SUBJECT- SPECIAL
ENGLISH MAX. MARKS: 100
TIME: 3 Hrs.
Important
Instructions :
(ii) This question paper
comprises of Part (A) Objective questions and Part (B)
Subjective questions.
(iii) In part (B) internal
options are given.
Section-(A)
1. Read the following passage
carefully and answer the questions given at the end :
It is almost impossible to escape
from advertisements. Hoardings stare down
at us from the sides of the
roads, crude neon signs wink above shops; In magazines ,
pictures of washing machine and
custard powders take up more room than the letter
press. Advertising assaults not
only our eyes and ears but also our pockets. Its critics
point out that in this country
1.6% of the national income is spent on advertising and
it raises the cost of products.
But there are a few things to be
said in its favour- something cost less. News
paper magazines and television -
all carry advertisements. The money they receive
from all advertisers help them to
lower the cost of production. Advertising to some
extent ensures that a product
will maintain its quality. It also gives rise to completion.
Competition may even succeed in
some cases, in reversing the influence of
advertising and causing a
reduction in price.
Questions:
1. Choose the correct statement
from the following to be a suitable answer to 'How
does the author regard
advertisement ?
(1)
(a) an evil necessity (b) reduces
cost
(c) produces better imagination
(d) highly beneficial to the consumer
2. The assurance behind
advertising is ............. (1)
3. Competition will .............
(1)
4. Find the words from the
passage which means the same as the following:
1. Attack 2. Very rough
(1)
5. How does advertising favour a
consumer? (2)
6. Write the author's negative
view of advertisement. (2)
2. Read the passage carefully and
answer the questions given at the end:
He was an old man who fished
alone in a skiff, a small light boat, in the Gulf
Stream and he had gone eighty
four days without taking a fish. In the first forty days a
boy had been with him. But after
forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told
him that the old man was now
definitely and finally Salao, which the worst form of
unlucky, and the boy had gone at
their orders in another boat which caught three good
fish the first week. It made the
boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his
skiff empty and he always went
down to help him.
The old man was thin and gaunt
with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
The brown blotches of the
benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on
the tropics sea were on his
cheeks. Everything about him was old except his eyes and
they were the same colours as the
sea and were cheerful and undefeated, 'Santiago;
the boy said to him as they
climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up. 'I
could go with you again. We've
made some money'.
The old man had taught the boy to
fish and loved him.
The boy said, ' Can I offer you a
beer on the Terrace and then we'll take the
staff home.'
'Why not?' the old man said.
(Between fishermen) They sat on the Terrace and
many of the fisherman made fun of
the old man and he was not angry. Other of the
older fishermen, looked at him
and were sad.
1. The old man looked ..... (1)
(a) ill but hopeful (b) ill and
hopeless
(c) hopeless (d) ill
2. The old man by profession was
............. and by name he was .............. (1)
3. Find out synonym of 'unlucky'
from the passage. (1)
4. Write a suitable title of
above passage. (1)
5. What did the boy feel about
the old man ? (2)
6. The two examples that show the
old man was very kind are. (2)
3. Read the poem carefully and
answer the questions given at the end.
My parents kept me from children
who were rough And who threw words like
stones and who wore torn clothes.
Their thighs showed through rags. They ran in the
street and climbed cliffs and
stripped by the county streams. I feared more than tigers
their muscles like iron and their
jerking hands their knees tight on my arms.
I feared the salt coarse pointing
of those boys who copied my lisp behind me
on the road. They were lithe,
they sprang out behind hedges like dogs to bark at our
world. They threw mud And I
looked another way, pretending to smile. I longed to
forgive them, yet they never
smiled.
1. Match the words in column 'A'
with their meanings in column 'B' : 4
A B
1. Lisp (i) fences
2. Lithe (ii) bad speech
3. Coarse (iii) nimble
4. Hedges (iv) rough
2. Why are the children referred
to as 'rough' ? 2
3. The narrator feared them the
most when...... 2
4. When did the rough children
irritate and tease the narrator? 2
5. The rough children did not
want to be friends with the narrator. This is seen in ....... 2
6. How did they behave like when
they derided at the narrator and his world. 2
SECTION -'B'
4. Write a short paragraph
describing the scene at Polio Camp held under the
National Polio Eradication
Campaign with the help of words given:
Tent erected - long queue -
children up to five years, babies in mothers' armsnurses-
noting name and address-
indelible ink mark- two drops of vaccine.
OR
Write a short paragraph on 'A Day
in Summer' with the help of words given.
No rains - hot day - unable to go
out - cold drinks - indoor games- failure of
electricity - prayers to God.
(5)
5. Write a telegram to your
friend congratulating him on his grand success in P.E.T.
exams.
OR
Write an advertisement for
selling a washing machine in good condition. The
reason is that the owner is going
abroad.
(5)
6. Write a letter to the Editor
of a Newspaper about the evils of child labour.
OR
You are Shalini living at 21,
Karim Ganj Bhopal you have just returned from an
educational tour of Rajasthan.
Write a letter to your friend Rashmi living at 15,
Mayur Ganj Cuttack about your
experiences and enjoyment.
(10)
7. Suppose you are Anjali, a
student of class X. Write an article on 'Industrialization
and Air Pollution' forming ideas
from the given visual.
