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STD XII Date: 5-1-24 Marks: 80 ST JOSEPH'S BOYS' HIGH SCHO0L BENGALURU Time: 3 hrs PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION ENGLISH PAPERI-LANGUAGE the paper. reading (Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutesfor onlytime) They must NOT write anything duringthhis Attempt all four questions. brackets [1. The intended marks for questions or parts of fquestions are given in minutes on Question 55 (You are advised to spend not more than 45 minutes on Question 1, 2;30 minutes on Question 3 and 50 minutes on Question 4.) fresh page.) (You should begin each answer on a Question 1 [20] following subjects: the of Write a composition [in 400-450 words] on any one that you different kinds of people two Describe a) Everyone appreciates good company. the influence they have on you. find interesting/ are drawn to and got phones and internet services landline phones, happening. mobile a all the 0) lmagine a day when across the country. Narrate the consequences of such day, the disabled for statement. misleading Argue for or against the and intrusive are c) `Advertisements Present your reflections on the world.' the govern ideas and d) Reading begets ideas statement. e) Temptation story which ends with the line ) Write an original short envelope me. .As I moved forward Ifelt a strangecalmness Question 2 newspaper report in about 300 words using (i) You have witnessed a road accident. Write a [15] the given prompts. ..... howit happened. When and where the accident took place. .people injured and damage caused.... description of the vehicles involved.. .steps taken before the police arrived. reaction of the people present. to set up a Skill (ii) As a member of the Student Council of your school, you have been asked which they Development Centre in school to train students to develop/learn at least one skill the steps you will can pursue later on as a career. Write a proposal in about 150words stating [10| take to do this. Question 3 Answer sections (i), (ii) and (ii) (i) In each of the following items, sentence Iis complete, but sentence II is not. Complete [S] sentence II, making it as similar in meaning as possible to sentence I. (1] a) () The cicket stadium is too far for us to (I)RewTIte go on without using too foot. b) () Ram is the cover page for (1)Changedesigning the the voice c) ) fyou do school nagazine. not (1) Begin with come out, we will enter the The room d) () AS SOOn as warned the () Begin with Noalarm went off, she jumped out policeman of bed. sooner e) () He showed generosity even to his () Rewite (i ) Fill in the using generous forcefully, the policenman warned him enemies. blanks with a suitable word. (Do not copy the Matters grew sentence) wOrse b) Iwas the brothers and between taken came on coming to c) The judge know blows. my d) The new turned the was arrested. colleague e)The company has taken defendant' appeal for a the scosmetic f)The novelty of being a celebrity p onement . marketpostcompletely. wears g) The accident ultimately. completely wiped thief made memory. the door as soon his h) The as the i)The enemy steadily closed burglar alarm went off as the teacher saw night j) We traded the a) our old advanced. feeble excuse Tom made. television set for a new one. blank in the passage given given in brackets. below with the Do not write (iii) Fill in each form of the verb write theappropriate Today, traffic creates one of the verbs in the correct order. most of buses, Thousands serious trucks and private menaces for people living in big where they live. vehicles Their cities. (3) (shalke)by the sleep (1)(thunder) down (2) (disturb) by the the streets and the fumes incessant noise, their (6) vibrations houses they (emit) by exhausts.atmosphere (4)(poison) by the (6) (increase) the past breathe During 20 years the to cope with the but the roads of motor vehicles tremendously (7) (notnumber traffic. As a result, many people are additional accidents injured and killed. It is no wonder (8)improve) should proportionately (rise) alarmingly and that (9) (prevent) from citizens demand that heavy traffic entering cities or that new roads (10) (construct). Question 4 Read the passage but the passage carefully and answer the questions (i), (ii) and (iii) that we siblings get together, we Whenever life to inevitably talk follow. Dad. We all owe our success in him--and to a mysterious man he met one nightabout on a train. [2] Our father, Simon Alexander Haley, was born in 1892 and reared in the small farming town of Savannah, Tennessee. He was the eighth child of Alec Haley, a tough-willed former slave and part-time sharecropper and ofa woman named Queen. Although sensitive and emotional, my grandmother could be tough-willed herself, especially when it came to her children. One of her ambitions was that my father be educated. Back then in Savannah a boy was considered wasted" if he remained in school after he was big enough to do farm work. So, when my father reached the sixth grade, Queen began massaging grandfather's ego. "Since we have eight children," she would argue, "wouldn't it be prestigious if we deliberately wasted one and got him educated?" After many arguments, grandfather let Dad finish the eighth grade. Still, he had towork in the fields after school. But Qucen was not satisfied. As eighth grade ended, she began planting seeds, saying grandfather's image would reach new heights if their son went to high school. Her barrage worked. Stern old Alec Haley handed my father five hard-earned ten-dollar bills, told him never to ask for more and sent him off to high school. Traveling first by mule cart and then by train, the first train he had ever seen, Dad finally alighted in Jackson, Tennessee, where he enrolled in the preparatory department of Lane College. The black Methodist school offered courses up through junior college. Dad's $50 was soon used up, and to continue in school, he worked as a waiter, a handyman and a helper at a school for wayward boys. When winter came, he'd arise at 4 am, go into prosperous white families' homes and make fires so the residents would awaken in comfort. Poor Simon became something of a campus joke with his one pair of pants and shoes, and his droopy eyes. Often, he was found asleep with a textbook fallen into his lap. The constant struggle to earn money took its toll. Dad's grades