(Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.) Write a composition (300 - 350 words) on any onte of the following: [20] (a) Writea short story to illustrate the truth of the statement: “Optimism is the key to success.” (b) ‘Advertisements lead to wasteful expenditure’. Express your views either for or against this statement. () Describe the happenings of the day when there occurred an earthquake in your locality. State how you and your family escaped and reached an open ground. Also state what you did and felt after the disaster. (d) You are grateful to your teachers for their contribution in your life. Narrate your experience to show how one of your teachers has left an indelible impression on your mind. (e) Study the picture given below. Write a short story or description or an account of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it. Question 2 (Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select one of the following: [10] (a) Your best friend has shifted to a small town in another state. Write a letter to him/her asking him/her for the best way to visit his/her place and what you propose to do there. XL uarree 2 RD | Ba ‘Seamed with CamScanner(b) Write a letter to the manager of printing press meee a ‘3 Brant permission you and your classmates to visit the press. Mention the probable date of the visit and the number of students who will accompany you. Question 3 Be. 3 (a) Your school is organising an Inter-school Maths Wizard Exam. Write out a notice tobg up in your school informing students about the event and inviting them to Patticipaty (b) Write an email o the Principal of aneighbouring school requesting him to send the nary, of the students who wish to participate in the Maths Wizard Exam, Question 4 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [The passage below has witty tale having a trick ending. The story shows how Lord Oakhurst had some curses for people who treated him badly.] Lord Oakhurst lay dying in the oak chamber in the eastern wing of Oakhurst Castle, He was thinking of days gone by, when he wooed and won his beautiful young wife, who was then but a charming and innocent girl. How clearly and minutely those scenes rose up at the call of his memory. He remembered how the young lady had, with girlish shyness and coyness, at first 5 hesitated, and murmured something to herself about “an old bald-headed galoot,” but when he told her that to him life without her would be a blasted mockery, and that his income was £50,000 a year, she threw herself on to him and froze there with the tenacity of a tick on a brindled cow, and said, with tears of joy, “Henry, I am thine.” A carriage drove rapidly up the avenue and stopped at the door. Sir Everhard 10 FitzArmond, the famous London physician, who had been telegraphed for, alighted and quickly ascended the marble steps. Lady Oakhurst met him at the door, her lovely face expressing great anxiety and grief. “Oh, Sir Everhard, I am so glad you have come. He seems to be sinking rapidly. Did you bring the cream almonds I mentioned in the telegram?” % Sir Everhard approached the bedside of his patient and laid his hand gently on this sick man’s head. A shade of feeling passed over his professional countenance as he gravely and solemnly pronounced these words: “Madam, your husband has croaked.” But soon his meaning flashed upon her, and she seized an axe that her husband was accustomed to keep by his bedside as a weapon against his enemies, and struck open Lord Oakhurst’s cabinet containing his private papers, and with eager hands opened the document which she took therefrom. Then, with a wild, unearthly shriek, SNARE) Tot nex ‘Seamed with CamScannershe fell senseless to the floor. Sir Everhard picked up the paper and read its contents. It was Lord Oakhurst's will, bequeathing all his property to a scientific institution which should have for its object the invention of a means for extracting alcohol from sawdust. 