English Question Paper 2019
[AHSEC Class 11 English Question Papers]
Full Marks: 90
Time: 3 hours
SECTION – A (Reading)
1. Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
According to a survey, over 26 million people in India defecate in the open. Around 60 per cent of Indians do not have access to safe and private toilets. Such overwhelming majority of those without access to sanitation facilities poses a formidable obstacle in the development of the nation.
In 1999, the Union Government rolled out the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). Its objective was to spread awareness among the rural people and generation of demand for sanitary facilities. The scheme was implemented with emphasis on community-led initiatives. The government provided financial incentives to the families which were Below Poverty Line (BPL). The government assistance was also extended for construction of toilets in the primary schools, the Anganwadi Centre’s and the Community Sanitary Complexes (CSC).
The Government of India also launched the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) to recognize contributes in this field. NGP became a success which prompted the Government to rename CSC as the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). Its objective was to accelerate the sanitation coverage in the rural areas. This scheme was handled by the Ministry or Rural Development.
Under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the government adopted the community-centric strategies. The demand driven approach continued highlighting awareness creation and demand generation for sanitary facilities in houses, schools. It also emphasized on a cleaner environment.
On October 2, 2014, the campaign was renamed and launched as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Mission (SBM) to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of ‘Clean India’. SBM has two sub-Missions: Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). The focus now is to achieve a clean, defecation-free India by October 2, 2019, i.e., Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. It would be a fitting tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 150th Birth Anniversary, if we can improve the levels of cleanliness in the country and make it Open Defecation Free.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has become a ‘Jan Andolan’ receiving tremendous support from the people. Citizens too have turned out in large numbers and pledged for a neat and cleaner India. Taking the broom to sweep the streets, cleaning up the garbage, focusing on sanitation and maintaining a hygienic environment have become a practice after the launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. People have started to take part and are helping spread the message of ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’.
Questions:
(a) (1) What was the objective of TSC? 1
(2) How was CSC renamed? 1
(3) What is the present focus of SBM? 1
(4) What is the message of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan? 1
(5) What causes a formidable obstacle to the nation? 2
(6) How was the Total Sanitation Campaign carried out? 2
(7) Write how SBM is receiving support from the citizens. 2
(b) Pick out words from the passage that mean the following: 1x2=2
(1) Difficult to deal with.
(2) A solemn promise or undertaking.
2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1) How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who carefully choose the shows that they watch. Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world; there are high quality programs that help us understand many fields of study, science, medicine, the arts, and so no. Moreover, television benefits very people, who cannot often leave the house as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers non-native speakers the advantages of daily informal language practice. They can increase their vocabulary and practice learning.
2) On the other hand there are several serious disadvantages of television. Of course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time, but in some countries, people watch the ‘boob-tube’ for an average six hours or more a day. Many children stare at a television screen for more hours each day than they do anything else, including studying and sleeping. It’s clear that the tube has a powerful influence on their lives and that its influence is often negative.
3) Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of television, a person’s brain ‘relaxes’ the same way that it does just before the person falls asleep. After effect of television on the human brain is that it seems to cause poor concentration. Children who view a lot of television can often concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes. They can pay attention only for the amount of time between commercials.
4) Another disadvantage is that television often causes people to become dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life does not seem as exciting to these people as the life of an actor in the screen. To many people, television becomes more real than reality and their own lives seem boring. Also many people get upset or depressed when they can’t solve problems in real life as quickly as television actors seem to.
5) Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven thousand murders on the tube. He or she begins to believe that there is nothing strange about fight, killings and other kinds of violence. Many studies show that people become more violent after certain programme. They many even do the things that they see in a violent show.
6) The most negative effect of ‘boob-tube’ might be people’s addition to it. People often feel a strange and powerful need to watch television even when they don’t enjoy it. Addiction to a television screen is similar to drug or alcohol addiction. People almost never believe that they are addicted.
Questions:
a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it, using recognizable abbreviations wherever necessary. Add a suitable title to it. 5
b) Make a summary of the above passage in about 80 words. 3
Ans: QP 2015
SECTION – B
(Writing)
3. You are arranging a week-long Educational Tour to Sivasagar in the last week of April. Describe your preparations to your classmates in about 100 words. 6
Ans. Excursions and outings are the important means of recreation. So we decided to recreate something by arranging a week-long Educational Tour to Sivasagar. I suggested my friend that for the tour we should take sweets, fruits and lunch with us. For this we most go to market and buy some fruits and other eatables. We will also take a stove, a tea pot ,a dozen cups and a kettle. I suggested that in Sivasagr we will visit Sivadol, Talatal Ghar, Rang Ghar. For this purpose we will hire a guide. So that we could have a pleasant trip at a world heritage sites. I also suggested to make bookings and necessary advance payments. Then I asked my friend to take his camera, so that we can have some memorable shots. My proposal of preparation for arranging a Tour to Sivasagar was welcomed by my classmates with shouts of applause.
