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HIMACHAL PRADESH MAR 2008 : English

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ENGLISH Time allowed : 3 Hours i) ii) iii) Max. Marks : 100 This paper is divided into Four Sections : A, B, C, D. All sections are compulsory. Do not exceed the word limit wherever prescribed while answering the questions. Candidates are required to answer the questions in their own words as far as practicable. Section - A 1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : 1) Water is the basis of all life. Every animal and every plant contains a substantial proportion of free and combined water in its body and no kind of physiological activity is possible in which the fluid does not play an essential part. Water is, of course necessary for animal life, while moisture in the soil is equally imperative for the life and growth of plants and trees, though the quantity necessary varies enormously with the species. The conservation and utilisation of water is thus fundamental for human welfare. Apart from artesian water the ultimate source in all cases is rain or snowfall. Much of Indian agriculture depends on seasonal rainfall, is therefore very sensitive to any failure or irregularity of the same. The problems of soil erosion and of inadequate or irregular rainfalls are closely connected with each other. It is clear that the adoption of techniques preventing soil erosion would also help to conserve and keep the water where it is wanted. 2) 3) Closely connected with the conservation of water supplies is the problem of afforestation. The systematic planting of suitable trees in every possible area and the development of what one can call civilized forests is one of the most urgent needs of India. Such plantation would directly or indirectly prove a source of untold wealth to the country. They would check soil erosion and conserve the water. 4) English It is evident that in a country having only a seasonal rainfall an immense quantity of rainwater must necessarily run off the ground. The collection and utilization of this water is, therefore, of vital importance. The harnessing of our rivers, the waters of which now mostly run to waste, is a great national problem, which must be considered and dealt with on national lines. The measures necessary to control the movement of water and conserve the supplies of it can also serve other purposes of value to the life of a country side. We hear much about programmes of rail and road construction, but for too little about the development of internal waterways in India. Then again the harnessing of water supplies usually makes possible the development of hydroelectric power. The availability of electric power would make a tremendous difference to the life of the countryside and enable rural economy to be im1 +1 A) B. 2. proved in various directions. a) Why is water the basis of all life ? b) What is the source of water ? c) How can we conserve and keep water ? d) What is the great national problem ? OR What is the urgent need of India ? e) What makes possible the development of hydro-electric power ? 5 x 2 = 10 Find words in the passage having meanings similar to phrase / words given below : a) Vastly (Para 1) b) Clear (Para 2) 2 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : 1) How you can best improve your English depends on where you live and particularly on whether or not you live in an English speaking community. If you hear English spoken everyday and mix freely with English speaking people, that is on the whole, an advantage. On the other hand, it is often confusing to have the whole language, poured over you at once. Ideally, a step by step course should accompany or lead upto this experience. It will also help a great deal if you can easily get some English books in which you are interested. 2) 3) Some people say that they cannot learn to speak a language better with the help of a book. To believe this is to believe that the spoken language and the written language are quite different things. This is not so. There is a great deal in common between the two. In learning the patterns and vocabulary of the written form, we are learning to a considerable extent those of the spoken forms too. a) English To read a lot is essential. It is stupid not to venture outside the examination set books or the text books you have chosen for intensive study. Read as many books in English, as you can, not as a duty but for pleasure. Do not choose the most difficult books, with the idea of listing and learning as many new words as possible; choose what is likely to interest you and be sure in advance that it is not too hard. You should not have to be constantly looking up new words in the dictionary, for that deadens interest and checks real learning. It is extensive and not intensive reading that normally helps you to get interested in extra reading and thereby improves your English. You should enjoy the feeling which extensive reading gives of having some command of the language. As you read you will become more and more familiar with words and sentence patterns, you already know, understanding them better and better as you meet them in more and more contexts, some of which may differ only slightly from others. On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it, using recognizable abbrevations wherever necessary. 5 2 +1 b) Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following : i) puzzling (para 1) ii) Kills (para 2) iii) great (para 3) 3 Section - B 3. Describe an incident which you can not forget in about 80 - 100 words. OR A quiz contest was recently held in your school. You were a member of the team of your school. Your team won the team trophy. You have been asked to prepare a report about the event in about 80-100 words. 4 4. Write an article for a newspaper on the growing evil of drug addiction among the youth. Write your article in about 100-150 words. OR The World Environment Day is to be celebrated in your school. Prepare a speech on this topic in about 100-150 words. 8 5. You are Akanska / Sumit from Shimla. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper against rash - driving causing a number of deaths especially of youngsters. OR You are Nandita / Naveen. You have seen an advertisement for the post of an English Teacher in a Public School in Shimla. Write a letter in response to the advertisement applying for the post. Give your detailed biodata also. 8 Section - C 6. Do as directed : a) _____________________ mother is a very good cook. (Determiner) b) It (rain) since morning (Correct form of the verb). c) Work hard. You are sure to succeed. (Join into a compound sentence). d) You ___________________ to obey your parents. (Suitable modal) 4 7. The following sentences has not been edited. There is one mistake in each sentence. Underline each error and write your correction: a) He is prepared of anything __________________________ b) He killed two birds by one shot __________________________ c) The earth move round the sun __________________________ d) My friends meet the principal yesterday __________________________ 4 8. Re-order the words in the following sentences to form meaningful sentences : a) alone / bad / in / a / company / Better / than. b) achieving / succeeded / aim / in / He / his. 2 3 +1 English Section - D 9. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, altogether Changed and yet the same. I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust layers the globe. And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn. i) ii) iii) iv) Name the poem who speaks these lines ? Where is the rain formed ? What change does it undergo in the sky ? Where does it descend ? What does it do there ? What will happen to the seeds without rain ? OR Where did my childhood go ? It went to some forgotten place. That s hidden in an infant s face, That s all I know. i) ii) iii) iv) 10. What does the poet wonder about in these lines ? Where did the poet s childhood go, according to him ? What is the forgotten place ? What does the poet want to convey through these lines ? Answer the following questions in about 30 words each : (any 2) a) What is the poet s feeling towards childhood ? b) How is the father s helplessness brought out in the poem ? c) What does this circumstance refer to ? 1x4=4 2x3=6 11. Answer any five questions (upto 30 words each) : a) How are the earth s principal biological systems being depleted ? b) Why the title Silk Road has been opted for the lesson ? c) What do you understand by the terms outsider art and art brut or raw art ? d) Why King Tut s body has been subjected to repeated scrutiny ? e) Describe the mental condition of voyagers on 4th and 5th January ? f) Mention three ways in which the author s grand mother spent her days after he grew up ? 3 x 5 = 15 12. Answer any one of the following questions : (about 100 - 125 words) The author s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this. English 4 +1 OR The landscape is an inner one, a spiritual and conceptual space, Describe. 10 13. Answer any one of the following questions : (upto 100 words) Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience - stricken or because they were afraid ? OR What do you understand by Eienstein s nature from his conversation with his history teacher, his mathematics teacher and the head teacher ? 7 14. Answer any two short answer questions : (upto 30 words each) a) How did the writer come to know about Shahid s approaching death ? b) Describe Dr. Andrew s efforts to revive the child. c) The address is a story of human predicament that follows war. Comment. 4+4=8 English 5 +1

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