© Fillin the blanks with appropriate articles where necessary (any five): 1x5=5, (a) Hrishikesh is__MBA. (b) Just___hour ago the result was declared, (c) Heisoneof ___ brightest students. (d) But he needs to be _little careful about his here, otherwise all your arguments go in vain.” personality. (e} He thinks himself __Dilip Shangvi. (fl met _his teacher yesterday. (g) He should study __few books in the library on entrepreneurship. (h) His career will come to__close once he stops learning. UNITIV (Creative Writing Skill) 17. Write a paragraph in about 180-200 words on any one ofthefollowing: 8 (a) Covid-19 (b) Your Favourite Post (¢} Your Opinion on Online Class (e)IPLin UAE 18. Develop a story from the given outlines: 7 ‘Three men resting under an apple tree-an apple fell onto the ground-Adam commented, "Don't touchit, itis the symbol of sin-isaac remarked, "Let me discover something, new out of this” Steve opined, "I can think of He is one of brightest students. a new business with this fruit ‘Argument among them-the tree enunciated, "Nonsense! First | must be here, otherwise all your arguments go in ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH SOLVED PAPERS PAGE EINK Click here BUY E-BOOK (DF FILE) ITO SEE FULL SOLUTION (Read Syllabus/ Notes, Exam Routine, Question Papers ‘and solved)NP SNE UIE SyTTUTTYIS Or 2 Wy WO Ur Ue TUTUNVI IS WU. (i banatity (i) cordial {iil) chaos (c) Give the antonyms of any two of the following words: 2 (i) anarchy (i) dumbfounded {iii) exclusive UNIT (Grammar) 13. Make sentences with any three pairs of words to illustrate the difference in meaning between them: 2x3=6 adopt-adept: sensible-sensitive; advice-advise; book-book: local-locale hair-hare; local-locale 114. Add question tag to the following sentences (any four): txd=4 (a) Each of thems attentive, __? (b) Youcannot go there, _? (c) Stop fighting, _? (d) He hardly visits his old parents, _ (e}Let’s not waste water, __? (f) Everybody is responsible for the loss of democratic values? (g) The culprits had not yet been punished, _? 15.Filln the blanks with appropriate preposi five): 1x5=5, (a) The path of our lifeis beset ___difficulties. ns (any (b) We cannot prohi ourselves__getting dejected. (c) Sometimes we donot understand sadness, that is our reach. (d) Inextreme adversity, both our mind and body will break__. (e) Still, we need to carry __ our responsibilities. (f)Paintoois vital___our soul's enhancement. (g) We are hardly aware __others' pain. {h) During erisis, one should turn __ strong philosophy. 16.Filln the blanks with appropriate articles where necessary (any five): 1x5=5, (a) Hrishikesh is__MBA. (b) Just___hour ago the result was declared, (c) Heisoneof __brightest students. (d) But he needs to be __little careful about his here, otherwise all your arguments go in vain personality. (e) He thinks himselt___Dilip Shangvi. (f) Imet___his teacher yesterday.PenNTUNOTES] owe wey may wee ey se 8. Answer either (a) or (b) (a) Itwas pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot passengers, but she replied, "Im going to walk where Ilike, We've got liberty now.” () Whe replies with the words within quotations? 1 (ii) Which time period is referred to by now? 1 (ii) What was pointed out toher? 1 (iv) How did the author commenton the issue of liberty? 2 (b)... also means the tiger and the rhino and the elephant, charismatic animals that evoke awe and excitement, and which are used as for conservation programmes. flagship’ species () Who is/are the author/authors here? 1 (ii) Why are certain animals called charismatic? 2 (ii) Explain flagship’ species. 2 9. Answer any one of the following questions in 80 words: 5 (a) Prepare a character sketch of Pyotr Petrovich Milkin. (b)".if trees, grass, herbs, creepers, etc, all grow then, won't there be economic development?" How do yout, reply to this? (c) Discuss the major themes of the essay, The Rule of the Road. 110. Answer any two of the following questions within 25 words each: 2x2=4 (a) What do you understand by "Hamlet's device" in relation to the suitor's trick? (b) Why did Pyotr's friend ask for a stag party? (c) Write avery short note on the title, The Many and the None. (@) What, according to Gardiner, are the liberties to preserve? 111. Answer any two of the following questions within 40 words each: 3x2=6 (a) Who is Hazlitt? What did he say about learning the fearsome instrument trambone? (b} Whatis bio-piracy? How does it affect a country? {c) How does Anton Chekhov deal with the theme or love and marriage in The Suitor and Papa? Is the approach tragic, comical or satirical? 