English Medium
Academic Year: 2018-2019
Date & Time: 12th March 2019, 10:30 am
Duration: 3h
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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
| 1 | Even before the independence of India, father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi had said that, “Sanitation is more important than Independence.” He had emphasized the importance of cleanliness and sanitation in daily lives. However, he failed in his aim because of the incomplete participation of the people. After many years of independence of India, a most effective campaign of cleanliness has been launched to call people for their active participation and complete the mission of cleanliness. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee while addressing the Parliament in June 2014 said, “For ensuring hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation, a Swachh Bharat Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to Mahatma Ghandhi on his 150 birth anniversary to be celebrated in the year 2019.” In order to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and make India an ideal country in the world, the Government of India initiated a campaign called ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi (2" of October). This campaign aims at completing the mission by 2019. |
| 2 | Through this campaign the Government of India would solve the problem of lack of sanitation by improving the waste management techniques. Clean India movement is completely linked with the economic strength of the country. The basic goal behind the launch of the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ is to provide the country with enough sanitation facilities as well as to eliminate all the unhealthy practices of people in their daily routine. The completion of this mission would indirectly draw the attention of business investors to India, enhance the GDP growth, draw tourists from all over the world, create a variety of avenues of employment, reduce health costs, reduce death rate, and reduce fatal disease rate and many more. It has been requested that every Indian devote at least 100 hours per year to cleanliness in India which is sufficient to make this country a clean country by 2019. The cleanliness drive also ensures cleanliness in the official buildings. Spitting paan, gutka and other tobacco products in the government offices has been banned. |
On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer any eight of the following questions:
- What is the passage about?
- What was the result of incomplete participation of the people in the mission?
- Why has 2019 been kept as the target year of completion?
- What did Gandhiji say about sanitation?
- How can the problem of lack of sanitation be solved?
- How will it impact our economy?
- What has been banned in the offices?
- What request has been made to Indians to accomplish it?
- What does ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ aim at?
Chapter: [0.17] Reading Skills
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
| 1 |
As a novelist and storyteller, I have always drawn upon my memories of places that I have known and lived in over the years. More than most writers, perhaps, I find myself drawing inspiration from the past — my childhood, adolescence, youth, early manhood ... But to talk of my early inspiration I must go back to my very beginnings, to the then small, princely state of Jamnagar, tucked away in the Gulf of Kutch. Here my father started a small palace school for princesses. I was there till the age of six, and I still treasure vivid memories of Jamnagar's beautiful palaces and sandy beaches. |
| 2 | Some of these landmarks are preserved for me in photographs taken by my father, which I have to this day. An old palace with pretty windows of coloured glass remained fixed in my memory and many years later gave me the story, “The Room of Many Colours”, which also inspired an episode in a TV serial called Ek Tha Rusty. I spent a memorable year and a half with him in New Delhi, then still a very new city — just the capital area designed by Edwin Lutyens and Connaught Place, with its gleaming new shops and restaurants and cinemas. I saw Laurel and Hardy films and devoured milkshakes at the Milk Bar, even as the Quit India Movement gathered momentum. |
| 3 | When I was seventeen, I was shipped off to the UK to “better my prospects” as my mother put it. Out of longing for India and the friends I had made in Dehra came my first novel — The Room on the Roof — featuring the life and loves of Rusty, my alter ego. In the 1950s everyone travelled by sea, as air services were still in their infancy. A passenger liner took about three weeks from Southampton to Bombay (now Mumbai). After docking in Bombay, I took a train to Dehra, where I stepped onto the platform of the small railway station and embarked on the hazardous journey of a freelance writer. Railway stations! Trains! Platforms! I knew as long as these were there I would never run out of stories. |
| 4 | I also looked for inspiration in tombs and monuments and the ever-expanding city, but did not find it, and my productivity dropped. Escape from Delhi had become a priority for me. I felt drawn to the hills above Dehra. On the outskirts of Mussoorie I found a small cottage, surrounded by oak and maple trees where the rent, thankfully, was nominal. : |
| 5 |
I'm of the opinion that every writer needs a window. Preferably two Is the house, the room, the situation ... important for a writer? A good wordsmith should be able to work anywhere. But to me, the room you live in day after day is all-important. The stories and the poems float in through my window, float in from the magic mountains, and the words appear on the page without much effort on my part. Planet Earth belongs to me. And at night, the stars are almost within reach. |
1. On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer any four of the following questions in 30 - 40 words each:
- What does the writer remember about Jamnagar?
- How did he spend time in Delhi?
- What was the inspiration for the first novel and why?
- What was the importance of trains and railway stations in his life?
- What was the importance of a window in the writer’s life?
