Karnataka 1st PUC Model Question Paper 2027 for English (Paper 1)

FOR KARNATAKA CLASS 11 PREPARATION

Karnataka 1st PUC
Model Question Paper
2027 for English (Paper
1)
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Karnataka Class 11 2027 Sample Paper English

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Government of Karnataka
Department of School Education (Pre-University)
Model Question Paper-1
Class : First PUC ENGLISH (02) Maximum Marks : 80
Time : 3 hours Total Number of Questions : 36

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Instructions:
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a. Answer the questions in all the parts.
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b. Follow the prescribed limit while answering the questions.
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c. Write the correct question number as it appears on the Question Paper.
d. For Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), choose the correct answer and rewrite it.
e. For Part-‘A’ questions, only the first written answers will be considered for evaluation.
f. Answers to the Question No. 30 should be in sequence and at one place.
g. There are internal choice for question number 31, 32, 33, 34 and 36. Hence, answer either A or B or C.

PART-A

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I. Answer the following by choosing the right option. 10x1=10

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1. was the Chairman to the Commission of Enquiry which was set up to settle the dispute

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between the man and the elephant in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’.

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a. Mr. Leopard b. Mr. Buffalo

c. Mr. Fox d. Mr. Alligator

2. What drives away the joy of the school boy, according to the speaker in the poem ‘The
School Boy’?

a. The horn of the huntsman b. Song of the birds on every tree

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c. Skylark d. School

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3. Who treated Krishna for boils all over his body, in the story ‘Around a Medicinal Creeper’?

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c. A Malayali sadhu d. Chandru

4. According to the narrator in the story ‘Oru Manushyan’, which of the following was highly
valued by the people in the big city where he lived?

a. Money b. Murder

c. Pick-pocketing d. Robbery

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5. Which of the following statements is incorrect with reference to Babar Ali’s father?

a. He was a jute seller.

b. He believed that education is the man’s true religion.

c. He was a school dropout.

d. He didn’t support Babar Ali in setting up a school for poor children.

6. The would embrace the tree in the poem ‘If I was a tree’’?

a) cool breeze b) sunlight c) bird d) sacred cow

7. Who among the following considered Mara as ‘a lunatic’ and ‘a fool’ in the play ‘The
Watchman of the Lake’?

a. The village headman b. The king c. Ganga d. Bhīma

8. In the poem ‘The Farmer’s Wife’, the speaker considers as ‘virtuous’

a. the creditor b. the farmer

c. the child d. the cotton crop

9. Which of the following statements was believed to be true about the parents of Frederick
Douglass?

a. His mother was a slave woman and father, a white master.

b. Both his parents were slaves.

c. His father was a slave and mother, a white woman.

d. His mother was a slave and father, an overseer of slaves.

10. Match column A with column B with reference to the characters in the story ‘Two
Gentlemen of Verona’.

A B

i. The German Elite Guards a. sold fruits and newspapers in Verona

ii. Lucia b. suffered from tuberculosis

iii. Nicola and Jacopo c. harsh and unwanted masters in Verona

a. i-a, ii-c, iii-b b. i-c, ii-b, iii-a

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c. i-b, ii-a, iii-c d. i-c, ii-a, iii-b

11. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles. [a / an / the] 2x1=2

Ms. Manohari is artist from Mumbai. She was graduated from JJ School of Arts in _
year 2022.
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12. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions given in brackets. 3x1=3
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evening. Hundreds of volunteers participated the camp and donated blood.

13. Match the expressions in column A with their corresponding language functions in column B.
5x1=5
A –Expressions B-Language Functions
a. Hi, Prema! i. Seeking information
b. Thanks a lot. ii. Compliments
c. How can I help you? iii. Greeting

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d. You look wonderful! iv. Offering help

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e. When is the next bus to Gandhinagar? v. Introducing

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PART
II. Answer any three of the following in two words/phrases/sentences each.
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14. What do the images of ‘cage’ and ‘bird in the cage’ refer to, in the poem ‘The School Boy’?
15. Write the names of two diseases that Krishna suffered from in “Around a Medicinal
Creeper”?
16. What would not the bird ask a tree? What would it build in “If I was a Tree”?
17. According to the speaker in the poem ‘The Farmer’s Wife’, mention any two things that the
farmer was unable to do.

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18. How differently did Mara and the author think about tying the medicinal creeper to a tree in
‘Around a Medicinal Creeper’?
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19. Give an account of how Babar Ali’s school grew out of a game.

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20. How did Mara convince the King to build a tank for the river Veda, in the play ‘Watchman

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21. Explain the speaker’s criticism of human greed in the poem, “Money Madness”.
22. Write a note on the plight of the old woman as depicted in the poem ‘An Old Woman’.
23. What were the many illusions that the speaker in the poem ‘Do not ask of me, my love’ had
about his beloved?
IV. Answer any three of the following in about 100 words each. 3x4=12
24. How did the animals cheat the man repeatedly, in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’?
25. Describe the embarrassing situation the narrator experienced in the big city, as narrated in
‘Oru Manushyan’.

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26. How did Babar Ali try to change the world around him?

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27. Write about the various responsibilities Mara discharged being a watchman of the lake, in
the play ‘Watchman of the Lake’.
28. Why wasn’t Frederick Douglass affected much by his mother’s death?
29. Both the boys at Verona were full of grit, determination and hope. Elaborate.

