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This document consists of a half-yearly examination paper for English for class 11. It has four sections: Section A is writing and worth 20 marks, Section B is also writing worth 20 marks, Section C is grammar worth 20 marks, and Section D is literature worth 40 marks. The paper provides instructions for students on completing the paper and details on the content and requirements of each section. It includes sample questions, passages and short/long answer questions for students to respond to that assess their knowledge of English grammar, writing skills and literature comprehension.

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Class Xi Sample Paper

This document consists of a half-yearly examination paper for English for class 11. It has four sections: Section A is writing and worth 20 marks, Section B is also writing worth 20 marks, Section C is grammar worth 20 marks, and Section D is literature worth 40 marks. The paper provides instructions for students on completing the paper and details on the content and requirements of each section. It includes sample questions, passages and short/long answer questions for students to respond to that assess their knowledge of English grammar, writing skills and literature comprehension.

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Half Yearly Examination, 2018-19

Subject: English Time: 3 Hours


Class: XI Full Marks: 100/80
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This question paper consists of four sections:
SECTION-A (WRITING) (20 Marks)
SECTION-B (WRITING) (20 Marks)
SECTION-C (GRAMMAER) (20 Marks)
SECTION-D (LITERATURE) (40 Marks)
General Instructions:

1) All sections are compulsory.

2) Read the questions carefully and write the answers in the answer sheets provided.

3) Do not answer the questions randomly. Attempt all the questions of one section

before moving on to another section.

4) Do not write anything on the question paper

SECTION-A (WRITING) (20 Marks)

The work of the heart can never be interrupted. The heart’s job is to keep oxygen-rich blood
flowing through the body. All the body’s cells need a constant supply of oxygen, especially
those in the brain. The brain cells live only four to five minutes after their oxygen is cut off,
and death comes to the entire body.
The heart is a specialized muscle that serves as a pump. This pump is divided into
four chambers connected by tiny doors called valves. The chambers work to keep the blood
flowing round the body in a circle.
At the end of each circuit, veins carry the blood to the right atrium, the first of the four
chambers. Its oxygen has been used up and it is on its way back to the lung to pick up a fresh
supply and to give up the carbon dioxide it has accumulated. From the right atrium the blood
flows through the tricuspid valve into the second chamber, the right ventricle. The right
ventricle contracts when it is filled, pushing the blood through the pulmonary artery, which
leads to the lungs. In the lungs the blood gives up its carbon dioxide and picks up fresh
oxygen, then it travels to the third chamber, the left atrium. When this chamber is filled, it
forces the blood through the mitral valve to the left ventricle. From here it is pushed into a
big blood vessel called aorta and sent round the body by way of arteries.
Heart diseases can result from damage to the heart muscle, the valves or the
pacemaker. If the muscle is damaged, the heart is unable to pump properly. If the valves are
damaged, blood cannot flow normally and easily from one chamber to another, and if the
pacemaker is defective, the contractions of the chambers will become un-co-ordinated.
Until the Twentieth century, few doctors dared to touch the heart. In 1953, all this
changed. After twenty years of work, Dr. John Gibbon of U.S.A. had developed a machine
that could take over temporarily from the heart and lungs. Blood could be routed through the
machine, bypassing the heart so that surgeons could work inside it and see what they were
doing. The era of open heart surgery had begun. In the operating theatre, it gives surgeons the
chance to repair or replace a defective heart. Many patients have had plastic valves inserted in
their hearts when their own were faulty. Many people are being kept alive with tiny battery-
operated pacemakers; none of these repairs could have been made without the heart-lung
machine. But valuable as it is to the surgeons, the heart-lung machine has certain limitations.
It can be used only for a few hours at a time because its pumping gradually damages the
blood cells.

