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HS English Question Answer 2019

PART – A (Marks: 60)

1. Answer any two of the following questions, each in about 100 words: 6 x 2-12

(a) “…the girl got up and began to collect her things.” Who is the girl? When did she get up? Why did she get up to collect her things? What had the speaker thought about the brief encounter he had with the girl? 1+1 +1 + 3

(b) “His answer filled me with a strange energy and enthusiasm.” Who is the speaker? Whose answer is being referred to here? What was the answer? 1 +1 +4

(c) “You gonna take me to jail? Who asked this question and to whom? When did the speaker ask this question? What reply did the speaker get? 2+3+1

(d) How was the wounded man revived and nursed? Why did he ask forgiveness of the Tsar? What did the Tsar do when he had gained the man for a friend ? 2 +2+2

2. Answer any two of the following questions, each in about 100 words: 6 x 2-12

(a) How does the poet describe the growth of a tree over the years? What are the different steps taken for killing a tree? 4+2

(b) “His smile Is like an infant’s…” Whose ‘smile’ is being referred to here? Why is his smile compared to the smile of an infant? How does Nature take care of him? 1+3+2

(C) “But thy eternal summer shall not fade” Who is being referred to as “thy”? What is meant by ‘eternal summer? Why shall not ‘thy eternal summer’ fade? 1+1+4

(d) How does Keats show that the poetry of earth’ never ceases? 6

3. Answer any one of the following questions in about 100 words: 6×1-6

(a) “Why are you so formal in your get up?” – Who is the speaker? Who is being spoken to? What led the speaker to make this comment? 1 +1 +4

(b) Lomov came with a proposal to marry Natalya Stepanovna. What logic does he give for his decision? 6

(c) “I’m the most unhappy of men !” Who said this? Why did he say so? How did the speaker get rid of his unhappiness? 1+3+2

OR

(a) What are the vows that Charandas take? How does the Guru react to them? 4+2

(b) “You have stolen her heart” Who is the speaker? Why does the speaker say so? Whose heart is ‘stolen’ and how? What does the person spoken to think? 1 +1 +2+2

(c) Why does the queen pronounce death sentence on Charandas Chor

4. (a) Do as directed : 1×6-6

(i) I don’t intend to give up what I have. (Use the underlined word as a noun and rewrite)

(ii) The Tsar said, “I come to you, wise man, for an answer to my questions.” (Change into indirect speech)

(iii) The man would have attacked you. (Change the voice)

(iv) The door was open (Turn into a negative sentence)

(v) The sun began to sink behind the trees, the Tsar stuck the spade into the ground at last. (Turn into a complex sentence)

(vi) The most important thing in the world was science (Change into positive degree)

(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and/or prepositions: 1/2×6=3

When my father came out………….) …the mosque after the prayers, people of different religions would be sitting outside, waiting ………………..(ii)………………….him. Many of them offered bowls of water ………………….(iii)……………….my father, who would dip his fingertips …………… (iv)…………..them and say ………………prayer. This water was then carried home……….(vi)…………..the invalids.

(c) Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below: 1×1=1

You might run that comb through your hair so you will look present [Options: presently presentable / presenting]

5. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Sometimes it is hard to believe that I’ve been up here in the hills all these years-fifty summers and monsoons and winters and Himalayan springs (there is no real spring in the plains) – because when I look back to the time of my first coming here, it seems like yesterday.

That probably sums it all up. Time passes, and yet it doesn’t pass, people come and go, the mountains remain. Mountains are permanent things They are stubbom, they refuse to move. You can blast holes out of them for their mineral wealth, or strip them of their trees and foliage, or dam their streams and divert their currents; or make tunnels and roads and bridges, but no matter how hard they try, humans cannot actually get rid of the mountains.

That’s what I like about them, they are here to stay. I like to think that I have become a part of this mountain, this particular range, and that by living here for so long. I am able to claim a relationship with the trees, wild flowers, even the rocks that are an integral part of it. Yesterday, at twilight, when I passed beneath a canopy of oak leaves, 1 felt that I was a part of the forest.

I put out my hand and touched the bark of an old tree, and as I turned away, its leaves brushed against my face, as if to acknowledge me.