12.2) Give the meaning of any one of the following words: 1 (i) embezzlement (ii) appalled {(b) Give the synonyms of any two of the following words: 2 {i) banality {ii) cordis {iil) chaos~ (i) Answer any two of the following questions: 1x2=2 1. Whois being addressed in the given lines? 2. Identify a simile used in the above lines. 3, What does ‘conforming’ mean? (i) Pick up different sorts of faces referred to in the above lines. Enumerate them. 3 oR "As a satire on modern life, the poem mocks and ridicules some of the common behavioural patterns’ Examine the above lines in the light of the given statement. 3 4, Answer any one of the following questions in about 20 words: 5 (a) Don't you feel that the poem, When Autumn Came presents nature as anegative, decimating force? Argue. (b) Analyse the poem, The Daffodils as an illustration of the Wordsworthian dictum about poetry being "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility’, 5. Answer any three of the following questions within 25 words each: 2x36 (a) Why has the poet described solitude as being blissful? (b) Explain the line "I wondered lonely asa cloud’ {c) Why did the speaker want to unlearn the muting things? (a) Whatis *resurrection’ in the context of the trees’ withered bodies? (ec) How does Faiz Ahmed Faiz suggest the sociological dimension in the poem you have read? 6. Answer any two of the following questions 3x2=6 (a) The lonely poet of the beginning finds his heart filled with pleasure towards the end, Explore the reason behind such transformation. (b) Narrate what had happened to the birds in autumn. {(c) Why, do you think, the poet sees snake's bare fangs in the mirror? 7. Answer any three of the following questions in 1 sentence each: 1x3=3 (a) Name the poetic autobiography written by Wordsworth (b) Whatis the gift of green? (6) Who is Okolo? (d) Match the items of List-A with those of List-B: merce | aluraoe hare eens moras caNgernpeet [Prose] 8. Answer either (a) or (b): (a) Itwas pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot passengers, but she replied, "Im going to a ee aice Biomacl idk: Xkhohoarands Hianatinetuamct”‘swatch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer Tostop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake ‘The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake ‘Toaskif thereis some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and dovmy flake. ‘The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But | have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before | sleep. Questions: (a) What are the two sounds hinted at in the poem? 1 {b) The poem indicates a particular season of the year. Whatisit? 4 (c)What do you know about the owner of the woods? 1 (a) Explain the line "And miles to go before | sleep" 2 UNIT (Poetry and Prose) [Poetry] 3. Answer either (a) or (b): (a) Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, ‘They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of abay Ten thousand saw lat aglance, ‘Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. () Answer any two of the following questions: 1x2-2 Name the poet of the lines given above, 2. Where were they’ stretching? 3, Give the meaning of the word ‘sprightly! (ii) Explain any three poetic devices used in the above lines along with their contexts. 3 oR How does the poet describe them? 3 (b) So, | have learnt many things, son, have learned to wear many faces like dresses-homeface, officeface, streetface, hostface, cocktailface, with all their conforming smiles like a fixed portrait smile. (i) Answer any two of the following questions: 1x2=21. They said in admiration, there another place where you can get coffee for SIX pies and four chappatis for an anna?" They sat around his ray, taking what they wanted. A dozen hands hovered aboutit every minute, because his customers were entitled tOpiCk goo. arg | up, examine and accept their stuff after proper scrutiny. gens on varsne=s Marne ‘Though so many hands were probing the lot, he knew a exactly who was taking what: he knew by an extraordinary sense which of the jutka-drivers was picking up chappatis at a given moment; he could even ‘mention his licence number: he knew that the stained hand. nervously coming up was that of the youngster who polished the shoes of passers-by; and he knew exactly at, \what hour he would see the wrestler’s arm searching for the perfect duck's egg, which would be knocked against the tray corner before consumption. His custom was drawn from the population swarming the pavement: the boot-polish boys, for instance, who eo wandered to and fro with brush and polish in a bag, endlessly soliciting, "Polish, sir, polish!"