Jiwan Jyoti Senior Secondary Public School
Final Examination (March 2021)
Class – 11th
Time-3 hours
Subject – English
Maximum Marks-80
SECTION -A (READING)
Q1. Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow:
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A) Proper food is the basic requirement of health. Health does not mean absence of disease; it rather means the
presence of energy and vitality. Most of the food we eat daily does not contain essential nutrients needed for
the preservation of health and prevention of disease. There are various kinds of foods. Protective foods are
essential for prevention of disease and are needed both by the healthy and the sick. They are rich in Proteins,
Vitamins and Minerals. Energy giving foods are rich in carbohydrates. And are needed by those who are engaged
in hard physical labour. Body building foods are rich in proteins. Diet of growing children, adolescents and
nursing mothers should contain sufficient quantity of protein for growth and for repair and maintenance of body
tissues.
QUESTIONS:
1) The basic requirement of health is:
a) Medicines
c) New Clothes
b) Proper Food
d) Air-Conditioned House
2) The real meaning of health is:
a) Absence of disease
b) A fat body
c) Presence of vitality and energy
d) Sharp memory
3) Which food is needed both for the healthy and sick?
a) Fast food
b) Junked food
c) Protective food
d) Boiled food without fats
4) What are body building foods rich in:
a) Vitamins
b) Fats, proteins, and minerals
c) Proteins
d) minerals
5) What is the main function of food?
a) Providing taste
b) To quench our hunger
c) Repair and maintenance of body tissue
d) Providing us time to rest and enjoy
B) Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow:
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Three-fourths of the surface of our planet is covered by the sea, which both separates and unites the various races of
mankind. The sea is the great highway along which many may journey at his will. The great road that has no walls or
hedges and has not to be repaired. The sea appeals to man’s love of the perilous and the unknown, to his love of
conquest, his love of knowledge, and his love of gold. Its green and blue waters call him to go forth in quest of fresh
fields.
In some great continents, such as America and Australia, there are towns and villages many thousands of miles from
the coast, whose children have never seen or heard or felt the waves of the sea. But in the British Isles, it is nowhere
much more than a hundred miles from the most inland spot. The love of the sea is in the very blood of the British
people.
Questions:
1) How much of the earth is covered by the sea?
a) Three-fourths
b) Half
c) One-fourth
d) None of the above
2) Which of the following appeals Special the sea for man?
a) To his love of conquest
b) His love of knowledge
c) His love of gold
d) All of the above
3) Find the word from the passage which means the same as ‘huge’.
a) less
b) tremendous
c) low
d) little
4) The opposite of the word ‘highest’ is:
a) Lowest
b) Shortest
c) Greatest
d) Smallest
5) The sea is good as highway because it provides:
a) fresh fields
b) races of mankind
c) opportunity for man
d) all of the above
SECTION-B (WRITING SKILLS AND GRAMMAR)
Q2 Notice:
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You are Sonia/ Sunil, President, Arts Club, Model Senior Secondary School, Jhajjar. Draft a notice informing students
about a poster making competition to be organised in your school. Invent all the necessary details.
Q3 Message:
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Read the following telephonic conversation between Shekhar and Sunidhi. Sunidhi is about to leave home and will not
be able to meet Rahul. She leaves a message for him. Draft that message in not more than 50 words:
Shekhar: Hello! Can I talk to Rahul?
Sunidhi: Sorry, Rahul is not at home. He has gone to market with my mother.
Shekhar: When do you expect him to return home?
Sunidhi: He will be back by 5 P.M, can I have a message for him?
Shekhar: Yes, please tell him that I, Sumit and Ravi are going to see the science fair in the evening at 6 P.M. we
shall collect him from the State Bank Square.
Sunidhi: Okay! I will convey the message, Anything else.
Shekhar: No, Nothing else. Thank You
Q4 Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics:
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1) The Evil of Smoking.
2) A Marriage Party I recently Attended.
Q5
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You are Sohan Lal of 367/4, Urban Estate, Gurugram. People in your area are getting polluted water supply for some
time. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper highlighting your problem.
OR
You are a student at a government senior secondary school, Rohtak. Write an application to your Principal requesting
him to open a dispensary in the school.
Q6 Grammar [DO ANY TWO FROM EACH PART]
1) Choose the correct option. (Change the voice)
a) I know him
i.
She is known to me.
ii.
I am known to him.
iii.
He is known by me.
iv.
He is known to me.
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2)
3)
4)
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b) Do not make a noise
i.
Let a noise not be made
ii.
Let a noise was not made
iii.
Let a noise has not been made
iv.
Do not let a noise to be made.
Fill in the blanks with suitable articles. [DO ANY TWO]
a) Sohan is…………. intelligent boy. (a, an, the, none)
b) I saw…………. a one-eyed man. (a, an, the, none)
c) …………. Ramayana is holy book. (a, an, the, none)
Fill in the blanks with appropriate models. [DO ANY TWO]
a) You …………help the needy. (may, shall, should, needn’t)
b) You…………. finish your work before going. (must, might, shall, ought to)
c) .............you mind moving a little. (can, should, need, would).
