JUNIOR INTER ENGLISH QUESTION PAPER

Time: 3Hrs. (TS_QP-3) Max. Marks: 80

SECTION – A

1. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 100 words each. 2x4=8

i. What does the boy think of his grandparents in his letter?

ii. Why was Thimmakka called Saalumarada?
iii. Sketch, in a paragraph, the character of Mrs. Bouncer.
2. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 100 words each. 2x4=8
i. Life is queer with its twists and turns, …. List a few twists as mentioned in the poem,
‘Keep Going’.
ii. Seeing helps one better in understanding than listening to. Justify the statement with
reference to the poem, ‘Happiness’.
iii. List the abilities a farmer is endowed with according to the poem.
3. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 100 words each. 2x4=8

i. Write a paragraph on how Alan and his parents felt excited when he was chosen to play
for the school cricket match.
ii. What are the thoughts in the mind of the youth when he chooses wealth? What is the
result?
iii. Is the title, ‘The Short-sighted Brothers’ apt to the story? Explain.

SECTION – B

4. Read the following passage and answer ANY FOUR questions given below 4x1=4
Do his best! Of course he would. For Alan was playing in the school cricket match and
was mightily proud of being chosen to play. He had practiced bowling with his father for
weeks now, and Daddy said he was shaping well. Daddy was nearly as excited as Alan
over the match and he promised that if Alan’s side won he would buy him a bicycle.
i. Do his best! Of course he would. Who would be doing well?
ii. What was he proud of?
iii. How did he practice cricket?
iv. What was his father’s promise?
v. Write the antonym of win.
vi. What is the informal word used in the passage to refer to father?

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5. Read the following passage and answer ANY FOUR questions given below: 4x1=4

Mathematics in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent times. This is
Srinivasa Ramanujam. Born into a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no opportunities for a
proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust. But he was bubbling with some irrepressible
quality of instinctive genus and played about with numbers and equations in his spare time. By a lucky
chance he attracted the attention of a mathematician who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge in
England. People there were impressed and a scholarship was arranged for him. So he left his clerk’s job
and went to Cambridge and during a very brief period there did word of profound value and amazing
originality. The Royal Society of England went rather out of their way and made him a Fellow, but he died
two years later, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-three. Professor Julian Huxley has, I believe,
referred to him as the greatest mathematician of the century. (From The Discovery of India.)
i. What makes one think highly of Srinivasa Ramanujam?
ii. Why did Ramanujam become a clerk?
iii. What was Ramanujam doing whenever he found some free time?
iv. What helped Ramanujam to go to Cambridge?
v. Describe the work Ramanujam did at Cambridge?
vi. How did the Royal Society of England hounour Ramanujam?
SECTION – C

(Note: Answers of this section must be written at one place in the same serial order)

6. Match ANY EIGHT the following words in Column A with their meanings in Column B. 8 x ½ =4
Column -A Column- B
i. Tremendously ( ) a) forcefully
ii. propel ( ) b) observable
iii. pace ( ) c) goal
iv. barely ( ) d) disappearance
v. perceptible ( ) e) greatly, extremely
vi. penetrate ( ) f) tired
vii. ambition ( ) g) enter or pass through
viii. exhausted ( ) h) speed
ix. extinction ( ) i) move, push forward
x. compellingly ( ) j) to a very limited extent
7. Identify the parts of speech of ANY EIGHT of the following underlined words. 8x½ =4
i. We learn many things through observation.
ii. Since it was raining, he took an umbrella with him.
iii. They themselves interfered in the dispute.
iv. Music draws the attention of everyone.
v. Cricket matches are watched by lakhs of people.
vi. 1. Children are a source of joy to the parents.
vii. The hungry dogs are howling.
viii. An idea can change a life.
ix. Food is a necessary for life.
x. He completed the whole work successfully.

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8. Fill in ANY EIGHT of the following blanks with ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’. 8x½ =4
i. I bought _______ (1) pair of new shoes.
ii. I saw _______ (2) movie last night.
iii. It’s raining. Let’s take _______ (3) umbrella.
iv. Look at _______ (4) woman over there! She is my mother.
v. _______ (5) night is quiet. Let’s take a walk.
vi. _______(6) spider has eight legs.
vii. Peter is_______ (7) Italian.
viii. I read _______ (8) amazing story last Sunday.
ix. _______ (9) tiger is in danger of dying out.
x. She has not _______ (10) imported pen

9. Fill in ANY EIGHT of the following blanks with suitable prepositions. 8x½ =4
i. Yet she is _______ (1) peace _______ (2) her pots, pans, the flowers and garden, her Bhagavad Geeta
and scriptures. My mother, highly qualified, is highly strung, tense and nervy. Do you think, literacy is a
harbinger _______ (3) restlessness, fear, frustration? Is it Adam and Eve eating the Tree _______(4)
knowledge, all _______ (5) again?
ii. People usually put _______ (6) new dress _______(7) festival days.
iii. He is good _______(8) English, but week _______ (9) Mathematics.
iv. Shloka is fond _______ (10) music.
10. Fill in ANY FOUR of the following blanks with suitable verb forms given in the brackets. 4x1 =4
i. The moon _________ (appear) at night.
ii. If I _________ (be) a bird, I would fly high in the sky.
iii. I _________ just _________ (receive) a call.
iv. Aarathi _________ (act) in films since her marriage with Raghu, a film director.
v. It _________ (rain) now. We can’t go out at present.
vi. The operating word ‘think’ _________ (make) me muse.
11. Rewrite ANY FOUR of the following sentences as directed. 4x2 =8
i. We practice yoga every day in the morning. (Change into Passive Voice)
ii. He said, ‘I have lost my bag.’ (Change into Indirect Speech)
iii. Neha said, ‘Mom, please give me your mobile.’ (Change into Indirect Speech)
iv. No other bank in India is as widely spread as SBI. (into superlative degree)
v. Health is more important than wealth. (into positive degree)
vi. Sandeep has attended all the classes, …………………….. ? (Add a question tag)
12. Rewrite ANY FOUR of the following sentences correcting the underlined corrections. 4x1=4
i. The news of earthquake have spread like wildfire.
ii. The first inning is my brother.
iii. Each of them were given a gift.
iv. He and me are brothers.
v. I waited for a hour.
vi. He walks very fastly.

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 13. Supply the missing letters to ANY EIGHT of the following words. 8x½ =4
i. Sch _ _ l
ii. enc _ _ raging
iii. app _ _ rance
iv. exce _ _ ent
v. sp _ _ k
vi. a_ _ ention
vii. p _ _ ple
viii. kno _ _edge
ix. di _ _ ipline
x. a _ _ ord
14. Identify the silent consonants letters to ANY EIGHT of the following words. 8x½ =4
i. bright
ii. scene
iii. hour
iv. neighbor
v. wrong.
vi. knell
vii. wreath
viii. palm
ix. limb
x. design.
15. Write ANY FOUR of the following transcriptions using ordinary English spelling 4x1 =4
i. /pɜ:pəs/
ii. /əkʌmplɪʃ/
iii. /bju:tɪfəl/
iv. /kweʧən/
v. /feɪθ/
vi. /mɪzrbəl/
16. Circle ANY FOUR of the words that sound different from the other words in the set with regard to
the sounds of the bold letters. 4x1 =4
i. character chaptera chieve
ii. grow govern gentle
iii. such much epoch
iv. like link limit
v. centre class come
vi. many yet quality
17. Mention the number of syllables in ANY FOUR of the following words. 4x1=4
i. misery ii. direction iii. Remember
iv. information v. encourage vi. excellent