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Annual Examination in ENGLISH Std. 11 22-2-2019 Time : 3 hrs. Max. Marks : 80 The Question paper is divided into three sections: Section - A Reading 20 Marks Section - B Writing & Grammar 30 Marks Section - C Literature 30 Marks General Instructions: i) All questions are compulsory. ii) You may attempt any section at a time. iii) All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order. SECTION - A (READING) 1. (20 marks) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: For its relatively small size, the snow leopard has an extraordinarily long tail sometimes measuring a metre. It is flexible and helps the animal keep its balance while leaping through treacherous and rocky terrain. While asleep, the animal wraps its tail which contains a large amount of fat and is covered with thick fur around itself to keep warm. The physiology of its throat oddly does not allow the big cat to roar, unlike say a tiger or lion. But it can chuff . Chuffing, a sort of snort, is a non-aggressive vocalisation generally used when two cats meet. It was drinking water from a river, says head ranger Emil Japarov, describing that rare moment he caught a glimpse of the ghost cat at Kyrgyzstan s Shamshy Reserve. And then in a second, it was gone. Japarov comes from a family of herdsmen in Kyrgyzstan who have roamed these mountains for generations with their livestock. Yet in his entire career spanning two decades he has seen the cat just once or twice. The ghost of the mountains as the snow leopard is called in these parts is one of the most elusive cats in the world. In the last 20 years, both the distribution and population of the cat are believed to have shrunk by 50%. Celebrated author Peter Matthiessen wrote an entire book on his search for this big cat in the Himalayas, but he did not see it even once. Now, almost 40 years after Matthiessen s book, the 12 countries where the beasts roam including India will come together at a conference, hosted by Kyrgyzstan in August this year, to chalk out a roadmap to secure at least 20 healthy snow leopard populations across the globe by 2020. India and Kyrgyzstan have many common goals for protecting snow leopards as well as combating climate change. That s why we are hoping for the highest level of participation from India. We have extended our invitation to the Indian Prime Minister, says Abdykalyk Rustamov, Director of State Agency on Environment Protection and Forestry (the equivalent of the Ministry of Environment in India). Some of India s best wildlife brains are now in Kyrgyzstan, working closely with the government there to evolve management plans and train field staff in the latest technologies to protect the animal and its habitat. Indian wildlife biologist Koustubh Sharma, who works with the U.S.-based Snow Leopard Trust, moved from the heat and dust of the central India to the mountains of central Asia two years ago. He is here to impart technical skills and implement management plans. India, with an estimated population of 200-400 snow leopards, has much to offer the world through its own conservation success story. Many Kyrgyz scientists and field staff have visited India to understand how communities are involved in conservation, eco-education and ecotourism in areas such as Lahaul-Spiti and Ladakh. a) b) 2. On the basis of your understanding of the passage, make notes on it using heading and sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations wherever necessary (minimum 4). Also supply a suitable title to it. 5 Write a summary of the passage in about 80 words. 3 Read the passage given below and then answer the questions that follow: Despite saving almost 80,000 children from child labour, and now adding the world s most famous award to his name, Kailash Satyarthi has always restlessly sought to do more. At the entrance to Kailash Satyarthi s nondescript office is a small noticeboard, of the old fashioned type, with white plastic letters pressed into a dark felt background. It marks the number of children he has freed from slavery. When I first met Kailash, nearly four years ago, the number was a little over 74,000. I remember being so stunned by the figure I scribbled it at the top of my notebook, as a reminder to ask him about it. He was undemonstrative, but perhaps secretly pleased it had been noticed. This is what we do, this is our job every day, he said of his organisation, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which he formed in 1980, after leaving his job as an electrical engineer. Std. 11 -2ENGLISH That figure on the noticeboard is about to tick over 80,000. That s 80,000 young lives transformed and now the Nobel peace prize. In almost every way, Kailash Satyarthi is an unlikely Nobel laureate. He has a gmail address, correspondence to which he answers