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I. Multiple choice questions : 6×1=6

1. I watched ................... boy helping .................... old

man cross the road.
The suitable articles to be filled in the blanks in the
above sentence are
(A) an ; the (B) a; a
(C) the ; a (D) the ; an.
Ans. :
Rem. (D) — the, an 1 1

2. The Manager appointed a new Secretary and

............... the old one.
The appropriate antonym of the underlined word is
(A) selected (B) reported
(C) dismissed (D) excused.
Ans. :
Rem. (C) — dismissed 1 1

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3. They waited .................... the bus stop ...................

the next bus.
The correct pair of prepositions to be filled in the
blanks is
(A) by ; for (B) at ; for
(C) for ; for (D) by ; of.
Ans. :

Rem. (B) — at ; for 1 1

4. The thieves found it easy to ................... the house,

as it was vacant and steal the valuables.
The proper phrasal verb to be used to fill in the
blank is
(A) break out (B) break down
(C) break into (D) break with.
Ans. :

Rem. (C) — break into 1 1

5. “You are Kuntidevi’s own first born, ................. ?”

A suitable question tag to the above sentence is
(A) aren’t you (B) weren’t you
(C) are you (D) were you.
Ans. :

Rem. (A) — aren’t you 1 1

6. “I had a dove and the sweet dove died.”

The figure of speech used in the above line is
(A) Personification (B) Metaphor
(C) Simile (D) Alliteration.
Ans. :

Rem. (D) — Alliteration 1 1

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II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words

and complete the second pair accordingly in the
following : 4×1=4

7. Sail : Sale :: Stare : .......................... .

Ans. :

Rem. Stair 1 1

8. A remedy for all diseases : Panacea :: Loss of

memory : ....................... .

Ans. :

Rem. Amnesia 1 1

9. Angel : Angelic :: Autumn : ......................... .

Ans. :

Rem. Autumnal 1 1

10. Grateful : Ungrateful :: Agreeable : ..................... .

Ans. :

Rem. Disagreeable 1 1

III. Rewrite as directed : 3×1=3

11. Change the voice of the verb in the following

sentence :
He was made a general by the king.
Ans. :

Comp. The king made him a general. 1 1

12. Rewrite the sentence using the appropriate tense

forms of the verbs in the brackets :
After I ( hear ) the news I ( hurry ) to see her.
Ans. :

Comp. After I heard the news, I hurried to see her. 1 1

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13. Punctuate the sentence :

what an easy paper said ashok
Ans. :
Comp. “What an easy paper !” said Ashok. 1 1

IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each :

4×1=4

14. What does Rabindranath Tagore compare the girl’s

movement on the road to ?
Ans. :

Rem. The rapid movement of a skilled hand on the

strings of a guitar. 1 1

15. How did Lochinvar escape with Ellen from the

Netherby Hall ?
Ans. :

Rem. — on the horse ( charger ) which was standing near

the hall door. 1 1

16. Why are Indian shoppers thrilled ?

Ans. :

Comp. — they are getting the kind of choice that people in

the West enjoyed. 1 1

17. What are businessmen mainly trained to do ?

Ans. :

Comp. — to do everything possible to maximize profits for

the corporations that employ them. 1 1

V. Answer the following questions in two or three

sentences each : 7 × 2 = 14

18. How did Pasteur contribute to his country during

the First World War ?
Ans. :

Comp. — troops going abroad were inoculated — typhoid

and enteric fever
— very low death rate — even in unhealthy
places. 1 1 2

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18. What did the narrator infer when the girl was
startled by his voice ?
Ans. :

Exp. — people with good eyesight fail to see what is

right in front of them.

— could be because — too much to take in 1 1 2

20. How did the female crane react soon after the male
bird was shot ?
Ans. :

Exp. — it flew away — circled the sky — movements of

grace — returned when killers went away. 1 1 2

21. How does Shakespeare compare himself to a dying

fire ?
Ans. :

Exp. — compares to the stage of embers — lying on the

ashes of youth

— Fire — expires — leaves ashes — that which

nourished it — similarly he lies on the ashes of
his youth. 1 1 2

22. Why does John Masefield feel ashamed to meet his

mother who is in the grave ?
Ans. :

Comp. — he realizes he has done nothing to repay her —

or women in general.

