ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE — 2006 (Set II Compartment Delhi)

Except for the following questions, all the remaining questions have been asked in Set I.

SECTION - B (WRITING)

4. You are Manav/Mansi, Secretary of the School Cultural Committee. You have to write a notice for the Cultural Fiesta to be held in your school. Write the notice in not more than 50 words mentioning the date, venue, time and items to be held. (5 marks)

8. Sanjana is a reporter for The Tribune. She made some notes for a report on the floods in Mumbai. Complete the report in its suitable form by using phrases from the box below. Do not add any new information Write only the correct answer against the correct blank number in your answer sheet. (1 x 5 = 5 marks)

heavy rain lashing — more than 24 hours — streets flooded — water inside homes — no road rail air traffic

  1. The city of Mumbai was
  2. It had been
  3. There was a terrible
  4. People had to move to shelters
  5. No one could

SECTION - D (LITERATURE)

12. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write each answer in your answer sheet in one or two lines only: (4 marks)

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness
In me she has drowned a young girl and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day like a terrible fish

  1. What replaces the darkness each morning (1)
  2. What does the poetess mean when she says she has drowned a young girl (1)
  3. Which phrase in the above lines shows that the woman is in a disturbed state of mind (1)
  4. Who is compared to a terrible fish (1)

13. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow Write each answer in your answer sheet in one or two limes only (4 marks)

Oh! lift me up as a wave a leaf a cloud’
I fall upon the thorns of life’ I bleed’
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee—tameless, and swift and proud

  1. Who is being addressed (1)
  2. What is his appeal to it (1)
  3. Why does the poet make this appeal (1)
  4. What is common between the poet and the West Wind (1)

16. What impression do you form about Coachman Au on reading the story, ‘The Letter’? (4 marks)

17. Imagine that you are Cutie Pie. After you return home safely, you decide to write your experiences in your diary. Write the diary entry in your answer sheet. Your answer should be in 150-475 words. (8 marks)