ICSE 2023PREPARATORY EXAMINATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE {ENGLISH PAPER 1) Maximum Marks: 80 Time allowed: two hours. You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes. This time has been allotted for reading. igiven at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. a Attempt all five questions. ks intended for questions are given in brackets [ J. minutes on this question) Words) on any one of the following: [20) et with each passing year. Write a description of one such cold ‘and sounds as you walked around your apartment. exhibition in your school. Narrate how you prepared for it, your role in it ed from it. sroom. Give your views for or ). Write a Story or a description or an account of what it suggests to about the Subject of the Picture or you may take suggestions from it; at Connection between the picture and your composition. es mn) Select any one of the Write a letter to hinvher 10) following. imher apologizing for what 7 ip. ite a letter to your Principal reqhardly uttering a word to anybody. Many were beginning 10 look worried and took every opportunity to take Shankar aside and have his doubts (that arose from time to time as he plodded through his texts) cleared. He dogged the steps of the school clerk. There was a general belief in the school that the clerk was omniscient and knew all the question papers of all the classes. One day, Mani went to the clerk’s house and laid a neat bundle containing fresh brinjals at his feet. The clerk was pleased and took Mani in and seated him on a stool. The clerk looked extremely amiable and Mani felt that he could ask anything at this moment and get it. The clerk was murmuring something about his cat, & lank ill-fed thing that was nestling close fo him, Most of what he was saying did not enter Manis head. He was waiting feverishly to open the topic of question papers. The clerk had meanwhile passed from cats to eye-flies; but it made little difference to Mani, who was waiting for the other to pause “You must never let these eye-flies buzz near your eyes. All cases of the only thing you can do is t0 take a slice of raw onion Td not stop, and butted in, “There is only a week .. You must take care to choose only : When you get eyesore, realized that the other woul examinations, Sir.......’ The clerk was slightly puzzled : “Yes. the juicy variety, the large juicy variety, . Sir, ‘Mani interrupted, ignoring the juicy variety, ; worried about my examination’. He tried to look pathetic. : he ; ‘Tam glad. If you read well, e ; ; R .. don’t meandered thus. The clerk ‘and you will pass.” Mani Sir, what questions areby What abt the clerk believe was the reason for eyesore? What was the remedy? (2) ») What ¢ ) whieh word in the passage describes the clerk as ‘all knowing? (tl « Why did Mani try to look pathetic? PI ¢) Why did Mani ask the question bluntly? Bl 5) What did Mani really want to know? What valuable hints was he given? Write ai in not more than $0 words, Question § ‘Do not copy a) Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words provided in the brackets. 90 the passage, Example (0) roamed 8 , Once upon a time, in the days when genies and giants (0) ____! (live) a farmer (2) (name) Baba Ayub. He lived name Maidan Sabz. Having a large family to feed, Baba (consume) by hard work. Every day, he his field and (7) (tum) b) Fill in the blanks: 1. The puppy was hiding 4. There is plenty of fooe a) There is enough b) We have to manage c) We have to manage ¥4) There is plenty of food for us to manage. 4) Read each sentence with its instructions. Choose the correct answer from the options provided beneath each: (8) 1. The old lady asked Anil,” Can you help me cross the road?" (Begin: The old woman...) 4) The old lady asked Anil if he could help her cross the road. b) Anil was asked by the old lady if he could help her cross the road. ©) Anil was asked if he could help the old lady across the road. 4) The old lady told Anil to help her cross the road. 2. Greenland is the largest island in the world. (Begin: No...) a) No island is as large as Greenland. ) No island in the world is as large as Greenland. c) No other island in the world is as large as Greenland. d) No other island is as large as Greenland. 3. As soon as the bell rings, the children run to the door. (Use: No @) No sooner did the bell ring than the children ran to the door, 4) No sooner do the bell ring than the children run to the doo ¢) No sooner does the bell ring than the children run to the d od) No sooner had the bell rung than the children ran to the d 4.lt so heavily that they could not reach the stadium @) It rained too heavily that they could not reach the stadit 4) It rained too heavily for them to reach the stadium on ti i tea hey ran 1 reach see 4) It rained too heavily, for them to reach t