MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2019 for English

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(c) It is not suggested that human beings be treated
2019 like and compulsorily sterilised.
(animals/cattle)
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(d) We have begun to take a holistic view of the very
Full Marks : 100 basis of our (life/existence)
Time : 3 hours
(e) With these words Hopeful at present did
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions the mind of his brother. (moderate/liberate)
General Instructions:
(f) She said nothing but her silence meant .
(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script. (acceptance/disapproval)
(ii) Attempt Part–A Objective Questions serially.
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place. (g) The holluschickie just bundled off a few yards
and sat staring . (stupidly/curiously)
( PART : A – OBJECTIVE )
2. Write whether the following statements are True or
SECTION – I False (any five) : 1x5=5
( Marks : 20 )
(a) Jonathan’s head had swollen alarmingly.
1. Complete the following sentences using the right word (b) Larry and Herbie were cheerful and optimistic
from the alternatives given in the brackets (any five): under the direst stress.
1x5=5
(c) Development is possible if the present increase
in numbers continues.
(a) At dawn on January 2, the waves were .
(gigantic/huge)
(d) Industry has an insignificant role to play in this
new Era of Responsibility.
(b) I could feel that the ship had water below, but I
dared not abandon the wheel to . (e) Hearing the Giant’s threats Christian fell into a
(investigate/inquire) swoon.

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(3) (4)

(f) Khushwant Singh’s grandmother often told him 4. State whether the following statements are True or
and his cousins about the games she used to False (any five) : 1x5=5
play as a child.

(g) Kotick immediately agreed when his mother (a) The kingfisher is a solitary bird.
begged him to marry and settle down.
(b) The strider goes deep into the water.

(c) The young students of Hindu College grasp and
3. Complete the following sentences by using the right explore new ideas like the young birds.
word from the given alternatives (any five) : 1x5=5
(d) There is a specific age at which one leaves one’s
(a) So runs it in thy to choose. childhood behind.
(nature/blood)
(e) According to Marcus Natten, adults always act
lovingly.
(b) See them
on dry capillary legs (stand/perch) (f) In the untrodden paths, the poet is in communion
with nature.
(c) And the sweet loosening of the spell that binds
Your energies and powers. (intellectual/ (g) Walt Whitman wants to be away from the clank
potential) of the world.

(d) Where did my childhood go?
SECTION – II
It went to some place. (forbidden/
forgotten) ( Marks : 30 )

(e) Bequeathing hence types of love. 5. Answer any five questions in not more than 20 words
(athletic/romantic) each : 1x5=5
(f) Go you and, with such hues. (wonderful/
(a) How did the narrator describe Ile Amsterdam?
glorious)
(b) What had happened to Sue?
(g) They of love and preached of love.
(teach/talked) (c) What is sustainable development?

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(5) (6)

(d) What are the shifts in perceptions brought about 7. (a) Change the following into passive voice: 1x4=4
by the Green Movement?
(i) John wrote a letter to the President.
(e) What did Giant Despair counsel Christian and
Hopeful to do? (ii) I know the stranger.

(f) How did the author’s grandmother react when (iii) My friends gave me a present on my birthday.
she learnt that he was being given music lessons
in school? (iv) Mary read the novel in one day.

(g) What did the old seal of Masafuera tell Kotick?

(b) Make sentences with the following idioms : 1 x 4 = 4
6. Answer any five of the following questions in not more
than 20 words each: 1x5=5 (i) A piece of cake.

(a) Why does the kingfisher choose to live near lonely (ii) Let the cat out of the bag.
pools and weeping trees?

(b) Why is the bug’s sky a mere tiny strip? (iii) To kill two birds with one stone.

(c) How does the poet describe the expanding of the (iv) Through thick and thin.
student’s mind?

(d) What do the students worship?
(c) Change the following sentences as directed:
(e) What did the poet realise when he was twelve 1x3=3
years old?
(i) Rahul is an honest boy.
(f) How did adults ‘seem’ to the poet when he was a (Change to Negative Sentence)
child?
(ii) It is a very nice dress.
(g) What will Walt Whitman be able to do in the
secluded spot? (Change to Exclamatory Sentence)

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(iii) Can a leopard change its spots? (d) Why is the Earth described as being ‘sickly
(Change to Assertive Sentence) blue-green’?

(d) Fill in the blanks with correct determiners :
(e) Which physical feature on the Earth’s surface
1x2=2
has been described as a ‘paradox’?
(i) There aren’t students in the library.
(much, many)
(f) Why was Mr. Varma proud of his son Rakesh?
(ii) child should be given free
education. (every, all)

(g) How did Mr. Varma bribe his grandson into
buying him sweets?
(e) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the
verb: 1x2=2

(h) What happened at the birthday party of Rakesh’s
(i) I am tired of here. (work)
youngest son?
(ii) She often shopping on the
weekend. (go)

( PART : B – DESCRIPTIVE )
8. Answer the following questions within 20 (twenty)
words each (any five) : 1x5=5 ( Marks : 50 )

(a) What does Mr. Selfridge say about laziness? 9. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 x 2 = 10

(b) What is the doctrine of the strenuous life? (a) What is the disaster that struck the family on
January 2? What happened to the narrator
during the disaster? 3+2=5
(c) What does J. B. Priestley say about Wordsworth?

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(b) “What hardship, terror, and amazement hast 11. Answer any one of the following questions : 1 x 10 = 10
thou already gone through, and art thou nothing
but fears”? 1+2+2=5 (a) What were the things done by Rakesh that were
‘gratifying for the old man’ and what were those
(i) Who said these words?
that did not please him? 5 + 5 = 10
(ii) What made the speaker say these words?
(iii) What is the speaker talking about here? (b) What, according to J. B. Priestley, are the benefits
of spending time in leisurely activities? 10
(c) How does Khushwant Singh describe his
(c) How does the earth seem from the perspective of
grandmother?
the Martians? 10

(d) ‘It’s Novastoshnah over again, but ten times better’.
12. Write a report for your school/college magazine about
Write how Kotick was able to find such a place.
the disaster management programme organised in
your institution recently. 10
Or
10. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 x 2 = 10 Write an essay on any one of the following : 10

(a) How has Ramanujan succeeded in drawing a vivid (a) The most memorable day in your life.
image of the water strider? (b) Importance of preserving the environment.
(c) Games and sports.
(b) What are the thoughts and feelings of Walt
Whitman as expressed in his poem ‘In Paths
13. Read the following passage and answer the questions
Untrodden’? carefully:
A proper consideration of the value of all time
(c) How does Derozio describe the intellectual
will inspire the habit of punctuality. Punctuality is
journey of his students?
the politeness of kings, duty of gentlemen and
necessity of business. Nothing begets confidence in a
(d) What does Marcus Natten talk about in his poem
man sooner than the practice of this virtue and
‘Childhood’?

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nothing shakes confidence sooner than the want of
it. He who holds to his appointment and does not
keep you waiting for him, shows that he has regard
for your time as well as his own.
Punctuality is one of the ways in which we show
our personal respect for whom we are called upon to
meet in the business of life. An appointment is a
contract, and he who does not keep it, is guilty of
breaking faith as well as of dishonestly wasting other
people’s time.

Questions :–
(a) How is the habit of punctuality inspired? 1

(b) What is the relationship between business and
punctuality? 1

(c) How can we have confidence in a man at the
earliest? 2

(d) How does one’s confidence get shaken? 2

(e) How do we evaluate a man who fails to keep an
appointment? 2

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

1. Self trust

2. An agreement

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