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ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE — 2006 (Set III — Delhi)

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

SECTION - A (READING)

2. Read the passage given below: (12 marks)

1. One of the world’s great educators, who looked up to a child as an individual and a very special human being, was Maria Montessori. She gave the very young children the stimulating kindergarten, where children grew in an atmosphere of freedom and confidence.
2. Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle near Ancona, Italy, in 1870. As a little girl, she was a dull student, unable to grasp and retain what her teacher taught her. At the age of 10, she suddenly changed. Besides her heightened interest in religion, she felt she had a long way to go.
3. Maria began topping her class, and her parents felt that she should become a teacher. But she was determined to become an engineer. At the age of 14, she attended a technical school for boys. After a year she took up biology and decided to study medicine. In spite of a strong opposition from her father, she went ahead with. medicine.
4. Maria became the first Italian woman to receive a medical degree after she graduated from the University of Rome in 1896. After getting her degree, she joined the university’s psychiatric clinic. As a part of her duty, she had to visit the city’s mental asylum, where disabled children were housed with the insane. She watched the children shriek, stretching their hands out, with an urge to reach out or to touch something. Maria felt they needed a normal and friendlier environment and a contact with the world. She worked out ways by which she could help the disabled children. Dr. Bacelli opened an experimental state school for disabled children with Dr. Maria Montessori as its head. Maria spent long hours, almost 12 hours of the day with children, observing them and finding out what could really help them. After two years of hard work, her students took the normal state school examination. And, her children proved that they were not hopeless cases. In fact, many did almost as well as other normal children.
5. Later, Maria was appointed professor of anthropology at the university. After seven years, she took up another important mission of her life. . She started a kindergarten for the poor, normal children. She first taught them to become tidy, learn self-discipline and then taught them to read and write. In her colourful, stimulating kindergarten, she provided them with innovative learning objects, like cutout letters of sandpaper, coloured blocks and musical bells with different notes. Many more such innovations made her system of education stimulating, and even inspired the educationists. (424 words)

2.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage, complete the following sentences. Write the  answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. (4 x 1 =4 marks)

1. As a child Maria was _____________________ student.
2. The disabled children were housed .in _____________________
3. The children needed ____________________ environment.
4. The disabled children’s success in _____________ proved that they were as capable as the normal children.

2.2 State any two things that Maria’s innovative Kindergarten provided the children with: (2 x 1 =2 marks)

(a)                    (b)

2.3 Maria’s two main areas of interest were: (2 x 1 =2 marks)

(a)                     (b)

2.4 Find a word in the passage, which means the same as the following words/phrases. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank number. (4 x 1 =4 marks)

1. that makes somebody more alert and active (Para 1)
2. comprehend/understand fully (Para 2)
3. desire (Para 4)
4. a strongly felt aim (Para 5)

SECTION - C (GRAMMAR)

8. Fill in the blanks using only one word in each blank. The first one has been done as an example. Write your answers in the answer sheet against the correct blank number. (8 x ¹/₂ = 4 marks)

It is fun living near the seaside. One can go to (a) ____________ beach (b) _________________ a picnic. Sailing in boats and water surfing (c) ____________________ two activities (d) __________ young people really enjoy. The sunrise (e) _____________ the sunset make beautiful sights. Those (f) ____________ have seen the sunrise say that (g) __________ is a heavenly sight and a marvellous experience. Even the sunset (h)__________________ worth watching.

9. Read the following conversation between Raghav and Ravi and complete the passage below it Write the correct answers in the answer sheet against the correct blank number. (4 x 1 = 4 marks)

Raghav : Ravi, Varun and I are going to watch the cricket match tomorrow. Would you like to join us?
Raw : I would love to but I ha to take my father s permission first
Raghav : You must let me know by this evening because I have to arrange for the passes.
Ravi : I will do so.
            Raghav informed Ravi that Varun and he were going to watch the cricket match the next day. He asked Ravi (a) _______________. Ravi
            replied (b) ____________ permission first. Raghav told him (c)_________________for the passes. Ravi said (d) _____________ so.

SECTION - D (LITERATURE)

14. In the play ‘Julius Caesar’, the citizens prove to be fickle minded. Justify the statement and give examples in support of your answer. Write your answer in 75-100 words. (5 marks)

15. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow Write each answer in your answer sheet in one or two lines only Number the answers correctly.

SECOND GHOST: I see a vacant seat in the chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.

1. Who is the Second Ghost addressing? (1)
2. Why is the seat vacant? (1)
3. What does the phrase ‘carefully preserved’ indicate? (1)
4. The scene changed the addressee’s attitude. Give two evidences that prove the change. (2)