MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2020 for English

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(c) The choice is really between control of population
2020 and of poverty. (perpetuation/prevalence)

ENGLISH (d) He has realised the wisdom of shifting from a
system based on to one based on
Full Marks : 100 partnership. (domination/coercion)

Time : 3 hours (e) The priest taught us the and the
morning prayer (language/alphabet)
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
(f) They told him they were and that they
General Instructions:
had lost their way. (wayfarers/pilgrims)
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.
(g) A peaceful spread on her face and we
(ii) Attempt Part–A Objective Questions serially. knew that she was dead. (pallor/expression)
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place.
2. Write whether the following statements are True or
False (any five) : 1x5=5
( PART : A – OBJECTIVE )
(a) The author and his family planned a three-year
SECTION – I journey round the world.

( Marks : 20 ) (b) It took mankind more than a billion years to reach
the first million.

1. Complete the following sentences using the right word (c) The concept of sustainable development was
from the given alternatives (any five): 1x5=5 popularised in 1987.

(d) Christian chose strangling rather than life.
(a) Despite weather, we had a wonderful
holiday complete with a Christmas tree. (e) Grandmother was an expanse of pure white
serenity breathing peace and contentment.
(atrocious/terrible)
(f) Kotick met Sea-Vitch at Sea-Lion’s Neck.
(b) A few metres away, Wavewalker was near
her masts almost horizontal. (capsizing/sinking) (g) Sea Cow was between twenty and thirty feet long.

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(3) (4)

3. Complete the following sentences by using the right (d) Water striders are six-legged insects.
word from the given alternatives (any five) : 1x5=5
(e) The poet realised that Hell and Heaven are mere
(a) Let every feather show its . (hues/marks) concepts.

(b) And search for thin-stemmed, bubble- (f) Whitman decides to free himself from societal
eyed water bugs. (certain/any) norms, values and expectations.

(c) And how you worship truth’s ! (g) The paths untrodden lies in the growth by margins
(omnipresence/omnipotence) of pond waters.

(d) It went to some place
That’s hidden in an infant’s face. (forbidden/ SECTION – II
forgotten) ( Marks : 30 )

(e) Strong upon me the life that does not
5. Answer any five questions in not more than 20 words
itself, yet contains all the rest. (exhibit/publish)
each : 1x5=5
(f) I watch the gentle of your minds.
(a) What kind of injuries did the narrator suffer
(blossoming/opening) when the wave hit ‘Wavewalker’?

(g) Afternoon this delicious in my forty-first (b) What message did Sue have in the card she made
year. (Ninth-month/Eleventh-month) for the narrator?

(c) What did Copernicus teach mankind in the
4. State whether the following statements are True or sixteenth century?
False (any five) : 1x5=5
(d) What does Article 48A of the Constitution of India
(a) ‘The Kingfisher’ is a lyrical poem. state?

(e) What kind of a change came about in Christian
(b) A questioning mind is the mark of adulthood.
after he prayed?
(c) According to Derozio, there are three things that (f) How did Hopeful convince Christian not to end
influence learning. his life?

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(g) What changes did Khushwant Singh find in his (b) Make sentences with the following idioms :
grandmother when he came back home after five 1x4=4
years?
(i) Palmy days

6. Answer any five of the following questions in not more (ii) an ugly customer
than 20 words each: 1x5=5
(iii) Hard and fast
(a) Why does the poet say that the rainbow’s
mother’s name was ‘Tears’?
(iv) at arm’s length.
(b) Which creature ‘sits on a landslide of lights and
drowns eye’?
(c) Change the following sentences as directed:
(c) Why is Marcus Natten disappointed with the 1x3=3
conduct of adults?
(i) I will always remember you.
(d) Where does Walt Whitman want to escape to?
(Change to Negative Sentence)
(e) How would Whitman react in a secluded spot?
(ii) It is a beautiful evening.
(f) Why is the bug’s sky a mere tiny strip? (Change to Exclamatory Sentence)

(g) Where, according to the poet, did his childhood
go? (iii) There is nothing better than a busy life.
(Change to Interrogative Sentence)

7. (a) Change the following into passive voice: 1x4=4
(d) Fill in the blanks with correct determiners :
(i) We compelled the enemy to surrender. 1x2=2
(ii) The sudden noise frightened the horse. (i) Please lend me money. (some/any)
(iii) I am watching you very carefully.
(ii) I had to put in hard work. (much/
many)
(iv) The teacher appointed him monitor.