PART-C
30. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it. 9x1=9
Samuel Selvon was born on May 20th 1923 in San Fernando, Trinidad. His father was a cocoa
farmer merchant from India, and his mother was of mixed Indian and Scottish ancestry. Selvon
attended Naparima College before joining the Trinidad Royal Navy reserve in 1939. He worked
as a wireless radio operator for a brief period for a local branch of the Royal Navy during World
War II on ships that patrolled the Caribbean coastal area. He then shifted to journalism and
literary writing in Trinidad. He worked at the Trinidad Guardians in 1946.
Selvon and his wife moved to London in 1950 as part the Windrush Generation, a large wave of
immigrants from the Caribbean colonies who sought job opportunities in the United Kingdom.
This generation contributed to the growing racial diversity of England. It signaled the shift in
the population of UK as former subjects of the British Empire settled in Metropolitan center.
As an East Indian growing up in the West Indies, Selvon was no stranger to resettlement, and he
brought themes and styles of cultural mixture to his novels and short stories. ‘A Brighter Sun’
(1952), published just his arrival in England, explored the mutual distrust among Indians and
Creoles in Trinidad. Subsequent novels and short story collections explored the transition from
the racial politics of the Caribbean islands to the de-facto racial segregation of London, where
newly arrived immigrants of colour found themselves systematically isolated and marginalized
by the white population.
Selvon’s the most renowned novel ‘The Lonely Londoners’ (1956) combines modernist techniques of
narrative of fragmentation with dialect writing to capture the collective disorientation and
alienation of Black and Brown immigrants in their own voices and accents. Its sequels, Moses
Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983) followed one migrant in particular through the
dream of owning a home and his return to his native Trinidad. His other works include a
collection of short stories, Ways of Sunlight, and the novels ‘I Hear Thunder’, The Housing Lark’
and a collection of plays, ‘Highway in the Sun’. He died on April 16th, 1994 at Port of Spain.

Questions
a. Where was Samuel Selvon born?
b. What did Selvon work as in the Trinidad Royal Navy during World War II?
c. Selvon’s father was a .
i. journalist ii. coco farmer iii. novelist
d. When did Selvon and his wife move to London?
e. Which is Selvon’s the most renowned novel?
f. What does the novel ‘A Bright Sun’ explore?
g. Name the most renowned novel of Selvon.
h. ‘Ways of Sunlight’ is a .
i. a collection of plays ii. a novel iii. a collection of short stories
i. Add a prefix to the word ‘settled’ to from its antonym.

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PART-D
31. A. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject: 4x1=4
Mr. Raman goes to the market every Wednesday. He (buy/buys) vegetables needed for a
week. Vegetable vendors (arrive/arrives) there by 4 a.m. One of the vendors (is/are) a
farmer from Raman’s village. He (do/does) not have a vehicle of his own to transport
the vegetables. Therefore, he hires an auto for the purpose.
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Last Sunday, I (go) to watch a 3D movie with my friends. We had planned to watch it
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at a multiplex. We (book) the tickets online to avoid standing in a queue at the
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However, my friend Aarav (do) not like the movie.

32. Rearrange the jumbled segments to form a meaningful sentence. 1x1=1
a. likes / me / mother / my / much /very.
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b. did / when / you / meet / him / ?

33. A. Identify the errors in the following sentences and rewrite them correctly. 4x1=4
i. Mathematics are an interesting subject.

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iii. Mr. Ravan returned back the books to the library yesterday.

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iv. France is an European country.
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B. Rewrite as directed. 4x1=4
i. She is not playing outdoor games,
ii. Mr. Robert likes coffee,
a ? (add a question tag)
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iii. Ms. Umme Khulsam takes care of her siblings.
(Change each sentence into a question beginning with right form of ‘do’.)
iv. Sanju loves Geetha.
(Frame a Wh-question to get the underlined word as the answer.)

34. A. Refer to the information given in the table and answer the following questions: 3x1=3

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Source Information

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a. Encyclopedia Includes information on a wide range of topics or subjects arranged in
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unabridged dictionary also gives the origin of the word

i. Which reference book do we use to learn about the political boundaries of India?
ii. In which book can synonyms and antonyms be found?
iii. Which book is useful for learning the parts of speech of a word?

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B. Refer the following extract from a dictionary and answer the questions that follow. 3x1=3

i. Identify the opposite words of ‘expensive’.
ii. Write the pronunciation transcription of the word ‘expensive’.
iii. What is the adverb form of ‘expensive’?

35. Write a letter to the Head Master of your high school, requesting him/her to issue your Study
Certificate as you need it to apply for a job. 1X5=5

PART-E
36. A. Imagine that Rahul meets his teacher at a wedding ceremony. Write a meaningful
conversation between them. 1X4=4

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B. Complete the following conversation between two friends, Ajay and Aziz. 1X4=4
Ajay: Hi Aziz . I heard your team won a Kabaddi tournament.
Aziz: Yes, we did. .
Ajay: You are most welcome. Who was your coach?
Aziz: . He is our senior at college.
Ajay: That is very nice. See you then. Bye.
Aziz: See you soon.

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C. Rearrange the following dialogue between a father and his daughter in the correct order to
make a meaningful conversation. 1×4=4
• That's good. You can go ahead and study with Padma.
• All right, dear. Have you both finished your homework?
• Hi, Dad. Padma and I are going upstairs to study together
• Yes, Dad. We have completed our homework.

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