O of the circle by a chord AB.
Draw BL ⊥ OA
In right angled ∆ OLB,
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Area of segment ∆ APB
= The area of sector OAPB – Area of ∆ OAB
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OR

Find the area of the shaded region where PQRS is a square of side lOcms and semicircles are drawn with each side of square as diameter.
Answer:
The four shaded regions are marked as I, II, III, IV.
All the four regions have equal areas due to § symmetry.
Area of I + Area of III
= Area of square ABCD – Sum of the areas of two semicircles of each of radius 5cm.
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{10 x 10 – 2 x \(\frac{1}{2}\) π x 52}cm2
= {100 – 25 x 3.14} cm2
= {100 – 78.5} cm2
= 21.5 cm2
Similarly Area of II + Area of IV = 21.5 cm2. Total Area of shaded region = 21.5 + 21.5
= 43 cm2

Question 31.
The following table gives the production yield per hectare of paddy of 50 farms of a village.
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Answer:
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Question 32.
Find the mean of the following frequency distribution.
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Answer:
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A = 50, h = 20, N = 100 and Σ fiui = 15
Mean = A + h\(\left\{\frac{1}{\mathrm{N}} \sum \mathrm{f}_{i} \mathrm{u}_{\mathrm{i}}\right\}\)
Mean = 50 + 20 x \(\frac{15}{100}\)
Mean = 50 + 3 = 53

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Question 33.
Construct a triangle of sides 4cm, 5cm and 6cm and then a triangle similar to it whose Sides are 2/3 of the corresponding sides of it.
Answer:
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V. Answer the following : ( 4 x 4 = 16 )

Question 34.
Solve the pair of equations graphically.
4x – 3y + 4 = 0
4x + 3y – 20 = 0
Answer:
4x – 3y + 4 = 0 ….. (1)
4x + 4 = 3y
y = \(\frac{4 x+4}{3}\)
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4x + 3y – 20 = 0
3y = -4x + 20
y = \(\frac{-4 x+20}{3}\)
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Question 35.
How many terms of the series 93 + 90 + 87 + ……….. amounts to 975. Find also the last term.
Answer:
93 + 90 + 87 + …………
a = 93, d = 90 – 93 = -3, Sn = 975, n = ?,
T = ?
S = \(\frac{n}{2}\)[2a + (n – 1)d]
975 = \(\frac{n}{2}\)[2(93) + (n-1)(-3)]
975 x 2 = n[186 – 3n + 3]
1950 = n [189 – 3n]
1950 = n[189 – 3n]
1950 = 189n – 3n2
(3n2-189n+ 1950-0) H-3
n2 – 63n + 650 = 0
n2 – 50n-13n +650 = 0
n(n – 50) – 13(n – 50) = 0
(n – 50) (n -13) = 0
n – 50 = 0 or n – 13 = 0
n= 50 or n= 13
When n = 50, the last term
Tn = a + (n – 1)d
= 93 + (49) (-3)
= 93 – 147
T50 =-54
When n = 13, the last term
Tn = a + (n – 1)d ”
=93 + (13-1) (-3)
= 93 – 36
T13 = 57

OR

If m times the mth term of an A.P is equal to n times its n,h term, show that (m + n)th term is zero.
Soln: Let T1 = a and c.d = d
Given : m times m,h term = n times nthterm
=> mTm = nTn
m[a + (m – 1)d] = n[a + (n – 1)d]
m[a +(m – l)d] – n[a+(n -l)d] = 0
m[a + md – d] – n[a + nd – d] = 0
ma + m2d – md – na – n2d + nd = 0
a(m – n) + d(m – n) (m + n) – d(m – n) = 0
(m – n) {a + d(m +n) – d} = 0 . (m – n) {a + (m + n – l)d} = 0
m-n = 0, a + (m + n-l)d = 0
m= n Tm+n , = 0
But m ≠ n

Question 36.
A tower is 50m high. Its shadow is x mtrs shorter when the suns altitude is 45° than when it is 30°. Find the value of x.
Answer:
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Let PQ be the tower and let PA and PB be its shadows when the altitudes of the sum are 45° and 30° respectively.
∠ PAQ = 45°, ∠ PBQ = 30°
∠ BPQ = 90° and PQ = 50m ,
Let AB = x metres
From right angled ∆ APQ, we have
\(\frac{\mathrm{AP}}{PQ}\) = cot 45°=1
\(\frac{\mathrm{AP}}{50}\) = 1 => AP = 50m
From right angled ∆ BPQ,
\(\frac{\mathrm{BP}}{\mathrm{PQ}}\) = cot30° = √3
⇒ \(\frac{x+50}{50}\) = √3
x = 50(√3 – 1)m
= 50 (1.73 – l)m
= 50 x 0.732
= 36.6 m

Question 37.
Prove that “In a right angled triangle, square on the hypotenuse is equal to sum of the squares on the other sides.”
Answer:
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Verify
BC = 8cm
BC’= \(\frac{5}{3} \times 8=\frac{40}{3}\)
AB =6cms
A’B= \(\frac{5}{3} \times 6\)
=10cms.

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VI. Answer the following : ( 5 x 1 = 5 )

Question 38.
The height of cone is 20m. A small cone is cut off from it at its top by the plane parallel to the base. If the volume of small cone 1/1000 th of the volume of given cone, at what height above the base the section is made.
Answer:
In A OPB and A OQC A OPB ~aOQC OP _ PB OQ ~ QC
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Time: 3 Hours
Max Marks: 100

I. Four alternatives are given for the following questions. Choose the correct answer and write it along with its alphabet. ( 6 × 1 = 6 )

Questions 1.
‘To pull the reluctant sun out’.
The figure of speech in the line is
A) Personification
B) Metaphor
C)Synecdoche
D) Alliteration
Answer:
C)Synecdoche

Question 2.
You would scarcely expect her to known that, ________ .
The apprepriate question tag to be added is
A) wouldn’t you?
B) would you?
C) can you?
D) cant you?
Answer:
A) wouldn’t you?

Question 3.
He laughs best who laughts last
The underlined group of word is
A) a noun clause
B) an adverb clause
C) an adjective clause
D) a main clause
Answer:
C) an adjective clause

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Question 4.
The thief managed to ______ the police barricade
The correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank is
A) break in
B) break through
C) break out
D) break on
Answer:
B) break through

Question 5.
If you _______ yourself there is nothing in which you cannot succeed.
The correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank is
A) trust on
B) believe in
C) bring in
D) get into
Answer:
B) believe in

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Question 6.
The word in which the word ‘dis’ is apart of the word but not a prefix is
A) display
B) disarm
C) discern
D) dismount
Answer:
A) display

II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following :
( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 7.
Dentist: Teeth :: Dermatologist :
Answer:
skin

Question 8.
Gallant: Brave :: Stature :
Answer:
Height

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Question 9.
Decide : Decision : : prefer :
Answer:
preference

Question 10.
Literate : Illiterate :: perturbable :
Answer:
Imperturable

III. Rewrite as directed: ( 3 × 1 = 3 )

Question 11.
Change the voice of sentence :
Ramu read the novel in one day
Answer:
The novel was read by Ramu in one day.

Question 12.
Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer :
They will close the shop at 9 pm.
Answer:
When will they close the shop?
OR
At what time will they close the shop.

Question 13.
Change to reported speech :
He said, “We’ve been waiting for hours”.
Answer:
He said that they had been waiting for hours.

IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each : ( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 14.
How, according to the author, is a bottle of coke harmful to our human body?
Answer:
Coke has absolutely no nutritive value, but rather a damaging effect on the digestive system and the bones of human beings.

Question 15.
Why does Jean ask Pierre to get the pie instead of taking it himself?
Answer:
Joan was suspicious that Marion would identify him as she had already seen him going found the corner.

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Question 16.
In Gandhi’s example of feeding the poor, whose actions are moral action?
Answer:
A man who out of pity feeds the poor is a moral act.

Question 17.
What would the poet’s soul reveal in ‘C.L.M’?
Answer:
His sense of gratitude to his mother.

V. Answer the following questions in two – three sentences each : ( 1 × 2 = 14 )

Question 18.
How has shopping become more than a need?
Answer:
Shopping has become more than a need because it has now become the chief form of entertainment. It has become an obsessive compulsion on which shoppers have little control. It has become an end in itself.

Question 19.
What changes took place in the girl after the wrong man gave her the painted picture?
Answer:
The girl examined the pitcher that night, after the Wrong Man gave her the Painted Pitcher. She saw new possibilities open up for her. The next morning when she went to the torrent to fill her picture her feet were not so hurried.

Question 20.
When can it be said that a particular action is moral?
Answer:
A moral act must be our own act and must spring from our own will. We should not act mechanically. We should consider every act of ours as our duty. Any action should be done with the intention of doing good and without compulsion in fear of punishment. Amoral act should be free of fear and compulsion. It should be done with no self – interest behind it.

Question 21.
When and where did Meip find Anne’s diary?
Answer:
A week after the Frank family had been arrested, Miep had boldly returned to the Annexe. A heap of paper lay on the floor. Miep recognized Anne’s handwriting and decided to keep the diary but not to read it. Had she read it, she would have found detailed information on the help she and other people had given the Frank family at the risk of their own lives and she might well have decided to destroy the diary for reasons of safety.

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Question 22.
How does the neighbour carrying a stone in each hand appear to the poet?
Answer:
The neighbour carrying a stone in each hand appears to the poet like an uneducated savage. He mocks his neighbour and imagines him to be a stone-age warrior. There is something hostile in the silence and attitude of the neighbour. The poet dislikes his neighbour’s thick-skinned personality.

Question 23.
Why did Capt Smollett and other consider the stockade an ideal place for them?
Answer:
They soon found what was known as the stockade: a sturdy log cabin, with loopholes for muskets in its walls, protected by a perimeter fence of stout wooden paling, six-feet high. They decided this was as good a place as any to make a stand against the pirates, and hurried back to the Hispaniola for supplies.

Question 24.
What does Kama say about his loyalty to Duryodhana?
Answer:
“Grandsire, I know I am Kunti’s son and not charioteer-born. But I have eaten Duryodhana’s salt and must be true to him, to be true to my own lineage. It is impossible for me to go over to the Pandavas now. You must permit me to repay with my life, if it so be, the debt I owe to Duryodhana for his love and trust”.

VI. Rewrite as directed. ( 3 × 2 = 6 )

Question 25.
Change the following sentence to a compound and complex sentence
In spite of his hard work, the boy didn’t succeed.
Answer:
Compound : The boy worked hard, but he didn’t succeed.
Complex : Though the boy worked hard, he didn’t succeed.

Question 26.
Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison :
Lead is the heaviest of all metals
Answer:
Positive : No other metal is as heavy as lead.
Comparative : Lead is heavier than any other metal.

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Question 27.
Combine the following sentences using neither / nor
He will not spend his money. He will not invest it.
Answer:
He will neither spend his money nor invest it.

VII. Answer the following questions in 5-6 sentences each : ( 6 × 3 = 18 )

Question 28.
How does Robert Frost try to convince his neighbour that they do not need a wall? How does the neighbour respond?
Answer:
The poet Robert Frost tries to convince his neighbour saying that he had only pine trees in his garden whereas the poet had an apple orchard. The poet tells the neighbour that his apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pine trees. However the poet points out that there are no cows to wander into his neighbour’s garden. But the neighbor responds stoically that ‘Good fences make good neighbour’s.

Question 29.
Give instances to show that the narrator tried his best to impress that he was normal sighted during his encounter with the girl.
Answer:
The narrator did not reveal his handicap when he spoke to the girl. When the girl spoke of the beauty of Mussorie during October, he too spoke about it as if he was able to see it. He never said that his thoughts on the place were got from his memories.

He then described the countryside flashing by. A little later, he told the girl that she had an interesting face. All these instances show that the narrator tried his best to impress that he was normal sighted during his encounter with the girl.

Question 30.
How does Basavanna convince us through his Vachana that spiritual things are long lasting ?
Answer:

  • He was poor — so could not build beautiful temples of cement and bricks like the rich,
  • Considers his body itself as the temple of God because God is housed in the soul of man.
  • All the material things — all that does not move according to the will of God — are subjected to destruction.
  • All that matters to the soul — the spiritual things — swaying according to the will of God long lasting.

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Question 31.
What changes were noticed in the movement and attitude of the girl of the silent torrent after the man gave her the painted pitcher?
Answer:
When she set out for the torrent the next day, her hurrying feet were a little less hurried. A new sense seemed to have awakened in her, a sense that seemed to have no meaning and no purpose at all.

Question 32.
Why, according to Doctor Livesay did he give the map to the pirates ?
Answer:
Doctor Livesey learned that Ben Gunn had already found the treasure and taken it to his cave and later he saw that the ship too had vanished. Now that the treasure map was useless he decided to give it to the pirates and let them have the stockade where he was sure the pirates would go down with malaria and eventually die.

Question 33.
‘Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang’ has double images.
Explain what the poet wants his friend to ‘behold’.
Answer:
During the spring and summer seasons the birds make their nests on the cush green trees full of leaves. The sit on its branches and sing sweetly. These songs of the birds are similar the the choirs in the church. As winter approaches the trees start shedding leaves and the bird fly away to warm places, the birds have abandoned the tree similar to the ‘Choir’ of a ruined church. The Poet wants his friend to visualize these images and compare them with his approaching old age which compare to the bare trees and a ruined church.

OR

Why did the girl of the silent torrent follow the wrong man out of the worker’s paradise?
Answer:
The girl was impressed by art and beauty. For the first time the girl had realised that there are things to do other then continuous toil and productive work. Even if there was no meaning or purpose in art and beauty, she realised that art and beauty gave a certain joy. She saw new possibilities open – up before her. So she followed the young man to explore those possibilities.

VIII. Explain with reference to the context: ( 5 × 3 = 15 )

Question 34.
“Can you tell me – did she keep her hair long or short?”
Answer:
The words “Can you tell me – did she keep her hair long or short” are extracted from the lesson “The eyes are not here”, by Ruskin Bond. The narrator asks the man who had just entered the train compartment. The narrator is curious about the girl who had just alighted from the train. He was blind and had not been able to notice her appearance.

The narrator had tried his best to conceal the fact that he was blind from the girl who had been travelling with him. When the girl got down at the station, a new passenger got into the coach. There was some commotion at the door. The narrator asked the above question to the new passenger when he started the conversation with him.

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Question 35.
“He moves in darkness as it seems to me”.
Answer:
Poem : Mending Wall
Poet : Rober Frost
Every year the poet and his neighbour repair the crumbled wall between there properties during spring. The narrator is skeptical about the need of the wall between them. But his neighbour asserts that Good fences make good neighbour’s. One year while they were mending the wall the narrator sees his neighbour bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top in each had like an old stone – age savaged armed with stone weapons.

The neighbour’s attitude about the wall makes the poet think that he is still living in the dark ages when there was a need of a wall between homes, countries and empires. The poet feels that his neighbour is not an enlightened man and still lives in darkness i.e., he is not broad – minded person.

Question 36.
“Please God, make him think I am still pretty.”
Answer:
Lesson ___ The Gift of the Magi
Writer — O. Henry.

  • A small prayer whispered by Della.
  • Della cut her most precious possession — her long and beautiful hair and sold it for 21 dollars to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim’s watch because she couldn’t buy anything worthwhile as a Christmas present for Jim with one dollar and eighty seven cents that she had collected.
  • At home she repaired the ravages of her remaining hair — that made her look like a truant school boy.
  • When she heard Jim’s steps on the stair, she turned white and said this prayer.

Question 37.
“If you can cure animals, you can cure my son”.
Answer:
These lines are taken from the lesson ‘Louis Pasteur Conqueror’ Pasteur had discovered the cure for anthrax disease that afflicts animals. One day in a paris, women came to him with her son. The son was covered with bites from a mad dog. She said to Pasteur ‘If you can cure animals, you can cure my son’.

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Question 38.
“I want to see how it looks on it”.
Answer:
Lesson : Gift of the Magi
Author : O. Henry
Della cuts her precious hair and sells it for twenty – one dollars to boy Jim a platinum fob chain for Jim’s heirloom watch. That evening when Jim comes home he is shocked to see that Della has cut her hair. Della consoles Jim that her hair grows fast and pleads him to forgive him. She asks Jim to give his heirloom watch to her to see how the platinum Fob chain looked on it, not knowing that Jim at sold it to buy real tortoise shell combs for her hair.

IX. Quote from memory: ( 1 x 4 = 4 )

Question 39.
And I water’d it in fears.
Night and morning with my tears.
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

OR

The rich
will make temples of Shiva
what shall I
a poor man,
do?
My legs are pillars.
My body a cupola
of gold

X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : ( 3 × 4 = 12 )

Question 40.
How does Wordsworth describe the beauty of Nature as he rows the boat he had stolen?
Answer:
In the poem “The stolen boat’ the poet William Wordsworth steals a boat tied to a willow tree within a rocky cave, at night and stealthily rows the boat over the river in the moonlight. He could hear the sound of oars echoing from the surrounding mountains.

As the boat moved on the water it left small circles of water gleaming idle under the light of the moon till all of them mingled up and dissolved giving way to one single track of glittering moon-light on the water. Far above in the sky he could see nothing but twinkling stars.

His eyes then were transfixed upon the craggy ridge that was the horizons utmost boundary. The poet compares the boat to an ‘elfin pinnace’ (fairy) which moved over the water like a swan. The horizon was bound with a huge peak which loomed black and huge. It seemed to up-rear its head and grow in stature with every stroke of the oar. He felt that the huge peak towered between him and the stars, as if it were a living being endowed with a will and a power of its own.

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Question 41.
To Wordsworth, nature was a living presence. Pick out any five details from the poem to support this.
Answer:
Wordsworth starts the poem by blaming Mother Nature for coaxing him into stealing the boat. He uses the phrase “led by her” and shows that for him Nature is a living presence. The rocky cave is described as ‘home’- a human dwelling place. When he steals the boat, mountains are said to warn him. This is an example of personification.

One more example of personification is found in the description of the lake as a silent lake. Finally, the peak that seems to follows him is said to have life, power and purpose of its own. Thus we see that, for Wordsworth, .Nature is a living presence, and it is a continuous presence.

OR

How does the poet bring out the agony and desperation of the female crane in the poem?
Answer:
The poet brings out the agony and desperation pf the female crane by describing her desperate action and grief – stricken cries. The female bird flies in circle crying desperately.

After the hunters leave the scene, she returns to the scene of death and kisses the few feathers left behind after the hunters had carried the male bird away. In her desperation she searches for signs of life in the blood – stained feathers. Her grief is so great that it’s as if nature took pity on her and carried her to her dead mate.

Question 42.
How does the uncertainty and disorganisation among the ranks of the invaders add to the humour?
Answer:
There was no understanding among the fielders. There was a lot of uncertainty and disorganization. When the ball hit by the blacksmith, which had soared high up in the air, began it’s descent, all the fielders began running to get under it to catch it. They kept looking only at the ball and not at the other fielders running, not one of them appeared to be aware that any one else existed.

All ran together, crashed against each other and fell down. This confusion was compounded by the contradictory instructions given by Hodge The fact that all of the players running from their positions to catch one ball add to the humour.

OR

Write a short note on views expressed by the writer on the tragic comedy of ‘development’. Why does he call it tragic comedy?
Answer:
When we look at the development of the country, it is a very ironic situation. While pockets of private prosperity are growing, the resources of public sphere are depleting. Thus though we have an amazing variety of sleek new car models to choose from, the roads in our cities are in pretty bad shape and getting worse. Fashionable luxury resorts are mushrooming everywhere but the lung spaces like parks and playgrounds are shrinking.

