www. sakshieducation.com | MARCH 85S. PUBLIC EXAMINATION = | English Paper - | } THIRD LANGUAGE (E.M) jime : 2%4 Hours) [Max Marks :50 (1-8) Answer each of the following questions in about THREE sentences, We 2-16 1. Why was the chital hind cruel with her baby unging him on with “rough bites)? ire in the Forest) 2. What kind of people did Mother Teresa care for ? Why ? (Mother Teresa) 3. Why does Vinoba refuse to-attend his mother's funeral 7 (Vinoba -A Portrait Sketch) 4. 11's not what you have lost that’s important. What is important idiwhat Pou have left.’ Do you agree with this statement ? Why ? (In, Celebration of Being Alice) 5. What was the difference between the two seasons when Upagupti meets the dancer on two dilferent occasions ? (Wpagupta) 6 Why do you think Mrs. Salmon ‘went in lear herself ltr the verdict ? (The Case for the Defence) 7. Why does the author say that wisdom ough! to b@ acéompanied by a certain awareness of the ends of human life’ ? (Knowledge and Wisdom) 8. Is i easy to destroy a tree ? What evidenceida you find for your answer in the poem 7 (On Killing a Tree) (9-13) Choose the correct meanings of the words oa the left and write them in your answer book. sx dead 9 fury : — fherceness pressure Impulse impetus 10, accalade trophy money pift praise 1. hand > Yollowing: rear next backward 12. enormous minute difficult huge tremendous 13. wither 2p) bidiom die shrivel grow (14-18) Note theiiheantng of each underiined word in the sentence In which it occurs, Select the option that conveys the meaning and write it in your answer book. Sx part 14. They wenitinto town to Indulge in. some serious shopping. (a)jtake part in (b) bask in (©) wallow in 15. Most of the rural po lation in India lives in utter misery. (ay pain (b) poverty (c) adversity 16.) An empty bottle [oats on water. (a) swims (b) rides (ec) drifts 17. Gver the last month Raghav's been preoccupied as his business hasn't been doing well. (a) disappointed (b) worried (c) dejected 18. The children peered through the hedge to check whether the stranger had left (a) looked carefully (b) listened carefully (c) walked carefully www. sekshieducation.comwww. sakshieducation.com (1924) Choose the alternative that best fits the blank in cach scatence and write it in your answer book. 6x$as 19, Superstitions are inall parts of the world. — (prevalent, frequent, popular) 20, Ramya Out of bed when she heard her lather's voice. (skipped, leapt, hopped) 21. Why should I my chance to see Sachin Tendulkar bat™ asked Vivek Horsake, forgive, form) 22. Shilpa was so . that she didn’t realize that the milk had botled over (preoccupied, absorbed, distracted!) 23, He was a ; lighter and never lost to anyone except his guru (tremendous, grand) severe) 2A. She has a cheertul which helps her overcome setbacks in life (disposition. bent, tendency) (25-28) Find the wrongly-spelt word in cach of the following sets and write It Correctly In your answer book. 4ehat 25. double huddle pebble puddel 26. scarcely entirely. truely strangely at. risky murky cookie quirkie 2B stationery. voluntary exemplary missionery (29-26) Write out in your answer book the words of your choice against the question numbers. (29-32) In each set. find the words in which the underlined part is pronounced in the same way as in the key word, 4xdal 29. walk : dark chalk lather gland 30. loud : cloak poison Hout snow 31. chemist character shure, chap: parachute 32. houses flowers, rosea ees: (33-36) Find the word in each set that rhymes with the key word. axdel BB. late mate fast caste light BA. blood brood flood wool would 35. culture falter vulture future blunder 36. hurry worry fury bury cherry 37. Read the following passage Ln which the end of each sentence is not indicated. Decide where each sentence ends, Write out the Last words of each sentence with the appropriate punctuation marks (,), (7) or (D. aabead I need to goto the railway station can you give me directions 38. Use commas, full stops, exclamation/question/quotation marks wherever necemary and rewrite the sentences In your answer book. gebead Your mother really cooks very well she said | have eaten so much that | feel | will urst (39-43) Read sentence (a), then complete sentence (b) using the ideas in sentence (a). Keep sentence (h) as close In meaning as possible to sentence (a). Write it in your anawer book. 5x 1=5 39. (a) His aunt is a scientist. His aunt is going to talk to us during assembly tomorrow. (b) His aunt who is 40. (a) | was wery ill and could not stand. | went to the doctor, (b) Because I was www. sekshieducation.com4. 