VIVEKANANDA COACHING CENTRE
ENGLISH(B)
FULL MARKS:-40 TIME:- 1 HOUR 20 MINUTES
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SECTION-A
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :
Some days after the funeral, a special train took Gandhiji's ashes to Allahabad. The compartment was decked with flowers. People on the train sang bhajans. People did not weep anymore for they could feel Gandhiji's presence amid the flowers and the songs. At every station sorrowful crowds filled the platform. Amid song and prayer the train reached Allahabad. The ashes were immersed in the Ganges where a huge crowd had gathered at the bank. Afterwards we all went back to Delhi.
Back in Delhi, I felt at sea. I had not directly walked with Gandhiji, gone to prison at his call or made any sacrifice for my country. My sisters and I, and other young people like me, had been merely onlookers. But still I felt at sea. I felt I had grown up within a magic circle. With Bapu's passing away, I felt the magic circle had vanished, leaving me unprotected.
With an effort I roused myself. I asked myself-had Bapu lived and died for nothing? How could I so easily lose courage when he was no longer there? My values were not so weak. Millions of people would have been ordinary folk but for Bapu. He brought them out of indifference and awakened them to one another's suffering. What if now Bapu is gone? We were still there, young, strong and proud to bear his banner before us.
Bapu had passed away but his India would continue to live in his children.
A. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences: 1×5=5
(a) People on the train sang -- (i) folk songs (ii) ghazals (i) bhajans (iv) Rabindra Sangeet.
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(b) After the immersion of Gandhiji's ashes everyone went back to -- (i ) Delhi (ii) Mumbai (iii) Allahabad (iv) Kolkata.
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(c) Gandhiji awakened people to one another's- (i) greed (ii) jealousy (iii) indifference (iv) suffering.
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(d) After the demise of Bapu, the author felt --( i ) overjoyed (ii) relieved (iii) at sea (iv) at home.
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(e) A huge crowd had gathered by the -- ( i) Ganges (ii) Yamuna (iii) Brahmaputra (iv) Narmada.
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B. Complete the following sentences with information from the text: 1×3=3
(i) People did not weep anymore for ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
(ii) Bapu had passed away but ______________________________________________________________________________
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(iii) The author felt she had grown up within ______________________________________________________________________________
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C. Answer the following questions: 2×2=4
(1) How would Bapu continue to live even after his death?
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ii) When and why did the narator 'feel' at sea?
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2. Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow :
Once I crept in an oakwood-I was looking for a stag.
I met an old woman there all knobbly stick and rag.
She said: 'I have your secret here inside my little bag.'
Then she began to cackle and I began to quake.
She opened up her little bag and I came twice awake
Surrounded by a staring tribe and me tied to a stake.
They said: 'We are the oak-trees and your own true family.
We are chopped down, we are torn up, you do not blink an eye.
Unless you make a promise now now you are going to die.'
A. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences : 1×4=4
(a) While looking for a deer, the poet met -- (i) a beggar (ii) a friend (iii) an old woman (iv) a man.
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(b) As the woman began to cackle the poet began to -- (i) cry (ii) sing (iii) laugh (iv) quake.
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(c) "We are chopped down". Here, "We" refers to -- (i) the oak family (ii) the tribes (iii) mankind in general (iv) trees in general.
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(d) The oak trees wanted the poet to make a -- (i) wish (ii) promise (iii) deal (iv) none of the above.
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B. Answer the following questions : 2×2=4
(i) What did the old woman say?
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(ii) What should happen to the poet if he failed to make a promise?
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SECTION - B
3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
London: It is not just in the cabinet that the Indians are making their mark but in the beauty business, too, as demonstrated by 23 year-old Bhasha Mukherjee who started work as a junior doctor on Friday, hours after being crowned the new Miss England.
Born in India, Bhasha came to Britain with her family at the age of nine, and now has not one but two medical degrees and speaks five languages including English, Hindi, German, French and of course Bengali.
By scooping Miss England, she wins a holiday to Mauritius and entry into the prestigious global Miss World pageant. She follows in the footsteps of Reita Faria, now 75, who was the first Indian to win Miss World in 1966 but who did not go into Bollywood but became a doctor instead.
"Dr. Mukherjee", who is being hailed by the British press for combining "beauty with brains." admitted; "I don't know what I was more nervous about was it my first day at a job that I've studied five years for or finding out the outcome of Miss England?'
A. Tick the right answer: 1×6=6
( i) Bhasha Mukherjee was formerly a -- (a) doctor (b) beautician (c) teacher (d) scientist.
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(ii) She is by birth -- (a) an English (b) a French (c) an Indian (d) a German.
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(iii) The age of the celebrated woman is -- (a) 23 years (b) 22 years (c) 21 years (d) 24 years.
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(iv) She knows -- (a) five languages (b) four languages (c) three languages (d) six languages.
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(v) Reita Faria's age is -- (a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 75 years (d) 73 years.
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(vi). Bhasha Mukherjee became -- (a) Miss India (b) Miss England (c) Miss French (d) Miss World.
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B. Each of the following statements is either 'True' or 'False'. Write 'T' for 'True' and 'F' for 'False' in the boxes on the right-hand side. Also pick out suitable line(s) or phrase(s) from the passage in support of your answers: (1+1)×3=6
(i) Bhasha Mukherjee is born in England.
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(ii) Reita Faria became Miss World in 1966.
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(iii) Bhasha Mukherjee has one medical degree.
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C. Answer the following questions : 2×4=8
(i) What is the actual profession of Miss Bhasha Mukherjee?
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(ii) What was Reita Faria famous for?
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(iii) What are the languages in which Miss Mukherjee can speak ?
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(iv) When did Miss Mukherjee come to England and with whom?
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