Formative assessment (English)

1) Read the following passage carefully and the answer the

question given below :( 2×5)
How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who
carefully choose the shows that they watch. Television can increase our
knowledge of the outside world; there are high quality programmes that help us
to understand many fields of study, science, medicine, and the arts and so on.
Moreover, television benefits very old people, who can't often leave the house
as well as patients in hospitals. It also offers non-native speakers the advantage
of daily informal language practice. They can increase their vocabulary and
practice listening.

On the other hand, there are several serious disadvantages of television. Of

course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time, but
in some countries, people watch the 'blood tube' for an average of six hours or
more a day. Many children stare at a television screen for more hours each day
than they do anything else including studying & sleeping. It's clear that the tube
has a powerful influence on their lives and that its influence if often negative.

(i) For whom is television useful?

(ii) How do non-native speakers get benefit from television?

(iii) What is referred as “blood tube” in the passage?

(iv) How does television influence negatively?

(v) Which programmes are beneficial for us?

2) Read the extract and answer the questions that follow (2×5)

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
(i) With whom are the stars compared with and what is the point of
resemblance?

(ii) What does the poet tell about the number of the stars?

(iii) Who danced better according to the poet?

(iv) How does the scene help the poet?

(v) Write the figure of speech used in the first stanza?

(3) Read the passage carefully and and answer the questions that
follow(5×2)

PEOPLE came to him when the patient was on his last legs. Dr. Raman often
burst out, " Why couldn't you have come a day earlier ? " The reason was
obvious visiting fee twenty-five rupees, and more than that people liked to shirk
the fact that the time had come to call in Dr. Raman ; for them there was
something ominous in the very association. As a result when the big man came
on the scene it was always a quick decision one way or another. There was no
scope or time for any kind ofwavering or whitewashing. Long years of practice
of this kind had bred in the doctor a certain curt truthfulness ; for that very
reason his opinion was valued ; he was not a mere doctor expressing an opinion
but a judge pronouncing a verdict. The patient's life hung on his words. This
never unduly worried Dr. Raman. He never believed that agreeable words ever
saved lives. He did not think it was any of his business to provide unnecessary
dope when as a matter of course Nature would teU them the truth in a few
hours. However, when he glimpsed the faintest sign of hope, he rolled up his
sleeve and stepped into the arena : it might be hours or days, but he never
withdrew till he wrested the prize from Tama's hands. Today, standing over a
bed, the doctor felt that he himself needed someone to tell him soothing lies. He
mopped his brow with his kerchief and sat down in i8 THE DOCTOR'S WORD
the chair beside the bed. On the bed lay his dearest friend in the world : Gopal.
They had known each other for forty years now, starting with their Kindergarten
days. They could not, of course, meet as much as they wanted, each being
wrapped in his own family and profession. Occasionally, on a Sunday, Gopal
would walk into the consulting room, and wait patiently in a corner till the
doctor was free. And then they would dine together, see a picture, and talk of
each other's life and activities.

(i) Is Dr Raman right in speaking the truth on the face of patients. Give reason
for your answer?

(ii) Describe the friendship between Dr Raman and Gopal?