Time : 3 Hrs M.M. 100
Instructions :-
(i) Attempt all questions
(ii) This question paper is
divided into four sections A,B,C and D
(iii) Marks are allotted against
questions.
SECTION- ‘A’
READING
Q.1 Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given at the end.
All spiders are carnivorous
Spiders eat insects including other spiders
Scientist often divide Spiders
into two groups- Web spiders produce webs to
capture prey while ground spiders
hunt prey directly without using a web. Almost
all spiders use poison glands to
kill or parlayze their prey or to defend themselves.
Contrary to popular belief most
spider bites are not dangerous to humans;
of the 40,000 species of Spiders
only about 30 species produce bites that may
cause illness. Spiders rarely
attack humans they feel threatened and if they do bite,
the wound is rarely serious.
There is absolutely no reason to kill any spider or to
call an exterminator if you have
spiders in your house, as an old English saying
goes, if you want to live and
thrive let a spider run alive.
Questions:-
Choose the correct answer from
a,b,c, and answer the question d,e,f.
(a) All spiders are:- 1
(i) Carnivorous (ii) Parasite
(iii) Gregarious (iv) None of
them.
(b) Scientists divide spiders
into :- 1
(i) Two groups (ii) There groups
(iii) Four groups (iv) Five
groups
(c) Find out the word from the
passage which has the meaning ‘make some body
temporarily unable to more’
1
(i) Carnivorous (ii) Paralyze
(iii) Poison (iv) Species
(d) How is a web helpful for a
spider? 1
(e) What is the common belief? 2
(f) What does the studies say
regarding spiders? 2
Q.2 Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given.
Under the present system of mass
education too much stress is laid on
teaching and too little on active
learning. The child is not encouraged to discover
things on his account. He learns
to rely on outside help not on his own powers,
thus losing intellectual
independence and all capacity to judge for himself.
Moreover lessons in class have
him mainly unoccupied and therefore bored. He
has to be coerced into learning
what does not interest him and the information
acquired mechanically and
reluctantly by dint of brute repetition is rapidly
forgotten. Quite naturally the
child being bored and unoccupied is also
mischievous. A strict external
discipline becomes necessary when there is chaos
and pandemonium. The child learns
to obey but not to control himself. He loses
moral as well as intellectual
independence.
Such are the main defects in the
current system of mass education. Many
other could be mentioned but
there are defects in detail and can be classified under
one or other of the three main
categories of defects, sacrifice of the individual to
the system, psychologically
unsound methods of teaching and irrational methods
of imposing discipline. We need a
new system of universal education of the same
kind as that which has proved
itself so successful in the training of defectives and
infants but modified so as to be
suitable for older boys and girls. We need a system
of individual, education.
Question :-
Choose the correct alternatives
from a,b,c,d and answer the questions of e,f.
(a) In the present educating
system a child has to rely on- 1
(i) Out side help (ii) on his
powers
(iii) on books (iv) all of them
(b) Why do he students behave
mischievously in the class? 1
(i) Because they are over
burdened (ii) Because they are unoccupied in
the class
(iii) Because the are intelligent
(iv) None of them.
(c) He _______________ outside
help. 1
(i) be self-sufficient (ii) to
rely on
(iii) to avoid (iv) None of above
(d) Which of the following means
‘unwillingly? 1
(i) Reluctantly (ii)
Psychologically
(iii) Naturally (iv)
Intellectually
(e) Why does the child feel bored
and unoccupied in the class? 2
(f) What are the defects of mass
education? 2
Q.3 Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Rustam and Sohrab came forward
from the camps and looked at each
other. Both of them felt love for
each other. Sohrab said to the old warrior”, I feel
great love for you in my heart.
Are you Rustam? Please tell me if you are that great
warrior” But Rustam refused to
tell him who he was. And a fearful fight began
between the father and the son,
Sohrab twice knocked. Rustam down then Rustam
shouted his own name in great
anger and this puzzled Sohrab. His spear and shield
fell from his hand. Just then
Rustam’s spear pierced his chest and he fell down on
the sand.
Then he said to Rustam, 'The dear
name of my father puzzled me and my
spear and shield fell from my
hands'. Then you struck me, I will soon die, but my
father Rustam will take revenge
upon you. Rustam thought Sohrab was telling a
lie. But when Sohrab showed him
the seal on his arm, he knew he had killed his
own son. Rustam wept bitterly and
all the soldiers on both sides wept with him for
Sohrab.
Questions :-
Choose the correct alternative
from a,b,c,d and answer of e,f,g,h,i.
(a) Who shouted Rustam’s name? 1
(i) Rustam (ii) other warriors
(iii) Sohrab (iv) None the them
(b) What did Sohrab show Rustam?
1
(i) A locket (ii) The seal on his
arm
(iii) The seal on the shoulder
(iv) A gift
(c) Pick out from following the
word which means the same as fighter. 1
(i) Player (ii) dancer
(iii) warrior (iv) speaker
(d) Puzzled is a: 1
(i) Noun (ii) Web
(iii) Adjective (iv) Preposition
(e) How did both warriors feel
when they saw each other? 2
(f) What did Sohrab ask Rustam? 2
(g) What happened when Rustam
shouted his own name? 2
(h) How did Sohrab convince
Rustam that he had killed his own Son? 2
(i) Why did Rustam weep? 2
