MODEL ENGLISH papers

Time: 2 Hours 45 Minutes, Marks: 40

(Questions 1-7): Read the following excerpt from “Attitude is Altitude”.

Nick began travelling the world and in 2008 he went to Hawaii and met surfing master Bethany Hamilton, who
had her arm bitten off by a sharkwhen she was 12 „She was amazing‟, said Nick. „She taught me how to surf and
I wasterrified at first, but once I got up there it felt absolutely fantasticand I caught some waves pretty well.‟
Nick quickly learned how to do the 360 degree spins on his board – a feat that got him on the cover of Surfer
magazine within 48 hours. „No one has ever done that in thehistory of surfing‟, he said. „But I have a very low
centre of gravity so I‟ve got pretty good balance.‟

He has visited different countries all over the world. The football fan is now a motivational speaker and has
travelled to over 24 countries speaking to groups of up to 110,000 [Link] moved to Los Angeles two years
ago and plans to continue to travel the world – this year he will visit South America and the Middle East.

“If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle
much worse than we realize. It matters how you are going to finish. Are you going to finish

strong?” said Nick. „I tell people to keep on getting up when they fall and to always love

themselves,‟ he said. „If I can encourage just one person then my job in this life is done.‟

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.

Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer

booklet. (4x1=4 marks)

1. Why did he go to Hawaii?

A. to encourage youth B. to play foot ball C. to create surfing record D. to meet surfing master, Bethany
Hamilton

2. What Nick tells to the people?

A. to keep on getting up when they fallB. my job in this life is done

C. human spirit can handle D. visit different countries

3. „Always love themselves‟ means…

A. always love others B. always love parents C. love oneself D. love each other
[Link] is he visiting other countries?

A. to earn moneyB. to instill confidence among the people

C. to play football and surfing D. to learn different thing

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences. (3x2=6 marks)

5. Who is Bethany Hamilton? What happened to her?

6. “No one has ever done that in the history of surfing”. What was that?

7. Which aspect of Nick‟s physical condition helped him to do 360

degree spin?

(Questions 8-12): Read the following passage.

A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the
next morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When

the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy
struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy started

turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take
a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were

there?” The boy replied, “Air.” Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as
you wanted the air, then you will get it.” There is no other secret.

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four

choices. Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (3x1=3 marks)

8. What the Youngman asked Socrates?

A. how to take a deep breath B. the secret to success

C. ducking in the river D. how to become strong

9. What was the immediate thing the young man did after his head out

of water?

A. realised the secret B. took a deep breath of air

C. ducking Socrates into the river D. replying Socrates

10. What is the meaning of the word „gasp‟?

C. to learn D. draw in breath suddenly

Write answers for the given questions in one or two sentences (2x1=2 marks)

11. What is the secret to Success?

12. Why Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river?

Section-B:

Vocabulary and Grammar

(Questions 13-17):Read the passage carefully. Each number (13-17) indicates some error in the sentence. Edit
the passage by making necessary changes in each sentence. (Personality traits)

Ours is a small colony in Hyderabad. There are different people in the colony. Ashok is a very unpleasant and
rude fellow. I don‟t talk to him. (13)He is suave. Srinu is very confident, elegant and polite. But sometimes he
does not appear to be sincere. (14) He isobnoxious. Sujatha is quiet and calm. She doesn‟t like to spend time with
others. She is interested in her thoughts and feelings. (15)So she is a compassionate. Ramesh is very sensitive.
He always shows sympathy for people who are suffering. (16) He is introvert. Prem is an extremely unpleasant
person. He always tries to offend people. (17) He is boorish. Any how our colony is the best.

(Questions 18-22): Complete the passage choosing the right word from those given below it. Each blank is
numbered and for each blank has four choices (A), (B), (C) or (D) given. Choose the correct

answer from these choices and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (5x1=5 marks)

He was short. He was sharp. He was the …………….. (18) Boy in his class. His seniors used to ask him to solve
their difficulties in science. He could have ……………(19) unnoticed in a crowd, but once you

asked him a question related to Physics or Maths, there was a spark in his eyes. He could grasp theories of
science faster ……………………….. (20) the speed of light.

He came from a poor but educated family. His father was a high-school teacher and an avid reader of English
literature. He, like all the boys in his class, was trying to get admission …………………… (21) some
engineering college. The brighter ones wanted to study in the Indian Institutes of Technology or the IITs. There
was an entrance test ………………… (22) IIT. This boy, along with his friends,applied to appear for the test.

18. A. bright B. brighter C. brightest D. more bright

19. A. go B. went C. going D. gone

21. A. in B. to C. into D. off

22. A. for B. to C. of D. from

Section C:Creative Writing (Discourses)

(Question 23): Read the passage given below.

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building
business to live a more leisurely life with his wife and enjoy his extended family. He would miss the pay check
each week, but he wanted to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and
asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favour. The carpenter agreed. But over time it was easy
to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was
an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career. When the carpenter finished his work, his employer came to
inspect the house. Then he handed the front-door key to the carpenter and said, “This is your house… my gift to
you.”” The carpenter was shocked!What a shame! If he had only known that he was building his own house, he
would have done it all so differently. So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less than
our best into the building. Then, with a shock, we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could
do it over, we would do it much differently. But, you cannot go back. You are the carpenter, and every day you
hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Someone once said, “Life is a do-it-yourself project.” Your
attitudes, and the choices you make today,help build the “house” you will live in tomorrow. Therefore, build
wisely!

