MBOSE Class 11 Question Paper 2018 for English

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(c) The rich get richer, and the poor beget children
2018 which condemns them to be (poor,
hungry)
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(d) Well towards evening the giant goes down into
Full Marks : 100
the dungeon again to see if his prisoners had
Time : 3 hours taken his (counsel, advice)

The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
(e) When my parents were comfortably settled in the
General Instructions: , they sent for us. (city, town)

(i) Write all the answers in the Answer Script.
(f) When I went up to University, I was given a
(ii) Attempt Part–A Objective Questions serially. of my own. (room, cabin)
(iii) Attempt all parts of a question together at one place.
(g) Novastoshnah Beach has the finest accommodation
( PART : A – OBJECTIVE ) for seals of any place in all the (world,
universe)
SECTION – I

( Marks : 20 ) 2. Write whether the following statements are True or
False (any five) : 1x5=5
1. Complete the following sentences using the right word
from the given alternatives (any five): 1x5=5 (a) Larry and Herb were pumping like madmen.

(b) Ile Amsterdam was a battleship.
(a) On our second day out of Cape Town, we began
to encounter strong (gales, wind) (c) The Earth’s vital signs reveal a patient in declining
health.
(b) Scientists have catalogued about 1.4 living
species with which mankind shares the earth. (d) Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was
(million, billion) Diffidence.

(3) (4)

(e) Hopeful decided to end his life. 4. State whether the following statements are True or
False (any five) : 1x5=5
(f) Grandmother had always been short and fat and
slightly bent.
(a) The name of the mother of kingfisher was tears.
(g) Kotick was successful in finding the new island
for his family and others. (b) The poet, W. H. Davies loved a quiet place.

(c) The striders had wet capillary legs.
3. Complete the following sentences by using the right
word from the given alternatives (any five) : 1x5=5 (d) In the poem of Derozio, the pupils worship truth’s
omnipotence.
(a) It was the rainbow gave thee (birth, colour)
(e) According to Marcus Natten, he lost his childhood
at the age of eleven.
(b) Get thee on and clap thy wings. (bough,
branch) (f) To the poet Natten, the childhood is hidden in
an infant’s face.
(c) No, not only
walk on water. (prophet, prophets) (g) Whitman was happy with the standard behaviour
of human society.
(d) Expanding like the petals of young flowers,
I watch the opening of your minds.
(gentle, perfect) SECTION – II

( Marks : 30 )
(e) Weaving the chaplets you are yet to gain
And then I have not lived in vain.
5. Answer any five questions in not more than 20 words
(realise, feel) each : 1x5=5
(f) They talked of love and preached of (hate, (a) Who were the two crewmen and why were they
love) taken in?

(g) To tell the secret my nights and days, (b) What happened to Suzanne, when the boat was
hit by the wave?
To celebrate the need of (friends, comrades)

(5) (6)

(c) What is the Green movement? (f) Why does the poet, Whitman want to walk
through the untrodden ways?
(d) What does James Speth say about the forests?
(g) Why does Whitman think that he ‘can respond’
(e) What did Christian and Hopeful do on Saturday? in a secluded place?

(f) Why was grandmother not happy with the lessons
taught in the city school?
7. (a) Change the following into passive voice: 1x4=4
(g) How did Matkah care for her son?
(i) He changed the voice of the verb.

6. Answer any five of the following questions in not more (ii) She was reading a book.
than 20 words each: 1x5=5
(iii) John presented an umbrella to her.
(a) In the poem, ‘ The kingfisher’, what is suggested
in the second stanza? (iv) I know the truth.

(b) How does Ramanujan ask the readers to observe
the water striders?
(b) Make sentences with the following idioms : 1 x 4 = 4
(c) How do the minds of the pupils expand, as said
by Derozio? (i) at sixes and sevens.

(ii) kith and kin.
(d) Why is the poet, Derozio confident of the success
of his pupils?
(iii) once in a blue moon.