It is similar story with many other services in the public domain including transportation, health care, education etc. Even the essential services are pushed into the private real so that some company or other can make profit on them. It is indeed a tragicomedy because the poor are also pushed into becoming consumers of increasingly expressive goods and utilities.

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XI. 43. Read the following passage , carefully and answer the questions given below : 1 x 4 = 4 (2×2)

The success of a major operation depends in large part on the intensive post operative care of the patient. Because of prolonged anesthesia and extensive surgical trauma, the patient is often in worse shape after the operation than before. The first few days after an operation are the most dangerous. During this critical period, the patient is under constant surveillance in the post – anesthetic recovery room or in an intensive care unit.

Specially trained nurses and doctors use electronic monitoring devices to detect deviations in the patient’s vital functions. The medical staff is also alert to signs of lung complications that frequently follow major surgery. Venous stenosis, or the slow – up of blood flow in the veins – a consequence of bed confinement – is prevented by exercising the patient’s limbs and varying his position in bed.

Closed circuit television cameras allow constant observation of the patient and monitoring devices linked with computers sound a warning when dangerous complications occur, but the keen senses of a skilled nurse are still required to ensure the best after care of the sick.

Questions :
A) What does the success of a major operation depend on?
Answer:
The success of a Major operation depends in large parts on the intensive post – operative care of the patient.

B) How are the vital functions of the patient detected after the surgery?
Answer:
Specially trained nurses and doctors use electronic monitoring devices to detect deviations in the patients vital functions.

XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18-20 sentences on any one of the following topics : ( 1 x 5 = 5 )

(a) Indian farmer today.
Answer:
Indian farmers today are at the cross roads. Technology has taken huge strides reformulating the role of farmers. If farmers do not make use of technology, they would be left behind in this fast – moving world, That is why, it is of paramount importance that Indian farmers educate themselves and know how to succeed in the new world order of consumerism.

If they are educated, they can progress in the field of agriculture and contribute richly towards the economy of the nation. Even to this day, despite the progress it has made in the IT Sector, India is recognized as an agricultural economy. Hence it is of paramount importance that India values its farmers.

But unfortunately we have seen that Indian farmers are native, and hence are taken for a ride by the mediators. That is why there are many tragic cases of farmers committing suicide after being cheated by mediators who swallow a lion’s share of farmers profit margin or landlords who offer loans on high rates of interest.

It is the duty of the government to offer attractive schemes of farmers so that the nation makes progress in the field of agriculture. It is also necessary that the government educates farmers and also gives manure and farming equipment at subsidized rates.
This would mean a bright future for India.

(b) Water is Precious – Save it.
Answer:
Water is the elixir of life. One can never imagine a world without water. All living beings need water to survive on this earth. No other Planet in our universe has water, according to scientists.

Yet today this precious natural resource is under the threat of being exhausted. Water has not been judiciously and sensibly used by mankind. Industrial development, growing population, unsuitable Lifestyle has put a severe pressure on this precious resource. Many countries are facing water crisis.

India has enough potential for water resources, but due to improper management of water, Many of our precious water resources are under threat. Most of our water resources are polluted and many have become unsuitable for consumption.

Saving water has been an important task for man. Water is a limited resource and without water life is not possible on earth.

Children should.be taught to use water sensibly early in their life. Water crisis can be prevented by the use of technology and resources to conserve the existing water resources. Every water user should be made aware of that if there is no water there is no life and if there is no water than there is no future.
Water is Precious – Save it.

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XIII. 45.Write a letter to your friend asking him / her to attend your sister’s marriage. ( 1 x 5 = 5 )

Krishna
No.23 fort Road,
Gorur
Date : ……….

Dear Ramesh,
I am quite good in my health. I think you and your family members are fine.

No I am writing this letter to inform you about my sister’s marriage. My sister’s marriage falk on 25th May at Sri. Venkataramana temple, Gorur. We have invited only a few relatives and friends. The bridegroom is a teacher and he did not expect anything (dowry) from us. As I could not invite you personally, I am inviting you through this letter. I cordially invite you on the occasion of my sister’s marriage. You should be here by 20th May. Apply for leave and come as early as possible. I hope you will not disappoint me.Convey this and my regards to one and all in your house.

Yours loving friend
Krishna

To,
Ramesh
No. 40,
Church Road
Hassan

OR

Imagine you are Rama/Girija of Government High school, Somanahaili, Write a letter to your father narrating about your preparation for the public examination”

Rama,
Govt High school
Somanahally

Dear father,
I got your letter and the money that you sent last week. I am too much busy nowadays. My public examination is coming soon. The exam starts from next month. The exam schedule is already set. Mathematics is on the first day. I have been preparing for the exam. I have collected many sets of old question papers and i have been practicing well. I am preparing all the subjects equally.

I am studying six hours a day and go to play only hour per day. I am making more efforts on Science and Maths. We are getting two days leave from school for the preparation of exam. I have made notes for all subjects. I am sure that I would get distinction in the exam.

After the exams I will write again. Please don’t worry about my studies and myself.

Yours loving daughter,
Rama

To,
Mr. Shankar
No. 50, I main, II cross
J. P. Nagar,
Mysore

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Time: 2.30 hours
Maximum Marks: 80

I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions / incomplete statements. Only one of them is correct or most appropriate. Choose the correct alternative and write the complete answer along with its letter of alphabet. [3]

Question 1.
The newspaper report made Swami’s father challenge Swami to,
(A) become wiser than the newspaper
(B) sleep alone in the office room.
(C) fight with a tiger
(D) catch hold of a burglar.

Question 2.
The Person who helped Baleshwar to take Roma to a hospital was
(A) traffic police
(B) railway employee
(C) her brother, Dinesh
(D) truck driver.

Question 3.
Scientists were called to Geneva to find out solution for
(A) Nuclear Test Ban Violation
(B) Mutually Assured Destruction
(C) Cold War
(D) Natural Disaster

II. Answer the following questions in 2 – 3 sentences each: [8]

Question 4.
Why had Roma fallen by the tracks?

Question 5.
Why did Smita request Pandit Ravi Shankar to visit her house?

Question 6.
What admirable qualities do you find in Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Allah Rakha ?

Question 7.
“According to Keilis Borok, being a scientist is more exciting than being a doctor or an engineer.” Why?

III. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: [9]

Question 8.
“Why don’t you join the police when you are grown up ?”
(a) Who made this suggestion ?
(b) Why did the speaker ask him to join the police?
(c) Was he really willing to join the police ? Give reason.

Question 9.
“I argued with him but it was useless.”
(a) Who is the ‘I’?
(b) What was the argument about?
(c) Why was it useless?

Question 10.
“His fair for legislative work became evident to the whole nation.”
(a) Whose flair became evident?
(b) When did it become evident?
(c) Pick out the word from the given statement which means ‘a natural ability to do something well”.

IV. Answer the following question in about 8-10 sentences: [4]

Question 11.
“Patience has its limits.” Substantiate the statement in view of the seamen’s desperation.
OR
Narrate the incidents that deprived Satish of regular schooling.

POETRY

V. Choose the most appropriate alternative and write the complete answer with the letter of the alphabet in the answer book. [1]

Question 12.
The land feels choked when one of the following activities is done by man. That is
(A) putting a fence
(B) digging muddy holes
(C) buying land D) coming with guns.

VI. Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences each: [4]

Question 13.
How are the Indian Temples, ‘epics in stone’?

Question 14.
Why does Norman Nicholson call the space flight, ‘a solitary confinement’?

VII. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow: [3]

Question 15.
“Then we kissed the little maiden,
And we spake in better cheer.”
(a) Who does ‘we’ refer to?
(b) What made them kiss the little maiden?
(c) Why were they back in cheer?

VIII.
Question 16.
Quote from memory: [4]
It is______________________
__________________________
__________________________
___________ seasons justice

OR
With heavy__________________
______________________________
______________________________
_____________________can know.

IX. Answer the following question in 8 – 10 sentences: [4]

Question 17.
Draw a contrast between the musical ability and the appearance of the Jazz player.
OR
The behaviour of Ruskin Bond’s grandmother is ususual, Explain.

Supplementary Reading

X. Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences each: [4]

Question 18.
The march of the students was a bit disappointing to Manju and Babu. Why?
OR
Taking up mountaineering was not a difficult decision for Dicky Dolma. Justify.

Question 19.
In what way did the absence of mother make Hanif and his brothers responsible?
OR
What did the first monster ask Wangia to do? How did Wangia react to it?

Vocabulary

XI.
Question 20.
Combine the word in Column – A with its Collecative word in Column-B: [1]
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Question 21.
Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate words given in brackets: [1]
A Rolls Royce is too _______ [deer/dear] for a common man to________ [buy / by]

Question 22.
Which one of the following words has only one syllable? [1]
table, honest, graph, device.

Question 23.
Give one word for 1
A decorated rod carried by a king or a queen as a symbol of power.

SECTION – B

Reading

XII. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: [4]

Bansilal’s train was late and it reached Mumbai a little after midnight. It was his first visit to the city, and he did not know where to go. He thought, he would go to a visit to the city, and he did not know where to go. He thought, he would go to a choultry where he would not have to pay rent, but he did not know how to find one at that hour. He asked porter to get him a cheap room. The porter said that if Bansilal gave him three rupees, he would take him to one. But Bansilal waved him away and walked out of the station. He wandered through the streets and asked a number of people, but could not find a room cheap enough for him. He sat down on a bench. He woke up the next morning stiff in every limb, but he smiled when he realised that it was the cheapest night’s lodging that he had ever had.

Question 24.
Why did Bansilal think of going to a choultry?

Question 25.
What did the porter tell Bansilal?

Question 26.
Why did Bansilal wander through the streets in Mumbai?

Question 27.
Where did Bansilal find the cheapest lodge?

XIII.
Question 28.
Rearrange the jumbled words into a meaningful sentence:
you/have/your/work/ ? /completed

XIVRead the following conversation and answer the questions that follow: [2]

Supriya: Hello!
Mother: Hello Supriya! Have you reached home safely?
Supriya: Yes Mom, When are you coming?
Mother: I’ll be late by two hours today because of the meeting in my office.
Supriya: Oh Mom! Then what about our plan to go to the puppet show?
Mother: Sorry dear, today we can’t go to the puppet show. We shall make it on some other day. Ok
Supriya: Mom, Get me chocolates when you come.
Mother: Sure Supriya, but you should complete your homework before I come.

Question 29.
Why couldn’t Supriya and her mother go to the puppet show?

Question 30.
On what condition did Supriya’s mother agree to bring chocolates?
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Writing

Question 31.
Look at the two pictures. Write a sentence using “broader than’ based on what you see: [1]
Karnataka Board SSLC English Question Paper June 2018 Q 31

Question 32.
Given below is a profile of Sarojini Naidu. Write a paragraph using the same:
Birth: 13th February, 1879
Place: Hyderabad.
Father: Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, a scientist.
Mother: Mrs. Varada Sundari, a Bengali Poet
Spouse: Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu
Profession: Politician, Freedom Fighter, Governor of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Writer.
Death: 2nd march, 1993
Work: The Golden threshold (1905)
The bird of time (1912)
The Broken Wing (1917)
Father of the Dawn (1961)
OR
Write a paragraph, using the clues given below. You may add some more points if necessary:
A poor wood cutter – cutting wood – tree on a river bank – axe fell into the river – goddess – golden axe – refused – silver axe – refused – wooden axe – happily accepted – goddess gave golden and silver axes blessing – moral.

Question 33.
Imagine that you are Jyothi/John, Studying in Xth Standard, Govt. High School, Haveri.
Write a letter to your father greeting him on his 50th birthday. 4
OR
Write a letter to the KPTCL asking for street lights in your locality stating the inconveniences suffered by the residents.

Editing

Question 34.
The following paragraph has two errors. Edit the paragraph and rewrite it in the answer-book. Clues
are given. [2]
He clambered to the peak of snow-cowered mountain and there he heard the voice of the Bird of Happiness. “My lovely child, have you come here for me.”
Clues:
(a) Spelling mistake to be corrected.
(b) Use correct punctuation mark.

Grammer (Language Use)

Question 35.
Read the given conversation and choose the language function of the underlined sentence: [1]
Shreya: Hello daddy, my teacher has asked me to give a speech on republic Day.
Father: That’s great! Go ahead speak well my dear.
Shreya: Will you please help me to prepare the speech dad?
(A) Request
(B) Order
(C) Suggestion
(D) Encouragement.

Question 36.
Read the conversation and identify the infinitive: [1]
Master: I have a guest tonight, prepare something good. But don’t forget to make some sweets.
Cook: Fine Sir, Is dal-roti and halwa okay?
Master: Yes.
(A) have
(B) prepare
(C) forget
(D) to make.

Question 37.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate ‘preposition’ and ‘article’
Ravi was made to wait________ half_______ hour in the post office.

Question 38.
The students have come back from the tour,_______ [1]
The question tag to be used for the above sentence is
(A) have they?
(B) haven’t they?
(C) had they?
(D) hadn’t they?

Question 39.
Fill in the blanks using the suitable linking words given in brackets: [1]
All that Satish could do was sit_______ stare out of the window _______ read. (and, after, of, but)

Question 40.
Read the conversation and fill in the blank choosing the correct ‘If clause’ given below:
Reporter: Sir, what made you choose arts as your career?
Satish: I was left with no other choice. If I had not lost the power of hearing. I _______ become an artist.
(A) must have
(B) would have
(C) wouldn’t have
(D) will have

Question 41.
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate tense forms of the verbs given in brackets: [2]
Roopa looked up from the newspaper and________ (say I excitedly, ‘Sri S.R Balasubramaniam_______ (be + perform) tomorrow at the Chennaiah Rangamandira.

Question 42.
Read the conversation and rewrite the underlined sentences into Reported speech: [2]
Ramesh: How are you, behenji?
Sumana: I’m fine, Thank you (you have saved my life)
Ramesh: Nothing great. It is my duty to help those who are in trouble.
Sumana thanked Ramesh _________
_____________________________________
Ramesh replied_____________________
_____________________________________

Reference Skill

XV.
Question 43.
Arrange the following words in the order in which they are found in dictionary:
Crucial, Creature, Creation, crest.

Question 44.
Write it in the normal way: [1]
v r going 2 a b’day party.

Question 45.
Which source would you refer to look out for the meaning of the word ‘malapropism’? [1]
Thesaurus, Dictionary, Newspaper, Atlas.

Answers

Answer 1:
(B) Sleep alone in the office room.

Answer 2:
(D) truck drives

Answer 3:
(C) Cold War

Answer 4:
Roma squeezed herself into a ladies compartment. She tried to settle into a corner near the door. The train hurtted and Roma, Jammed between other women, was trying to find some space to safely on when she suddenly got pushed, lost her tenuous foot hold and panicked. Her hands reached for the steel raising above, but finding only air, Roma was thrown out of the coach.

Answer 5:
Smitha and her brother Ananth both were going to sitar classes. But her brother was suffering fro cancer and they were in bombay for we treatment. Her brother longed to hear sitar of Pandith Ravishankar. But he could not attend the concert. So, smitha requested Pandith Ravishankar to visit her house and play Sitar for her brother.

Answer 6:
Smitha approached Pandit Ravi Shankar to request him to visit her house to play sitar for her sick brother. Ustad Allah Rakha said that Panditji was a busy man and not to bother him with such requests. But Pandith Ravi Shankar smiled and told Usthad Allah Rakha to be quiet. He told Ustad Allah Rakha that next day morning they are going to perform for the boy. Here we can see the obedient quality of Ustad Allah Rakha and his respectful behaviour towards his Guru Pandith Ravishankar, a kind and compassionate man giving respect and showing concern to the request of audience.

Answer 7:
Keilrs Borok says being a scientist is more exciting than being a doctor on an engineer because scientific research is an exciting venture into the great unknown and the token of humankind’s survival. It is the scientists with their tools that are up to the challange and can ensure that we all safely move with the time. Science is not the beginning and not the end either. If humanly used, science is their molispensable guardian and care taker.

Answer 8:
(a) Swami’s father made this suggestion.
(b) The speaker thought that the burglas was caught by swami and swami was brave boy.
(c) No, he said for the sake of politeness, but he made up his mind to an engine driver, a railway guard on a bus conducter later in life.

Answer 9:
(a) ‘I’ refers to the story teller.
(b) The argument was about the selling of house and land.
(c) Don Anselmo was not ready to take more money than what had been agreed upon and story teller failed to convinience him to take more money.

Answer 10:
(a) Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s flair for legislative work became evident to the whole nation.
(b) When Baba Saheb made effective contributions to the debates in the Bombay Legislative Assembly on a variety of subjects.
(c) ‘flair’

Answer 11:
The seamen were singing the song again and again saying that the god is dumb even though the devils are laughing in the kingdom Christopher columbus always used to be at open defiance work his crew about this song of seamen. He used to get furious. Seamen felt like bats trying to fly by day. They always thought that why one man have the lives of fifty on his hands not even allowing them to sing to keep their SPTRDS for sarting the crew.

OR
Satish was getting terrible headaches after the last operation on his leg. He used to feel as if everything is going dark and silent. He felt miserable. Though his legs healed, they remained weak, requiring several operations on them. He suffered frequently from bouts of fever and infections, especially of ear. His frequent absence and his hearing problem deproved im of regular schooling.

Poetry

Answer 12:
(c) buying land.

Answer 13:
The Indian temples are rock – cut temples. These temples tells about the beautiful and skillfull architecture of Indian culture.

Answer 14:
In the space flight Norman Nicholson was alone, nobody to visit him and not a friend. He was not writing letters or sending mails to his friends.

Answer 15:
“Then we kissed the little maiden.
And we spake in better cheer”.
(a) ‘we’ refer to sailors.
(b) The god of ocean saved their lives and they were cheerful.
(c) Because their life was saved by the god of ocean and they were anchored safely in harbour.

Answer 16:
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to god himself;
and earthly power doth then
show likest god’s When mercy seasons justice.

OR
With heavy signs I often hear you mourn my haplers woe;
But sure with patience I can bear A loss I ne’es can know.

Answer 17:
Jazz player was a commanding artist. He has the power on him to make people listen, a gift that not many possess. He is silent on speech, but eloquent in music: He is like a bird that gathers his wings and flies high and high on his art of flying in music. But his appearance is completely contrast to this. He is a pathetic figure A black ancient marines with wrinkled old face. Full of wearies. His blue old shirt is turned dark with sweat and old necktre loosely about the worn. Old Jacket barely holding his sagging stomach and his sun-down shoes have paper in them and rough unshaven face shows pain.

OR
Rusking Bond’s grandmother was sixty-two ever since childhood, she was having the gift of being happies in a tree than in a lift. She was a genius. She could climb trees or could be up their branches in a trice when she was sixty two. One day she had a terrible fall. ‘She climbed a tree and couldn’t come down. She was rescued and doctor recommended a quiet week on bed. But once she became stronger, she wanted a house in a treetop and moved up to her house in a treetop.

Supplementary reading

Answer 18:
The students walked in complete silence. There were no slogans; no shouts, just the shuffle of feet,
the drip of rain and a low murmur from the watching crowd.

OR
Taking up mountaineering was not a difficult decision for Dicky Dolma because from her childhood, she had been fascinated by the grandeus of the snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas every morning, she when she woke up, these beautiful mountains were the first things she saw.

Answer 19:
Hanif’s mother used to travel with the performance wing of the information and broadcasting ministry, her absence made Hanif and his brothers to become responsible. They were getting up and getting ready to for school without mother telling to them. Her absence gave them the message that one’s duty is the most important thing in life.

