AHSEC| CLASS 11| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER

AHSEC| CLASS 11| ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2021| H.S. 1ST YEAR

2021
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 3O
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

UNIT-T

(Reading an Unseen Passage and a Poem)

1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

Just at that turning between Market Road and the lane leading to the chemist's shop he had his establishment. If anyone doesn't like the word 'establishment', he is welcome to say so, because it was actually something of a vision spun out of air. At eight you would not see him, and again at ten you would see nothing, but between eight and ten he arrived, sold his goods and departed.

Those who saw him remarked thus, "Lucky fellow! He has hardly an hour's work a day and he pocket ten rupees-what graduates are unable to earn! Three hundred rupees a month!" He felt irritated when he heard such glib remarks and said, "What these folk do not see is that I sit before the oven practically all day frying all this stuff..."

He got up when the cock in the next house crowed; sometimes it had a habit of waking up at three in the morning and letting out a shriek. "Why has the cock lost its normal sleep?" Rama wondered as he awoke, but it was a signal he could not miss. Whether it was three four, it o'clock or was all the same to him. He had to get up and start his day.

At about 8:15 in the evening he arrived with a load of stuf. He looked as if he had four arms, so many things he

carried about him. His equipment was the big tray balanced on his head, with its assortment of edibles, a stool stuck in the crook of his arm, a lamp in another hand, a couple of portable legs for mounting his tray. He lit the lamp, a lantern which consumed six pies' worth of kerosene every day, and kept it near at hand, since he did not like to depend only upon electricity, having to guard a lot of loose cash and a variety of miscellaneous articles. When he set up his tray with the little lamp illuminating his display, even a confirmed dyspeptic could not pass by without throwing a look at it. A heap of bondas, which seemed puffed and big but melted in one's mouth; dosais, white, round and limp, looking like layers of muslin; chappatis so thin that you could lift fifty of them on a little finger; duck's eggs, hard-boiled, resembling a heap of ivory balls; and perpetually boiling coffee on a stove. He had a separate aluminum pot in which he kept chutney, which went gratis with almost every item.

He always arrived in time to catch the cinema crowd coming out after the evening show. A pretender to the throne, a young scraggy fellow, sat on his spot until he arrived and did business, but our friend did not let that bother him unduly. In fact, he felt generous enough to say, "Let the poor rat do his business when I am not there." This sentiment was amply respected, and the pretender moved off a minute before the arrival of the prince among caterers.

His customers liked him. They said in admiration, "Is there another place where you can get coffee for SIX pies and four chappatis for an anna?" They sat around his ray, taking what they wanted. A dozen hands hovered about it every minute, because his customers were entitled to pick up, examine and accept their stuff after proper scrutiny.

Though so many hands were probing the lot, he knewv exactly who was taking what: he knew by an

extraordinary sense which of the jutka-drivers was picking up chappatis at a given moment; he could even mention his licence number; he knew that the stained hand nervously coming up was that of the youngster who polished the shoes of passers-by; and he knew exactly at what hour he would see the wrestler's arm searching for the perfect duck's egg, which would be knocked against the tray corner before consumption.

His custom was drawn from the population swarming the pavement: the boot-polish boys, for instance, who wandered to and fro with brush and polish in a bag, endlessly soliciting, "Polish, sir, polish!"\Rama had a soft corner in his heart for the waifs. When he saw some fat customer haggling over the payment to one of these youngsters he felt like shouting, "Give the poor fellow a little more. Don't grudge it. f you pay an anna more he can have a dosai and a chappati. As it is, the poor fellow is on half-rations and remains half-starved all day."

It rent his heart to see their hungry, hollow eyes; it pained him to note the rags they wore; and it made him very unhappy to see the tremendous eagerness with which they came to him, laying aside their brown bags. But what could he do? He could not run a charity show; that was impossible. He measured out their half-glass of coffee correct to the fraction of an inch, but they could cling to the glass as long as they liked.

Questions

(a) State True or False: 1/2x4=2

(i) Rama owned a catering industry for the customers.

(ii) The eatables on the tray were not at all tempting

(iii) The person in the present context is an early riser.

(iv) The passage details on the activities of a charity show.

(b) Where was the 'establishment' located? 1

(d) Enlist the food items mentioned in the passage. 2

(e) Who is the poor rat' referred to? What did it' do before the prince' arrived? 1+1=2

(f) How did Rama feel for the waifs? Comment. 2

2. Read the poem given below and on the basis of your reading, answer the questions that follow:

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Questions:

(a) What are the two sounds hinted at in the poem? 1

(b) The poem indicates a particular season of the year. What is it? 1

(c)What do you know about the owner of the woods? 1

(d) Explain the line "And miles to go before I sleep". 2

UNIT-II

(Poetry and Prose)

[Poetry]

3. Answer either (a) or (b):

(a) Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

(i) Answer any two of the following questions: 1x2-2

1. Name the poet of the lines given above.

2. Where were they' stretching?

3. Give the meaning of the word 'sprightly'.

(ii) Explain any three poetic devices used in the above lines along with their contexts. 3

How does the poet describe them? 3

(b) So, I have learnt many things, son,

I have learned to wear many faces

like dresses-homeface,

officeface, streetface, hostface,

cocktailface, with all their conforming smiles

like a fixed portrait smile.

