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ADT 2007 103380 ENGLISH (Compulsory) Standard : H.S.C. Total Marks : 200 ‘Nature : Conventional Duration :3 Hours Nott (i) Answers must be written in English, (i) All questions are compulsory. (Gi) Figures to the RIGHT indicate marks of the respective question. (iv) Number of optional questions upto the prescribed number in the order in which they have been solved will only be assessed. Excess answers will not be assessed. (0) Credit will be given to correct spelling, punctuation, good handwriting and neatness (ci) Irrelevant and rambling answers will be penalised SUITABLY. (cil) Candidate should not write roll number, any name (including their own), signature, address or any indication of their identity anywhere inside the answer book otherwise hefshe will be penalised. Marks 1. Write in about 300 words an essay on any one of the following topics 30 (@) A visit to my village. (b) My Mobile Phone. (©) My Favourite Serial (a) Cleanliness as National Duty. (©) Importance of Games. 2. (a) Write in about 100 words any one of the following letters : 10 (i) One of your close friends was hospitalized before the exams. He is worried and anxious. Write a letter to encourage him to take the exams as his regular studies would help him to score marks in the exam and also he would not lose a precious year OR (i) Asa class teacher of 108 standard write a letter to a parent of a student who has taken to fighting with classmates and bunking the classes on and off, P-T.0. ADT ® 3. a) () 4. (a) Marks Write an official letter in about 100 words on any one of the following : (Write a letter to the editor of MIDDAY highlighting the noise-pollution in your area. OR (i) Navneet Publishers have advertised thefr new range of books and CDs for HSC. students. Write a letter of inquiry asking for the price-list and catalogue. OR (ii) Write a letter to the librarian of your college requesting him to include the latest range of text-books and CDs advertised by Navneet Publication. Write in about 150 words a report on any one of the following (@® Celebration of the Teacher's Day on 5t* September in your college OR (Gi) Organisation of Tree Plantation programme by NSS. unit of your college on 9 August. Write in about 100 words on any one of the following communicative activities (i) | Mumbai Muncipal Corporation has decided to observe 15% April 2008 as “No Honking Day’. [Which means vehicle owners will avoid using/honking ‘on the horn as much as possible and use it only when it is unavoidable] in order to reduce traffic-noise-pollution. Write the Mayor's appeal to people for their co-operation. oR (i) Indian Navy has decided to celebrate 7*" December to 15t4 December as Navy Week, They have organised a conducted tour of the Naval ships along with the display of naval exercises for common citizens at the Gateway of India, Write a press release highlighting the importance details. Write on any one of the following communicative activities in about 100 words (The front door-bell rang and I went to answer it. It was my neighbour whose child was very sick and whose phone was out of order. She wanted to.use my phone Write out a dialogue that would take place between you and your neighbour Anita OR ‘One of your classmates has won the National Table-Tennis Championship. Your class has organised a small felicitation ceremony to celebrate his success. Write a speech you would make on the occasion. 10 10 10 10 ) © 3 ADT Marks Write in about 100 words on any one of the communicative activities in about 100 words @ (ii) Your college has organised an exhibition on the prevention of Mouth Cancer, This is being done with a view to create awareness amongst youth about the terrifying effects/consequences of the habit of eating pan-parag or chewing tobacco or smoking cigarettes. Write the conversation that would take place between you and your fellow-students who want to know about the exhibition OR Your college principal has introduced a special class for students who are slow-learners or have learning disability. He has organised a press conference to create awareness amongst the parents who are facing such problems. Write the question-answer session - conversation that will take place between, the principal and the press. Write on any one of the following communicative situation in about 100 words, a (ii) Principal of your college has invited the parents to discuss the misuse of mobile-phones in the college premises. He has proposed a fine of Rs. 500/- if a student is found carrying a mobile~phone in the college. Write the points that would emerge