OR
The first monster asked wangjia to kill Lourang’s mother. Otherwise he will be punished the monster said wangjia replied that he loves his own mother and he will never kill another person’s mother. He said the monster to do as it please.

Vocabulary

Answer 20:
Tron – steel

Answer 21:
A Rolls Royce is too dear for a common man to buy.

Answer 22:
Graph

Answer 23:
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Section – B

Reading

Answer 24:
Bansilal reached mumbai after midnight and being first visit to the he didn’t know where to go. So he thought of going to a choultry.

Answer 25:
The postes said that of Bansilal give him 3 rupees, he would take him to one cheap room.

Answer 26:
Bansilal waved the porter who asked for 3 rupees and wandered through the streets.

Answer 27:
Bansilal found the cheapest lodge on a bench where he sat and woke up the next morning.

Answer 28:
Have you completed your work?

Answer 29:
Supriya and here mother couldn’t go to the puppet show because her mother was late by two hours because of the meeting on her office.

Answer 30:
Her mother agreed to bring chocolates for supriya on a condition that supriya should complete her homework before she come.

Answer 31:
M.G. Road is broades than J.C. Road

Writing

Answer 32:
Saronini Naidu was born on 13th February, 1879 in Hyderabad, her parents were Dr. Aghesnath Chattopadhyaya and Mrs. Varada Sundari. Her father was a scientist and mother was a Bengali poet. She married Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu. She was the first governor of United provinces of Agra and Oudh she was also a politician, freedom figher and writer. She died on 2nd March, 1949. Her notable works are the Golden threshold, the bird of time the broken wing and father of the Dawn. She was remembered as the ‘Nightingale of India’.

OR
A poor woodcutter was cutting the wood of a tree on a river bank. His axe fell into the river. He was sad and started crying. The river goddess appeared and asked him why he was crying. The wood cutter told his axe tell on the river. The river god brought golden axe, the woodcutter refused saying that was not his. The river goddess brought silver axe, the woodcutter refused to take in finally, the river goddess brought the wooden axe. The woodcutter was happy to see his axe and took it. The river goddess was pleased by the honesty of the wood cutter and gave him golden and silver axes blessing him. The moral of the sotry is ‘Honesty is the best policy’.

Answer 33:
From,
Jyothi / John,
X Standard Govt. High School Haveri.
Date:……..
Dear Father,

I am fine here, I hope you are also fine. I am studying well and all teachers have good opinion about me. I would like to wish you on your 50th birthday. You are my best frien and mentor on my life. You always showed me the right path and today behind my all success you are there. ‘I love you pappa, once again I wish you many more happy returns of the day.

To, Your lovely daughter/son
San

Editing

Answer 34:
He climbed to the peak of a snow-covered mountain and there he heard the voice of the bird of happiness. “My lovely child, have you come here for me ?”.

Grammar

Answer 35:
(A) Request

Answer 36:
(D) to make

Answer 37:
for, and

Answer 38:
haven’t they?

Answer 39:
All that Satish could do was sit of stare out of the window and read.

Answer 40:
would have

Answer 41:
said, will be performing.

Answer 42:
Sumana thanked Ramesh for saving her lie.
Ramesh replied that it was his duty to help those who were in trouble.

Reference Skill

Answer 43:
Creation, creature, crest, cruicial.

Answer 44:
We are going to a birthday party.

Answer 45:
Dictionary.

Karnataka SSLC English Previous Year Question Paper March 2018 (2nd Language)

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Karnataka State Syllabus SSLC English Previous Year Question Paper March 2018 (2nd Language)

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 80

I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions / incomplete statements.
Only one of them is correct or most appropriate. Choose the correct alternative and write the complete answer along with its letter of the alphabet. [3]

Question 1.
Father did not like Swami
(A) joining the cricket club
(B) sleeping in the office room
(C) sleeping beside his granny
(D) biting a burglar’s leg.

Question 2.
Roma Talreja felt that she could never repay Baleshwar because he
(A) informed Dinesh about the accident
(B) requested all the motorists to save her
(C) risked his life to save her
(D) pleaded the passengers to save her.

Question 3.
The concept “immersion in science doesn’t go with practical sense” suggests
(A) foolishness of scientists
(B) absentmindedness of scientists
(C) scientists do not bother about their research results
(D) scientists seldom work together.

II. Answer the following questions in 2 – 3 sentences each: [4×2=8]

Question 4.
How did the tempo truck driver help Baleshwar?

Question 5.
What was the intention of Smita’s going to the concert?

Question 6.
The artists visiting Anant was unusual. Justify.

Question 7.
Despite low income, why do some people choose to become scientists?

III. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: [9]

Question 8.
“Why don’t you join the police when you are grown up ?”
(a) Who gave this suggestion?
(b) Why did he give this suggestion?
(c) What did the listener actually want to become in his later life?

Question 9.
“The trees in the orchard are not mine.”
(a) Who is the speaker here?
(b) According to the speaker, who else do the trees belong to?
(c) Why does he feel that the trees don’t belong to him ?

Question 10.
“Who could have dreamt that one born to a Mahar family would one day become not only a Law
Minister but a Law-maker ?”
(a) Who is referred to as ‘Law Minister’ here?
(b) Who chose him to be the ‘Law Minister’?
(c) Why is he recognised as the Law-maker?

IV. Answer the following question in about 8-10 sentences: [4]

Question 11.
How did the crew members express their discontent with Columbus?
OR
Explain the incident that forced Satish to stay back at home. How did it affect his formal education?

Poetry

V. Choose the most appropriate one and write the complete answer with the letter of alphabet in the answer-book: [1]

Question 12.
In the line from the poem, ‘You say you own me’, the terms ‘you’ and ‘me’ refer to
(A) children and the farmer
(B) man and the land
(C) soldier and the land
(D) buyer and seller of the land.

VI. Answer the following questions in 2 – 3 sentences each: [4]

Question 13.
How does the poet praise India being developed in industry and technology?

Question 14.
The speaker in ‘Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning’ is uncertain of his return. How does he express this?

VII. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: [3]

Question 15.
“Isn’t God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land ?”
(a) Who is the speaker here?
(b) When was this said?
(c) What was the result of these words?

VIII.
Question 16.
Quote from memory: [4]
“It is…………………………………………………..
………………………………………………himself
And ……………………………………………………
………………………………………………………justice.”
OR
“Then let…………………………………………….
…………………………………………….. destroy:
Whilst………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………… boy.”

IX. Answer the following question in 8 to 10 sentences: [4]

Question 17.
Describe in your own words how the poet’s grandma was a genius and how she upheld ‘her right to reside in a tree’.
OR
The physical appearance of the Jazz player does not match when he plays on his saxophone. Explain.

Supplementary Reading

X. Answer the following questions in 2 – 3 sentences each: [4]

Question 18.
Why were Babu and Manju a bit disappointed with the way the students were marching?
OR
How did the lofty Himalayas inspire Dicky Dolma?

Question 19.
How did Hema Aziz teach her children the message that “one’s duty is the most important thing in life”?
OR
What changes came over Wangjia as the Bird of Happiness caressed him?

Vocabulary

XI.
Question 20.
Which one of the following words has one syllable? [1]
Father, Cheque, Office, Travel.

Question 21.
Combine the word in Column-A with its collocative word in Column-B: [1]
Karnataka Board SSLC English Question Paper March 2018 Q 21
Question 22.
Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate words given in brackets: [1]

The_______ ( not, knot) of the rope was so strong that it could________(knot, not) be removed by us.

Question 23.
Give one word for ‘very eager for knowledge’. [1]

SECTION – B

Reading

XII. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: [4]

Once there was a slave. His name was Andrades. His master was very cruel. He treated him badly. So, the slave was sick of him and ran away into a forest. There he saw a lion crying with pain. The lion sat before him and held out its paw. There was a big thorn in it. The slave drew it out and dressed the wound. They became friends.

After a few days, the slave was caught. He was ordered to be thrown before a hungry lion. Many people came to see the act of cruelty.

A lion was caught for this purpose. It was kept hungry for many days. On the fixed day, the lion was let loose on the slave. It recognised him. It began to lick his feet. ‘

All the people were surprised. The slave told the whole story. The master was pleased and set Andrades free.

Question 24.
What made Andrades go to the forest?

Question 25.
How did Andrades help the lion?

Question 26.
What act of cruelty did the people go to watch?

Question 27.
Why didn’t the lion kill Andrades?

Question 28.
Rearrange the jumbled words into a meaningful sentence: [1]
garden / flowers / in / the / pluck / don’t

Question 29.
Look at the two lines. Write a sentence using ‘longer than’ based on what you see: [1]
Karnataka Board SSLC English Question Paper March 2018 Q 29
XIII. Read the following conversation and answer the questions that follow:

News Reporter: Congratulations Rashmi! Your feat is laudable. By the way, did you expect first rank in the CET this year?
Rashmi: No. Actually I expected to be one in top ten ranks.
News reporter: How could you achieve this?
Rashmi: I worked hard from the beginning. My teachers, my college library, my parents were of great help to me.

Question 30.
Why does the news reporter congratulate Rashmi? [1]

Question 31.
What was the secret of Rashmi’s achievement? [1]

Writing

XIII.
Question 32.
Given below is the profile of Rabindranath Tagore. Write a paragraph using the clues [4]
Karnataka Board SSLC English Question Paper March 2018 Q 32
OR
Write a paragraph, using the clues given below. You may add some more points if necessary :
Twelve fools start on a journey — cross a river — count themselves — one man lost—a passer-by offers help — gives each a blow on the back — they count twelve strokes — satisfied — moral

Question 33.
Imagine that you are Divya / Dinesh, residing at ‘Sai Nivas’, #74,1 Cross, Vivek Nagar, Hiriyur.
Write a letter to your cousin inviting him/her to come to your house to spend summer vacation. [4]
OR
Write a letter to the Chief Officer, Town Municipal Council, Hiriyur about the garbage dumped in your locality and request him/her to do the needful.

Editing

Question 34.
The following paragraph has two errors. Edit the paragraph and rewrite it in the answer-book. Clues are given. [2]
Whales are normally gentle. Many whales exibit strong family ties. The young ones remain with their parents for up to fifteen years or more. How wonderful it is.
Clues:
(a) Spelling mistake to be corrected
(b) Use correct punctuation mark.

GRAMMAR ( Language Use )

XIV.
Question 35.
Read the given conversation and choose the language function for the underlined sentence: [1]
Visitor: Excuse me, can you help me in locating the book, ‘War And Peace’?
Librarian: Sure. Go to the sixth row and the book is on the third shelf.
Visitor: Thank you very much.
(A) Advice
(B) Giving directions
(C) Order
(D) Request.

Question 36.
Read the conversation and rewrite into a reported form:
Ravi: Good morning daddy.
Father: Good morning Ravi. Go to the railway station at 4 P.M. and bring your grandpa.
Ravi: I will daddy, don’t worry.
Ravi and father greeted each other.
Father asked Ravi…………………………….
……………………………………………………………
Ravi replied………………………………………
……………………………………………………………

Question 37.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate ‘article’ and ‘preposition’: [1]
There are_______ number of newspapers_______ Kannada and English.

Question 38.
Gopi broke the glass,_______? [1]
The question tag to be used for the above statement is
(A) did he
(B) was he
(C) wasn’t he
(D) didn’t he.

Question 39.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate tense forms of the verbs given in brackets: [2]
Maya is a lively woman. She_______ (love) visiting beaches. Last year, she_______ (have + visit) seven beautiful beaches of Indian islands.

Question 40.
Fill in the blanks using the suitable linking words given in brackets: [1]
The flight in which I travelled was delayed_______ the sky was very cloudy._______, my parents
were much worried about my safety, (but, so, because, that)

Question 41.
Read the conversation and fill in the blanks with correct ‘if clause’ choosing from the given alternatives: [1]
Neighbour: Hi Ranjith, Did you get a seat in the college you desired?
Ranjith: No uncle, my application was rejected due to my low scores.
Neighbour: I am sorry to hear this. If you had worked harder, you_______ got a seat in the college.
(A) will have
(B) shall have
(C) would have
(D) should have.

Question 42.
Read the conversation and identify the infinitive: [1]
Cook: What shall I cook for dinner tonight, Sir?
Master: Prepare some special items. I am expecting two guests to come for dinner.
Cook: Alright Sir, what about Pulao and Halwa?
Master: Okay, also make some fruit salad.
Cook: Yes Sir.
(a) Prepare
(b) Expecting
(C) To come
(d) Make

Reference Skill

XV.
Question 43.
Arrange the following words in the order in which they are found in dictionary: [2]
adverb, advocate, advise, advice.

Question 44.
Write it in the normal way: [1]
my sis gt 80% in maths test

Question 45.
Which source of information would you refer to know about global warming? Choose the correct source: [1]
Thesaurus, Encyclopaedia, Atlas, Dictionary.

Answers

Answer 1:
(C) Sleeping beside his granny.

Answer 2:
(C) he risked his life to save her.

Answer 3:
(C) Scientists do not bother about their research results.

Answer 4:
The tempo truck driver stepped out of his vehicle. He was a middle-aged man. He responded to Baleshware’s request and helped Baleshwar lay Roma down in the back of his truck and helped him to take Roma to hospital nearby.

Answer 5:
The intension of smitha’s going to the concert was to request Pandith Ravishankar to come to their house and play sitar for her brother Ananth suffering from cancer.

Answer 6:
The artists who visited anant were Pandit Ravishankar a great Performer of Sitar instrument and Ustad Alla Rakha well – known Tabla artist.

Answer 7:
Science is an exciting adventure where major reqard comes from the discovery itself. What they get instead of money is freedom, camaradesire and independence. The honours and promotions will depend on themselves and feeling of uncovering one of nature’s mysteries.

Answer 8:
(a) The Inspector gave this suggestion.
(b) Because swami helped police in catching the notorious house-breakes of the district.
(c) The listener made his mind to be an engine driver, a railway guard or a bus conductor later on life.

Answer 9:
(a) Don Anselmo is the speaker here.
(b) The trees belong to the descendants of RIO en Medio.
(c) Because since he took the posession of that house, he planted a tree for the children of Rio – en Medio.

Answer 10:
(a) B.R. Ambedkar is referred to as ‘Law Minister’ here.
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru Chose him to be the law minister.
(c) He is recognised as the law-makes because of his skills in te field of law and legislation and his vision of social justice.

Answer 11:
The crew members were expressing them discontent by singing the song again and again. They were feeling like bats trying to fly by day.
They were not ready to be in the hands of Columbus who was a man of quick temper. Columbus was always trying to control them. He was suspecious about whatever they talk. The crew members were unhappy about being in voyage for many days. They have become impatient and thinking that whether is god dumb and not listening to their prayer. They were fed up with the dictatorial attitutde of columbus. They were drinking and singing the song for their relaxation. But columbus was Irritated hearing to it several times. The crew member and sea men became so much dissatisfied that they were not obeying the order of columbus.

OR
These had been an accident when satish went living with his father and brother Inder. They were crossing a rickety bridge over some rapids. The boys stood and looked down at swisling water below them. Just then Satish slipped and losing his balance. He fell into the rapids, when he regained consciousness. His legs were in a plaster cast and his head lust badly. Though his legs healed, they remained weak, requiring several operations on them. He suffered frequently from bows of fever and infections, especially of the ear. He was gesting terrible headaches and them feel as of everything is going dark and silent.

This situation made satish to take leave again and again from school. His frequent absence made the school to say that they couldn’t keep him in the school and suggested Satish’s father to put his son to the school for deaf and dumb. His father made unsuccessful expedition to other schools. Satish become very moody and couldn’t talk freely with anyone.

Answer 12:
(b) Man and the land.

Answer 13:
The poet says that he can 5 mg. about the dam and the lake. We appreciates the steel molls, ship building yard and praises the hard work of men behind that further, talking about technology he sings about atomic age and ironmen came in their wake.

Answer 14:
The poet expresses the uncertainly of his returning by saying that we can take a last look at him by passing the helmet to him from as plastic hook. His name can be crossed out from the telephone book because he will be off to outer space tomorrow morning.

Answer 15:
(a) The seamen are the speakers here.
(b) This was said when they were on voyage.
(c) The seamen were feeling relaxation after singing these words.

Answer 16:
“It is enthroned in the heart of kings:
It is an attribute to god himself;
and certainly power doth then show likes god’s.
When mercy seasons justice.

OR
Then let not what
I cannot have my cheer of mind destroy;
Whrist thus I sing, I a making.
Although a poor blind boy.

Answer 17:
The poet’s grandmother is a genius. She had the gift of being happies on a tree than on a left from childhood. She could climb trees, spreading or high. She would be up their branches in a trice when she was sixty two. Once she climbed a tree and couldn’t come down. After the rescue, she had to take a week’s rest. But after she felt stronger. She called poet’s father and told him to build a house on a tree top. After the construction of that house, she moved up to her tree- house and thepoet climb to her room everyday with glasses and tray. The poet climb to her room everyday with glasses and tray. The poet and granny were sitting there and drinking sherry. This way poet’s grandmother uphold “her right to reside in a tree”.

OR
Jazz player’s physical appearance is not matching with his talent when he plays on saxophone. He is a pathetic figure but at the same time commanding artist. He is silent on speech, ugly in physical appearance but eloguent on music. He has wrinkled old face, faded-blue old shirt dark with sweat, old necktre drops loosely about the warn, holding his stagging stomach, run-down shoes work papers on them. In betwen all these he lofts his saxophone supported from his neck by a wire coat hunger and preaches the blaag Gospel of Jazz with words of screaming notes and chords and fires in his music high and high and makes people listen.

Answer 18:
The students walked in complete silence. There were no slogans, no shouts, just the shuffle of feet, the drop of rain and a low murmur from the watching crowd.

OR
Dicky Dolma was fascinated by the grandeur of the snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas from child hood every morning, these beautiful mountain peak she used to see first.

Answer 19:
Hema Aziz often left hanif and his brother alone and travelled with the performance wing of the information and broadcasting ministry. This made her kids hanif and his brother responsible and they were getting up ready for without her having to tell them. Her going to work gave them the message that one’s duty is the most important thing in life.

OR
The birds of happiness casessed wangjia with its wings and sang for him. His eyeballs flew back to their sockets and now he saw much more brightly than before. All his wounds were healed and he was stronger than eve.

Answer 20:
Cheque.

Answer 21:
Rusting Waves.

Answer 22:
The knot of the rope was so strong that it could not be removed by us.

Answer 23:
Earnest

Answer 24:
Andrade’s master was very cruel and treated him badly.

Answer 25:
Andrades drew out the big thorn in the paw of the iron and dressed the wound.

Answer 26:
The throwing of slave before hungry lion.

Answer 27:
The lion didn’t kill andrakes because it recognised him and began to kill his feet.

Answer 28:
Don’t pluck the flowers in the garden.

Anser 29:
B is longer than A

Answer 30:
News suporter congratulated rashmi for securing first rank on the CET that year.

Answer 31:
The hardwork from the beginning was the secret of Rashmi’s achievement.

Answer 32:
Rabindranath Tagore was known as Gurudeva in Bengal. He wa bom on 7th May 1861. His parents were Debendranath Tagore and Sarala Devi. Rabindranath Tagore was a writer, painter and singer. His notable works are Gitanjali, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet. Amar Sonar Bangla etc. He got the Nobel prize for literature in 1913 for his work ‘Gitanjali’. He died on 7th August, 1941.

OR
Once twelve fools started on a journey they had to cross a river they decided to confirm that all of them crossed the river. So one of them started counting themselves. But everytime only 11 members were there and one man lost. They asked the help of a passes by. That passes by gave each a blow on the back and these fools counted 12 strokes. They were satisfied that all 12 were there. They decided to cross the river and reached their destination.
Moral: We should never be foolish.

