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Kerala Plus Two Hindi Previous Year Question Paper March 2018

Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	Hindi
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2^1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions Candidates:

• There is a ‘Cool-off time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time.
• Use the ‘Cool-off time’ to get familiar with questions and to plan your answers.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• Read the instructions carefully.
• Calculations, figures and graphs should be shown in the answer sheet itself.
• Give equations wherever necessary.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examination Hall.

सूचना : कवितांश पढ़ें और 1 से 3 तक के प्रश्नों के उत्तर लिखें।

मैंने उसके चेहरे से उसे
कभी नहीं पहचाना,
केवल उस नंबर से जाना
जो उसकी लाल कमीज़ पर टँका होता।
आज जब अपना सामान खुद उठाया
एक आदमी का चेहरा याद आया ।।

प्रशन 1.
कवि ने कुली को कैसे पहचाना? (Score : 1)
उत्तर:
नंबर से

प्रशन 2.
कवि को आदमी का चेहरा कब याद आया? (Score : 1)
उत्तर:
अपना सामान खुद उठाने पर

प्रशन 3.
समकालीन संदर्भ से जोड़कर कवितांश की आस्वादन टिप्पणी लिखें। (Score :6)
उत्तर:
श्री कुँवर नारायण बहुमुखी प्रतिभा संपन्न कवि है। आप ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित हैं। प्रस्तुत कविता में कवि कठिन मेहनत करनेवाला एक कुली के प्रति अपना विचार प्रकट करते हैं। समकालीन संदर्भ में इस कविता को बड़ा स्थान है।

बड़े लोग कहनेवाले लोग साधारण कामकाज करनेवाले लोगों को तिरस्कार की दृष्टि से देखते हैं। केवल वर्धी या नंबर से ही इन्हें जाने जाते हैं। जब साधारण लोगों के समान काम करने पड़ते है तब काम का महत्व मालूम होते हैं। और जानने से ज़्यादा पहचानने की क्षमता हाज़िल होते हैं।

यहाँ कवि ललित शब्दों में निम्नवर्ग के प्रति सकारात्मक दृष्टिकोण की आवश्यकता को दिखाता है। श्रम का महत्व हर मानव को पहचानना चाहिए। समकालीन कविता प्रासंगिकता रखते हैं।

सूचनाः 4 से 7 तक के प्रश्नों में से किन्हीं तीन के उत्तर एक या दो वाक्यों में लिखें। (Scores : 3 × 2 = 6)

प्रशन 4.
‘दिल्लीवाले मुझको रोते होंगे…….. मैं भी उनको रोता हूँ।’ यहाँ शासक का कौन सा गुण प्रकट हुआ है?
उत्तर:
प्रजाहित केलिए शासन करनेवाले एक साम्राट की देशप्रेम और सहानुभूति प्रकट होती है।

प्रशन 5.
‘मेरी जीत तेरी जीत
तेरी हार मेरी हार’ –
सच्ची दोस्ती कैसी होती है?
उत्तर:
सच्ची दोस्ती में जीत या हार दोनों को एक साथ अनुभव करते हैं।

प्रशन 6.
‘जब तक लोगों की आँखों में आँसू हैं, और वे पीड़ित हैं, तब तक हमारा काम खतम नहीं होगा।’ नेहरू जी के अनुसार भारत के नव-निर्माण के लिए हमें क्या करना है?
उत्तर:
सभी लोगों के आँसू पोंछना है। हर व्यक्ति को पीड़ा से बचाना है।

प्रशन 7.
‘नदियाँ प्रेम प्रवाह, फूल-तारे मंडन है’ – मातृभूमि के आभूषण क्या-क्या हैं?
उत्तर:
फूल और तारे आभूषण है।

प्रशन 8.
सूचनाः सही मिलान करें। (Scores : 8 × 1 = 8)
Advance – प्रतिशत
Bacteria – टीकाकरण
Commerce – सांख्यिकी
Ecology – उपग्रह
Percent – पेशगी
Satellite – जीवाणु
Statistics – वाणिज्य
Vaccination – पारिस्थितिकी
उत्तर:
Advance – पेशगी
Bacteria – जीवाणु
Commerce – वाणिज्य
Ecology – पारिस्थितिकी
Satellite – उपग्रह
Statistics – सांख्यिकी
Vaccination – टीकाकरण

सूचनाः 9 से 13 तक के प्रश्नों में से किन्हीं चार के उत्तर पाँच या छः वाक्यों में लिखें। (Scores : 4 × 4 = 16)

प्रशन 9.
हिंदी के प्रचार-प्रसार में हिंदी फिल्मी गीतों की विशेष भूमिका है। भारत की भावात्मक एकता में वह सहायक है। संकेतों के आधार पर टिप्पणी लिखें।

• जन साधारण को प्रभावित करने वाला
• हिंदी के प्रति रुचि उत्पन्न करने वाला

उत्तर:
हिंदी फिल्मी गीतों भारत में ही नहीं बल्कि विदेशों में भी प्रसिद्ध है। साधारण लोगों से लेकर समाज के ऊँचे पदों में विराजते सभी लोग इनका आस्वादन करते हैं। अत्यधिक प्रभावशाली होने के कारण अहिंदी प्रदेश के लोगों भी हिंदी फिल्मी गीतों का आस्वादन करते हैं। दोस्ती गीत भारत में इतना मशहूर हुआ कि कई लोग वह आज भी गुनगुनाते रहते हैं। मलयालम जैसे भाषाओं में भी फिल्मी जगत में इस गीत का प्रभाव हम देख सकते हैं।

प्रशन 10.
जीवन-वृत्त के आधार पर मलयालम के प्रसिद्ध कवि ओ.एन.वी.कुरुप के बारे में एक अनुच्छेद तैयार करें।
नाम : ओ.एन.वी.कुरुप
जन्म : 1931.
जन्मस्थान : कोल्लम जिले का चवरा नामक गाँव
रचनाएँ : दाहिक्कुन्न पानपात्रं, माटुविन चटंडले, भूमिक्कु ओरु चरमगीतं
पुरस्कार : ज्ञानपीठ, पद्मविभूषण
विशेषताएँ : मलयालम के लोकप्रिय कवि
निधन : 2016
उत्तर:

श्री ओ एन वी कुरुप

मलयालम के विख्यात साहित्यकार श्री ओ एन वी कुरुप का जन्म 1931 में कोल्लम जिले का चवरा नामक गाँव में हुआ था। आपकी प्रसिद्ध रचनाओं में दाहिकुन्न पानपात्रम, माटुविन चट्टडले, भूमिक्कु ओरु चरमगीत आदि है। भारत देश ज्ञानपीठ और पद्म विभूषण से आपको सम्मानित किया। आप मलयालम के लोकप्रिय कवि है। आपका निधन 2016 को हुआ था।

प्रशन 11.
‘जब भी कोई
फूल खिला बाग में
तू याद आया।’ ‘प्रेम हमेशा हरा रहता है।’
हाइकू के आधार पर अपना विचार स्पष्ट करें।
उत्तर:
श्री भगवतशरण अग्रवाल के हिंदी हाइकू बहुत प्रसिद्ध है। कवि, इन हाइकू के माध्यम से बड़े-बड़े बातों को आसानी से व्यक्त करते हैं। प्रेम की महत्वपूर्ण भाव प्रस्तुत हाइकू में अभिव्यक्त किया है। प्रेम हमेशा हरा रहता है। यह बात दिखाने के लिए इस हाइकू का सृजन किया है। प्रेम कभी नहीं मुरझाता है। प्रेमी-प्रेमिका के दिल में हमेशा याद हरा रहती है।

प्रशन 12.
‘वे खामोश थे। कुछ बोल नहीं रहे थे। मगर उनके भीतर का हाहाकर मेरी समझ में आ रहा था। ज़मीन का नष्ट होना पिताजी के लिए हृदय टूटने के समान है। मिट्टी और मनुष्य के अभिन्न संबंध के बारे में अपना विचार प्रकट करें।
उत्तर:
‘ज़मीन एक स्लेट का नाम है आत्मकथा के प्रमुख पात्र है पिताजी। अपनी बेटी की शादी के खर्च केलिए जान से भी प्यारी ज़मीन बेचने केलिए वह विवश हो जाते हैं। वह उस ज़मीन में खामोश चलते हैं जिसे बेचनेवाला है। जीवन के बहुत अधिक समय ज़मीन के साथ थे वह। उसकेलिए ज़मीन अपना ही शरीर के हिस्सा है। बचपन से लेकर बुढापा तक वह ज़मीन से अटूट संबंध रखते थे। प्यारी बेटी केलिए ज़मीन बेचते हैं। बेटी की विदाई और ज़मीन चले जाने- दोनों तरह से वह प्रभावित होते हैं।

प्रशन 13.
‘मगर नींद के
खुलने के पूर्व ही नोटीस
बैंक की आ धमकी सपने में’ – आदमी का सपना हमेशा अधुरा रहता है। कवितांश का विश्लेषण करें और लिखें।
उत्तर:
सपने का भी हक नहीं एक यथार्थवादी कविता है। आधुनिक समाज में भी निम्नवर्ग के लोगों के जीवन बड़ी मुसीबत में है। उन्हें जीवन में सुविधाओं को सपने में ही देखने को मिलते हैं। कवि कहना चाहता है कि हालत इतना बिगड़ गया है कि सपने में भी जप्ती का नोटिस आता है। यानि जीवन इतना मुश्किल में पड़ गया है।

सूचना : गद्यांश पढ़ें और प्रश्न संख्या 14, 15 के उत्तर लिखें।

दिनांक 6 जून को प्रातः सम्मेलन का शुभारंभ करते हुए सूरीनाम के आफ्रीकी मूल के राष्ट्रपति रुनाल्डो वेनेत्सियायन ने अपने उद्बोधन में कहा था – सूरीनाम और भारत के बीच प्रगाढ़ आत्मीय संबंध है। दोनों देश अनेक अर्थों में एक दूसरे से गहरे जुड़े हैं। दोनों के बीच पुराने भाषाई संबंध है। भाषा भावों की अभिव्यक्ति का सश्क्त माध्यम होती है। हिंदी की जननी संस्कृत की अपनी विशेषताएँ हैं। उसके साथ-साथ आज विश्व की एक प्रमुख भाषा के रूप में हिंदी भी उभर रही है। सूरीनाम में हिंदी के प्रचार-प्रसार में हिंदी के आम आदमी तक पहुँचाने में हिंदी फिल्मों तथा संगीत का भी विशेष योगदान रहा है।

प्रशन 14.
किन-किन देशों के बीच पुराने भाषाई संबंध हैं? (Scores: 2)
उत्तर:
सुरीनाम और भारत के बीच पुराने भाषाई संबंध है।

प्रशन 15.
गद्यांश का संक्षेपण करें और शीर्षक लिखें। (Scores: 6)
उत्तर:
सुरीनाम और भारत

सम्मेलन के आंरभ में, सुरीनाम के राष्ट्रपति ने सुरीनाम और भारत के बीच के अत्मीय और भाषाई संबंध को भारे में कहा। संस्कृत और हिंदी के विशेष योगदान के भारे में भी कहा। सुरीनाम में हिंदी के प्रचार प्रसार में हिंदी फिल्मी गीतों का योगदान हैं।

सूचना : 16 से 19 तक के प्रश्नों में से किन्हीं तीन के उत्तर लिखें। (scores : 3 × 6 = 18)

प्रशन 16.
अनंग जी के अंतिम क्षण आ पहुंचे। उन्हें घंटे भर जीवन रखने के लिए उनकी पत्नी डॉक्टर से प्रार्थना करती है। अनंग जी की पत्नी और डॉक्टर के बीच का वार्तालाप कल्पना करके लिखें।

• अनंग जी की आसन्न मृत्यु
• पुत्र के आने तक जिंदा रखने की प्रार्थना
• दवा दिलाने की प्रेरणा

उत्तर:
पत्नी : डॉक्टर साहब, मेरे पति की रक्षा कीजिए।
डॉक्टर : बहिन जी, हम सब उनको बचाने की कोशिश में हैं।
पत्नी : मेरी बात तो सुनिए जी।
डॉक्टर : आप बताइए।
पत्नी : शाम की गाड़ी में मेरे बेटे आनेवाला है। कई महीने हुए उसके पिताजी से मिलकर।
डॉक्टर : आप बताइए, हमें क्या करना है?
पत्नी : कम से कम शाम की गाड़ी के आने तक आप उन्हें जिंदा रखने की कोशिश कीजिए।
डॉक्टर : अच्छा, उसकी गाड़ी कब तक आएगी।
पत्नी : शाम को पाँच बजे वह रेलवे स्टेशन पहूँचेगा। वहाँ से यहाँ पहुँचने के लिए आधा घंडा लगेगा।
डॉक्टर : लेकिन, यह कैसा संभव है जी?
पत्नी : डॉक्टर साहब, आप कुछ मत बताइए। मेरा बेटा अपने पिताजी को जीवन में अंतिम बार देखने के लिए ही आ रहा है।
डॉक्टर : आपकी वेदना मैं समझ रहा हूँ जी। हम लोग कोशिश तो ज़रूर करेंगे। आप भगवान पर उम्मीद रखिए।
पत्नी : अच्छा डॉक्टर साहब। आप ही अब हमारे लिए भगवान है। कृपया मेरी इच्छा पूर्ण कीजिए।

प्रशन 17.
‘ज़मीन एक स्लेट का नाम है’ पाठ का अंश पढ़ें। ‘पिताजी के सूखे आँसुओं को कौन देख सकता था। कौन सुन सकता था उनके निःशब्द विलाप को।’ शादी की तैयारियाँ देखकर दीदी का मन संघर्ष से भरा। वह अपनी डायरी लिखती है। दीदी की डायरी 60 – 80 शब्दों में तैयार करें।

• भाई और माता-पिता का प्यार
• परिवार से बिछुड़ने का दुख
• पिताजी के दुख का न सहना
• ससुराल के प्रति आशंका

उत्तर:

डायरी

सोमवार
07.07.15

आज मेरी जीवन में एक विशेष दिन है, मेरी शादी की तैयारियाँ हो रही है। पिताजी और भाई शादी के खर्च केलिए ज़मीन बेच रहे हैं। मुझे मालूम है कि वह ज़मीन दोनों के जीवन से कितना संबध रखता हैं। फिर भी वे मेरी शादी केलिए ज़मीन बेच रहा है। कुछ ही दिनों में मेरी शादी हो जाएगी और मैं यह घर | छोडकर दूसरा घर जाएगी। मेरे परिवारवालों ने मेरेलिए कितना कष्ट सहन करते हैं। पति के घर जाकर मुझे खुशी मिलेगी या नहीं – पता भी नहीं, सब-कुछ देखकर मुझे थोडा सा डर हो रहा है। ईश्वर मेरी रक्षा करें।

प्रशन 18.
‘पुस्तक वाचन इनसान को महान बनाता है।’ बच्चों में वाचन की रुचिं बढ़ाने के लिए कक्षा में पुस्तकालय बनाने का प्रबंध किया गया है। इसका उद्घाटन स्कूल के सभागृह में पंचायत के अध्यक्ष करेंगे। तदवसर पर छात्रों को वाचन प्रतियोगिता भी चलाएँगे। इसके लिए एक पोस्टर तैयार करें।
उत्तर:

प्रशन 19.
खंड का हिंदी में अनुवाद करें।
India is a secular country. Secularism means that everybody enjoys complete religious freedom. Religious freedom is our fundamental right. It is constitutional also. Everybody has the freedom to propagate and to adopt any religion. Secularism is the only way to maintain religious harmony among these different religiions. We Indians can lead a peaceful life.
(Secularism – धर्मनिरपेक्ष, Religious – धार्मिक, freedom – आज़ादी, Cultural – सांस्कृतिक, fundamental right – मूल अधिकार, adopt – अपनाना, Constitution – संविधान, harmony – एकता, propagate – प्रचार करना, construct – निर्माण करना)
उत्तर:
भारत एक धर्मनिरपेक्ष देश है। धर्मनिरपेक्षता का अर्थ हैं कि सभी लोगों को पूरी तरह के धार्मिक आज़ादी मिले। धार्मिक आज़ादी हमारा मूल अधिकार हैं। यह संविधानिक भी है। सभी का किसी भी धर्म को अपनाने और प्रचार करने की आज़ादी है। धर्मनिरपेक्षता सभी धर्मों के बीच एकता कायम रखने की एकमात्र रास्ता है। हम भारतीय को एक शतिपूर्ण जीवन बिता सकेंगे।

सूचनाः 20 से 22 तक के प्रश्नों में से किन्हीं दो के उत्तर लिखें। (Scores : 2 × 8 = 16)

प्रशन 20.
‘मुरकी उर्फ बुलाकी’का अंश पढ़ें।
‘जब मैंने उसकी मरी को नहलाया, इस कोठरी की चाबी उसके नेफे में खोंसी हुई थी। उसके माँस से चिपक गई थी।’ – मुरकी के अंतिम क्षण की बातें माँ से सुनकर व्यथित कुमार मित्र को एक पत्र लिखता है। वह पत्र तैयार करें।

• माँ के द्वारा मुरकी का पालप-पोषण करना
• पति द्वारा उपेक्षित मुरकी को सहारा देना
• घर की चाबी पकड़ा जाना
• अंतिम क्षण तक चाबी को सुरक्षित रखना

उत्तर:

बरेली
20/मई/2015

प्रिय मित्र,
तुम कैसे हो? पढ़ाई ठीक तरह से चलते है ना? घर में माँ-बाप और बहन कैसे है? मैं आज एक अजीब ‘ बात बताने के लिए यह खत लिख रहा हूँ। मैंने तुमसे पहले ही कहा है हमारे घर की नौकरानी मुरकी के बारे में। वह केवल एक नौकरानी नहीं है, मेरी दीदी जैसे हैं। घर में सभी लोगों के साथ उसका बहुत प्यारा संबंध है।

आज मुरकी की मृत्यु हुई। माँ ने आज मुरकी की पूरी कहानी मुझे बताया। बारह साल की उम्र में एक नौकरानी की रूप में आयी थी वह। मैं बहुत छोटा था मुझे देखने केलिए – मुझे देखने केलिए। फिर, वह यहाँ ही रहना शुरू हुआ। माँ ही उसे मुरकी और बुलाकी बुलाते थे। जब वह बड़ी हुई वह किसी शहरवाले लड़के के साथ भाग गई। लेकिन वह लड़के ने उसे रास्ते में छोड़ दिये। मुरकी वापस घर पर आयी। माँ उस घर में कोटरी की चाबी देकर संरक्षण दिया था।

मुरकी उस चाबी को अपने शरीर में इसी तरह रखा था कि वह उसके शरीर पर घाव लगाने लगे थे। फिर भी वह चाबी को हटाया नहीं। क्योंकि उसके लिए यह चाबी ही उसकी एकमात्र भरोसा था।

प्रिय मित्र मुझे आज भी पता चला कि हमारे लिए कोई ठिकाने की आवश्यकता कितना है। बेसहारा होने के कारण मुरकी उस चाबी को ही अपना सहारा मान लिया। माँ ने यह ठीक तरह से समझा था। मैं चाहता हूँ कि हम सब दूसरों के सहायता के लिए कुछ न कुछ करना चाहिए।

आपका मित्र,
कुमार

प्रशन 21.
‘भटका हुआ पीर’ का अंश पढ़ें ।
‘तू पानी पिलाया कर, पुण्य मिलता है। तब से अब तक इस मश्क से मेरा रिश्ता जुड़ा हुआ है।’ स्कूटरवाला अपनी आत्मकथा लिखता है। वह आत्मकथांश 100 – 120 शब्दों में तैयार करें।

• पितृहीन बालक
• माँ के उपदेश का पालन करना
• राहगीरों को पानी पिलाना
• दिल का रिश्ता जोड़ना

उत्तर:

आत्मकथा

मेरा जीवन सफल है या नहीं यह मैं नहीं जानता पर मैं खुश हूँ इस जीवन से। मेरा बाप की मृत्यु मेरी छोटी उम्र में ही हुआ था। माँ कठिन परिश्रम करके मेरा देखपाल किया। छोटी उम्र में ही भूख और गरीबी की हालत समझ लिया। स्ट्रीट लइट के नीचे बैठकर पढ़ते थे। बड़े होने पर स्कूटर चलाना शुरू किया। माँ और मेरे लिए भूख मिटाने के लिए मैं काम करता था। साथ साथ पढ़ते थे और ग्राजुइट हो गया। रास्ते में प्यास के मारे तड़पते रहने लोगों को देखकर उन्हें पानी पिलाना शुरु किया।

और काम मिला तो भी मैं यह स्कूटर चलाना और राहगीरों को पानी पिलाना पसंद करता हूँ। एक मशक में पानी खरीदकर स्कूटर में रखता हूँ। रास्ते में जो भी प्यासा आये उन्हें पानी पिलाये घूमता हूँ। माँ कहते हैं पानी पिलाने से पुण्य मिलेगा। पैसे केलिए जीवन में दौड़नेवाले कई लोग होते हैं। मेरे पास पैसे नहीं बल्कि कई लोगों के पुण्य है। मैं बहुत खुश हूँ इस जीवन से क्योंकि मैं लोगों के दिल में जगह बनाता हूँ और वह मुझे प्यार से मशकवाला स्कूटर कहते हैं।

प्रशन 22.
विज्ञान समाज कल्याण के लिए है। जनसाधारण तक इसका चमत्कार पहुँचाते ही देश की प्रगति संभव है। प्रसिद्ध भारतीय वैज्ञानिक सी.वी.रामन की जन्मतिथि पर जिला पंचायत कार्यालय में ‘विज्ञान की प्रगति जनता के लिए’ विषय पर एक भाषण प्रतियोगिता का आयोजन हुआ है। भाषण 100 – 120 शब्दों में लिखें।

• विज्ञान से मानव प्रगति
• विज्ञान से लाभ
• विज्ञान से हानि
• वैज्ञानिक उपलब्धियों का प्रचार

उत्तर:

भाषण

सभा और मंच पर उपस्थित सभी लोगों को नमस्कार । मैं आज “विज्ञान की प्रगति जनता केलिए’ विषय पर अपना मत प्रकट करने केलिए यहाँ खड़ा हूँ। हम सब जानते हैं, आज प्रसिद्ध भारतीय वैज्ञानिक सी.वी.रामन की जन्मतिथि है। भारत में जन्म लेकर पूरे विश्व में अपना सिद्धी प्रकट किये सी.वी.रामन विश्व भवर के वैज्ञानिकों में प्रमुख है। अपनी निरंतर परिश्रम और मेधा से आपने कई नई अविष्कारों को ढूंढ निकाला। हम आज भी उसकी आभारी है। हर एक वैज्ञानिक अनुसंतान साधारण लोगों के हित केलिए होना चाहिए। यह हर वैज्ञानिक का वादा होना चाहिए। विनाशकारी अनुसलानों से, हमें कोई लाभ नहीं हैं। जो भी विज्ञान हो वे समाज कल्याण केलिए है। हर एक नागरिक को उसका फल मिलना चाहिए। आजकल कई ऐसा, वैज्ञानिक आविष्कार होता है जो समाज के उच्चवर्ग को ही काम आता है। आम जनता से वह दूर रहते हैं।

एक देश की प्रगति वहाँ के जनता पर निर्भर है। जनता के प्रगति केलिए विज्ञान का सदुपयोग ज़रूरी होता है। सी.वी.रामन जैसे वैज्ञानिकों का यही दृष्टिकोण था। केवल पैसा कमाना और एक आराम में जीवन बिताना काफी नहीं है। परोपकार की भावना से उत्प्रेरित होकर साधारण मानव से महामानव बनकर वैज्ञानिकों को सेचना चाहिए और अविष्कारों को ढूँढे निकालना है। मुझे यकीन हैं कि आप सब लोग मुझसे सहमत होंगे। मेरी यह छोटी भाषण सुने सब लोगों को धन्यवाद।

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Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2^1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to Candidates:

• There is a ‘cool off-time’ of 15 minutes and a writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool-off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Questions 1 – 3) Read the Excerpt from ‘Matchbox’ and answer the questions that follow.

