Model Question Paper - 5

ENGLISH(Second Language)

Answered by Kartick Debnath

Section-A, Reading (SEEN)

1. Read the following texts and answer the questions::

The door was opened by a young woman. The boy immediately threw his arms
around her and burst into tears. I had not been prepared for the boy’s mother Not
only did she look perfectly normal physically, but she was strikingly handsome.

She thanked me for bringing her son home, and asked me into the house. She
offered me tea but I asked for a glass of water. She asked the boy to fetch it and he
did so, thrusting the glass into my hands without looking at me in the face.
“Suresh is my only son. I love him very much. Do you think that he is very
ugly??” “Ugly is just a word”, I said, “like beauty.”” They mean different things to
different people. The poet Keats has said, ‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty`, but if
beauty and truth are same things then why have different words? They are relative
terms. There are no absolutes except birth and death.”

The boy squatted down at her feet, cradling his head in her lap. With the end of
her sari, she began wiping his face. “Have you tried teaching him to talk
properly?” I asked. He has been life this since childhood. The doctor can do
nothing.”

While we are talking the father came in, and the boy slunk away to the kitchen.
The man thanked me curtly for bringing the boy home, and seemed at once to
dismiss the whole matter from his mind. I got the impression that he had long
since resigned himself to having a deformed son, and his early disappointment had
changed to indifference. When I got up to leave his wife accompanied me to the
front door.
“Please do not mind if my husband is a little rude”, she said. His business is not
going too well. If you like to come again, please do. Suresh does not meet many
people who treat him like a normal person.

A. Fill in the following chart with information from the text : 1X4=4

When What happened

i) A young woman opened the door i) The boy immediately threw his arms
 around her and burst into tears.
ii) Suresh’s father came in ii) The boy slunk away to the kitchen.
iii) The writer got up to leave iii) Suresh’s mother accompanied the
writer to the front door.
iv) Suresh squatted down at his iv) He was cradling her head in her lap.
mother’s feet

1. (B) Find out from the text: 1½X2=3

i) a sentence which describes Suresh’s mother.

Ans.i) Not only she looked perfectly normal physically but also she was
striking handsome

ii) a sentence which tells us that Suresh was by birth a

deformed child.

Ans. He has been like this since childhood.

( C ) State the functions in the context of the text : 1X3=3

Statements Functions
“Do you think he is very ugly? Asking a question
ii) Please do not mind if my husband is a Making a request s
little rude.”
“Ugly is just a word like beauty”. Statement / Stating a fact.

2. Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow :
I wandered lonely as a cloud.
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never – ending line
Along the margin of a bay :

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Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

A. Where did the poet see the daffodils ? 2

Ans. The poet saw the daffodils besides the lake beneath the trees.

B. How did he compare the daffodils ? 3

Ans. He compared the daffodils with the shining stars which were twinkling on the
Milky Way.

C. Pick out two words from the text which describe the movement of the flowers. 2

i) Dancing ii) Tossing / Fluttering.

D. Find out one word from the text which has two meanings— 1

i) A large number, ii) a person who receives another as a guest.

i) & ii) host

E. Read the text and find out the opposites of the following words : 2

i) ever never

ii) beginning ending

Reading (Unseen)

3. Read the text and answer the question given below :

Since the first bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945, man
has become aware of the dangers of atomic radiation. Atomic radiations are of three
types (a) alpha particles, (b) beta particles, and (c) gamma rays. These radiations are
invisible and penetrate living tissues more or less regularly. The4 skin stops some
while others penetrate deeper into the body. Alpha particles are positively charged
helium nuclei and can be stopped by a thickness of a fraction of an inch, but they

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 produce ionization. They can be deflected by electric and magnetic fields. Gamma
rays are highly penetrating electromagnetic radiation and are not deflected by electrical
or magnetic fields. The energy content of these rays is sufficient to break the chemical
bond of molecules, producing high energy free radicals. Thus all such form of
radiation have more or less similar chemical and biological effects. Since all of them
generate free radicals in the living body, which reacts with other compounds, they may
disrupt the activity of a living cell.