— he has not done or said or tried to show his

gratitude to his dead mother. 1 1 2

23. Why was Captain Smollett unhappy before The

Hispaniola set sail ?
Ans. :

Comp. — being the captain, he had no hand in choosing

his crew

— everyone knew they were sailing for treasure. 1 1 2

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24. How did Ulysses and his men blind the cyclop ?

Ans. :

Exp. — Cyclop lay insensible — Ulysses and his men

placed the sharp end of a stake in fire — heated
red hot — they bore the sharp end — right into
— eye of the drunken cyclop — blinded him. 1 1 2

VI. Rewrite as directed : 3×2=6

25. Change the following sentence to the other two

degrees of comparison :

Diamond is harder than any other substance.

Ans. :

Comp. Positive : No other substance is as hard as

diamond.

Superlative : Diamond is the hardest substance. 1 1 2

26. Change the following sentence into simple and

compound sentences :

As soon as he received the news he left the place.

Ans. :

Comp. Simple : (i) Soon after receiving the news, he left

the place. 1

OR

(ii) On receiving the news, he left the place.

Compound : He received the news and left the

place. 1 2

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27. Frame sentences to bring out the difference in the

meaning between the following pair of words :

cloth — clothes.

Ans. :

Exp. Cloth = Material used for making clothes.

The tailor measured the cloth brought by the

customer. 1

Clothes = Something worn to cover the body or to

keep warm.

I need some new clothes. 1 2

( Any meaningful sentences )

VII. Answer the following questions in five to six

sentences each : 6 × 3 = 18

28. How does soil erosion occur ?

Ans. :

Comp. — in successive steps — earliest unnoticed — later

— deep gullies and ravines

— sudden bursts of heavy rain — principal factor

— slope of land — removal of natural vegetation —

existence of ruts — absence of any checks. 2 1 3

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29. How does Abraham Lincoln ensure that his son

cultivates the value of depending on his own self ?

Ans. :

Comp. — teach him to have faith in his own ideas even if

everyone tells him they are wrong.

— give him strength not to follow the crowd —

getting on the bandwagon.

— to listen to all men — filter all he hears —

screen of truth — take good

— to stand any fight if he thinks he is right. 2 1 3

30. What made the poet turn his boat back even before
reaching his destination, the craggy ridge ?
Ans. :

Rem. — Boat heaving smoothly — poet saw — behind

the craggy ridge — black and huge peak uprear
its head — voluntary instinct

— the poet struck — peak — grow in stature —

grim shape towered between him and the stars
— peak stride — measured motion — life of its
own.

— poet — fright — nervous — turned boat back. 2 1 3

31. How does Buttoo show his reverence to

Dronacharya ?

Ans. :

Comp. — acknowledges Dronacharya — inspiration — all

knowledge — readily offers everything he has —
everything he conquers — shows reverence —
cuts off his thumb — did not speak a word —
no tear in his eye. 2 1 3

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32. What was the objection raised by Kripacharya

before the single combat between Arjuna and

Karna ? How did Duryodhana set it right ?

Ans. :

Rem. — Kripacharya — well versed — rules of single

combat — Arjuna — son of Pritha and Pandu —

scion of Kuru race — Karna — to reveal his

parentage, race — high born princes could not

engage — single combat — unknown

adventurers.

— Duryodhana obtained permission — performed

rites — invested Karna sovereignty of Anga. 2 1 3

33. What five criteria does Gandhiji give to term an act

as a ‘Moral Act’ ?

OR

How does the narrator describe Mussoorie ? How is

he able to do it, despite being blind ?

Ans. :

Rem. — Must be our own act, spring from our own

will — done intentionally.

— Intention to do good

— Without compulsion or fear

— No self interest

— Not even considerations of happiness in another

world. 2 1 3

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— October — best time

— Hills — dahlias — sun — delicious.

— night — front of a log fire — listen — music —

roads — quiet — deserted — narrator not born

blind — had visited earlier — calling on his

memories.