at such a discussion between the principal and the parents, oR The co-operative housing society in which you reside has called ‘an Awareness Meeting’ to discuss the nuisance created by children who misuse the club facilities, write on the walls, dirty the surrounding by throwing things every where. Write the outcome of the meeting between the Managing Committee and the residents. Make a precis of the following passage in your own words in about one-third (about 120 words) of its original length and suggest a suitable title : (NB. : Marks will be deducted if your precis is longer or shorter than the prescribed length.) Without water, there can be no life. Almost two-thirds of a living body, a man’s or an animal's , is water. Half the solid food we eat is water, and whatever we drink, it is nearly all water. In early times, the water that was so necessary was obtained from some natural supply ~a river, a lake or large springs and wells; consequently the ancient cities of the world, and many modern ones too, are situated close to natural fresh water, as we see when we think of the sites of Rome, Babylon, Delhi, Paris, London. 10 10 20 PTO. ADT 4 Marks Sometimes there can be too much water, and the abundance makes life difficult of this, the tropical heavy-rainfall areas in the Amazon and Congo Basins are examples. Holland is a very low-lying country which has to be defended from both the sea and its own rivers by high banks that need constant care and attention, with pumps and windmills to transfer the water not from the river to the fields but from the fields to the river. In other regions there is too little water for ease and comfort, as in the great desert places of the world : the Sahara, Arabia, Central Australia, Tibet, the Gobi Desert, ‘Arizona and the dry lands of central and southern Africa. Too much water in some place, too little in others; but there can be both too much and too little in the same place; too much at one season of the year and great destruction by floods, and too little at other times, with dying crops and parched land. In such cases the problem years ago in lands lying in river valleys that were liable to floods : in ancient Egypt, Assynia, China and India. In Assynia for example, the problem was solved 3,000 years ago by diverting the flood waters of the Euphrates River into a great natural depression of land, so forming a large lake from which canals took water in the dry season. In 1952 British engineers used the same depression for the same purpose and the great lake is still there, some miles north of Baghdad : it is called by its ancient name, Habbaniya Lake, 6. (a) Comprehensive paragraph with questions give below ‘THE IMPORTANCE OF GRA‘ Vast areas of the earth are covered by grass. Of the 15 major crops that stand between us and starvation, 10 are grasses. No matter where you live, you would be hard put to walk outside your door and not find grasses within a very short distance. Grasses are immensely common and immensely important, Misconceptions about grasses abound. “They have no flowers!” one hears. ‘This is not true. Grasses do have flowers just as roses and daisies have flowers; the only difference is that they are small and inconspicuous and differ slightly in structure. “They have no colour!” This is not true if you just start looking. “They all look alike!” Also not true if you look. The fruit of the Grass family ~ the grain - is a concentrated source of protein, carbohydrates, and minerals. Being dry, itis easy to store and transport and thus it has become a major food source for humans, ‘The green leafy parts of grass, which we cannot digest, can be eaten by ‘cows and other animals, so that even if you eat nothing but hamburger, you are still eating grass. If you eat sugar - you are eating another products of grass family, the sugar-cane plant. And in the Far East, another grass, bamboo, is used for everything from food to construction materials. 20 5 ADT Marks One of the most extra-ordinary feature of grass growth is the root system, Sometimes as much as 90 per cent of the weight of the grass plants is the roots. This concentration of starch and energy below the ground helps grasses to survive grazing and burning and it reduces water loss. Questions (Do grasses help to prevent us, from starving ? Yes/No. 2 Which sentence supports your answer ? (i) “You would be hard put to walk outside your door and not find grasses. 