Model 8 HS2nd Yr AltE Pre-Test-1 2021

HS 2nd Year Test
2022
Alternative English
Full Marks-100
Pass Marks-30
Time-3 hrs

Group-A

1. Answer the following in just one line:1x5=5

A. For how long did Narayan use his car?

B. How many cyclists collided before Narayan's car?

C. What is the full name of Mriganko Babu?

D. Name the magazine that asked Mriganko Babu for a story.

E. Who wrote "On Not Being a Philosopher"?
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2. Answer any five from the following:3x5=15

A. What did R. K. Narayan do to turn his energies again to write stories?

B. What does Narayan begin to fear after every visit to the workshop?

C. How, according to Narayan did his friend spend his leisure hours?

D. Why did Mriganko Babu never consult the almanac before travelling anywhere?

E. Why did the driver go to Panagarh?

F. Who is Zeus?

G. How did the Verger regard his official dress?

H. What did Jim do to get a gift for Della?
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3. Give brief answers to any three of the following:4x3=12

A. What are the reasons for the author's impervious attitude towards his car?

B. Why did Abhiram leave the house of Mriganko Babu?

C. Discuss the circumstances that lead to Lynd's reading Epictetus.

D. What moral lessons are stressed upon in "The Gift of the Magi"?

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4. Explain with reference to the context of the following: 4x2=8

A. "For a fanatic of this sort the possession of a car is an anachronism and especially the acquisition of a sophisticated, imported make, an irrelevance and a nuisance".

B. "But no, there was someone else. It was that scarecrow."

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5. Answer the following in just one line:1x5=5

A. Who wrote the poem 'Village Song'?

B. What is the name of the river mentioned in 'Village Song'?

C. Who is Ozymandias?

D. To whom does the narrator tell the story of Sita?

E. Who is the poem 'Sita' about?

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6. Answer any four of the following:2x4=8

A. What 'mystic path' does the poet try to bring out in the poem 'Sita'?

B. What does the brook do as it flows down?

C. What are the words that were inscribed on the pedestal of the statue of Ozymandias?

D. What did the lady give the knight in return?

E. What do the birds referred to in the poem'Village Song' symbolize?

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7. Answer the following:3x4=12

A. With what are 'the shadows of evening' compared in the poem 'Village Song'?

B. How does the girl realise in 'Village Song' that the night is approaching?

C. How does Toru Duty relate the past and the present in her poem?

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8. Explain with reference to the context on any one of the following:5x1=5

A. "It is an old, old story, and the lay/Which has evoked sad Sita from the past/ Is by a mother sung...."

B. "Why, O Why was I tempted to tarry/Lured by the boatman's song?"
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Grammar=20 Marks
A. Transform the sentences given below as per the instructions within the brackets:5x1=5

1. She is a brilliant student?(change into interrogative)

2. As soon as she saw me, she began to quarrel. (Change into negative)

3. Nobody can deny that she is clever. (Change into affirmative)

4. They are not going tomorrow. (Change into affirmative)
 
5. Can their glory fade?(Change into negative)

B. Add tag questions to the following sentences:1x5=5

1. Add a question tag,
2. There will be a meeting tomorrow,
3.We had not been given any opportunity,
4. The artist knows the way within,
5. Everyone joined the mission,

C. Insert correct prepositions:1x7=7
1. Everybody is afraid____ death.
2. The hunter aimed ____ the tiger.
3. I congratulated him ____ his success.
4. She takes delight____ music.
5. I haven't seen him ___ five days.
6. The beggar lives ___ begging.
7. Zeenat is late ___ school.

D. Change the tense forms:1x3=3
1. He uploads videos. (Change the present simple into past simple)

2. I was reading books. (Change the past continuous into future continuous)

3. I will do. (Change the future simple into present continuous)


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Composition:15 Marks

Read the following conversation and answer the questions:5x3=15

Abida: I am convinced that Rina deserved the second class while Manyata has rightly got a first class.

Meena: So am I, The present system of examination is much better and needs not much more change.

Abida: Yes, I suppose so. It succeeds to identify between a bright, hard working student and dull students.

Meena:- What is more, a dull fellow sometimes gets more marks than a brilliant student. Manyata is only a girl of average intelligence. A second class is also much for her. By memorizing a few select answers she has passed with better colours.

Abida: Yes, she has. But, a student who sincerely studies the textbooks and just gets fewer marks more than the average ones is still better because he or she develops for life. Manyata has done just some smart work. More in less time. But, the so-called intelligence and results of such students always gets caught in future too. Rina is a student of depth and critical thinking apart from being hard working and systematic.

Meena: May be, you are right. Facts about how a student read and thought naturally comes out with time. Ok, now I have to go. Will check with you soon.

Abida: Yup, keep in touch. Good night.

1. About what and why is Abida convinced? 5

2. What does Meena say about the present system of examination? 5

3. How does Abida analyze the case of Rina and Manyata?5

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