(a) State whether the following statements are True or False. Write ‘T’ for True and ‘F’ for False. (You need not write the sentences, write the numbers only) 1×4 = 4

(i) The oak leaves formed a roof over the author.

(ii) The author does not like the fact that mountains are permanent things.

(iii) The author means to say that he has lived through all the seasons in the mountains.

(iv) Humans cannot do away with the mountains.

(b) Answer each of the following questions in about 30 words : 2×3 = 6

(i) What can man do to mountains?

(ii) What does the author claim a relationship with?

(iii) Why is it hard to believe for the author that he has lived in the hills for fifty years?

6. (a) Write a report on a campaign on ‘Educate the Girl Child’ organised by your school. Mention the role of both students and teachers, purpose of this campaign, participation, response and so on. The report will be published in your school magazine. (Word limit: 150 words) 2+8=10

OR

(b) Write a letter to the headmaster / headmistress of your school requesting him/her to make more variety of books available in the library. ( Word limit : 150 words ) 2+8=10

OR

(c) Write a precis of the following passage. Add a suitable title: 2+8=10

Charlie Chaplin once said, “In this age of scientific inventions, we think too much, we feel too little.” Science boosts up the modern craze for material prosperity. It has revolutionized our lives. It has made life more comfortable with various amenities. It is undoubtedly the driving force behind any human excellence. But it kills the soul of a man. Our skills and habits are changed by science. Excessive mechanization brings unhappiness because human faculties are slighted. A person starts believing that machines will do all for him, and this tendency becomes fatal in this high-tech world. But none can doubt that science has helped us to discover the hidden truth in nature. Can we ever imagine the modern age without computers, lasers, antibiotics, biotechnology or different electronic gadgets ? That is why it is said that science gives knowledge and power but not wisdom.

উচ্চমাধ্যমিক ২০১৯ ইংরেজি প্রশ্নের উত্তর (HS ENGLISH 2019 ANSWER PAPER)

PART-A

PROSE

I. a. The girl in question, is the blind girl who travelled in the train as a copassenger of the narrator,

When the train was approaching Saharanpur station, the girl got up.

The girl got up to collect her things as she was about to get down at Saharanpur station

The narrator had a brief encounter with the girl in the train on his way to Mussoorie. He was so deeply moved by her sweet voice and beauty that his heart felt a thrill for her. Knowing that the girl would leave the train shortly and forget such a casual meeting with a stranger, the narrator could not but help remembering the sparkling voice and the beautiful smell of the girl.

b. Here the speaker is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the author of ‘Strong Roots’

The person whose answer is being referred to here is the author’s father, Jainulabdeen.

Dr. Kalam found a great teacher and an ideal mentor in his father. He learnt the lessons of life and spirituality from this wise and humble man. Kalam learnt the values like discipline, tolerance and fellow-feelings from him. Kalam’s father was a true spiritualist and that virtue of spirituality reflected in his way of living and action. Kalam minutely observed and appreciated his father and received confidence from his counselling.

His father taught him not to be afraid of adversity, for every odd situation in our life opens up an opportunity for introspection. And these lessons filled Kalam with energy and enthusiasm. A.PJ Abdul Kalam also had a firm belief on the absolute power of a divine being. In fact whatever he learnt from his father, he practically applied in the every walk of his own life though they belonged to completely two different worlds.

c. Here Roger asked this question to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.

On reaching her home Mrs. Jones tenderly asked the name of the boy first and then asked him to go to the sink and wash his face using warm water. She also offered him a clean towel so that he looked tidy. At that moment, bending over the sink, Roger asked this question.

Mrs. Jones replied that with that dirty and untidy face she was not going to take him anywhere.

d. There was a large wound in the stomach of the bearded man and that wound was nursed by the Tsar by tying a bandage with his handkerchief and the hermit’s towel but the wound continued to bleed profusely. The Tsar repeatedly bandaged the wound and took him to the hermit’s hut where the man was given water and laid on the bed for rest.

