Model Paper 5 ENGLISH [Communicative] - Model Paper 5

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
He was already a hard-charging zone sales manager for a chemical company. Everything was going for him.
a. Who does He refer to here?
b. What happened to the sales manager?
c. What does the expression Everything was going for him mean here?
d. What did the hard-charging salesman work for?

Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences
that follow:
if someone had bought it on the very day I placed it for sale, then I might have felt sorry because I would have wondered if I hadn't been a fool to sell at all.
a. What has been placed for sale?
b. The speaker would have considered herself fool if someone had bought it at the beginning of the sale because ___________.
c. The verb form of fool is _____________.

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
No nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of Travellers in some shady haunt. Among Arabian Sands A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
a. In which season does the cuckoo-bird sing?
b. What is the effect of the cuckoo-bird's singing on its listeners?
c. Pick out the word from the stanza which is the synonym of exciting.

Why did the Bishop sell the silver salt-cellars?

How did the Professor irritate his colleagues with his horrible heartiness? Answer to the context of the chapter The Man Who Knew Too Much.

My father is a lineal descendant of belted earls. Jessie makes this remark believing that this fact was an obstacle in the fulfilment of her relationship with John A. Pescud Why?

What kind of life did Bill wish to lead after his retirement?

Describe the ending of the poem. How does the rain associate itself with various objects of nature and emotions of human beings?

Give a character-sketch of the grandmother. Answer to the context of the chapter How I Taught My Grandmother to Read.

Why is Bishop harsh to his sister but soft in his approach to the convict?

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself
In the mystical moist night air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
- Walt Whitman
(i) Which of the following statements represents the main theme of the poem?
a) Technology causes more problems than it solves.
b) Nature is one's best source of recreation.
c) Science cannot fully express the wonder of the world
d) Learning causes one to become ill and fatigued.
(ii) In line 5, what is conveyed by the phrase, tired and sick?
(iii) What is the main purpose of the phrase, perfect silence in the last line of the poem?
a) to convey a sense of loneliness and sorrow
b) to contrast with the sounds in the lecture room
c) to explain why he has to leave the lecture room
d) to highlight the pleasure of science and learning
iv) What do the last three lines of the poem suggest?
a) the importance of learning about astronomy
b) the dangers of losing track of time
c) the importance of personal experience with nature
d) the dangers of wandering off alone
v) Which of the following is the best synonym for the word, learn'd as it is used in line I ?
a) remembered
b) knowledgeable
c) aware
d) invented
(vi) In line 5, which of the following poetic device is used in much applause ?
a) Imagery
b) Simile
c) Alliteration
d) Repetition
(vii) The rhyming scheme of the poem is ____________.
a) ababa
b) Free verse
c) abca
d) aabbc
(viii) What does the astronomer symbolize in the poem?
a) knowledge of nature
b) scientific knowledge and humanity's desire to understand nature through the means of science
c) a person well-versed in mathematics and science
d) humanity's desire to understand spiritual arts
(ix) What does the line 2 and 3, tell us about the astronomer?
a) He has a vast knowledge of nature.
b) He is very famous and entertaining
c) He is well-versed in spiritual arts.
d) He is well-versed in mathematics and science.
(x) What was the astronomer lecturing on?

Write a dialogue between Father and Son regarding the career of the son after passing his Sr. Secondary examination. The opening sentences have been given below.
Father : Splendid performance in the Board. What options have you for higher
studies?
Son : Thanks. With your blessings, I’ve got 98 percent.

You are Manjunatha/Manglesh living at 220, GK Road, Bengaluru. Your uncle couldn’t be a part of your birthday party but he sent you a book Life and Ideas of Vivekananda on your birthday. Write a letter to your uncle telling him that you missed him badly but were more than compensated for getting this valuable gift.

A friend of yours has been out of station for a month and there was an important event/ function held in the school while he/she was away. Write him/her a letter describing of the event/ function, and your role in it, and why your friend was missed.

Today we see a number of students with cell phones in school. Do you think that they should have cell phones at school? Write a paragraph expressing your opinion about it.

Write a paragraph on My Grandmother in about 100-150 words.

(i) Fill in the blanks (a)-(c) with the appropriate option from those in the brackets. William Shakespeare is considered to be (a) _____________ literary genius of the Elizabethan Age. He wrote (b) _____________ contemporary Elizabethan stage (c) _____________ (an/a/the) unparalleled (in/at/for) the (for/on/in) simple, lyrical language which the court and public could enjoy.

(ii) The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction in the space provided against the correct blank number:

		Error	Correction
Overeating is one of the more wonderful	e.g.	more	most
practices among those which think that they	(a)
can afford it. In fact, that is said that	(b)
near all those who can get as much	(c)
as he desire, overeat to their disadvantage.	(d)

(iii) Do as directed.
i. Rearrange the following jumbled words/phrases in the given dialogue to create a meaningful sentence.
They still had all their classroom in bright condition. They have gone to see a match. The sick and the suffering found the love and affection of a real mother in Mother Teresa.
that it/its knowledge/of our civilisation/does not know/with/the great defect/is/what to do
ii. Read the conversation given below. Based on your reading, fill in the blanks appropriately.
Harshit: How long have you been living in Delhi?
Vipin: I have been living here for the last three years. My parents and I shall be leaving for Mumbai soon as my father is posted there.
Harshit: When will you all be leaving?
Vipin: We will be leaving by the first week of next month.
Harshit asked Vipin how long he had been living in Delhi. Vipin replied
(a) __________ He further added that his parents and he would be leaving for Mumbai soon as his father was posted there. Harshit asked him (b) __________ Vipin replied that they would be leaving by the first week of the following month.