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General Instructions to the Candidate :

1. This Question Paper consists of 45 objective and subjective types of

questions.

2. This question paper has been sealed by reverse jacket. You have to cut on

the right side to open the paper at the time of commencement of the

examination. Check whether all the pages of the question paper are intact.

3. Follow the instructions given against both the objective and subjective

types of questions.

4. Figures in the right hand margin indicate maximum marks for the

questions.

5. The maximum time to answer the paper is given at the top of the question
Tear here

paper. It includes 15 minutes for reading the question paper.

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I. Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions / incomplete
statements. Only one of them is correct or most appropriate. Choose the correct
alternative and write the complete answer along with its letter of alphabet :
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 : .......................... .

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

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

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

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.

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.

13. Punctuate the sentence :

what an easy paper said ashok

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 ?

15. How did Lochinvar escape with Ellen from the Netherby Hall ?

16. Why are Indian shoppers thrilled ?

17. What are businessmen mainly trained to do ?

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 ?

19. What did the narrator infer when the girl was startled by his voice ?

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

21. How does Shakespeare compare himself to a dying fire ?

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22. Why does John Masefield feel ashamed to meet his mother who is in the

grave ?

23. Why was Captain Smollett unhappy before The Hispaniola set sail ?

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

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.

26. Change the following sentence into simple and compound sentences :

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

27. Frame sentences to bring out the difference in the meaning between the

following pair of words :

cloth — clothes.

VII. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each : 6 × 3 = 18

28. How does soil erosion occur ?

29. How does Abraham Lincoln ensure that his son cultivates the value of

depending on his own self ?

30. What made the poet turn his boat back even before reaching his destination,

the craggy ridge ?

31. How does Buttoo show his reverence to Dronacharya ?

32. What was the objection raised by Kripacharya before the single combat

between Arjuna and Karna ? How did Duryodhana set it right ?

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 ?

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

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

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

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

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

38. My foe outstrech’d beneath the tree.

IX. Quote from memory : 4

39. The rich

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

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

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

of gold.

OR

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

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

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

................................................................ 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 ?

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 ?

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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” ?

XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the 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. 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 ?

XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18 - 20 sentences on any 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.

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XIII. 45. Imagine you are Ratna / Ratan, from Government High School, Belagavi. 5

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.

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