Answer 33:
From:
Divya / Dinesh
“Sai Nivas’, #741 Cross,
Vivek Nagar, Hiriyur.
Date:………..
Dear Madhu,

I am fine here. I hope you are also fine. Our summer vacation begins from next week. I am inviting you to come to my house to spend summer vacation with me. Our village is a beautiful place. There are historical spots in our village. We can enjoy the beauty of nature. Please, come to my house and we will have an enjoyful summer holidays.

Your lovely Sister/Brother
Sincerly
(Divya / Dinesh)

OR

From:
ABC
Date:……..
Respected Sir/Madam,

Subject: Dumping of Garbage in our locality.

Hereby bringing to your notice, the garbage dumped in our locality has become a big problem. It led to the mosquitoes in the surrounding areas and people of our locality are suffering from fever that is very dangerous. We requested many times to the concerned department but action was not yet taken kindly, consider the seriousness of the situation, and do the needful as early as possible.

Thanking you,

Your’s Sincerely,
ABC

Answer 34:
Whales are normally gentle. Many whales exhibit strong family ties. The young ones remain with their parents for up to fifteen years or more. How wonderful it is!.

Answer 35:
(B) Giving directions.

Answer 36:
Father asked ravi to go to the railway station at 4 pm. to bring his grandpa. Ravi replied he would and not to worry.

Answer 37:
There are a number of newspapers in kannada and english.

Answer 38:
(D) didn’t he?

Answer 39:
Maya is a lively woman she loves visiting beaches. She had visited seven beautiful beaches of Indian islands.

Answer 40:
The flight in which I travelled was delayed because the sky was very cloudy. So my parents were much worried about my safety.

Answer 41:
(C) Would have

Answer 42:
(C) to come

Answer 43:
adverb, advice, advise, advocate.

Answer 44:
My sister got 80% in Maths test.

Answer 45:
Encyclopaedia.

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Time: 3 Hours
Max Marks: 100

I. Four alternatives are given for the following questions. Choose the correct answer and write it along with its alphabet. ( 6 × 1 = 6 )

Question 1.
‘That on the ashes of his youth doth lie’. The figure of speech in the line is The figure of speech in the line is
A) Personification
B) Metaphor
C) Synecdoche
D) Alliteration
Answer:
B) Metaphor

Question 2.
There are no snakes in Ireland,______
The appropriate question tag to be added is
A) are they?
B) aren’t they?
C) ain’t they?
D) don’t they?
Answer:
A) are they?

Question 3.
When I was younger, I thought so.
The underlined group of word is
A) a noun clause
B) an adverb clause
C) an adjective clause
D) a main clause
Answer:
B) an adverb clause

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Question 4.
Our boss ______ our meeting until next week
The correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank is
A) put
B) put off
C) put down
D) put up
Answer:
B) put off

Question 5.
The word in which ‘inter’ is a part of the word but not a prefix is
A) international
B) intercontinatal
C) interpret
D) interact
Answer:
C) interpret

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Question 6.
The bus is coming round the corner
The tense of the verb in the given sentence is
(A) Simple past
(B) Simple present
(C) Past continuous
(D) Present continuous
Answer:
(D) Present continuous

II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following :
( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 7.
Sustain : maintain :: imbibe :
Answer:
assimilate / absorb

Question 8.
Blue : blew :: bare :
Answer:
bear

Question 9.
Qualify : disqualify :: responsible :
Answer:
irresponsible

Question 10.
Strength : strong :: mystery :
Answer:
Mysterious

III. Rewrite as directed : ( 3 × 1 = 3 )

Question 11.
Change the voice of sentence :
We are going to watch a movie tonight
Answer:
A movie is going to be watched by us tonight.

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Question 12.
Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer :
You will find the keys on the table
Answer:
Where will I find the keys?

Question 13.
Change to reported speech :
He said, “My mother is a teacher”
Answer:
He told me that his mother is a teacher.

IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each : ( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 14.
When was the male sarus crane shot?
Answer:
The male crane was trying to pull the reluctant sun out of the rim of the horizon.

Question 15.
How was Marion going to identify Gaultier’s Messenger?
Answer:
Gaultier had told Marion that the messenger would ask to kiss her hand and that would be the sign, that the person was the messenger.

Question 16.
What was troubling the French wine growers?
Answer:
The French wine – growers were troubled by a germ which turned their wine sour.

Question 17.
What does ‘moving finger’ mean?
Answer:
Moving finger means fate.

V. Answer the following questions in two – three sentences each : ( 7 × 2 = 14 )

Question 18.
How does a close friend describe Anne when she saw her at the Belsen Camp?
Answer:
The close friend described Anne as ‘cold and hungry’, and her skeleton like form was draped in coarse shapeless, striped garb of the concentration camp.

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Question 19.
What horrid response did the Cyclop give to Ulysses request for hospitality?
Answer:
Polyphemus said nothing in reply but gripping two of Ulysses men standing nearest to him as if they were no more than children, dashed their brains out against the earth, tore in pieces their limbs and devoured them, even while they were warm and trembling, lapping their blood.

Question 20.
Why did the vagabonds go back to the bakery after eating the Pie?
Answer:
When they were waiting at M. Gaultier’s door they saw a tart. They thought that it was a cranberry tart. They felt like it was a tart to dream about, succulent, spiced, sugared and white as a miad’s bosom. They felt that it would be very nice to have it was a starter food before eating the eel pie. So the vagabonds went back to the bakery after eating the pie.

Question 21.
How could the narrator, being blind, describe Mussoorie?
Answer:
At the beginning of the story the narrator himself says that he was totally blind at the time he was travelling by train to Mussoorie. The narrator also tells that the best time to visit Mussoorie was October, when the tourists have gone back and the hills are covered with wild dahlias. We can infer that the narrator’s eyesight was good before and he must have visited Mussoorie many times when he had a good eye sight. But he seems to have lost his eyesight at a recent time.

Question 22.
Why did Buttoo sever his thumb? What does it tell you about Buttoo.
Answer:
Buttoo severed his thumb to present it to his guru Dronacharya as recompense for his skill at archery. It tells as about Buttoo devotion to his guru. He knew that his future was doomed yet he gave up his right thumb.

Question 23.
What has happened to his own garden now with a poison tree? Was he happy in growing a poison tree?
Answer:
The speaker’s garden is no longer a paradise because now, a poisonous tree grows there bearing poisonous fruits. The speaker not happy in growing a poison tree.

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Question 24.
How did Parasurama realize that Kama was not a Brahmana?
Answer:
One day Parasurama was reclining with his head on Kama’s lap when a stinging worm burrowed into Kama’s thigh. Blood began to flow and the pain was terrible, but Kama bore it without tremor lest he should disturb the master’s sleep. Parasurama awoke and saw the blood which had poured from the wound. He said: “Dear pupil, you are not a brahmana. A kshatriya alone can remain unmoved under all bodily torments”.

VI. Rewrite as directed. ( 3 × 2 = 6 )

Question 25.
Change the following sentence to a simple and compound
If you don’t do this you will be punished
Answer:
Simple : Do this to avoid punishment.
Compound : Do this or you will be punished.

Question 26.
Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison :
No other fruit is as sweet as mango.
Answer:
Comparitive : Mango is sweeter than any fruit.
Superalative : Mango is the sweetest of all fruits.

Question 27.
Combine the following sentences using neither / nor
He does not drink. He does not smoke
Answer:
He neither drinks nor smokes.

VII. Answer the following questions in 5-6 sentences each : ( 6 × 3 = 18 )

Question 28.
How does Basavanna console himself regarding his helplessness as a poor man?
Answer:
Basavanna too wants to show his devotion to his Lord. But he was a poor man and could not build temples for his Lord. So he consoles himself saying that his body itself is a temple. His legs are pillars, the body is the shrine where his lord resides and his head is a cupola of gold.

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Question 29.
What was John Silver’s treacherous plan? How did Jim come to know about it?
Answer:
John Silver’s treacherous plan was to kill the skipper, the Squire and the doctor once the treasure was found.
One evening Jim went looking for an apple to eat, but found the apple barrel empty. He climbed right into it and while he was inside the barrel, he over heard, John Silver’s treacherous plan.

Question 30.
Explain how the stones on the wall are disturbed. When is the usual mending time ?
Answer:

  • Stones get displaced — swelling due to heavy frost and the upper boulders get spilled in the sun and make wide gaps (natural causes ).
  • Hunters disturb the wall when they come searching for rabbits hiding in the gaps of the wall — to please the yelping dogs (man-made causes ).
  • Spring — the mending time.

Question 31.
Why does the narrator say that October is the best time in Mussoorie? Being blind, how could he describe it?
Answer:
The narrator was not born blind. He had visited Mussoorie during his childhood. But unfortunately he had lost his sight as he grew – up. Hence he could describe Mussoorie from his memory of the place.

Question 32.
How did Pasteur develop the idea of immunity?
Answer:
Pasteur could understand that a cow could not have anthrax twice. Then he began to wonder whether it would not be possible to make a cow and even a man just a little ill with anthrax, so they might not get it again. Perhaps this could be done by giving cow or sheep very weak old germs to make them safe or immune for the future. This is how he developed the idea of immunity.

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Question 33.
What is the ‘deep irony’ about the tragic comedy of development ? Substantiate your answer with two examples.
Answer:

  • Irony : While pockets of private prosperity are growing, there is an inexorable impoverishment of the resources that belong to the public realm.
  • Ex. 1 : There is an amazing variety of sleek new car models to choose from but the roads are in bad shape.
  • Ex. 2 : Fashionable luxury resorts for the affluent are coming up everywhere whereas lung spaces for public use parks and playgrounds are shrinking.

OR

Write briefly the proceedings of the meeting of the elders in the Workers’ Paradise.
Answer:

  • All agreed that work had suffered — people were wasting their precious time in useless things.
  • Aerial messenger confessed that it was all because of the wrong man whom he had brought into the paradise.
  • The man was summoned — seeing his dress, brushes and paints, they realised this was not the right place for him.
  • The President asked him to leave — he agreed readily — the girl of the silent torrent too decided to go with him — All surprised.

VIII. Explain with reference to the context: ( 5 × 3 = 15 )

Question 34.
“But if you’ll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first”.
Answer:
The words “But if you’ll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first”, is extracted from the lesson “The gift of the Magi” by O’Henry. The above words are said by Jim to Della, when Della tries to convince Jim why she needed to cut off her hair. Jim comes home and is surprised to see Della without her long hair. Della tries her best to console and convince Jim. Jim finally reveals why he is shocked to see Della without her long hairs by saying the above words.

Question 35.
“Have you noticed that the trees seem to the moving while we seem to be standing still?”
Answer:
The lines are extracted from “The Eyes are not here” by Ruskin Bond.
These lines are spoken by the narrator to the girl travelling with him in the train to Dehradun. The narrator being blind was trying to impress the girl by pretending that he was not blind.

When the girl asked him to look out of the window he moves to the window and pretends looks out and says that the trees outside seemed to be moving while they seem to be standing still.

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Question 36.
Death’s second self, that seals up all
in rest.
Poem — That Time of Year
Poet — William Shakespeare.
Answer:

  • Said by poet addressing his friend through the poem.
  • The poet imagines himself to be in old age , — wants his friend to love him more as he is nearing death. He corresponds the four stages of man’s life i.e. childhood, youth, old age and death to the four stages of a . day i. e. morning, noon, evening and night and considers night as another name for death because just as death closes all activities of man’s life, similarly night’s darkness closes everything in sleep.

Question 37.
“Money is not required to buy even one necessity of the soul.”
Answer:
This line is taken from the lesson ‘Consumerist Culture’ by Cheriyan Alexander. The Writer has quoted this sentence made by Henry David Thoreau, the 19th C American philosopher. It is quoted to impress the fact that beyond a point it is necessary to say ‘enough’ to more meterial wealth. Even if we acquire all the material wealth we do not feel satisfied. But to gain, spiritual knowledge, no money is required. Hence “Money is not required to buy even one necessity of the soul”.

Question 38.
“I didn’t want to catch the darned thing’.
Lesson : A village Cricket Match
Author : A.G Macdonell
Said by Boone to Donald.
Answer:
The sexton of the village team, a man of Iron muscle from much digging hit the ball and it flashed like a thunderbolt straight at Donald. He sprang backwards to avoid it. The ball went straight and hit mighty Boone in the mid – riff like a red – hot cannon ball upon a Spanish Galleon. With a fearful oath, Boone clapped his hands to his outraged stomach and found that the ball was in the way.

He looked at it for a moment and in astonishment and then threw it down angrily. Donald came up to him and congratulted him for the catch. Boone scowled at him and told him that he didn’t want to catch the darned ball; sourly massaging his enraged stomach.

IX. Quote from memory: ( 1 × 4 = 4 )

Question 39.
So boldly he enter’d the Netherby Hall.
Among bride’s – men, and kinsmen,
and brothers and all:
Then spoke the bride’s father, his hand on
his sword
(For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word).
“O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war

OR

The rich
will make temples for Siva.
What shall I,
a poor man,
do?
My legs are pillars,
the body the shrine,
the head a cupola
of gold.

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X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : ( 3 × 4 = 12 )

Question 40.
What does the poet- father want his son’s teacher to teach his son about-
a) Books and Nature?
b) Being honest?
Answer:
The poet father wants his son’s teacher to teach him all the values essential for his son to lead a virtuous life,
a) Books and Nature: The poet requests {he teacher to teach his son the wonder of books. He should be given quiet time to think about the mysteries and wonders of nature- the birds in the sky; the bees in the sun flowers on a green hill side.

b) Being honest: The teacher should teach him that it more honorable to fail than cheat. He/she should teach him the value of a dollar earned is far greater than five dollars found.

Question 41.
“The ball hit by the Sexton flashed like a thunderbolt.” Describe the scene where the fielder tried to catch it.
Answer:
After the postman had gone back to the pavilion, the scores were level with only two wickets to fall. Then the Major bowled a fast half – volley on the leg – stump. The sexton hit it fair and square in the middle of the bat and it flashed like a thunderbolt, waist – high, straight at the youth in the blue jumper.

The youth sprang backwards out of its way and fell over on his back. Immediately behind him stood the mighty Boone. There was no escape for him. The ball struck him in the midriff (stomach) like a red hot cannon ball upon a Spanish sailing ship and with the sound of a drumstick upon an insufficiently stretched drum.

With a curse, Boone clasped his hand to his stomach and found that the ball was in his hands. He threw it down angrily and massaged the injured spot. Hence he did not reciprocate cordially when Donald congratulated him.

‘Midriff’ refers to the belly of Boone. The ball is likened to a red – hot cannon ball that hit a Spanish ship. ‘An insufficiently stretched drum’ refers to Boone’s big belly.Thus, the whole description is a comical caricature of Boone, and the ‘hit’ that he received in the belly, like the one given here, contributes to the element of humour.

OR

Narrate the instances to show how the narrator tried his best to prove to the girl that he was normal sighted.
Answer:
As soon as the girl enters the compartment, the young man asks her whether she was going all the way to Dehradun. When the girl expresses her surprise and tries to hide the fact that she was blind saying “I didn’t know anyone else was here”, the young man in his enthusiasm to prove her that he was normal sighted tells her, “I didn’t see you either, but I heard you come in”.

Had the young man been confident enough he should not have made the statement, but he was guilty that he was blind and so makes an attempt to cover up his fault.

When the girl learns that he was going to Mussoorie, she tells him that he is luckly and that she loves the hills especially in October. The young man recalls from memory his previous visits to Mussoorie and conveys his approval that October was the best time to visit Mussoorie. Then he gives a beautiful description of the natural scenery in Mussoorie only to let her know that he was normal sighted like any other person.

Next, he tells the girl that she had an interesting face only to flatter her.

Question 42.
Man today is an unstoppable buying machine. Elucidate with examples.
Answer:
Man today is an unstoppable buying machine. Shopping has become more than a need. For increasing numbers of people today, it has become the chief form of entertainment, an obsessive compulsion they have little control over, and often an end in itself. Relentless advertisements persuade people to become buying machines incapable of figuring out how much of all those things they really need.

In a recent survey conducted in the U.S it was discovered that most Americans spend roughly half their leisure time watching T.V and the other half spend their time shopping, the sheer amount of choices available has thrilled shoppers and they have turned into voracious shoppers.

OR

Write on the appropriateness of the title ‘The Gift of the Magi’.
Answer:
“The Gift of the Magi” is a story in which a young couple excels in their giving gift one to another. The author compares their giving the gifts the Magi gave to baby Jesus. The Three Wise men knew how to give. They gave unique gifts with special emphasis. Jim and Della have given special gifts to one another. They made the ultimate sacrifice. They gave their most prized possession.

Truly, no other couple has been compared to The Three Wise Men and their giving of themselves. The author of “The Gift of the Magi” beautifully writes how Jim and Della pay the price by giving up valuable gifts to show their love for one another.

No greater love is expressed than the love Jim and Della have for each other. Their gifts display their unselfish attitudes. Jim and Della care deeply and each one’s gifts expressing a genuine desire to please the other.

No doubt, Jim and Della are the Magi: The narrator explains that the wise men, or Magi, , brought gifts to the baby Jesus and so invented the giving of Christmas gifts. Because these men were wise, they no doubt gave wise gifts. Della and Jim, the narrator asserts, have unwisely sacrificed their most precious possessions. Yet, because they gave from the heart, they are wise: “They are the Magi.”

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XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below : 1 × 4 = 4 ( 2 × 2 )

It is everyone’s desire to have a personality that is appreciated by all. Personality is the combination of physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological aspects in a person. If you wish to enhance your personality, start by respecting yourself and believing in your ability to win respect from others. Have a positive attitude. In your interaction with other be polite and gentle, doing good to them and for them as far as possible.

Give importance to words. Speak only when it is required and is of utmost necessity. What you say has tremendous power. it can hurt, it can heal, it can charm or it can harm. A kind word can support a person, motivate him and make him feel good. Be devoted and committed to your work.

Remember you are always a learner even when you have climbed up the ladder of position and success. The higher you reach, the more humble you should be. The meaning of life is to grow, but grow with changes for the better. Your personality shows when you a positive outlook, the right communication, a commitment to work, the will to serve others and humble acceptance of success.

Questions:
A) What aspects are included in a personality?
Answer:
Physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological aspects.

B) What is the first step to enhance your personality?
Answer:
Respecting oneself and believing in one’s ability to win respect from others.

XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18-20 sentences on any one of the following topics: ( 1 × 5 = 5 )

(a) Role of an ideal Citizen.
Answer:
An ideal citizen is the one who is aware of his duties even as he exercises his rights. The constitution of India has assured us both right and duties. But unfortunately, most of us enjoy our rights without fulfilling our duties. So, we can say that ideal citizen is the one who prioritises his duties over his rights.

What are the duties to be upheld by an ideal citizen? First and foremost, an ideal citizen is the one who loves his country and who is proud of his country. So he should promote secularism and bring people of different communities together in the true spirit of brotherhood.

The word ‘brotherhood’ points out that in society all of us should get equal opportunities. So an ideal citizen would strive to ensure that there is social justice and people get equal benefit without a huge gap between the rich and the poor. An ideal citizen should exhibit the virtue of philanthropy and social consciousness.

In addition to these lofty ideals, an ideal citizen should also keep in mind practical values like saving the environment, preserving natural resources, keeping the surroundings clean and protecting public amenities.
If each one of us does what is expected of an ideal citizen, this world certainly be a better place to live in and we can experience the heaven on the earth.

