Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara
Second Semester Exam 2024-25.
Sub - English. Marks 80
Section I- Prose
(Reading for comprehension, Language study, Summary & note making)
1. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.
When he came to Mrs. Adis's cottage he paused a moment.Only a small patch of grass lay between it and the road, and he looked in at the lighted, uncurtained window. He could see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it. He hesitated and seemed to wonder. He was a big, heavy, working man, not successful, judging by the poverty of his appearance. For a moment he made as if he would open the window, then he changed his mind and went to the door instead. He did not knock, but walked straight in.
The woman at the fire turned quickly round.
"What, you, Peter Crouch!' she said. 'I didn't hear you knock.
'I didn't knock ma'am. I didn't want anybody to hear."'How's that?"
"I'm in trouble. His hands were shaking a little.
'What have you done?"
I shot man, Mrs. Adis.
"You?"
Yes I shot him."
"You killed him?"
"I don't know."
For a moment there was silence in the small, stuffy kitchen. Then the kettle boiled over and Mrs Adis mechanically put it at the side of the fire.. She was a small, thin woman with a brown, hard face, on which the skin had dried in innumerable small, hair like wrinkles. She was probably not more than forty-two, but life treats some women hard in the agricultural districts of Sussex, and Mrs. Adis' life had been harder than most.
What do you want me to do for you, Peter Crouch?" she said a little sourly.
"Let me stay here a bit. Is there nowhere you can put me till they've gone?"
"Who's they?"
"The keepers."
"Oh you've had a quarrel with the keepers, have you?"
"Yes. I was down by Cinder Wood seeing if I could pick up anything, and the keepers found me. There were four to one, so I used my gun."
A1 State whether the following sentences are true or false and rewrite.
1) Peter Crouch entered in Mrs. Adis cottage through the window.
Answer:- false
2) Mrs. Adis was not happy to see Petter Crouch.
Answer:- true
3) Peter knocked the door then entered in Mrs. Adis cottage.
Answer:- false
4) Mrs. Adis led a rich and comfortable life.
Answer:- false
A2 Complete the web.
Answer:-
Appearance of Mrs. Adis.
Small,thin,brown,hard face,dried skin,hair like wrinkles
A3 Find the reasons that forced Peter to shoot down a person. 2
Answer:-
because
1. Peter Crouch was hunting illegally.
2. The keepers spotted him.
3. There were four keepers against the lone Peter Crouch.
A4 Personal response.
Suppose you have done something wrong with your friend. Explain how would you handle the situation.
Answer:- If have done something wrong with my friend at that time I feel sorry for my guilt. I will tell him that I will not repeat the mistake again.
A5 Language study.
1) He could see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it. 1
(Use 'be able to' in given sentence)
Answer:-
He was able to see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it.
2 ) He would open the window.
(Choose the alternative showing the correct passive voice of the given sentence.)
i) The window would been open by him.
ii) He would be open the window.
iii) The window would be opened by him.
Iv) The window would opened by him.
Answer:- The window would opened by him.
A6 Form nouns from the following words using suffixes.
Answer:-
i) hesitate = hesitation
ii) Judge. = Judgement
iii) heavy = heavier /heaviness
iv) treat = treatment
1. B) Non Textual Grammar.
B1 Do as directed.
1) I met Vasu....... the college library........ Sunday.
(Rewrite the sentence using correct preposition.)
Answer:- in,on
2) The mother looks after her child.
(Choose the alternative to get correct form of rhetorical question.)
a) The mother looks alfter her child ?
b) Didn't the mother look after her child?
c) Doesn't the mother looks after her child?
d) Doesn't the mother look after her child.
Answer:-
Doesn't the mother look after her child.
3) We can make happy to someone by our words.
(Identity the replaced version of the statement using the auxiliary of obligation.)
a) We might make happy to someone by our words,
b) We must make happy to someone by our words.
c) We Should make happy to someone by our words.
d) We have made happy to someone by our words.
Answer:-b) We must make happy to someone by our words.
B2 Spot the error in the given sentences and rewrite the correct sentence.
Both the partners have signing this agreement in haste.
Answer:-
Both the partners have signed this agreement in haste.
2. A) Read the following extract and complete the acitivities given below. 12
In 1945 in Bay Roberts, Canada, a Year-old boy saw something in a shope window that set his heart racing. But the price-five dollars was far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.
Reuben couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made fishing, Reuben's mother, Dora, stretched like elastic to feed and clothe their five children.
Nevertheless, he opened the shop's weathered door and went inside. Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "but I don't have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me?"
"I willl try," the shopkeeper smiled. "Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while."
Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked out into the May sunlight. The bay rippled in a freshening wind that ruffled his short hair. There was purpose in his loping stride. He would raise the five dollars and not tell anybody.