It is now often considered naive to expend energy on solving a problem when there is an easy way out. It is a simple step from ‘look what drugs do for me when I feel depressed ’, to ‘imagine what drug can do for me when I feel good already’.

Question 1.
What is the problem discussed here?

Question 2.
What is an easy way?

Question 3.
Write a paragraph on the mental as well as the physical impact of drug abuse

Question 4.
Fill in the blanks with the most suitable option.
passed away, do without, look forward to, called off, made up, carried away, break out, run out, put up with, keep up.

1. Don’t smoke in the forest. Fires…………. easily at this time of the year.
2. I……….. seeing my friends again.
3. I’m afraid; we have ………… of apple juice. Will an orange juice do?
4. Your website has helped me a lot to…………… the good work.
5. A friend of mine has ……….. her wedding.
6. His mother can’t……….. his terrible behaviour anymore.
7. As an excuse for being late, she…………. a whole story.
8. I got……….. his enthusiasm.
9. I just can not………….. my mobile. I always keep it with me.
10. She was very sad because of her father………….. last week

(Qns. 5-7) Read the following lines from the poem ‘This Is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit’ and answer the questions that follow.
And it is all cluttered up with stone
crushers and concrete mixer sand drills
and steam rollers and there isn’t a nerve in your head that you aren’t being irked on.

Question 5.
What does the poet mean by‘it’here?

Question 6.
Bring out the humour used in these lines.

Question 7.
Who is the author of the poem?

Question 8.
The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. List them as shown in the example.
Eg:- Time is Very precious than money. Ans.Very more

1. Money once loses can be regained,  (a) ………….
2. But time once lost was lost forever. (b) ………….
3. Those who don’t act in time have to repent in the future (c) ………….
4. A lost opportunity may soil once life. (d) ……………..

(Qns. 9-11) Read the following excerpt from the anecdote ‘Didi’ and answer ques­tions that follow.
‘One day I walked into a sprawling, a low-income community which was a maze of tiny alley was, buzzing with life. An estimated 10,000 people lived here with no running water, no system of waste disposal, and shared six dark cubicle toilets that lined an adjoining alley.’

Question 9.
Name the lady who visited the community

Question 10.
What did she see there?

Question 11.
What does the word ‘maze’ mean here
(a) group
(b) mess
(c) place
(d) area

Question 12.
Imagine that you won the National Green Corps (NGC) Award for coordinating the activities of your school eco club. The award would be given away by the Governor of the state in the presence of the Chief Minister, the Minister for Home Affairs and cer­tain other dignitaries. You are supposed to deliver a speech after receiving the award. Draft the speech you are likely to deliver

Question 13.
In his speech, Dr.Kalam says: “When it comes to burning social issues like those relat­ed to women, dowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? It’s the whole system which has to change”.

Write an editorial on the changes that have to be brought in the system so as to im­prove the condition of women in India

Question 14.
A debate was conducted in the class on the topic ‘who is an ideal wife’-a wife who lives according to the wishes of the husband or a wife with strong views and opinions?
The major arguments for the topic are as follows:

• An ideal wife is one who lives according to the wishes of the husband because of women regard husbands as God.
• In the male-dominated society, women find themselves in a better position to live according to the wishes of their husbands.
• Women are labeled as the weaker sex.
• Women are submissive.
  Prepare four arguments against.

Question 15.
A seminar on ‘Increasing Environmental Havoc’ was conducted in CMI Public School as per the following programme. Read it carefully and prepare a report of the seminar in about 200 words

CMI Public School
Kozhikode -17
Seminar

Topic : Environmental Issues, Havoc
Venue: School Auditorium
Date: 18.02.2016
Programme
Prayer:  School choir
Welcome speech:  Sri. Ashok Mehta (Principal)
Presidential address: Sri. Mathew Stephen(MLA)
Inaugural address: Smt.SugathaKumari (poetess and environmentalist)
Felicitation: Kum. Aruna Bhasin (Staff representative)
Mr. Vipin Das (Student representative)
Paper: 1. Mr. Shyam Kumar M K (What is the environment)
presentations  2. Ms. Ashmy Salim (Causes of environmental degradation)
3. Merin James
(Consequences of environmental degradation)
4. John Koshy (Role of students in preserving environment)
Interactive session
The vote of thanks: Mr. Jens Janus (School chairman)
National Anthem: School choir

Question 16.
“I was in to see Gresham this afternoon. He told me about the offer he had made you.
But he knew that no amount of money would make you do something you thought wrong,” said Marshall to Baldwin. If John Gresham narrated the incident that pre­ceded this talk to Marshall, how would he explain it? Write your answer in the first person narrative.
Question 17.
Shaheen Mistri says “I began to notice the disparity that existed in different peoples lives.” In our society, there exists a wide gap in inequality even today. So, your school has decided to conduct an essay competition on this topic, ‘The importance of equality in India, in order to propagate the idea of a right to equality. You want to participate in the competition. Prepare the essay on the topic.

Qns (18-20)Read the given excerpt from ‘Amigo Brothers’ and answer the ques­tions that follow.
“Ladies and Gentlemen,” The announcer spoke slowly, “Now is the moment we have all been waiting for for the main event between two fine young Puerto Rican fighters.”

Question 18.
Who are the fighters referred here?

Question 19.
Give a description of the occasion.

Question 20.
What is the tension created at the moment denoted in the passage?

Answers

Answer 1.
The problem of drug abuse.

Answer 2.
The easy way is to see what drugs do for one when one feels depressed and to imagine what it can do when one feels good already.

Answer 3.
The drug-related disorder is found externally at first. But they gradually affect the mind. The addict often feels that people are looking at him strangely. He is not sure when people smile at him that they were not really; laughing. The addict can even lose his sense of being alive. He feels ‘dead inside’. An ad­dict who loses his sensory deprivation may feel that the sun is shining, the flowers are in | bloom, and these are the signs of a good day, but pressing his chest, he doubts whether it is in here. Addicts often press their fingers deep into their arms or legs as if to reassure themselves of their own reality.

Answer 4.

• Don’t smoke in the forest. Fires breakout I ’ easily at this time of the year
• I look forward to seeing my friends again.
• I’m afraid; we have run out of apple juice, Will an orange juice do?
• Your website has helped me a lot to; keep up the good work.
• A friend of mine has called off her wed­ding.
• His mother can’t put up with his terrible behaviour anymore.
• As an excuse for being late, she made up a whole story.
• I got carried away by his enthusiasm.
• I just cannot do without my mobile. I; always keep it with me.
• She was very sad because her father passed away last week.

Answer 5.
His tooth

Answer 6.
By exaggerating the pain and problems caused during a dental repair; using expressions like crushers, concrete mixers, drills I and steam rollers, the poet actually breaks the people into laughter.

Answer 7.
Ogden Nash.

Answer 8.
Lose-lost, Was-is, Once one’s, Has- have

Answer 9.
Shaheen Mistri

Answer 10.
She saw a maze of tiny alleyways, buzzing with, life and around 10,000 people lived there with no running water and no system of waste disposal. They all shared six dark cubicle toilets that lined an adjoining alley.

Answer 11.
Mess

Answer 12.
Award acceptance speech
Honorable Governor of Kerala, your Excel­lency Sri. P Sathasivam, honourable Chief Minister Sri.Oommen Chandi, Home min­ister Sri. Ramesh Chennithala and other dignitaries on and off the dais, and my dear friends,

It is indeed a great privilege and honour for Hill view Public School to receive the Na­tional Green Corps Award. I take this op­portunity to extend our sincere gratitude to all those who made this stage a reality for us.

“We won’t have a society if we destroy them. environment.” These words of Margret Tead are the soul inspiration for the activities of the Eco Club of our school. ‘Awaken to the green pastures’, the motto of our Eco Club is the true expression of our dream to make our school, homes and society green. We nurture and take care the greenery of our school to give back something to mother Earth rather than being mere parasites.

The first seed of organic farming was plant­ed in our mind by our Botany teacher who took our attention to the large quantity of poison we consume each day. Little hands joined to make the wastelands of our school a fertile farm. It found its result. When we reaped tones of farm fresh, poison free veg­etables last year, it set a golden account in the history of our school.

We have adopted a new lifestyle by reducing the electricity bill in our homes for energy conservation, using biofertilizers and most important of all by loving and caring the fel­low creatures and plants. It has helped us a lot to tread milestones in our journey of en­vironment conservation. Our eco club finds pride in declaring our campus plastic free. By planting the seeds of environment con­servation in the minds of the students and the society, we aim to build a generation which is aware of the need for protecting the environment. At this juncture, I may say, that the NGC award for us is an inspira­tion to continue the sincere efforts of envi­ronment conservation. We vow to tread the long miles of environment protection and set its flag high.

My dear friends, the world does not be­long merely to man. Every creatures start­ing from a small and to the human beings deserve a space in it. Let’s open our minds to love and care about the environment and all its creatures as our own fellow brothers and sis­ters.

Thank you.

Answer 13.
We need to change the system

It is high time that we rectified our system so as to ensure a fearless society, a society where equality is guaranteed to women. In India, we have to implement structural changes and realise that change must hap­pen from within everyone.

Crimes against women are inviting everyone’s attention like never before. As our former President Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam pointed out “when it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home”.

Even if we are very much advanced in sci­entific and technological fields, we don’t realise that we should develop morally too.

The concept of morality is related to peace­fulness for everyone. Love and fellow feeling must be inculcated in the minds of the children from their own families. Lessons of equality and social justice must be learned earlier itself. No one can teach these les­sons but children learn what they see. Par­ents should set models at home. If a child sees the love and respect given to a woman at his/her own home, he/she will naturally imbibe such values without any text. Life becomes the text. When we analyse the events happening in our country, we see that crimes against women are often treated with low priority. Do we encourage report­ing of crimes? How many women police are recruited for the help of women? Are they sufficient?

Lack of legal provisions encourages crime.
The authorised must ensure effective crime prevention. All the laws of the country must be standardised to have a maximum of one primary trial and one full appeal on facts and law.

Answer 14.
Against

1. Our Indian culture treats women as mothers; so they should be respected.
2. Husbands and wives have equal status because the family will be a meaningful unit born out of love, consideration, respect, etc towards each other.
3. Men are weaker than women as they try to dominate women.
4. A man may have more muscle power but we can’t achieve anything with muscle power.

Answer 15.
A seminar on ‘Increasing Environmental Havoc’ was conducted in CMI Public School, Chemmannoo’r, on 18.2.2016 at 2.00 pm at the school auditorium. The seminar began with a prayer by the school choir. The school principal, Sri. Ashok Mehta welcomed the dignitaries and the gathering. Sri.Mathew Stephen, MLA of the that, in schools. Smt. Sugatha Kumari the poetess and environmentalist while inaugurating the seminar commented that our environment could be safeguarded only if ‘ the present generation consider and care for our earth as their dear mother.

Kum. Aruna Bhasin, Staff representative and Mr. Vipin Das, representative of the students felicitated the seminar. Different papers on topics like ‘What is the environment? ‘Causes of environmental degradation,’ ‘Consequence of environmental degradation,’ and ‘Role of students in preserving environment’ were presented by Mr. Shyam Kumar M K, Ms. Ashmy Salim, Ms. Merin James, and Mr. John Koshy respectively. The paper presentation was followed by an interactive session in which many students raised their doubts. The students who presented the papers cleared their doubts by giving convincing answers. School chairman, Master. Jens Janus proposed a vote of thanks. The seminar came to an end at 5.00 pm.

Answer 16.
I was accused of misappropriating the bank’s money, which in turn, hurt the clients of the bank. I was a good boss to Mr. Baldwin, and therefore after the arrest, I begged Mr.Baldwin to say three words during my examination on trial regarding my dealings i.e “I don’t remember”. As a reward, I even offered him one hundred thousand dollars an incredible amount of money to him. His family might have insisted that Robert should consider saying “just those three words”. But he said, he simply couldn’t accept a bribe because he couldn’t bear telling a lie.

He respectfully rejected the offer. Actually, this left me to feel ashamed of myself, and I was forced to confess my crime. I realized what a good man Robert was. I knew that no amount of money would make you do something you thought wrong. Really, I was impressed by his action and decided to spread his name as a decent and dignified man. Robert Baldwin’s honesty and integrity brought him a job in another bank.

Answer 17.
“Now as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea that everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.” says Barack Obama. It is high time we should adopt the same view.

Like liberty, equality is also an important concept of Political Science. Equality is a democratic ideal and in our democratic nation, it is the most important right to be ensured. The history of mankind is the history of equality. Throughout the nook and corner of the world, the march of equality is received with cheers. Whether it is the fight of Dr. Nelson Mandela against rarial discrimination in South Africa or Sue Kyi’s fight against the military regime. Rad-hakrishnan had pointed out long back “Democracy only provides that all men should have equal opportunities for the development of their unequal talents”.

We talk of equality because people are unequal although men are born and always continue to be free and equal in respect of their rights. Equality literally means a levelling process whereby the difference between the rich and the poor, the privileged and the underprivileged can be minimised. It means that no man shall be placed in a society that he can overreach his neighbour to the extent which constitutes a denial of the latter’s citizenship”. It is essential for social justice.

Only if all the citizens are given equal opportunity to study, express their views, access job, and become successful, the society will become successful. If a society has ups and downs, development can be claimed for only a minor section. That doesn’t mean the development of the whole nation.
As no two men are equal, equality is an abstract concept. But it has a magical touch that has inspired timid millions to revolt in the past. Political philosophers and revolu­tionaries have used this concept profusely to win over the hearts of the common man. Thus, democracy as a form of government and a way of life can’ succeed only when there is equality in general and political equality in particular.

Every society that values social justice and is anxious to improve the lot of the common man and cultivate all available talent must ensure progressive equality of opportunity to all sections of the population. This is the only guarantee for the building up of a democratic and human society by which the exploitation of the weak will be minimised.

Answer 18.
Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas

Answer 19.
The tournament which was previously held at the gymnasium of Boys’ Club was shifted to Tompkins Square Park. In the morning of the fight itself, Tompkins Square was a beehive of activity. As the two climbed into the ring, the crowd exploded with a roar. The entry of Antonio in his white trunk and Felix in his blue trunk created roar among the audience. Both the boys stayed true to their pact with each other and fought their best. A cry of alarm surged through Tomp­kins Square Park as the audience was not sure whether it was a right to the death or a boxing match. The fear soon gave way to wave upon wave of cheering as the two ami­gos embraced right after the tight contest when Antonio Cruz emerged as the winner to represent the boys’ club in Golden Gloves tournament.

Answer 20.
A cry of alarm surged through Tompkins Square Park as the audience was not sure whether it was a right to the death or a box­ing match.

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Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2^1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to Candidates:

• There is a ‘cool off-time’ of 15 minutes and a writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool-off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Questions 1 – 3) Read the Excerpt from ‘Matchbox’ and answer the questions that follow.

‘They are more likely to make decisions based on consensus-building, inclusion, compassion and With a focus on long-term sustainability.’

Question 1.
Who are they referred to here?

Question 2.
What does the expression consensus-building’ mean here?
(i) arriving at a decision.
(ii) collaborative problem solving
(iii) compromise
(iv) consent

Question 3.
Find the word opposite in meaning compassion?
(i) concern
(ii) care
(iii) coldness
(iv) consideration

Question 4.
Complete the following with suitable adverbs. Choose from the box.

Almost	Ever	Very	Seldom
Sometimes	Clearly	perhaps	Certainly

1. I have ………..finished.
2. He is clever ………
3. There is…….something wrong. ,
4. ………..I think I should take a long break.
5 ……… her train is late.
6. He is late for work.
7. She is ………..the right person for the job.
8. Have you…….wanted to run away?

Question 5.
Imagine that you convene a meeting of the residents of the local area to discuss the problem of poor healthcare facilities.’ Prepare the script of a speech which you would deliver on the occasion. Write the speech in about 120 words.
[Hints: lack of healthcare- the threat of epidemics- the suffering of poor people neglect of the authorities…. suggestions]

Question 6.
In the play ‘The Hour of truth ‘ Baldwin refuses to tell a lie in the court to save Gresh­ am who had offered him a hundred thousand dollars. As John, one of the characters in the play, says a hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. How do you justify Baldwins action?

Qns(7-9).“Yeah, that’s right. Listen, Tony. Don’t you think it’s a good idea if we don’t see each other until the day of the fight? I’m going to stay with my Aunt Lucy in the Bronx.”Tony scratched his nose pensively. “Yeah, it would be better for our heads.” He held out his hand, palm upward. “Deal?” “Deal.” Felix lightly slapped open skin.
“Ready for some more running?”
Tony asked lamely.
“No, bro. Let’s cut it here.

Question 7.
What makes the two friends decide they should maintain a certain gap?

Question 8.
What is the fight that these boys are talking about?

Question 9.
Why does Felix deny Tony’s invitation for further jogging?

Question 10.
Edit the following letter supplying the correct tense form wherever necessary:

(Qns. 11-13) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
“The child ran towards his parents gaily and walked abreast of them for a while; be­ing, however, soon left behind, attracted by the little insects and worms along the footpath that were teeming out from their hiding places to enjoy the sunshine.”

Question 11.
Why did the insects and worms come out of the hiding place?

Question 12.
What is the meaning of ‘abreast’?
(far ahead/side by side/ in front of/opposite)

Question 13.
Pick out the words and expressions that convey the pleasant atmosphere.

Question 14.
The Literary Club of your school decides to enact the play Post Early for Christmas in connection with the school anniversary. Prepare a script for announcing the pro­gramme climax of the play.

Question 15.
Imagine that your school has conducted a seminar on the topic ‘The vicious web of drugs spoils the dreams and life of the young generation as per the following sched­ule, Study the schedule and prepare a report of the seminar to be Submitted to your teacher.

Question 16.
Insert suitable prepositions in the following blanks.
“You must never set up any sort-contrariness or repression.. ..the child’s mind”, declared the parents. “You’ll damage him …. life. It, no doubt, requires a lot ………. discipline …….. our part, but it is worth it”, they declared primly. “We shall be bringing up a healthy citizen”.

Question 17.
“Young people drive as though their vehicle is a battle bank. They seem to harbour a sense of unmatched power which is matched by an abject lack of concern for pe­destrians. With alcohol, all these attributes are magnified manifold”, says Dr.Harish Shetty, Mumbai-based Psychiatrist. Write an editorial for a newspaper expressing your viewpoints on the above-mentioned issue
Question 18.
If you were the reporter of a reputed national daily, how will you report the death of Kalpana Chawla in the newspaper that was published on February 2nd, 2003? Include details including her personal life.

Question 19.
You are selected to introduce the performance of the play to the spectators. Prepare a script for it.

Answers

Answer 1.
Women

Answer 2.
Collaborative problem solving

Answer 3.
Coldness

Answer 4.

• I have almost finished.
• He is very clever.
• There is clearly something wrong.
• Sometimes I think I should take a long break
• Perhaps her train is late.
• He is seldom late for work.
• She is certainly the right person for the job.
• Have you ever wanted to run away?

Answer 5.
Respected dignitaries on the dais and my dear brothers and sisters,

I am here before you to open my heart on very important issues related to this area. As in other areas of the district our locality too, is affected by epidemics. This is due to the poor health care facilities. It is high time we thought of taking strong decisions.

Dear friends, I think, lack of health care is the chief cause of the outbreak of diseas­es. You know the saying ‘Health is Wealth’. Therefore everyone should take care of his health. We have already appealed to the au­thorities to take necessary steps. We have to take the necessary preventive measures. The most urgent one being the mosquito con­trol. Our locality is mosquito infested. We ourselves should be very careful in control­ling the pests. We should not throw away the waste. Everyone should try his/her level best to avoid plastic wastes and polluted water.

