HS 1st Year Half Yearly Exam Questions Paper Baksa District
HS 1st Year Pre final Question Paper 2023
Sub: English
Class: HS 1st Year
Time: 3 hours
Full Marks: 100
(Textbook: Prose Section: 45 marks)
1. Give a brief answer of the following : 1x10=10
(a) Name the author of the lesson "The Portrait of a Lady"
(b) What did the village priest teach in the school ?
(c) Which was the happiest moment of the day for the author's grand-mother ?
(d) What is Art-Brut ?
(e) What did Wu Daozi paint for the emperor ?
(f) What is green Movement ?
(g) Who is the author of the book "The Global Economic Prospect" ?
(h) What does Verrier Elwin have to say to the hill people of Assam ?
(i) "You have a great treasure there". What treasure is Verrier Elwin referring to ?
(j) Who is Nek Chand ?
2. Answer the following questions: 2x10=20
(a) What does Verrier Elwin say about the tradition of courtesy and hospitality in this modern world ?
(b) What difference does Verrier Elwin draw between the game sanctuaries of Kenya and Kaziranga ?
(c) How did the sparrows react to the death of the author's grandmother ?
(d) What are the different ways in which we come to know that the author's grandmother was a deeply religious woman ?
(e) Describe the appearance of the author's grandmother.
(f) Who was Wu Daozi ? Who commissioned him to paint a landscape ?
(g) What is the Daoist concept of "Shanshui" ?
(h) What is sustainable development ?
(i) How is man the most dangerous animal in this world ?
(j) What are the earth's principal biological systems ?
3. Answer the following questions: 3x5=15
(i) Mention three phases of author's relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad.
(ii) Mention three reasons why the author's grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school ?
(iii) Compare and contrast the Chinese and the European concepts of painting.
(Textbook: Poetry Section: 20 Marks)
4. Read the following stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow.
(a) The cardboard shows me how it was
when the two girl cousins went paddling
Each one holding one of my mother's hands,
And she the big girl-Some twelve years or so
All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera.
(i) What does the cardboard show the poet ? 1
(ii) Who was the big girl ? 1
(iii) How old was the poet's mother when the photograph was clicked ? 1
(iv) Who clicked the photograph ? 1
(v) Write briefly what the girls did on the sea beach ? 3
(b) Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the
bottomless sea.
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed.
and yet the same.
(i) Who is the speaker here ? 1
(ii) From where the speaker rise ? 1
(iii) What is meant by "altogether changed" and "Yet the same" ? 1
(iv) What are atomies ? 1
(v) How does the speaker go up and come down again on droughts, atomies and dust-layers ? 3
(c) 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,
Was that the day.
(i) Where do these lines occur ? 1
(ii) When does the poet think that he lost his childhood ? 1
(iii) Find the synonym of 'Stopped' in the stanza. 1
(iv) What does the poet learn about Hell and Heaven ? 1
(v) How does the poet describe the process of being grown up ? 2
(Textbook: Snapshots: 10 Marks)
5. Answer the following question: 2x2=4
(a) What was Einstein's idea of Education ?
(b) Why did Mr. Braun scold young Einstein?
6. "The school system often curbs "individual talents". Discuss the statement in the light of your reading of Albert Einstein at school. 6
OR
What do you make of Einstein's nature from his conversations with his History teacher his mathematics teacher and the head Teacher ?
(Grammar: 10 marks)
7. (a) Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners: ½×2=1
(i) Do you need ______ help ?
(ii) ______ of the boys was given a pen.
(b) Rewrite the following sentences with the correct form of the verb given in brackets: ½×2=1
(i) Football (play) all over the world.
(ii) My uncle (arrive) from Mumbai last night.
(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal auxiliaries: ½×2=1
(i) You _____ not steal (command)
(ii)______ you spare some time for me ? (polite request)
(d) Correct the following: ½×2=1
(i) The honesty is the best policy.
(ii) Guwahati is one of the oldest city in the country.
8. (a) Complete the following piece of conversation by choosing the correct alternatives from the brackets: 1x2=2
I said to him, "_____ (what /when) are you doing now ? "He replied, " I am writing a few essays as part of my _____ (preparing/Preparation) for the examination.
(b) Rewrite following sentences as directed: 1x2=2
(i) My friend lives in this house. (Make it a complex sentence)
(ii) Stephen Hawking is the most famous Scientist of this generation. (use the comparative degree of famous)
(c) Re-arrange the words in the following to form meaningful sentences: 1x2=2
(i) Shyam not know swim deos to how.
(ii) He came I had left after place the.
9. You are preparing for a picnic at Pobitora next week. the Describe your preparations to your classmates in 100 words. 7
OR
Write a speech to be delivered at the morning assembly of your school on the topic. "World Environment Day." 7
10. You are Ranjan/Ragni. You have seen an advertisement in The Assam Tribune for the post of Assistant Teacher in Nehru Memorial High School, Goalpara. Write an application to the Headmaster of the school in response to the advertisement. Mention all relevant details. 8
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