himself, when he can eventually find the hours in the day. He freely gives out his mobile phone number, and, again, when he has time, happily answers it to all callers. And he has maintained the same office for years, in a dusty, poorlypaved street in unfashionable Kalkaji, in south Delhi. We would meet every few months. I wanted to talk about stories I was working on, he was looking to further spread his message. Inside his office, the meeting always ran the same. Seated behind his broad desk, barefoot and dressed in white kurta pyjamas, Kailash was always expansive, always generous with time he didn t really have. Over sweet, milky chai, he would talk about the raids just gone and upcoming, he would recount the ones that went well, the ones that ended badly. And we would discuss the industries and the places that were proving harder to rid of the scourge of child labour his phrase than others. With Kailash s guidance and contacts, I pursued stories on Indian children making footballs for sale in Australia; girls sold into bonded labour schemes in textile mills; boys from poor families trafficked to work in tiny, collapse-prone rat-hole coal mines forced by economic circumstance into mining mica. But always there was more with Kailash: more stories the media could cover to highlight the problem; more that the government could do to enforce the legislation parliament had passed to outlaw child labour and mandate education; more police could do to stamp out the corruption that meant officers looked the other way; more that multinational companies in the developing world could do to ensure they weren t making their money from the bent backs of children. But Kailash realised, too, the nuances of child labour in the developing world. But there is a distinction between child work, where children work alongside their parents a few hours a week after school to supplement the family income, and child labour, where children are taken out of school to work and their family depends on what they earn. The former is an inescapable fact of children growing up in low-income economies, the latter is a guarantee of a lifetime of poverty. 2.1 Answer the following questions briefly: a) b) c) d) e) f) 2.2 Std. 11 Why is Kailash Satyarthi s office described as nondescript? What did the writer note down when he first met Kailash and why do you think Sathyarthi might have been pleased with the observation that the writer made? Why has Kailash Satyarthi been described as an unlikely Nobel Laureate ? Why did the writer meet Sathyarthi every few months? Write briefly about children that Satyarth had saved. How is Child Labour different from Child Work? Answer the following questions by choosing the correct answer from the options given below: 1 1 1 1 2 2 (1x4=4) a) He was undemonstrative . What does this imply? i) that Satyarthi was happy. ii) that he was careful about his work. iii) that he did not reveal his emotions. iv) that he was extremely hardworking. b) What is the work of Kailash Satyarthi and his organization? i) to help poor people ii) to run his organization iii) to help poverty stricken children iv) to rescue children from slavery c) But always there was more with Kailash . What does this statement mean? i) He wanted more media coverage. ii) He felt that what the authorities had done was insufficient. iii) He was an extremely complacent person. iv) Wanted more help for his organization. d) What i) ii) iii) iv) Award did Kailash Satyarthi receive? Award for his Bachpan Bachao Andolan. Nobel peace prize. An Award for rescuing children from the scourge of child labour . He was not a recipient of any award. -3- ENGLISH SECTION - B (WRITING AND GRAMMAR) 3. (30 marks) You are Yogesh/Yukti, a resident of 246/B, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. As you are planning to shift to Mumbai, you wish to let out your house. Draft an advertisement in not more than 50 words to be published in the Classified Column of The Hindu , furnishing all the necessary/important details. (OR) You are Akhilesh/Anamika, the Managing Director of Friends of India -an NGO that promotes peace and communal harmony. On behalf of the NGO, Draft a poster with catchy/convincing slogans and quotations to foster Peace and Harmony among the general public. (50 words) 4 4. You are Noyal/Nivedita, residing at 32, Subhavana Apartments, Lodhi Colony, New Delhi. You are a post graduate in Mathematics with three years teaching experience as T.G.T Mathematics in Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, Delhi. You come across an advertisement in The Hindustan Times for a job vacancy of P.G.T Mathematics in Tagore International School, G.K-1, Delhi. Draft a job application with a cover letter and a detailed Biodata furnishing the necessary information about your professional career. (120-150 Words) (OR) You are