Assam Board Class 11 Sample Paper English

ASSAM BOARD

SAMPLE
PAPER
CLASS 11

Hs 1st year

Sub: General English Marks: 90
Time:3hrs

SECTION- A

1. Read the following passages carefully and answer thequestions that follow

Look at the opposition between the pen and the sword. The sword can only destroy, ideas also
can destroy- the ideas of Bolshevism destroyed Czarism, the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau
destroy ed tho French aristoctacy. But ideas can also build, whercas llhe sword can only destroy

It is in fact the power of ideas which has brought us out of barbarism into such civilization as we
have been able to achieve. "In what", asked Aristotle, " Docs man differ from the animal " and

answered, "it is by virtue of a reason." The greatness of man consists in his thinking. The
universe is vast, and man is tiny, but man has one advantage over the universe. He Knows it is
vast and he is tiny, but the universe does not.

In this sense, that it is to ideas and not to violence, to the pen and not to the sword, that man
owes whateverhas distinguished him from animals, whatever has enabled him to rise sbove a
purely savage condition. For the pen is the vehicle of thought, and it is by thoughi that man is
enabled to voyage through the infinite in philosophy, to unlock the secrets of the universe, to
create beauty and to commune with God.

Questions:
a. (i) What destroyed Czarism ?1
(i) Who were responsible for the fall of the French aristocracy ?' 1|
(ii) What has brought humankind out of barbarism into civilization?
iv) What does the pen represent here ?1
(v) How do ideas and the sword differ from each other ? 2
(vi) What, according to Aristotle, makes man different from the animal ? 2
(vii) What is the one advantages that man has over the universe? 2

b. Pick out words from the passage that mean the
following: 1x2 =
2
(i) People of noble birth or rank.

(ii) Primitive condition.
2. Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:

1. There are two problems which cause
great worry to our educationists- the problem of religious
and moral instruction in a land of many faiths and the
problem arising out of a large variety of
anguages.

2. Taking up the education of children, we see that they should be trained to love one another, to
be kind and helpfil to all, to be tender towards the lower animals and to observe and think right The
lask of teaching them how to read and write and to count and calculate is inportant, but it should
not make us lose sight of the
primary aim of moulding personality in the right
way

3For this, it is necessary to call into aid, culture, tradition and religion. But in ourcountry we have,
in the same school, to look after hoys and girls born in different faiths and belonging to families that
Ive diverse ways of ife and folow different forms of worship associated with different
denominations of religion. It will not do to tread the easy path of evading the difficulty by attending
solelv to phvsical culture and intellectual education. We have to evolve a suitable teaching method
for seving the spiritual needs of school children professing different faiths. We should thereby
promote an atmosphere of mutual respect, a fuller understanding and helpful cooperation among
thedifferent communities in our society. Again we must remain one people and we have therefore to
give basic training in our schools to speak and understand more languages than one and to
appreciate and respect the different religions prevailing in India. It is not right for us in India to be
dissuaded from this by considerations as to overtaking the young mind. What is necessary must be
done

4 Any attempt to do away with or steamroll the differences through governmental coercion and
indirect pressure would be as futile as it would be unwise. Any imposition of a single way of life and
form of worship on all children or neglect of a section of the pupils in this respect or barren
secularization will lead to conflict between school and home life which is harmful. On the other
if we give due
hand,
recognition to the different prevailing faiths in the educational institutions by
organising suitable facilities for religious teaching for boys and girls of all communities, this may
itself serve as a broadening influence of great national value.

Questions:

A. On the basis of your reading of the above
passage, make notes on it, using recognizabie
abbreviations whenever necessary. Add a suitable title to it. 5

B. Make summary of the above
passage in about 80 words. 3

SECTION-B
You arranging an excursion trip to Shillong planned in the last week of April. Write a
are
paragraph on your preparations to your classmates in about l00 words given all relevant details.
6

Or
You are Gopal Anita

of Govt. Higher Sccondary School, Karimganj. Your Sehool has
organised a Blood Donation Camp on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee Celebrations. Write a
report in 100 125 words as an editor for your sehool
-

activity. 6 magazine,
on this
widely acclaimed

p e e c h to be delivered in the school/college morning assembly on the Use ofscienee
and technology in
making
Indin's fiuture hetter.
6

Or

Y Ou are concerned about the reckless feeling of trees leading to cnvironment degradation. Write

a aricle on Grow more trees' to be published in your school magazines in about 100-150
words. 6

5. You are Nitin/Nikita. You have an advertisement in "The Assam Tribune" for a post of a Sales
Executive in a Multi National company. Write an application for the post, giving detailed CV. 8

Or

Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper to make people in your locality who don't follow
COVID-19 rules aware of importance of following them. 8
6. (a) Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners
:% x 2 1

(i) I remember.... name now. It's Nini.

(ii) He heard it with his . . ears.

(b) Rewrite the following sentences with the correct form of the verb
x2 1 given in brackets : %

i) The Prime Minister (come) here tomorrow.

(i) The dog (eat) all his food and begged for more.

hoay
(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate model auxiliaries
indicated in the bracket): % x 2=1
(the sense of the sentence is

G) you move your chair a bit please ? (ability)

(i) Students prepare their lessons well. (compulsion)

(d) Correct the following: %x 2=1
(i) Guwahati is one of the oidesi city in the
counry.

(ii) The man is a social animal

7a) Complete the following piece of conversation by choosing the correct alternative from
he brackets: 1x 2-2

) The man said to me, "... you a student ? (are/do)

(ii) He replied, "I am writing a few essays as part of my..
Ior the
examination." (preparing/preparation)
(b} Rewrite the following sentences as directed: 1x 2=2

0) She is most intelligent girl in the class. (Use the comperative degree of ntelligent')

(i) The Rajdhani Express runs faster than any other train. (Make it positive degree)

8. Rearrange the words in the following to form meaningful sentences: 1x 2=2

) Playing football for an hour he had been i when his house reached.

i) Shyam not know swim does to how.

SECTION-D
9. Read the stanzas given below and answerthe questions that follow

(a) I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years, I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from now
He was when small.

i.Where do these lines occur? 1

ii. Why does the speaker say that he does not know this child ? 1

ii. For how long have the father and son lived together ? 1
iv. What does the speaker try to build ? 1
v. What ideas do you form about the relationship between the father and son from the quoted lines
?
10. Answer the folowing questions: 3x 2 6

(a) What does rain do day and night?
textbooks in the poem 'Childhood?
(b) According to the poet what could not be found in geography

11. Answer the following questions: 2x 5= 10

a) between village school education and urban school education is as brougnt
out What
in thethe difference
lesson The Portrait of a Lady ?

(b} How has Nek Chand received international recognition ?

(c) What do you know about the earth's biological systems and their functions?

(d) What is Vertier Elwin saying to the people of the Assam hill?

(o) How did storles such as the one about Wu Daozi play an important role in China's classical
education?
12. () "The earth's vital signs reveal a patient in declining health" Fhicidate. 6

Or

his
(b) Cile reasons to validate whether the distancing relationship between the author and
grandmother was deliberate or beyond their control. 6

13. Deseribe the cireumstances leading to Albert getting a medical certificate issued declaring
him unfit to contiue school. 6

Or

from the story 'Ranga's marriage.'
(b) English integrates India as a nation. Discuss with examples
6

14. Answer any two of the following in brief: 2x2-4
is no education at all?
(a) Why does Einstein think that learning facts
in the lesson Ranga's marriage ?
(b) What does the narrator mention as a priceless commodity
the school systems ends up by curbing individual
(c)How does the example of Einstein prove that
talent?