HBSE Class 11 Question Paper 2019 English Special

Code No. 1022
CLASS : 11th (Eleventh) Series : 11-M/2019
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ENGLISH (Special)
(Only for Fresh/School Candidates)

Time allowed : 3 hours ] [ Maximum Marks : 80

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question paper are 4 in number and it contains
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Note : Attempt all questions.

1. Write a letter to your younger brother/sister not
to believe rumours and fake news. 20

OR

Write to your Principal complaining against a
teacher who does not take his class regularly.

2. Write a paragraph of about 100 words on any
one of the following : 15

(i) Harms of Noise Pollution.

(ii) Need for banning political rallies.

(iii) Lack of health facilities in villages.

(iv) Violation of traffic rules.

3. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on any
one of the following : 15

(i) A stitch in time saves nine.

(ii) It's no use crying over spilt milk.

(iii) Look before you leap.

(iv) Still waters run deep.

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4. Make a precis of the following passage in about
one-third of the original length and give it a
suitable title : 30

To my mind, the only sensible reason for reading
anything is because we enjoy it or hope to enjoy
it. Of course, pleasure covers a whole variety of
feelings and shades of feelings. But it is my
strongest belief about reading that one should
read only what one likes, and because one likes
it. I am talking of course, of our private reading.
When we are studying special subjects or
working for an examination, we obsviously have
to read a great deal that we would not choose to
read in other circumstances. It may seem odd to
have to insist that one should only read because
one likes it, but people read for such a queer
variety of reasons. There are people who read a
book, not because they enjoy the book, but
because they want to be able to say that they
have read it. They want to be in the swim. Ten to
one, when they read a book for these reasons,
they only skim through it, because all they really

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want to do is to be able to talk as if they have
read it. There are people who set themselves
down to read a book because they think it will
do them good. They make a duty of it, a kind of
penance. Sometimes they go so far as to set
themselves so many pages at a time. If it is some
kind of a technical book, which they are reading
in order to improve their knowledge, well and
good. But if it is a novel or a poem, or any part
of what we call 'English Literature', then the
person who is reading it in this way is wasting
his or her time.

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