The wastes should be kept in bins and take the necessary steps to destroy them. We should seek the help of the authorities to do this. Proper sanitation and sewerage arrange­ments should be implemented. We should give maximum effort to make our place clean. Everybody should think it is his duty

Only then we can control it. Awareness prog­rammes also should be conducted for this. To put it briefly health care is the greatest thing in the world.

Thanking you

Answer 6.
Robert Baldwin worked as the secretary in the national bank. He was an honest, diligent and hardworking employee of Mr. John Gresham. He is a man of principles. He has been working in the bank for more than 35 years for trivial enumeration. He has a strong love for his family. A man in this middle age, he has never waved off his virtues ever in his life. He is kind and loyal to others. His personality is deep-rooted in a set of principles. He never wavers or compromises with his mortality. Even when he encounters chance of being a fabulously rich person, he denies it. He works for truth and lives by it.

Answer 7.
The match was coming up and the boys thought it would be better if they didn’t see each other for a while. Both of them wanted to be strangers inside the ring so as to fight well. So they decided to maintain a certain gap.

Answer 8.
The fight is to decide who goes to be the winner and represent the Boys’ Club in the Golden Gloves Championship Tourna­ment.

Answer 9.
They were both restless at the thought that they had to meet in the ring the next day. He said so with the expectation that after the fight, they could get it together again like nothing ever happened.

Answer 10.
Am writing, withdrew, was, received

Answer 11.
The insects and worms came out of the hid­ing place to enjoy the sunshine.

Answer 12.
side by side

Answer 13.
gaily, teeming Out, sunshine, etc.

Answer 14.
Curtain rising!
Post Early for Christmas

The literary club of ABC public school proudly announces the staging of the hu­morous, entertainer and evergreen play ‘Post Early for Christmas’ on 10th Decem­ber 2015, in connection with the annual day celebrations of our school. The play, written by R.H Wood, is directed by our art teach­er Gautam Kumar. The play will be staged by the budding actors and actresses of our school. The play will be staged with all pomp and show at the school auditorium from 2:30 to 3:30 pm.

The play ‘Post Early for Christmas’, takes place inside a small post office in an English village and centers on a parcel that is mis­taken for a time bomb. It is a hilarious com­edy which makes us think of the pettiness of people and how unthinking we are.

Come on friends; get ready to laugh heart­ily at the comedies inside a post office. For entry and tickets please, contact the literary head captain.

Background setting: Sree Chithira curtains
Light and sound: Sangam lights and sounds

Answer 15.
Report of the Seminar on ‘The vicious web of drugs spoils the dreams and life of the young generation’, conducted by the Cul­tural Forum of St. Jerome’s HSS, Thambalam. A seminar on the topic, ‘The vicious web of drugs spoils the dreams and life of the young generation’ were conducted in St. Je­rom’s HSS, Thambalam, under the auspices of the School Cultural Forum, on 17.10.2015 at 2.00 pm at the school auditorium.

The seminar, which started with a solemn prayer by the school choir, was presided over by the School PTA President Sri. Harish Menon. The school principal, Smt. Mumthas Iqbal welcomed the dignitaries and the gathering. PTA President, Sri Harish Menon, while addressing the gathering spoke about the dangerous habit of drug use which is creeping into the young genera­tion.

The Honourable Minister for Cultural Af­fairs, Sri. Bala Subramaniam, who inaugu­rated the seminar, appreciated the school authorities for conducting such a relevant programme in the school. He also mention­ed some of the very dangerous tendencies among our youth and promised to ensure the implementation of sudden and effective measures for checking the tendency. Municipal Councillor, Smt. Smitha Narayan and the Clinical Psychologist Dr. George Varghese also spoke against the practice of drug abuse, while felicitating the seminar.

Very effective and authoritative papers were presented on different topics related to drug abuse such as ‘Reasons for the Tendency’, ‘Consequences of Drug Abuse’, ‘Possible and effective measures to check Substance Abuse’ and ‘Need for giving Awareness among Youth to follow their Dreams’. Stu­dent representatives, Kum. Aruna Arjun, Master Shyam Pothen, Master Nirmal Biju and Kum. Swaliha Akbar’ deserve apprecia­tion and gratitude as they did their job sin­cerely and meticulously.

After a fruitful interactive session, the school chairman, Master Bimal Biswas, pro­posed vote of thanks and the seminar came to an end by 5.00 pm by the recitals of Na­tional Anthem when the whole auditorium stood motionless and silent.

Answer 16.
a. “You must never set up any sort-contra­riness or repression in the child’s mind”, declared the parents. “You’ll damage him for life. It, no doubt, requires a lot of discipline on our part, but it is worth it”, they declared primly. “We shall be bringing up a healthy citizen”.

Answer 17.
“SPEED THRILLS; BUT KILLS”
Ours is a country of young and careless drivers. Many people are getting killed at a fast rate. WHO data names road accidents as the second major reason or fatalities for children of 5-14 age group The report also suggests that road traffic facilities are pre­dicted to rise to the fifth leading cause of death by 2030.

When young people drive, they seem to feel omnipotent. According to Joint Com­missioner of Police (Traffic) Mumbai. V.V. Phansalkar, in 55 to 60 percent of road accidents the people involved are between the age group of 16 and 40 years. The risk tak­ing ability of young people is higher. The fear of death is lower too. “Nowhere in the world the traffic signals are supplemented by a constable”, says Haresh Bajal, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mumbai.

Lack of dedicated road safety department can be considered as one of the serious cri­ses we face in India. We feel that road safety is everyone’s business. Thus it becomes no­body’s business.

The number of vehicles on the road contin­ues to grow. The total registered vehicles in the country grew at a high rate between 2001 and 2011. The riders of two wheel­ers do not wear helmets. Traffic Policemen say that the main reason behind the high number of casualties is the helmetless habit; triple riding comes next. Alcohol and rash driving remain significant too.

The Kerala Crime Records Bureau says 35, 218 accidents were registered in the state in 2011. Rash driving is the reason. Most of the young people were using drugs and narcotics while driving. After taking drugs these youth ride bikes for a thrill and end up in accidents. If the parents monitor their children properly, the number of accidents involving youth will be decreased.

The youth are careless for the results of ac­cidents. This could be due to lack of fear of the law.

India, the world leader in road deaths, needs to get its act together for a plan to be realised for effectively managing traffic system. Oth­erwise we will keep on killing ourselves and others.

Answer 18.
Kalpana Chawla

India’s Pride Passes Away

New Delhi; 2nd February 2003: Kalpana Chawla, the proud daughter of the globe passed away when the Space Shuttle Co­lumbia and her crew perished here yester­day. The tragedy happened during entry, sixteen minutes prior to scheduled landing. She was 42.

After the success of her first space flight in Columbia in 1997, her achievements attract­ed world-wide attention. Through strong determination, intelligence and belief in herself, .she became the first Indian woman to travel to space.

Kalpana was born on July 1st, 1961 at Karnal in Haryana. After obtaining a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, she was offered a job as an ad-hoc Lecturer in the Punjab En­gineering College. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.

It was J.P.Harrison who encouraged her to follow her dreams and to fly. She represents not only India and the USA but also the whole world.

Answer 19.
Good Morning Ladies and gentlemen,
It’s my privilege to introduce before you the famous play by the renowned writer of one-act plays Percival Wilde: The Hour of Truth. The Hour of Truth is indeed an in­tense psychological study of the corrupting influence of money on people. The playwright reveals instances of greed from a myriad of different points of view. All individuals are tempted by greed at one point or another in life. This particular story shows how easily people forget their morals and upbringings when money is close by. The story centers on Mr. Baldwin and his family. Mr. Baldwin has to choose between being honest and be­ing dishonest. And the climax that follows has an excellent message. Now, come, watch and enjoy the spectacle. The Hour of Truth by Percival Wilde.

Teachers recommend solving Kerala Syllabus Plus Two English Previous Year Question Papers and Answers Pdf Model Question Paper Set 2 to improve time management during exams.

Kerala Plus Two English Model Question Paper Set 2 with Answers

Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2^1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to Candidates:

• There is a ‘cool off-time’ of 15 minutes and a writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool-off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Questions 1 – 3) Read the Excerpt from ‘Matchbox’ and answer the questions that follow.

Question 1.
Who are the champions referred to here?

Question 2.
Arm in arm the champions had already left the ring.”
(a) happiness
(b) friendship
(c) respect
(d) concern

Question 3.
Do you think that it is right on the part of the champions to leave the ring like that? What might have prompted them to do so?

Question 4.
In “Horegallu”, Sudha Murty speaks about a horegallu and its influence on the life of the villagers. Imagine that the Government decides to remove the horegallu as part of widening the road. In the light of this decision, the villagers assemble near the horegallu and speak the following words. Choose the appropriate adjective/adjective clause and fill in the blanks.
Good morning, friends. The authorities are going to take away our horegallu. This horegallu (a)…………………………… (looks good/carrying burden/ which can bear weight) is a part of our day-to-day life. Without it, our life will be as hard as (b)……………………. (trouble /lead/task). Masterji spends the evening with passersby who (c)………(used to listen to our worries/used to help us find a solution / used to share their worries with him.) He says that the horegallu is the most (d)…………. (essential/trivial/ avoidable) part of our village.

Question 5.
A notice prepared by the student leader of the NSS Unit of a school is given below. There are a few mistakes in it. Identify them and write the correct form as shown in the example.

Question 6.
You are Personnel Manager of Green Bio-Products Ltd., Sector 18, Industrial Area, Faridabad. You need an efficient P.A. /stenographer for your office. Write an adver­tisement of the ‘Situation Vacant’ column of a local daily.

Question 7.
Imagine that you are an M B A holder and you want to respond to this advertisement. Prepare the e-mail you would send to the Company.

Question 8.
Imagine that you are a graduate in Civil Engineering and would like to respond to them. following advertisement. Prepare an application letter to be sent there.

Question 9.
Suppose your application is considered positive and you are invited for an inter­ view. What kind of responses would you make for the following interview questions?
(Remember to use formal language and try to be honest in your answers.)

Interviewer: Why do you prefer to teach?
You:……………..
Interviewer: Do you have any teaching experiences?
You:………….
Interviewer: What do you think, is the most serious problem With education in rural areas?
You: ……………
Interviewer: If you were to change something about the current education system, what would that be?
You: ……………
Interviewer: How do you plan to create an impact in the society?
You: ………………

Question 10.
As part of Health Awareness Programme, a survey was conducted by +2 students of a few schools. The following information was obtained the average consumption of Fat, Carbohydrate, Protein, and Alcohol by individuals in Kerala.

Years	1980	1990	2000	2008
Fat	33 gm	41 gm	52gm	55gm
Carbohydrate	35Qgm	400gm	600gm	650gm
Protein	47gm	56gm	56gm	57gm
Alcohol	30%	35%	40%	46%
	people	people	people	people

Prepare a report to be presented before the medical board of Kerala. Write in 100 words.

Question 11.
Imagine that your school has won the ‘Nallapadam’ award given by Malayala Manorama for the initiatives taken by students to inculcate values like love, kindness, shar­ing mentality, environmental conservation etc. in the students. After having received the award as a representative of your school, you are expected to deliver an acceptance speech. Draft the speech you would deliver there.

Question 12.
The following is a passage from the text which a student has written down in his notebook. Rewrite the passage correcting the mistakes.
Won rehabilitated heroine addict described his sensory deprivation to me: looking out of the window he said, the sun is shining, the flowers are in bloom. I know these are signs of a good day, but pressing his chest, ‘I don’t feel it in hear’. I have scene addicts habitually press their fingers deep into there alms or legs as if to reassure themselves of three on reality. This craving for reassure themselves of there on reality. This craving for lost sensations explains in part the addicts need to continue to seek drug-in­duced sensations.

Question 13.
“The announcer turned to point to the winner and found himself alone. Arm in arm the champions had already left the ring.” The winner in the boxing competition left without receiving the prize. It is against the rules and regulations of a game. Do you agree to this opinion? Discuss the points for and against the notion.

Question 14.
Meenu has to speak in a debate supporting the motion that, the teaching profession is better than medical professionals.
Write out her speech is not more than 200 words.

Question 15.
Fill in the blank in the following passage choosing the right prepositions given in the box.

When a rickshaw puller approaches Sammaan, we first go……… (a) a verification pro­cess. The operator is then given training……… (b) basics etiquette and traffic rules. Then we approach the banks and help them get a loan………………. (c) a new rickshaw. Previ­ously banks were reluctant to given loans………. (d) this section of the society.

Question 16.
Here is a notice put up on the notice board of a resident’s association requesting people to keep their area clean. There are a few mistakes in it. Correct.

Answers 

Answer 1.
Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas

Answer 2.
Friendship

Answer 3.
Yes. Values are more important as they prove that friendship is â better prize than the prize they would get.

Answer 4.
(a) which can bear weight
(b) lead
(c) used to share their worries with him
(d) essential

Answer 5.
(a) is visiting
(b) on
(c) Firstly of all/Firstly
(d) the.

Answer 6.

Answer 7.
To Info@scintilladigi.com
Cc satish9000006330@gmail.com
Subject: Application for the post of Marketing Manager

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If you need more information, you may contact me through the e-mail or phone number given below.
I am looking forward to hearing from you. Thanking you in anticipation,

Nitish Varma,
87/ E-Ghats Apartments,
‘Hyderabad.
Telephone No: xxxxx99666
NB: Resume and transcript attached.

Answer 8.
Ruth Silverstine,
Rua das Doze Casas,
3477000-123 Port Delna.
January 25, 2015
To
The Branch Manager,
Keith & Harren associates,
MT/ D-16. Essex Road.UK.
Sub: Application for the post of Civil Engineer.
Ref: Advertisement in The UK
Times dated 24th January 2015.

Dear Sir,
I would like to respond to your advertise­ment in the “The U K Times, for the vacan­cy of Civil Engineers to work in the UK.
I am 23 years old, a Portuguese citizen, and I have a degree in Civil Engineering from Oporto University. I believe that I have them. necessary credentials for the position you are offering. I speak English fluently as I studied English for eight years at the school. Besides, I also have the CAE (Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English), grade B. This is the first time I am applying for this kind of job, but I have worked at various lev­els in the construction industry after taking the degree in 2013.

As a person, I am hard-working, punctual, and responsible and I think I am able to communicate effectively with people.

It is my aspiration is to work for a company in the UK.

Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours faithfully,
Sd /-

Answer 9.
Interviewer: Why do you prefer to teach?
Your: I think, I can influence a lot of people by becoming a teacher.
Interviewer: Do you have any teaching ex­periences?
You: Yes I do. I have been working in a Chennai based school for the past three years.
Interviewer: What do you think, is the most serious problem with education in rural areas?
You: For me, the most serious problem with education in rural areas is the lack of ac­cessibility to education.
Interviewer: If you were to change some­thing about the current education system, what would that be?
You: I would love to eradicate the inequality that is found in the education sector. At least in the field of education, the gap between the rich and the poor should be bridged.
Interviewer: How do you plan to create an impact on society?
You: Every society is built on its citizens. I would like to create an impact on the society by contributing good, citizens to the devel­opment of our society.

Answer 10.
A detailed survey was conducted by +2 stu­dents of our school as part of the Health Awareness Programme. The information we got from this survey is shocking. The survey shows the average consumption of fat, Car­bohydrate, Protein, and Alcohol by the in­dividuals of Kerala. The consumption of fat contained food has a tremendous increase from 1990 to 2008. There is an average in­crease of 10 gms. The consumption of carbo­hydrates is also increasing radically. In 1980 it was 380gm whereas in 2008 it has reached up to 650 gm. The consumption of protein ranging from 47gm to 57gm. But when it reaches 2008 it becomes 57gm. In the case of the consumption of Alcohol the rate also. increasing. In 1980,30% of our total popula­tion used alcohol but in 2008 the consump­tion has reached up to 46%. The survey gives us a clear picture of the consumption of nu­trients and alcohol.

Answer 11.
Honourable dignitaries on the dais, respect­ed teachers, and my dear friends, “The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.” Govt. HSS, Kallada gave its ears to these words of Chanakya, and the result we are reaping now. Nalla padam, the Lessons of goodness, a farsighted and innovative initiative of Malayala Manorama, paved the way for spread­ing the light of goodness around. Standing here, as a representative of the school, wear­ing the crown of recognition for teaching the society, the lessons of goodness, I feel extremely proud and honoured. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Malayala Manorama officials concerned, and all the generous teachers of our school ‘ who took efforts to teach us the lessons of good and helped us look at others and their needs. Govt. HSS, Kallada, is special for all of its students, for not making us bookworms but good citizens. The lessons of goodness, that it teaches its students as well as the society, are appreciable.

When ‘Snehaveedu’, one of our Nallapadam initiatives, provided shel­ter for three families, it was the expression of the goodwill of thousands of students. Every month the students of our school visit orphanages and old age homes with love, medicines, homemade food and a help­ing hand for our own siblings, parents and grandparents. Kitchen garden, Anti-drug campaign, palliative care and awareness programmes are some among the sincere efforts of our school. ‘Walk to goodness’- the motto of our Nallapadam inspires the people in the locality to do good as well. Govt. HSS, Kallada is successful in teaching children how to conquer the hearts of others through the words of love.

The Nallapadam Best school award has given in our hands more tools to toil for spreading the light of goodness. Today’s society is not devoid of scholars but it cer­tainly lacks humans with humanity. It is this dilemma that Nallapadam and Malayala Manorama tackles. Today, we vow that we will continue to love and care others not only in our schooldays but throughout our life.

Dear friends, it is easy to look at ourselves and be happy but it is difficult to look at others and make them happy. Schools must teach the students to open their minds for the needs of others rather than narrow down to their own lives and betterments. Let such an ideal good society come through Nalla­padam Thank you.

Answer 12.
One rehabilitated heroin addict described his sensory deprivation to me: looking out of the window he said, ‘The sun is shining, the flowers are in bloom. I know these are signs of a good day but; pressing his chest,

‘I don’t feel it in here. I have seen addicts habitually press their fingers deep into their arms or legs as if to reassure themselves of their own reality. This craving for lost sensations explains in part the addicts need to continue to seek drug-induced sensations.

Answer 13.
For:

• Every game has its own rules and contest­ants are supposed to abide by the rules.
• Rejecting the prize is equal to questioning the decision.
• A winner in a competition should accept the prize, or else what is a competition for?
• Disregarding the law means disrespecting and befooling the audience.

Against:

• It’s a person choice to accept or reject a re­ward.
• Receiving the prize isn’t everything. The competition is all about the attitude of people who compete.
• Prize doesn’t prove anything. One day can be good for one of the contestants, but the other day might prove wrong.
• Values are more important as they prove that friendship is a better prize than the prize they would get.

Answer 14.
Teaching Profession is better than the Medical Profession (by Meenu in favour of the motion)                      Respected teachers and dear friends, I stand before you to support that teaching profession is better than the medical profession. ‘You can be the candle that spreads its light and you can light up millions of tiny lamp as you pass through as a teacher Teaching has always been and continues to be a noble profession. Commercialisation has touched it but not seeped right through it.

The med­ical profession has been transformed today Doctors take the oath but a lap number seem to transform their conscience into a commercial money-spinning machine. Doctors, shop have mushroomed at every nook and corner in our cities. Teaching involves interactive sharing process which can trans­form the lives and outlook of an individual.

The destiny and character of many leading personalities have been shaped in the class­ values imbibed in the early impressionable years of life. If illiteracy is removed from our country a major problem for us will get solved. Even today an ordinary teacher has basic values and lives a simple life. Doctors, on the other hand, run after the luxuries of life. All in all, it can easily be said that teach­ing profession is better than the medical profession.

Answer 15.
When a rickshaw puller approaches Samman, we first go through a verification process. The operator is then given training on basic eti­quette and traffic rules. Then we approach the banks and help them get a loan for a new rickshaw Previously banks were reluctant to give loans to this section of the society.

Answer 16.
Chikungunya has claimed many lives in different parts of Kerala. Chief causes for the epidemic are uncontrolled dumping of garbage in public places and stagnant water where the mosquitoes breed. A collective ef­fort of all the people can bring the disease under control. I request all the residents to keep their surroundings clean.

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Kerala Plus Two English Previous Year Question Paper March 2017

Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Sample Paper Set	2017
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2 1/2 Hour
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to candidates:

• There is ‘cool off-time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time of  2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

Questions 1 – 3: Read the passage and answer the questions given below:

“I knew then that this could be my country, and that whatever I did here could make more of a difference than in the manicured reality of my university life in the states.”

Question 1.
Who is the narrator? (1)
Answer:
Shaheen Mistri

Question 2.
What does the author mean by the word “manicured”? (1)
a) Scholastic
b) Polished
c) Commonplace
d) Exciting
Answer:
b) Polished

Question 3.
Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions :
The teacher was obliged ………… begin the story ………… a bison and a tiger, and then he passed on ………… “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and “Aladdin’s Lamp”. The boy listened, rapt and ordered “I want to hear the story of the bison again. It is good …………”. The teacher was short ………… breath. (4)
Answer:
to, about, to, of

Question 4.
Edit the following letter of recommendation correcting the mistakes, if any. (4)

Dear Sir,
The purpose of this letter was to provide a character reference to Mr. Ram whom I have known as a colleague and a friend for a period of five years. I believe I were in a position to provide you with a pretty accurate assessment of his character.

As an employee, he has been very hard working and highly committed to his job. He has also been very outgoing and always willing to help others. I would conclude saying that Mr. Ram is a fine, well-balanced person with abundant of positive qualities.