(b) Indian farmer today.
Answer:
Indian farmers today are at the cross roads. Technology has taken huge strides reformulating the role of farmers. If farmers do not make use of technology, they would be left behind in this fast – moving world, That is why, it is of paramount importance that Indian farmers educate themselves and know how to succeed in the new world order of consumerism.

If they are educated, they can progress in the field of agriculture and contribute richly towards the economy of the nation. Even to this day, despite the progress it has made in the IT Sector, India is recognised as an agricultural economy. Hence it is of paramount importance that India values its farmers.

But unfortunately we have seen that Indian farmers are native, and hence are taken for a ride by the mediators. That is why there are many tragic cases of farmers committing suicide after being cheated by mediators who swallow a lion’s share of farmers profit margin or landlords who offer loans on high rates of interest.

It is the duty of the government to offer attractive schemes of farmers so that the nation makes progress in the field of agriculture. It is also necessary that the government educates farmers and also gives manure and farming equipment at subsidised rates.

This would mean a bright future for India.

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XIII. 45. Imagine that you are Punith / Parineetha studying in Government High School, Udupi.
Write a letter to the local Electricity Board to reduce the power – cuts during evening stating reasons. ( 1 x 5 = 5 )
Answer:
Punith
Govt. High school
Udupi
Date : ………..

The Chief Engineer
Urban sub- division
MESCOM
Udupi

Dear Sir,
This is to bring to your attention the problems faced by the residents of Vidyaratna Nagar. For the past two months we have been facing power – cuts of long duration both in the mornings and evenings, we take strong objection to the power cuts in the evenings. While it is understandable that the production of electricity is insufficient, and has led to unavoidable power cuts, it is not acceptable that there is no uniformity in the power cuts in different areas. It is also objectionable that factories which consume much mote electricity than residences have not been affected.

The school – going children have faced terrible problems with power – cuts. There is the question of safety too as the whole area is dark to power – cuts. Unfortunately, the rich can manage with inverters and generators. It is the poor who suffer.

We have lodged complaints twice before. But no action has been taken. We request you to act upon our complaint immediately and ensure that the power – cuts in the evenings are stopped.
Thank You.
Yours faithfully
Punith

OR

Write a letter to your elder brother/ sister thanking him/ her for preparing you for the inter-state debate competition in which you the first prize.
Answer:

Govt. High School
Udupi
Date : ……….

Dear Akka,
I am very happy to share with you a piece of good news. Remember, you helped me for a debate competition last months? I sought your help because it was an inter – state debate competition. Had it been merely an inter – school competition, I wouldn’t have probably troubled you because I know how busy you are in your job.. I know that your work stretches for more than 12 hours. Yet you made time for me and I am proud that I kept faith. Akka, I won the first prize.

Do you know something? It is a cash prize of Rs. 5000 Actually, I should give more than half the amount to you as you gave me all the points. One of the judges even told me that my presentation was superior to that of others, not in the delivery, but in the content… So, thank you once again Akka.

In my excitement of being a winner I forgot to ask you about Kathak recital. How did the programme go on? I am sure you were the star performer of the evening. Do let me know all the details when you find some time

Thanking you.
Loads of love.
Parineetha.

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Time: 3 Hours
Max Marks: 100

I. Four alternatives are given for the following questions. Choose the correct answer and write it along with its alphabet. ( 6 × 1 = 6 )

Questions 1.
‘With trembling oars I turned’.
The figure of speech in the line is
A) Personification
B) Metaphor
C) Synecduche
D) Alliteration
Answer:
A) Personification

Question 2.
There are no elephants in Europe, ______
The appropriate question tag to be added is
A) are they?
B) aren’t they?
C) ain’t they?
D) don’t they?
Answer:
A) are they?

Question 3.
How he behaved was not acceptable
The underlined group of word is
A) a noun clause
B) an adverb clause
C) an Adjective clause
D) a Main clause
Answer:
A) a noun clause

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Question 4.
“Could you the music while I’m on the phone?
The correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank is
A) turn
B) turn off
C) turn around
D) turn down
Answer:
B) turn off

Question 5.
The word in which ‘uni’ is a part of the word but not a prefix is
A) unilateral
B) universe
C) unilateral
D) unjust
Answer:
B) universe

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Question 6.
Researches are desperately searching for a cure for many deadly diseases
The passive form of the above sentence is
A) A cure for deadly diseases is being desperately searched by researchers
B) A cure for many deadly disease is searched desperately by researchers
C) A cure for many dies eases are being desperately searched by researchers
D) A cure for many deadly diseases was being desperately searched by researchers.
Answer:
A) A cure for deadly diseases is being desperately searched by researchers

II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following :
( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 7.
Elude : Escape :: Ecstasy :
Answer:
Thrill

Question 8.
Role : Roll:: Great:
Answer:
Grate

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Question 9.
Moral: Immoral:: Real:
Answer:
Unreal

Question 10.
Progress : Progressive : Victory :
Answer:
Victorious

III. Rewrite as directed : ( 3 × 1 = 3 )

Question 11.
Change the voice of sentence :
You have committed a mistake
Answer:
A mistake has been committed by you.

Question 12.
Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer :
I’m getting down at Saharanpur
Answer:
At which station are you alighting at?

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Question 13.
Change to reported speech :
“Where are you going”, She said
Answer:
She asked me where I was going.

IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each : ( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 14.
Why did the idler ask the girl of the silent torrent for one of her pitchers?
Answer:
The idler asked the girl of the silent torrent for one of her pitchers to draw pictures on it.

Question 15.
What, according to Pierre, is a sure sign of starvation?
Answer:
According to Pierre if one squints his eyes slightly while begging, it is a sure sign of starvation,

Question 16.
What does Sir C.V. Raman mean by ‘Civilized Forests’.
Answer:
Civilized forests are the systematic planting of suitable trees in ever}’ possible and impossible areas of the country,

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Question 17.
Why is the torrent in the workers ‘Paradise Silent’.
Answer:
The torrent in the workers paradise was silent because in the worker’s Paradise even a torrent would not waste its energy singing.

V. Answer the following questions in two – three sentences each : ( 7 × 2 = 14 )

Question 18.
How were the ribbons, made by the idler, responsible for the girl’s work remaining unfinished?
Answer:
The busy girl now spent a lot of time everyday combing her hair and tying the coloured ribbon around her hair. So much work was left unfinished.

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Question 19.
Why didn’t Ellen’s father suspect Lochinvar’s intentions?
Answer:
Lochinvar’s boldly went to Ellen’s wedding. When he was confronted by the bride’s father, he cunningly tells him that it was true that he had been in love with his daughter, But was denied the opportunity to marry her. Now his love for her is diminished He had only come to the wedding to drink a cup of wine at the marriage feast.

He claimed that many beautiful maidens who are far more beautiful than Ellen would open heartedly come to be become his bride. These words of Lochinvar convinced Ellen’s father and he never suspected Lochinvar’s real intentions.

Question 20.
Why was Arjuna’s mind wavering when Lord Krishna asked him to slay Karna?
Answer:
When Krishna urged Arjuna not to waste time and to shoot his arrow. Arjuna’s mind was wavering. His hand hesitated to shoot his enemy when he was in distress because that was unchivalrous and against the dharma of warfare.

Question 21.
With what intention did the narrator remark that the girl had an interesting face?
Answer:
The narrator did not want the girl travelling with him to understand that he was totally blind. So to impress her and to let her think that he was not blind, he remarks that she had an interesting face. He wanted to hide his blindness.

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Question 22.
What prevented Ulysses from attacking the Cyclops with his sword?
Answer:
Ulysses drew his sword, and half resolved to thrust it with all his might in at the bosom of the sleeping monster, but wiser thought restrained him, because none but polyphemus himself could have removed that mass of stone which he had placed to guard the entrance of the cave.

Question 23.
How did the poet make the poison tree grow?
Answer:
The speaker caressed and nursed his emotions towards his enemy. He kept imagining that his enemy would do him harm and he lived in suffering. This increased his agony and watered his emotions of anger against his enemy. He then put on a mask of friendship towards his enemy. He pretended to be good to him and smiled at him whenever he saw him.

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Question 24.
How does Robert Frost try to convince his neighbour that they do not need a wall? How does the neighbour respond?
Answer:
The poet Robert Frost tries to convince his neighbour saying that he had only pine trees in his garden whereas the poet had an apple orchard. The poet tells the neighbour that his apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pine trees. However the poet points out that there are no cows to wander into his neighbour’s garden. But the neighbour responds stoically that ‘Good fences make good neighbours.

VI. Rewrite as directed. ( 3 × 2 = 6 )

Question 25.
Change the following sentence to a compound and a complex sentence :
Your absence disappointed us
Answer:
Compound : You were absent and we were disappointed
Complex : We were disappointed because you were absent.

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Question 26.
Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison :
I am taller than my brother
Answer:
Positive : My brother is not as tall as I am.
Superalative : I am the tallest among my brothers.

Question 27.
Combine the following sentences using, neither / nor
You can’t have coffee. You can’t have tea.
Answer:
Neither you can have coffee nor tea.

II. Answer the following questions in 5 – 6 sentences each : ( 6 × 3 = 18 )

Question 28.
How did Pasteur prove himself to be useful to the manufacturers of Lille ?
Answer:
Pasteur gave lectures in Lille on fermentation. The chief industry in Lille was the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot, which would go wrong in a short time. Pasteur conducted experiments in their breweries. He helped a manufacturer whose beer was turning out badly, by discovering about yeast. When yeast was used to manufacture beer it stayed good for a long time. Thus Pasteur proved himself useful to the manufacturers of Lille.

Question 29.
Why did the poet compare human body to a temple? How did he compare?
Answer:

  • The poet compares human body to a temple because he believes that God is present within ourselves and not in any temple built by human beings.
  • He compares his body to the shrine of God. His legs are the pillars of the temple. His head is a cupola of gold.

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Question 30.
Write briefly the proceedings of the meeting of the elders in the Workers’ Paradise.
Answer:

  • All agreed that work had suffered — people were wasting their precious time in useless things.
  • Aerial messenger confessed that it was all because of the wrong man whom he had brought into the paradise.
  • The man was summoned— seeing his dress, brushes and paints, they realised this was not the right place for him.
  • The President asked him to leave — he agreed readily — the girl of the silent torrent too decided to go with him — All surprised.

Question 31.
What are compared to “bare ruined choirs”? What does it mean ?
Answer:
“Bare ruined choirs” is compared to the sounds of ‘sweet birds’. During the spring and summer seasons the birds make their nests on the Lush green trees full of leaves. They sit on its branches and sing sweetly. These songs of the birds are similar to the choirs in the church. As winter approaches the trees start shedding leaves and the birds fly away to warm places.

The birds have abandoned the tree similar to the ‘Choir’ of a ruined church. The poet wants his friend to visualize these images and compare them with his approaching old age which compare to the bare trees and a ruined church.

Question 32.
What surprise awaited Jim when he ‘ returned to the stockade?
Answer:
Jim made his way back to the stockade, but to his horror it was Long John Silver and the pirates who greeted him.

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Question 33.
What fatal mistake did Hodge make?
Answer:
Captain Hodge of the English team saw Livingstone and Southcott the two cracks, were approaching competently. Either of them would catch it easily. Mr. Hodge had to choose between them and, coming to a swift decision, he yelled at living stone to cater the ball. Southcott, a disciplined cricketer, stopped going towards the ball. Then Mr. Hodge made a fatal mistake.

He remembered Livingstone’s two missed catches and reversed he decision and roared for Bobby Southcott to catch the ball. Bobby Southcott obediently started again, to catch the ball. Livingstone who had not heard the captain, went straight on.

OR

Everyone thinks, he could outwit anyone but sometimes, he himself is outwitted by others comprehensively. Substantiate this with reference to the story.
Answer:
The narrator who was blind tries to pass off as a normal person. To hide his blindness he strikes up conversation with his fellow travellers. He asks them clever questions so that he be assured that they have not guessed that he was blind. When the young girl enters the carriage he assumes she is normal sighted and tries to impress her with clever conversation to hide his blindness, In the process he fails to notice that the girl is also blind.

He learns it after she gets down at Rohana from a traveller who had entered the compartment after she had got down at Rohana. Thus the narrator is himself outwitted by the girl.

VIII. Explain with reference to the context: ( 5 × 3 = 15 )

Question 34.
“ _____ if we should meet,
She would pass by me in the street,”
Answer:
These lines are extracted from the poem C. L. M by John Masefield. The poet is talking about his mother who is dead and reveals that he longs to see her alive. The poet brings out the sadness of the situation when he says the above lines. If his mother would happen to meet him as a passerby, she, his own mother would be unable to recognize him because he has now grown into an adult.

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Question 35.
“I’m not as attractive a travelling companion as the one who just left”.
Answer:
This question was asked by the blind young man to the new fellow traveller in the story ‘The Eyes are not Here’ written by Ruskin Bond.

The narrator was a blind young man travelling by train to Mussoorie. The story begins when the train reaches Rohana station when a girl, a fellow traveller, gets into the young man’s compartment. The narrator, being a young man, is inquisitive and tries to pick a conversation with the girl. The young man manages to hide the fact that he is blind by making prudent and discrete remarks. Finally the girl gets off at Saharanapur.

By that time the blind man had been fascinated by the sound of her voice and the sound of her slippers and was even tempted to touch her hair, being attracted by the perfume. A man gets into the compartment and finds the young man day – dreaming.

He breaks into his reverie and says that he was sorry that he was not as attractive a travelling companion as the one who had just left. In reply, the narrator says that she was an interesting girl and asks the fellow traveller whether she kept her hair long or short.

Question 36.
“Why do they make good neighbours?”
Answer:
These lines are taken from the poem ‘Mending wall’ by Robert Frost. The poet Robert Frost is in a mischievions mind because it is spring time. He would always ask his neighbour why they needed a wall between their houses and his neighbour would always reply ‘Good fences make good neighbours’.

But the poet is of the opinion if there are good neighbours then why is there a need for a good fence. He wonders if he could put this notion in his neighbours mind that ‘Why do they make good neighbours if they are not friendly and build a wall to keep away their neighbours.

Question 37.
“Bare ruined choirs, when late the sweet birds sang”
Answer:
These lines are extracted from the poem “Sonnet 73 – That time of the year” by William Shakespeare.
In this poem the speaker invokes a series of Metaphors to characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his oldage. In the first quatrain, he tells the beloved that his age is like ‘that time of the year’ – late autum, when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees and the weather has grown cold. The birds which sit on the tree branches singing sweetly have abandoned the branches to go warmer places.

This implies that the now the poet is in his old age (Autumn of life) and pretty women have abandoned him similar to the singing birds which have abandoned the trees in autumn.

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Question 38.
“Work I’ve not a moment to spare for work”.
Lesson: A wrong man in workers paradise
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Answer:
The wrong Man is sent to the worker’s paradise by mistake. The idler is standing by the silent torrent. A girl from the worker’s paradise comes there to fill her pitcher. She sees the idler and pities him. She asks him if he has no work in hand. The idler replies that he doesn’t have even a moment free to spare for work.

IX. Quote from memory: ( 1 × 4 = 4 )

Question 39.
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright:
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine.

OR

There was mounting mong Graemes of the Netherbv clan:
Forsters. Fenwicks, and Musgraves. they rode and they ran:
There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee,
But the lost bride of Netherbv ne’er did they see.
So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,

X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : ( 3 × 4 = 12 )

Question 40.
The poem ‘Buttoo’ is a saga of loyalty and faithfulness as well as selfishness and cunning. Explain.
Answer:
In the poem ‘Buttoo’, the poet Torn Dutt brings out the contrasting values of loyalty and selfishness. ; Buttoo remains loyal to Dronacharya. He attributes his inspiration and “all my knowledge is from thee”.

On the other hand Guru Dronacharya is selfish. In the first, he declined to teach Buttoo the skill of archery, but when he hears Buttoo attributing his skill to him, he unhesitatingly asks Buttoo’s right thumb as, Gurudakshina.

Drona cunningly manipulates Buttoo’s unwavering faithfullness in him and makes him promise that he would give anything he asks. When Buttoo agrees, Drona demands his right-thumb as Gurudakshina. None – the – less, Drona is compelled to act selfishly because he had promised Arjuna that he would make him the greatest archer.

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Question 41.
Gandhiji says, “For an act to be moral it has to be free fear and compulsion.” Give three instances to illustrate his point of view.
Answer:
Mahatma Gandhiji argues that it is not enough if one does a moral act with a good intention alone. He adds that a good act must also be done without compulsion. Gandhiji gives examples from our personal life. One should not acquire the habit of rising early out of the fear of being late to office and losing one’s job. Similarly, one should not choose to live a simple life because one does not have the means to live a life of luxury and comfort.

On the contrary if a person, despite being wealthy, chooses to live a plain and simple life believing that he ought not to live a life of ease and luxury looking at the want and misery of the world around him, then it is a moral act.

Likewise, it is not a moral act if an employer pays higher wages so as to prevent his employees from leaving him. On the other hand, if he pays higher wages so as to wish his employees well and out of the realization that he owes his prosperity to them, then that becomes a moral act.

OR

What are the causes of soil erosion and what are the methods of prevention as suggested by Sir G.V. Raman?
Answer:
Soil erosion refers to the phenomenon of the washing away of the top layer of the soil in both agricultural and non- agricultural land by rapidly – moving water caused by sudden bursts of excessively heavy rains. The other factors which contribute to soil erosion are the slope of the land, removal of the natural protective coat of vegetation, the existence of ruts along which the water can flow rapidly gathering momentum and the absene of any checks to such flow.

Soil erosion can be prevented by the terracing of the land, the construction of bunds to check the flow of water, the practice of contour cultivation and the planting of trees leading to creation of civilized forests.

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Question 42.
Write on Mahatma Gandhi’s comments on action prompted by motive of happiness in another world.
Answer:
An action prompted by the motive of material gain here on earth is non-moral, so also another done for considerations of comfort and personal happiness in another world is non-moral. That action is moral which is done only for the sake of doing good. A great Christian, St. Francis Xavier, passionately prayed that his mind might always remain pure. For him devotion to God was not for enjoying a higher seat after death. He prayed because it was man’s duty to pray.

The great Saint Theresa wished to have a torch in her right hand and a vessel of water in her left so that with the one she might bum the glories of heaven and with the other extinguish the fires of hell, and men might learn to serve God from love alone without fear of hell and without temptation of heavenly bliss. To preserve morality thus demands a brave man prepare to face even death. Those who do good out of fear and haltingly have no moral virtue.

OR

What are the changes brought about before the match started and its effect?
Answer:
Before the match began, two players of the English team were found absent; so, two Scottish players from the village team were asked to field for both the team and bat for neither of these two teams. This arrangement, however, irritated these two players and they withdrew themselves from the match.

Two missing English players arrived at the spot in a car and they brought with them another person who claimed that Hodge, the captain of the English team had asked him to play and that was why he had come and he was determined to play the match. On the other hand, two Scottish players who had left the team were brought back into the team after negotiations.

Finally, it was decided that two sides would play with twelve players, instead of usual eleven players. However, the English team won the toss and decided to bat.

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XI .43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: 1 × 4 = 4 ( 2 × 2 )

Among all the gifts you can give a child, there is none more conducive to his present and future happiness and content, none more likely to add richness to his life, than books. Not a book, but the habit of reading. Give him the habit of reading and you have done something for which he may be thankful all his days. Books should be the daily companions of a child’s life. And they ought not to be linked too closely with the school.

