HBSE Class 11 Question Paper 2019 English Core

Code No. 1001
CLASS : 11th (Eleventh) Series : 11-M/2019
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ENGLISH (Core)

[ For all Groups I, II, III ]
(Only for Fresh/School Candidates)

Time allowed : 3 hours ] [ Maximum Marks : 80
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General Instructions :

(i) This question paper is divided into four
Sections : A, B, C and D. All the sections
are compulsory.

(ii) Attempt all the parts of a question together.

(iii) Stick to the word limit wherever prescribed.

SECTION – A
(Reading Skills) [ M. M. : 10

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer
the questions that follow :
The habit of reading is one of the greatest
resources of mankind and we enjoy reading
books that belong to us much more than if they
are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in
the house, it must be treated with a certain
considerate formality. You must see that it
sustains no damage. It must not suffer while
under your roof. You cannot leave it carelessly,
you cannot mark it, you cannot turn down the
pages, you cannot use it familiarly. And then,
someday you ought to return it.

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But your own books belong to you; you
treat them with affectionate intimacy that
doesn't require formality. Books are for use, not
for show. You should not be afraid to mark them
or to place them on the table wide open and face
down. A good reason for marking favourite
passages in books is that this practice enables
you to remember the significant ones, to refer to
them quickly and years later you have the
pleasure of going over the old ground and
recalling both the intellectual journey and your
own earlier self.
Everyone should begin collecting a private
library in youth. One should have one's own
bookshelves, which should not have doors, glass
windows or keys. They should be free and
accessible to the hand as well as to the eye. The
knowledge that they are there in plain view is
both stimulating and refreshing.

Questions : 1×5=5

(i) Which habit is responsible for the growth of
mankind ?

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(ii) How are borrowed books different from
books owned by us ?
(iii) To whom is a borrowed book compared ?
(iv) Why does the author think that marking a
book is a good habit ?
(v) Give the opposites of :
(a) pleasure
(b) begin

OR

Europe has her past. Europe's strength lies
in its history. We in India must make up our
minds that we cannot borrow other people's
history and if we stifle our own we are
committing suicide. When you borrow things
that do not belong to your life, they only serve to
crush your life. And therefore I believe that it
does India no good to compete with Europe in its
own field, we should follow our own destiny.

We must know for certain that there is a
future before us who are rich in moral ideals
and not in mere things. We must recognize that

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it is providential that the West came to India.
And yet some one must show East to the West
and convince the West that the East has her
own contribution to make to the history of
civilization. India is no beggar of the West.
(Rabindranath Tagore)
Questions : 1×5=5
(i) What happens if we borrow other people's
history ?
(ii) Why should Indians not compete with
Europeans ?
(iii) What does the author suggest that the
Indians should do ?
(iv) Where does the future of Indians lie ?
(v) Give the opposites of :
(a) borrow (b) before

2. Read the passage carefully and make notes on
it. Supply a suitable title also : 1+4=5

On 30th November, 1986 Chamundeyi, a
woman of Nahi-Kala village in Doon Valley, was
collecting fodder in the forest when she heard
trucks climbing up the mountain towards the

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limestone quarry in the area. Since September,
1986 there had been a Chipko Camp on the road
to the quarry set up by the village communities
of Thano region to stop the mining operations
which have created ecological havoc in the
region. The trucks should not, therefore, have
been there. The quarry workers had attacked the
protesters, removed them from the blockade and
driven the trucks through. Chamundeyi threw
down her sickle, raced down the slope and stood
in front of the climbing trucks, telling the drivers
that they could go only over her dead body. After
dragging her for a distance, they stopped and
reversed.
In April, 1987 the people of Nahi-Kala were
still protesting because the government had
been tardy in taking action to close the mine
although the lease had expired in 1982. The
mining operations were also in total violation of
the 1980 Forest Conservation Act. People's
direct action to stop the mining was an outcome
of the government's failure to implement its own
laws.

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SECTION – B

(Grammar/Writing Skills) [ M. M. : 24

3. Attempt any twelve of the following questions :
1 × 12 = 12
(a) Use the correct form of the verb given in
brackets (any three) :
(i) When the doctor arrived he realised
that the patient ……….. . (die)
(ii) We ……….. to this city in 1987 and
……….. here ever since. (come, live)
(iii) She ……….. out at 10 o'clock and
……….. not ……….. yet. (go, return)
(iv) Ever since he ……….. that accident he
……….. with a limp. (have, walk)
(b) Combine each of the following group of
sentences :
(i) Ben peeped into the room. His
brothers were sleeping in the room.
(ii) You cannot reach the fan. Stand on a
stool.
(iii) I would like to read the poem. My son
wrote the poem for his school
magazine.
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(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate
prepositions :
(i) They stopped working ………….
sunset.
(ii) The work must be finished ………….
the end of the week.
(iii) Women's Day is …………. 8th March.

(d) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles :
(i) I like to give …………. useful present.
(ii) We stayed at …………. hotel at the
centre of the town.
(iii) The proposal was accepted by ………….
unanimous vote.

(e) Change the voice :
(i) All the food has been eaten.
(ii) Mary was misplaced her bag.
(iii) All the guests signed the visitors book.

