SECTION A: READING
1. (A) In the passage, the writer feels that it is
difficult for the teenagers to avoid junk food
because of their contemporary lifestyle,
the increase in spending time watching
television and playing computer games.
(B) Stress is an emotion that leads to over-
eating in teenagers as they would eat food
more often in order to reduce the feeling of
stress.
(C)Obesity in young age often results in
mocking and teasing by the people of
same age. Obese children are mocked for
their overweight and this leads to low sef
esteem and lack of confidence.
(D) The writer calls obesity an 'epidemic
because it is spreading at a very fast
pace in teenagers and a large number of
children are being affected by it.
(E) Control excessive weight
The word 'alleviate' means to lessen or
reduce. So, for some people, overeating
works as a stress buster as it alleviates the
stress they feel
(G) combined effort
(H) For some teenagers, obesity comes with
heredity as it is transferred through
genetics to people. So, sometimes, even if
a teenager follows a good diet, he may still
be obese due to heredity.
() As given in the passage, obesity may lead
to other health issues like diabetes, high
SECTION
3. The Dixits
2-A, Saket Colony
Varanasi
17th September 20XX
Dear all
We request the pleasure of your precious com-
pany at the Grand Family Dinner on the lovely
occasion of Diwali this year. The family dinner
will take place on Monday, the 23 of Septem-
ber, 20XX, 8.00 p.m. onwards at our residence.
You are all requested to mark the dinner with
your lovely presence.
blood pressure, cholesterol, sleep disorders,
hormonal imbalance, etc.
2. (A)By 'spiritual kinship, the writer means the
connection of people based on soul or
spiritual goodness, rather than physical
goodness.
(B) The survey in the passage was taken
on 'meditation frequency' to learn how
meditation helps people to increase their
happiness levels and how mindfulness and
compassion mediates with it.
(C) As per the table, the mindfulness and
self-compassion scales are positively and
significantly correlated with the happiness
measure in a person.
(D) The table shows that people are most
happy when they are kind and easy on
themselves.
(E) People often experience the emotions from
their own perspective. They seldom think
from the perspective of other people and
feel that they deserve the greatest things
in life and not others.
F)The best example is the change in our
attitude due for a drug addict. When we
come across a drug addict, we should not
hate him, rather should help him come out
of that deadly addiction. Our empathy will
increase the addicts hope and desire to
come clean.
(G) kinship
B:WRITING
Yours affectionately
Akshay/Akshita Dixit
RSV.P
The Dixit Family
Varanasi
Ph.: 989765xxxx
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BIO-DATA
Name Shreya/Shreyas Jain
Father's Name Mr. M.D. Jain
Address 1/10, Mangalam Apt. Ring Road, Aligarh
Date of Birth 23d February, 19XX
Educational Qualifications B.Com. (Hons.) in the year 20XX with 78%
ci) CA in 20XX
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OR motorbike owner Gyan Praksah, was informed
Vehicle Lifters of the City Caught about the activity when he reported about his
Red-handed missing vehicle at the nearest Police Station.
By VineetaMijay Sharma, Staff Correspondent, Gyan Prakash thanked Police on catching the
The Hindustan Times thieves red-handed and saving his motorbike.
Indore, 13th November, 20XX: A gang of Mr Rahim Khan, the Inspector of Police, said
unknown motorbike lifters stealing vehicles that the police were on high alert since last
from the parking lots of the market places in week as the number of motorbikes being lifted
from the lot had increased
the city was arrested on 12" November, 20XX
are said to
rapidly. The robbers
at Radhi Bazar Parking lot at Jay Conventional belong Pitwa, a district in Indore,
to
M.P. They said that
Center, Indore. The gang of five young men they
all are local motorbike
was caught lifting a white Gixxer 280 RC mechanics so they used to sell the parts or
vehicles in the local markets at
parked at the lot when the Police got there. The
and enjoy with the good prices
money obtained.

SECTION - C:LITERATURE
5. (A) When Rajkumar Shukla took Gandhiji to
draw water from the well
Dr Rajendra Prasad's house to meet the
him
as they thougn
latter, they found that he was out of the
to be an untouchable.
town. The servants of his house looked (B) The peddler was a destitute rattrap er.

down upon them and mistook Gandhiji to He was never se

treated with respect an
be one of the poor peasants for his
simple compassion by anyone earlier. So, whe
appearance. They didn't even allow him to Edla Willmanson the
treated him
honour that was meant for a realwith
Cap
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 even after knowing that the peddler wwas
not the one, the peddler returned the same
respect and gesture he received, to Edla
behaving like a Captain. Thus, he signed
himself as Captain Von Stahle.
C) In the poem, Keats has repeated a notion,
ie. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever. By
this, he meant that the effect ofa beautiful
thing doesn't fade away with time. It is
permanent and everlasting.
(D) The society that we live in is a male-
dominated one. Aunt Jennifer is a typico
submissive housewife who has to follow
her husband's ordeals unwillingly all the
Her and
time. husband tyrannizes her
reflects a true picture of male chauvinism
as he keeps Aunt oppressed and dominated
by him.
Evans said he was unable to concentrate
his with
on exam Stephens literally
breathing down his neck. So, he wanted
to be out his cell However, the
Stephens of
actual reason was that Evans wanted to
execute his escape plan.
When people saw Derry's acid burnt face,
they tried to console him by saying that
looks do not matter. Derry hated the
sympathy showed to him as he knew that
he would continue to look like a 'monstrous
beast' forever.
6. (A) Adrienne Rich, the author of the poem,
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, has used various
the poem.
symbols and poetic devices in
Aunt Jennifer is embroidering the tigers on
her panel The tigers symbolise the bravery
and independence which Aunt Jennifer
dreams of attaining, but fails to do so except
in her dreams and art. In the poem, the
character of Aunt Jennifer metaphorically
represents the entire women community
as a whole. She represents women who
are the victims of domestic oppressions
and male dominations.
Apart from that, Adrienne has used
number of poetic devices like metaphors as
bright topaz denizens' wherein the tigers
are considered to be the inhabitants of the
green forests. The alliteration in
'fingers
fluttering' also exemplifies the irony in
the poem, as the fingers signify both Aunt
Jennifer's physical feebleness and her
fearful mind. The alliteration
prancing
proud' symbolizes the ever-existence of
brave tigers.
(B) Gandhiji was so determinant to get justice
for the poor sharecroppers of
Champaran.
He fought the case on behalf of them. He
submitted such strong evidences of the
injustice meted out to the sharecroppers
that the British had to agree to the refund.
Gandhiji asked for a refund of 50 per cent
but the British agreed to only repay 25 per
cent as they wanted to prolong the dispute
between them.
To everybody's surprise,
Gandhiji agreed to
accept the 25 per cent of return. For him,
the amount of money was not important
What was important was the fact that
the British had to surrender part of their
money and moreover, their 'prestige. This
repay shattered the Britisher's pride of
ruling the country unjustly.
(C)Roger Skunk was a stinking animal Due
to his bad odour, nobody wanted to play
with him or become his friend. So, he
wanted to get rid of that odour in order
to attract other creatures' friendship. If
were in Roger Skunk's place, I would have
never gotten my natural odour changed to
any other fake smell The bad smell that
would posses would have been my unigue
identity and as a Skunk that is necessary to
protect nme from predators.
Also, I would never change my appearance
or identity for others' approval I am who
Iam and that's what makes me unique.
The smell of roses would have garnered
me but as soon as I would
good friends for
have lost the fragrance, I would have lost
my friends too. And, I don't want a fake
friendship like that which could end with a
little physical change in me.