Just like a typical supreme ruler the Tsar did even not know that the man was his sworn enemy and nursed the intention to kill him, at the earliest chance. Ironically the Tsar had saved the life of that person who was after his (Tsar’s) life.

The Tsar forgave his enemy when the man shed all his anger and hatred. He was so happy that he wanted to send his physicians and servants for the man’s treatment and service. He also promised to restore all his property unconditionally

POETRY

2. a. In the first stanza the poet describes the slow and steady growth of a tree over the years. It breaks open the surface of the earth and rises out of it. It feeds upon the solid exterior of the earth. It drains away all the nutrients from the soil and consumes the vitality of the earth. A tree receives many years of sunlight, air and water to grow into a massive shape. The tree takes deep root in the soil and leaves keep coming out of its leprous hide to renew the cycle of life.

The poem “On Killing a Tree pictures man’s cruelty to Nature. It is very difficult to kill a tree easily. Mere hacking and chopping with an axe cannot kill a tree. The tree is tied with strong ropes. The tree is hacked and pulled out of the earth’s secure shelter. Ultimately the tree chokes and dies after various processes of annihilation. It becomes incapable of shooting new buds and twigs. Under the heat of the sun it dries and crunches and turns brown and this ensures that there is no chance of its coming back to life again

b. The ‘smile’ of the young soldier is referred to here.

The poem ‘Asleep in the Valley gives us a unique picture of a very young soldier who is sleeping and his guileless smile resembles an infant’s gentleness and innocence. As a child is the incarnation of purity and mildness, the young soldier’s infant-like smile seems to be free from all the earthly troubles that engulfs the entire world.

Nature plays a significant role in the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley’ when it provides the young dead soldier with a pillow made of fern, heavy under growth to lie on, sun-soaked bed, flowers at his feet and keeps him warm. Nature treated this dead soldier with the utmost love and care when the entire human civilization has failed to protect him from the clutches of death

c. The poet’s young friend whom he praised in ‘Sonnet 18 is being referred to as ‘thy’

The poet William Shakespeare compares the unchangeable beauty of his friend to the pleasant season of summer. The poet firmly believes his friend’s beauty to be superior to that of summer’s as his friend’s beauty is not transient or subject to fade with the passage of time.

The poet is fully aware of the sublimity of his own creation. He knows very well that his verse will remain the source of eternal joy to its readers forever. With this firm conviction he delightfully declares that his dear friend will conquer death. The poet preserves his friend’s eternal beauty in the sonnet which will be enjoyed and appreciated by people of all generations. As a result the beauty of the young man will get an eternal lease of life.

d. The Romantic poet John Keats believes that poetry is the essential part of life. According to him ‘poetry is the celebration of beauty which is neither platonic nor abstract but sensuous and imaginative.

And he expresses this philosophy through his poetry strongly. When the sun is hot, birds faint and they hide in the cooling trees. The poet listens to the sound of the grasshopper running from hedge to hedge crossing the new-mown meadows. The grasshopper is never done with the luxuries of summer and in the absence of the song birds in the scorching heat, the grasshopper takes the lead and charms all with its own music.

Again in winter nature changes Frost deepens the silence of the winter evening and seemingly earth’s music is totally exhausted. But suddenly the song of the cricket is heard and the cold winter is warmed by the music of these insects. The poet claims that the poetry of the earth is never dead. The change of seasons cannot stop or cease the eternal flow of music of the earth, rather nature offers numerous ways to celebrate earth’s poetry.

DRAMA

3. a. Here Chubokov is the speaker.

Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov is being spoken to

Lomov has come to Chubukov’s house wearing a dress -jacket and white gloves with an intention to impress Natalya whom he wanted to propose for marriage, formally. After the formal exchange of courtesies Chubukov, without knowing of the actual reason, asks Lomov why he was dressed up in such a manner.

b. Lomov has ultimately decided to marry with an intention to solve many problems and without a single trace of real love for his would be wife. He urgently needs to lead a quiet and regular life. According to Lomov, Natalya was not bad-looking, rather was well-educated and an excellent house-keeper. He does not expect more than that from his wife. Lastly the huge landed property to be inherited by Natalya is also a major reason behind his decision to marry Natalya. Lomov suffers from palpitations and anxiety attacks and becomes so stressed that eventually feels numbness in the leg and collapses. So he needed someone to nurse him.

c. Here the speaker is Chubukov.