4. You are Rani/Rama. You are interested in
joining NCC. Write a letter to your parents from
your school hostel seeking their permission to
participate in a guidance camp organized at the
district level. 6

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OR

Write an application for the post of a
Communicative English Instructor at XYZ Global
School, ABC City.

5. Write a paragraph on one of the following : 6
(i) Girls Education
(ii) Education & Skill Development
(iii) Environment Friendly Power
(iv) Big Fat Indian Wedding

SECTION – C
(A) Main Reader [ Prose ] [ M. M. : 19

6. Read the passage given below and answer the
questions that follow :
All afternoon the usual line of tourists from
around the world had descended into the
cramped, rock cut tomb some 26 feet
underground to pay their respects. They gazed
at the murals on the walls of the burial chamber
and peered at Tut's gilded face, the most striking
feature of his mummy-shaped outer Coffin lid.
Some visitors read from guide-books in a
whisper. Others stood silently, perhaps

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pondering Tut's untimely death in his late teens
or wondering with a shiver if the pharaoh's
curse-death or misfortune falling upon those
who disturbed him − was really true.

Questions : 1×5=5

(i) Where is King Tut's tomb situated ?

(ii) Which line in the passage suggests that
Tut's tomb is a popular tourist destination ?

(iii) When was King Tut's reign ?

(iv) What is the most striking feature of King
Tut's coffin ?

(v) What is believed to be the pharoah's curse ?

OR

One cannot recall any movement in world
history which has gripped the imagination of the
entire human race so completely and so rapidly
as the Green Movement which started nearly
twenty five years ago. In 1972 the world's first
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New Zealand. Since then, the movement has not
looked back.
We have shifted – one hopes irrevocably –
from the mechanistic view to a holistic and
ecological view of the world. It is a shift in
human perceptions as revolutionary as that
introduced by Copernicus who taught mankind
in the sixteenth century that the earth and other
planets revolved round the sun. For the first
time in human history, there is a growing
worldwide consciousness that the earth itself is
a living organism – an enormous being of which
we are parts. It has its own metabolic needs and
vital processes which need to be respected and
preserved.

The earth's vital signs reveal a patient in
declining health. We have begun to realize our
ethical obligations to be good stewards of the
planet and responsible trustees of the legacy to
future generations.
Questions : 1×5=5
(i) When and where was Green Movement
started ?

(ii) What shift in perspective was made by the
Green Movement ?

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(iii) What revolutionary idea was given by
Copernicus ?

(iv) In the passage the earth has been
compared to whom ?

(v) What are the ethical obligations of the
present generation ?

7. Answer in about 80-100 words : 5

Describe the author's experiences during his
Kora to Mount Kailash. (Silk Road)

OR

Compare and contrast the Chinese view of art
with the European view.

8. Answer any three of the following in about 30
words each : 2× 3=6

(i) Why was King Tut's denise a big event ?

(ii) What was the tale about the painter Wu
Daozi ?
(iii) What is sustainable development ?
(iv) What do you gather about Crocker Harris
from the play ?

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9. Answer any three of the following in a sentence :
1×3=3
(i) How do you know that Khuswant Singh's
grandmother was a religious person ?
(ii) Who are 'We' in "We're Not Afraid to Die ……
if we can all be together" ?
(iii) When was King Tut's tomb discovered ?
(iv) What are Yin & Yang ?
(Landscape of the Soul)

SECTION – C
(B) Main Reader [ Poetry ] [ M. M. : 12

10. Read the stanza carefully and answer the
questions that follow :
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies
dust layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were
seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I
give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it.
Questions : 1×5=5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who is 'I' in the poem ?

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(iii) Who all are bathed by the rain ?
(iv) What is the rain's own origin ?
(v) Give opposites of :
(a) descend (b) pure

OR

When did my childhood go ?

Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realized that Hell and Heaven,

Could not be found in Geography

And therefore could not be.

Questions : 1×5=5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Do you think that one grows up at a
particular age ?
(iii) What is suggested when the poet says that
Hell & Heaven are not geographical
locations ?
(iv) What inference does the poet draw when he
realizes that Heaven and Hell are not
geographical locations ?
(v) What is the poet's feeling towards
childhood ?

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11. What is the central idea of the poem 'A
Photograph' ? 4
OR

How is the father's helplessness brought out in
the poem 'Father to Son' ?

12. Answer any three of the following : 1× 3=3

(i) The three stanzas of the poem 'Photograph'
depict three different phases. What are
they ?
(ii) Who enlivens the Laburnum top ?

(iii) Who is the Poem of Earth ?

(iv) Where does the poet think his childhood go
away to ?

SECTION – D
(Supplementary Reader) [ M. M. : 15

13. Answer the following in about 80-100 words : 7

What is the theme of the play 'Mother's Day' ?

OR

Give a character sketch of Mourad.
(The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse)

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14. Answer any two of the following in about 30-40
words each : 4×2=8
(i) Why didn't the author want to return to 'The
Address' ?

(ii) Comment on the influence of English
language and way of life on Indians as
reflected in the story Ranga's Marriage.

(iii) What type of Education did Einstein
recommend − information gathering or
insight formation ? How ?
(iv) Who was the closest that Kashmir had to a
national poet ? Why didn't he want to be
called a nationalist poet ?

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