began to dip. But he pushed onward and completed senior high. Next, he enrolled in A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, a land-grant school where he struggled through freshman and sophomore years. One bleak afternoon at the close of his second year, Dad was called into a teacher's oftice and told that he'd failed a course: one that required a textbook he'd been too poor to buy. A utmost, and now he ponderous sense of defeat descended upon him. For years hed given hisoriginal destiny of to his felt he had accomplished nothing. Maybe he should return home sharecropping he wasone of 24 black from the Pullman Company sayingsleeping-car came letter a attendants. later, days few But a applicants to be suumertime of hundreds from a assigned selected was college men Hecagerly reported for duty and chance! a was Here ecstatic. Dad was Buffalo-to-Pittsburgh train. buzzer sounded. am when the porter's 2 about morning one berths. There, a along his way to the passenger The train was rocketing made and they both jacket, and white sleeping. on his troublo having were Dad sprang up, jerked man wife man said he and his on a silver tray. Thc distinguished-looking milk and napkins and, brought sipping trom his own Dad milk. warm curtains to his wife wanted glasses ofthrough lower-berth the handed one glass Dad in conversation. glass, began to engage [31 (( ) a G ) "No, conversation beyond "Yes,sir" or the any prohibited Pullman Company rules strictly asking questions. He even followed Dad back into Tennessee, sir." ma'am," but this passenger kept from?"Savannah, porter's cubicle. "Where are you you, sir." "You speak quite well." "Thankthis?" was "What work did you do before in Greensboro, sir." Dad felt no need to add that he College &T T'm a student at A returned to his bunk. considering returning home to sharecrop. finally wished him well and keenly, him made a good tip, the at looked The man Pittsburgh. At a time when 50 centssummer, he had been reached train the morning, All The next Haley, who was profusely grateful. man gave five dollars to Simon when the job finally ended, he had accumulated enough to for one full semester saving every tip he received, and realized his savings could also pay he But plough. and mule buy his own single odd job. at A & T without his having to work a would he semester free of outside work. Only that way one least at deserved he decided Dad sooner did he He returned to Greensboro. But no know what grades he could truly achieve. the college president. Dad was full of summoned by arrive on campus than he was great man. apprehension as he seated himself before the President said. Yes, sir." summer?" Yes, sir." "Youwere a porter for Pullman this and bring him warmn milk?" Yes, sir" night "Did you meet a certain man one Ihave a letter here, Simon," the retired executive of the Curtis Publishing Well, his name is Mr. R. S. M. Boyce, and he'sa Post. He has donated $500 for your board, Company, which publishes The Saturday Eveningfather was astonished. tuition and books for the entire school year." My class. And to finish A&T, but to graduate first in his dad The surprise grant not only enabledscholarship to Conell University in Ithaca, New York. to the achievement earned him a full Ithaca with his bride, Bertha, He entered Cornell In 1920, Dad, then a newlywed, moved to to Music enrolled at the Ithaca Conservatory of pursue his master's degree, and my mother study piano. Iwas born the following year. Evening Post invited me to their editorial One day decades later, editorS of The Saturday first book, The Autobiography of offices in New York to discuss the condensation of my those wood-paneled offices on Malcolm X. Iwas so proud, so happy, to be sitting in and how it was his generosity that Lexington Avenue. Suddenly Iremembered Mr. Boyce, then I began to cry. I just couldn't And enabled me to be there amid those editors,as a writer. help it. Boyce and his investment in a less fortunate We children of Simon Haley often reflect on Mr. also benefited. Instead of being raised human being. By the ripple effect of his generosity, we parents, shelves full of books, and educated on a sharecrop farm, we grew up in a homewith of theU.S.Postal Rate Commission; chaiman with pride in ourselves, My brother George is writer. Mr. R. S. M. Boyce dropped like Julius is an architect, Lois a music teacher and I'm a chance encounter,I see as the may see as a a blessing into my father's life. What some that each person blessed with success working of a mysterious power for good. And I believe all live and act like the man on the must has an obligation to return pat of that blessing. We Alex Haley. train. [41 ()(a)Given below are three words and phrases Find the words which have a sim:la meaning in the passage 1. constant persuasion 2. difficult to control; unuly 3. feeling of wory or fear that uss the ( ) For each of the words given belo, choose the corct sentence unchanged in spelling, but with a different meaning from that which it same word cames in the passage 1. comfort and comfort of every kind A. The newiy opened Ritz Hotel offers luxury any other. B. The comfort of one's own home is incomparsble to chld mother knows by instinct how to comfort ber crving C. A D. Achild in distress seeks the comfort of his mother's arms. 2. train on time. A The 6:00am train to Mysore is alwaysbatch of newrecruits train a B. Mr Shah was sent to Delhi to overmight train joumey. C She reached Mumbai after an reasonably pricad D. The food served on the train was 3. book book break every rule in the A. Tom is known to a flight. a book to read while on B. Susan alwavs carries mistake. home by book online. C. She took her friend's train and air tickets book easily can one D. Today, (b) Answer the following questions briefly. sixth remained in school after Simon son her that how Queen ensured eighth grade. a) Briefly explain high school after grade and was sent to plough? buy his own mule and to Simon enabled b) What to fund his college him prompted that Simon (21 think MrBoyce saw in c) What do you education for a year? after the college Simon did to remain in what narrate than 100 words, on a train. (c) In not more job as an attendant a got he till columns, 20 rows. 350 was used up. numbered grid of5 single. your answerin a Wnte **********BestofLuck [5] |8]
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