Or
Your school/college observed the “World Environment Day” on 5th June. The students took part in a plantation programme and took out a rally to create awareness among the people. Prepare a report in about 100 words on the event to be published in your school/college wall-magazine. 6
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CELEBRATION OF
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY June 5th , 2018, Guwahati : XYZ College, Guwahati celebrated ‘Environment Week’ recently. Celebration started from the World Environment Day on 5th June, 2010. The main function was organized in the college auditorium. Mr. R.K.Sen, the noted environmentalist was the Chief-guest. He read a paper on ‘Our Beautiful Planet’. He highlighted thedangers that our environment faces today. Unplanned urbanization, deforestation, smoke emitting automobiles andindustrial effluents have polluted our air, water and soil. N.S.S. College volunteers held a march past holding bannersenlightening the public on keeping the environment clean. The star attraction of the week was an exhibition. Itstheme was ‘Green Earth Clean Earth’. The principal was highly impressed by the volunteers and their dedication tothe cause. He acknowledged their services by giving commendation certificates to them. Reported
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4. Write a speech to be delivered in the morning assembly of your school/college on the topic, “Books are our best companions.”
Ans:
Books are our
best Friends
A very good morning to honorable teachers and
my friends. I am happy to stand here to give a speech today. The topic that I
am going to talk about is Books are our best friends. Life is not easy to live without friends. When
it comes to Books, they can be our best friends ever. Good Books enriches our
mind with good thoughts and knowledge just like a good friend. Man cannot live alone. He needs friends.
Therefore, he likes to live in the company of men or in the company of animals.
There are some who love the company of Nature. There are also those who love
the company of books. The company of books gives the pleasure of company of man
and Nature too. What is a book ? A book is the map of man’s life and the life
in nature. Every page of a great book is a storehouse of man’s best and noblest
thoughts. In a library, you meet all these mighty minds of the whole world. But
all books are not innocent. There is a flood of books today. A flood is always
a bad thing. Through the influence of bad books you can pick up bad habits
without your knowing it. Therefore, you must select your companions with great
care. You must make a choice wisely.
The life of man and the life of nature
must be mixed up with the company of books. A divorce between book and life is
full of dangers. So, read not only books but also the great Book of Life and
Nature.
Thank you 6
Or
Write an article for your school/college magazine on the role of students in keeping our environment clean and green. 6
Ans: Role of students in keeping the surrounding clean and green
Students are the best bet in achieving any goal or mission. India needs the power of the youth to achieve all her cleanliness and developmental goals. Without their involvement all campaigns will end up hopelessly. Let’s talk about students’ role in keeping the surroundings clean and green. Amit Abraham has very wisely said “Clean your mind and our country will automatically get dry cleaned.” India, our beloved motherland is in the direst need of cleanliness. The general state of our cities, towns, colonies, rivers, oceans, lakes, hill-stations, parks, gardens, public transportation systems, railway stations, public toilets, etc, allindicate we as a nation are not pro-cleanliness! The nationwide ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ is another proof of our vice of apathy to the squalor lying uncleaned around us!
As the entire nation is abuzz with the cleanliness drivesand campaigns under the impetus of ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyan’ launched by the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendera Modi, let’s contribute to it by making ourselves clean first. We must ensure we become the real participant in this crusade against the dirt and squalor in true spirit. We must start the cleanliness drive from our own home and surroundings. Our zeal and enthusiasm for the cleanliness drive isuseless, if our own home and surroundings are unclean, and we are spending hours cleaning the streets in other areas. Students, who are so energetic and dedicated to anything they feel drawn towards, can do phenomenal work in making cleanliness a successful campaign. The best way to begin this cleanliness drive is your own room, your own cupboard, your own toilet, your own kitchen, your own garbage. Do you keep your own room and surroundings clean? Are you able to maintain the cleanliness around you? If you really do, you feel the satisfaction and contentment of being clean! Now you can lend a helping hand and your expertise in keeping the neighborhood clean! This is how we must go about this cleanliness drive.
In conclusion we can say India has immense youth power. All our nation is missing is channeling of this power.