Lomov fell unconscious during the altercation concerning the superiority of their hunting dogs, Squeezer and Guess. When Lomov loses his senses Natalya seems to be very concerned about Lomov anticipating the cancellation of the proposed marriage and Chubukov too exclaimed in regret and self pity.

After Lomov recovered from palpitations and anxiety attacks, Chubukov did not want to waste time in putting Lomov’s hand into his daughter Natalya’s and get them married. Chubokov showered his blessings upon the couple and asked them to leave him to live in peace.

3. a. In the play “Charandas Chor”, one of the principal characters, the Guru exercises his evil influences upon the innocent and uneducated poor villagers and makes his fortune by collecting Guru Dakshina from his disciples. Again the scene shows how the disciples of the Guru indulge in all sorts of vices in spite of promising not to do so. Charandas too makes four promises of his own and vows not to tell lies.

Charandas promised never to eat from a golden plate, never to ride an elephant and lead the procession, never to marry a queen and lastly never to accept the throne of a king. These oaths taken by Charandas play a vital role for the development of the plot of the drama. This scene of the drama also focuses light on the incapable and self-seeking and corrupt policeman

The Guru did not take Charandas seriously at first sight. Even he mocked all the four vows that Charandas had taken before him and advised him not to boast. He emphasized upon the fact that Charandas should never tell lies and blessed him abundantly to remain honest.

b. Here the speaker is the maid of the queen.

The maid of the queen says so because the queen Kalavati was dying for Charandas.

The queen’s heart is stolen. Queen Kalavati was deeply impressed by the truthfulness of Charandas and moved by his simplicity and honesty to his vows made to his Guru. Thus unknowingly Charandas stole the heart of the queen

Here the person spoken to is Charanadas who thinks and believes that it is his job to steal things but he has never stolen a heart before. He laughed at the remark made by the maid of the queen.

c. Queen Kalavati was deeply impressed by the truthfulness of Charandas and was so eager to marry him that she left no stone unturned to take care of Charandas in her bed chamber. When all those tricks of luring Charandas failed to produce favourable results, the Queen proposed to marry him. But Charandas declined the Queen’s proposal of marriage and also refused to keep the entire episode a secret as he had pledged before his Guru to be truthful’ to all.

Outraged by anger, jealousy and urge for revenge she pronounced the death sentence on Charandas. In order to keep the prestige of her royal self intact the queen punished Charandas with a death sentence. The Queen decides to kill Charandas as she wanted to wipe out the living witness of all her weakness and guilt- consciousness. She strongly believed in the dictum ‘dead men tell no tales”.

GRAMMAR

4. a. i. I have no intention to give up what I have.

ii. The Tsar said to the wise man that he had come to him for an answer to his questions.

iii. You would have been attacked by the man

iv. The door was not closed shut.

V. As the sun began to sink behind the trees, the Tsar stuck the spade into the ground at last.

vi. No other thing in the world was as important as science,

b. i. of, ii. for, ill. to, iv. in, v. a, vi for.

c. You might run that comb through your hair so you look presentable.

UNSEEN COMPREHENSION

5. a.

i. T

ii. F

iii. T

iv. T

b. i. Man can blast holes out of mountains for the mineral wealth, strip them of their trees and foliage, or build dams on the streams and divert their currents and also make tunnels and roads and bridges for smooth communication.

ii. The author claims to have a relationship with the trees, wild flowers and the rocks that are integral part of the mighty mountains

iii. When the author looked back to the time of his first coming to the hills, it seemed like yesterday to him though he had already been living there for fifty years.

6. a. CAMPAIGN ORGANISED TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR GIRL CHILD

We all know that poverty, lack of infrastructure, gender bias and an abysmal stagnation toward the education of girls have snuffed out many a young dream. In a bid to encourage the birth and education of girls, our school conducted a campaign on Educate the Girl Child’ in January 2019. Various activities and programmes were designed to bring focus to the core concerns

of the campaign like female foeticide, female infanticide, and proper stress on their education. These activities included essay writing, slogan writing and drawing competitions which encouraged the students to think of innovative methods to put across the message of saving, nurturing and educating the girl child. Other aspects of the programme included engaging the community and spreading the message about merits of the campaign.