25 Sir Everhard glanced quickly around the room. No one was in sight. Dropping the will, he rapidly transferred some valuable ornaments and rare specimens of gold and silver filigree work from the centre table to his pockets, and rang the bell for the servants. Sir Everhard FitzArmond descended the stairway of Oakhurst Castle and passed out into the avenue that led from the doorway to the great iron gates of the park. 30 Lord Oakhurst had been a great sportsman during his life and always kept a well-stocked kennel of curs, which now rushed out from their hiding places and with loud yelps sprang upon the physician, burying their fangs in his lower limbs and seriously damaging his apparel. Sir Everhard, startled out of his professional dignity gave vent to a most horrible 35 and blighting CURSE and ran with great swiftness to his carriage and drove off towards the city. (a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted. 13] (i) coyness (line 5)... (ii) tenacity (line 9). (iii) brindled (line 9)... (b) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words. () What was Lord Oakhurst’s memory about his wife when he wooed her? How had she reacted initially? py (ii) How had she responded later? Why? 2] Har? LS «a ‘Seamed with CamScanner(iii) Give one evidence that shows that Lady Oakhurst was happy that her hushang was dying. Qy (iv) What did Lady Oakhurst do when she heard of her husband’s death? Qi (v) What did the doctor find when he read Lord Oakhurst’s will? (c) In not more than 50 words state how Lord Oakhurst’s curse worked on people associated with him. (8) —————————— CS RRR roe netsh ‘Seamed with CamScannerQuestion 5 (a) Fillin each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Donot copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the blank space. [4 Example: (0) unified In the year 221 BCE, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a ....0..... (unify) China, ulin (affect) by a strange disease. This (make) him seek a magic drink to cure his illness. What he got, was .....3..... (ferment) tea. Over two millennia later, that (become) a health drink for Indians. fermented tea, kombucha, .. ‘The ingredients of kombucha are simple - tea, sugar, water and SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) ~ but its (work) is “wonderful”. The SCOBY acts on the sugar in the tea .....6..... (convert) it to alcohol, which in turn .....7....._ (turn) to acetic acid that gives the fizzy, tangy flavour to the tea. What this process does is, that it .. (pack) the fermented tea with a host of nutrients, probiotics and enzymes that work wonders for your body. Answers: (b) Fill ini each blank with an appropriate word: 1] HQ carrer > A 6 (i) Thave to make .. ... some story to explain my late arrival. (ii) Do you approve ... . his suggestion? (iii) The Mayor gave . the prizes at the school Sports Day. .. cash. (iv) You pay either by cheque or .. (v) The novel has been translated ... . many languages. (vi) He quarelled with his friend . a trifle. ‘Scanned with CamScanner(vii) We should not always go .. appearances. (viii) He went. aride in his new car. (©) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but 4 or so, (i) We reached the hall. The examination had begun. (ii) Manav may join me; he may not join me. I don’t care. (iii) Itis very cold. We can’t wear cotton clothes. (iv) You helped him. He will be grateful to you. (4) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence. [8] EXAMPLE : “You should take the medicine just now, Ben” said the doctor. (Use: advised) ANSWER — : The doctor advised Ben to take the medicine just then. (i) As soon as the train arrived, all rushed into the compartments, (Use: hardly) (ii) A bus collided with a car. (Use: collision) (iii) Icannot bear it any longer. (End: ..bear it?) (iv) You can come with us for the picnic provided your father permits you. (Lise: unless) EGS 46 SECRRSSREROEDOO ONO OMRONORORS Total Engiish-x BOO ‘Seamed with CamScanner(v) The last time we met each other was in 2009. (Use: never met) (vi) “March on,” said the commander to the soldiers. “Do not give up.” (Begin : The Commander ordered ...) (vii) Put your tools away, people may fall over them. (Use: lest) (viii) Would that I were appointed to the post! (Begin: Portmanteau Words A portmanteau isa large suitcase that folds back flat on hinges into two halves. A portmanteau word is a combined word with the meanings and sounds of two words packed into it. For example, the word smog has the sounds and meanings of smoke and fog. Others Examples: 1. Brunch = breakfast + lunch (a meal taken sometime between breakfast and lunch.) 2. Motel = motor +hotel (a hotel with accommodation and servicing facilities for cars.) 3. Simulcast = simultaneous+broadcast (a programme broadcast simultaneously on radio and television.) 4. Smaze = smoke + haze 5. Agribusiness = agriculture + business. 6. Infomercial = _ information + commercial 7. Bionic = biology + electronic 8. Cineplex = cinema + complex QA: AS «SE ‘Seamed with CamScanner