Combine each of the following group of sentences: [DO ANY TWO]
a) He was absent. He was fined.
b) The man composed this song. He is visiting us tomorrow.
c) I was right. The teacher told me.
Fill in the blanks with correct form of verbs. [DO ANY TWO]
a) The Labourers are…………. the tree. (Cut, cutted, cutting, none)
b) The train…………before we reached the station. (left, has left, had left, would have left)
c) Jatin and Chetan promised to work…………hard. (to work, working, worked, will work)
SECTION-C (HORNBILL)
Q7
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My grandmother and I were good friends. My parents left me with her when they went to live I the city and we were
constantly together. She used to wake me up in the morning and get me ready for school. She said her morning prayer
in a monotonous sing song while she bathed and dressed me in the hope that I would listen and get to know it my
heart: I listened because I loved her voice but never bothered to learn it.
Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Name the lesson this passage has been taken from.
Name the writer of this passage.
Why does the writer say that he and his grandmother were good friends?
What did the grandmother do when she bathed and dressed the writer?
What did she hope/wish?
OR
In the Chinese story, the emperor commissions a painting and appreciates its outer appearance. But the artist reveals
to him the true meaning of his work. The emperor may rule over the territory he has conquered, but only the artist
knows the way within,” Let me show the Way”, the ‘Dao’, a word that means both the path or the method, and the
mysterious works of the universe. The painting is gone, but the artist has reached his goal-beyond any material
appearance.
Questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Name the chapter this passage has been taken from.
What does the emperor appreciate in “The Chinese story”?
What does the artist reveal to him?
What does the artist know?
What the word ‘Dao’ mean?
Q8 Answer the following in about 100 words:
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List the steps taken by the captain to protect the ship when rough weather began and to check the flooding of
water in the ship. (We Are Not Afraid to Die…...)
OR
How are the Earth’s principal biological systems being depleted?
Q9 Answer any two of the following questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
[2x2]
Why was the author’s grandmother disturbed when he started going to the city school?
King Tut’s body has been subjected to repeated scrutiny. Why?
What is represented by ‘yang’ and ‘yin’?
What are the four biological systems of the earth?
Q10 Multiple choice Questions
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1) The writer’s Grandmother carried several stale chapatis with her for ……………
a) The writer
c) The monkeys
b) The Priest of the temple
d) The village
2) Sue was injured on her ………….
a) Head
c) Back
b) Knee
d) Leg
3) In which year was a CT scan performed on Tut’s body
a) 1922
c) 2005
b) 1982
d) 1995
4) In which century did Wu Daozi live
a) In the 20th century
c) In the 16th century
th
b) In the 8 century
d) In the 10th century
5) When and where was the Green Party founded?
a) In 1972 in India
c) In 1991 in the USA
b) In 1947 in India
d) In 1972 in New Zealand
Q11 POETRY
Read the stanza carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings—
The whole tree trembles and thrills.
It is the engine of her family.
Questions:
(i) Where does the goldfinch sit as it comes?
(ii) How does the poet compare it to a lizard?
(iii) What happens when the goldfinch enters the tree?
(iv) What is the engine of her family?
(v) Find words in the passage which mean the same as: (a) Shakes, (b) Excited.
OR
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
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Questions:
i) Name the poem and the poet.
ii) In this stanza what does the poet call the rain?
(iii) From where does the shower rise?
(iv) Who does ‘thou’ refer to in the first line?
(v) Who does the poet ask a question from?
Q12 Answer any two of the following questions in about 30-40 words each:
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(i) What has the camera captured? (A Photograph)
(ii) In the poem ‘Childhood’ what does the poet say about the independence of his mind?
(iii) In the end, what do both father and son desire?
SUPPLEMENTARY READER
Q13 Answer the following in about 100 words: (DO ONE)
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Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience-stricken or because they were afraid?
OR
What do you understand about Einstein’s nature from his conversations with his history teacher, his mathematics
teacher, and his head teacher?
Q14 Answer any two of the following questions in 30 to 40 words each:
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a) Why did Mrs. Dorling take away a number of things from the narrator’s family? (The Address)
b) Describe the physical appearance of the narrator’s uncle Khosrove.
c) Why was Ranga’s homecoming a great event? (Ranga’s Marriage)
d) What is Mrs. Fitzgerald’s advice to Mrs. Pearson?
Q15 Multiple choice Questions:
1) What was the name of Mourad’s father?
a) John Byro
b) Khosrove
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c) Zorab
d) Aram
2) The Narrator has come back in search of……………. (The Address)
a) A Lost Necklace
c) Her mother’s belongings
b) Her Relative
d) Her house
3) What did Rama Rao buy from a woman?
a) A bundle of firewood
b) Some cloth
c) Some mangoes
d) Vegetable
4) Who was Albert’s best friend in school at Munich?
a) Muri
b) Elsha
c) Yuri
d) None
5) What does Mrs. Fitzgerald know?
a) Magic
b) Science
c) Art
d) All of the above