Sam/Sadaf, a student of Rajagiri Public School, Lonavala, Pune. Being one of the most promising aspirants for the post of the Head Boy/Head Girl of your school, write a letter of application to the Principal briefing him/her about yourself and your personal and academic achievements, and describing your vision as the prospective Head Boy/Girl. (120 words) 6 5. You are Eric/Emma of Holy Angels School, Shalimar Garden. Your school is hosting an interschool Public Speaking Competition on the topic The unmatched and incomparable patriotism and sacrifice of the Indian soldiers must be an eye opener for every citizen . Being one of the contestants, write a speech in about 150 to 200 words validating the topic. (OR) The role and relevance of extracurricular activities in schools, colleges and universities, has, of late become one of the most scrutinized topics. Some of the students, parents and even teachers tend to be skeptical about it meanwhile others see such extra-curricular activities as an inevitable part of their educational experience. Moved by these thoughts, write an article on the topic The pivotal role of extracurricular activities in the holistic development of one s personality . You are Jake/Jennifer. (150-200 Words). 10 6. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet as given below against correct blank number: ( x 8 = 4) Incorrect Correct Despite its long and vibrant history of India, literature a) ________ _________ about the environment remains in the fringes of b) ________ _________ public discussion. Such literature takes many foams c) ________ _________ from fiction to non-fiction to poetry, reinforced the d) ________ _________ interconnectedness between living beings and there e) ________ _________ environment. It discuss environmental protests like f) ________ _________ the Chipko movement throw various social and g) ________ _________ historical lenses. Sometimes, it may just be an intimate odd to nature. h) ________ _________ 7. In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it, as given in the example: ( x 8 = 4) We thank our elders and parents for our comfort. E.g we must thank They bear hardships that we not suffer. a) ____________ We not be ungrateful to our friends either. b) ____________ They be miles apart now, but they are c) ____________ close to our hearts. We not sing songs in d) ____________ their praise, but we could be a bit considerate towards elders. Std. 11 -4- ENGLISH 8. The following are two famous quotations. Rearrange the words and phrases to form meaningful sentences. (1 x 2 = 2) a) never reach anywhere / the trouble / and / with not having / running up and down / spend your life / is that / you can / a goal / b) why we can t / the only / have them / is the reasons / what we / reason / we create / want in life / we don t have SECTION - C (LITERATURE) 9. (30 MARKS) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: (3 x 1 = 3) I would have him prodigal; returning to His father`s house, the home he knew, Rather than see him make and move His world. I would forgive him too, Shaping from sorrow a new love.. a) b) c) Why does the speaker say, I would have him prodigal ? What is the speaker s state of mind in the given context? How did the present situation come into being? (OR) Yet have I killed The seed I spent or sown it where The land is his and none of mine? We speak like strangers, there s no sign Of understanding in the air. a) b) c) 10. Answer any three of the following questions in about 40 to 50 words each: a) b) c) d) 11. Justify that the sanctity of Lake Manasarovar had always been a moving experience for the visitors. (The Silkroad) On 6th of January at 6 pm, what cheerful news did the adventurous voyagers receive? (We Are Not Afraid to Die ..) John Byro s tactfulness probably saved the reputation of Garoghlanian tribe. Comment. What kind of poet was Agha Shahid Ali? (The Ghat of the Only World) b) 6 Justify the title of the story Birth . How just and placid do you think was the king in the poem The Tale of Melon City ? Answer any one of the following questions in about 120-150 words: a) 6 Give a detailed account of King Tut s funerary Treasures. Why did Francois Cheng consider man to be the eye of the landscape ? Answer any one of the following questions in 120-150 words: a) b) 13. (3 x 3 = 9) Answer any one of the following questions in 120-150 words: a) b) 12. Why does the speaker believe that he has killed the seed ? Whom does we refer to? What does no sign of understanding mean? Gangadharpant was baffled about the transition he made that enabled him to experience two worlds, although one at a time. Explain. (The Adventure) Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscape and ailing environment? Elaborate. (The Ailing Planet) -x-x-x-x-x-x-x- 6

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