Yours Sincerely,
Sankar

Answer:

Incorrect	Correct
was	is
were	am
has	had
conclude saying with an abundant	conclude saying with an abundance

(Questions 5 – 6): Read the passage and answer the questions:

“It is time to create a world where all women can meet their potential without impediment or prejudice and the world will reap the benefits. The three Ls will help us get there.”

Question 5.
What are the three Ls referred to? (1)
Answer:
Learning, Labour, and Leadership

Question 6.
What does ‘impediment’ mean? (1)
Answer:
Obstacle

Question 7.
The Amigo brothers left the ring arm in arm, without waiting for the verdict. Prepare the script for an announcement to be made soon after their exit. (3)
Answer:
Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas fought valiantly. And the winner is ……. Oh My God! Where are they? Look at that! They are going arm in arm as if they never fought. A moment ago they were fighting like mad bulls. And now? Look at them! They are going like intimate friends! What do you call it? Yes, friendship!
Who is the winner? Both are winners!

Question 8.
“Some tortures are physical and some are mental But the one that is both is dental”.
Why does the poet find it hard to keep calm while sitting before a dentist? (4)
Answer:
The poet finds it hard to keep calm while sitting before the dentist because he knows he is going to have some torture and he will have to suffer some agony. Some tortures are physical and some are mental. But here he is going to have both – physical and mental torture. Sitting on a dentist’s chair with one’s jaws on the chest and the mouth wide open is a situation that does not allow a person to be in confidence or self-control. Naturally, he can’t keep calm thinking of the impending torture that is going to be inflicted on him.

Question 9.
“We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own indeed, to embrace the world of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.” Prepare a blog entry based on your understanding of Wangari Maathai’s speech. (4)
Answer:
Emerson once said, “Nature never hurries, atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.” He is very right when we think how the trees grow taking their time to reach their full status as trees. Before a tree becomes a full-fledged tree it passes through many stages – seed, seedling, sapling and then a tree. Some trees take years to become real trees. But look at man! How cruelly he cuts them down in just a few minutes to use it as fuel, for furniture work, construction works and even to make paper. Sometimes man destroys entire forests to convert into farmlands or to make factories and residential areas. Large scale deforestation brings about climatic changes.

Trees absorb the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and supply us oxygen. They prevent the soil from eroding. They help in blocking the clouds and bring rain. They supply us a lot of forest products like honey, wax and different kind of herbs and roots. Nowadays forests are converted into National Parks attracting tourists from all over the world. That way also, trees bring us money. Thus forests help us in so many ways and so destroying them will be suicidal.

We all should emulate Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan lady and the Nobel Prize Winner, who led a crusade against deforestation. She rightly said: We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own.” She wanted a world of creation, in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. She wanted each person to plant some trees as his duty to help himself and also posterity. John Keats, the famous English Romantic poet said, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” I believe a tree is a thing beauty and we should do our best to preserve our trees and plant new ones.

Question 10.
Fill in the blanks choosing the correct expressions from those given in brackets:
After Marshall left Baldwin took out his diary and wrote as follows:
God! What a turn of events! I never thought that my own wife and children would persuade me to do a dishonourable thing. I was almost …………. (pushing/pushed) into accepting the bribe. Thank God, Marshall …………. (coming/came) at the right time. His …………. (offering/offered) the position came as a pleasant surprise, though. I …………. (feels/feel) pity for poor Gresham. May God bless him. (4)
Answer:
pushed, came, offering, feel

Question 11.
While reading about Irfan Alam’s Sammaan rickshaws, you are reminded of ‘She taxi’ introduced in Kerala. Write an e-mail to Irfan Alam informing him about this project for the social and economic empowerment of women.
(‘She taxi’ – technology-enabled safety cab services – operated by women – to carry women commuters – first of its kind in India – 24 x 7 – with emergency response systems and control room – ensures the safety of women travellers – empowers the women – makes them financially independent) (5)
Answer:
irfanalam@hotmail.com
Sub: Empowering Women – ‘She Taxi’ Kerala’s Experiment

Dear Irfan, I read about the Samman Foundation and how it has been helpful in empowering the poor rickshaw pullers to have a comfortable life. I want to congratulate you on your initiative in starting this Foundation and its continued support of its members. I thought about your foundation when I saw the ‘She Taxi’ that is recently introduced in Kerala. In our State we have a very large number of women workers who commute to work. Because of the IT companies, hospitals and newspaper offices and such other place which continue working in the night, women are required to travel at night also. There were cases of molestations and rapes. And this has led to the concept of ‘She Taxi’.

She-Taxi is a technology-enabled safety cab service operated by women. They carry women passengers, mainly commuters. This is the first of its kind in India. Their services are available 24 × 7. There is provision for emergency response systems and access to the police control rooms. The main idea behind ‘She-taxi’ is ensuring the safety of female travellers. It empowers the women who drive these taxis and those who manage them by making them financially independent. The She-taxi venture has been receiving good support from the public.

Question 12.
The teacher in “Crime and Punishment’ is a pathetic figure at the mercy of his student who blackmails him. Don’t you think that he should change his approach to the child for making him disciplined? Write four sentences giving your suggestions to the teacher. (4)
Answer:

1. The teacher should change his attitude toward his job. Here he seems to work only to get his extra 30 rupees a month.
2. He should use more positive methods to make the child listen to him.
3. Make the lesson inter¬esting for the boy so that the boy is properly motivated.
4. Teachers should never resort to corporal punishment. Slapping a small boy hard on the cheek, leaving a scar there is not at all good for a teacher.

Question 13.
The incident that occurs in the play “Post Early for Christmas” shows the lack of security measures in the post office as well as the ignorance of the postal and the police personnel about handling an issue. Prepare a news report of the incident highlighting the corrective measures to be taken. (1)
Answer:
London: 20 December 2016. There was a time bomb scare at the Milton Square Post Office in London in the rush hours of the morning. From my talks with the Post office Assistant and some onlookers this is what transpired at the post office. A foreign tourist arrived with well-wrapped parcel and he said it contained something precious and he was sending it to his friend as a special Christmas present.

Some questions he asked about the safety of the parcel and about the time it would reach the central post Office for clearing created some doubts in the minds of the Postal Assistant.

The parcel was booked and the tourist left forgetting his gloves on the counter. Soon the Assistant noticed that there was a ticking sound coming from the parcel. She mentioned it and immediately a farmer who was present there said it must be a time bomb. He had read an alert in the Newspaper which was issued by the Scotland Yard asking people to be on their alert for ominous looking parcels.

He was certain that his parcel contained a time bomb. People got scared and they ran for cover. The farmer asked for a bucket of water. In the meantime a police man was brought. Soon the tourist returned to take his gloves back. There was an argument between the policeman and the tourist. The policeman then threw the parcel into the bucket of water. The tourist was angry with everyone there for spoiling his precious Swiss Watch he had bought for his friend.

It is obvious that the both the Postal Assistant and the policeman made mistakes. The post office should not have accepted any suspicious looking parcel. The contents of the packet should be verified before accepting it. This can be done in two ways. The packet should be transparent. Or the content should be packed before the person accepting the parcel. The policeman should not have rushed to the conclusion that it was a time bomb. Would the foreign tourist return to the place if it was a time bomb? Simple logic should have told the policeman it is not a time bomb.

Question 14.
After reading “Mending Wall” and in the wake of newspaper reports about millions of refugees who are denied entry into the developed nations you feel that there should be one world for all without any walls or boundaries. Prepare a script for presentation as the first speaker in a panel discussion on “One World Without Walls”. (5)
Answer:

One World without Walls

Dear friends,
I’m happy to open this panel discussion on the topic “One World without Walls”. You are hearing reports that refugees are refused entry into many countries. Where will they go? They flee their motherland because of the suicidal wars going on there in the name of religion, tribe, race, language, region or some kind of ‘isms’. In their own land they will be killed. So what is their choice except to run away and seek shelter in another country? But the country to which they intend to go blocks them and says, “Don’t come here!”

In Mending the Wall, Robert Frost says that we make walls to keep some things in and some things out. We want to keep those things and people we like inside the wall. We want the things and people we don’t like to be outside the wall. Building wall is against the natural process and it brings calamity. We all heard about the Berlin Wall which divided East and West Germany. Where is the Wall now? Gone! Gone into history.

Look at our own country. Before our independence we had one unified India. Then there was partition, dividing India into India and Pakistan. So many people were killed in India and Pakistan and so much suffering came to people. Families, kith and kin were separated into two countries. Then what happened? In 1971 there was the Indo-Pakistani War leading to the creation of Bangladesh. Pakistan was divided into two – Pakistan and Bangladesh. So, one person who was an Indian in 1947, became a Pakistani after the Partition and then a Bangladeshi after 1971. The same person becoming three different citizens at three different stages of his life! Isn’t it ridiculous!

Science and technology have made the world a big village. So why don’t we think of a world without walls? Things happening in one county affect the others also. What we need is a peaceful, joyful world where we all can live like brothers and sisters enjoying all the good things of life. A dream? I’m not sure!

Question 15.
What are the personality changes manifested due to the sensory deprivation induced by drug addiction, according to Dr. Hardin B. Jones? (4)
Answer:
Dr. Hardin B. Jones shows that there are many per¬sonality changes manifested due to the sensory deprivation induced by drug addiction. Sensual drugs and alcoholic drinks play havoc with the body and mind of their users. The drug and alcoholic addicts experience sensory deprivation. They feel physical discomfort and there are personality changes in them. They often feel depressed. They fail to respond either to their environment or to other people. Their mental disturbances can be like paranoia.

The addicts know they have a problem, but they can’t solve it. Drugs and alcoholic drinks cause hair fall and the addicts can easily catch diseases like pneumonia tuberculosis, malnutrition and weight loss. Overdoses of drugs and alcohol can cause respiratory and cardiac failure and result even in death. It is easy to start any bad habit but it will be difficult to stop it. So say no to drugs and alcoholic drinks.

Question 16.
Read the following advertisement and prepare a letter of application and a resume in response to it.
Vidyajyothi High School, Pathanamthitta
We are a dynamic and progressive educational institution with a strong and firm focus on quality and innovative practices in education.
We are on the lookout for High School Teachers
Subject: Maths
Candidates must have

• Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in Maths with first class
• A minimum of two years of teaching experience
• Excellent communication skills

Interested candidates may send their resume with recent photograph to careers@vidyajoyothi.co.in
Last Date of Submission : 31.01.2016 (6)
Answer:
Letter of application and resume
careers@vidyajyoti.co.in
Sub: Application for the post of a Maths Teacher

I saw your advertisement, l am interested in applying for the post as I thought my qualification and experience would suit your requirements.

I am enclosing my detailed resume for your perusal.

I will be available for an interview from now till the end of this month. You may decide the time and place. I will present all the original documents at the time of the interview.

Hoping to get the interview letter soon,

Yours faithfully,
Hamza Mohammed

RESUME OF HAMZA MOHAMMED

Question 17.
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Price Acceptance speech reveals how environmental degradation is carried out on a large scale basis. Prepare an essay on the factors that lead to a destruction of our environment.
(OR)
“The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles . and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder”. Wangari Maathai calls upon the youth to save the earth from destruction. Write an essay exploring the positive steps that we can take to save the planet from environmental degradation (8)
Answer:
Factors that Lead to the Destruction of our Environment:
With the growth of the world population, there is an increasing need for space. Land is needed for agricultural, industrial and most importantly urban needs to contain cities. People find an easy solution in “Deforestation”. Deforestation is the basic cause of the destruction of our environment. Deforestation means the felling of trees and clearing of forest to make that land available for residential, commercial or industrial purposes.

Deforestation can also be seen as removal of forests leading to several imbalances ecologically and environmentally. What make deforestation alarming are the immediate and long term effects it is bound to cause. Some predictions state that the rainforests of the world will be destroyed completely if deforestation continues at its current pace.

Destruction of the environment occurs due to several reasons. They include agricultural activities, logging, urbanization, desertification of land and soil erosion, mining and forest fires. As can be seen, most of them are caused by man whereas a couple of them – like desertification and forest fires – could be natural causes. But even those are aided by man through defective use of land and carelessness.

The effects of the destruction of our Environment can be are calamitous. It brings climate imbalance. It increases global warming. It causes soil erosion. It causes floods in some areas and droughts in some other areas. There is the danger of wild life extinction. Unless we become sensible and conserve our forests we are willingly causing our doom. If we destroy nature, nature has a way of destroying us. Nature has patience but it can run out at anytime and once it runs out only God can save us! Remember that we have only one habitat – the earth. By destroying our environment we are destroying our home, our habitat. Each one of us has to do our bit in protecting our home.

(OR)

Steps We Can Take To Save The Planet:
As Wangari Maathai said, “The challenge is to restore the horned of tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder.” It is a big challenge. Today the environment is destroyed in a mindless manner. There is air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution. There is deforestation. And all these culminate in serious damages to the ecosystem and the environment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Nature never hurries, atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work,” He is very right when we think how the trees grow taking their time to reach their full status as trees. Before a tree becomes a full-fledged tree it passes through many stages – seed, seedling, sapling and then tree. Some trees take years to become real trees. But look at man! How cruelly he cuts them down in just a few minutes to use it as fuel, for furniture work, construction works and even to make paper. Sometime man destroys entire forests to convert into farmlands or to make factories and residential areas. Large scale deforestation brings about climatic changes. Even in Kerala there are climatic changes because of the large scale destruction of forests.

Trees absorb the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and supply us oxygen. They prevent the soil from eroding. They help in blocking the clouds and bring rain: They supply us a lot of forest products like honey, wax and different kind of herbs and roots. Nowadays forests are converted into National Parks attracting tourists from all over the world. That way also, trees bring us money. Thus forests help us in so many ways and so destroying them will be suicidal.

Wangari Maathai wanted each person to plant some trees as his duty to help himself and also posterity. In India we had the Chipko Movement. When the contractors came to cut down the trees, the women from the locality rushed to the forest and stood near the trees embracing them. Chipko in Hindi means embrace. The men who came to cut down the trees had to go back because of the people em¬bracing the trees. We can help the preservation of our environment by planting trees.

We can also help by having kitchen gardens and herbal groves in our yards and compounds. In the kitchen garden we should ensure that we grow only organic vegetables. No artificial fertilizers and no pesticides.

We can help by keeping our watersheds safe and clean. Avoid the use of plastic bags and bottles. Plastic bags do a lot of harm to the environment. We can also make use of the public transport systems instead of riding our own cars and bikes. We also can try to prevent people from throwing waste here and there and from letting the factory effluents and sewage water running into lakes and streams. Many drops make a mighty ocean. Let us do our bit and see how we can help in preserving the environment.

Question 18.
The literacy club of your school is celebrating the International Women’s Day. Prepare the script for a speech on “Educating the girl child” to be delivered on the occasion.
(OR)
“ …….. They need to change the mindest and reset the narrative in their favour. So it is essential that women be ready to “dare the difference” – to take risks and step outside their comfort zones.” Based on your reading of Christine Lagarde’s speech, prepare an essay on how women can realise their true potential. (8)
Answer:
Educating a girl child:
Respected Principal, dear teachers and friends,

There is a beautiful adage among Africans which says, “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. But if you educate a girl, you educate a whole village.” They are also fond of saying: “What a man can do, a woman can do better.” I think both these adages carry a lot meaning especially these days when we are keen on talking about women empowerment.

Empowering women is an urgent need of the day, especially in our society. In the Indian society, women do not have equality with men in many areas. Although the Constitution of India ensures equality of women in all aspects of life, in practice that equality remains on paper. In the social, economic and cultural status, women are considered inferior to men. Even now there is the dowry system. When a man marries he not only gets a wife, but he also gets a lot of money or ornaments. Many women don’t get married because they have no money to pay huge dowries to men. Culturally a woman is discriminated against. She is refused entry in many places, even in places of worship just because she is a woman. There is also economic discrimination.

If a man gets Rs. 800 as his daily wages, a woman is paid only Rs. 400, although she may do more work than a man. Look at the Ministries in the Centre and the States. How many women ministers are there? Look at the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies. How many women representatives are there? We find in India equality of women is only on paper. Therefore empowerment of women is very essential.

For empowering women there are 3 Ls – Learning, Labour and Leadership.

Modern women think they are equal to men and they have a role to play even outside their homes. In the modern world, women are educated and they also want to work and earn money. They don’t want to depend on the goodwill of their husbands to get certain things they want.

Modern women also want their share in politics and leadership positions. They are no more satisfied to be led by men. They think they too have the capacity for leadership. Women like Golda Meir (Israel), Mrs. Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka), Margaret Thatcher (England) and Indira Gandhi of India have shown that women can be even better leaders than men. Today we have Theresa May as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Angela Merkel as the President of Germany. It was only because of some bad luck Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the USA. Otherwise, we would have a woman at the helm of affairs in the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

(OR)

Changing the Mindset of Women:
If women are to get empowered and get equality with men in various walks of life, first of all they have to change their mindset. It is essential that women be ready to dare the difference. The problem with women is that most of them are satisfied with the status quo. They are happy to be ‘housewives’ and they willingly change their names to be Mrs. some-body after their marriage! It is this mindset that needs to change. Women should feel that they have their individualities, their personalities and their existence. They are not mere appendage to men.

Many women of today have multiple needs. Gone are the days when they would be happy at home doing the household chores and looking after the children. Today they need good education. They want to get knowledge and thereby increase their wisdom. They want to know what is happening around the world and they want to read great books about which they have been hearing so many things from others.

Today’s women also want equality with men in job opportunities. If we look at the various professions, we find that most of the employees are men. The people on top also will be men. It is rare to find women executives at the top. Except in professions like teaching and nursing women are not given opportunities like men. Women resent it and they believe that what a man can do a woman can do better.

Today’ women want to be leaders also. Women are often kept out of leadership positions and this is more so in African countries. There they believe that women are incapable of good leadership. But today’s women want to change that attitude. In their opinion, women tend to make decisions based on consensus building, inclusion, compassion and sustainability.

They should be ready to take risk and step outside their comfort zones. The life outside the four walls of home is not all that smooth and comfy. Challenges will be there. Risks will be there. Obstacles will there. But then they have to overcome and show the world they are equal to the task. For that they need the 3 Ls of Empowerment – Learning, Labour and Leadership.

Question 19.
Read the following poem and compare it with “Any Woman” by Katharine Tynan. (8)

The Sad Mother

Sleep, sleep, my beloved,
without worry, without fear
although my soul does not sleep,
although I do not rest.

Sleep, sleep and in the night
may your whispers be softer
than a leaf of grass,
or the silken fleece of lambs.

May my flesh slumber in you,
my worry, my trembling,
In you, may my eyes close
and my heart sleep.

– Gabriela Mistral

Answer:
In “Sad Mother” Gabriela Mistral, speaks about the thoughts of a sad mother. She wants her child to sleep without any worry and fear. But she can’t sleep although she is very tired as she was working without rest the whole day. She wants her child to sleep peacefully lulled by sounds softer than a blade of grass or the silken fleece of lambs. She finds her rest in the child. All her worries and fears are forgotten when she sees her child slumbering sweetly. All her dreams and joy are concentrated on her child.

It is beautiful poem with a fine imagery. We can see a mother sitting near her sleeping child watching over it. She does not sleep, but she is contented to see her child is sleeping well. The poem has good rhythm but no rhyme. The language is simple. There is a fine comparison of sounds to a blade of grass and the silken fleece of a lamb. There is repetition the world sleep, making the reader also feel sleepy as he reads the poem.

The poem ‘Any Woman’ by Katharine Tynan speaks of the importance of the woman in the family. She is the pillars of the house. She is the keystone of the arch. She is the roof and walls. She is the fire upon the hearth. The children come to her for love and affection. She holds the family together. She is everywhere in the house – from floor to roof. She protects the children from all dangers. At the end, the woman prays to Jesus to spare her life till the children are grown up.

The language of the poem is very simple. The entire poem is an exquisite metaphor. The imagery is great. The woman doing all kinds of jobs and standing guard at the same time make us admire her capabilities. Her love is superb. There is utter unselfishness in her activities. At last we also see the birth of Jesus in the manger. We see the woman standing before Jesus praying to him to let her live till her children grow up. Katharine has painted a fine picture of a devoted mother with words. The poem in rhyme. Except in the first stanza the rhyming scheme is abab.

Between the two poems I prefer “Any Woman” because it has deeper meaning and better artistic merit.

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Kerala Plus Two English Previous Year Question Paper March 2018

Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2 1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

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• There is a ‘cool off-time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
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• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Questions 1 to 6): Answer all the questions as directed.

Read the lines from the poem ‘Stammer1 and answer the questions that follow:

‘Stammer is the silence that falls
between the word and its meaning
just as lameness is the
Silence that falls between
the word and deed

Question 1.
What is common to ‘stammer’ and ‘lameness’? (1)
Answer:
Silence

Question 2.
Identify the figure of speech employed in the lines. (1)
Answer:
Metaphor Simile

Question 3.
What does the poet think of ‘stammer”? (1)
Answer:
Stammer is the silence that falls between the word and its meaning.

Question 4.
Your class is conducting a debate on the topic ‘Nature conservation is more important than development.’ Write four arguments either in favour of or opposing the topic. (4)
Answer:
Nature Conservation is more important than development because:

1. Without Nature Conservation our flora and fauna would be ruined.
2. There will be climatic change, ozone layer depletion and global warming if Nature is not conserved.
3. We have to preserve our Nature for posterity.
4. We have only one habitat and if we don’t conserve it, we will be doomed.

Question 5.
Shaheen Mistri felt dejected when all the 20 schools in Mumbai refused permission to conduct classes for slum children in their classrooms for 3 hours in the evenings. If you were a friend of Shaheen Mistri, how would you offer sympathy and encouragement to her?
Write 3 sentences expressing your sympathy and support for her. You may use expressions like: I am sorry to ………. It is unfortunate that ……….. etc. (3)
Answer:
a) I am sorry to hear that 20 schools in Mumbai refused permission to conduct classes for slum children in their classrooms for 3 hours.
b) It is unfortunate that people are so callous that they don’t see the need for slum children to educate themselves.
c) It is very strange that even the so-called charitable and religious institutions are ready to work only for the rich who can afford to pay huge fees for their children.

