English C Normal Paper I
English C Normal Paper I
English C Normal Paper I
1. Choose the correct answer for each from the given options:
i) This is a strong retreat for a truly happy man according to the poem ‘The Character of a Happy Life’:
ii) ‘For thirty pence our Saviour was sold,’ is a line from this poem:
*Ozymandias *The Character of a Happy Life *Lucy Gray *The Abbot of Canterbury
iii) In the line ‘When he might have captured the victor's cup,’ the highlighted phrase is metaphorically
used for:
*prize *failure *success *trophy
v) Khahoris follow the spiritual path and symbolise the search of:
*serpents *dreams *herbs *reality
vi) The central character in the play ‘A Visit to a Small Planet’ is:
vii) Kreton thought that the views of John about Ellen are:
*modern*primitive*conservative*progressive
*children*men*women*people
x) Roger Spelding wants to be the first journalist to interview:
xi) E.B. White revisited the lake with his son in:
xiv) During World War II, transmission of information was in the form of:
xvi) The cleaning staff __infected the area to avoid the spread of coronavirus (identify the correct
prefix):
xvii) In the sentence ‘There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the
desert,’ the word ‘indigenous’ means:
*native *necessary*foreign*alien
xviii) In the sentence ‘He runs fast,’ the underlined verb is:
xix) In the sentence ‘I run a business successfully,’ the underlined verb is:
iii) What mistake did Stephen Leacock make when he wrote the cheque?
SUB-SECTION II (POETRY)
v) Discuss the poem ‘The Character of a Happy Life’ with reference to the
line; “And having nothing yet hath all.”
vi) What irony has been presented in the poem Ozymandias?
vii) What reward does a Khahori get after his hard work?
viii) Identify the poem and the poetic devices used in the following lines:
Where thickest lies the forest growth
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
whose broken branches show the scars
of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.
xii) Which character in the play “A Visit to a Small Planet” do you like most and why?
SUB-SECTION IV (Grammar)
xv) Spot the errors and do the correction of verb, preposition and adjective in the following
sentences:
xvi) Do as directed:
a) Do you play tennis said Bilal (Punctuate)
b) If I were you, ………. (Complete the sentence)
c) My brother does not write letters to his friends. (Put the adverb ‘usually’ in the
right place)
d) He could not win a scholarship. He is careless. (Make a compound sentence)
e) You _____ visit your dentist at least twice a year. (Insert modal verb showing
advice)
SECTION ‘C’ (DETAILED-ANSWER QUESTIONS) (Max. Marks: 30)
Q3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
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Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890s but his childhood wasn’t a happy one. His father
died when he was only six. So, his mother needed to find a job. She went to work in a shirt
factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother and sister. That was when he
first learned to cook. He left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm. After that
he had a lot of different jobs and in 1950 he became a service station manager in Corbin
Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travellers who stopped at the service station and
soon people came only for the food. Harland moved to 142 seat restaurant across the street.
Where he could serve all his customers. Over the next nine years he developed the secret chicken
recipe that made him famous. In the early 1950s he closed the restaurant and decided to sell his
recipe to other business. The first official Kentucky fried chicken restaurant didn’t open until
August 1952---- by 1964 there were more than 600 KFCs in North America. That year Sanders
sold the company for $ 2 million, but he continued to work as KFC’s public spokesman and
visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled every year until he died in 1980 aged 90. There
are now KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries and they sell 2.5 billion chicken dinners every
year and the recipe is still a secret.
a. How long did it take Sanders to develop his secret chicken recipe?
b. What did Sanders do after he had sold his company?
c. Give a suitable title to the passage.
d. Identify regular and irregular verbs
i) left ii) went iii) needed iv) stayed
Q4. Write a formal email to your college Principal asking / requesting him to allow your team to
OR
Write a Report about student week held in the college (Including events, days and dates).
OR