2. On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, fill in any two of the following blanks with appropriate words/phrases:
- He was shipped off to UK for ______.
- Everyone travelled by sea because ______.
- The productivity dropped because ______.
3. Find out words/phrases from the passage that mean the same as the following. Attempt any two.
- gulped down/swallowed (para 2)
- early stage (para 3)
- attracted to (para 4)
Chapter: [0.17] Reading Skills
You visited remote area in Himachal Pradesh and observed that people have to travel long distances to get clean and safe drinking water. Write a letter in - 120 words to the Editor, Himachal Times expressing your concern about the situation and requesting the authorities to take appropriate measures to deal with the problem. You are Rama/Krishna, 112 Mall Road, Delhi.
Chapter: [0.16] Writing Skills
Write an article in 100 - 120 words on the topic, ‘Appropriate Use of Mobile Phones’. You are Vasu/Vani.
Chapter: [0.16] Writing Skills
Write a short story in 200 – 250 words, with the help of the cues given below. Give a suitable title to the story. Manish/Manisha discovered that God helps those who help themselves when he/she was nervous about …………………..
Chapter: [0.16] Writing Skills
Sita wanted to look very beautiful – special day – dress burnt – too upset – all joy destroyed – suddenly a knock on the door … … …
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The life of soldiers stationed .......... Siachen is extremely tough. For drinking water, they have to break ice .......... the glacier, boil it and drink it. There is one person ...............to keep the water warm at all times. The main task of the infantry ................ to hold the ground and man the post. To show their physical presence is important to ............. the enemy at bay.
(a) (i) at (ii) on (iii) up (iv) inside
(b) (i) in (ii) from (iii) upon (iv) away
(c) (i) assign (ii) assigning (iii) assigned (iv) has assigned
(d) (i) be (ii) were (iii) was (iv) it
(e) (i) keep (ii) keeping (iii) keeps (iv) kept
Chapter: [0.15] Additional Grammar
Word Missing Word
Before Word After
Today, Mt. Everest is drawing attention all e.g. attention for all
the negative reasons. The entire route the (a) ____ ____ ____
climbers follow reach the top is littered with (b) ____ ____ ____
rubbish and is in sore need cleaning up. (c) ____ ____ ____
The rubbish strewn along mountain slopes (d) ____ ____ ____
includes oxygen cylinders, bottles food cans. (e) ____ ____ ____
Chapter: [0.15] Additional Grammar
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is / reading / tea / not / books / cup of/ everybody’s.
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books / them / only / read / those who / will / love
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long term / on / reading / impact / has / a / one’s personality
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good / is/ for / it / substitute / a / watching TV
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is / the / it / hobbies / one / best / of
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Ten minutes or so later Naresh Dutt went looking for Patol Babu near the paan shop and found that he was not there. “That’s odd the man hadn’t been paid yet. What a strange fellow !”
(a) Where had Patol Babu gone ?
(b) Why did Patol Babu leave without informing anyone ?
(c) Why was Naresh Dutt looking for Patol Babu ?
(d) What does the incident tell us about Patol Babu ?
Chapter: [0.0105] Patol Babu, Film Star
But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough
And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth ?
(a) Who does ‘him’ refer to ?
(b) What dilemma did the poet face ?
(c) Pick out and explain the figure of speech used in line 2.
(d) Explain : ‘burning bowels of this earth’.
Chapter: [0.17] Reading Skills
Why did Lavinia decide to leave her husband, John ?
Chapter: [0.0104] A Shady Plot
In ‘Virtually True’ why did the newspaper article “Miracle Recovery” catch Michael’s attention?
Chapter: [0.0106] Virtually True
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Did the sculpture of Ozymandias fulfil the purpose for which it had been built ? Give reasons.
Chapter: [0.0109] Ozymandias
What opinion do you form of Calpurnia from the play ‘Julius Caesar’ ?
Chapter: [0.0113] Julius Caesar
What were the blessings the albatross brought with itself in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ?
Chapter: [0.011000000000000001] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“The Letter” revolves around human relationships and the love and faith that cements them. Discuss with reference to the story.
Chapter: [0.0103] The Letter
In “Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments”, how does the poet justify that his verse will live on forever ?
Chapter: [0.0108] Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments
In ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ how did the Franks and others celebrate two festivals, Hanukkah and St. Nicholas Day in the Annexe ?
Chapter: [0.17] Reading Skills
Attempt a character sketch of Margot Frank as shown in ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’.
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With reference to ‘The Story of My Life’, describe how a teacher can positively impact a child’s life ?
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Describe the role of Mr. Keith in the life of Helen in ‘The Story of My Life’.
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