Question 6.
The passage given below contains a few errors in concord and in the use of tenses, prepositions and articles. Edit the passage for these errors.
There was termites in the wooden box. They grew upwards from the bottom left corner in the shape of serpent. It was quite sometime since he had opened the box. What could he do about the trail of mud created by the termites? If he did not destroyed it immediately, it would spread over the whole box and eat up everything that was at it. (4)
Answer:
were termites; a serpent; did not destroy; in it.

(Questions 7 to 12): Each question carries 4 scores. Answer any 5 questions. (5 × 4 = 20)

Question 7.
A grand function is organized by the authorities of St. Xaviers College to felicitate the former student, Shaheen Mistri. The Principal himself introduces her to the audience. How would he introduce Shaheen Mistri? Draft the speech for him.
Answer:
My dear colleagues, students, parents, ladies and gentlemen,
We have organized this function to felicitate our former student Shaheen Mistri, who has made our school proud. In fact I remember when she came here for admission. She almost forced me to admit her. She entered my room through the side door. I was quite surprised. Before I could open my mouth, she told me, “Father, my life is in your hands. I want to do something for the children of India. I don’t know how, only that I must.” I asked her a few questions and I admitted her. I had never seen a student so committed to her ideals. If I hadn’t admitted her that day, it would have been a big loss not only for this school but the whole of India.

She founded Akanksha. The basic principle of Akanksha is providing underprivileged children with opportunities for learning. Akanksha wants the classroom to be a safe place for the children where they can forget, at least for some time, their troubles at home, and study and also enjoy. Akanksha came into existence in 1991. It started with 15 children. Now it has 3500 children with 58 centres and 6 schools. The children are taught, apart from English and Maths, values, self-esteem and confidence.

Shaheen Mistri, I would say, is a little angel. She did to the underprivileged children of Bombay what Mother Theresa did to the destitute in the streets of Calcutta. Akanksha definitely gives hope and optimism to thousands underprivileged children who have been roaming the streets, poor and hungry and prone to commit crimes. Shaheen Mistri is a reformer and she will be remembered by the people for a long time to come.

Let there be more Shaheen Mistris in our midst so that we can have a great country!

Question 8.
“Antonio and Felix were well liked and respected. Each had his own loyal following”, says Piri Thomas in ‘Amigo Brothers’. How did these adolescent boys become the role models of the residents of Manhattan? Attempt your answer in a paragraph of 80 words.
Answer:
Antonio Crux and Felix Vargas were both 17. They were so together in friendship that they felt like brothers. They had known each other from childhood. They grew up in the same building on the lower East Side of Manhattan. They both had a dream – becoming the light weight champion of the world. Whenever they got a chance they exercised. They would run every day morning wearing sweat shirts and short towels around their necks. Soon a wall arose between them. They were told that they were to meet each other on the division finals. The winner would represent the Boy’s Club in the Golden Gloves Championship Tournament. That means only one of them would go to the Tournament. They were both popular as boxers.

In the division finals they fight 3 rounds. In the two 2 rounds they remain even. In the 3rd round they fight fiercely, so fiercely that the spectators thought they were witnessing a fight to death and not a boxing match. They did not even hear the whistle to end the match but went on pounding each other. Finally the referee and trainers had to separate them. They leave the stage embracing each other. Their friendship is still intact. Thus they became role models of the residents of Manhattan.

Question 9.
Elaborate the idea in the lines given below:
This is better than money what good times! The government gives rice to those who don’t have paddy fields.
Answer:
This should be taken as a joke because no government can give rice to those who don’t have paddy fields. The paddy cultivators are only a few and the vast majority of the people don’t have paddy fields. How is it then possible for the government to give rice to all? If the government gives rice to those without paddy fields, definitely it will be better than money. We can surely say then that good times have come to our land.

But this is simply the fond dream of some funny guys who want to say things without any basis. This is also a kind of ridicule at the rulers, who obviously, can’t fulfil the dreams of the people. Or this can be considered an election promise which will never be carried out. When standing for elections, various parties come out with empty promises. This can be just one of them to fool the ignorant masses who never really learn their lesson.

Question 10.
Poet critic K. Satchidanandan has won the Ezhuthachan Award for his contribution to literature. Your class has decided to send an e-mail congratulating him on this achievement. As the leader of the class, what would you write in the e-mail? Draft the e-mail.
Answer:
ksatchidanandan@gmail.com
Dear Sir,
We have come to know that you have won the Ezhuthachan Award for your contribution to literature. Congratulations!

You are a noted and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. You are a pioneer of modem poetry in Malayalam. We can very well say you are a versatile genius as you are also a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator. You were also the former Editor of Indian Literature journal and the former Secretary of Sahitya Akademi. You are also a public intellectual of repute upholding secular anti-caste views, supporting causes like environment, human rights and free software and you are also a well-known speaker on issues concerning contemporary Indian literature. We are very proud of you. We pray God to give you a long life so that you can continue writing to benefit people like us.

Question 11.
Your class is conducting a group discussion on the topic ‘Discipline at home and in the school creates good citizens’. As the first presenter of the topic, write your script for the presentation.
Answer:
My dear friends,

The topic for our Group Discussion today is “Discipline in the home and in the school creates good citizens”. I don’t think there is any controversy in this topic. There is a Latin proverb which says, “Serva ordinem et ordo servabit te”. It means keep the law and the law will keep you. This is a very sound advice. Right from the childhood, starting from home, we should learn to be disciplined. A child who is disciplined at home tends to be disciplined in the school also. But there are people who think too much discipline takes away the curiosity and fun from the mind of children. Nobody says there should be too much discipline. Discipline is a positive thought.

Discipline does not necessarily mean a list of Don’t Dos. A disciplined child behaves well, respects his elders and teachers and is helpful to others. He is not greedy or selfish and such children soon become the darlings of everyone. Discipline demands hard work. Only with hard work one can succeed today. So I would say “Be Disciplined” and that would help you to go a long way in the journey of life.

Question 12.
Do you agree with Irfan Alam that “It is important to dream, but it is equally important to take calculated risks to achieve your dream”? Express your own opinion in a paragraph of 80 words.
Answer:
I quite agree with Irfan Alam that “It is quite important to dream, but it is equally important to take calculated risks to achieve your dream”. Irfan Alam was only 17, when the idea of selling water bottles in rickshaws occurred to him. He soon took a calculated risk. The very next day he talked to 5 rickshaw pullers and gave them 8 bottles of water each. The profit was to be split between them and Irfan. For each bottle the profit would be Rs. 2. The very first day Irfan got Rs. 8. Later in 2006, in a TV show, Irfan suggested that rickshaws should be redesigned so that the spaces on the vehicles could be sold for advertising and brand promotion. He also suggested additional income for the rickshaw pullers by selling water, juice, biscuits, mobile cards and newspapers to the passengers.

His proposal won the competition and he was did not take the money because the organizers of the TV show did not agree with his proposals. But later in 2007 with the support of rickshaw pullers SammaaN was founded. There are some 10 million rickshaws operating in India. SammaaN helped rickshaw pullers to increase their income by 30 to 40%. SammaaN has been successful in making the lives of the rickshaw pullers and their families happier. Irfan has done a wonderful job and he did it by taking calculated risks. Anybody can cream, but only the one ready to take risks will succeed.

(Questions 13 to 18): Answer any 5 questions. Each question carries 6 scores. (5 × 6 = 30)

Question 13.
In connection with Anti-narcotics Day, your school is holding an elocution competition on the topic ‘Drug abuse destroys the individual, the society and the nation’. You are one of the competitors. Prepare your speech.
Answer:
Respected Chairman and honourable guests on the dais, friends, ladies and gentlemen,

Today we are observing Anti-Narcotics Day because many people abuse drugs for some temporary pleasure without realizing how dangerous drug abuse can be. Drug abuse has both mental and physical impacts. The drug addict experiences sensory deprivation. He has a general feeling of physical discomfort and there are personality changes in him. The addict feels depressed.

He fails to respond to his environment and to other people. His mental disturbance can be like paranoia. The addict knows he has a problem but he does not know what the cause for it is. He looks at external objects with suspicion. Anything outside scares him and he draws further and further into himself. There are also drug related physical disorders. Dry needles and solutions used for injecting drugs can cause abscesses in the arms and veins. They can cause liver disease, venereal diseases and infection of the kidney and brain. Sniffing cocaine and amphetamines can damage the tissue of the nose.

Marijuana and tobacco smoking can cause lung diseases. Babies of women who are addicted to opiates are likely to be bom addicted and suffer from withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine and amphetamines cause hair fall. Marijuana can damage cells. A drug addict can easily get pneumonia, tuberculosis, malnutrition and weight loss. An overdose of any sensual drug can cause respiratory or cardiac failure and death.

Question 14.
A reporter who happened to visit the post office at the time of the incidents in ‘Post Early for Christmas’ started writings news report in this manner:
Commotion in Post Office over a Hoax Bomb Alert East London: A hoax bomb alert caused much panic and confusion in a rural post office …………
Complete the report.
Answer:
Commotion in Post Office over a Hoax Bomb Alert Easton London: A hoax bomb alert caused much panic and confusion in a rural post office. The Village Post Office was crowded because people wanted to post their Christmas presents in time. The young Lady Assistant in the Post Office was very busy. Customers like Mrs. Smith, Mr. Jones, a deaf old gentleman, a farmer, a fussy old lady, Mrs. Higgins and Bertie, her son, were giving their parcels to the Assistant and were talking to one another about the offered seed money of Rs. 150 lakhs for his ideas to be implemented. He current happenings in the village. Then came a foreign tourist.

He was dark and evil looking. Her was dressed in black and spoke with an accent. He greeted the Assistant and told her to send the parcel he had brought. He removed his gloves and left them on the counter. The Assistant was happy the way the parcel was packed. It was very heavy. He said he could not post the parcel earlier because he came to this country only a few days ago. He wanted to know how long it would take for it to reach the Central Post Office to be sorted. He hoped the postal department would take good care of the parcel. He wanted to know if it would be opened. He was worried if it would be stolen. The Assistant reassured him that it would be safely delivered to his friend.

The Assistant was a bit worried as to what was in the parcel. Bertie had a look at it. Bertie could hear some sound from the parcel. The Assistant also heard some ticking noise. The Farmer said he also could hear it. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith also heard it. The Farmer thought it was a time bomb. Everybody was worried. Mrs. Higgins asked Bertie to go and bring a policeman. The Assistant wanted to take and place the parcel outside but the farmer asked her to leave it as it would explode if she took it.

The Farmer asked people to take cover as the ticking noise was increasing. The policeman came. As the policeman was noting down things, the Foreign Tourist came back to take his gloves which he had left on the counter. He said the parcel contained a clock which he had bought all the way from Switzerland! There was no bomb!

Question 15.
The dialogues of John, son of Robert Baldwin, at the beginning and in the middle of the play are given below:

Beginning		Middle
1.	He wanted you to lie to save his skin.	It’s going to be a nasty mess if they put John Gresham in Jail.
2.	I’d have told him to go to the devil.	Nobody loses a cent. Nobody wants to see him punished
3.	Wasn’t satisfied with underpaying his employees; had to rob his depositors!	A hundred thousand is a lot of money.

Now, attempt a character sketch of John Robert Baldwin in about 100 words.
Answer:
John is the 27-year old son of Baldwin and Martha. He earns just 30 dollars a week. His father had taught him to remain honest and truthful in all circumstances. When he comes to know that Gresham had stolen bank’s money he was angry with Gresham. He said Gresham was a bad man who wanted his father to tell a lie just to save his skin. If he were in his father’s position he would tell Gresham to go to hell. According to him Gresham was a really cruel man who underpaid his employees and now he wanted to rob his depositors also.

John would not do anything to save Gresham. But John’s stand changed when he came to know that his father was offered 100,000 dollars by Gresham just to say “I don’t remember” when he was asked crucial questions in the court. Now John comes out with some queer logic. He tells his father that if Gresham is put in jail there would be a nasty mess, meaning his father should help him not to go to jail. Nobody loses a cent and nobody wants to see Gresham punished.

So why doesn’t his father take 100,000 dollars and say “I don’t remember”? A hundred dollars, after all, is a lot of money. Here we see how the young man Jphn is ready to sell his soul for a certain amount of money. He forgets all his morals and all his honesty. Money can really make saints sinners.

Question 16.
“God has given me two ears to listen to others. I hear them out with sympathy and without any judgement. When a person in trouble or under a lot of strain finds an outlet for his worries, it relieves half his burden”.
These words of Ratna inspired Sudha Murty. She wants to report Ratna’s words to her own children. Write down the report.
Answer:
Ratna said that God had given hertwo earsto listen to others. She added that she heard them out with sympathy and without any judgement. She further said that when a person in trouble or under a lot of strain found an outlet for his worries, it relieved half of his burden.

Question 17.
A ‘Female Films’ Festival was held in your school to focus on women empowerment in the arts. Read the notice and prepare a report of the film festival.

Answer:

ABC SCHOOL

Date 8.12.2017

A “Female Film Festival” was held in our school auditorium on 7 December 2017. It started at 9.30 am. The Festival began with a prayer by the school Choir. Welcome Speech followed. It was delivered by Dr. Sujata S., the Principal of the school. The Presidential Address was given by Smt. Devi N., the PTA President. The Inaugural Address was by Vidhu Vincent, the film Director. Felicitations were offered by Sri M. Raju, Panchayat Member. Vote of Thanks followed and it was done by Smt. Sreekala N., Staff Secretary. All the speakers highlighted the need for women empowerment in the arts.

This was followed by film shows. At 10.30, the film “Udaharanam Sujatha” was shown. After the film there was lunch break. All the participants were provided with lunch.

After lunch two more films were shown. At 1.00 p.m. the film “English Vinglish” was screened. Then at 4 the film “Chak De, India!” was shown. The programme came to a close at 6.45 p.m. with the National Anthem sung by the School Choir. It was a highly successful Festival and the participants were quite pleased.

Question 18.
The literary club of your school has decided to visit the poet satirist Chemmanam Chacko and interview him. What would you ask him?
Frame 6 relevant questions for the interview.
Answer:
Interview with Chemmanam Chacko

Leader: Sir, we are the members of the literary club of our school and we have come to ask you some questions about your work. We will not take much of your time. We shall be recording your replies.
Chemmanam Chacko: You are welcome. Please make yourself comfortable. Okay, I am ready to answer your questions.

1st Member: We studied your poem “Rice” as part of our school work. How do you get these ideas?
2nd Member: Sir, most of your poems are satires. Have you written any lyric poem?
Leader: Which Malayalam poet do you admire most?
1st Member: We have seen that in some of your poems you ridicule the politicians and leaders. Do they show any anger for exposing them?
2nd Member: We too want to write poems like yours. What advice would you give us?

(Questions 19 to 21): Answer any 2 questions. Each question carries 8 scores. (2 × 8 = 16)

Question 19.
Read the following advertisement put forward by the Research and Development wing of SammaaN to recruit Junior Assistant. Draft an application letter and resume.

Answer:
From:
Abdul Umar
11/XI Azad Road
Irinjalakuda
PIN: 680-125

To
The Officer In-Charge
Research and Development Wing
SammaaN Foundation
P.B. No. 395
Bihar
PIN: 180 123
3 August 2018

Dear Sir,
Sub: Application forthe post of a Junior Assistant.

This has reference to your advertisement appearing in “The Hindu”, dated 1 August 2018.

I am a graduate with additional skills in computer operations. I can handle 3 languages easily. I have excellent communication skills and I feel I can perform well if you give me an opportunity to work in your organization.

I can come for any interview at any time and in any place of your choice. I am enclosing my Bio-data and also copies of my certificates.

I assure you of full satisfaction if I am given a chance to work under you.
Hoping to hear from you,

Yours faithfully,
(Abdul Umar)
Encl: 3

BIO-DATA OF ABDUL UMAR:
Career Objective: To work in a firm where I can use my talents and capabilities for the welfare of all and also learn new things.
1. Name : Abdul Umar
2. Contact Address : 11/XI Azad Road, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, 680-125
3. E-mail : addulumar@hotmail.com
4. Mobile No. : 8547028876
5. Educational Qualifications:

• B.A. English, (2016), from Christ College irinjalakuda, with 80% marks.
• +2 (2013) from Don Bosco HSS, Irinjalakuda, with 85% marks.
• SSLC from Don Bosco, Irinjalakuda, with 79% marks.

6. Computer Skills : Tally
7. Experience : Worked for Kerala Solvent Extractions (P) Ltd, Irinjalakuda, for one year as an office clerk.
8. Languages known : Malayalam, Hindi, English
9. Hobbies : Reading and Outdoor Games
10. Special Abilities :

• I was on the Editorial Board of the College Magazine.
• I was a member of the College Football team

Referees:

• Joe Cheriyan, Lecturer in English. Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Phone No. 85470 255882.
• Gafoor Mohammed, Ward Member, Irinjalakuda Panchayat, Phone No. 0480-2825506.

I hereby declare that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Sd/-
(Abdul Umar)

Question 20.
Study the poster given below:

Now, write an essay on ‘Co-existence of man and nature for sustainable living’ in about 150 words.
Answer:
Co-existence of man and nature for sustainable living: The world is facing a crisis today. We hear about dangerous things like global warming, ozone layer depletion, atmospheric pollution and many flora and fauna going extinct. If global warming continues at the present rate the polar ice will melt flooding the oceans which will drown coastal towns and cities. Some island countries would be wiped out completely.

Why are all these dangerous things happening? They are happening because of man’s greed and avarice’. He wants to exploit nature excessively. The results are easy to see. Our water is contaminated, there is too much plastic waste, there is heavy industrial waste, there is deforestation because of development projects that destroy our forests and convert them into concrete jungles. There is also noise pollution which badly affects our mind and thought processes.

Fortunately everything is not lost. There are some solutions to the problems. We should do our best to preserve our mangroves. We should protect our marine life. There are the Rs.3 that are significant – Reduce our consumption, Reuse the things and Recycle our waste. We should conserve our wild life. We should respect the earth and obey the environment protection laws. If we don’t do these things we are going to be in trouble. The earth is patient, but if we play with her patience she can unleash her fury – tsunamis and Okhis are manifestations of the anger of Mother Earth.

Question 21.
Read the poem carefully. Compare the poem with ‘Any Woman’.

The Heart of a Woman

The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on
A far o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The heart of woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

– Georgia Douglas Johnson

Answer:
“The Heart of a Woman” by Maya Angelou (Not by Georgia Douglas Johnson as mentioned in the question paper) is a beautiful little poem which contrasts the dreams and desires of a woman with the actual realities. The heart of a woman goes out in the dawn as a lone bird and it roams about the towers and valleys of life.

But soon her heart remembers her home. She comes back in the night and is in her home like a caged bird. She then forgets all her fantastic dreams which break up against the realities of life. The poem is in rhyme with the scheme aabb. There is personification and repetition in it. It is pessimistic in tone.

“Any Woman” by Katherine Tynan shows the importance of the mother. She is the pillar of the house. She is the keystone of the arch. If you take her away, the roof and the wall will fall down. She is the fire upon the hearth, She is the light of the sun. She is the heat that warms the sun. The children get their warmth from her. She is the light of their love. Without her the children would not thrive. She holds the children together. She is the wall that protects the children from all kinds of dangers.

She constantly prays to God to keep her alive until her children are grown up. In this poem except in the first stanza the rhyme scheme is abab. There is personification and hyperbole here. There is also repetition. Between the two poems, I prefer “Any Woman” by Katherine Tynan as it is positive in its outlook.

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Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2^1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to candidates:

• There is a ‘cool off time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and the only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Question Nos. (1 – 3): Read the passage and answer the questions:

“Yes”, he said, “yes” and shipped his oars without bumbing the boat. He reached out for the line and held it softly between the bumb and forefinger of his right hand. He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly. Then it came again. This time it was a tentative pull, not solid nor heavy, and he knew exactly what it was.

Question 1.
What is ‘he’ engaged in? (1)
Answer:
He is engaged in fishing.

Question 2.
What is the ‘line’ referred to in the passage? (1)
Answer:
The ‘line’ is the thread on which the hook is tied, in fishing.

Question 3.
What does the word ‘tentative’ mean here?
(i) Strong
(ii) Weak
(iii) Final (1)
Answer:
(ii) weak

Question 4.
After reading Christine Lagarde’s speech, a social worker is speaking to the people of your locality about the need for educating women. Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate adjectives/adjectival clauses:
Education helps women to be (seriously/financially/sustainably) independent and to break
the shackles of exclusion. Women who ……….. (look good/look after children/study) actually help themselves and their community. If learning is the first step, labour is the second. Women who ……….. (procure labour/suffer discrimination/challenge the social norms) are able to flourish and achieve their true potential. They contribute to the development and well-being of the community. So it is ……….. (clear/essential/favourable) that women equip themselves with education. (4)
Answer:
financially, study, challenge the social norms, essential

(Question Nos. 5 & 6) Answer the questions after reading the passage from the play “The Hour of Truth”.

“I’ve got only a few years to live but I’ll live those as I’ve lived the rest of my life. I’ll go to my grave clean”.

Question 5.
Who speaks these words? (1)
Answer:
Baldwin

Question 6.
Why does he say so? (2)
Answer:
He says that because he was offered a bribe by his friend John Gresham for not telling the truth in the court. But Baldwin says he had always lived a clean life and he would never lie for money.