Radiation is measured in units of rad, which is equivalent to the absorption of enough

radiation in any form to liberate 100 ergs of energy per gram of absorbing material. A
person exposed to 1,000 rads will die within a week. Natural background exposure
amount to 0.1 rad or one 100 milliards per year which dose is considered safe. An
exposure to a dose of 50 rads may cause cancer or sterility. Radiation effects are
cumulative and the damage is usually irreparable. The effect of 50 rads exposure in
one year is approximately similar to that of five rads exposure continued for 10 years.

Nuclear radiation is extremely harmful as it can change the genetic make-up of

organisms and cause mutations. The occurrence of damage due to radiation in the
skin, lymphoid tissue and bone marrow is common. However radiation in controlled
doses can cure many diseases and is used as a diagnostic tool in the medical and
biological sciences.

3.A. Fill in the chart with information from the above text : 1 X 12 = 12

i) Name of the bomb i) Atom bomb

ii) Dropped where? ii)a) Hiroshima b) Nagasaki

iii) When iii) in 1945.

iv) Type of atomic radiation iv)a) alpha particles, b) beta particles, and c)
gamma rays.

v) Effects of radiation v)a) cumulative b) irreparable damaging

vi) Damages caused by nuclear vi)a) Damage in the skin b) lymphoid tissue and
radiation c) bone marrow

3. B. Complete the following sentences : 1½X 4 = 6

i) Two main features of Gamma rays are –

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 Ans. a) highly penetrating electromagnetic, b) Not deflected by electric or
magnetic field.

ii) Two uses of controlled dose of radiation are –

Ans. a) cure many diseases, b) used as a diagnostic tool in the medical and
Biological sciences.
3.C. Write ‘I` for true and ‘F` for false statements : 1X2=2

i) The energy contain of Gamma ray is insufficient to break the molecules.

Ans. False.

ii) A person exposed to 1,000 rads will die within 7 days.

Ans. True.
Section –B (Grammar and Vocabulary)

4. Add Prefix on Suffix to the words given below to form new meaningful words:1X4=4

Ans i) Non + violence = Non-violence

ii) Anti + social = Anti-social

iii) King + dom = Kingdom

iv) Hand + some= Handsome

5. Do as directed : 1X5=5

i) He is too weak to walk. (Remove “too” )

Ans. He is so weak that he cannot walk.

ii) As soon as he arrived, he sent a telegram. (Use No sooner … than)

Ans. No sooner had he arrived than he sent a telegram.

iii) Though he is rich, he is unhappy (Make it a simple sentence)

Ans. Inspite of being rich he is unhappy.

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iv) Give me the book. (Change the voice)

Ans. Let the book be given to me.

v) He said to me, “When did you come? (Change it into Indirect)

Ans. He asked me when I had come.

6. Write down the meaning of the following nominal compounds : 3

Ans,. i) Marble palace – a palace which is made by marble.

ii) Dining table – a table which is used for dining.
iii) Traffic police – the police who control the road traffic.

7. Given below are the meanings of four words which you will find in passage in
question no.3. Find out those words from the text and write them in the boxes on
right hand side: 2X4=8

i) Interrupt Ans. disrupt / break.

ii) Make way into Ans. penetrate.
iii) Set free Ans. liberate
iv) Deviate Ans. deflect

8. Study the following flow chart and describe how mango pickle is prepared : 10

Green mangoes -> buying -> sorting and removing rotten ones -> cleaning -> cutting
into pieces -> boiling -> mixing salt + mustard oil + sugar + chili -> keeping on a big
flat -> putting in the sun -> pouring into jars.

9. You went to Darjeeling during the summer vacation with your parents and had a chance
of meeting a classmate in Tiger Hill. Write in the form of a dialogue the talk you had
with her. 8

10. Study the following outlines of a story and write a story developing the points. 12

Two women – both claiming a baby as their child – came to a judge for justice – the judge
found both of them strong in their claims – he ordered the baby to cut into two pieces – one
for each of them – the real mother wept aloud – the other remained silent – the result.