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APS-(1102)

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Half Yearly Exam-2022-23
Class-XI
Subject- English Compulsory
Time: 3% Hours Total Marks : 70
General Instructions to the Examinees:
1. Candidates must first writetheir Roll No. on the question paper.
2. All the question are compulsory.
3. Write down the serial number of the questions before attempting.
SECTION-A
1. Choose the correct alternative- hx10-05
) How long had the author known his grand mother?
(a) Ten years (b) Twenty-five years
(c) Twenty years (d) Fifteen years
(ii) Who were busy pumping out water? 2
(a) Larry and Herb. (b) Suzanne
(c) Mary (d) Jonathan
(iii) When did Tut die?
(a) 3,200 years ago (b) 2,000 years ago
(c) 5,100 years ago (d) 3,300 years ago
(iv) Where did we Wu Daozi belong to ? 2
(a) China b) Nepal (c) India (d) Italy
(v) In 1972 the world's first national wide green party was founded

(a) Zambia (b) New Zealand

(c) South America (d) Africa
(vi) Who composed the poem- "The Laburnum Top'? 2
(a) Tea Hughes (b) Walt Whitman
(c) Shirley Toulson (d) Markus Natten
(vii) Where does she want to send taplow?
(a) at chemist shop (b) at home
(c) at school (d) at postoffice
(vii) Whose death is the poet talking about ?
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(a) Her mother's death (b) Her cousin's death
(c) Her father's death (d) Her grand mother's death
(ix) I am the poem of . said the voice of the rain.
(a) Heaven (b) Sky (c) Sea (d) Earth
(x) Howard Carter, abritish archeologist discovered
Tut's Tomb in.
(a) 1925 (b) 1923 (c) 1924 (d) 1922
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vCDS given m the brackets- 1x5-5
Wrile corect forn olthe
(wiile) a novel for six months.
() Mr Mittal.
() She . . he job last ycar (leave)
() You should.. '***
... your elders (respect)
(Iv) I do not ***'''''''
(know) he wants.
(V) India . get) freedom in 1947.
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3. Fill in the blanks with suitable modals-
(i) You... not drive fast. There is a speed limi here. (must/ shall)
(11) The students. attend the class regularly. (Compulsory)
(i) She speak english well. (ability)
4 Fill in the blanks by choosing words given in brackets- 13 3
He is . . last candidate to be interviewed. (a/ the/ an)
(i)
Walk carefully, lest you...... fall. (would / should)
()
came were also not interested in the
(11) p e o p l e who
progrmme
(The few/A little)
directed-1x3-3
of the following sets of sentences there.
as
Combine cach
i) He went to Jaipur. We stayed for five days (where)
(ii) Rahman is a singer. He is a dancer too. (both and

(111) He is very honest. He cannot accept a bribe. (too to)

SECTION B
and the question that follow-
6 Read the passage given below answer

1x7-7
One night the boy really fell asleep and woke up in the morning to
find his father gone. The money was also missing. "They must have
gone off together". He cried. He paced up and down and called,
Father ? several times. He then peered into the hut and found the
round basket intact in its corner. He noticed on the lid of the basket
some coins and felt rather pleased when he counted them and found
eighty paise in s1mall change. "It must be all for me" He said to himself.
He felt promoted to adulthood handing so much cash. He felt rich but
also puzzled at his father's tactics. Ever since he could remember, he
had never woken up without finding his fatlher at his side. He also felt
that he was not going to see his father any more.
(i) What did he find on the lid of the basket ?
(1i) When did the boy's father leave ?
(111) Why did the boy feel puzzled ?
(iv) Hovw many times did the boy call his father ?
(v) Where did the boy live with his father ?
(vi) Give opposite words for following
(a) awake from the passage-
(b) forget
(vii) Find the words from the passage which mean-
(1) fully grown stage of a person
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Read the passage given below and answer the question- Ix7=7
of
Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematical genus
world. Bom in a poor Brahmin family. He gave no indication o
hidden talent. He was born at Erodein Coimbatore in 1887, His father
was an accountant to a clothe merchant who had to mantain a large
family on a small income. Srinivas was a granted half exeamption OT
fees when he stood first in the primary school examination in the whole
of Tanjore.
From his childhood Ramanujan was ofa quiet and dreamy temperament.
He has answered to all sums that purrled his classmates and seniors.
Figures did not wory hiin, no calculation was too difficult for hin.
Things which were all dark and muddled to his classmates were as
clear as daylight to him. He always helped them with generosity which
all through his career was the most lovable feature of his character.
(i) Where was Ramanujan born ?
(11) Whad did Ramanujan's father do ?
(111) When was Ramanujan born ? to?
(Iv) How can you say that Ramanujan belonged
(V) What was the most lovable feature of a poor family ?
""sign ?
(Vi) Choose from the passage that mean Ramanujan's character
(Vi1) Choose from the passage that is opposite to "easy
SECTION- "
Read the passage and answer the following questions- 1x3-3
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My grandmother, like everybody's grandmother was an old women.
that I had known
She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years
her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even

had husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather's

a
portrait
He wore a big turban
hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing
room.

clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part

and loose fitting old.
of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years
believe?
What was hard for the author to
(i1) Where was author's grandfather's portrait hung ?
look
(iii) How did author's grandmotherOR
Fertility falls as income rise, education spreads, and health improves.
But development itself
Thus development is the best contraceptive.
continues.
may not be possible lf the present increase in numberscondemn them
which
The rich gets richer, and the poor beget children
to remain poor. More children
doesn't mean more workers, merely
more people without work. It suggested that human beings be
is not
treated like cattle and compulsory sterilised. But there is no alternative
an element of
to voluntary family, planning without introducing
coercion. The choice is really between control of population and
prepetuation of poverty.
What does more children mean ?
(ii) Does the writer favour the idea of forced sterilization?
(i11) How can development be the best contraceptive?
9. Read the following extracts ana answer the questions that follow-
The cardboard shows me how ie was x4-4
When the two girl cousins went padding,
Each one holding one or my mother's hands.
And she the big a girl- some fwelve years or so.

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) What were the girls doing?

seen in the photograph.
H o w many girls can be stands for ?
(111) What does the word "cardboard"
(iv) Name the poem and the poet ?
OR
The sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machineandstarts up,
thrillings,
Of chetterings, and a tempor of wings,
The whole tree trembles and thrills.
It is the engine of her family.
Where does she enter ?
(11) What makes the tree tremble and thrill ?
do for the tree?
(111) What does the Goldfinch
been called engine of her family?
Iv Why adoes the tree
in about 20-50 words. (Any five)
10 Write the n s w e r of the following Ix5=

) What the curse?

pharaoh's(Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues)
was

(ii) Whiat did Mr. Koch think of Albert. (Albert Einstein at School)
Ratna and was she living with Rama Kao
why .
(i1n) Who was (Ranga's Marriage)
Where does the rain go? (The Voice of the Rain)
(iv) systems of the earth ?
(v) What are the principal biological Movements Role)
(TheAiling Planet: The Green
the poet talking about in beginning
(vi) Which month and season is (The Laburnium Top)
of the poem ?
11 Write the answers ofthe following questions in about (50-60) words.
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(Any one) (Mother's Day)
Draw a character sketch of Mrs. Peasson.
OR
Describe the trails of Garogh/ anian family ?Beautiful White
(The Summer of House)
SECTION - D

12. Last week the prize distribution function was held in your school.
Describe the event in your own words with the help of following hints:
Date when held. school buelding decorated the invitees.... the
chief guest ... ... arrival of the chief guest .. welcome annual
report read..... prizes given away.. chief guest's address
thanks giving.
OR
Describe the process of "A admission to a school.
13. Write an article on "A Morning Walk".
OR
Prepare a report in 100-120 words under the heading *A Bank
Robbery".
14. You are Sonu/Suresh of Class XI write a letter to the Secretary Board
of Secondary Education, Ajmer asking information about getting
migration certificate. 7
OR
Suppose your are Himani, monitor or class XI. Write an application
toyour principal for arranging extra class in english.