(e) What does the poet, Marcus Natten say about
(iv) red letter day.
the adult behaviour?

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(7) (8)

(c) Change the following sentences as directed: 8. Answer the following questions within 20 (twenty)
1x3=3 words each (any five) : 1x5=5

(i) He left no plan untried.
(Change to Affirmative Sentence) (a) Where did J. B. Priestley and his friend go for
‘doing nothing’?
(ii) What a dangerous thing a little learning is !
(Change to Assertive Sentence)
(b) What idea is prevalent in America?
(iii) I shall always remember you.
(Change to Negative Sentence)
(c) Name the three great authors who had praised
idleness?
(iv) New Delhi is the biggest city in India.
(Change the sentence to Comparative degree)
(d) How did Rakesh react to the declaration of the
result?

(d) Fill in the blanks with correct determiners :
1x2=2 (e) Who was Veena?

(i) Keep chairs in the room.
(some, many) (f) Why did Rakesh get angry with his father?
(ii) I visited place twice. (a, the)

(g) What problem was solved by the spectroscope?

(e) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the
verb: 1x2=2 (h) How is ‘ozone’ formed and what does it block?

(i) It since yesterday. (rain)
(i) Why is migration easier on Mars than on Earth?
(ii) He is badminton. (play)

(9) ( 10 )

( PART : B – DESCRIPTIVE ) (c) Why does Derozio, think that he has not lived in
vain?
( Marks : 50 )
(d) Why was the poet, Marcus Natten confused with
his childhood? Did he come to a conclusion?
9. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 x 2 = 10
(e) What were the reasons that led the poet, Walt
Whitman to choose the ‘untrodden path’?
(a) How did each one of the family members act to
reach the island ‘Ile Amsterdam’?
11. Answer any one of the following questions : 1 x 10 = 10

(b) What are the Earth’s principal biological systems? (a) Why does the author say that ‘all the evils in this
What are the effects of human activity on them? world is brought by the busy people’? What is
the solution suggested? 5 + 5 = 10

(c) Why did Giant Despair get angry with ‘Christian’
(b) How was Rakesh concerned for his father? What
and ‘Hopeful’? How did he behave with them?
led his father to disillusionment? 5 + 5 = 10

(c) What does the author say about the Martian
(d) How did the grandmother contribute to the
civilization in his essay? 5 + 5 = 10
all-round development of her grandson?

12. Write a report to the principal of your institution,
regarding the excursion programme, that you had
10. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 x 2 = 10 undergone recently. 10
Or
(a) What does the poet, W. H. Davies say about the
kingfisher in his poem? Write an essay on any one of the following : 10

(a) A Visit to a Market.
(b) How does Ramanujan narrate the actions of the
(b) Winter Vacation.
strider?
(c) The Importance of Health.

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13. Read the following passage and answer the questions
that follow: 10
The city of Troy having been captured by the
Greeks , the conquerors, after the first excitement of
plunder had abated, began to feel pity for the
misfortunes of the vanquished, and caused a
proclamation to be made that every free-born citizen
should be permitted to take away with him any one
thing which he valued the most. Upon this, Aeneas,
the Trojan Prince, surrendered everything else to have
possession of his household gods. This conduct excited
in the minds of the Greeks so high an admiration for
his piety that they gave him further leave to take away
what he now valued most highly of all the things that
remained. Immediately he took upon his shoulders
and carried out of the burning town his aged father,
who was so infirm as to be unable to escape without
assistance. This evidence of filial affection raised still
more highly the admiration of the victors, and they
allowed him to take everything which he had
possessed. They declared that it would be unnatural
to them to be enemies to men who gave such proof of
piety to the gods and dutiful affection to parents.
Questions :–
(a) What was the proclamation made by the Greeks? 2

(b) What was the first choice of Aeneas? 2

(c) How did this affect the Greeks? 2

(d) What was Aeneas’s second choice? 2

(e) What effect did this have upon the Greeks? 2

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