MALAPPURAM DISTRICT PANCHAYATH-VIJAYABHERI
FIRST YEAR HIGHER SECONDARY/VHSE SERIES TEST 1 JAN 2025
ENGLISH
VERSION A Marks: 40
Time: 1 hr 15 m
Questions 1-4 Answer ALL questions. Each question carries 1 score.
Read the excerpts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Here is the earth! Where are we?
1. The excerpt is taken from the lesson …………..
2. Who are the “We” referred to here?
Upon Death’s purple altar now
See where the victor-victim bleeds;
3. Identify any figure of speech in the given lines.
4. The phrase Death’s purple altar means…………….
Questions 5-7 Answer any TWO questions. Each question carries 2 scores.
5. Dr Kalam in his speech exhorts us to be unique. How can you be unique?
6. Change into reported speech.
Maggie said to Mr Gupta, “I have heard there are many people in India who have occult
powers. They are called yogis.”
7. Choose the suitable cohesive device and fill in the blanks. (and,that,however)
It is of course a miracle that Hawking has been able to achieve everything he has;
…………….. he is still alive. ………………, when you experience his intelligence and
humour, you begin to take his problems no more seriously than he seems to himself.
Questions 8-11 Answer any THREE questions. Each question carries 4 scores.
8. What is the message of the poem ‘Sunrise on the Hills’?
9. After learning about the Fijian ritual, you decide to send an email to your friend about the
significance of respecting indigenous traditions. Draft the email.
10. Prepare a write up on how the lessons in poem” IF” are relevant to modern life.
11. Given below are hints from the life of Jawaharlal Nehru. Develop a profile from the hints.
Born: Nov 14,1889- Allahabad
Parents-Motilal Nehru and Swarup Rani
Education: Harrow School, Trinity College
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Key role: Non-cooperation Movement, The Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India
Movement,1st Prime Minister of India.
Death: May 27,1964.
Questions 12-14 Answer any TWO questions. Each question carries 6 scores.
12. “If there is anything that I can do to help you, please don’t hesitate to ask.”
What impression have you formed of Mr Gupta in the story The Price of Flowers?
Prepare a character sketch of Mr Gupta.
13. Write a letter to the editor on the role of family support in nurturing self-confidence
among children.
14. How does the act of travel transform an individual’s understanding of culture, identity
and place? How can these transformations be effectively conveyed through a travel
essay? Attempt a travel essay on any place that you visited recently that has changed
your understanding of that place altogether.
Questions 15-16 Answer any ONE question. Each question carries 8 scores.
15. Based on your reading of And then Gandhi Came, prepare a script of the speech to be
delivered on Gandhi Jayanthi Day to inspire students to uphold Gandhian values in their
daily lives.
16. Read the poem given below and write an appreciation.
All Nature Has a Feeling
JOHN CLARE
All nature has a feeling:
woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal: and in silence
they
Speak happiness beyond the
reach of books;
There's nothing mortal in
them; their decay
Is the green life of change; to
pass away
And come again in blooms
revivified
Its birth was heaven, eternal is
its stay,
And with the sun and moon
shall still abide
Beneath their day and night
and heaven wide.
(Revivified-give new life to)
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