KARNATAKA SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION BOARD, MALLESWARAM, BANGALORE – 560 003
S.S.L.C. EXAMINATION, SEPTEMBER, 2020
Date : 22. 09. 2020 CODE NO. : 14-E
Subject : First Language — ENGLISH Max. Marks : 100
I. Multiple choice questions : 6 × 1 = 6
1. I watched ................... boy helping .................... old man cross the road. The suitable articles to be filled in the blanks in the above sentence are
(A) an ; the (B) a ; a (C) the ; a (D) the ; an
. Ans. : (D) — the, an 1 1
2. The Manager appointed a new Secretary and ............... the old one. The appropriate antonym of the underlined word is
(A) selected (B) reported (C) dismissed (D) excused.
Ans. : (C) — dismissed
3. They waited .................... the bus stop ................... the next bus. The correct pair of prepositions to be filled in the blanks is
(A) by ; for (B) at ; for (C) for ; for (D) by ; of.
Ans. : (B) — at ; for
4. The thieves found it easy to ................... the house, as it was vacant and steal the valuables. The proper phrasal verb to be used to fill in the blank is
(A) break out (B) break down (C) break into (D) break with
. Ans. : (C) — break into
5. “You are Kuntidevi’s own first born, ................. ?” A suitable question tag to the above sentence is
(A) aren’t you (B) weren’t you (C) are you (D) were you.
Ans. : (A) — aren’t you
6. “I had a dove and the sweet dove died.” The figure of speech used in the above line is
(A) Personification (B) Metaphor (C) Simile (D) Alliteration.
Ans. : Alliteration
II. Observe the relationship in the first pair of words and complete the second pair accordingly in the following : 4 × 1 = 4
7. Sail : Sale :: Stare : .......................... .
Ans. : Stair
8. A remedy for all diseases : Panacea :: Loss of memory : ....................... .
Ans. : Amnesia
9. Angel : Angelic :: Autumn : ......................... .
Ans. : Autumnal
10. Grateful : Ungrateful :: Agreeable : ..................... .
Ans. : Disagreeable
III. Rewrite as directed : 3 × 1 = 3
11. Change the voice of the verb in the following sentence : He was made a general by the king.
Ans. : Comp. The king made him a general.
12. Rewrite the sentence using the appropriate tense forms of the verbs in the brackets : After I ( hear ) the news I ( hurry ) to see her.
Ans. : After I heard the news, I hurried to see her.
13. Punctuate the sentence : what an easy paper said ashok
Ans. : “What an easy paper !” said Ashok.
IV. Answer the following questions in a sentence each : 4 × 1 = 4
14. What does Rabindranath Tagore compare the girl’s movement on the road to ?
Ans. : The rapid movement of a skilled hand on the strings of a guitar.
15. How did Lochinvar escape with Ellen from the Netherby Hall ?
Ans. : on the horse ( charger ) which was standing near the hall door.
16. Why are Indian shoppers thrilled ?
Ans. : they are getting the kind of choice that people in the West enjoyed.
17. What are businessmen mainly trained to do ?
Ans. : to do everything possible to maximize profits for the corporations that employ them.
V. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences each : 7 × 2 = 14
18. How did Pasteur contribute to his country during the First World War ?
Ans. : troops going abroad were inoculated — typhoid and enteric fever — very low death rate — even in unhealthy places.
18. What did the narrator infer when the girl was startled by his voice ?
Ans. : people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. — could be because — too much to take in
20. How did the female crane react soon after the male bird was shot ?
Ans. : it flew away — circled the sky — movements of grace — returned when killers went away.
21. How does Shakespeare compare himself to a dying fire ?
Ans. : compares to the stage of embers — lying on the ashes of youth — Fire — expires — leaves ashes — that which nourished it — similarly he lies on the ashes of his youth.
22. Why does John Masefield feel ashamed to meet his mother who is in the grave ?
Ans. : he realizes he has done nothing to repay her — or women in general. — he has not done or said or tried to show his gratitude to his dead mother.
23. Why was Captain Smollett unhappy before The Hispaniola set sail ?
Ans. : being the captain, he had no hand in choosing his crew — everyone knew they were sailing for treasure.
24. How did Ulysses and his men blind the cyclop ?
Ans. : Cyclop lay insensible — Ulysses and his men placed the sharp end of a stake in fire — heated red hot — they bore the sharp end — right into — eye of the drunken cyclop — blinded him.
VI. Rewrite as directed : 3 × 2 = 6
25. Change the following sentence to the other two degrees of comparison : Diamond is harder than any other substance.
Ans. : Positive : No other substance is as hard as diamond. Superlative : Diamond is the hardest substance.
26. Change the following sentence into simple and compound sentences :
As soon as he received the news he left the place.
Ans. : Simple : (i) Soon after receiving the news, he left the place.
OR
(ii) On receiving the news, he left the place.
