MODEL PAPER ENGLISH-I Time Allowed : 3 hours ‘Maximum Marks : 100 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS Attempt all four questions. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ } You are advised to spend not more than 45 minutes on Question 1, 55 minutes on Question 2, 30 minutes on Question 3 and 50 minutes on Question 4 Question 1 Write a composition (in approximately 400 - 450 words) on any one of the following subjects [251 (You are reminded that you will be rewarded for orderly and coherent presentation of material, use of appropriate style and general accuracy of spelling, punctuation and grammar.) (@ Your schoo! has recently celebrated the International Day of Yoga. Describe your experience during the programme. (b) You've recently started a successful entrepreneurial venture. Your school had invited you to share your experiences with the students of Grades 9 and 10. Narrate your experience during the talk. How did you feel ? How did it feel to be invited by your school to share your knowledge ? Were there any obstacles that you faced during the talk ? (© “Unchecked migration into the city leads to a rise in pollution.” Write for or against the statement. (@)_ Hope (©) “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Express your views on the given statement. (© Write an original short story beginning with the following words ooo “Tknew that being late to the King’s speech Question 2. (@) To celebrate its 25" anniversary, your school has organized an inter-school cultural festival. As the editor of the school magazine, you have been asked to prepare a report on the festival in not more than 300 words using the points given below. You may include other necessary details Purpose of the festival ~ date and venue ~ budget ~ guests of honour ~ schools invited ~ events in the festival ~ inaugural speech ~ performances ~ workshops ~ awards ceremony ~ closing ceremony = student experiences [20] (b) As a member of the Student Council of your school, you have been given the responsibility of conducting a conference on the harmful effects of smoking. Write a proposal in not more than 150 words, stating the steps you would take to successfully conduct this conference. 10} Question 3. Answer sections (a), (b) and () (@)Ineach of the following items, sentence A is complete, while sentence B is not. Complete sentence B, making it as similar as possible to sentence A. Write sentence B in each case. 0} Example : (0) (A) Ihave found my mobile phone that I had lost. (B) Thad lost... esse Answer : (0) [had lost my mobile phone, but Ihave found it.8 + ISC Paper Bank - XII 1 (A) All were shocked beyond belief that she had died. (B) All were so, cose 2. (A) She was so tired that she could not stand. (B) She Was 100. ssesseseeissesssneueee 3. (A) Do not torture the orphan boy. B) Let 4 (A) You are too young to understand the ways of the world. (B) You are so 5. (A) He not only sold his camera but also his laptop. (B) He sold both. art acisscnoerncas 6 (A) Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. (B) No 7 (A) Why does she always hit you ? (B) Why are... - 8 (A) ILis thought that the dacoit escaped by digging a tunnel in the ground, (B)_ The dacvit... 9 (A) He heard about the at (B) On. 10 (A) ll consult a lawyer at once. (8) Tmean. (b) Fill in each blank with a suitable word. (Do not write the sentence.) 151 He was struck migraine. Due to low attendance, the school struck her name the school register. Manu set for Lucknow late at night. The furious fifties are found the Southern hemisphere. Bhagyashree lost a lot__ weight due to the keto diet. They say Arun is partial his friends. Kaushiki has a partiality __sour sweets. Taru searched her lost book everywhere but couldn't find it, ‘The management is not happy ___ his decision to go public 10 The people of that country are ruled ___ an aggressive dictator. (© Fillin the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets, lent, He ran to help the injured eeraueune Do not write the passage, but write the verbs in the correct order. 51 Most people (1) (think) of banana peels, eggshells, and dead leaves as “waste,” but compost is actually a valuable resource with multiple practical uses. When Q) (utilize) asa garden fertilizer, compost (3) (provide) nutrients to soil and. @ (improve) plant growth while () (deter) or (©) (kill) pests and (@) (prevent) some plant diseases. Compost also (8) (enhance) soil texture, (©) (encourage) healthy roots and minimising or (10) (eliminate) the need for chemical fertilizers. Question 4. Read the passage given below and answer the questions (a), (b) and (¢) that follow : (1) Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink. At school, I had learned to read and write long before the other children. Where my school friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people (2) Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could unlock a boundless world, a safe haven from that home, those streets, and 5 those troubled days in which even I could sense that only a limited fortune awaited me.English-l + 9 8) My father didn’t like to see books in the house. There was something about them—apart from the letters he could not decipher—that offended him. He used to tell me that as soon as T was ten, he would send me off to work and that I'd better get rid of all my scatterbrained ideas if I didn’t want to end up a loser, a nobody. 10 (4) Lused to hide my books under the mattress and wait for him to go out or fall asleep so that L could read. Once he caught me reading at night and flew into a rage. He tore the book from my hands and flung it out of the window. “If I catch you wasting electricity again, reading all this nonsense, you'll be sorry.” (6) My father was not a miser and despite the hardships we suffered, whenever he could he 15 gave me a few coins so that I could buy myself some treats like the other children. He was convinced that I spent them on licorice sticks, sunflower seeds, or sweets, but I would keep them in a coffee tin under the bed, and when I'd collected four or five reales I'd secretly rush out to buy myself a book. (6) My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa 20 Ana. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my sanctuary, my refuge. The bookseller ‘would let me sit on a chair in a comer and read any book I liked to my heart's content. He hardly ever allowed me to pay for the books he placed in my hands, but when he wasn’t looking, I'd leave the coins I'd managed to collect on the counter before I left. (7) It was only small change—if I'd had to buy a book with that pittance, I would probably 25 have been able to afford only a booklet of cigarette papers. When it was time for me to leave, I would do so dragging my feet, a weight on my soul. If it had been up to me, I would have stayed there forever. (8) One Christmas, Sempere gave me the best gift I have ever received. It was an old volume, read and experienced to the full. “Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens,” I read on the 30 cover. I was aware that Sempere knew a few authors who frequented his establishment and, judging by the care with which he handled the volume, I thought perhaps this Mr. Dickens was one of them. “A friend of yours ?” “A lifelong friend. And from now on, he’s your friend too.” (9) That afternoon I took my new friend home, hidden under my clothes so that my father 35 wouldn't see it. It was a rainy winter, with days as gray as lead, and I read Great Expectations about nine times, partly because I had no other book at hand, partly because I did not think there could be a better one in the whole world and I was beginning to suspect that Mr. Dickens had written it just for me. (10) Soon T was convinced that I didn’t want to do anything else in life but learn to do what 40 Mr. Dickens had done. Adapted from : The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafén (Translated by Lucia Graves) (@) i) Given below are four words and phrases. Find the words which have a similar meaning in the passage a ) sanctuary @) deduce @) peanuts @ doubt Gi) For each of the words given below, write a sentence of at least ten words using the same word unchanged in form, but with a different meaning from that which it carries in the passage : [4] @) limited (line 6) @) flew (line 12) (3) spent (line 17) @) weight (line 27) (b) Answer the following questions in your own words as briefly as possible (@ What are the two things that set the writer apart from his friends in school ? a Gi) Why did the writer feel that Charles Dicken’s was a friend of Sempere ? i Gi) How did the writer collect money to buy himself a book ? RI (iv) How did the writer’s father react on catching him reading a book ? Why ? bi (© Describe how Mr. Sempere encouraged the writer's love for reading, (Paragraphs 6 to 10). Failure to keep within the word limit will be penalized. You will be required to write your points in the form of a connected passage in about 100 words. (8)