You don’t want to create the idea that reading a book is a task, a lesson. It’s the fun, the good time he can get out of reading that needs to be emphasized. You want to make him enjoy reading so that reading will become a treasured part of his daily life and there is nothing difficult about this.

Questions:
A) What can add to the richness of a child’s life?
Answer:
The habit of reading books can add to the richness of a child’s life.

B) Why shouldn’t books be linked too closely to the school?
Answer:
Books shouldn’t be linked too closely to the school so as not to create the idea that reading a book is a task, a lesson.

XI .44. Write an essay of about 18-20 sentences on any one of the following topics: ( 1 × 5 = 5 )

(a) Safety and dignity of women in India.
Answer:
Human civilization has made a tremendous progress through many centuries. Yet, even in the 21 st century, in which we have discovered Artificial Intelligence and Robots with A. I , women in some countries and societies are treated as nothing more than women. In India the archaic and often criminal notions of justice and honour, particularly the treatment meted out to women, speak of a society that remains mired in a mediaeval mindset. This is evident judging by news we read daily in newspapers.

Women constitute almost half of our population and are one of the main stakeholders of our society. Women play a great role in the social and family system. A woman dons many roles – as a mother, as a daughter etc. All these roles are respected and dignified.

But, most unfortunately, we always find that women are not treated well and are dishonoured and in India the situation is even worse. Research tells us that India is the worst place for women to live, with rape, poverty and infanticide being rife. Violence against women is rampant all over India. Such violence is a human-rights violation , which include women trafficking, forced marriages, acid burning, dowry and inheritance deaths, genital mutilation, domestic violence and honour killing.

These acts are beyond humanity and condemnable. Women deserve more respect and dignity because they are as equal as men in respect and honour.

The laws and punishment have been ineffective to curb violence against women and equally not ensured their safety and dignity. Only a drastic change in the mind-set of Indian men and in general the Indian society can ensure a safe and dignified life for women in our country.

(b) The Greener the world, the happier the life.
Answer:
GREEN is the colour of PROGRESS, and it is obvious that Progress makes our life happier. The verdant greenery surrounding us gives us a feeling of abundance and security in our lives. The planet Earth will look verdant and makes us feel happy and blessed for having been born on this earth.

It is scientifically proven that spending our time leisurely is greenery, will rejuvenate our mind and body and helps to enhance our eyesight.

But it is unfortunate that in the name of ‘development’ we have be unceremoniously destroying our greenery. Large tracts of green spaces have been replaced by concrete jungles and agricultural fields, in our cities and villages, to house and feed our ever growing population and provide raw material to our industries, so that they can provide employment to one and all.

According to the United Nations stipulation it is mandatory for a country to have 30% of forest cover in ratio to its total land area. But most countries in the world have been indiscriminately destroying the much needed green forests for developing adequate infrastructure for its population and ever growing toxic fumes spewing vehicles. These lost green spaces have had a disastrous effect on our environment.

There is a serious threat of global warming. This has increased then Earth’s temperature by 1 deg to 2 deg celcius. Global warming has adversely affected rainfall, food production, availability of potable water etc and also rainfall, food production, availability of potable water etc and also the health and lives of peole all over the world.

So isn’t it evident that conserving our greenery will greatly enhance our lives and make the Earth a happier place to live. Lets as all vow to protect and conserve our green spaces for the good of all people and the future generation.

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XIII. 45. Imagine you are Rathan / Radhika, studying in Government High School, Theerthalli.
Write a letter to your younger brother advising him to participate in the inter-school Music Competition. ( 1 × 5 = 5)

4 APRIL 2019

To,
Mithrajith

I just received your letter. I am happy that all of you over there are keeping good health but I am sorry to know that grandfather has fallen down in the bathroom and sprained his leg. Please look after him carefully. I hope he will be more careful next time.

You had written about the inter- school music competition organized by the Federation of Government schools. You wanted me to help you decide whether to participate in it or to study hard for the final examination. Yes, it is necessary to study hard for exams but it is also important to have some extra-curricular activities for the mind to relax and regenerate after a period of rest.

I strongly advise you to certainly participate in the competition. It will rejuvenate your mind and helps to develop concentration in your mind. I hope you will devote your time to both the competition and studies sensibly and be a winner in both.
Tell Mamma and Pappa that I enquired about them

Your loving brother
Rathan

Government high school
Theerthalli

OR

Write a letter to the local Road Transport Authority requesting to have more buses along your school route to help the students.

From 4 APRIL 2019

XXX
YYY
ZZZ

To,
THE DIVISIONAL MANAGER
B.M.T.C
Bangaluru
Dear Sir,

Sub: Request to ply sufficient number of buses in the morning and afternoons.
I am compelled to write to you on behalf of all school going children residing at Basweshwaranagara, Illstage, Bengaluru, we have been facing difficulties in reaching school and home in time, during the mornings and afternoons. Very few buses ply in our locality during the morning peak period. Even those buses which ply down the road are over crowded and we children cannot even get even a toehold to board the buses.

We have to invariably walk all the way to our schools carrying heavy school and lunch bags. By the time we reach school we will be extremely tired and unable to concentrate on the lessons being taught at school. This has drastically affected our academic performance. While returning from school late in the afternoon after 3.30 pm, there are no buses in sight at all.

We are forced to walk all the way back home and due to this unwanted strain on our energy we are not able to concentrate on our studies even at home. Some of us have nightmares thinking of walking to school and back home. Walking to school and back has not only taken a toll on our studies but also on our health.

I earnestly request you to take drastic remedial measures to provide adequate number of buses during the mornings and afternoons, especially for school going children. I hope you will act on our plea as .soon as possible and help as out of our predicament.
Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,
XXX

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Time: 3 Hours
Max Marks: 100

I. Four alternatives are given for the following questions. Choose the correct answer and write it along with its alphabet ( 6 × 1 = 6 )

Question 1.
English is _____ language of ______ English.
The appropriate articles to be filled in the blanks are
A) a, a
B) the, the
C) the, a
D) the, an
Answer:
B) the, the

Question 2.
Good books build character, ________.
The appropriate question tag to be added is
A) did they?
B) doesn’t they?
C) do they?
D) don’t they?
Answer:
D) don’t they?

Question 3.
Ask him why he is late.
The underlined group of word is
A) a Noun clause
B) an Adverb clause
C) an Adjective clause
D) a Main clause
Answer:
C) an Adjective clause

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Question 4.
With trembling oars I turned.
The figure of speech used here is
A) Synecdoche
B) Metaphor
C) Transferred Epithet
D) Simile
Answer:
B) Metaphor

Question 5.
The mother along with her children _______ to the temple just now.
The correct form of the verb to be filled in the blank is
A) have gone
B) has gone
C) had gone
D) gone
Answer:
B) has gone

Question 6.
Gandhiji was born ______ Porbandar Gujarat.
The appropriate prepositions to be filled in the blanks are
A) in, in
B) in, into
C) at, from
D) at, in
Answer:
D) at, in

II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following :
( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 7.
fertile : barren : : scarce :
Answer:
plenty

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Question 8.
beautify : beautiful : : agree :
Answer:
agreement

Question 9.
rode : road : : night :
Answer:
knight

Question 10.
cascade : waterfall : : nimble :
Answer:
swift

III. Rewrite as directed: ( 3 × 1 = 3 )

Question 11.
Change the voice of sentence :
You ought to respect your parents.
Answer:
Your parents ought to be respected by you.

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Question 12.
Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer :
Shalini had breakfast at 9 o’ clock.
Answer:
When did Shalini have her breakfast?

Question 13.
Change to reported speech :
“Where did you go?” said Charu
Answer:
Charu asked me where I had been?

IV . Answer the following questions in a sentence each : ( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 14.
When, according to Gandhiji, can we regard ourselves to have stepped on the moral road?
Answer:
When we all care only for what our conscience says.

Question 15.
What made Pierre think of taking the pie to the Mayor’s house while going for dinner?
Answer:
Pierre overhears M. Gaultier’s conversation with his wife, Marion. M Gaultier tells his wife that he will send a messenger to her to collect the eel pie and take it to the mayor’s house for dinner.

Question 16.
What was the sign for Marion to hand over the pie to the messenger?
Answer:
M. Gaultier will have asked the messenger to kiss her hand, that will be the sign for Marion to hand over the pie to the messenger.

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Question 17.
What does ‘wave of the seas’ refer to in the poem ‘to a pair of Sarus cranes’?
Answer:
‘Wave of seas’ refers to the waves of sorrow.

V. Answer the fallowing questions in two – three sentences each : ( 7 × 2 = 14 )

Question 18.
Why doesn’t Gandhiji term Alexander’s conquests as moral even if others call him great?
Answer:
According the Gandhiji a moral act depends upon the intention of the doer. The intent of moral action should be good and should be done with good intention. Alexander’s conquests were done only for renown, hence he considers his conquests as an act without any moral.

Question 19.
When, according to the author Alexander Cheriyan, will U.S. certify India as developed?
Answer:
Alexander Cheriyan thinks that the United States will consider India is ‘developed’, when all of India will look like the United States with two cars in every garage and the reassuring glow of Me Donald and Pepsi signs all along every highway. This ‘development’ can be ironically confirmed when the sheer tonnage of the garbage we throw out matches that in America.

Question 20.
How did the female Sarus crane react when she saw her male partner shot dead?
Answer:

  • In agony and desperation she encircled the sky in movements of grace over the disgraceful death of her partner.
  • When the killers went away with the kill, she descended to the death scene and expressed her grief in long and short cries.
  • She picked a few blood-stained feathers and sat to hatch them into a toddling chick.
  • In her grief she forgot to eat or drink and pined away for her lost mate and finally died.

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Question 21.
Why was Ellen’s father convinced that Lochinvar had come with good intention?
Answer:
Lochinvar’s boldly went to Ellen’s wedding. When he was confronted by the bride’s father, he cunningly tells him that it was true that he had been in love with his daughter, But was denied the opportunity to marry her. Now his love for her is diminished. He had only come to the wedding to drink a cup of wine at the marriage feast.

He claimed that many beautiful maidens who are far more beautiful than Ellen would open-heartedly come to be become his bride. These words of Lochinvar convinced Ellen’s father and he never suspected Lochinvar’s real intentions.

Question 22.
Explain the features of the autumn season as described by the poet William Shakespeare?
Answer:
Autumn is that time of the year when we see yellow leaves, or none or few leaves hang upon the branches of trees which shake – tremble against the cold of the autumn season. The trees are not only bereft of leaves but also of birds which recently had sat on their boughs singing sweet songs.

Question 23.
What did Jim and his mother do with Billy’s precious sea – chest after his death?
Answer:
Jim and his mother quickly searched through Billy’s precious sea – chest. His mother took as much coins as to cover the old pirate’s rent, and not a half – penny more, while Jim found an intriguing bundle of papers, wrapped in oil cloth which he pocketed as payment for his services to Billy.

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Question 24.
How was Arjuna protected by Lord Krishna when Kama shot an arrow?
Answer:
Kama sent a dazzing arrow, which spat fire at Arjuna. Krishna, Arjuna’s charioteer, at the nick of time pressed the chariot down five fingers deep in the mud and the arrow just missed Arjuna’s head but struck off his helmet.

VI. Rewrite as directed. ( 3 × 2 = 6 )

Question 25.
Change the following sentence to a compound and a complex sentence :
The soldier was awarded for his bravery.
Answer:
Compound : The soldier was brave and he was awarded for his bravery.
Complex : The soldier was given an award because his bravery.

Question 26.
Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison :
Tidal energy is one of the cheapest forms of energy.
Answer:
Tidal energy is a cheap form of energy. Tidal energy is cheaper than most other forms of energy.

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Question 27.
Combine the following sentences beginning with a) ‘No sooner…; and b) As soon as.
The referee blows the whistle. The game starts.
Answer:
No sooner the referee blows the whistle, the game starts.
As soon as the referee blows the whistle, the game starts.

VII. Answer the following questions in 5-6 sentences each : ( 6 × 3 = 18 )

Question 28.
How has the Nile been the cause for the difference between the Libyan Desert and the valley of the Nile in Egypt?
Answer:
The water of River Nile had transformed Egypt into a green and most fertile and densly populated areas to be found anywhere on the earth, teeming with life and vegetation. But on the other side was visible a sea of billowing sand without a speak of green or a single living thing anywhere visible on it – the Libyan desert.

River Nile had formed, Egypt by bringing finest silt in its flood waters, from the highlands of Abyssinia and from remote Africa.

Question 29.
How, according to William Blake can suppressing of anger prove really dangerous?
Answer:
William Blake believes that anger should not be suppressed as it would prove disasterous. If we do not exhibit our anger it grows inside us. The poet compares the growing anger to a poison tree. The trust of this tree is poisonous. It endangers the ability of a person to use logical reason.

The poet warns those who harbour anger and allow the feelings of resentment to stay inside without dealing with them. So it is better to express our anger and feel related. Suppressed anger is like a poison tree and grows in size to bear the poisonous fruit that is harmful for the enemy and can even lead to death.

Question 30.
What could be the possible reason for the displacement of the boulders from the wall?
Answer:
The stones from the wall got displaced due to swelling caused by the heavy frost and the upper boulders got disloged and fell down due to the effect of the hot sun. They made wide gaps in the wall. The hunters who came there to hunt for rabbits, pried the stones from the wall to see if rabbits were hiding in the gaps of the wall.

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Question 31.
Why does John Masefield want his mother’s grave kept shut?
Answer:
The poet John Masefield recalls the sacrifices made by his mother which has now made him a man. He feels sad that his mother cannot see him now because she was dead. Even if she were to come alive from the grave they would not be able to recognise each other. The poet regrets that he has not repaid the debt to his Mother for bringing him to life inspite of all the suffering and pain, she had to undergo while giving him birth.

The poet feels a sense of guilt as he has not been able to repay her and also to women in general. The poet thinks that he is also to blame for the fact that men are considered superior to women for he has not done anything about it. The poet does not want his mother to come alive as he is ashamed to show his face to her.

Question 32.
Give a glimpse of the cruelty exhibited by Polyphemus.
Answer:
Ulysses and his men had entered the Cyclop Polyphemus’ cave and were looking about the cave. Polyphemus came back with his flock of sheep. He hastily kindled a fire and spied Ulysses and his men. He asked them if they were merchants or wandering theives. Ulysses told him that they were Grecians and returning from Troy.

Polyphemus did not respond but gripped two of the nearest men, as if they were children, he dashed their brains out against the earth and tore in pieces their limbs, and devoured them, yet warm and trembling, making a lion’s meal of them, lapping the blood and relishing their flesh. At the end of his wicked supper he drank a draught of goat’s milk and lay down and slept among his goats.

Question 33.
Why did captain Hodge have to restore the status quo?
Answer:
The invaders were the English fielders. Things were not so well with them. If there was doubt and confusion among the warriors of Fordenden, there was uncertainity and disorganization among their ranks. Their main trouble was the excessive concentration of their force in the neigh bourhood of the wicket. When the blacksmith hit the ball highup in the air, Mr. Hodge, the captain of the English fielding side took a swift glance at the disposition of his troops.

He decided that there were far too many in the field, contrary to the thinking of Napoleon, who used to do everything in his power to call up every available man for a battle. Mr. Hodge saw that all, except the youth in the blue silk jumper and the mighty Boone, were moving towards, strategical positions underneath the ball, and not one of them appeared to be aware that any of the other existed. Boone did not move as he was exactly in the place where the ball would land.

But Boone was not likely to bring off the catch, especially after he the episode of the last ball. Mr.Harcourt had obviously lost sight of the ball as he was running round and round Boone and giggling foolishly. Livingstone and Southcott, were approaching competently because either of them would have caught the ball easily. Mr. Hodge, the captain, had to choose between them.

He decided to ask Livingstone to have the catch and yelled ‘Yours Livingstone’, while Southcott, being a disciplined cricketer, stopped in his tracks to let Livingstone catch the ball. But then, Mr.Hodge, made a fatal mistake. He remembered Living stone two missed catches and reversed his decision and roared at south cott to catch the ball.

Mr. Southcott obediently started again, while Livingstone, who had not heard the second order, went straight onto catch the ball, even though captain Hodge had restored the status quo.

OR

How did the girl in the train try to pretend that she was normal sighted?
Answer:
When the narrator told the girl that he was going to Mussorie, she told him that she wished that she was going there too, because she loved to see the hills especially in October.

She cunningly evaded the narrator’s question asking her how the view was outside the train by asking him to look out of the window and watch the view himself. She asked him if he saw any animals. She also told him that she felt sad because there were hardly any animals left in the forests of Dehra.

VIII. Explain with reference to the context: ( 5 × 3 = 15 )

Question 34.
‘Wait a moment! I shall come with you’.
Lesson : A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Answer:
The lines are said by the girl of the torrent to the wrong man in workers’ paradise.
In the ‘Workers’ Paradise’ work had, of late, had begun to suffer. Many people had become idle wasting their time on useless things such as painting and sculpture.

The elders called a meeting to analye the situation. The ariel messenger admitted that the situation in the workers paradise had worsened because he had brought the wrong man there.

They decided to banish him from the workers’ paradise. When the girl of the torrent asked him to wait for her so that she will also accompany him out of the workers’ paradise.

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Question 35.
‘It’ll grow out again – you won’t mind, will you’?
Lesson : Gift of the Magi
Writer : O’ Henry
Answer:
These words are said by Della to Jim. Della had cut her precious beautiful hair and sold it for 21 dollars, to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim’s watch. That evening when Jim came back from work he was shocked to see that Della’s hair was gone because he had sold his precious heir – loom watch to buy Della, tortoise shell combs for her hair.

Della tries to console Jim that she couldn’t have lived through Christmas without giving a present to Jim and convinced him that her hair will grow out soon and asked him to forgive her.

Question 36.
‘It was her eyes I noticed, not her hair’
Lesson : ‘The eyes are not here’
Author : Ruskin Bond
Answer:
These words are said by a new passenger to the narrator who gets into the narrator’s compartment after the girl gets down at Saharanapur. The narrator was on his way to Mussoorie.

The narrator was curious about the girl who had just alighted from the train. He was blind and had not been able to notice her appearance. So he asked the new passenger if she had kept her hair long or short, the new passanger was puzzled and replied that he had not noticed her hair but he had noticed her beautiful eyes. He explained that they were no use to her as she was completely blind.

Question 37.
‘And take only the good that comes through’
Poem : Abraham Lincoln’s letter to his son’s teacher
Poet : Abraham Lincoln
Answer:
These words are written by Abraham Lincoln in his letter his son’s teacher.
Lincoln had written a letter to his son’s teacher asking the teacher to teach his son how to become an ideal man. He requests the teacher to teach his son among other things, to listen to all men yet teach him to filter all he hears on a seive of truth. So that he may take only the good that comes through.

Question 38.
‘There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion’.
Poem : The stolen Boat
Poet : William Wordsworth
Answer:
The poet describes his strange experience during his childhood. When he stole and took an unknown shepherd’s boat onto an unfamiliar lake. Suddenly he realized that it was an act of stealing and his joy and thrill of adventure was troubled by a sense of guilt. When the boat moved on, there came echoing sound of warning from the mountains. That’s why the poet was guilty of his act of moving the boat in an act of stealth.

The poet stealthily returns the boat back to her usual mooring place at the willow tree in a cave. He walks back home through the meadows in a grave and serious mood. But the spectacle of the huge peak towering behind him lingered in his mind for many days. His mind was filled with no other thought but of the huge peak. He could recall no other shapes, nor the pleasant images of trees, sea or sky or the colours of green fields.

His every thought and imagination was filled with the huge and mighty lifeless forms of the huge peaks, which moved slowly through his mind like living men, during the day. And every night these huge forms troubled him in his dreams.