Compound : He received the news and left the place.
27. Frame sentences to bring out the difference in the meaning between the following pair of words : cloth — clothes.
Ans. : Cloth = Material used for making clothes.
The tailor measured the cloth brought by the customer.
Clothes = Something worn to cover the body or to
keep warm.
I need some new clothes. ( Any meaningful sentences )
VII. Answer the following questions in five to six sentences each : 6 × 3 = 18
28. How does soil erosion occur ?
Ans. : in successive steps — earliest unnoticed — later
— deep gullies and ravines
— sudden bursts of heavy rain — principal factor
— slope of land — removal of natural vegetation —
existence of ruts — absence of any checks.
29. How does Abraham Lincoln ensure that his son cultivates the value of depending on his own self ?
Ans. : teach him to have faith in his own ideas even if everyone tells him they are wrong.
— give him strength not to follow the crowd — getting on the bandwagon.
— to listen to all men — filter all he hears — screen of truth — take good
— to stand any fight if he thinks he is right.
30. What made the poet turn his boat back even before reaching his destination, the craggy ridge ?
Ans. : Rem. — Boat heaving smoothly — poet saw — behind the craggy ridge — black and huge peak uprear its head — voluntary instinct — the poet struck — peak — grow in stature — grim shape towered between him and the stars — peak stride — measured motion — life of its own. — poet — fright — nervous — turned boat back.
31. How does Buttoo show his reverence to Dronacharya ?
Ans. : acknowledges Dronacharya — inspiration — all knowledge — readily offers everything he has — everything he conquers — shows reverence — cuts off his thumb — did not speak a word — no tear in his eye.
32. What was the objection raised by Kripacharya before the single combat between Arjuna and Karna ? How did Duryodhana set it right ?
Ans. : Kripacharya — well versed — rules of single combat — Arjuna — son of Pritha and Pandu — scion of Kuru race — Karna — to reveal his parentage, race — high born princes could not engage — single combat — unknown adventurers.
— Duryodhana obtained permission — performed rites — invested Karna sovereignty of Anga.
33. What five criteria does Gandhiji give to term an act as a ‘Moral Act’ ? OR How does the narrator describe Mussoorie ? How is he able to do it, despite being blind ?
Ans. : — Must be our own act, spring from our own will — done intentionally.
— Intention to do good
— Without compulsion or fear
— No self interest
— Not even considerations of happiness in another world.
— October — best time
— Hills — dahlias — sun — delicious.
— night — front of a log fire — listen — music — roads — quiet — deserted — narrator not born blind — had visited earlier — calling on his memories.
VIII. Explain with reference to the context : 5 × 3 = 15
34. “Only some more work from your hands.”
Ans. : A Wrong Man in Workers’ Paradise — Rabindranath Tagore.
— The idler says to the girl.
— When the girl asks him what he wants from her.
— After the idler had painted the pitchers, the next day the girl saw him standing by the torrent. She asked him what he wanted from her. In reply the idler said the above line.
35. “You’ll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now.”
Ans. : The Gift of the Magi — O’ Henry
— Della says to Jim.
— When she shows him the chain
— Della and Jim had bought gifts for each other.
Della had bought a platinum fob chain to match
Jim’s gold watch. She held it on her palm and
said she hunted for it all over the town. She
says the above line to Jim.
36. “I’m not lovesick ; I’m starving.”
Ans. : The Pie and the Tart — Hugh Chesterman
— Pierre says to Jean.
— When Jean asks Pierre to kiss Marion’s hand.
— Pierre and John are hungry vagabonds. Jean
comes up with a plan to get food — he has
overheard the conversation between Gaultier
and Marion. Jean instructs Pierre to kiss
Marion’s hand — sign that he is sent by
Gaultier. Then Pierre says the above line.
37. “Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide.”
Ans. : Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott.
— Lochinvar says to Ellen’s father
— When Ellen’s father questions him on why he
has come to the Netherby Hall. — Ellen’s father meets Lochinvar at the Netherby
Hall. He wants to know the purpose of his visit
to the hall. Lochinvar wants to mislead the
bride’s father into thinking that he does not love
Ellen any more. So he says the above line
comparing his love to the tides of river Solway.
38. My foe outstrech’d beneath the tree.
Ans. : A Poison Tree — William Blake
— Speaker says to the readers
— Speaker had suppressed his anger towards his
foe. It grew and bore a fruit. This was so
tempting that the foe stole into the Speaker’s
garden in the dark of the night to steal the fruit.
The next morning the Speaker finds the foe
outstretched beneath the tree and is glad.
IX. Quote from memory : 4
39. The rich ........................................................................
......................................................................... ......................................................................... of gold. OR
. And it grew ...................................................... ........................................................................
....................................................................... ...................................................... it was mine. Ans. :
The rich
will make temples for Siva.
What shall I,
a poor man,
do ?