Hearing the sound of hammering front a side street, Reuben had an idea.
He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails purchased in burlap sacks from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents apiece.
That day he found two sacks, which he took to the remaining wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails. The boy's hand tightly clutched the small five-cent pieces as her ran the two kilometers home.
A1 Choose two correct sentence from the following alternatives. 2
1) Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.
2) Reuben needed five cents to buy the object.
3) Reuben found ten sacks and earned five cents.
Answer:-1) Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.
4) Reuben has flour-sack shirt and washed out trousers.
A2 Rearrange the following statements in order as they occured in the extract.
1) He found two sacks.
2) A Year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing.
3) He told the shopkeeper what he wanted.
4) He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site.
Answer:-
4) He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site.
1) He found two sacks.
2) A Year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing.
3) He told the shopkeeper what he wanted.
A3 Give reason.
Reuben couldn't ask his father for money.
Answer:-
because Rubens father earned by fishing.
Their means of earn are very few . His mother stretched like elastic to feed and clothe to their five children.
A4 Write your own experience of buying the thing that you like most. 2
Answer:- when I was in 10th standard I wanted to buy tape recorder so I worked in a sugar factory for that and finally purchased it.
A5 Language study.
Do as Directed
1) He opened the shop's weathered door and went inside.
(Choose the correct alternative showing the use of 'Not only ..... but also' in given sentence.)
a) He opened not only open the shop's weathered door but also went inside.
b) He did not only the shop's weathered door but also went inside.
c) He opened the shop the shop's weathered door not only but also went inside.
d) He was not only opened the shop's weathered door but also went inside.
Answer:-
d) He not only opened the shop's weathered door but also went inside.
2) He ran towards the sound. (Choose the correct alternative to Indentify the tense used in above sentence.)
a) Simple past tense.
b) Present perfect tense.
c) Perfect past tense.
d) Simple present tense.
Answer:- Simple past tense
A6 Indentify the words from the passage with opposite meaning of the following words.
Answer:-
a) buy = sell
b) save = spend
c) long = short
d) lost = found
B) Summary Writing
Write a summary of the above extract with a suitable title, with the help of the points.
About that thing that boy saw a shop ....... family condition Reuben's dicision ..... found sacks.
B) Note Making.
Read the following passage and complete the three diagram below.
There are four types of computers: Supercomputers, Mainframe computers, Mini computers and Microcomputers. Supercomputers are of special high capacity computers used by very large organizations such as NASA. Mainframe compers are capable of great processing speeds and data storage. For example, insurance companies use them to process information about millions of policyholders. Mini computers, also known as mid range computers, are comparatively small in size. Departments of large companies typically use them for specific purposes. For example, productions departments use them to monitor certain manufacturing process and assembly line operations. Microcomputers are least powerful but widely used and the fastest growing type of computers. There are four types of microcomputers. Desktop computers is too big to carry around. Laptop computer is portable. A Table PC is very easy to use and carry. The fourth one is handheld computer which is the smallest one and is designed to fit into the palm of one hand.
Types of Computers
↓. ↓. ↓. ↓
Super Computers. Main frame. Mini micro
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Section II Poetry
3. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.
They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded Filled with permutations of possibilities.
The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points linked by bridges all hang in the grace of mathematics. They build and will not stop. Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender.
They erase the flaws, the blemishes of the past, knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. All gaps are plugged with gleaming gold. The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth.
Anaesthesia, amnesia, hypnosis.
They have the means. They have it all so it will not hurt. So history is new again. The drilling goes right through the fossils of last century.
The piling will not stop.
But my heart would not bleed poetry. Not a single drop to stain the blueprint of our past's tomorrow.
A1 Pick out the statements which aptly depicts, the theme of the poem. 2
1) In the poem the speaker memorises the past.
ii) The poet laments helplessly.
The poet describes the unstoppable force of modernization.
iv) The poet proposes to stop modernisation.
Answer:-
ii) The poet laments helplessly.
The poet describes the unstoppable force of modernization.
A2 Explain the term 'Anaesthesia' used in the poem.
Answer:- in this poem planners powerful politicians and builders make use of anaesthesia and do their work it means they hypotenuse people.
A3 Personal Response.
Give any two drawbacks of the development of roads and increase in vehicles.
Answer:-
A4 Poetic device.
Identify and explain the figure of speech in the following line. 'useless blocks with dental dexterity.
Answer:- Alliteration, metaphor
B) Appreciation.
Write the appreciation of the poem with the help of the following aspects. There is another sky,
Never mind silent fields-
Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin, Here is a little forest, Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum:
Whose leaf is ever green;
Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come !
Points About the poem's poet and the title.
* The theme.
* Your opinion about the poem.