Question 7.
Irfan Alam comes to your school to inaugurate the Youth Club. Prepare a script for announcement introducing him (Young Entrepreneur – founder and chairman of SammaaN Foundation – recognized as one of the top thirty Youth Icons of India by the Times of India). (4)
Answer:
I am very happy to introduce Irfan Alam, who is here to inaugurate our Youth Club. You may have already heard about him. He is a young and energetic entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of SammaaN Foundation. Irfan was the one who suggested that rickshaws should be redesigned so that the spaces in the vehicles could be sold for brand promotion. He also suggested that additional incomes could be got by selling water, juice, biscuits, mobile cards, and newspapers to the passengers in the rickshaws. This is his prize-winning proposal.

SammaaN Foundation runs free evening classes called SammaaN Gyaan which is attended by the rickshaw pullers. Society needs more people like Irfan Alam with innovative ideas. The Times of India has said that Irfan Alam is one of the top thirty Youth icons of India. We are lucky to have such a great person in our midst. I am sure he will be an inspiration to all of us.

Question 8.
Edit the passage correcting the mistakes:
Excitement over what drugs can do have led people to believe that any ailments, infective or psychic, can be relieved by taking a pill. Medical journals now advertises tranquilizers, amphetamines and other mood-altering drugs; doctors prescribe them, and the public expect miracles from them (4)
Answer:
Excitement over what drugs can do have(has) led people to believe that any ailments(ailment), infective or psychic, can be relieved by taking a pill. Medical journals now advertises(advertise) tranquilizers, amphetamines and other mood-altering drugs; doctors prescribe them, and the public expect miracles from them.

Question 9.
After reading Sudha Murty’s “Horegallu”, you realize that it would be worth setting up horegallus on the pavements to help citizens to take a break and ease themselves. Write a letter to the Mayor of your city putting forth the suggestion and explaining the reasons. (5)
Answer:
Honourable Mayor,
I am writing this letter to request you to do something – to make travels easier for the people of this city. I happened to read a story called Horegallu by Sudha Murty. It impressed me greatly and I thought we too could do something to help our travellers.

A horegallu is a stone bench. It helps a person to sit down and rest for some time so that he can regain his energy. Horegallus are essential in a journey. Every now and then we need to sit down and refresh ourselves. So I request you to place horegallus at convenient venues for the use of tired travellers.

Horegallu also has another meaning. Horegallu also can be a person who can listen sympathetically to the problem of others. We all have problems. Life is a journey and we all need horegallus every now and then to regain our strength. We ourselves should be like a horegallu. We may not be in a position to help everybody, to solve his problems but at least we can give people a sympathetic hearing and it will help them. So, as the Mayor of this great city you can think how such horegallus could be provided at regular intervals.

I am sure you will give due consideration to my humble request.

Yours respectfully,
Natasha Joseph

Question 10.
You are a friend of the Amigo brothers and you witnessed the contest between them with great excitement. Prepare a blog entry describing the contest. (5)
Answer:
Felix Vargas weighed 144 pounds and his rival Antonio 133 pounds. The winner was to represent the Boy’s Club in the tournament of champions, The Golden Gloves. There would be no draw in the fight.

The referee gave instructions telling them that it should be a clean fight. In the first round, both the contestants did their best to outwit the other. Both were equally strong, in the second round also the same thing happened. Punches flew back and forth. But none was floored. Each punch was applauded thunderously by the crowd.

The third round came, each wanted to win. They punched each other very hard. Nobody fell to the canvas. The final bell rang but the fight continued. The bell rang again and again. But there was no stop to the fighting. People got worried. It looked as if they were witnessing a do or die fight and not a contest. Then the referee and the trainers separated the contestants. Now the contestants embrace. They were fighting like bulls a moment ago. Now both were winners. Let their tribes increase!

Question 11.
“Each time we stammer
we are offering a sacrifice
to the God of meanings”.
Why does the poet think so? (2)
Answer:
The poet thinks so because each time we stammer we cannot bring out our meanings properly and also it gives a wrong impression to our listeners. That is why the poet says when we stammer we are offering a sacrifice to the God of meanings.

Question 12.
“O train, will yoy run a little faster-
let me get home quickly and eat my fill”.
What does the poet want to eat? (1)
Answer:
The poet wants to eat his mother’s well-cooked rice.

Question 13.
Imagine you are the poet’s neighbour in “The Mending Wall”. You want to justify your viewpoint that “Good fences make good neighbors”. Present your reasons in the form of two arguments. (2)
Answer:
I strongly think good fences make good neighbours. It is because when there are good fences, it prevents trespassing. If there are no fences the cats, dogs and chickens from one home will encroach into the territory of another. Such trespasses create unnecessary disputes between neighbours.

Question 14.
Do you think that Nomita, the character in Ashapurna Debi’s story “Matchbox” acted impulsively without thinking about the consequense? Or is she a brave woman who questions her husband’s selfish ways? Prepare a character sketch of Nomita. (5)
Answer:
Nomita is the wife of Ajit. She lives in a joint family with 26 members. She comes from a poor family. She got married into a rich family. Her mother is a widow. Nomita has no brothers or sisters. She is called queen by her mother.

Nomita’s mother often requests for money. Ajit is not too happy because of the financial demands from his mother-in-law. Letters requesting for money come to Ajit and sometimes he doesn’t even show them to Nomita. One day while collecting the soiled clothes forgiving the washerwoman, Nomita sees a letter in the pocket of Ajit. It is torn and crumbled. It is addressed to her and from the postmark she knows it came some three days ago. Nomita is very unhappy that Ajit reads all her letters. He says he reads them to ensure that she has no secret lovers. Nomita calls him a common vulgar man and he calls her the daughter of a dung picker. Nomita is enraged at this insult and she sets fire to her sari. Ajit soon comes and puts out the fire.

Nomita often makes faces. She can tell lies, she can forget things fast. She is a snob, and she has forgotten where she came from. Her action of trying to bum herself was impulsive behaviour. She did that without thinking of the consequences. Fora married woman like her such behaviour is bad. I do not think she is a brave woman but an impulsive and thoughtless woman.

Question 15.
Bring out the humour in the title “This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit” by Ogden Nash. (3)
Answer:
There is lot of humour in the title “This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit”. It describes the feeling of a person going to the dentist. Going to the dentist is really an unpleasant experience. Sitting in a chair with one’s mouth wide open is not something anybody likes. Some tortures are physical and some are mental. But the dental torture is both. In fact even the most courageous people feel nervous to go to a dentist. When sitting in the dental chair you feel like you are sitting before your slaughterer. All your senses seem to feel the pain. The title is actually just the opposite of exaggeration or hyperbole. Even when the dentist is drilling into you he goes on saying “This is going to hurt just a little bit” but actually it is hurting a lot.

Question 16.
A seminar on “Mangroves: A Rich Source of Bio-diversity” was conducted in your school. Read the programme schedule of the seminar and prepare a report.

“Mangroves : A Rich Source of Bio-diversity”
Venue : School Auditorium
Time : 10 a.m
Date : 20-07-2015

Programme
Prayer : School Choir
Welcome speech : Mrs. Suseela Kumari, Principal
Presidential Address : Dr. Satheesh Chandran, Environmental Activist
Felicitation : Santhi, Ward Councillor

Paper Presentations:
1. Mangroves: A Source of Bio-diversity – Athira M.
2. Pokkudan – The Legend of Mangroves – Noufiya
3. Ways to preserve Mangroves – Syam Gopal
4. Mangroves in Kerala – Vaisakh
Vote of Thanks – Divya Krishna, School Leader National Anthem (4)
Answer:
A REPORT
A seminarwas conducted in the school auditorium on 27th July 2015 on the topic “Mangroves: A Rich source of Biodiversity”. The seminar began at 10 am with a prayer by the school choir. It was followed by a welcome speech by Mrs. Suseela Kumari, the Principal. Then came the presidential address by Dr. Satheesh Chandran, a renowned environmental activist. He stressed the need to preserve our environment. He showed how we human beings are destroying nature by cutting down trees, filling up ponds and waterways and using insecticides everywhere and throwing garbage wherever we please. He said that unless we change, nature will destroy us through earthquakes, droughts, tsunamis and the like.

There was felicitation by Ms. Santhi, the Ward Counsellor, who said that the Ward was doing all its best to preserve the environment.

Then came Paper Presentations. There were four Papers by the following people: “Mangroves: ASource of Biodiversity” by Athira M„ “Pokkudan-The Legend of Mangroves” by Noufiya, “ Ways to Preserve Mangroves” by Syam Gopal, and “Mangroves in Kerala” by Vaishakh.

A discussion followed in which members of the audience clarified their doubts. This was followed by a Vote of thanks by Divya Krishna, the school leader. She said all the participants were immensely benefitted by the seminar. More seminars would be conducted in the immediate future. The seminar came to a close at 1 o’clock with the National Anthem.

Question 17.
A panel discussion on corporal punishment “ Corporal; punishment: Is it Justifiable?” was conducted in your school. The panel list who spoke first remarked, “Corporal punishment is not altogether bad. Children need some negative reinforcement when they behave in an undesirable way, Spare the rod and spoil the child is the dictum”.
Now prepare a brief script for the next panel list who wants to counter this argument and highlight the ill- effects of corporal punishment. (5)
Answer:
The previous speaker said that corporal punishment is not altogether bad. He said that children need some negative reinforcement when they behave in an undesirable way. To add some authority to his statement he even quoted the English proverb “Spare the rod and spoil the child”.

I completely disagree with the arguments put forward by the previous speaker. Corporal punishment is the meanest way to discipline or educate a child. You cannot teach a child by beating him blue. The child should be encouraged to learn things by positive and not negative reinforcement. By punishing the child you instil fear into him and he will develop distaste for learning and discipline. The trouble with discipline enforced by the rod is that when the rod is absent the child will tend to misbehave because he is not trained in self control.

We also know violence breeds violence. When children are beaten up, either to discipline them or to make them learn, they too will use violence on others to make them do what they want. I know many children who refuse to go to schools because they are afraid of the teachers who punish them severely. In all civilised societies, corporal punishment to children is banned.

Question 18.
a) “ The Hour of Truth” shows how an upright man resists the temptation of bride. Prepare a speech to be delivered in the school assembly about the topic “Honesty in Public Life”.
OR
b) Just like a traffic jam slows down the traffic, corruption slows down a country’s development. Prepare the script for a speech to be delivered on Gandhi Jayanthi on the topic “Corruption: Ways to counter it ” (6)
Answer:
a) HONESTY IN PUBLIC LIFE
In the story “The Hour of Truth” by Percival Wilde, we learned how Baldwin refused to take a bribe and tell a lie in the court. Gresham and Baldwin worked together in a bank of which Gresham was the governor and Baldwin was just a worker. Things were going smooth between them but Gresham misappropriates the bank money and the bank is closed. Gresham is in jail. Only Baldwin knows that it was Gresham who took the money. Therefore Gresham offers Baldwin a huge amount of $100,000 as a bribe just to say “I don’t remember” in the court when incriminating questions are asked. But Baldwin, in spite of his poverty, refuses to take the bribe. He says that he lived all his life in a clean fashion and he would like to die with his clean image intact.

Today we see corruption is rampant everywhere. In the newspapers, on radio, on TV, we always read, hear and watch stories of corruption and nepotism. Recently in Kerala we had so many cases of corruption. We don’t Know the truth about the allegations in the “Solar” case and the Gifting of lands to individuals and organisations. We also had the “Bar” issue which even forced a minister to resign.

Corruption is like a cancer that is eating into our society. All religions teach people to be honest but the followers refuse to be honest and they take bribes and show nepotism. If India is to progress, its citizens must be honest and this is especially so about people in public life who control our destinies.

b) Corruption – Ways to Counter it Today we see corruption everywhere. In the newspapers, on radio, on TV, we always read, hear and watch stories of corruption and nepotism. Recently in Kerala we had so many cases of corruption. We don’t know the truth about the allegations in the “Solar” case and the ‘Gifting of lands” to individuals and organisations. We also had the “Bar” issue which even forced a minister to resign.

Corruption is like a cancer that is eating into our society. All religions teach people to be honest but the followers refuse to be honest and they take bribes and show nepotism. If India is to progress, its citizens must be honest and this is especially so about people in public life who control our destinies.

There are ways to counter corruption. The first way is to give decent salaries to people in authority. If the police are not given salaries good enough to live decent lives, they will try to earn money in corrupt ways. The same is the case with doctors in government hospitals and workers in government offices.

Another method is creating awareness among people. Only if people give, officers will take bribes. So don’t give bribes. Insist on getting your work done without any bribes.

A third way is a moral education. Give people moral education. Spread the message that giving and taking bribes is immoral.

Another way is to punish the offenders very severely. Send those who take bribes into jails and confiscate their property. This will prevent others from indulging in corrupt practices.

Question 19.
a) ‘Damage to the brain is the most subtle, most often unrecognized and least understood consequence of drug abuse.” Prepare an eassy on the topic “The Hazards of drug abuse.”
OR
b) Dr. Hardin B. Jones gives a comprehensive idea about the effect of harmful sensual drugs on the human body. Write an essay enlisting the con¬sequences of drug addiction. (8)
Answer:
a) The Hazards of Drug Abuse
Drug abuse has both mental and physical impacts. The drug addict experiences sensory deprivation. He has a general feeling of physical discomfort and there are personality changes in him. The addict feels depressed. He fails to respond either to his environment or to other people. His mental disturbance can be like paranoia. The addict knows he has a problem. But he does not know the source of his problem and he looks for its cause in everything but himself.

He looks upon external objects with suspicion. Anything outside scares him and he withdraws further and further into himself. There are also drug-related physical disorders. Dirty needles and solutions used for injecting drugs can cause abscesses in the arms and veins. They can cause liver disease, venereal disease and infection of the kidney and brain. Sniffing cocaine and amphetamines can damage the tissue of the nose. Marijuana and tobacco smoking can cause lung diseases. Babies of women addicted to opiates are likely to be born addicted and to suffer from withdrawal symptoms.

Cocaine and amphetamines cause hair fall. Marijuana can damage cells. A drug addict can easily get pneumonia, tuberculosis, malnutrition and weight loss. An overdose of any sensual drug can cause respiratory or cardiac failure and death.

b) The same as above.

Question 20.
Inspired by Shaheen Mistri, you want to join the Akanksha Foundation as a teacher volunteer. You are Megha, a postgraduate in English Literature with good commandTwterthe language, Being a socially responsible person, you are willing to share your knowledge and skills for the benefit of the underprivileged. Prepare a letter of application and a resume to be sent to the Foundation (8)
Answer:
The Chairman
Akanksha Foundation
New Delhi

Dear Sir,
I have seen your poster asking for people to work in your Enterprise. I would be glad to offer my services as a teacher at the secondary level.

I have a Master’s Degree in English from Ravishanker University, Raipur. I have worked as a teacher in HSS Irinjalakuda for 10 years, teaching English. I would like to utilize my talents for the betterment of the underprivileged.

I shall be pleased if my application is given due consideration. Although I am willing to come at any time, anywhere, for an interview I would prefer any day between 20 June and 20 July, preferably in Thrissur district, of Kerala.

I had been dreaming of helping my countrymen in my own way and I look forward to this opportunity.

Thanking you cordially,

Yours faithfully
(Megha)

RESUME OF MEGHA:
Objective : To work in an organization that works for the welfare of the underprivileged

Education:

Degree	Class/Grade	Institution	Year of passing
M.A. (Eng.Litt.)	II	Durga Mahavidyalaya, Raipur	1997
B.A. (English)	II	Christ College, Irinjalakuda	1995
+2	A	Don Bosco HSS, Irijalakuda	1991
SSLC	A+	Don Bosco HSS, Irijalakuda	1989

Experience :
i) Teacher (HSS Irinjalakuda Teacher – 1998 – 2008)
ii) Lecturer in English (Students PG Centre Irinjalakuda 2009 – 2015)

Activities: I am a member of the YWCA, irinjalakuda Branch. I have organized blood-donation campaigns.

Achievements: I have published many journal articles on the teaching of English.

Skills: Conversant with a computer, Word. I have been the volleyball captain while at College. I play the guitar.

Languages: Malayalam, Hindi, English

Interests: Reading, travel, Western music

Megha

Question 21.
Read the following poem and compare it with “ Any Women” by Katharine Tynan.

Rock Me To Sleep

Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight
Make me a child again, just for tonight!
Mother, come back from that echoless chore;
Take me again in your heart as of yore –
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care;
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair,
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep –
Rock me to sleep, mother – rock me to sleep !

Mother, dear mother! the years have been long
Since I last listened to your lullaby song;
Sing, then and unto my soul it shall seem
Womanhood’s years have been only a dream;
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep –
Rock me to sleep, mother – rock me to sleep!
Elizabeth Akers Allen
(Yore – bygone days, furrows – lines or wrinkles) (8)
Answer:

ROCK ME TO SLEEP

This is an exquisite poem of nostalgia. The speaker in the poem is an old woman who is remembering her infancy and childhood. She is requesting Time to make her a child again. She also wants her dead mother to come back and sing a lullaby to her to make her sleep as she used to do when the speaker was a small child.

The mother of the speaker was a very loving mother. She used to kiss her forehead and smooth her hair. She used to rock her and sing lullabies for her to sleep. While sleeping, her mother’s eyelashes touched her face. Her mother kept watch over her. It has been many years since she heard the voice of her mother as she is dead. Now she thinks her womanhood years have been just a dream.

The speaker herself is old and she feels she is nearing her death. Her hair is grey and her face is wrinkled with long years of worries. She is now ready for the final sleep. She wants her mother to come and sing her a lullaby once more so that she can go to sleep from which she will not wake up.

There are some figures of speech in the poem. Time is personified and she wants time to turn back and make her a child once again. There is alliteration: ‘last listened’ and light lashes’. There is repetition. The word mother is repeated. The phrase ‘Rock to me sleep’ is repeated. We see some exquisite phrases like ‘echoless shore’ which means death, and ‘furrows of care’ which are wrinkles brought onto the face by anxiety and worry. The rhythm of the poem is excellent. The rhyming scheme of the poem is aa bb.

The poem ‘Any Woman’ by Katharine Tynan speaks of the importance of the woman in the family. She is the pillar of the house. She is the keystone of the arch. She is the roof and the walls. She is the fire upon the hearth. Without her, the home would be colder than a stone. The children come to her for love and affection. She is the light of their love. The children could hardly thrive without her support. She is the one who holds the family together. No child wants to get away from the close-knit family group. She is all over the house, from the floor to the roof. Nothing happens without her knowledge. She decorates the house and makes the children’s bed cosy and warm. She protects the children from all dangers. At the end of the poem, the woman prays to Jesus to spare her life till her children are properly grown-up.

The poem has simple language. The entire poem is an exquisite metaphor. The imagery is great. The poem is in rhyme. Except in the first stanza, the rhyme scheme is abab.

Between the two poems I like “Rock Me To Sleep”.

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Kerala Plus Two English Previous Year Question Paper Say 2018

Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2 1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to candidates:

• There is a cool off time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Question Nos. 1 – 6): Answer all the questions as directed (Total Scores: 14)

Read the excerpt and answer the questions that follow.

The program developed very organically, over years. Like a soup made by chefs tossing in what’s needed, after each tasting. A blend all its own. The stock ingredients were basic English and Maths – to that, a dash of values, self-esteem and confidence.

Question 1.
Which program is referred to here? (1)
Answer:
Akanksha

Question 2.
Who are referred to as the ‘chefs’? (1)
Answer:
The chefs referred to here are the instructors or volunteers who supported Shaheen Mistri.

Question 3.
Pick out the word from the excerpt that means ‘naturally’. (1)
Answer:
Organically

Question 4.
Drug abuse is a great threat to our society. Many youngsters get addicted to drugs. The authorities of your school have decided to collect suggestions from students to create a school campus that is free from this menace. As a higher secondary student, what suggestions would you give? Draft 3 suggestions using expression like The authorities should ………., It would be better ………, We could, etc. (3)
Answer:
a) The authorities must ensure that sensual drugs are not easily available to students or young people.
b) It would be better if parents are asked to monitor their children to prevent them from getting addicted to drugs.
c) We could conduct awareness programmes to inform the public and especially the youth about the dangers of drug abuse.

Question 5.
Your class is conducting a debate on the topic ‘Is entrepreneurship the best way to tackle unemployment?’
Write four arguments either in favour of, or against the topic. (4)
Answer:
Entrepreneurship is the best way to tackle unemployment because:

1. The government can’t provide jobs for everyone.
2. There will be more job opportunities if there are more entrepreneurs.
3. Being entrepreneurs, one can reach greater heights.
4. By being an entrepreneur, one can contribute significantly to the growth of the national economy.

Question 6.
Edit the passage given below for errors: (4)
A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked on. “Spare some change ?” mumbled the beggar, mechanical holding out his baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on ?” “Nothing”, replied the beggar. “Just an old box.” “Ever look inside ?” asked the stranger. “No”, said the beggar. “Have a look inside”, insisted the stranger. The beggar was astonished to see that the box was fill with gold.
Answer:
i) walked on – walked by
ii) mechanical – mechanically
iii) Ever look inside? – Ever looked inside?
iv) fill with gold. – filled with gold.

(Question Nos. 7 – 12): Answer any 5 questions. Each question carries 4 scores. (5 × 4 = 20)

Question 7.
The postal assistant in ‘Post Early for Christmas’ quits her job commenting, “I am going down the road to work at the animal dispensary. Animals don’t do such silly things.” Do you think it was an appropriate remark on the part of a responsible official like the postal assistant? Express your opinion in a paragraph.
Answer:
The remark made by the postal assistant is not all appropriate. People are of different kinds and they don’t behave in a uniform manner. When one works in a public place like the post office, he/she may meet so many different kinds of people – people who are deaf, blind, stammering, or unable to express themselves properly. You have to be patient with all such people. Such workers must learn to cope with different situations and do their best to serve people. They are paid for that.