This was successfully achieved by performing street plays and organising awareness rallies which reached out to more than 2000 people through its actions. The students, the teachers and the non-teaching staff heartily took part in the programme.

b.

To

The Headmaster ABC High School

Sub: Humble prayer for buying more books for the school library

Sir,

With due respect, I, Soumen Das, on behalf of the students of our school, beg to state that ours is a renowned school in this locality with almost four thousand students. Most of us are very eager to learn more. Only the text books can-not satisfy the thirst for knowledge. So we want to quench our thirst for knowledge by reading novels, poems, plays, biographies etc. But the number of books in the library has remained the same for the last few years.

They are insufficient in proportion to the number of students. Most of the books available in the library have become tattered due to overuse. Many important reference books are not available in the library. It is not possible for a student to buy all kinds of books from the market. Moreover, it is needless to mention how helpful a good library maybe to both the students as well as the teachers.

So I pray and hope that you would be kind enough to buy more books for our school library and oblige hereby.

Thanking you in anticipation

Yours faithfully,

Soumen Das

Class xii Roll no. 10

c. Wisdom Loses To Science

The supremacy of science over human existence has a great impact in twin ways. Science has completely transformed the human life for a much better and smooth one. But it has left a deep impression on the human soul that remains downcast in spite of miraculous scientific excellences around it. Though we, the human are awestruck at the scientific revolutions, have lost all the way to achieve wisdom at the same time.

PART-B

1. i. The girl in the train compartment thought the narrator to be c) gallant and serious

ii. Abdul Kalam’s father would convey complex spiritual concepts in simple down-to-earth c) Tamil.

iii. On entering her room Mrs. Jones asked Roger to c) wash his face.

iv. The wounded man was actually b) enemy of the Tsar.

2. i. The narrator thought aunts usually to be formidable creatures’.

ii. Kalam’s father, a spiritualist, used to avoid all inessential comforts and luxuries.

iii. Roger was wearing tennis shoes and blue jeans.

iv. The hermit was sowing seeds in the beds that had been dug the day before.

V. The high priest of Rameswaram temple , Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry was a very close friend to Abdul Kalam’s father.

vi. According to the hermit, the most important thing is to do good to the man who is present at the moment in front of us.

vii. Roger and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones met by the sidewalk at about 11 O’clock at night.

viii. The girl in the story “The Eyes Have It” was getting off at Saharanpur.

3. i. Green twigs rise from close to the ground are b) curled.

ii. Nature is pleaded to keep the soldier b) warm.

iii….his gold complexion dimmed.” Here his’ refers to a) the sun

iv. Being tired, the grasshopper rests beneath c) pleasant weed.

4. i. The strength of the trees lies in its roots.

ii. The soldier is lying stretched in the heavy undergrowth in the lap of nature.

iii. The poem “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” is a celebrated Shakespearean sonnet.

iv. The birds hide in cooling trees when they are ‘faint with the hot sun’

v. On a lone, cold and silent winter evening, one might hear the shrill song of the crickets from the stove.

vi. Death shall not brag that the poet’s friend would wander in its shadow.

vii. The stream that is flowing through the valley, leaves ‘long strands of silver’ on the bright green grass.

vill. The expression consuming the earth ‘means that the trees feed on the earth and draws its sustenance.

5. i. Lomov wanted to remind Natalya that her dog was c) overshot.

ii. The worst of Lomov’s physical problems is a) the way he sleeps

iii. Natalya suggested Lomov should not go for foxes but a) catch black beetles.

iv. Chubukov said that Lomov’s younger aunt had run away with d) an architect

OR

i Mister Babu Das is the name of the c) havaldar.

ii. The woman made her ornaments from c) Raigarh

iii. The villagers who have come to the landlord seeking help are suffering from a terrible a) famine.

iv. The queen gave five coins to the guru for teaching Charandas d) never to tell a lie.