1 within a very short distance” means it would be. (Tick the correct answer) (1) _ hard to walk outside when there is grass growing very near (2) difficult not to find grasses outside your door (@) hard not to walk on grasses (4) difficult to find grasses growing outside your door {iii) List the misconceptions about grasses 3 «) 2) 3) Qa. @Q) @) “Even if you eat noting but hamburger you are still eating grass” means 2 (1) you should eat only hamburgers and not grass 2) the hamburger contains grass and should not be eaten (3) by eating a hamburger you are eating grass grain (4) _ nothing but hamburgers should be eaten, PTO. ADT © Marks (vi) “The green leafy parts of grass, which we cannot digest, can eaten by cows and other animals.” Rewrite beginning “Since we cannot (vil). What is the factor that enables grass to survive so well ? (vill) “Tt reduces water loss” (Paragraph 6). What does “it” refer to ? (x) Give the noun form of - (A) survive (8) digest (x) Give the verb form of - (A) Product {B) loss Paraphrase the following prose passage in your own words expressing the ideas in the passage clearly and in simple and direct language. (Not more than 100 words) For children too there is no greater instrument of education than the conversation they hear at home. It is unjust to them when nothing is spoken before them but the trifles of dress, the gossip of the neighbourhood, the cares of ‘household which press too heavy upon the parents, the follies and vanities of the world, which are hardly apprehended by their innocent minds. They are naturally imitative and a great part of their character is derived from their parents. If there iso life or mirth in a house, the children of the house will be commonly dull and stupid; and if they never hear subjects rationally discussed, they will not learn to think or reason; if the world in which we live is allowed to pass unheeded by they will be without interest, listless and unobservant. The home education which they acquire insensibly is as important as the more formal work of the school, and it is as much our duty to provide food for their minds as for their bodies. “They do not live by bread alone, but by every word that preceedeth out of the mouth.” 2 2h mh 20 (a) (b) © 7 ADT Marks Rewrite any five of the following sentences using the correct forms of the verbs 5 given in the brackets. (A letter by my father. (write, will be written, will write, has written) (i) They radios here. (sell, selling, has sold, has been selling) (ii) Manners _____ character. (revealing, reveal, has revealed, has been revealing) ww 1 with things. (satisfied, satisfies, am satisfied, may satisfied) (®) We can’t have games here until we the ground. (clear, shall clear, shall be cleared) (vi) She jumped off the train while it (had moved, was moving, is moving) (vii) My father, in an insurance office. (is not working, does not work, were not working) Do as directed. (Any five) 5 (Choose the correct form of the word given in the bracket and fill up the blank (i) Tell me the (To be true) (il) Your book is ___on the table. (lie) (iil) Lead is the of all metals. (heavy) (iv) Following were passed in the meeting, (resolve) (vy) His to the cause is praiseworthy. (contribute) (vi) He took the __ and initiated the proceedings. (lead) (vii) The sun shines (bright) ‘Transform any five of the following sentences as directed : 10 (i) He is too lazy to succeed. (Convert the simple sentence to complex sentence) (ii) As soon as he seated himself he called for lunch. (Use “no sooner ... than’ for as soon as) (iii) He saw the danger and he stopped. (Convert the compound sentences to complex sentence) (iv) Hospital admitted the patient. (Rewrite in passive voice) (v) “Where is the coffee shop ?” he asked, (Rewrite in reported speech) (vl) He is too proud to ask for a favour. (Remove ‘too’ and rewrite the sentence) (vii) He hurt his foot. He continued. (Combine the sentence) P.T.O. ADT 8 (a) Marks Punctuate the following paragraph 5 Jay arrived home and discovered that he had forgotten his door key he rang the bell but nobody came to open the door he rang again and waited but still there was no answer dorothy his wife had obviously gone out. Correct any five of the sentences 5 (i) He was convicted and fung for murder. (ii) Neither of them were willing to do the job. (iii) Fach of these students attend lectures regularly. (iv) He works for us on alternative days. (¥) This is a comfortable house to live. (vi) Ganges is a river. (vii) He told us he will be here next week. Give meaning of any five of the phrases and use them in sentences of your own. 10 (i) To stand on one’s own feet (i) To stand up for (iil) To run into (iv) To run down () Togiveup (vi) To give in (vii) To give away -000-

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