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(e) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the (g) What peculiar ailment did Old Varma develop?
verb: 1x2=2

(i) The bell before I reached the (h) How did Rakesh react to the news of Old Varma
school. (go) eating ‘soojie halwa’ with a saucerful of cream?

(ii) The players themselves up at the
moment. (warm) (i) What kind of change did Rakesh’s sterling
personality undergo in the eyes of Old Varma?

8. Answer any five of the following questions in not more
than 20 words each: 1x5=5
( PART : B – DESCRIPTIVE )
(a) What, according to Priestly, must one have before ( Marks : 50 )
he can settle down to do nothing?
9. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 x 2 = 10
(b) Why is the world ‘in a muddle’?
(a) What role did Jonathan and Sue play throughout
(c) How did the author and his friend come close to the family’s struggle in the sea?
doing nothing while lounging on the moor?
(b) What kind of a change came about in Christian
after he prayed? How was he and Hopeful able
(d) Which physical feature on the Earth’s surface to escape from Giant Despair’s castle? 2+3=5
has been described as a ‘paradox’?
(c) What dream did Kotick have? How was Kotick
(e) Why is it difficult for the Martians to believe that different from the other seals physically and
any creatures could exist either in land or sea? intellectually? 1+4=5

(d) What was the “turning point” in grandmother’s
(f) What is the ‘violent controversy’ that has raged and Khushwant Singh’s relationship? How did
on Mars over centuries? it affect their friendship? 2+3=5

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10. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 x 2 = 10 Or
Write an essay on any one of the following topics: 10
(a) How has the poet captured the features and
(a) Tourist attractions of Meghalaya.
characteristics of the Kingfisher?
(b) Responsibility of students in society.
(b) What gives Derozio a special sense of (c) An Eventful Day in My Life.
achievement?
13. Read the following passage and answer the questions
(c) What makes the poet realise that he has lost his
carefully: 10
childhood?
Mr. Ruskin called books “King’s Treasuries”. What
he meant was that as kings keep money, gold, silver
(d) What decision does Whitman take in the
and precious stones locked up in their treasure-
forty-first year of his life? Why? houses, so there are great riches locked up in books;
but the riches in books are not gold and silver, but
11. Answer any one of the following questions : wisdom and knowledge which are more precious than
1 x 10 = 10
money. Kings keep their treasure-houses locked up
and keep the keys themselves; but any one who likes
(a) What examples does Priestly give to prove that can have the keys that will open the treasure-houses
all the evils in this world is brought about by of wisdom and knowledge. In the story in the “Arabian
persons who are always “up and doing”? Nights”, called “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, the
only way to open the robbers’ cave which was full of
(b) What reasons are cited by the Martians for the wealth, was the magic word, “Open Seasame”. The
impossibility of life-existence on earth? magic word, or the key, that opens books, is reading:
and anyone who can read, can go in and take as much
(c) Did Rakesh prove to be a Devoted son till the knowledge and wisdom as he can find.
very last days of his father’s life? Give reasons Questions :–
for your answer.
(a) What did Ruskin mean by “King’s Treasuries” and
why? 2
12. Your school observed Library week. As a head boy/ (b) What is the difference between the key to the
girl of your school write a report on it to be published King’s Treasuries and the key to the treasuries
in your school Magazine. 10 of wisdom and knowledge? 2

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(c) What kind of key was used in opening the
robbers’ cave in the story of “Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves”? 2

(d) What is the similarity between the key to the
treasuries of wisdom and knowledge and that to
the robbers’ cave? 2

(e) Find the words in the passage which means the
following: 2

(i) Where valuable things are stored

(ii) Rare and expensive.