VIII. Explain with reference to the context : 5 × 3 = 15

34. “Only some more work from your hands.”

Ans. :

Exp. — A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise —

Rabindranath Tagore.

— The idler says to the girl.

— When the girl asks him what he wants from

her.

— After the idler had painted the pitchers, the

next day the girl saw him standing by the

torrent. She asked him what he wanted from

her. In reply the idler said the above line. 2 1 3

35. “You’ll have to look at the time a hundred times a

day now.”

Ans. :

Exp. — The Gift of the Magi — O’ Henry

— Della says to Jim.

— When she shows him the chain

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— Della and Jim had bought gifts for each other.

Della had bought a platinum fob chain to match

Jim’s gold watch. She held it on her palm and

said she hunted for it all over the town. She

says the above line to Jim. 2 1 3

36. “I’m not lovesick ; I’m starving.”

Ans. :

Exp. — The Pie and the Tart — Hugh Chesterman

— Pierre says to Jean.

— When Jean asks Pierre to kiss Marion’s hand.

— Pierre and John are hungry vagabonds. Jean

comes up with a plan to get food — he has

overheard the conversation between Gaultier

and Marion. Jean instructs Pierre to kiss

Marion’s hand — sign that he is sent by

Gaultier. Then Pierre says the above line. 2 1 3

37. “Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide.”

Ans. :

Exp. — Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott.

— Lochinvar says to Ellen’s father

— When Ellen’s father questions him on why he

has come to the Netherby Hall.

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— Ellen’s father meets Lochinvar at the Netherby

Hall. He wants to know the purpose of his visit

to the hall. Lochinvar wants to mislead the

bride’s father into thinking that he does not love

Ellen any more. So he says the above line

comparing his love to the tides of river Solway. 2 1 3

38. My foe outstrech’d beneath the tree.

Ans. :

Exp. — A Poison Tree — William Blake

— Speaker says to the readers

— Speaker had suppressed his anger towards his

foe. It grew and bore a fruit. This was so

tempting that the foe stole into the Speaker’s

garden in the dark of the night to steal the fruit.

The next morning the Speaker finds the foe

outstretched beneath the tree and is glad. 2 1 3

IX. Quote from memory : 4

39. The rich

........................................................................

.........................................................................

.........................................................................

of gold.

OR

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And it grew ......................................................

........................................................................

.......................................................................

...................................................... it was mine.

Ans. :

The rich

will make temples for Siva.

What shall I,

a poor man,

do ?

My legs are pillars,

the body the shrine,

the head a cupola

of gold. 2 2 4

OR

And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright ;

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight

sentences each : 3 × 4 = 12

40. At one particular point of time, Robert Frost feels

that they do not need the wall. Why ? How does his
neighbour respond to it ?

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Appr. — The neighbour has all pine trees and the poet
has an apple orchard.

— Poet reasons — his apple trees will never cross

over to the other side to eat the cones under his
pines.

— Poet realizes — a wall is necessary if there are

animals

— The wall will keep out the animals from straying

into the orchard.

— Here there were no cows to be kept out.

— When he tells his neighbour, the neighbour only

replies, “Good fences make good neighbours.” 2 2 4

41. How was Anne Frank’s diary found ? How did it

come to be published ?
OR
What circumstances made Pasteur turn his
laboratory into a kind of small germ factory ?
Ans. :

Comp. — A week after — Frank family was arrested —

Miep — boldly returned to the Annexe.

— A heap of papers — floor — Miep recognized

Anne’s handwriting — decided to keep the diary
— not to read it.

— After six weeks of liberation — waiting — his

daughters to return — Otto Frank was told —
both had perished.

— Then Miep handed him Anne’s diaries.

— The idea of publishing — did not enter his

mind.

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— Gave one typed copy to a close friend — lent it

to a professor of Modern History.

— Professor devoted an article — Dutch

newspaper.

— Friends urged Otto Frank to have it published.

— When he finally consented — manuscript was

refused by two well known Dutch publishers.

— A third decided to accept — sold more than

1,50,000 copies — Dutch edition.

— Other editions followed. 2 2 4

OR

Comp. — Pasteur trying to discover — cure for — Anthrax

— killing cows and sheep quickly.