(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using recognisable
abbreviations wherever necessary. Use a format you consider appro¬priate. Supply a suitable
title. (5 Marks)

(b) Find words from the passage which mean the same as : (1 x 3 = 3 Marks)

(i) Obstructed
(ii) Collected
(iii) Restrictions

SECTION-B (WRITING) (20 Marks)


1. You are Tarun a student of Govt. Higher Secondary School, Doimukh. As the cultural
secretary of your school, write a notice for your school notice board inviting names for an
excursion trip to Goa planned in the last week of October. Give relevant details
.(5Marks)
2. Write a report on ‘Teachers’ Day” celebration at your school (5 Marks)
3. Draft a poster on ‘Road Safety’. (10Marks)

SECTION-C (GRAMMAER) (20 Marks)


1. Rearrange the following into meaningful sentences. (5Marks)
a) How/you had/ at the interview/ done/ us/ let/ know.
b) On my bicycle/ to/go/I/used to/ my school.
c) Boy/end/ was/punished/of the class/yesterday.
d) Other/section/in the/any friend/don’t/have/you?
e) Ink/ in the bottle/ much/ how/there/is?
2. Fill in the blanks with correct form of verb. (5Marks)
A bus driver _________ (crush) to death by a speeding truck near Banderdewa Depot
on Saturday night. The police ________ (say) that the incident ________ (take) place 8 p.m.
when the victim _____ (stand) near his bus and the speeding truck _______ (pass) that way.
The driver ______ (lose) control over the vehicle. The ________ (be) drunk, but somemhow
he (manage) to run away from the spot.
3. There is a word missing in each of the lines Find the place where you think the missing
word is, in your answer sheet. The first one has been done for you. (5Marks)
It been so for generations in the Patil family It had been
had landowners without being cultivators . a) _________
One morning while the tenants cultivating b) __________
the land, there an order from the Deputy c) _________
Collector that the land was to taken away d)_ __________
from the land lord and was to be to the f) _________
tenants.

4. Write the opposite gender of the following. (5Marks)


Peacock, cow, groom, bachelor, heir, manager, steward, duke, master, monk.

SECTION-D (LITERATURE) (40 Marks)


1. Read the extracts given below and choose the most appropriate option. (3 Marks)
“And who art thou?”, said I to the soft-falling shower, which strange to tell, gave me
an answer , as here translated:
“I am the poem of the Earth “, said the coce of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out
of the land and th4e bottomless sea.
a) ‘I’ refers to?
i) The soft falling shower
ii) The bottomless sea.
iii) The earth
iv) The poet
b) The answer was ‘strange’ as _________
i) There was no answer
ii) The rain could not talk
iii) It is unusual for the rain to reply
iv) The rain remained silent
c) The word ‘strange’ as _______
i) Bottomless
ii) Soft falling
iii) Unseen
iv) Seen
2. Answer the following (any 3) (3X4=12 Marks)
i) Describe the mental state of the voyagers on the 4th and 5th of January?
ii) Environment is the passport of human existence. Explain.
iii) Give the character sketch of ‘Uncle Khosave’ in ‘The summer of the beautiful
white flower’
iv) Explain the tile of the chapter ‘Discovering TnT: The sage continues’
v ) What does the narrator say about Hosabath and mention its dintinct features.
3. Answer the following questions in about 150 words (Any 3) (3X5=15)
i) How does the story ‘We are not afraid to die…’ suggests that optimism helps to
endure “the direct stress”.
ii) What does the notice , “The world’s most dangerous animal” at a cage in the zoo in
Lusaka, Zambia signify?
iii) Why did the ancient Egyptians bury the king with all his reaches?
iv) “The address ” is a story of human predicament that follows war. Comment.
v) Comment ofn the influence of English – the language and the way of life on Indian
life as reflected in “Ranga’s Marraige”
vi) Describe the funerary treasures and the three-layered coffin of King Tut.
4. Give the character sketch of Hiram B. Otis and his role on the novel, ” The Centerville
Ghost” (10 Marks)
OR
Write the summary of the novel “Up from Slavery”

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