Except for the following questions, all the remaining questions have been asked in Set I.
SECTION A (READING)
A2. Read the following poem carefully. (8 marks)
THE WORLD
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast—
World, you are beautifully drest.
The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
You friendly Earth, how far do you go,
With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow,
With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles,
And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Ah! you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers to-day,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
‘You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!’ —W.B.Rands
A2. On the basis of your understanding of the poem above complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. (8 marks)
(a) The ‘I’ refers to the (1) ……….and the ‘you’ refers to the (2) …………..in the poem. (2)
(b) Pick out and write any two words from the poem that refer to the grandeur of the earth. (1)
(c) Pick out and write the words from the poem that refer to the following
(1) The green dress of the earth
(2) Whisper of the wind
(3) Fear in the speaker
(4) Oceans surrounding the earth
(d) ‘You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot’ because (1)
SECTION C (GRAMMAR)
C1. In the passage given below, 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. (½ x 10 = 5 marks)
Laughter begins in the lungs diaphragm, setting |
e.g. lungs and diaphragm |
SECTION D (LITERATURE)
D1. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. (4 marks)
‘And some in dreams assured were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.’
(a) Who does the ‘us’ refer to? (1)
(b) What state of mind were they in? (1)
(c) Which ‘spirit’ followed them? Why? (2)
D2. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. (4 marks)
‘Blind with tears, the nightingale
Heard him out in silence, tried,
Puffed up, burst a vein, and died.’
(a) Who does the ‘him’ refer to? (1)
(b) Why was the nightingale blind with tears? (1)
(c) Who, according to you, was responsible for the death of the nightingale? Why? (2)
D3. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. Write the answers in your answer sheet. Remember to number the answers correctly. (5 marks)
She dreamt to-night she saw my statue,
Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans
Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it
And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,
And evils imminent; and on her knee
Hath begg’d that I will stay at home to-day.
(a) Who is speaking these lines and to whom? (2)
(b) Which dream is referred to here? (1)
(c) Where was she not letting the speaker go? (2)
D5. (a) What circumstances led Babuli to feel guilty and sad? (2)
(b) How did he react to it? (2)
D6. The young girl in ‘The Ultimate Safari’ writes a letter to her friend on her grandmother’s care to bring her up and how life at the refugee camp is. Write the letter in about 150-175 words giving atleast two instances of grandmother’s care and atleast four details of life at the refugee camp. (8 marks)
