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INSTITUTION ST. XAVIER'S REHEARSAL TEST 2023-24 CLASS Xll p AN t HAT t SUBJECT-ENGLISH PAPER-I QUESTION 1 on any one of the words) 400-450 approximately composition(in Write a rewarded for the orderly be will you that reminded are subjects.You following appropriate style and general and coherent presentati n of the matter, use of [20] grammar. and spelling,punctuation of y accura with your Narrate an incident when you had a major misunderstanding closest cousin and how the situation was sorted. a safe and healthy socio(b) Media needs to be more responsible to ensure of the observation? political development of a nation.What is your opinion (c) Patience (d) Cricket is much too hyped in India to allow the growth and success rate of other sports.How far do you agree or disagree with this observation. (e) In today's worjd,we are all exposed to some or the other kind of pollution in varying degrees.Describe vividly a situation when you or any of your family members have been a serious victim of any form of pollution,the sufferings and inconveniences,eventual rescue from that situation and the consecquent feelings and realisation. (f) Write an original short sto entitled: 'A Friday Afternoon Fiasco' QUESTION 2 (a Write your own personal profile based on the following points: AcademicQualifi&tion- Co-curricular Activities Achievements Positive personality traits Hobbies and other interests Ambition and goal in [15] life. ( The students' council of your school wants to make the school campus more eco-friendly to send a positive message to the students and the 2. (A) A fierce storm,terrible flood and total power outage brought life in the city to a standstill. (B) Life in the city 3. (A) Of all instruments he ever played,Harry enjoyed playing the flute Most. (B) No 4. We expect our plane to touch 5. Puja is dealing succesfully past midnight. sarees of late. 6. Arvind is perfectly suited the new post offered to him. 7. In order to solve any problem, we need 8. Suneeta has to get the root of it. her grandmother in more ways than one. 9. The flight took Uk at 7 a.m sharp. 10. Vineeta has a very rich taste music. (C) Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage but write the verbs in the correct order. [5] The forest can be abundant and caring like an indulgent mother if (1) (follow) her rules.But stray out of line and she can be like a we (3) (help) ensure demon wtu2) (strike) you down. Yes, the rumours (4) (be) a long time to stick to a fixed path,to discipline. Nine months (5) (find) that rumours are not not stray.But, trust me,those who stray, far from hard facts. All this while,Ayurva bites,Veerbhadra to his wife.They their wn son.Ayurvati Q STION4 (6) (look) at Kritikka and Veerbhadra. Between (7) (point) towards Kartik and (8) (whisper) (9) (look) at Kartik with loving eyes,almost like he was (10) (smile) sadly. [201 Read the passage given below and answer the questions (a),(b) and (c) that follow: (1) My father,the most adorable father I've ever seen,didn't marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. My sister Margot was born betc.Rin Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1926. I was born on June 12,1929. I lived in frankfurt until I was four.Because we we're Jewish, my father immigratedto Holland in 1933,when he became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used making jam. (2) My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September,while Margot and I were sent to Achen to stay with our followed in grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and I February, when I was plunked down the table as a birthday present for Margot. I started right away at the Montessori nursery school. (3) I stayed there until I was six, at which time I started first grade. In sixth grade my teacher was Mrs. Kuperus, the principal. At the end of the year, we were both in tears as we said a heart-breaking farewell, because I'd been accepted at the Jewish Lyceum, where margot also went to school. Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler's anti-Jewish laws. (4) After the pogroms in 1938 my two uncles (my mother's brothers) fled Germany, finding safe refuge in North America. My elderly grandmother came ea meto live with us. She was seventy-three years old at the time. After May 1940 the good times were few and far there was the war,then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. (5) Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to use street-cars; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 P.M.;Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlours; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.; Jews wewe forbidden to attend theatres, movies or any other forms of entertainment;Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tenis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields; Jews were forbidden to go rowing; Jews were forbidden to take part in any athletic activity in public;Jews were forbidden to sitin their gardens or those of their friends after 8 P.M.; Jews were forbidden to visit Christians in their homes. (6) Jews were required to attend Jewish schools, etc. You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on. Jacque always said to me, "l don't the summer of do anythinganymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed." In so my birthday 1941 Grandma got sick and had to have an operatiom, passed with little celebration. Adapted from: The Diary ofa YoungGirl By: Anne Frank Find the words which (a) (i) Given below are three words snd phrases. [3] passage: the in meaning have a similar l/ 3. n organised massacre of a particular ethnic group- Q t e action of ceasing to resist the opponent or demand asylum (il For each of the words given below, choose the correct sentence that uses the same word unchanged in spelling but with a different aning from that which it carries in the passage: [3) l.grade a) I was admitted in the first grade in this school exam grade was not satisfying c) My father got me admitted in the third grade d) He started studying from second grade 2.own a) I got back,my own book b) He had all the records in his own hand OKe did not own the responsibility of his mistakes d) He completed the project with his own hands 3.passed a) The day passed away peacefully e passed by the car quickly c) The old man passed away yesterday d) The festival days passed with a lot of celebration (b) Answer the following questions inyour own words as briefly as possible: [2] happened when the narrator was six? O"hat v2 X Why did the narrator say that 'the good times were few and far [2] tween'? [2] What did the narrator's relatives do in 1938? Summarise how the freedom of Jewish people was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees (paragraphs 5 to 6). You are required to write a summary in the form of connected passages in about 100 [8] words.Faliure to keep within limits will be penalised.
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