— found — first of all — cow could not have

anthrax twice — thought it possible to make

cows or sheep ‘immune’ — by giving them weak

old germs.

— Dangerous idea — but Pasteur proved — idea

correct — by conducting an experiment — cows,

goats and sheep.

— The animals which were given the weak germs

before they were injected with the most deadly

anthrax germs were perfectly well — the group

of animals which did not receive the weak

germs were dead or dying.

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— News spread that Pasteur had discovered a cure

for anthrax — hundreds wrote for supplies of

‘Vaccine’ or weak germs.

— So he had to turn his laboratory into a kind of

small germ factory. 2 2 4

42. What fatal mistake did Mr. Hodge make ? How did
he restore the status quo ?
OR
How has the writer brought out the “tragic comedy
of development” ?
Ans. :

Exp. — The blacksmith — last for batting limping —

leaning — baker — received the first ball —
lashed wildly — hitting straight up — air — to
an enormous height.

— Livingstone and Southcott — approached it

competently. Either of them could catch it
easily.

— Mr. Hodge had to choose — coming to a swift

decision he yelled, “Yours Livingstone !”

— Southcott — disciplined cricketer stopped dead.

Mr. Hodge made a fatal mistake.

— He remembered Livingstone’s two missed sitters

— reversed his decision — roared, “Yours
Bobby !” Mr. Southcott obediently started again.

— Livingstone had not heard the second order —

went straight on.

— Captain Hodge had thus restored the status

quo.

OR

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Exp. Alexander Cheriyan says — a deep irony — pockets

of private prosperity are growing — inexorable
impoverishment of the resources that belong to the
public realm.

— Amazing variety of sleek new car models to

choose from — roads — city — pretty bad shape
— getting worse.

— Fashionable luxury resorts — affluent —

coming up everywhere — lung spaces for public
use — parks and playgrounds — shrinking.

— Much the same with many other services —

public domain including transportation, health
care, libraries and education.

— Trend is to push — most essential services —

private realm — some company or other can
make profit on them.

— The poor — being pushed into becoming

consumers — increasingly expensive goods and
services. 2 2 4

XI. Read the following passage carefully and answer the

43. questions given below : 1 × 4 = 4 (2 × 2)

One of the most inexplicable mysteries that has

ever puzzled the selfish rich is their failure to find
happiness where they had expected to find it. The
bitterest disappointment that comes to people who
have made fortunes is that their wealth did not
bring the happiness which it promised or anything
like it. They find that affections do not feed on
material things, that the heart would starve in the
midst of the greatest luxuries alone. They find that
while money can do many things, it has little power
to satisfy the heart’s yearning, the heart’s hunger.

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How many women there are in palatial homes in

this country who are starving for happiness and
would gladly exchange all their luxuries for the love
of a good man even if he had not a dollar in the
world !
Questions :
a) What is the realisation of the many selfish
rich ?
b) What is the state of many women living in
palatial houses ?
Ans. :

Comp. a) The selfish rich realize that affections do not

feed on material things, the heart would starve
in the midst of the greatest luxuries alone. They
realize that while money can do many things, it
has little power to satisfy the heart’s hunger. 1 1 2

b) Many women in palatial houses are starving for

happiness and would gladly exchange all their
luxuries for the love of a good man, even if he
had not a dollar in the world. 1 1 2

XII. Write an essay of about 18 - 20 sentences on any

44. one of the following topics : 1×5=5

a) Recent natural calamities — Nature’s way of

retaliating against its degradation.
b) Social media should be used with a lot of
caution.
Ans. :

— Matter 2

— Sequence 2

— Language 1 5

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XIII. Letter writing : 5

45. Imagine you are Ratna / Ratan, from Government

High School, Belagavi.

Write a letter to your brother informing him of the

benefits of staying on in India after his higher
education rather than migrating to foreign
countries.
OR
Imagine you are Neeta / Nagesh from Government
High School, Honnavar.
Write a letter to the Post Master of the local post
office lodging a complaint about your missing letter
which was posted from Delhi a month back.
Ans. :

— Format 2

— Matter 2

— Language 1 5

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