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(c) Della’s beautiful hair resembled a cascade of
2020 brown waters.

ELECTIVE ENGLISH (d) The ghost that got into James Thurber’s house
caused the mother to throw a handkerchief to
Full Marks : 100 the house next door.

Time : 3 hours
(e) Miss Violet Dixon was a plain snubnosed Scottish
typist.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

General Instructions: (f) Srijut Sharma had been employed twenty years
ago as a special favour.
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.

2. Name the speaker and person(s) spoken to. 1x6=6
(ii) Attempt Part–A Objective Questions serially.

(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place. (a) “I’ll get a shot for sartain afore dark”.

(b) “Why, souls–’twas the man in the chimney-
( PART : A–OBJECTIVE ) corner’.

( Marks : 50 ) (c) “I have seen some rough times lately, and have
been forced to pick up what I get......”.
1. State whether the following statements are True or
False : 1x6=6 (d) “A live King is a menace to any Republic”.

(a) Mr. Medbourne, in the vigour of his age, had been (e) “They loved each other so dearly, and they have
a prosperous merchant.
not been married a year”.
(b) Dr. Heidegger’s eccentricities had become the
nucleus for a thousand fantastic stories. (f) “You have deceived me––cheated me”.

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3. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in (b) What happened when Dr. Heidegger threw the
the brackets. 1x8=8 faded rose into the water?

(a) With palsied hands, they raised the _______ to (c) What does Della do to get more money to buy a
their lips. (vase/glasses/potion) Christmas gift for her husband?

(b) The precious _______ of youth flowed in a bright (d) Who were the Magi?
stream across the floor. (magic/liquid/water)
(e) What began at about a quarter past One O’clock
(c) She had been saving every _______ she could for in the morning at the narrator’s residence?
months. (paise/penny/earning)
(f) What was so intriguing about that smile on
(d) It was a _______ fob simple chain and chaste in Mr. Acton’s face?
design. (gold/platinum/silver)
(g) What put Cobleigh in a ‘towering rage’?
(e) The _______ of the doors had aroused Mother.
(banging/slamming/knocking) (h) What crime did Joseph Sommers commit?

(f) The night had been distinctly a _______ for them. (i) How did the Brunfels explain their stand on
(Victory/Defeat/Valour) conspiring against the King?

(g) Srijut Sharma stared at her _______. (j) Briefly account for the Duke’s refusal to fight
(openly/blankly/fearfully) D’Aulnay.

(h) “A gold watch, with an _______ on it”.
( PART : B–DESCRIPTIVE )
(writing/carving/inscription)
( Marks : 50 )

4. Answer any ten of the following questions in 2/3 5. Answer any two of the following: 2 x 9 = 18
sentences each: 3 x 10 = 30
(a) Who are the characters of Dr. Heidegger’s
(a) Name the four melancholy old creatures who were Experiment? What was the immediate effect of
invited by Dr. Heidegger. the drugs on them? 5+4=9

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(b) What were the two possessions of the James 7. Write an essay on any one of the following topics
Dillingham Youngs? Bring out the element of (200-250 words) 1x8=8
surprise in connection with the possessions they
took a mighty pride in. 3+6=9 (a) Environment Pollution

(c) What events create panic in the Thurber (b) Simple Living High Thinking
household? Support your answer with special
reference to the details given in the text. 9 (c) Success begins in the mind.

(d) Give a character sketch of Srijut Sudershan 8. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Sharma. 9 Write an article to focus on the menaces of delaying
things. (100-125 words) 6

Or
6. Answer any two of the following: 2 x 9 = 18

Write a report on the impact of internet on young
(a) What is the theme of the story “The Three
uninformed minds to be published in a local daily. 6
Wayfarers” by Thomas Hardy? 9

(b) Is Harry Hawke a sympathetic character? Support
your answer with evidences from the text. 9
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(c) How did King Konrad conduct himself at the
Brunfel’s? How did he eventually win over the
Conspirators? 5+4=9

(d) How did D’Aulnay and Clarice plan to avenge the
Duke ‘that is almost satisfying’ in the play
“Comedy and Tragedy”? 9

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