MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2023 for English Alternative

Total No. of Printed Pages ––12 (2)
HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23
(c) His narrow escape from a terrible ______ made
2023 Kiran take a warm interest in him. (death/
sickness)
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
(d) Circus work was too lowly and ______ for a
Full Marks : 100 respectable peasant. (moral/immoral)

Time : 3 hours (e) My heart beat so that it seemed to ______ the
boat more than the propeller. (shake/break).
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

General Instructions: (f) The ______ was set in a mother-of-pearl boat drawn
by a German silver goose supporting a penholder.
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script. (pen-stand/inkpot)
(ii) Attempt Part–A Objective Questions serially.
(g) Rahim Khan could not summon up enough
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place.
courage to defy ______ authority and social
traditions (materal/paternal)
( PART : A–OBJECTIVE )

( Marks : 50 )
2. Write whether the following statements are True or
SECTION – I False (any five) : 1x5=5

( Marks : 30 ) (a) Nilkanta never dared to openly show his enemity
to Satish.
1. Fill in the blanks by choosing the right word from the
given alternatives in the brackets (any five): 1x5=5 (b) The supernatural is an unprofitable but endlessly
alluring theme to many.
(a) You need not worry. Najab will return with ______.
(cloves/spice) (c) Fatimah was the daughter of the spiceseller.

(b) Jean Valjean who had no recollection of this (d) Jean Valjean had to carry a green passport
promise, stood ______. (confounded/trembling) around after he was released from prison.

HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23 HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23

(3) (4)

(e) The prose ‘The Redemption’ is written by Leo (f) Like a wind-shadow running on a , so she
Tolstoy. could stand. (pond/lake)

(f) ‘Sparrows’ is a passionate tale of love, hatred and (g) Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the
self-discovery. music ______. (ends/stops)

(g) For twenty-five years, Rahim Khan’s wife had
submitted to his persecution with the slave-like 4. Write whether the following statements are True or
docility, that is the badge of her tribe. False (any five) : 1x5=5

(a) ‘To India, My Native Land’ is a poem about
3. Complete the following lines using the right word from patriotism.
the given alternatives (any five) : 1x5=5
(b) Derozio expresses a sense of personal loss in the
(a) They poise and run like puffs of wind that pass downfall of his country, India.
Over water where the are thinned.
(reeds/weeds) (c) We can judge God by our feeble sense.

(d) Keats does not see any connection between
(b) A forehead and a parching tongue.
Beauty and Truth.
(burning/scorching)

(e) A paradox is a statement consisting of two parts
(c) Blind is sure to err. (disbelief/unbelief) which seems contradictory.

(d) Where is that , where that reverence now? (f) Unheard melodies are sweeter than those that
(fame/glory) are heard.

(e) The bud may have a taste, (g) The white feet of the baby is compared to the
But sweet will be the flower. (bitter/sour) white flowers in the wind.

HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23 HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23

(5) (6)

5. Answer any five questions from either Group A or (b) What are the names of the conspirators who killed
Group B in about 25 – 30 words. 2 x 5 = 10 Caesar?

(c) What arguments does Cassius use to warn Brutus
GROUP – A against Antony?

( Abraham Lincoln ) (d) Give two reasons to prove that Caesar was not
ambitious?
(a) Who is Mr. Allen? Why was he summoned to the
(e) How many times have Julius Caesar rejected the
Court? kingly crown?
(b) Who was murdered on the night of 29th August (f) What were the last words spoken by Caesar
1857? before dying?

(c) What is being auctioned in the market-place? (g) Who was Casca?
(d) What is Abraham Lincoln’s view on Christianity?
(h) How did Mark Antony react to the death of
(e) What was the price that Fairbanks paid to buy Caesar?
the girl?
SECTION – II
(f) What evidence did Lincoln give to win the case?
( Marks : 20 )
(g) What were the advertisements on the walls and
boards for?
6. Attempt any five questions in about 25 – 30 words
each: 2 x 5 = 10
(h) Name the two evils that were set right by Lincoln.
(a) Why was Jean Valjean constantly refused
shelter?
GROUP – B

( Julius Caesar ) (b) Who had faith in Najab’s return?

(c) What was the third remarkable thing about the
(a) What is a Triumvirate and who formed it? stranger’s story?

HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23 HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23

(7) (8)

(d) What did Kiran find in Nilkanta’s box? (f) The teacher always answers the students
questions. (Change to Passive voice)
(e) What according to Derozio lies at the root of the
current misery of his country? (g) Roy ______ (watch) television every night.
(Fill in the blank using the correct form of the
(f) Why will the maiden’s beauty never fade? given verb)

(g) According to Masefield, how should man live his (h) Richard is interested in the study of ancient
life? things.
(Substitute the underlined phrase with a single
(h) Describe the physical appearance of the striders/ word.)
water bugs.
(i) Its good to be _____ friends.
(Fill in the blanks with an appropriate
7. Rewrite the sentences as directed: 1 x 10 = 10 preposition)

(a) “Call the first convict”, said the Jury.
(j) Never forget the person who helps you.
(Change to Indirect speech)
(Transform into an Assertive sentence)

(b) When I saw the prizes, I was stupefied.
(Rewrite the sentence using ‘No sooner ------ than)
( PART : B – DESCRIPTIVE )
(c) The bag was made of _____ black cloth. (course/
( Marks : 50 )
coarse)
(Fill in the blank using the right word from the
bracket) 8. Answer any one in about 130 words: 1 x 10 = 10

(d) We want a new house to live. (a) Would yo agree that Rahim Khan was lonely in
(Rewrite the sentence correctly) the end? Why? 10

(b) How did kindness and compassion change the
(e) You are not joining the strike ______
convict? 10
(Add a question tag)

HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23 HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23

(9) ( 10 )

(c) How did the stranger search for the man behind GROUP – B
the ‘face’? What happened when he finally met
with him? 5 + 5 = 10 ( Julius Caesar )

(a) What touches us ourself shall be last served.
9. Answer any one in about 130 words: 1 x 10 = 10

(a) Give the substance of ‘Light shining out of (b) Why, he that cuts off twenty years of Life.
Darkness’. 10 Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

(b) What does Keats mean by ‘Beauty is truth, truth (c) Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill
beauty’ and how does he symbolised this? 10 Did this in Caesar seem ambitious.
(c) “Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last,
And grovelling in the lowly dust art thou;
Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for thee 11. Write a precis of the following passage and give a
Save the sad story of thy misery! suitable title. 8 + 2 = 10
Explain the given lines. 10
Machines have, in fact, become slaves of modern
10. Explain with reference to the context (any two) either
life. They do more and more work that human beings
from Group A or Group B in about 60 – 70 words
2 x 5 = 10 do not want to do themselves. Think for a moment of
the extent to which machines do work for you. You
GROUP – A wake perhaps, to the hoot of a siren by a machine in
( Abraham Lincoln ) a neighbouring factory. You wash in water brought to
you by the aid of machinery, heated by machinery
(a) And what can be rude enough anyway in a and placed in basins for your convenience by a
country where people buy and sell other people. machine. You eat your breakfast quickly cooked for
(b) Would you stand looking on if your own sister you by machinery, go to school in vehicles made for
were treated like this? saving leg labour. If you are lucky to be in a very
modern school, you enjoy cinema where a computer
(c) For ordinary eyes could not have seen the moon
at that time on that night because by that time teaches you or you listen to lessons broadcast by one
the moon had set. of the most wonderful technology. So dependent has

HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23 HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23

( 11 ) ( 12 )

man become on machines that a certain writer demonstrate the possibility of people’s power. Today
imagines a time when machines will have acquired a it is also being seen increasingly as an eco-feminism
will of their own and become the master of men, movement. Women were its backbone and core
doomed once more to slavery. because they were the ones most affected by the
rampant deforestation which led to a lack of firewood,
fodder, drinking water and irrigation water. In 1987
the Chipko Movement was awarded the Right to
12. Read the following passage and answer the questions: 10
Livelihood Award.

The Chipko movement started in the early 1970s
in Garhwal with growing resentment towards rapid (a) What was the landmark event in Garhwal’s
deforestation. The landmark event in this struggle took Chipko Movement? 3
place on 26th March 1974, when a group of peasant
women in Reni village, Uttarakhand, acted to prevent (b) What did the Chipko Movement ultimately lead
the cutting of trees and reclaimed their traditional to? 2
forest rights that were threatened by the contractor
system of the State Forest Department. Their actions (c) What event in history was “an inspiration” for
inspired hundred of such actions throughout the Garhwal’s Chipko Movement? 2
region. By the 1980s the movement led to the
formulation of people-sensitive forest policies, which (d) When was Chipko Mevement awarded the Right
put a stop to the cutting of trees in regions as far to Livelihood Award? 1
reaching as the Vindhyas and the Western Ghats.
The first recorded event of Chipko, however, took place (e) Give the same meaning of the two words from
in village Khejrali, Jodhpur, in 1731, when 363 Bishois the passage. 1+1 =2
led by Amrita Devi sacrified their lives while protecting
Khejri trees, considered sacred by the community, (i) Bitterness
by hugging them and braved the axes of loggers went
(ii) Substantiate.
by the local ruler. Today, it is seen as an inspiration
and an orginator for Garhwal’s Chipko Movement. It
occurred at a time when there was hardly any
environmental movement in the developing world and 
its success meant that the world immediately took
notice. It inspired many eco-groups by helping to slow
down deforestation, increase ecological awareness and

HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23 HS/XI/A.Sc.Com/Ae/23