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21-10-19

General English

 Answer the following questions:


1. According to Hassan, who were "nerds"?
2. How many siblings did Bholi have?
3. Fill in the blank with suitable Determiner : He lost ....... friends he had.
4. Choose the correct passive voice of the following sentence from answer given below:
He keeps me waiting
(a) Waiting is kept to me by him.
(b) I am being waited to keep by him.
(c) I am kept waiting by him.
(d) I shall be kept waiting by him (4*1=4)

* Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Children going to schools in the future will be educated in ways of using and understanding computers
and robots. They will grow up and be able to take the new jobs, and no one will ever consider the old
jobs or want them. Everyone will be glad to leave dull jobs and the dangerous jobs to robots. Still, there
will be a 'transition period', a time between the present, when so many people are still in the old jobs,
and the future, when everyone will be in the new jobs. The American people and perhaps, the whole
world, will have to be patient and intelligent so that we can get through the transition period with as
little trouble and unhappiness as possible. There is another problem that may confront us.

(i) Write the name of the chapter and of its author.


(ii) What is a transition period?
(iii) How can we deal with the transition period?
(iv) How will children be educated in the future?
(v) Give the meanings of any two of the following in simple English:
Confront; trouble; glad. (6*1=6)
 Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow :

The sun does arise And make happy the skies, The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring, The skylark
and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound, While our sports
shall be seen On the Echoing Green.

(a) Name the poem and its poet.

(b) Name the bird which sing to welcome the spring.

(c)What purpose does the ringing of the merry bells serve in the poem?

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(d) How can you say that the mood in the poem is happy and carefree celebrating a close bond between
man and nature ? (4*1=4)

 Make a précis of the following passage and give it a suitable heading

The great value of travel as a means of mental development is that stimulates the brain and adds much
to man's receptiveness and power of observation. Not many men are so inert and apathetic that they
travel with dull eyes. They are practically forced to take notice many things that are different in foreign
countries. It is quite true a man does not really see his own country until he has travelled it few
Englishmen appreciate England until they have lived for at foreign countries. Travel pours a food of data
into brain and compels. brain to notice and compare. It starts up a thinking process. It rids the brain of
little local, dwarfing prejudices. Of all educational influences it the is one of the most effective.

(5*1=5)

 Explain the newspaper headline 'Vehicles thieves held' in 15-20 words.

Or

 Write an E-mail to a friend thanking him for the birthday gift sent to you by him. (3*1=3)
 Write down the central idea of any one of the poems given below: (4*1=4)
(i) Once Upon A Time
(ii) (ii) On His Blindness
 Write, in brief, the character sketch of Hassan. (1*4=4)
 Write, in brief, the character sketch of Miss beam in 100-120 words. (1*6=6)

* Do as directed : (4*1=4)

(a) Fill in the blank with suitable Determiners:

(i) I had put in ......... hard work.

(ii)....... umbrella is ....... useful thing.

b) (i) .......(Run) water is not always fit for drinking. (Fill up the blank with a Participle)

(ii) I saw him .........(cross) the road (Fill up the blank with a Gerund)

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