5. You are Nikita/Nitin. You have seen an advertisement in “The Assam Tribune” for a post of an Assistant Teacher in a L. P. School in Silchar. Write an application for the post, giving detailed CV. 8
Ans: See Q.P 2015 , Q.no. 5
Or
There is no bus-stop within a radius of two kilometers from your locality, causing a lot of inconvenience to the residents. Write a letter to the Editor of “The Sentinel” drawing attention of the concerned authority for early solution. 8
Ans: See Q.P 2015 , Q.no. 5
SECTION – C
(Grammar)
6. (a) Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners: 1/2 x 2 = 1
1) There is still little milk in the jug. (some/little)
2) Kamal received much encouragement from his teachers. (many/much)
(b) Rewrite the following sentences with the correct form of the verb given in brackets: 1/2 x 2 = 1
1) I wish I (listen) to my parents’ advice. Ans: would have listen
2) I
(study) in this college for the last two years. Ans: have been studying
(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal auxiliaries (the sense of the sentence is indicated in the bracket): 1/2 x 2 = 1
1) When I was young, I could run faster. (ability)
2) All candidates must bring their admit cards on the day of the examination. (compulsion)
(d) Correct the following: 1/2 x 2 = 1
1) He is one of the best boy in the class. Ans: He is one of the best boys in the class.
2) Neither Ram nor Rahim are present in the meeting. Ans: Neither Ram nor Rahim is present in the meeting.
7. (a) Complete the following piece of conversation by choosing the correct alternative from the brackets: 2
I said to John, “How (How/What) is your business going at this moment?” Johan replied, “Shall we meet later tonight to discuss it over dinner?” (lunch/dinner)
(b) Rewrite the following sentences as directed: 1x2=2
1) He
confessed his crime. (Make it a complex sentence)
Ans: He confessed that he
had committed a crime
2) No other girl in the class is as good as Sita. (Use the superlative degree of ‘good’)
Ans: Sita is the best girl in the class.
8. Rearrange the words in the following to form meaningful sentences: 1x2=2
1) Want do me see you at to the airport off? Ans: Do you want me to see you off to the
airport?
2) The an truth honest speaks man always. Ans: An honest man always speaks the truth.
SECTION – D
(Textual Question)
9. Read any one of the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow:
a) The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling,
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,
And she the big girl – some twelve years or so.
All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera.
1) What does the cardboard show the poet? 1
2) Who was ‘the big girl’? 1
3) How old was the poet’s mother when the photograph was clicked? 1
4) Who clicked the photograph? 1
5) Write briefly what the girls did on the sea beach. 4
Or
b) When did my childhood go?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realized that Hell and Heaven,
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore could not be,
Was that the day.
1) Where do these lines occur? 1
2) When, does the poet think that he lost his childhood? 1
3) Find the synonym of ‘stopped’ in the stanza. 1
4) What does the poet learn about Hell and Heaven? 1
5) How does the poet describe the process of being grown up? 4
10. Answer any two of the following questions: 3x2=6
a) Write in your own words what the rain speaks about itself?
b) Briefly evaluate the poet’s attitude towards life as seen in the last stanza of the poem, ‘A Photograph’.
c) Why does the poet say that his childhood “went to some forgotten place”?
d) Whom do you hold responsible for the atmosphere of mutual distrust that prevails between the father and the son? Give a reasoned answer.
11. Answer any five of the following questions: 2x5=10
a) Why have the sparrows refused to eat the crumbs of the bread on the death of the author’s grandmother?
b) What are ‘Yang’ and ‘Yin’?
c) How are the Earth’s principal biological systems useful to us?
d) What role Industry has to play in the new Era of Responsibility?
e) What is the difference between the Game Sanctuaries of Africa and India?
f) “You have a great treasure there”. What treasure is Verrier Elwin referring to and what is his suggestion about the treasure?
12. (a) Give a description of the author’s grandmother after your reading of “The Portrait of a Lady”. 6
Or
(b) Discuss why it has been pertinently said that “forests precede mankind; deserts follow”. 6
13. Narrate the events leading to Ranga’s marriage. 6
Or
“I think it’s not facts that matter, but ideas”. Evaluate briefly Albert Einstein’s concept of real education in the light of this statement. 6
14. Answer any two of the following questions in brief: 2x2=4
a) What was the Mathematics teacher Koch’s opinion about Albert’s mathematical knowledge?
b) What is highlighted as the basic difference between the idea of learning as advocated by Elsa and Albert during their short conversation?
c) Describe the quality of mangoes of Hosahalli village.
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