10+1 GENERAL ENGLISH (PSEB)

Part A:

Q.1. Do as directed:                                                                                   (1*10 = 10 Marks)

a)      Johnsy ……….(sleep) when they went upstairs.

b)      In the city, she ……(take) to feeding the sparrows.

(Fill in the blanks with the correct Tense forms of the verbs given in the brackets)

c)      Mahmood said, “Everyone has heard of the dragon-kite.”

(Change it into indirect speech)

d)      Baron Hausberg buys all my pictures.

(Change the voice)

e)      These news are not true.

(Correct the sentence)

f)        Get used to

(Use the idiom in a sentence of your own)

g)      Who penned the poem, “Upagupta”?

h)      Who took Kunwar to hospital?

i)        Name the grandson and grandfather in the lesson, “The Kite Maker”.

j)        What did Uncle Malik grow on his farm?

PART-B

Q.2. (a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

            The appointed day has come- the day appointed by destiny- and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past slings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about.

            It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!

Questions

1)      Write the name of the chapter and its writer.                           (2)

2)      What is the ‘appointed day’ referred to here?                         (1)

3)      What does ‘the new star’ represent?                                                   (1)

4)      How is the moment fateful? For whom?                                               (1)

5)      Match the words with their meanings:

(i)         Destiny            sleep

(ii)        Slumber           dream

                                    Fate                                                                 (2)

6)      Fill in the blanks with suitable word from the passage:

(i)                  In the …………. Of life only the fittest survive.             (1)

(b) Answer any one question in about 100 words:

    (i)     What was Mahmood’s occupation? What happened to it? Write about the ups and downs in his life in the story, ‘The Kite- Maker’.

                                                                        Or

      (ii) How did Mr.Braithwaite become popular among his students?      (4 Marks)

Q.3.(a)  Write the summary of any one of the following poems:

               Success is Counted Sweetest

                                    OR

               Confessions of a Born Spectator.                                                         (4 Marks)

(b)        Translate the following into vernacular:

My grandmother and I were good friends. My parents left me with her when they went to live in the city. She used to wake me up in the morning and get me ready for school.                                      (3 Marks)

                                            PART-C

Q.4.(a)   Answer any 3 out of the following 5 questions.      (3*2 = 6 marks)

                (i)     How did Rahim Khan’s romance with Radha end?

               (ii)     Graham was badly wounded. What did Beta Lynn do?

(iii)       What did Johnsy fall ill with? What did the doctor say about her             chances of recovery?

(iv)        Did Todd’s failure to return the borrowed dollar affect the friendship between him and the author?

(v)          What condition did the Colonel lay for Hughie to be engaged to Laura?

(b)  Answer any one of the following in about 100 words:    (4 Marks)

               Write a pen-portrait of Sher Singh.

                                       Or

               Write about Juliane’s ordeal in the jungle air- crash.

Part- D

Q.5. (a)Write a letter to your sister Reena or brother Raju to improve his health.                         Imagine you are Rakhi/ Rajesh of 3, Sunder Lane, Amritsar.

Or

                Imagine you are Manjit Kaur of 3, Naraina, Bombay. Write a letter to                            your father telling him about how you hope to fare in the exams in April.

(6 Marks)

(b)  Write an essay on any one of the following:                                             

(i) How I celebrated my birthday.

                     (ii) Value of Games.

                    (iii) Exploitation of Women.                                                      (5 Marks)