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IX. Quote from memory: ( 1 × 4 = 4 )

Question 39.
My legs are pillars,
the body the shrine,
the head a cupola
of gold
Listen. O lord of the meeting rivers.
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay

OR

And into my garden stole
When the night had veil’d the pole
In the morning glad I see
My foe out strech’d beneath the mine.

X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : ( 3 × 4 = 12 )

Question 40.
Why does Buttoo’s name deserve to be linked with self help, truth and modesty?
Answer:
In the poem ‘Buttoo’, the poet, Toru Dutt brings out Buttoo’s (Ekalavya’s) values of self – help, truth, and modesty.
Buttoo is a poor tribal boy. One day he approaches Guru Dronhacharya and humbly requests him to teach him archery. But the guru refuses to teach him archery as he thought it was below his dignity to teach archery to anyone who is not from a royal family.

But Buttoo is determined to learn archery. He makes a statue of guru Dronacharya and begins selftraining in front of idol and eventually masters the art of archery.

Once while Dronacharya and the Pandavas where hunting in the forest, Buttoo was practicing archery. The Pandavas noticed his exceptional skill at archery and reported it to’Dronacharya. Dronacharya noticed Buttoo’s skill at archery and wanted to know who his teacher was. Buttoo humbly credited his skill to guru Dronacharya himself. He did not behave arrogantly with Dronacharya but admitted the turth and had the modesty to credit his expertise to Dronacharya.

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Question 41.
‘All the research which Louis Pasteur did in his laboratories was meant to help his fellow beings’. Elucidate.
Answer:
Louis Pasteur devoted his life to the study of germs. He not only made exciting discoveries about germs but used them in practical ways. He worked hard in his laboratory, conducting experiments and find solutions to help people suffering from disease. Pasteur was able to help brewers, breeders of silk worms, cow keepers and even the wine merchants.

He discovered a method called ‘Pasteuriziation’ to prevent milk from getting spoilt after sometime. He discovered the way to prevent fermentation of food and beverages. He discovered that infections in men, animals and plants were caused by bacteria. He discoved a cure for ‘anthrax’ in animals, small pox and rabies. Pasteur believed that the future will belong to those who shall have done the most for suffering humanity.

OR

Explain the circumstances that made Jim’s and Della’s Christmas gifts for each other ‘too nice to use just at present’.
Answer:
In the short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’ Jim and Della sacrifice their precious possessions for each other. Della cut off her beautiful long hair and sold it for twenty one dollars to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim’s priceless heirloom watch. But unknowningly Jim pawns his goldwatch to buy original tortoise shell combs for Della’s beautiful long tresses, as Christmas presents. But it is ironical and sad to they both can’t use their Christmas presents immediately.

Della has to wait for her hair to grow back, which may take a long time to grow back. Jim has to wait for a long time to use the platinum fob chain on his watch until he can save enough money to get back the pawned watch. Thus Jim’s and Della’s Christmas gifts for each other are ‘too nice to use just at present’.

Question 42.
Describe the agony of the Franks under the German dictator after they were arrested.
Answer:
On August 4, 1944, the Frank’s family was arrested and were carried in cattle – trucks to Auschwitz – the Nazi death camp in southern Poland. There the Nazis seperated Otto Frank from his family without giving them time to say farewell. Anne and Margot were marched into the women’s part of the camp, where Mrs. Frank died from exhaustion.

Later in the autumn Anne and her sister, Margot were transported to another camp, Belsen. A close friend saw Anne there ‘Cold and hungry, her head shaved and her skeleton like form draped in the coarse, shapeless, striped grab of the concentration camp’. Anne was pitifully weak, her body racked by typhoid fever she died early in March 1945, a few days after Margot. Both were buried in mass grave. Otto Frank was freed early in 1945 by the Russian army.

OR

Why do we desperately need alternative models of development and how can this be done?
Answer:
We desperately need alternative models of development because it has been estimated that to make the pardadigm of development (as believed by America) a reality, the resources of Planet Earth will prove horribly inadequate. We would need at least another three planets with the similar resource found on Earth. If we continue to exploit the resources of the Earth indiscriminately in the name of ‘consumerism’ it will definitely lead to an enivronmental Holocaust, even before the ‘unworldy’ vision of development is fully realized.

Hence we deseperately need alternative models of development. The author Alexander Cherian believes that the only way to restore sanity is by empowering local communities, co – operatives, civil socities and democratic governmetns to take back the autonomy and the initiative for their own development which they had of late, traded away to giant global business corporations.

People should cultivate the habit of saying ‘enough’ to material wealth and turn to spirituality, arts, culture, community life, in order for life to be truly meaningful and sustainable. Humanity should muster – up enough soul – force to contain the damage caused by unrestricted consumerism before we destroy our Mother Earth.

XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below : 1 × 4 = 4 ( 2 × 2 )

Our education system should reflect the aims and aspirations of our society, it should adjust itself to the changes in the society we live in. The aim of our education should not only be to bring change in the amount of knowledge gained, it should also bring changes in our abilities to do, to think, and to acquire habits and skills which are accepted in our society. We should be able to develop an attitude which can make us adjust in our society. If these qualities are not developed in us, our education will remain unrealistic, useless and meaningless.

The world is changing very fast. Our quality education should prepare us for these changes. The education imparted to us should be related to the needs of an individual and help him to find a place in the world, help him to ensure his future. It should be flexible. A dynamic association of teachers, educational planners and students is necessary.

Questions :
A) Why, according to the passage, will our education remain unrealistic, useless and meaningless?
Answer:
Our education system should reflect the aims and aspirations of our society, it should adjust itself to the changes in the society we live in. The aim of our education should not only be to bring change in the amount of knowledge gained, it should also bring changes in our abilities to do, to think, and to acquire habits and skills which are accepted in our society.

We should be able to develop an attitude which can make us adjust in our society. If these qualities are not developed in us, our education will remain unrealistic, useless and meaningless.

B) How can our education prepare us for the quick changes taking place in the world?
Answer:
The education imparted to us should be related to the needs of an individual and help him to find a place in the world, help him to ensure his future. It should be flexible. A dynamic association of teachers, educational planners and students is necessary.

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XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18 – 20 sentences on any one of the following topics: ( 1 × 5 = 5 )

A) Our Indian Constitution – The guiding light to democracy.
Answer:
The Constitution of India was enforced on 26th January 1950. It was prepared by a committee consisting of seven members headed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. It guides the citizens of India, the country’s government bodies and other authorities to act in the right manner. It has played a significant role in maintaining peace and prosperity in the country.

The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution in the world. It took almost three years to write this detailed constitution. It has a preamble, 448 articles, 25 groups, 12 schedules and 5 appendices. It is much lengthier than the US Constitution that includes only 7 Articles. The Constitution of India is a mix of rigidity and flexibility. While it is the supreme power that needs to be followed diligently to maintain law and order in the country, the citizens can appeal to amend the provisions they deem outdated or stem.

While certain provisions can be amended with some difficulty others are easy to amend. As many as 103 amendments have been done in the Constitution of our country since its enforcement. The well drafted Preamble of the Indian Constitution gives a detailed account of the philosophy of the constitution.

It states that India is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic. It is a welfare state which puts its people first. It believes in equality, freedom and justice for its people. While democratic socialism was followed right from the beginning, the term Socialism was added only in 1976.

The Constitution has declared India a secular state. India does not give special status to any religion. It provides its citizens complete freedom to choose their religion. It condemns religious groups instigating people in the name of religion.The Constitution declares India to be a Republic. The country is not ruled by a nominated head or monarch. It has an elected head called the President. The President, elected indirectly by the people of the country, comes to power for a period of 5 years.

The Constitution describes India as a federal structure with many unitary features. It is referred to as a Quasi-Federation or a Unitarian Federation. Just like a federation. India has divided power among the centre and states. It has a dual administration system. It has a written, supreme constitution that needs to be followed religiously. It includes an independent judiciary embedded with the power to decide centre-state disputes. At the same time it has unitary features such as a strong common constitution, common election commission and emergency provisions to name a few.

The Constitution of India clearly states the fundamental duties of its citizens. Some of these are to upload and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India, respect the national flag and the national anthem, preserve the rich heritage of the country, protect the natural environment, safeguard public property and treat everyone equally. The Directive Principles of the State Policy are also mentioned in the Constitution of India. These principles are basically the guidelines provided to the state to further socio-economic development aims via its policies.

The Constitution of India serves as a guiding light for its citizens. Everything is well- defined in the Indian Constitution. It has helped India attain the status of a Republic. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and the members of the drafting committee of the Indian constitution have indeed done a commendable job for which they will always be remembered.

B) Recent natural calamities and the havoc caused.
Answer:
A natural disaster is a major bad event caused by the natural processes of the Earth. Examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geological processes. A natural disaster causes loss of life or property damage, and leaves some economic damage afterwards.

And often human activities also make causes of natural disasters, such as climate change and deforestation.
On 1 August 2019 1st week, due to heavy rainfall in the monsoon season, severe flood affected the southern Indian State of Karnataka. As a security measure in the prevailing situation of heavy rains, Indian Meteorological Department issued Red alert to several regions of coastal and Malnad regions of Karnataka state.

Thousands of people were evacuated to safer places and relief camps. A total of 61 people have been killed and seven lakh have been displaced. As of 14 August 2019, over 6.97 lakh people were evacuated.

Due to the heavy water discharge from the Maharashtra reservoir, the North Karnataka districts of Belagavi, Bijapur, Raichur, Kalburgi, Yadgir and Uttara Kannada were severely affected by the flood discharge. On August 8, Karnataka received nearly five times the rainfall it normally used to have, adding to the severity of the ongoing floods in 12 districts that had killed 20 people by August 9, 2019.

Excess rainfall is the main possible factor that caused or intensified floods. According to government officials report, any particular region can manage rainfall only up to a point, based on its land use and soil holding. Once that is breached, it floods.

As of 14 August 2019,61 people have been killed and 15 people missing due to flood-related incidents across 22 districts of the state as per the claia released by Karnataka State [Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre] (KSNDMC).
More than 40,000 houses have been damaged in Karnataka floods, while more than 2,000 villages were affected. North, coastal and Malnad districts were worst affected. Other affected districts include Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Raichur, Yadgiri, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Shivamogga, Kodagu and Chikkamagalur.

Landslides have occurred in many places in Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts due to heavy rains. Connectivity on 136 major roads (National Highway, State Highway and Major district roads) has been disrupted due to floods and landslides. There are extensive damage to critical infrastructure such as roads, pipelines, tanks, schools, and electrical infrastructure etc.

Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority, Karnataka police along with the Indian Air Force, civilians, volunteers, fishermen from coastal Karnataka are actively taking part in the rescue operations in flood-affected regions. A joint rescue team consisting of Fire and Emergency, State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Indian Army have evacuated 6.73 lakh people as on 14 August 2019. Nodal officers are tasked to camp invulnerable villages.

The Prime Minister’s relief fund has released funds for rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit state, the amount is not enough to meet the cost of restoring normalcy.

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XIII. 45. Imagine, you are Sumit / Sumitra, studying in Government High school, Peenya, Bangalore ( 1 x 5 = 5 )

Write a letter to your friend in Kolar describing the hardships you face due to traffic jams.
Answer:

Sumit
Government High School
Bengaluru

To,
Amith
Government High School
Kolar

My dear friend
You must have wondered why I haven’t written to you for such a long time. I am sorry, I couldn’t write because I was down with fever, wheezing and cough for almost fifteen days and have been suffering greatly. I was so weak, I couldn’t get out of bed. The cause of my ailment was due to long hours commuting to school and back home.

I have to spend a harrowing time on the way to school and back due to Bangalore’s notorious traffic jams and extremely polluted air. You know I have to take a bus to reach school and travelling by public transport itself is like hell. I have often been punished for being late to school. However early I leave home to school I get stuck in traffic jams. I have to spend nearly forty – five minutes to an hour to reach school.

This has affected my heatlh, psychology and studies also. The polluted air of Bangalore has taken a toll on my health and I barely score enough marks to get through tests and exams. I am often tired even to have food and go to bed directly as soon as I come back home late and extremely tired. Even after I get down at the busstop, it nearly takes five to ten minutes to cross the road to reach the school due to stress. I can’t consentrate on lessons and often been scolded for not paying attention at school.

I have asked my father to admit me at a nearby school. So that I can walk to school, saving precious time for studies.
I hope you are keeping well. Do write to me as early as you can. Study hard.

Love from
Sumit

OR

Imagine, you are Reshma / Ravish, of Government High School, Dharwad.
Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper drawing his attention on the rising prices of commodities.
Answer:
The Editor
The Times of India

Sub: Skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you to express my deep concern over the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities making the life of the common people very hard. The Government has failed miserably in its promise of keeping the inflation low. The prices of essential commodities such as pulses, vegetables, cereals, cooking oil, sugar, rice, onion and petrol, etc. have been rising unrelentingly.

The Government’s all measure to bring the prices down have failed. I just want to ask the concerned ministry and authorities what is happening. The poor are still grinding, and the rich are having a gala luxurious life! Why does the Government not put a reign on inflation? Why the Government PDS is such a big failure? See the paradox! On one hand we have food grains worth millions of rupees rotting in the FCI warehouses, and on the other hand the poor and the middle classes of our country not getting the food grains and pulses at reasonable price.

Why does the Government not make these food grains and pulses available to the common man. Once the Government will supply these food items into the market, the prices will automatically go down. Besides the Government needs to act strictly against the hoarding and black-marketing of food items.

Through the columns of your esteemed newspaper. I appeal to the concerned ministry to look into the matter and take steps to alleviate people’s troubles.

Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Reshma.

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Time: 3 Hours
Max Marks: 100

I. Four alternatives are given for the following questions. Choose the correct answer and write it along with its alphabet. ( 6 × 1 = 6 )

1. All eyes turned in that direction. The figure of speech in the line is
A) Personification
B) Metaphor
C) Synecdoche
D) Alliteration
Answer:
C) Synecdoche

Question 2.
“ _____ with your work. You need not stand”, said the visiting minister to his staff. The correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank is
A) Carry away
B) Carry out
C) Carry on
D) Carry off
Answer:
C) Carry on

Question 3.
He was suspected _____ having stolen the book.
The appropriate preposition to be filled in the blank is .
A) to
B) for
C) of
D) with
Answer:
C) of

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Question 4.
That’s the right answer, _____ The question tag to be added is
A) doesn’t it?
B) isn’t it?
C) is it?
D) wasn’t it?
Answer:
B) isn’t it?

Question 5.
The word in which ‘mis’ is a part of the word but not a prefix is
A) misjudge
B) mistake
C) misdeed
D) miscalculate
Answer:
B) mistake

Question 6.
I have been trying to learn to play the guitar for so many years, but I _____ yet.
The appropriate verb forms to be filled in the blank is
A) did not succeed
B) will not succeed
C) have not succeeded
D) had not succeeded
Answer:
C) have not succeeded

II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following:
( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 7.
develop : development : : prefer :
Answer:
preferable

Question 8.
tale : tail : : antic :
Answer:
antique

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Question 9.
violent: non violent : : modest:
Answer:
immodest

Question 10.
scraped : removed : : bewilder :
Answer:
confuse

III. Rewrite as directed: ( 3 × 1 = 3 )

Question 11.
Change the voice of sentence :
The teacher is calling the roll numbers.
Answer:
The roll numbers are being called by the teacher.

Question 12.
Frame a question to get the underlined words as answer :
He confessed his crime in the court.
Answer:
Where did he confess his crime?

Question 13.
Combine the sentences using ‘too…to’:
It is very cold. We can’t go out.
Answer:
It was too cold to go out.

IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each : ( 4 × 1 = 4 )

Question 14.
What does the writer compare water in a landscape to?
Answer:
Water in a landscape may be compared to the eyes in a human face.

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Question 15.
Who were the two teams of the village cricket match?
Answer:
The team organized by a London editor and a village cricket team, played in a English village.

Question 16.
How does the writer take a dig at the government officials?
Answer:
The Sexton and the Postman where government officials. The writer takes a dig at the sexton and postman, who were both government officials. He jokes that these men being government officials were by nature cautious and were taking no risks and there fore for an interminable peroid no wicket fell and no run was scored.

Question 17.
What made Lochinvar ride to Netherby Hall?
Answer:
Lochinvar rode to Netherby Hall to save his beloved Ellen from being married to another man.

V. Answer the following questions in two – three sentences each : ( 7 × 2 = 14 )

Question 18.
Describe the horror that Anne Frank witnessed one day in her concentration camp.
Answer:
One day she passed hundreds of Hungarian – Jewish children who were standing naked in freezing rain, waiting to be led to the gas – chambers.

Question 19.
How does the writer interpret the meaning of the catchy phrase, ‘Shop till you drop’ in the last paragraph of his essay?
Answer:
The author, Cheriyan Alexander, believes that there comes a point beyond which it is necessary to say ‘enough’ to merely material and not ‘shop till you drop’. He hopes that humanity will muster up enough courage to contain the damage caused by unrestricted consumerism, lest we really ‘shop till we drop’.

Question 20.
What did Jim and his mother take from Billy’s chest before they fled the inn?
Answer:
Jim’s mother took as much coins as to cover the old pirate’s rent, and not a half penny more, while Jim found an intriguing bundle of papers, wrapped in oilcloth, which he pocketed as payment for his services.

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Question 21.
Why did Ulysses and his party land on the strange looking island?
Answer:
Ulysses and his party were sailing on the sea at night. They lost their way and landed on the land of the cyclops.

Question 22.
What two ways of handling anger are mentioned in the poem, ‘Poison Tree’?
Answer:
The two ways of handling anger are expressing one’s anger and suppressing one’s anger. When the poet – speaker expressed his anger towards his friend, his anger subsided but when he supressed it his anger towards his friend grew.

Question 23.
How is the autumn season characterised in Sonnet 73?
Answer:
The poet uses autumn as a sign of his growing older. He compares his stage in life to the autumn season, when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang and the trembling branches of the trees in the cold autumn season, where birds perched and sang sweet songs. But now the branches of the trees were bare and the birds had flown to warmer places.

Question 24.
‘I press for this sad recompense’, says Drona. If it was a ‘sad recompense’, why did he demand it?
Answer:
Drona was sad to press for the recompense, the right thumb of Buttoo, because he had promised to make the greatest archer in the world.

VI. Rewrite as directed. ( 3 × 2 = 6 )

Question 25.
Give the other two degrees of comparison:
Delhi is one of the biggest cities in India.
Answer:
Positive : No other city is as big as Delhi in India.
Comparative: No other city is bigger than Delhi in India.

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Question 26.
Change into the reported speech :
He said to me, “I do not work on Sundays”.
Answer:
He told me that he doesn’t work on Sundays.

Question 27.
Change the sentence into a compound and a complex sentence :
He was given a medal for saving the life of a girl.
Answer:
Compound : He saved the life of a girl so he was given a medal.
Complex : He was given a medal because he saved the life of a girl.

VII. Answer the following questions in 5 – 6 sentences each : ( 6 × 3 = 18 )

Question 28.
Explain the details about the girl as imagined by the narrator in the train.
Answer:
The narrator was travelling to Dehradun on a train. He was totally blind. At Rohana he heard a girl enter his compartment. He was unable to see how the girl looked. He knew she wore slippers from the way they slapped against her heels. The narrator imagined that the girl’s voice had the sparkle of a mountain stream.