* Poetic devices and the language. * Message, values, morals in the poem.
Section III - Writing Skills
4. A) Complete the activities as per the instructions given below.
Attempt any one of the following activities.
i) Letter Writing.
Write a letter to your Principal requesting him/her for issuing a duplicate Leaving Certificate for you.
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ii) E-mail.
Write an E-mail in a proper formal to invite your friend to celebrate your birthday.
B) Attempt any one of the following.
i) Expansion of Idea
Expand the following idea with the help of the points given below.
Write your answer in about 100 words.
'Necessity is the mother of invention'.
* Importance of invention. Use of the term 'mother'.
* Examples/Proof. Human tendency of invention. Conclusion.
ii) Blog Writing.
Write a blog in a proper format on 'Eat Healthy - live Healthy' with the help of the following points in 100 to 150 words.
* Healthy eating habits.
* Nutrition.
* Do's and Don'ts.
Need of balance diet.
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iii) Film Review.
Draft a review of any film/movie that you have recently watched.
Prepare your review with the help of given points.
* Name of the movie/year of release,
• Producer/Director,
* Casting. • Technical aspects: Music/ Photography.
* Theme/ storyline in brief.
* Your opinion.
C) Attempt any one of the following activities.
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i) Appeal.
Imagine your college is going to conduct a campaign for cleanliness.
Prepare an appeal in the form of an advertisement write-up with the help of the following points.
- Use attractive slogan. Prepare a suitable logo an the theme.
- Make persuasive appeal for active participation
. - Add your own points.
ii) Report Writing.
Write a report on the celebration of 'Republic Day' in your college. - Students assembled. Arrival of Chief Guest.
Flag hoisting.
- Patriotic songs.
- Vote of thanks.
- Speeches.
- Cultural programme.
iii) Leaflet.
Prepare a small travel leaflet for a place of your choice with the help of following points.
- How to go there? - Importance of the place.
Where to stay?
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- What to see. - Shopping attractions. Add your own points.
iv) View- Counter view.
Prepare a paragraph to be used in the 'Counter-View' section on the following topic.
'Politics should be kept out of College Campuses.
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You can take help of the following points included in the 'View' section.
View Section
Politics should be kept out of college campuses.
* Students politics in India has more to do with politics and very little
with the students.
* It gives birth to students leaders who are surrounded by psycophants and least bothered about real problems of the students
* Big money, big campaign enter into the compuses and they are
difficult to control.
* Campus politics results in loss of study time.
D) Attempt any one of the following activities.
i) Speech.
You are an active member of an NGO working for tree-conservation.
Prepare a speech for the school or college students where you are invited on the occasion of 'The World Earth Day' to guide them about
tree planting. Use following points.
* Introduction. Air, water and noise pollution.
* Benifits of tree planting.
* Do's and don'ts.
* Living in harmony with nature.
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ii) Compening.
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Your colleghe has organised one day 'Yoga Day' programme for students. As a compere draft a script for the whole fuction maintaining
the sequence of the following points.
- Welcoming the guests/Introduction.
- Welcome song.
- Lightning the Lamp.
- Felicitation.
- Introductory speech.
- Yoga Day programme. Presidential speech. Vote of thanks.
iii) Dialogue writing.
Write a dialogue between you and your friends on the topic 'Power of Education'. Write at least 8-10 dialogues.
iv) Interview.
Imagine, you have to cunduct an interview of a famous personality from the field of sports. With the help of the given table and points, draft questions to be asked the interviewee.
* Name of the interviewee. Area of success. Date/Venue/Time.
* Duration of Interview - Questions.
1) Interest development. 5) Schedule.
2) Idols in life.
3) Early learning/training.
4) Motivation.
6) Strengths.
7) Best performation.
8) Message.
Section IV - Literary Genre - Drama
5. A) Complete the activities given below as per the instruction. i) Pick out the odd element from the group and write it.
1) The Doll's House, Look Back in Anger, An Enemy of the people, Ghosts.
2) Static, dynamic, internal, flat.
3) Language, monologue, setting, theme.
4) Shakespeare, Anton chekhov, Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill.
ii) Match the pair.
'A'. 'B
1) Conflict
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a) main idea.
Plot
Theme
iv) Dialogue
B ) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below.
b) essence of Drama.
c) involves two speakers.
d) pattern/ series of events.
1) Describe the character of 'The Sergeant'.
ii) Explain the theme of the drama 'The Rising of the Moon'.
C ) Answer in about 50 words to the questions give below.
i) Oberon and Titania fight for the custody of the Indian boy.
Give reason.
ii) Explain the setting of the play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
D) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below.
i) Narrate the plot of the play 'An Enemy of the People'.
ii) Explain the character sketch of 'Dr. Stockmann described in the play 'An Enemy of the people'.
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