42. www. sakshieducation.com (a) Kartik has written and published many-stories tor children. (b) Many stories have (a) There were heavy showers that afternoon. The tennis match was not cancelled. (b) Although there (a) | will give you ac: (b) If you get Identify the part of speech of each underlined word. Write down the words and thelr parts of speech In your answer book. dx}u2 All my friends envy me because my mother cooks re licious food. Rewrite the following after making necessary corrections. Intel She told that she would not come in class today, means that our test is on. . Rewrite the following passage, making any improvements that you think are necessary, 1 x 2» 2 Avatar is a fantastic movie. Avalar is all about aliens. Avatar haga lot of technical effects. Avatar won many awards, (47-50) Read the following text and answer the questions that follow. dxded Se85 For many children in the city of Secunderabad who were scared of snakes, Rajkumar Kanuri helped them overcome their fear and made them understand the world of these _ beautiful reptiles. An ophiologist, Rajkumar had been studying and understanding snakes lor about 40 years. In his demise recently India Jost one of Its renowned ophiologists as well ax conservationist and ecologist. But his Institution ‘Friends of Snake Society’ will continue to work towards rescue, rehabilitation and conservation of snakes, Not only did he and his team rescue snakes, they've also been conducting demos in schools for over two decades. “A politician, an enginéer, @ teacher, an ecologist ... they all begin as students in a school,” stated Rajkumar, “That is why | like todo educational demos in schools. In their early years and al an impressionable age, children should be made to understand the importance of snakes and wildli/e, the importance o! co-existing with nature, the significance of the eco - system: | think I've done my bit in sensitizing a person to the world around,” he sald. Rajkumar Kanuri...... recently. (died / was rewarded / retired from work) What does an ophidlogist de ? What are things that “Friends of Snake Society” do ? Why does Rajkumar Kanuri tike doing educational demos ? Read the following text and answer the question that follows, ‘Afictional antelope - like animal with a head at either end, the PUSHMF-PULLYU appears in ‘The Story of Doctor Doolittle, a book by Hugh Lofting, when he agrees to go with the Doctor to England to help him make money. PUSHMI - PULLYUS are now extinct. That means, there aren't any more. But long ago, when Doctor Doolittle was alive, there were some of them stilllleft in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head. They were very shy and terribly hard to cateh. ‘The Africans catch most of their animals by sneaking up behind them while they are not looking, But you could not de this with the PUSHMFPULLYU because, no matter which way you came towards him, he was always facing you, And besides, only one haill of him slept at atime. ‘The other head was always awake and watching. This was why they were never caught and ever seen in 2005. www. sekshieducation.comwww. sakshieducation.com ‘Though many of the greatest huntsmen and the cleverest menagerie-keepers spent years af their lives searching through the jungles in all weathers for PUSHMI - PULLYUS, not a single one had ever been caught Even then, years ago. he was the only animal in the world with two heads Given below arc six statements, Find oat FOUR statements which are given In the text above, axh ia? (a) PUSHMEPULLYUS are real animals found in the deepest jungles of Arica. (b) Itresembles.an antelope, with sharp horns (c) thas two heads: one facing forward, and the other facing behind where the tail should be (d) PUSHMPPULLYUS are extinct because they have all been killed by huntsmen (c) Some PUSHMPPULLYUS could sti be found when Dr Doolittle was living. (D) They are ternbly difficult fo catch because at feast one head stays awake at all times. (5255) Read the following text and answer the questions thal follow. A [ew minutes ago. walking back from lunch. | started to crass the street when Lheard the sound af a coin dropping. It wasi't much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. A woman had dropped what appeared to be a one rupee coin. The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on the pavement is arvalteation-getter. Whatever the coin is, ho one ignores the sound of it. It got me thinking about sounds again. Is the qucitest sounds that have the most effect on us, not the loudest. In the middle of the night, I can hear a dripping tap a hundred yardsaway through three closed doors. I've been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty: live years in our house, How come | never hear those sounds In the daytime ? fm quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are. Tve turned against whistling, for Instance, fused fo think of it as the mark ola happy worker but lately I've been associating the whistler with a nervous person making compulsive noises. The lapping, tapping. tapping of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. Joften like the sound of what | wrile better than the look of it. Read the questions and the cholces given as answers. Write down the Letter (A, B, C,D) of the choice which adequately answers the question. axded $2. The sound of a coin... (A) makes people not cross the road. (B) makes people pay attention to it (C) makes people look at each other. (D) makes people think of money 53. How does the alithor relate te sounds at night ? (A) He imagines sounds that do not exist. (8) Hewhifike nights are rather quiet. (C) He exaggerates quiet sounds (0) He thinks people are walking in the house. Sdo Which of the these sounds according ta the authar is good ? {A) footsteps at night. (B) the wail of a police car. (C) aman whistling. (D) the sound of the typewriter. 55. How does the uniter fee! about sounds in general ? (A) They make him feel at home: (B) He thinks they should be ignored. (C) He believes they are part of our lives, (D) He prefers silence to loud noises. www. sekshieducation.com