Model 13 HS2nd Yr Alte. Pre Test-2 December 2022

         HS 2nd year Pre-Test

                     2022

            Alternative English

                 Time-3 Hrs

               Full Marks-100

                Pass Marks-30

                        Group-A

1. Answer the following in just one line (any five). 5x1=5

i) In which year the short story "The Verger" published?

ii) What is an automobile according to the author?

iii) Where was St. Peter's church located?

iv) What was the name of Mriganko Babu's driver?

v) What was Jim's gift for Della?

vi) Where was Robert Lynd born?

2. Answer the following questions (any five). 5x2=10

i) What was the discovery that astonished the vicar?

ii) Which part of the author's car could not ordinarily be replaced?

iii) Why did Mriganko Babu go to Durgapur?

iv) Who were the Magi?

v) Who wrote 'The Gift of the Magi' and when was it published?

vi) In what context does Lynd mention Solomon?

3. Give brief answers to the following three questions(any three). 3x4=12

i) What kind of shirt was the scarecrow wearing?

ii) How did the verger treat his gown?

iii) Why was Della worried?

iv) What causes ecstasy in every auto-pandit?

4. Answer the following questions (any two). 2x4=8

i) Describe the western side of the road as seen by Mriganko Babu?

ii) Describe the author's "imported car".

iii) What is Narayan's opinion about his driver?

5. Answer the following questions (any five). 5x1=5

i) How many children listen to the story in "Sita"?

ii) Who is the narrator of the story "Sita"?

iii) Name the poet of "Ozymandias of Egypt".

iv) Which season is the poem set in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci".

v) What will bite the girl in darkness?

vi) What tempted the girl to tarry?

6. Answer the following briefly (any four). 4x2=8

i) Describe the hermitage where Sita is living.

ii) What does brook represent? Human life or nature?

iii) What kind of king was Ozymandias?

iv) What did the knight make for the lady?

v) What is meant by "shingly bars"?

7. Answer the following three questions. 3x4=12

i) Explain how the poem 'Sita' reflects the poet's deep love for nature.

ii) What are 'the shadows of evening ' compared in the poem 'Village Song'?

iii) What is the appearance of the lady?

8. Explain with reference to the context (any one) 1x5=5

i) It is an old, old story and the lay

Which has evoked sad Sita from the past

is by a mother sung...

ii) My brother will murmur, 'Why doth she linger?'

My mother will wait and weep.

                 Group - B

9. Change the following as per instruction given without changing their meaning (any five) 5x1=5

i) She is a fine girl. (Change into interrogative)

ii) None but Ali can fix the fan. (Change into affirmative)

iii) All of them welcomed the guests enthusiastically. (Change into passive)

iv) Doesn't he live with his wife? (Change into assertive)

v) As soon as she saw me she began to shout. (Change into negative)

vi) Let the game be finished. (Change into active)

10. Add question tag (any five) 5x1=5

i) Don't go there.

ii) No man is immortal.

iii) Close the door.

iv) You are coming to college.

v) Everything has gone well today.

vi) You like a lot of sugar in your coffee.

11. Fill with correct prepositions (any five). 5x1=5

i) Ali is ___ time.

ii) Another way of saying 'old-fashioned' is ___ the times.

iii) Being a teacher is hardwork, especially if you're ___ duty all the time.

iv) She's the kind of girl who knows everything ___ everyone.

v) ___ our visit to Hyderabad, we saw a lot of interesting places.

vi) ___ the year, I've spoken to her five times.

12. Rewrite using verb forms (given in brackets) in their correct forms (any five)

5x1=5

i) She ___(want) to become a teacher.

ii) Ali ___ (go) to market yesterday.

iii) Rahat ___ (weep) bitterly on her brother's death.

iv) I have ___ (complete) my homework just now.

v) Alisha ___ (be) a student.

vi) Maria has ___ (buy) a new mobile.

13. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. 5x3=15

Health is the real wealth. Every student must try to keep good health. It is not very difficult to do so. The first requirement and oldest rule is 'Early to bed and early to rise.' Morning air is fresh. Student should take exercise in this air. Before the exercises, a short effective prayer before the Lord will make a stronger beginning of the day. Then good food is also necessary. We should avoid junk food. Milk, some butter, cornflakes, breads or eggs can be a part of student's morning diet. Morning food or breakfast in this region may also consist of traditional fooditems like roti or flatbreads, pulao-bhaji, suji, pitha, biroin or glutinous rice, etc. Students should take meals at regular hours. It is not good to keep on eating something or the other all the time. Taking homemade tiffins to schools and colleges keeps the health better. Then lastly, for a healthy body we need a tension-free mind which is possible if we do not procrastinate and do our studies and work timely. 

i) What are the beginnings of good health in the mornings for students before food?

ii) How should be the diet chart of students?

iii) Give the list of modern and traditional food items that can be taken in the mornings.