\Rama had a soft corner in his heart for the waifs. When he saw some fat customer haggling over the payment to one of these youngsters he felt ike shouting, "Give the poor fellow a little more. Don't grudge it. you pay an anna more he can have a dosai and a chappati.As itis, the poor fellow ison half-rations and remains half-starved all day” Itrenthis heart to see their hungry, hollow eyes; it pained hhim to note the rags they wore; and it made him very juss unhappy to see the tremendous eagerness with which they came to him, laying aside their brown bags. But what could he do? He could not run a charity show; that was impossible. He measured out their half-glass of coffee correct to the fraction of an inch, but they could cling to the glass as longas they liked, Questions (a) State Trueor False: 1/2x4=2 (i) Rama owned a catering industry for the customers. (i The eatables on the tray were not at all tempting (ii) The person in the present context isan early riser. (iv) The passage details on the activities of a charity shove {b) Where was the establishment’ located? 4 (c) Why did Rama keep the lantern near at hand? 1 (4) Enlist the food items mentioned in the passage. 2, {e] Whois the poor rat’ referred to? What did it’ do before the prince’ arrived? 1+1=2 (f) How did Rama feel for the waifs? Comment, 2 2. Read the poem given below and on the basis of your reading, answer the questions that follow: ‘Whose woods these are | think | know. His house isin the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near aNa non Facebook 0 Join the Marketplace Community a ES Time: 3 hours ea The figures in the margin indicate full marks forthe ste:vowots ‘questions lion receanmarona 2c a ac MANERALS UNITT Creavooeran zr (Re ing an Unseen Passage and a Poem) eee, Ivete same 1L Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: Geet Just at that turning between Market Road andthelane EH leading to the chemist’s shop he had his establishment. If anyone doesn't like the word ‘establishment’, he is welcome toay so, because it was actually something of a vision spun out of air. At eight you would not see him, and again at ten you would see nothing, but between eight and ten he arrived, sold his goods and departed. ‘Those who saw him remarked thus, "Lucky fellow! He has elnthe marketplace Community hardly an hours werkaday and he pocket tenrupeesswhat @%y Sica @ graduates are unable to earn! Three hundred rupees a = month!" He felt irritated when he heard such glib remarks and said, "What these fo do not sees that |sit before the ugewwreeyggre=rermmay oven practically all day frying all this stuff.” He got up when the cock in the next house crowed; sometimes it had a habit of waking up at three in the morning and letting out a shriek. “Why has the cock lost its normal sleep?" Rama wondered as he awoke, but it was a ” Sasi iuihecouudnotss Whetheritnaetiveefour it foe Ses o'clock or was all the same to him, He had to get up and start his day. aercjease i cs ‘At about 8:15 in the evening he arrived witha load of owe stuf. He looked as if he had four arms, so many things he carried about him. His equipment was the big tray balanced on his head, with its assortment of edibles, a stool stuck in the crook of his arm, a lamp in another hand, a couple of portable legs for mounting his tray. He lit the lamp, a lantern which consumed six pies’ worth of kerosene every day, and kept it near at hand, since he did not like to depend only upon electricity, having to guard a lot of loose cash and a variety of miscellaneous articles. When he set up his tray with the little lamp illuminating his display, even confirmed dyspeptic could not pass by without throwing, look at it. heap of bondas, which seemed puffed and big but melted in one's mouth; dosais,white,roundandlimp. Join the Marketplace looking lke layers ef muslin; chappatis so thin that you could lft fifty of them ona little finger; duck’s eggs, hard Community boiled, resembling a heap of ivory balls; and perpetually boiling coffee on a stove. He had a separate aluminum pot inwhich he kept chutney. which went gratis with almost every item. He always arrived in time to catch the cinema crowd coming out after the evening show. A pretender to the throne, a young scragey fellow, sat on his spot until he arrived and did business, but our friend did not let that bother him unduly. In fact, he felt generous enough to say, “Let the poor rat do his business when | am not there? This sentiment was amply respected, and the pretender moved off a minute before the arrival of the prince among, caterers. a