(i) Answer any two of the following questions: 1x2=2

1. Who is being addressed in the given lines?

2. Identify a simile used in the above lines.

3. What does 'conforming' mean?

(ii) Pick up different sorts of faces referred to in the above lines. Enumerate them. 3

"As a satire on modern life, the poem mocks and ridicules some of the common behavioural patterns." Examine the above lines in the light of the given statement. 3

4. Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words: 5

(a) Don't you feel that the poem, When Autumn Came presents nature as a negative, decimating force? Argue.

(b) Analyse the poem, The Daffodils as an illustration of the Wordsworthian dictum about poetry being "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity",

5. Answer any three of the following questions within 25 words each: 2x3=6

(a) Why has the poet described solitude as being blissful?

(b) Explain the line "I wondered lonely as a cloud".

(d) What is "resurrection' in the context of the trees' withered bodies?

(e) How does Faiz Ahmed Faiz suggest the sociological dimension in the poem you have read?

6. Answer any two of the following questions 3x2=6

(a) The lonely poet of the beginning finds his heart filled with pleasure towards the end. Explore the reason behind such transformation.

(b) Narrate what had happened to the birds in autumn.

7. Answer any three of the following questions in 1 sentence each: 1x3=3

(a) Name the poetic autobiography written by Wordsworth.

(b) What is the gift of green?

(d) Match the items of List-A with those of List-B:

List-A

List-B

(i) Wordsworth

(ii) Okara

(ii) Faiz

(1) Urdu poet

(2) English poet

(3) Nigerian poet

[Prose]

8. Answer either (a) or (b):

(a) It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot passengers, but she replied, "I'm going to walk where I like. We've got liberty now."

(i) Who replies with the words within quotations? 1

(ii) Which time period is referred to by now'? 1

(iii) What was pointed out to her? 1

(iv) How did the author comment on the issue of liberty? 2

(b) ...it also means the tiger and the rhino and the elephant, charismatic animals that evoke awe and excitement, and which are used as for conservation programmes. flagship' species

(i) Who is/are the author/authors here? 1

(ii) Why are certain animals called charismatic? 2

(iii) Explain flagship' species. 2

9. Answer any one of the following questions in 80 words: 5

(a) Prepare a character sketch of Pyotr Petrovich Milkin.

(b)"..if trees, grass, herbs, creepers, etc., all grow then, won't there be economic development?" How do you1 reply to this?

10. Answer any two of the following questions within 25 words each: 2x2=4

(a) What do you understand by "Hamlet's device" in relation to the suitor's trick?

(b) Why did Pyotr's friend ask for a stag party?

(d) What, according to Gardiner, are the liberties to preserve?

11. Answer any two of the following questions within 40 words each: 3x2=6

(a) Who is Hazlitt? What did he say about learning the fearsome instrument trambone?

(b) What is bio-piracy? How does it affect a country?

(c) How does Anton Chekhov deal with the theme or love and marriage in The Suitor and Papa? Is the approach tragic, comical or satirical?

12. (a) Give the meaning of any one of the following words: 1

(i) embezzlement

(ii) appalled

(b) Give the synonyms of any two of the following words: 2

(i) banality

(ii) cordial

(iii) chaos

(i) anarchy

(ii) dumbfounded

(iii) exclusive

UNIT-III

(Grammar)

13. Make sentences with any three pairs of words to illustrate the difference in meaning between them: 2x3=6

adopt-adept; sensible-sensitive; advice-advise; book-book: local-locale hair-hare; local-locale

14. Add question tag to the following sentences (any four): 1x4=4

(a) Each of them is attentive, ______?

(b) You cannot go there, ____?

(d) He hardly visits his old parents, ____?

(e) Let's not waste water, _____?

(f) Everybody is responsible for the loss of democratic values, ______?

(g) The culprits had not yet been punished, ______?

15. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions (any five): 1x5=5

(a) The path of our life is beset ______difficulties.

(b) We cannot prohibit ourselves ____getting dejected.

(d) In extreme adversity, both our mind and body will break ____.

(e) Still, we need to carry _____our responsibilities.

(f) Pain too is vital ______our soul's enhancement.

(g) We are hardly aware _____others' pain.

(h) During crisis, one should turn ______strong philosophy.

16. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles where necessary (any five): 1x5=5

(a) Hrishikesh is _____MBA.

(b) Just _____hour ago the result was declared.

(d) But he needs to be _____little careful about his here, otherwise all your arguments go in vain." personality.

(e) He thinks himself ______Dilip Shangvi.

(f) I met ______his teacher yesterday.

(g) He should study ______few books in the library on entrepreneurship.

(h) His career will come to ______close once he stops learning.

UNIT-IV

(Creative Writing Skill)

17. Write a paragraph in about 180-200 words on any one of the following: 8

(a) Covid-19

(b) Your Favourite Poet

(e) IPL in UAE

18. Develop a story from the given outlines: 7

Three men resting under an apple tree-an apple fell onto the ground-Adam commented, "Don't touch it, it is the symbol of sin-Isaac remarked, "Let me discover something new out of this." Steve opined, "I can think of He is one of brightest students. a new business with this fruit."-Argument among them-the tree enunciated, "Nonsense! First I must be here, otherwise all your arguments go in vain."

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