Alternative English(Solved) 

1. 5x1

   i) 1992

    ii)A means to an end

   iii) Vatican, Rome

    iv)Sudheer

    v)Set of ornamental combs

   vi) Belfast, UK

2.5x2

i) The verger could neither read nor write.

ii) The parking light on the left side of the imported car.

iii) He had been invited by a club in Durgapur to a cultural function, to felicitate him.

iv) Three Wise Men who travelled from East to Jerusalem guided by a star to see the infant Jesus

v) O'Henry. 1905

vi) In the context of acquiring wisdom.

3. 3x4

i) A torn, printed, red & black shirt which he felt he saw before

ii) With care, pride & dignity....He never threw away his old gowns.... Kept them in the bottom drawer of his wardrobe....wrapped up in brown paper....

iii) because it was Christmas Eve the next day & she had not adequate money to buy a gift for her husband Jim.... Had only one dollar and eighty seven cents

iv) Author's new imported car and its sophisticated features.... Numerous gadgets and powerful systems of the car

4. 2x4

i) there was an empty, desolate field. Forty feet from the road, there was a small pond with some water. A small number of trees and prickly plants were visible from a great distance away. There were two huts, but no one was around.

ii) it was shiny and sophisticated. The car had a recessed handle, a steering-manoeuvrable push button glass raiser, floating seats, a multicoloured speedometer, a disguised air conditioner, a tape recorder and a digital alarm with a calculator. It had a special virtue of being able to attain full speed in two minutes.

iii) his driver was someone who was used to the old ways of life. Despite the fact that the author owned an air conditioner car, the driver never let him use it. He had the habit of showing right or left turn by thrusting his arm out of the car's window. But when the glass was raised, he constantly hit it with his fist. He would gesticulate animatedly at the erring pedestrians and address them volubly in passing. He drove morosely.

5. 5x1

i. Three

ii. Toru Dutt's mother

iii. P. B. Shelley

iv. Autumn or late Autumn

v. A serpent

vi. The boatman's song

6. 4x2

i. It is a beautiful one amidst nature or dense forest. Sunlight could not enter much. There are huge creepers, blooming flowers and tall trees. There is a lake with clear waters. The place is filled with birds and animals which include gliding swans, springing peacocks and racing deer

ii. Human life mostly through its images. It represents journey of life that is going to "go on" for eternity, rather than nature. It is symbol of life from infancy to old age.

iii. was an tyrannical, haughty, overconfident, arrogant, ruthless ruler who believed he was more powerful than those around him. He ruled out of fear and conquest.

iv. The Knight was enraptured by the beauty of the fairy lady. He made a hair garland for her and a perfume enhancing bracelet for her hand

v. A long and thin piece of wood put up overlapping each other to cover the roof or fence/sides in a field or house. It may also mean the rocks or pebbles. They become the obstacles between the brook.

7.3x4

i. By expressing the scenic beauty of the dense forest. It is pen picture of Valmiki's hermitage where sita is living in exile. Stunning natural landscape is shown.

ii. Darkness is compared to the black birds gathering in the sky which is suggestive of fear and anxiety of the village girl. They are symbolic of the approaching darkness. The shadows are also the blackbirds in the sky. The girl is going home and she is alone.

iii. The lady was beautiful and fair. She had long hair, her lively appearance was apparent in her wild eyes. She was graceful in movement.

8. 1x5

i. The retelling of the story by Toru Dutt's mother evoked sad Sita from the past. Their mother was so adept in the art of storytelling that it infused life into the character of Sita. The main idea of the poem is infused in these lines. The mythic past of Sita in her second exile is portrayed and through imagery the imagination is brought into reality.

ii. The girl is concerned about how her mother and brother would react on her failure to reach home in time before onset of night. She thinks that her brother will murmur because she has been out for a long time to fetch water.

9.1x5

i. Is she a fine girl?

ii. Only Ali can fix the fan.

iii. The guests were welcomed enthusiastically by all of them.

iv. No sooner did she see me she began to shout.

v. Finish the game.

10.5x1

i. Will you?

ii. Is he?

iii. Won't you?

iv. Aren't you?

v. Hasn't it?

vi. Don't you?

11. 5x1

i. on

ii. Behind

iii. On

iv. About

V. On

vi. Throughout

12. 5x1

i. Wants

ii. Went

Iii. Wept

iv. Completed

V. Is

vi. Bought