Question 8.
Robert Baldwin accepts the job offered by Mr. Marshall in the Third National Bank. When Baldwin comes to report for work, Mr. Marshall introduces him to the other colleagues. What would Mr. Marshall say about Mr. Baldwin? Draft the introductory speech for Mr. Marshall.
Answer:
Dear Colleagues, let me introduce to you Robert Baldwin who is joining us at the Third National Bank. He was previously working for Mr. Gresham. You all know that Gresham is currently in jail for misappropriation of a huge amount of money. Mr. Gresham promised Mr. Baldwin 100,000 dollars just to say “I don’t remember” in the court. Such a statement by Mr. Baldwin would save Mr. Gresham from getting punished. But Baldwin refused the offer because he is such an honest man and he values his principle more than 100,000 dollars. It was Gresham himself who told me about it. We all should be like Robert. We are proud to have him in our midst as our colleague.

Question 9.
The story ‘Matchbox’ begins like this: “I always comapre women to matchboxes.” What qualities of a woman are highlighted byAshapurna Debi in this comparison? Attempt the answer in a paragraph.
Answer:
In the story “Matchbox”, Ashapurna Debi compares women to matchboxes. Matchboxes contain enough gunpowder to make a hundred Lankas burn. But these matchboxes, these women, sit around meek and innocent in the kitchen, in the pantry and in the bedroom or any other place at home. They have fire inside but they don’t burn or explode. They are compassionate and loving by nature. See how mothers love their children and wives love their husbands. They are patient and are willing to wait endlessly for their rewards. They are hard-working and that is why homes become such a pleasant and comfortable place. We should remember that “Without a woman a man is nothing”.

Question 10.
Your class is doing a project on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’. As the leader of the class, you are given the opportunity to interview Shaheen Mistri. What would you ask her? Frame four relevant questions for the interview.
Answer:
1. Madam, what kind of problems did you face when you decided to settle in India?
2. According to you, what is the biggest problem that India faces?
3. In your view why did many Principals refuse to give you a place to teach the slum children?
4. You said Indian education is ‘bookish’. What are your suggestions to change it?

Question 11.
Ratna’s patience and empathy left a lasting impression on Sudha Murthy’s heart. What are her other notable qualities? Attempt a character sketch of Ratna in about 60 words.
Answer:
When Sudha Murty was working in Mumbai, one of her colleagues was Ratna. She was a senior clerk, middle aged and always smiling. She is a graduate and she had been working in that company for nearly 25 years. Every day during lunch hour she would sit with some person in one of the rooms, chatting with him/her. When Sudha asked Ratna what she talked about she said people shared her troubles with her. Ratna knows she can’t solve the problems of the people who talk to her. She hears people with sympathy and no judgement.

When somebody talks about his worries it relieves him a lot. Ratna never reveals the things she has heard from people. Ratna is like the grandfather of Sudha sitting on the stone listening to the people. Both her grandfather and Ratna are “horegallus” or “bench stones” where people can unburden themselves by talking about them and their worries to others. Ratna is not a counsellor but her willingness to listen to the problems of people definitely relieves them.

Question 12.
Elaborate the idea in the line given below:
“And this, O Fate, is I think the most vicious circle that thou ever sentest”.
Answer:
This line is taken from the poem “This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit” by Ogden Nash. The poet says that before the dentist your mouth is like a section of the road on which repair work is going on. The dentist coats your mouth with something very harsh. You see the dentist with different tools like drills for polishing your teeth. You are worried if he will make a mistake. Then finally it is over and you think you can go. But then the dentist says you should go back to him before the end of three months.

The poet thinks that Fate sends this most vicious circle to man. Man has to go to the dentist continually to keep his teeth in good condition. The man wants his teeth in good condition because he does not want to go to the dentist. It is a real paradox.

(Question Nos. 13 – 18): Answer any 5 questions. Each question carries 6 scores. (5 × 6 = 30)

Question 13.
Wangari Maathai’s speech has motivated you to take up the challenge of preserving nature for future generations. You have decided to share your ideas on nature conservation with your friend in an e-mail, Draft the e-mail.
Answer:
rajm@amail.com
Dearest Raj,

Got your letter. Thanks for letting me know of your vacation plans.

Today I want to tell you something about the challenge of preserving nature for future generations. In August 2018, we had the horrible flood and now in April, as I write this letter, we are getting baked by heat with temperatures going higher than 40°C. Why do these things happen? They happen because we fail to conserve our environment. Commercial farming has destroyed the local bio diversity. The forests are cleared for cultivation. Trees are cut down for buildings and furniture. So the soil can’t hold the moisture and even the underground water level is dangerously going down. We quarry in the most unscientific manner and the mines spoil our landscape.

We collect a lot of sand from the rivers, causing them to dry up. We pollute the land, air and water in all possible ways. You know what happened in Kasargod where they sprayed a lot of Endosulfan. It is a poisonous chemical and when people inhale it they become sick. Children are born with all kinds of deformities. So we are destroying nature. We should conserve our earth by mining less, allowing rivers to run their course naturally and by planting trees wherever possible as they provide us with shade, oxygen, flowers and fruits. They also help in soil conservation. So plant a tree today and ask your friends to do the same!

Say Hi to your parents. Bye for now!
Ali

Question 14.
Christine Lagarde emphasizes the importance of learning, labour and leadership in Women Empowerment. Draft a speech to be delivered in the school assembly on the topic ‘Educated women lead the nation to progress and prosperity’, based on your reading of the speech. The 3Ls of Empowerment’.
Answer:
Respected principal, teachers and my dear students,

Today I am asked to speak about “Educated women lead the nation to progress and prosperity.” It is very true that educated women can lead the nation to progress and prosperity. We should know that roughly half of the population is women. Naturally, they can’t remain idle in the march towards progress. Gone are the days when women stayed within the four walls of the home controlled by a patriarchal society. Today, women are equal to men in all respects. Today she drives buses and trucks, pilots airplanes, fights battles and goes to the space.

Progress and Prosperity for the nation can be achieved by women through 3 Ls – Learning, Labour and Leadership. Learning helps the woman to know about her rights and duties. Labour or employment gives her the economic power to assert herself. A woman without any income has to depend on her father, husband or son for her needs. Leadership makes woman powerful. She should be able to lead so that the world becomes a better place to live in.

Women make better leaders than men. They tend to make decisions based on consensus building, inclusion, compassion and sustainability.

Women have to change their mindset and should be ready to “dare the difference”, to take risk and step outside their comfort zones. Indira Gandhi and Kalpana Chawla came out of their comfort zones and that is why we respect them and remember .them even today.

I ask the girls present here to take charge of their lives. You have a lot to gain and nothing to lose by trying to make yourself equal or even better than a man!
I wish you success in your endeavors!

Question 15.
Your class has decided to visit an organic farm named ‘Samrudhi’ to know more about the production of pesticide-free vegetables, cattle rearing and the cultivation of indigenous crops. Write a letter to the owner of the farm enquiring about the practices in the farm and seeking permission to visit it.
Answer:

GOVERNMENT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL,
IRINJALAKUDA
ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB

4 February 2019

Ref. No. GSSI/XII/4
Mr. Kumaran Thazhath
Samrudhi Farm Irinjalakuda

Dear Sir,
Sub: Permission to visit your Farm.

First of all the Environment Club of this school says to you a big “Thank you!” for giving the people of this town pesticide free vegetables and good milk. We have heard a lot about your farm where you grow pesticide free vegetables and rear cattle without any use of unnecessary hormones and other artificial growing techniques. We also are happy to learn that you grow a lot of indigenous crops which are most important for a healthy diet.

We have many doubts in our minds. How is that you can grow vegetables free from pesticides? We hear that in the vegetables brought from outside the State, there are a lot of pesticides which poison our bodies. We also hear that the milk we get from outside the State is often mixed with dangerous liquids that can destroy our health. We want to come and meet you in person to clarify our doubts and to see for ourselves how things are done in your farm.

If it is okay with you our club members would like to visit the place on the, 10th of February. If the date is not suitable for you, you may suggest an alternative date. We will come by 10 ‘o’clock and will spend the whole day there. We are bringing along our lunch.

We are sure you will grant us our request. Please give us a reply at your earliest convenience or call on our phone No. 2828805.
Thank you once again,

Yours sincerely,
(NishadAli)
Secretary

Question 16.
Prepare a write-up on the socio-cultural changes satirised by Chemmanam Chacko in the poem ‘Rice’.
Answer:
In his poem “Rice”, Chemmanam Chacko has vehemently satirised the socio-cultural changes especially among the farmers. The poem is laced with scorn and sarcasm. The son of a farmer goes to North India to do a research on making toys with rice husk. He works hard for four years, eating chapati day after day. Finally at the end of four years he succeeds in getting a doctorate. He must have thought of doing research on the possibilities of husk because as the son of a rice farmer, he had plenty of husk at home and also in the homes nearby. By using husk for toy making, a lot of people could find employment in a State notorious for unemployment.

But then there is an anticlimax. When the son returns home with his hard-earned doctorate on making toys with husk, there is no husk at all in his house or in the houses around. The farmers there had shifted to cash crops like rubber as they found rice cultivation inconvenient and non-profitable. Moreover a lot of incentives were given by the promoters to cultivate cash crops. The son finds his father watching people setting up a machine for making rubber sheets. All the paddy fields are gone and in their places what he sees are the rubber trees and deal-wood trees.

There is biting sarcasm in the description of the Chief Minister flying to the Centre to request for more food grains to feed the people here. The son comes home to eat rice after getting fed up with chapatis made of wheat flour. But his wish can’t be fulfilled because here also he has to eat things made of wheat flour as there is no rice. His doctoral degree is now useless as there is no husk to make toys.

Question 17.
You are the reporter of a local daily in Manhattan. You visited the place a week before the fight between the Amigo brothers. You could find matters of new interest in the preparations for the fight. Draft a news-paper report.
(Hints : Large posters on the walls – heated discussions in cafes – specially designed caps and t-shirts – betting by the fans – housewives and small children too involved.)
Answer:
Manhattan is in a great frenzy. There is still another week to the much publicised fight between Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas. The venue of the fight is Tompkins Square Park. The large posters on the walls show the pictures of Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas punching at each other. The biggest boxing match of the 20th century was between Muhammad AN and Joe Frazier held on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The people of Manhattan say this fight would be nothing less than that fight.

People all over Manhattan had only one thing to talk – the fight coming after a week. In the cafes, in the buses and trains people go on arguing as to who will win. Some say it would be Antonio while others say it would be Felix. The strangest thing is that people are betting heavily on both sides. Everywhere the talk is about the Fight. Some even say it would be a bigger fight than the Muhammed Ali Vs. Joe Frazier fight. Not only men, but even the women and children are discussing the course and the possible outcome of the fight. The entire Manhattan is in the grip of the Fight and Antonio and Felix are the heroes.

Question 18.
Effective use of humour in depicting ordinary situations is what makes ‘Crime and Punishment’ an interesting story. Prepare a write-up on the element of humour in ‘Crime and Punishment’.
Answer:
In his story “Crime and Punishment”, R.K. Narayan has brought humour in ordinary situations. In the story we see the parents of a boy want him to get double promotion and so they have engaged a tuition master to coach him in Mathematics. The teacher does his best but the boy is bored with the lessons and he wants to get away. So when the teacher asks him for the result of 16 multiplied by 3, the boy answered 24. There was a wicked smile on the lips of the boy.

The teacher again asks him and the boy repeats the wrong answer not because he does not know the right answer but because he wants to provoke his teacher. Then the teacher slapped him on the cheek. The boy burst into tears. The teacher asked the boy not to tell his parents about the slapping. To the parents the boy was an angel, all dimples, smiles and sweetness. He was their only child and they loved him dearly. The parents gave the boy all the things he wanted and they did not want to restrict him in anything.

The teacher wanted the money the parents gave him as the tuition fee. So he asked the boy not to tell about the beating to his parents. If he tells them, they will surely dismiss the teacher. The boy wants the lessons to stop for the day and the teacher says no. The boy then blackmails his teacher. The teacher then allows him to play with his toy train. The teacher acts as the station master. When the train reaches the station, the teacher should whistle. After sometime the train would not move.

The boy asks the teacher to repair it, but the teacher does not know anything about repairing a toy train. Then the boy wanted the teacher to tell him a story. When the teacher refused he again blackmailed him. So the teacher had to tell the story of a bison and a tiger and then he said the story of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. Then he told the story of Aladdin’s Lamp. The boy wanted to hear the story of the bison again. When the teacher refused, the boy runs home and the teacher runs behind him.

Then the parents of the boy came out of the house and saw the chase. They were surprised. When they asked the teacher about the boy’s studies he said he was doing fine. The boy was grateful to the teacher and did not tell his parents about the slap he got. The teacher told the parents that they had finished the lesson earlier and so they were just playing to keep up the spirit of the boy.

(Question Nos. 19 – 21): Answer any 2 questions. Each question carries 8 scores. (2 × 8 = 16)

Question 19.
Ratna and Sudha Murthy’s grandfather served the society by devoting their precious time to listen to others. These living examples have inspired you to contribute an essay to the newsletter of your school. Write the essay on the topic ‘Role of good listeners in creating healthy minds’.
Answer:

ROLE OF GOOD LISTENERS IN CREATING HEALTHY MINDS

Recently I read a story titled “Horegallu” by Sudha Murty. In that story she talks about two people who helped others in their own particular ways. One was her grandfather and the other was her colleague Ratna. The story did inspire me and I feel there should be more people like the grandfather and Ratna in our world to reduce the problems people face in this world.

As a child Sudha Murty spent her days in a small village. There was large banyan tree right in the middle of the village. The tree was like a big umbrella. It gave much needed shade and comfort. Travellers spent some time sitting under it, taking some rest, before they continued the journey. To make them comfortable, there was a ‘horegallu’ under the tree. Horegallu means ‘a stone that can bear weight’. It was a flat stone placed horizontally over two vertical stones. It was a stone bench.

People could sit on it, chat with a fellow traveller and exchange news of the road. Cool water was kept in earthen pots and travellers could drink the water. Sudha’s grandfather was a retired school teacher. He would spend hours sitting under the banyan tree talking to those resting there. They would tell him about their lives and worries. Her grandfather told Sudha that a horegallu is essential in any journey. We all carry burdens in our different ways. Once in a while we need to stop, put down that burden and rest. Only then we will be refreshed to carry the load again.

Later Sudha met Ratna in her work place. Ratna was a senior clerk, middle aged and always smiling. She is a graduate and she had been working in that company for nearly 25 years. Every day during lunch hour she would sit with some person in one of the rooms, chatting with him/her. When Sudha asked Ratna what she talked about she said people shared her troubles with her. Ratna knows she can’t solve the problems of the people who talk to her. She hears people with sympathy and no judgement.

When somebody talks about his worries it relieves him a lot. Ratna never reveals the things she has heard from people. Ratna is like the grandfather of Sudha sitting on the stone listening to the people. Both her grandfather and Ratna are “horegallus” or “bench stones” where people can unburden themselves by talking about them to others. Ratna is not a counsellor but her willingness to listen to the problems of people definitely relieves them. Good listeners create healthy and peaceful minds.

Question 20.
The pie-diagram given below shows the changing mindset of youth in the selection of their careers and fields of study.

(Hints: Chefs – hospitality management, creative artists – dancers, musicians, painters, etc.)
What helps you decide your choice of a career? What are the reasons for these varied preferences? Prepare a write-up on the career choices of the present generation.
Answer:
The pie-diagram very clearly shows the changing mindset of the youth in the selection of their careers and fields of study. In the past the two areas of concentration were medicine and engineering. But now the choice has become much wider and diversified. New career openings are in place and students have a much wider choice today.

The pie-diagram shows that the favourite fields of career and fields of study remain Medicine, Engineering and MBA which attract nearly 45% of the youths. Each of the three has 15% youth opting for it. The next segment is Defence personnel with 11%-youths choosing it. Teaching is the next field, with 10% opting it. 8% like skilled jobs whereas 7% each go for Journalism and Animation. Creative arts and hospitality management get 5% each. Only 2% opt for photography. Thus the chart shows the preferred choices of the youths remain Medicine, Engineering and MBA, followed by Defence Personnel and Teaching.

Youths choose their careers mainly for success in life, status in the society and to live a comfortable life. In fact these desires are instilled into them by their parents, teachers and the society at large. Parents feel proud to say that their children are doctors, engineers of business managers. But the trend is changing with more options available to the youth in their careers and fields of study.

Question 21.
Read the poem given below. Compare the poem with ‘Mending Wall’.

Quiet Morning

Stone walls seem gathered not by men
But by some older force,
As if the hills had driven them
In slow flocks from the grass.

And since the heavy boulders come
of low and ancient birth
They never learn the will of men
To stand aloof from earth
But peacefully disintegrate
Under the orchard boughs
And up and down the pastures
Beside the dozing cows.
– Elizabeth Bohm
Answer:
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost is a delightful poem. He once said: “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” He starts the poem in a delightful way saying that there is something that does not like a wall. That something makes the ground under the wall swell which results in cracks in the wall. Gradually the stones that make the wall fall to either side.

The fallen stones have lost their shapes. It is not easy to keep them back in their place. The gaps are so big that even two people can walk abreast through them. The poet strongly feels there is no need for a wall between him and his neighbour because he grows apple trees and the neighbour grows pine.

Apple trees won’t go and eat the pine and pines won’t come to eat the apples. A wall was fine if they had cows as they could get mixed up without a wall. When the poet says there is no need for a wall between them, the neighbour tells him “Good fences make good neighbours.” Thus the poem ends in wisdom.

In “Mending Wall”, the poet has used many poetic devices such a metaphor, simile, personification and repetition. The language is simple and the imagery is exquisite. It gives a fine message, a priceless truth.

The Poem “Quiet Morning” by Elizabeth Bohm also speaks about walls. The poet says that stone walls seem to be gathered not by men but by some older force. It looks as if the hills had driven them in flocks into the grass. The stones have low and ancient birth and they will never learn the will of man. Man wants them to stand aloof from the earth but they fall on to it. These stones peacefully disintegrate under the branches of trees or in the pastures as they lie beside the grazing cattle.

“Quiet Morning” is a fine lyric poem of just 12 lines. It is in rhyme and the rhyming scheme is abcb. There is personification in the poem when the poets says the “hills had driven them in slow flocks”. The hills are shepherds and the stones are sheep. The stones came from earth and they want to return to the earth. Man tries to build walls with it and separate them from the earth. In spite of the efforts of man to keep the stones away from the earth, they somehow find their way back to their source of origin.

The poem reminds us of our destiny in a symbolic way. “You are made of earth and to earth you shall return.” Here also we find the poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Between the two poems I prefer “Mending Walls” as it is more humorous and dramatic.

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Kerala Plus Two English Previous Year Question Paper March 2019

Board	SCERT
Class	Plus Two
Subject	English
Category	Plus Two Previous Year Question Papers

Time: 2 1/2 Hours
Cool off time: 15 Minutes
Maximum: 80 Score

General Instructions to Candidates:

• There is a ‘cool off-time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time of 2^1/2 hours.
• You are not allowed to write your answers or to discuss anything with others during the cool off time’.
• Read questions carefully before answering.
• All questions are compulsory and only internal choice is allowed.
• When you select a question, all the sub-questions must be answered from the same question itself.
• Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the Examina­tion Hall.

(Question Nos. 1 – 6): Answer the questions as directed. (14)

Read the excerpt from ‘When, a Sapling is Planted’ and answer the questions that follow: ‘Later, they became aware of the widespread destruction of the ecosystems, especially through deforestation, Climatic instability and contamination of the soil and waters – all contributed to excruciating poverty and subsequent riots.’

Question 1.
Who does the speaker refer to as ‘they’? (1)
Answer:
The women of Kenya/African women/People of Kenya/Women

Question 2.
What was the main reason for the destruction of the ecosystem? (1)
Answer:
Deforestation/cutting down of trees/destruction of forests

Question 3.
Which word from the options given, can best replace the word ‘excruciating’? (1)
a) Entertaining
b) Progressing
c) Agonising
Answer:
c) Agonising

Question 4.
Here is a diary entry by Sudha Murty.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate similes or adjectives from the options given in brackets. (3)
Village days were memorable. Days were full of fun and frolic and we were all as ……. (a) …….. (dull/cheerful/sharp) as a lark. How I miss those days! In Mumbai, everyone is as busy as a ……… (b) ………. (snail/sloth/bee) and women too, are no different. Girls who were regarded to be as …….. (c) ……… (sour/chill/sweet) as a rose have now transformed themselves into leaders, office and torchbearers.
Answer:
a) cheerful; b) bee; c) sweet

Question 5.
Imagine that you are invited for an interview for the post of the chef at Taj Group of Hotels. Complete the interview suitably. (4)
Interviewer: ……. a ………?
You: I have specialized in Chinese and Continental dishes.
Interviewer: ……. (b) …….?
You: Yes, of course. I am comfortable with all types of delicacies.
Interviewer: ……. (c) …….?
You: I expect a comfortable work atmosphere, fantastic team work, and opportunities to develop.
Interviewer: Where do you see yourselves ten years from now?
You: Ten years from now, I ……. (d) …….
Answer:
a) What have you specialized in?/What are your areas of specialization?
b) Are you comfortable with delicacies?/Do you know how to make delicacies?
c) What are your expectations from this Organization?/ What do you expect from us?
d) I would start a hotel of my own./I may become the Chief Chef here. I would be working in a prestigious hotel abroad.

