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NOVEMBER 2015 71081/CLZ1L/CE51N

Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

SECTION A — (15  1 = 15 marks)

I. Answer ALL the questions.

1. (a) Write any two words pronounced with/i:/

sound.
(b) Mark the stress of the following words:
(i) Concern
(ii) Water
(c) Mark the strong and weak forms of the
following
(i) I have the fear of the darkness
(ii) But I’m busy.
(d) Write the contracted forms in the following
sentences
(i) He will see us in an hour.
(ii) You must not shout here.
(e) Mark the stressed words in the following
sentences:
(i) I’m going to Britain
(ii) He bought a car
(f) Rewrite the sentence using an Introductory
‘It’.
His idea is to serve the poor.
(g) Fill in the blanks with suitable articles:
(i) This is not –––––––––– proof of
acknowledgement.
(ii) Missing –––––––––– bus is no excuse
for being late.
(h) Use the appropriate preposition given in the
brackets.
Pay close attention –––––––––– traffic
signals. (for,to)
(i) Frame suitable questions to the following:
I am going to call the travel agent.
(j) Fill in the blank using the appropriate
adjectival form of the word given in brackets.
He is a –––––––––– (scholar) personality.
(k) Fill in the blank with suitable form of the
verb given in brackets.
She is –––––––––– (leave) in five minutes.
(l) Give the antonym of the following without
using prefixes
(i) Simple
(ii) offer

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 (m) Change the following into negative:

His lawyer produced an importance

evidence.

(n) Fill in the blank with a connective

The petrol –––––––––– is sold in this outlet

is adulterated.

(o) Rewrite the following in Reported speech:

‘Don’t play with fire’, the mother said to her

son.

SECTION B — (5  3 = 15 marks)

II. Answer FIVE questions selecting not less than one

from each in 30 words.

2. (a) When does a game lose its excitement?

Or

(b) How did Kalinga war scence change the

mind of Asoka, according to Dr. Kalam.

3. (a) Who are the women supported by Hillary

Clinton?

Or

(b) How can we avoid condemnation from

others?
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4. (a) Why was Monday morning miserable for
Tom Sawyer?

Or
(b) What did God do for man, according to
George Herbert?

5. (a) What is diabolic about the tail of the

scorpion?

Or
(b) What is suggested in the opening stanza of
the poem ‘The Death of the Bird’.

6. (a) Why did Mrs. Packletide become envious of

Bimberton?

Or
(b) What did the king want to know?

SECTION C — (3  5 = 15 marks)

III. Answer THREE questions selecting not less than

one from each in 100 words.

7. (a) How did the ugly experience in a South

African change Gandhi?

Or
(b) How are the rights of women systematically
violated?
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[P.T.O.]
8. (a) How did Luz Long help Jessie Owens?

Or

(b) Narrate Lynd’s experience when he listened

to a nightingale?

9. (a) Describe briefly how the knight fell in love

with the beautiful lady.

Or

(b) How was the mother bitten by a scorpion?

SECTION D – (3  10 = 30 marks)

IV. Answer THREE questions selecting not less than

one from each in 200 words.

10. (a) Analyse the character of Luz Long.

Or

(b) Write an essay on the part played by Sid and

Mary.

11. (a) Narrate the sad tale of the knight at arms.

Or

(b) How does the poet describe the death of the

bird?

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12. (a) Describe the search for the snake and how it
ended.

Or
(b) Justify the title ‘The Gift of the Magi”.

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