Subject English Core

Class -XI
SET B
MM -50 Time:- 2 Hrs

SECTION A - READING SKILLS (8 MARKS)

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
In s000years of our history people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our
lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onuards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the
Portuguese, the British, the French. the Dutch all of them came and looted us, took over what was
ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not
grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tricd to enforce our, way of life on them. Why?
Because we respect the freedom of others.

That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in
1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture
and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.

My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been developing nation. It
is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. Ihave a THIRD vision. India must stand up to the
world. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only
strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic
power. Both must go hand in hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds.
Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr.
Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them
closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.
Here Iam reminded an instance - One day an orthopaedic surgeon from Nizam Institute ofMedical
Sciences visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he took me to his
hospital and showed me his patients. There were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic
callipers weighing over three kg. each, dragging their feet around. He said to me: Please remove the
pain of my patients. In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction Orthosis300 gram callipers and
took them to the orthopaedic centre. The children didn't believe their eyes. From dragging around a
three kg. load on their legs,they could now move around! Their parents had tears in their eyes, That
was bliss to me.

Ihave a question: Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to
recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such agreat nation. We have so many
amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Another question: Why are we, as a nation so ObSessed with foreign things? We want foreign
TV's we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything
imported? Don't we realise that self respect comes with self reliance? Iwas in Hyderabad giving
this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. Iasked her what her goal in life is:
She replied: 'I want to live in a developed India.' ror her, you, I will have to build this developed
India. You must proclaim. As an aside from yours truiy: India is not an underdeveloped nation, it is
a highly developed nation in an advanced state of decay! (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam).

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1. A Pick out the

correct option : (1 X 2=2Marks)
(a)For how long we have been a
developing nation.
(i) 100 years (ii)60 years
(iii) 50 years (iv) 70 years
(b) We can boast that we respect the freedom of others
because.
(i)We have not conquered anyone. (i)We have grabbed any
(iii)We have not tried to enforce our way of life on anyone.not(iv) all of country's land,
the above.
B. Answer the following questions in
reference to tme above passage. (1 X 6=6Marks)
a) Why must India stand up to the
world?
b)In what way the author wants us to be
strong!
c) The great scientists who inspired A.PJ. Abdul Kalam are ?
d) How is India different according to the author?
e) What comes with self reliance?
f) What does the author dream of India to become?

SECTION B- WVRITING SKILLS -

(10MARKS)
2.You want to sell your car as you are going abroad. Draït a
50 words to be published in classified columns of"The suitable advertisement in not more than
Hindu'. Give necessary details of the car.
You are Suman/Sushil, 21 Ram Nagar, Delhi.
(4 Marks)
3.You are Ravi/Rashi staying at 12 vaibhav apartments Indore. Last
computer from RK dealers, Gandhi market Indore with a warranty of two month you purchased a
years. All of a sudden it
has stopped functioning. Write a letter to the dealer complaining about it and
against the warranty that goes with it. request to replace it
(6Marks)
SECTION-C (GRAMMAR) (07 MARKS)
4.Inthe following passage one word has been omitted in each line. Write the
missing word
along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your
answer sheet
against the correct blank number. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is
underlined.
(½x8= 4marks)
WORD BEFORE MISSING WORD WORD AFTER
Madhya Pradesh, the Heartland State the (a)
country, has since inception carried the (b)
stigma of being backward state. Things (C)
didchange for better with time it failed
to realize its full potential due to failure to (d)
(e)
leverage its vast natural resources. However, ()
present state government led young C.M. Mr (o)
Shivraj Singh Chauhan transformed it to one (h)
Of the fastest moving state of India.

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3.Rearrange the following words and phrases to for) meaningful sentences. Write the
corrected sentence in your answer sheet. (|x3 =3 marks)

(a) electricity/is an/water/excellent/conductor of

(b) or perspiring/never/wirc/when wet/touech a/therefore.
(c) a fire/ or/ blow/ overloading/can a fuse/ cause.

(25 MARKS)
SECTION D (LITERATURE)
(| X4 4Marks)
6. Read the lines givenbelow and answer the questions that follow:
And the sea, which appears to have changed less,
Washed their terribly transicnt feet.

Name the poem and the poct?

Whose feet have been mentioned in the second line?
Explain the meaning of these lines "And the feet"?
Name the poetic device used in the last line?
(3 x 3=9 markS)
7. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words. (Any 3)
What does the,voice of the rain declare ?
What made Carter chisel away the solidified resins toraise the king's remains?
What do vou think induced the boys to return the horse to its owner?
Why did the narrator want to forget the address? (The Address)
Explain the Daoist view of life.

8. Answer the following questions in 150 words.

a) When the people are pious and good even Nature mourns their death. Justify with reference
to The Portrait of a Lady'. (6 marks)

b) Discuss the suitability of the title "We are not afraid to Die.... if we can all be together."
(6 marks)