Question 6.
The passage given below contains a few errors. (4)
Edit the passage appropriately. The main conflict in the story ‘Amigo Brothers’ is that off ambition. Both friends want to be champions. But only one of them can be the champ. So they decide in fight out it. In the end, they realize that they value their bonding more than their ambition.
Answer:
off – of; wants – want; fight out it – fight it out; there bonding – their bonding

(Question Nos. 7 – 12): Answer any 5 questions in not less than 60 words. Each carries 4 scores. (5 × 4 = 20)

Question 7.
Your class is conducting a debate on the topic ‘PUNISHMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR STUDENT DISCIPLINE’.
Write four arguments either favouring or opposing the topic.
Answer:
Punishments are essential for student discipline.
Arguments for:

1. A proverb says, “Spare the rod, spoil the child”.
2. Students can be easily corrected with appropriate punishments.
3. If punishments are not given, students will tend to ignore their studies.
4. Punishments will force the students to be punctual, respectful, obedient and hard-working.

Question 8.
Elaborate the idea conveyed in the lines given below:
‘I am the pillars of the house;
The keystone of the arch am I
Take me away, and roof and wall
Would fall to ruin me utterly.’
Answer:
The main idea in these lines is the importance of a woman in the house. She may be a mother or wife. She says she is the pillars that keep the house in place. She is the keystone of the arch and if she is removed from the house, it will completely collapse. The poem stresses the importance of women for the house and its proper functioning.

Question 9.
The activities of the literary club of your school will be inaugurated by the cine artist and state award winner, Sri. Indrans. The one-act play, ‘Post Early for Christmas’ will be staged on the day. Prepare a notice inviting all for the programme.
Answer:

GOVERNMENT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL,
IRINJALAKUDA
LITERARY CLUB

Date 1 July 2019

NOTICE

The activities of our Literary Club will be inaugurated by the famous Cine Artiste and State Award Winner Sri Indrans. The inaugural meeting will take place at 10.00 a.m. in the Hall of the School. After the inaugural meeting, the one-act play titled “Post Early for Christmas” by R.H. Wood will be staged by our Literary Club Members.

“Post Early for Christmas” is a hilarious comedy in which you find different kinds of people coming to the Post Office and the havoc created by a parcel that was ticking. Some people think it is a bomb. There are many frantic activities going on. See what happens on stage!

All of you are invited!

Eva Saifu
Secretary

Question 10.
You have come to know that your close friend is having a severe toothache. Frame four sets of suggestions you would make before him/her.
You may use expressions like:

I think you should ……/ If I were you, I ……/ Would you like ……/ Perhaps you could ……/ I’d like to suggest ……
Answer:
I think you should immediately keep some salty, warm water in your mouth as it will reduce your pain. If I were you, I would then go to the dentist. Would you like to have a warm drink or take some pain killers? Perhaps you could take a Panadol to suppress your pain for the time being till you meet the doctor.

Question 11.
Prepare a profile of Shaheen Mistri using the hints given below:
Birth: 16th March 1971
Place of birth: Mumbai
Academic Qualifications: B.A. degree (Sociology), M.A. in Sociology
Almamater: the University of Mumbai, University of Manchester
Occupation: CEO, Teach for India
Famous as: Indian social activist and educator
Founder: Akansha Foundation, Teach for India
Awards won: Ashoka Fellow (2001), Global Leader for tomorrow (2002), Asia Society 21 Leader (2006)
Authored: Redrawing India – The Teach for India Story (2014)
Answer:

PROFILE OF SHAHEEN MISTRI

Shaheen Mistri was born in Mumbai on 16 March 1971. After her +2, she joined the University of Mumbai and got her B.A. in Sociology. Later she went to England and passed her M.A. in Sociology with a First Class, from the University of Manchester. Currently, she is the CEO of the Organization called “Teach India” which is doing a laudable job in educating slum children.

She is famous as a social activist and educator. She is the Founder of two famous Organizations named “Akanksha” and “Teach India”. She has received numerous awards which include Ashoka Fellow (2001), Global Leader for Tomorrow (2002), and Asia Society 21 Leader (2006). She has authored a well-known Book – “Redrawing India – The Teach for India Story” which was published in 2014.

Question 12.
Wangari Maathai says, ‘Women are often the first to become aware of environmental damage ………..’
Do you agree with her opinion? Substantiate your answer.
Answer:
I quite agree with the opinion of Wangari Maathai that “Women are often the first to become aware of environmental damage”. Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan. She is an environmentalist and political activist. She got the Nobel Prize in 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. She made the remark quoted above in her Nobel Prize Acceptance speech.

Being a Kenyan she was especially speaking of the women of Africa. She spoke from her childhood experiences and observations of nature in rural Kenya. As she was growing up, she noticed that forests were cleared and were replaced by commercial plantations. This destroys the local biodiversity and the ability of the forests to conserve water.

Because of large scale deforestation, the African women lacked firewood, clean drinking water, balanced diets, shelter, and income. In Africa, women are the primary caretakers. They till the land and feed their families. As a result, they are the first to notice the environmental damage as resources become scarce, making it difficult for them to maintain their families.

(Question Nos. 13 – 19): Answer any 5 questions in about 80 words. Each carries 6 scores. (5 × 6 = 30)

Question 13.
Read the following lines from the poem ‘Rice’.
‘I’ll reach home in good time, at last
just as my mother drains the well-cooked rice.’
This is better money – what good times!’
How is the expression ‘good times’ used in the above two contexts? Substantiate your answer.
Answer:
The expression “good time/s” is used with two different meanings in the poem. I’ll reach home in good time means I will reach home soon or promptly or without much delay. The son, who is in North India, studying 15. for his doctorate, is tired of eating chappatis all the time and now he is dreaming of eating the well-cooked rice which his mother has drained. So he wants to reach home as quickly as he can. He hopes he will reach home in good time, that is very soon, to eat the rice. But in the second use ‘what good times’ the phrase good times refers to prosperity, the time when one has plenty of money. People of his village have abandoned rice cultivation and have started cultivating cash crops for good times and better money.

Question 14.
You have dreams of setting up a business of your own after your studies. You are greatly inspired by Irfan Alam’s views and ideas. Draft a letter of inquiry to Sammaan foundation asking for clarification of the doubts regarding the financial investment of the organization, mode of operation, the security of the members, etc.
Answer:
Jerry John
16/IV, Azad Road
Irinjalakuda North P.O.
Kerala
PIN 680125
3 July 2019

Mr. Irfan Alam
CEO, SammaaN
Kalina
Mumbai-21

Dear Sir,
Sub : Information about SammaaN

First of all let me congratulate you for founding such a useful organization like SammaaN which is helping thousands of auto-rickshaw workers to live better lives without getting into any kind of debt traps.

Being inspired by your model, I also want to embark upon some such entrepreneurship after my +2 studies. The financial condition of my family does not permit me to go for higher education as my father is sick and my mother does not go for any outside work.

I want to get some matters clarified by you as I also want to bean entrepreneur like you. What was your initial investment in the Organization? Did the banks or any government agency advance you some funds to start the operations?

I also would want to know the modes of your operation. Do you give financial help to the members who join you? What are the security measures you have in place if a member runs into a loss or is disabled due to some disease or accident?

Please find some time to send a reply to my letter. You can contact me on the phone. My phone number is 282 228450. My email address is jerry@amail.com.
Thank you in advance,

Yours sincerely,
Jerry John.

Question 15.
After the competition at Tompkin’s Square Park, the Amigo Brothers are interviewed.
Reporter: Has the bout affected your friendship?
Felix: No, we both never take fighting into our hearts.
Reporter: So then, who among you must have won the fight?
Antonio: We both are always winners. The question itself is unimportant.
How would you report the above conversation?
Answer:
The reporter asked the Amigo brothers if/whether the bout had affected their friendship. Felix replied in the negative saying that they both never took fighting into their hearts. Then the reporter asked them who among them must have won the fight. Antonio replied saying that they both were always winners and that the question itself was unimportant.

Question 16.
As the secretary of the Anti-Narcotics Club in your school, you decide to write an article on the dangers of drug abuse to make aware of this growing menace among schoolmates. Prepare the article to be published in your school magazine.
Answer:

DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE

The problem of drug abuse has become a serious menace threatening the future and even the life of the youth, especially the school and college-going youth. This age group is more vulnerable to drug abuse because most of them are teenagers. Teenage is a time of stress and strain. To overcome their stress and strain, many youngsters abuse drugs. These drugs give them temporary pleasure, relieving them of their tensions for some time.

There are many reasons for drug abuse among youth. They get a lot of money from their parents. Since most families have only one child or two, the parents pamper them. Many parents do not find time to spend with their children. Another reason for drug abuse is peer influence. A third reason is the blind imitation of the so-called glamour boys and girls in films and sports who use drugs. A 4th reason is the easy availability of drugs. Another reason is the moral laxity of the times. Law-enforcing agencies do not do their work sincerely. There is corruption everywhere and one can do anything if one has money.

Sensual drugs play havoc with the body and mind of their users. The drug addict experiences sensory deprivation. He has a general feeling of physical discomfort and there are personality changes in him. The addict feels depressed. His mental disturbance can be like paranoia. The addict knows he has a problem. But he does not know its source. He looks at external objects with suspicion. Anything outside scares him and he withdraws further and further into himself.

Drugs also affect the body adversely. Dirty needles and solutions can cause liver diseases, venereal diseases and infection of the kidney and brain. Sniffing cocaine and amphetamines can damage the tissue of the nose. Marijuana and tobacco smoking can cause lung diseases. Babies of women who are addicted to drugs are likely to be born with a lot of problems. A drug addict can easily get pneumonia, tuberculosis and have problems of malnutrition and weight loss. An overdose of any drug can cause respiratory or cardiac failure and death.

The drug problems can be solved only through the concerted efforts of the parents, teachers, community leaders and the law-enforcing agencies. Awareness programmes should be conducted about the dangerous effects of drug abuse. The community leaders should help the youth to channel their energies in the right directions. The police must ensure that sensual drugs are not easily available.

Drug abuse is a demon that should be exterminated from our midst with all the might we can muster.

Question 17.
Ahoregallu is essential in any journey. It is more so when people around us are too busy in their own worlds. You feel that it is necessary to post counsellors in schools so that students can reveal their fears and joys to them. Write a letter to the Minister of Education requesting him to take necessary steps in this regard.
Answer:

15/XV Azad Road
Irinjalakuda, North P.O.
10, July 2019

Prof. C. Ravindranath
Education Minister of Kerala
The Secretariat
Trivandrum – 001

Honourable Education Minister,

Sub.: Posting Counsellors in schools

Every day we watch on the TV and read in the newspapers about cases of child abuse. It is strange that even parents, guardians, teachers and religious . leaders abuse children who are entrusted to their care. These people are supposed to work for the welfare of the children and lead them into the right paths to succeed in life and make their valuable contributions to humanity at large. But unfortunately the fact is that many children are abused in many ways, even sexually, by the very people who are supposed to protect them.

The main reason for child abuse is the lack of ‘horegallus’. A horegallu is a stone bench where the weary traveller sits and talks to a sympathetic listener. Thus a horegallu is a patient and sympathetic listener. In the journey of life we all need horegallus. Children need them all the more. A child is afraid to -talk to others about the abuse he/she is facing from one of his relatives, teachers, neighbours or religious leaders. So he/she silently suffers the abuse which can even change his/her personality and attitude towards life and other people.

If there are counsellors in schools, they can listen to the problems of the children patiently and suggest appropriate solutions. By telling their problems to a sympathetic counsellor, the abused children feel relieved. The counsellors can initiate actions against the offenders and-th*is free the abused children from further abuses.

I humbly request your honour to post Counsellors to all schools so that the children can have horegallus to whom they can reveal their hearts.

Yours sincerely,
Mehboob Saithu

Question 18.
Robert Baldwin in ‘The Hour of Truth’ stands as an epitome of honesty throughout the play. His decisions are never influenced by any financial offers. Prepare a character sketch of Robert Baldwin.
Answer:
Robert Baldwin is the hero of the play “The Hour of Truth” by Percival Wilde. Baldwin lives in a trim cottage with his wife Martha and their son John and daughter Evie. He is working as the governor of a bank owned by John Gresham. His salary is very low, 60 dollars a week. His son John earns only 30 dollars a week. With this limited income they live reasonably happily.

Suddenly there is a problem in their lives. John Gresham has misappropriated bank money and he is in jail. The bank is closed and Baldwin will have no job. Only Baldwin is the witness for the misappropriation. If he gives his true testimony, John Gresham will definitely go to jail for a long period. Baldwin is honest and he has taught his family the importance of honesty.

When Baldwin returns home after the arrest of John Gresham, his wife and children rush to him to know the latest news. Initially his wife and the children tell him that he should say the truth during the trial even if it means jail term for Gresham. But when they come to know that Gresham has offered him a bribe of 100,000 dollars just to say ‘I don’t remember’ when some incriminating questions are asked in the court, they change their stance. Theytrytofind out all kinds of loopholes to make Baldwin accept the bribe. Martha, John and Evie do their best to make Baldwin change his mind. But he asserts that he wants to go to his grave clean.

He does love Gresham. He even named his son after him. Even now he remembers how he worked with him for so long. They were boys together. They worked side by side. All this is true, but he is not willing to tell a lie to save his friend and employer even when he is offered a colossal sum of 100,000 dollars.

Baldwin’s honesty is repaid abundantly. Even Gresham is proud of him and he recommends him to Mr. Marshall, the President of the Third International. At the end of the play we see Marshall coming to the house of Baldwin and offering him a job at the Third International. We see Baldwin crying in the end. He must have been crying for two reasons – his friend Gresham has confessed his guilt and he will surely be punished. Secondly he is shedding tears of joy in gratitude to God who has amply repaid his honesty. Honesty, Baldwin proves, beyond an iota of doubt, is the best policy.

Question 19.
The story of Amigo Brothers is always heart, warming. You want to share your appreciation of the story with your friend in Bengaluru. Draft an e-mail conveying the essence of the story so as to inspire your friend to read it at the earliest.
Answer:
ashalatha@gmail.com
Hi Asha, I got your mail. Good to know that you are planning to visit the Taj Mahal during the Onam Vacation.

I am writing this email with a special purpose. I read a story titled “Amigo Brothers” written by Piri Thomas. The story impressed me greatly. It is about friendship. As you are my best friend, I want you to read this story. I’m sure you will enjoy it.

Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas were both 17. They were so together in friendship that they felt like brothers. They had known each other from childhood. They grew up in the same building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They both had a dream – becoming a light-weight champion of the world.

Whenever they got a chance they exercised. They would run everyday morning. They had a collection of fight magazines. They also kept the torn tickets of all the boxing matches they had gone to see. They also had some clippings of their own.

After a series of elimination bouts, they were told that they were to meet each other in the division finals which would be 2 weeks away. The winner would represent the Boys’ Club in the Golden Gloves Championship Tournament.

They were in a big fix. They both wanted to win. But neither of them wanted to defeat the other. They decided to go into the ring as if they had never met. They have to fight it out.

The fight was at Tompkins Square Park. The Park was full of people as the fight was well publicised. Antonio and Felix enter the ring. The crowd explodes into a roar. The referee whistles to start the fight. The fight is on. Punches fly back and forth but none is floored. Each punch is applauded thunderously by the crowd.

It is now the 3rd round. Each contestant wants to win. They punch each other very hard. Nobody falls to the canvas. The final bell rings. But the fight continues. The bell rings again and again. But there is no stopping to the fighting. People start getting worried. It looks as if they are witnessing a do or die fight and not a mere contest. There is utter silence. Then the referee and the trainers separate the contestants.

Now the contestants embrace. They have forgotten they were fighting like bulls up to a moment ago. The announcer makes an announcement. He is trying to name the winner. But Antonio and Felix had left like good old friends, arm in arm, declaring their bond of friendship.

In my mind both are winners, aren’t they Asha?
I am coming to Bengaluru next week. We will talk more about the story then! Bye for now!

Love,
Johny

(Question Nos. 20 – 22): Answer any 2 questions, each in about 140 words. Each carries 8 scores. (2 × 8 = 16)

Question 20.
Given below is a poster displayed at the Assembly Hall in connection with the International Women’s Day celebrations conducted by the Souhrida Club of your school. As the convenor of the programme, you are asked to give a detailed talk on ‘EMPOWERING WOMEN – CHALLENGES AHEAD’.Prepare the likely speech taking hints from the poster.

Answer:
Respected Principal and teachers and my dear friends,

Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day and I am asked to talk about “Empowering Women – Challenges Ahead”. It is a great pity that Indians speak very highly of women, but they do not show much respect to them in their actions. They will say woman is the mother, Devi guru and the light of the home. They even name their daughters with names of goddesses and saintly persons. Even in our own school, we have so many Lakshmis and Saraswatis, Aishas and Khadeejas and Marys and Theresas. But do they receive the respect they deserve from the society? Even in the buses and roads they are troubled and teased. We hear of so many crimes against women every day. Rapes and murder of women have ceased to shock people as they have become everyday affairs.

I say we are doing only lip-service to women. Even in Kerala which has more women than men, women are not given their rights. Look at the number of women candidates in the Lok Sabha elections for 2019. We have three coalitions in Kerala, UDF, LDF and NDA. Each of these groups is fielding 20 candidates for the 20 Lok Sabha seats. What percentage of women candidates do they field? Just 10%. No political party is free from this fault.

Women don’t get equal pay with men in non¬governmental services. A man gets Rs. 800 a day but a woman is given only Rs. 400 although she is doing similar or even harder work than the man. Women are refused opportunities for employment because employers feel that married women will take maternity leave.

I strongly feel that the Parliament and State Assemblies should have equal number of men and women representatives. Men have no business keeping women under a patriarchal system. Let the women also feel they are persons with the dignity and freedom that men enjoy in our society.

We have to change our mindset. Man and woman are created as equals and they should be treated equally by the society in all walks of life.

As I urge all the women here to fight for their rights,
I wish them success in their endeavors.

Jai Hind!

Question 21.
Read the poem given below. Compare and contrast it with ‘Mending Wall’ and attempt a critical appreciation.

NEIGHBOUR

Iain Crichton Smith

Build me a bridge over the stream
to my neighbour’s house
where he is standing in dungarees*
in the fresh morning.

O ring of snowdrops
spread wherever you want
and you also blackbird
sing across the fences.

My neighbour, if the rain fails on you,
let it fall on me also
from the same black cloud
that does not recognize gates.

*dungarees: a garment consisting of trousers held up by straps over the shoulders.
Answer:
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost is a delightful poem. He once said: “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” He starts the poem in a delightful way saying that there is something that does not like a wall. That something makes the ground under the wa|l swell which results in cracks in the wall. Gradually the stones that make the wall fall to either side.

The fallen stones have lost their shapes. It is not easy to keep them back in their place. The gaps are so big that even two people can walk abreast through them. The poet strongly feels there is no need for a wall between him and his neighbour because he grows apple trees and the neighbour grows pine. Apple trees won’t go and eat the pine and pines won’t come to eat the apples. A wall was fine if they had cows as they could get mixed up without a wall. When the poet says there is no need for a wall between them, the neighbour tells him “Good fences make good neighbours.” Thus the poem ends in wisdom.

In “Mending Wall”, the poet has used many poetic devices such a metaphor, simile, personification and repetition. The language is simple and the imagery is exquisite. It gives a fine message, a priceless truth. “Neighbour” by lain Crichton Smith is a beautiful poem of just 12 lines. It gives a fine message. We see two neighbours here separated by a stream, ring of snowdrops, fences and gates. The poet can see his neighbour standing in his house wearing his trousers with shoulder straps. He wants a bridge to be built across the stream to connect the two neighbours. The blackbird sings across the fences and the rain falls on both the neighbour and himself. The rain which comes from the black cloud does not differentiate his neighbour from him. Nature is treating them equally and so the poet thinks that the neighbours should be linked by a bridge.

The poem is highly melodious. The imagery is superb as we can visualize the stream, the ring of snowdrops, the blackbird singing, and the rain falling. We can see the neighbour standing in his house in his trousers held by shoulder straps. The message is loud and clear – There should be love between neighbours.

Between the two poems, I prefer “Mending Wall”, as it is more dramatic and action packed.

Question 22.
In the light of reading excerpts from the lives of Irfan Alam and Shaheen Mistri, you arrive at the conclusion that ‘Entrepreneurs are not made, they are born.’ Our nation benefits from such enterprises too. Write an essay on the topic highlighting the merits of promoting entrepreneurship among the youth.
(HINTS : youth made responsible – dignity of labour – self-confident – self-reliance – hard work and commitment – job satisfaction – financial stability – creating employment opportunities – initiatives like kudumbasree, mango cabs, ubereats, flipkart, etc.)
Answer:

ENTREPRENEURS ARE NOT MADE, THEY ARE BORN

There is a wrong tendency in our society which makes the youth to look for government jobs. After getting their degrees, they go on writing PSC tests in the
hope of getting clerical jobs in government services. This is really bad for our country because the government can’t provide jobs for all the people. Here comes the importance of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship makes us responsible and the success of the enterprise depends on our planning, vision and hard work. It also adds to the concept of dignity of labour’. An entrepreneur is prepared to do any kind of work that is needed of him for the success of his enterprise. In the Government service employees are graded as Class I, II, III and IV. Class IV employees are usually sweepers, cleaners and peons. Class III consists of clerks. Class II is of the Supervisory staff and Class I is that of High Officers. But in a private enterprise, there is no such division.

Entrepreneurship enhances self-confidence, self reliance and hard work. There is a lot of job satisfaction when we see our enterprises are succeeding. Entrepreneurs give jobs to others instead of being job hunters. It brings financial stability to ourselves and also the people whom we employ.

There are so many private enterprises which are very popular today. We have the Kudumbasree, Mango Cabs, Uber Eats and Flipkart. They are all successful enterprises and they originated in the minds of ordinary people. With some thinking, willingness to work hard, determination and self-confidence we too can embark upon some project that will prove successful.

Rome was not built in a day. Let us remember Dhirubhai Ambani, the father of the richest man in India today, Mukesh Ambani. Dhirubhai Ambani worked as a clerk in Yemen and returned to India and started a textile trading company in 1958. His initial capital was a mere Rs. 15,000. Let’s remember, “Where there is a will there is a way.”