My legs are pillars,
the body the shrine,
the head a cupola
of gold.
OR
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright ;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
X. Answer the following questions in seven to eight sentences each : 3 × 4 = 12
40. At one particular point of time, Robert Frost feels that they do not need the wall. Why ? How does his neighbour respond to it ?
Ans. : The neighbour has all pine trees and the poet has an apple orchard.
— Poet reasons — his apple trees will never cross over to the other side to eat the cones under his pines.
— Poet realizes — a wall is necessary if there are animals
— The wall will keep out the animals from straying into the orchard.
— Here there were no cows to be kept out.
— When he tells his neighbour, the neighbour only replies, “Good fences make good neighbours.”
41. How was Anne Frank’s diary found ? How did it come to be published ? OR
What circumstances made Pasteur turn his laboratory into a kind of small germ factory ?
Ans. : A week after — Frank family was arrested — Miep — boldly returned to the Annexe.
— A heap of papers — floor — Miep recognized Anne’s handwriting — decided to keep the diary — not to read it.
— After six weeks of liberation — waiting — his daughters to return — Otto Frank was told — both had perished.
— Then Miep handed him Anne’s diaries.
— The idea of publishing — did not enter his mind.
— Gave one typed copy to a close friend — lent it to a professor of Modern History.
— Professor devoted an article — Dutch newspaper.
— Friends urged Otto Frank to have it published.
— When he finally consented — manuscript was refused by two well known Dutch publishers.
— A third decided to accept — sold more than 1,50,000 copies — Dutch edition.
— Other editions followed.
OR
— Pasteur trying to discover — cure for — Anthrax — killing cows and sheep quickly.
— found — first of all — cow could not have anthrax twice — thought it possible to make cows or sheep ‘immune’ — by giving them weak old germs.
— Dangerous idea — but Pasteur proved — idea correct — by conducting an experiment — cows, goats and sheep.
— The animals which were given the weak germs before they were injected with the most deadly anthrax germs were perfectly well — the group of animals which did not receive the weak germs were dead or dying.
— News spread that Pasteur had discovered a cure for anthrax — hundreds wrote for supplies of ‘Vaccine’ or weak germs.
— So he had to turn his laboratory into a kind of small germ factory.
42. What fatal mistake did Mr. Hodge make ? How did he restore the status quo ? OR How has the writer brought out the “tragic comedy of development” ?
Ans. : — The blacksmith — last for batting limping — leaning — baker — received the first ball — lashed wildly — hitting straight up — air — to an enormous height.
— Livingstone and Southcott — approached it competently. Either of them could catch it easily.
— Mr. Hodge had to choose — coming to a swift decision he yelled, “Yours Livingstone !”
— Southcott — disciplined cricketer stopped dead. Mr. Hodge made a fatal mistake.
— He remembered Livingstone’s two missed sitters — reversed his decision — roared, “Yours Bobby !” Mr. Southcott obediently started again.
— Livingstone had not heard the second order — went straight on.
— Captain Hodge had thus restored the status quo.
. Alexander Cheriyan says — a deep irony — pockets of private prosperity are growing — inexorable impoverishment of the resources that belong to the public realm. — Amazing variety of sleek new car models to choose from — roads — city — pretty bad shape — getting worse. — Fashionable luxury resorts — affluent — coming up everywhere — lung spaces for public use — parks and playgrounds — shrinking. — Much the same with many other services — public domain including transportation, health care, libraries and education. — Trend is to push — most essential services — private realm — some company or other can make profit on them. — The poor — being pushed into becoming consumers — increasingly expensive goods and services.
XI. 43. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below : 1 × 4 = 4 (2 × 2)
One of the most inexplicable mysteries that has ever puzzled the selfish rich is their failure to find happiness where they had expected to find it. The bitterest disappointment that comes to people who have made fortunes is that their wealth did not bring the happiness which it promised or anything like it. They find that affections do not feed on material things, that the heart would starve in the midst of the greatest luxuries alone. They find that while money can do many things, it has little power to satisfy the heart’s yearning, the heart’s hunger.
How many women there are in palatial homes in this country who are starving for happiness and would gladly exchange all their luxuries for the love of a good man even if he had not a dollar in the world !
Questions : a) What is the realisation of the many selfish rich ?
b) What is the state of many women living in palatial houses ?
Ans. : a) The selfish rich realize that affections do not feed on material things, the heart would starve in the midst of the greatest luxuries alone. They realize that while money can do many things, it has little power to satisfy the heart’s hunger.
b) Many women in palatial houses are starving for happiness and would gladly exchange all their luxuries for the love of a good man, even if he had not a dollar in the world.
XII. 44. Write an essay of about 18 - 20 sentences on any one of the following topics : 1 × 5 = 5
a) Recent natural calamities — Nature’s way of retaliating against its degradation. b) Social media should be used with a lot of caution. Ans. : — Matter — Sequence — Language
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