NEW SUMMIT COLLEGE

SHANTINAGAR, KATHMANDU
COMPULSORY ENGLISH
GRADE XI [SCIENCE]
FIRST TERMINAL EXAMINATION - 2079
Time: 3 hours Full Marks: 75
Attempt all the questions: Pass Marks: 30
1. Read the text and do the tasks: 15

Gandhi never urged anyone to renounce wealth or power. He taught a set of values
that might make happiness less dependant on material possessions. “As long as you desire
inner help and comfort from anything, you should keep it,” he suggested tolerantly.
Otherwise, he said, you might renounce a worldly asset ‘in a mood of self-sacrifice or out
of a stern sense of duty’ but want it back and suffer.
“I wholeheartedly detest,” Gandhi declared, “this mad desire to destroy distance and
time, to increase animal appetites, and to go to the ends of the earth in search of their
satisfaction. None of this is taking the world a step nearer its goal.”
Gandhi is known for his successful efforts to liberate India. Actually, for him the
development of the Indian into a free man was more important than the freeing of India.
Most of Gandhi’s followers in India were not Gandhians and did not share his ideals; they
mere accepted his leadership because it smoothed the way to their objective which was an
Indian nation without the British but with all the usual attributes of nationhood. For them,
national independence was an end, a goal in itself: for him it was a means to a better man
and better life, and because his heart was heavy with doubts whether these purposes would
be furthered by the manner in which independence was achieved—two bleeding children
torn violently from the body of mother India—he did not celebrate on August 15, 1947, the
day the Indian nation came into his own world—he was sad and refused congratulations.
Gandhi was a nationalist, he loved India, but he was no Indo-maniac. He said he
would not hurt England to help India. All the years he fought British-Boer racial
discrimination in South Africa and British imperialism in India he never despised or
revised ‘the enemy’. He wanted to understand them. The British in India were victims of
their past. In liberating India Gandhi thought he was also freeing England for a new future.
For mental health, Gandhi prescribed truth. He brought for himself a unity of what he
believed, what he did, and what he said. Creed, deed, and word for one. This is the
integration which is integrity or truth. When utterances conflict with actions and actions
with beliefs the individual is split and sick. Gandhi preached what he practised and
practised what he believed. I found him healthy, happy, and light-hearted despite his many
sorrows and burdens. He enjoyed inner harmony.
‘Perhaps’, the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote of Gandhi, ‘he will not
succeed. Perhaps he will fail as the Buddha failed and as Christ failed to wean men from
their iniquities, but he will always be remembered as one who made his life a lesson for all
ages to come.’
A. Choose the best answer: 5×1=5
1. The set of values that Gandhi taught people……………………………….
(a) made them renounce wealth or power
(b) to give up the mad desire to destroy distance and time
(c) made happiness less dependant on material assets
(d) to have a spirit of self-sacrifice
2. For Gandhi, the most valuable object was……………………………….
(a) political freedom of India
(b) material development of India
(c) renouncing worldly assets
(d) development of Indians into free people
3. Most of Gandhi’s followers accepted his leadership because………………………
(a) they were his dedicated disciples
(b) it smoothed the way to their objective
(c) they did not share his ideals
(d) they had a common objective
4. Gandhi fought for national independence because……………………………….
(a) it was a means to a better man and better life
(b) it was an end in itself
(c) he thought it worth achieving
(d) it was to take the world a step forward
5. The word ‘material’ in para 1 means……………………………….
(a) fabric for clothes/customs
(b) information or ideas used in books
(c) items used in a performance
(d) relating to worldly possessions
B. Indicate ‘True’ or ‘False: 5×1=5
i. Gandhi announced to refuse power and property.
ii. National independence was only the means not an end for Indian nationals.
iii. Gandhi did not celebrate the independent day of India.
iv. Gandhi never took revenge even with the enemies.
v. The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was confident that Gandhi would succeed.
C. Answer the following questions: 5×1=5

i. Why was Gandhi accepted as a leader by his followers?

ii. Why did Gandhi fight for national independence?
iii. How can you say that Gandhi was no Indo-maniac?
iv.Why was Gandhi healthy, happy, and light-hearted?
v. Find the words from the passage in meaning similar to these words.
(a) To give up (para 1)
(b) Hate (para 2)
2. Write short answers to the following questions. 5×2=10
a.Why do you think spring season never came to the giant’s garden? (The Selfish Giant)
b. Who is the speaker in the poem? (Corona Says)
c.What is the danger of not passing on information from generation to generation? (Sharing
Tradition)
d. What did the Snow and the Forest do to the garden? (The Selfish Giant)
e. What positive changes have occurred on Earth after the speaker’s visit? (Corona Says)
3. Write long answers to the following questions. 2×5=10
a. Write the main theme of the story. (The Selfish Giant)
b. What human behaviors are responsible for the suffering in people’s lives? (Corona
Says)
4. Write a news story about the traffic jam in Kathmandu valley. 7
5. Write a letter to your friend who lives in Canada mentioning that youth should
return to Nepal to develop the nation. 8
6. Write an essay on ‘Tourism in Nepal’ in about 300 words. 10
7. Do as indicated in brackets and rewrite the sentences. 10×1=10
i. The good girl behaved well (Underline the adverb in the sentence)
ii. He returned back home from abroad………5th December 2022. (in, on, at, into)
iii. One of my friends ………pursuing PhD degree from KU. (is, are, have, do)
iv.I have……(have) my launch. (Correct Tense)
v. Perhaps he gets all information. (Use may, might, can’t, must)
vi. Eva is having trouble _________ on the exam. (concentrating / to concentrate)
vii. The woman is my neighbor. She works in the bank. (Join with relative close)
viii. I don’t have a car. (I wish/ if only)
ix. Who built the Rani Pokhari? (Passive)
x. He said, “I was teaching English in the classroom yesterday. (Reported speech)

8. Do as instructed. 5×1=5
a. Put the given words in alphabetical order.
Sentimental, sensitive, sensible, select, serious
b. She was convicted by the court for violating the law. (What does convicted mean in the
sentence)
c. I bout a round table in the supermarket. What word class does the underlined word in the
sentence belong to?
d. Use the phrasal verb in your own sentence.
Relay on
e. Choose the correct word for the sentence.
My teachers ………….me to be a lawyer. (advice/ advise)

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