Question 29.
Describe the incident that made Parasurama realise that Kama was not a Brahmana?
Answer:
One day, when Parashurama was resting on Kama’s lap; it so happened that a bee stung Kama on the lower portion of his thigh. However, fearing that if he moved his legs, he would awaken Parashurama. Parashurama woke up and saw Kama bleeding. He asked Kama to tell the truth that whether he was a Brahmin or a Kshatriya. Kama addmitted that he was a Kshatriya.

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Question 30.
How does Basavanna express his devotion to Lord Shiva?
Answer:
This line is taken from the poem’The temple and the body’ by Basavanna. The poet sadly says that the rich can afferd to build temples for Lord Shiva.But the poet being a poor man can’t. But the poet compares his body to a shrine, his legs the pillars and his head is the cupola of the shrine. The poet means to convey that he does not seek God in temples but he has made his entire body into a shrine of Lord Shiva.

Question 31.
Describe the scene as the poet began rowing the boat.
Answer:
The poet dipped the oars vigorously into the silent lake and began rowing. The boat moved from behind the uneven range of the high hill which had so far seemed to him to be the boundary of distant horizon. A huge black peak put its head up, as if it were a living being endowed with a will and power of its own.

As he continued rowing over the serene lake the peak grew slowly larger in stature. Its towering height seemed to stand between the poet and the stars. It seemed to the poet as if the peak was a living creature following him with regular steps with some fixed purpose of its own.

Question 32.
How has John Masefield expressed his guilt as well as his gratitude towards his mother?
Answer:
The poet John Masefield recalls the sacrifices made by his mother which has now made him a man. He feels sad that his mother cannot see him now because she was dead. Even if she were to come alive from the grave they would not be able to recognise each other. The poet regrets that he has not repaid the debt to bis Mother for bringing him to life in spite of all the suffering and pain, she had to undergo while giving him birth.

The poet feels a sense of guilt he has not been able to repay her and also to women in general. The poet thinks that he is also to blame for the fact that men are considered superior to women for he has not done anything about it. The poet does not want his mother to come alive as he is ashamed to show his face to her.

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Question 33.
Describe how the 70th birthday of Louis Pasteur was celebrated.
Answer:
On Pasteur’s 70th birthday his jubliee was celebrated almost like a national festival. Like Lord Lister, he was honoured in his old age by the scientists of all nations. At the crowded meeting in the great hall of the university of Paris, Pasteur was too overcome to speak and his speech was read to the distinguished audience by his son.

OR

Describe how the girl of the silent torrent scanned the painted pot at home secretly?
Answer:
When the girl of the silent torrent reached home. She made sure she was safe from prying eyes then she held the painted pot in the light and turned it round and round and scanned the painting from all angles. Later that night she got up from bed, lighted a lamp and scanned it again in silence for the first time in her life she had been something that had no meaning and no purpose at all.

VIII. Explain with reference to the context: ( 5 × 3 = 15 )

Question 34.
‘We have our hands full’.
Lesson : A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise
Author : Rabindranath Tagore.
Answer:
Said by the men in the Worker’s Paradise.
In the Workers’ Paradise one can find anything except leisure. The people make use of every single minute. They don’t have a moment to spare. Women whisper to each other that they should get on with work as time’s flying. Everybody in the Worker’s Paradise believe that time is percious. They sigh complainingly that their hands are full of work and that they should make use of every single minute yet these words make them happy and exalted.

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Question 35.
‘Shall I put the chops on?’
Lesson : The Gift of The Magi
Writer : O’ Henry
Answer:
Jim is back from work and Della sweetly asks him if he is ready for dinner.
Della cut her most precious tresses to buy Jim a platinum fob chain for his watch, as a Christmas present. That evening when Jim comes back home he is shocked to see Della’s hair gone. Della pacifies him and tries to convince him that she loves him as much as she ever had even with the hair gone and asks him if she shall put the chops on for dinner.

Question 36.
‘I’ve too much to do to run errands’.
Lesson : The Pie and the Tart
Writer : Hugh Chesterman
Answer:
Said by Marion, M Gaultier’s wife to M. Gaultier.
M Gaultier has been invited to dine with the mayor. He thinks that it is appropriate to take the eel pie, he had baked with him to the dinner. He thinks that it is below his dignity to be seen carrying an eel pie through the streets of Paris. So he asks his wife, Marion, if she could bring it along after him. Marion retorts that it is quite impossible and she has too much to do to run errands.

Question 37.
‘She flew crying as he was picked up
hands and jaws’.
Poem : To a pair of Saras Cranes
Poet : Manmohan singh
Answer:
Said by the poet about the female Saras Crane.
A male Saras Crane was shot down by a cruel and callous hunter early in the morning. The dead male Saras Crane was picked up callously by the hunter by its neck and stuffed into a coarse washing bag like dirty laundry.
Seeing this the female Saras crane flew up crying into the air and circled the sky. She went insane with sorrow at his disgraceful end. But the hunter insenstively ignored her and carried her dead partner leaving her in deep sorrow.

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Question 38.
‘If I could put a notion in his head’.
Poem : Mending Wall
Poet : Robert Frost
Answer:
Said by the speaker in the poem. He is of the opinion that there is no need of a wall between his property and that of his neighbour. The speaker thinks it a waste of time mending the wall every spring wear out. their fingers rough from handling the boulders. The speaker feels that it just like an outdoor game with him on his side of the wall and his neighbour on his side of the wall. Moreover the speaker is sure that his apple trees will never get across to his neighbour’s property and eat the cones under his neighbours pine trees.

The neighbour thinks that good fences make good neighbours. So the speaker mischieviously think that if he could put a notion in his neighbours head as to “Why do they make good neighbours”. The speaker implies that there is no need of a wall between good neighbours.

IX. Quote from memory : ( 1 × 4 = 4 )

Question 39.
But ere he alighted at Netherby gate
The bride had consented, the gallant came late;
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

OR

And it grew both day and night
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my eve beheld it shine
And be knew that it was mine.

X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : ( 3 × 4 = 12 )

Question 40.
What does Abraham Lincoln what his son to know about the people around him? How should he respond to them?
Answer:
In this letter , which is actually a poem, Lincoln is asking the teacher to do certain things to make his son a nice citizen. As Lincoln himself says it is a big order but the teacher should do what he can. This poem beautiful!) tells the importance of a teacher in the character formation of a student.

My son has to learn that all men are not just and all men are not true. The teacher has to teach him many things: a) for every scoundrel there is a hero; b)for every selfish politician there is a dedicated leader; and c) for every enemy there is a friend.

The teacher should keep the boy away from envy and teach him the secret of quiet laughter.His son should learn that bullies are the easiest to defeat. The teacher should teach him the wonder of books. He should give him quiet time to think about the mysteries and wonders of nature the birds in the sky, the bees in the sun and the flowers on a green hillside.

The teacher should teach him that it is more honourable to fail than cheat. He should have faith in his own ideas, even if all the people tell him that his ideas are wrong. The teacher should teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with tough people.

The teacher should try to give the boy the strength not to follow the crowd. He should be taught to, listen to all men, but he should learn to differentiate truth from falsehood. He should be taught to laugh when he is ad and let him know that there is no shame in tears. He should be taught to laugh at the cynics and to be careful about people who show too much sweetness.

Teach him to sell his physical and mental abilities to the one who pays most. But he should never sell his heart and soul. He should learn to close his ears to the shouts of the crowds and fight if he thinks he is right. He wants the teacher to treat the boy gently. But he should be pampered too much because, like steel becomes strong only when it is put in fire, a man becomes strong only when he faces difficulties.

He should be taught to have the courage to be impatient. He should also learn to have patience to be brave. He should have faith in himself because only then he will have faith in mankind.

Lincoln says that he knows that he has given the teacher a big task. But the teacher should do what he can. Lincoln says the boy is a fine fellow and he hopes he will turn to be a nice citizen with the learning he is going to receive.

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Question 41.
Describe the observation made by Sir. C.V. Raman standing near the valley of the Nile? What explanation was given by the geologists about it?
Answer:
One day Sir. C.V. Raman was standing on the line which seperates the Libyan Desert from the valley of the Nile in Egypt. He observed that on one side was a visible a sea of billowing sand without a speck of green or a single living thing anywhere visible on it. But on the other side of the line he observed the greenest, most fertile and densly populated areas to be found anywhere on the earth, teeming with life and vegetation.

He concluded that the difference was made by the water of the River Nile flowing down to the Mediterranean sea.
The Geologists explain that the entire soil of the Nile valley is the creation of the river itself. It was brought down as the finest silt in its flood waters, from the highlands of Abyssina and from remote Africa. Egypt, in fact, was made by its river.

OR

How did the blacksmith face the ball? What was happening in the terrestrial sphere when the ball was high in the air?
Answer:
The last man to bat for the village side was the Blacksmith. The Blacksmith had sprained his ankle and limped in great pain. The Baker was his stand – in runner. The Blacksmith took position to bat. He looked around, savagely. He was clearly still in rage, having sprained his ankle. He lashed at the first ball he received and hit it straight up into the air to an enormous height, It seemed that the ball was trying to break Newton’s law of gravitation and hovered for a long time in the air and then began to decend slowly.

The Blacksmith forgot his sprained ankle and speedily set out for the other end of the wicket. As he started to run he roared at the Baker, his stand – in runner, to run with him. The baker, who was to run an behalf of the injured Blacksmith, enthusatically began to run along with the Black smith. The two of them collided with Joe, the man batting at the other end in the middle of the pitch and fell down. With their fall, the hopes of the village fell with the resounding fall of their three champions.

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Question 42.
What illustrations does Gandhiji give to justify that all good actions need not be moral acts?
Answer:
Conventional Behaviour:
An example for conventional behaviour is the way we greet each other, which depends on the way people greet each other socially. In that part of the world in western countries, shaking hands is a conventional behaviour, where as greeting with folded hands is followed in our country.

A moral act:
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be immoral, if we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger bearing the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king’s moral act. But if the messenger were to bear the king’s order, considering it to be /his duty, his action would be a moral one.

It is not enough that an act done by us is in itself good; it should have been done with the intention to do good. That is to say, whether an act is moral or otherwise depends upon the intention of the doer. Two men may have done exactly the same thing; but the act of one may be moral, and that of the other the contrary. Take, for instance, a man who out of great pity feeds the poor and another who does the same, but with the motive of winning prestige or with some such selfish end. Though the action is the same, the act of the one is moral and that of the other non-moral.

There is no morality in living a simple and unpretentious life if I have not the means to live otherwise. But plain, simple living would be moral if, though wealthy, I think of all the wants and miseries in the world about me- and feel that I ought to live a plain, simple life and not one of ease and luxury.

Likewise it is only selfish, and not moral, of an employer to sympathize with his employees or to pay them higher wages lest they leave him. It would be moral if the employer wished well of them and treated them kindly realizing how he owed his prosperity to them. This means that for an act to be moral it has to be free from fear and compulsion.

OR

What role does the diary play in Anne Frank’s life?
Answer:
The diary was a journal of Anne’s experiences, feelings, fears, anxities, hatred and hopes. The diary was very important to her. She was a teenage girl with latent feelings and aspirations which she could not express to anyone except to her diary. It provided an avenue for her to vent her feelings. To her the diary was her friend and confidant. Anne was always in confinement of the Secret Annexe.

She was friendless. Moreover she was not on cordial terms with her mother and sister Margot. She needed to befriend someone who was compassionate to her. The diary provided this need of a friend. She faithfully recorded her feelings in her diary and it helped her to stay composed thoughout her ordeal. She treated her diary as her close – friend and also named it ‘Kitty’ in memory of her estranged dear cat, whom they could not bring it along with them to the Secret Annexe.

Anne coped with the problem of isolation and lonliness by writing her feelings in her diary. The diary gave her a much needed sense of security, because she considered it as her greatest friend. She expressed her inner turmoil and thoughts in her diary and pondered for answers, which gave her a certain maturity to her thoughts as she grew up.

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XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: 1 × 4 = 4 ( 2 × 2 )

You are endowed with certain naughtiness as child. Keep it alive. Humour will grease all tough situations. One who has humour can sail through any conflict. Humour is buffer that saves you from humiliation. If you refuse to be humiliated, you become invincible. Humour brings everyone together, while humiliation. If you refuse to be humiliated, you become invincible. Humour brings everyone together, while humiliation tears them apart.

In a society tom with humiliation and insult, humour is like a breath of fresh air. Humour should be coupled with care and concern. Humour can keep the spirit high, yet if overdone it leaves a bad taste. Humour without wisdom is shallow. Humour without sensitivity is satire – it comes back to you with more problems.

The wise use humour to bring wisdom and to lighten situations. The intelligent use humour as a shield agains thumiliation. The cruel use humour as a sword to insult others. The irresponsible use humour to escape from responsibility. And fools take humour too seriously.

How does one cultivate a sense of humour? Humour is not just a word, it is the lightness of your being. You do not have to read and repeat jokes. Humour can be cultivated by taking life not too seriously (because you will never come out of it alive), having a sense of belongingness with everybody, including those who are not friendly, practising yoga and meditation, having unshakable faith in the Divine and in the laws of Karma.

Questions :
A) How does humour help in a society?
Answer:
In a society tom with humiliation and insult; humour is like a breath of fresh air.

B) How can sense of humour be developed?
Answer:
Humour can be cultivated by taking life not too seriously; having a sense of belongingness with everybody, practising yoga and meditation having unshakable faith in the divine and the laws of Karma.

XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18-20 sentences on any one of the following topics: ( 1 × 5 = 5 )

A) Gender Discrimination – a challenge to social justice.
Answer:
Gender is a concept that is used to describe men and women. This denotes not only the biological features of man or woman, it includes the cultural, behavioural, and social layers of life. It includes the status of each in the social hierarchy. It is common to understand gender from the woman’s perspective only.

Gender is used to study issues related to women. Women and children are the ones who are usually left 1 behind in the society. Women have been j discriminated against since ages. Gender discrimination is present all over the world. But the nature of discrimination is not same everywhere, it is a complex whole of numerous social issues. It is great social evil and a bane even in this age of Artificial Intelligence.

India is a predominantly patriarchal society, generally preference is given for male child. Hence gender based foeticide is a common practice in India. This has led to skewed gender ratio in India. There is inequality in women accessing education, ownership, economic activities as well as social activities. Gender discrimination is evident in family structure too.

It is shocking to see that 2011, the ratio of female and male was 933 females to 1000 males. The governments of India have implemented many laws to curb gender inequalities. Yet gender equality is still a mirage. Laws and punishment seem to have no effect and women are still being discriminated. The only solution to gender discrimination seems to be awareness about gender bias.

But it will take a long time for this awareness to transform into a social change. While it is true that today woman have proved their worth in every field, there are still millions of women who face discrimination at every juncture of life. There is a great need for further empowering women so that they can lead an enriched life free of discrimination.

B) The success story of Moon Mission of India.
Answer:
Chandrayaan 2:
Chandrayaan 2 was launched on July 22 from the Satish Dawan Space Center, Sriharikota launch pad from which I Chandrayaan 1 had taken off. Instead of using the up dated PSLV rocket used career, the spacecraft made use of the advanced Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, Mark III (GSLV Mk III).

The spacecraft was expected to land on the Moon on September 7, 2019. According to NASA, the Moon’s polar craters have the Solar System’s lowest temperature. It would have been the first probe in the world to land on the lunar south- pole. The main mission objective was the exploration of lunar water near the polar region.

Also, ISRO planned to test the capabilities of its lunar rover named Pragyan. Weighing 27kg, the rover operates on solar power and travels at a speed of 1cm per second. It will continuously perform chemical analysis of the soil and send back to the lander -Vikram, and update the ground station.

It was expected that the rover will operate for 14 days but the duration may vary since Pragyan uses solar power to keep itself up.

Unlike last time, ISRO declined to carry any foreign payloads due to weight restrictions. But in June 2019, it agreed to carry a small laser retroreflector from NASA. The orbiter will carry eight payloads, while the Lander is carrying three and the rover just two. However, the orbiter will be hovering over the moon at a distance of 100km and performing passive experiments just like it did on Chandrayaan 1.

Chandrayaan 2 successfully entered space. The most critical part was the auto soft-landing. But unfortunately the Rover lost contact with the base station. On 7 September 2019, the lander, Vikram tried to make a soft landing on the moon but when it was 2 kms away from the surface, the ISRO lost contact with Vikram.

Many efforts have been made to restore communication but the efforts have not been fruitful. The rover has not been able to come out of the lander and thus, it cannot gather important information related to the Moon. Due to this, the data that was supposed to be collected by Vikram and Pragyaan cannot be collected.

If the spacecraft had landed successfully on the Moon, India would have been the fourth country to join the moon club after China, the United States and Russia.

The entire Chandrayaan 2 mission cost approximately $141 million. This is less than every installment in the Marvel Avenger series.

Unlike Chandrayaan 1, the stakes were pretty high this time since the spacecraft was also carrying a lunar rover, orbiter and a lander. Moreover, Chandrayaan 2 used indigenously manufactured components and design vehicles for the first time.

Even if the mission ended in failure, ISRO will have a lot to learn from its experiences, motivating it to do better in the future. India is the only country in the world which successfully completed its maiden interplanetary mission to Mars.

The mission has achieved a 95% success with the placement of the orbiter in the moon’s orbit. It will take images of the moon for one year and send the data to earth. The launch is significant for a number of reasons, including the fact that, for the first time in Indian history, a space mission is spearheaded by two women. Chandrayaan-2 is led by Muthayya Vanitha and Ritu Karidhal, the project director and mission director

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XIII. 45. Imagine, you are Sowmya / Sunil, studying in Government High school, Peenya, Bangalore ( 1 x 5 = 5 )

Write a letter to your father requesting him to send you to your native place during summer vacation to spend some time with your grandparents. Inform him how you would take care of them.

Sunil
Government High School
Peenya
Bangalore

Dear Papa,
How are you? I hope you are keeping well. I miss you, ever since you were transferred to Mysore. I feel unhappy without you being here with us. But somehow I console myself and involve myself in studies.

Papa, today is the last day of our final exams, without you here in Bangalore, I will feel bored during the summer vacation. I request you to please allow me to go to grand – pa’s house to spend my vacation. As you know grand – pa has fractured his leg last week and grand- ma is finding it difficult to look after him, I might be of some help to them.

I will take care of them while I stay there and grand – ma will also feel relieved. I hope you will agree to send me to grand – pa’s house. Please write back to me as soon as you are free.

Your loving son
Sunil

OR

Imagine, you are Anthrose / Ambrose, a resident of Gayathrinagar, Bangalore. Write a letter to the Sub – Inspector of the police station of your locality, requesting him to arrange for patrolling in your area as there are too many chain snatching incidents going on there.
Answer:

Ambrose # 606,
II main
Ghat Road
Gayathrinagar
Bengaluru

Sub – Inspector
Gayathrinagar Police Station
Bengaluru

Dear sir,
I am compelled to write to you on behalf of all residents of Gayathrinagar. We have been facing untold difficulties due to the increasing incidents of chain – snatching in our locality. Women and children are afraid to venture out – doors after dark due to the threat of chain – snatching. Old people are deprived of their evening walk, women have to stay indoors and miss visiting neighbours and friends due to this threat.

The other day, a miscreant on a bike daringly snatched a women’s chain while she was standing outside her house waiting for her children to return from tutuions. A fortnight ago another bike – borne miscreant snatched the ear – ring a little girl playing in front of her house in the evening, tearing the poor girls’ ear – lobes into pieces, which required surgery to sew them back.

I hope you will increase necessary steps to ensure that this threat doesn’t escalate into life – threatening incidents. I suggest that you increase police patrol after dark. I hope that you will put an end to this chain – snatching menance at the earliest.

Yours sincerely,
Ambrose.

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