Write the story as one act play. (10 marks)

Or

Write the same story with different ending.

(Question 24): Prepare a notice on “cleanliness” in your school to create awareness. (5 marks)

Summative Assessment Paper-II 14E Time: 2 Hours 45 Minutes, Marks: 40

(Questions 1-7): Read the following passage.

There was a miser who constantly worried that his many valuable possessions would be lost or stolen. He finally
decided to sell everything and taking the proceeds from the sale, converted it all into a large single lump of solid
gold. Unable to bear the thought of losing such a great treasure, he carefully buried it in a hole in the ground,
near the compound wall. He would undertake a daily visit to the spot, uncover the gold, rejoice over it and then
replace it in the hole. A thief observed it. As soon as the miser had left the spot, one evening, the thief quietly
went over and dug up the gold. Elated at finding the gold, he quickly disappeared with the gold. The next day the
miser in his usual manner went to look at his gold but found nothing. He shocked and distressed, he began crying
loudly. A neighbour of his house came there. He said, „Don‟t worry. Just put a stone in the hole and feel it as
gold. The gold in a hole is as useless as a stone.”

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.

Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (4x1=4 marks)

1. What is the passage about?

A. about stealing gold B. about saving gold C. miserliness D. about valuable possessions

2. He constantly worried. Why?

A. that his possessions would be stolen B. that government tax on treasure

C. because valuable things always dangerous D. because he wants to become poor

3. Thief elated at finding the gold. The word „elated‟ means..

A. surprised B. felt happy C. terrified D. fainted

4. Why the miser shocked and distressed?

A. because his neighbour taken the money

B. because he converted his all possession to a single sump of gold

C. because his gold lump was stolen D. because his gold turned to stone

Answer the following questions in two or three sentences. (3x2=6 marks)

5. If you have such valuable things what would you do?

6. Why the miser converted all his treasure to a single lump of solid gold?

7. In your view what is the wrong on miser‟s part?

Questions 8-12): Read the following Poem.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.

Choose the correct answer and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your

answer booklet. (3x1=3 marks)

8. „Mt father, let my country awake.‟ Who is referred as father here?

A. Father of the nation B. God C. His own father D. President of India

9. According to poet, What are domestic walls?

A. Communal feelings B. Religious feelings C. Regional feelings D. All of the above

[Link] desert sand of dead habit.” What do these words mean?

A. Age old dead customs B. Bad habits C. Dry sand deserts D. Deforestation

Write answers for the given questions in one or two sentences(2x1=2 marks)

11. What kind of place does the poet want his country to be?

[Link] you agree with the poet‟s feelings? Why?

Section-B: Vocabulary and Grammar

(Questions 13-17): Read the following passage given below focusing on the underlined parts and answer the
questions given at the end as directed. (5x1=5 marks)
His parents decided not to send him to a special school – a decision he said was very hard for him, but which
may have been the best decision they could have made for him. When Nick was born his father was so shocked
that he left the hospital room to vomit. His distraught (13) mother couldn‟t bring herself to hold his until he was
four months old. His disability came without any medical explanation – a rare (14) occurrence called Phocomelia
– and Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them. „My mother was
a nurse and she did everything (15) right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself,‟ he said. It was so hard
for them but right from the start they did their best to make me independent.‟ „My dad put (16) me in the water at
18)months and gave the courage to learn how to swim.‟ I also got really into football (17) and skateboarding. I
totally love the English Premier League.‟

13. Choose an appropriate meaning from the given options.

A. worried and upset B. enthusiastic C. nurse D. very happy

14. Choose the adverb form from the given options.

A. rarest B. more rare C. rarely D. raring

[Link] an appropriate antonym from the given options.

A. anything B. nothing C. something D. fewthing

16. Choose the correct base form (V1).

A. put B. putted C. putten D. pat

17. Meaning of the expression „got really into football‟.

A. entered B. try to learn C. watching D. encourage

(Questions 18-22):Complete the passage choosing the right word from those given below it. Each blank is
numbered and for each blank has four choices (A), (B), (C) or (D) given. Choose the correct answer from these
choices and write (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (5x1=5 marks)

I took off my black coat, white shirt and not-so-white vest and hung them up. I opened the two windows ……
(18) The room. It was an outer room with one wall facing the open yard. It had a tiled roof with

long supporting gables that rested on the beam …….. (19) the wall.\ There was no ceiling. There was a regular
traffic of rats to and ….. the beam. I …… (20) my bed and pulled it close to the wall. I lay

down ….. (22) I could not sleep. I got up and went out to the veranda for a little air, but the wind god seemed to
have taken time off.

18. (A) in (B) on (C) of (D) to

20. (A) above (B) on (C) from (D) to

21. (A) make (B) did make (C) made (D) did made

22. (A) and (B) although (C) in spite (D) but

Section C:

Creative Writing (Discourses)

(Question 23):Write a biography of any „great scientist‟. (10 marks) Or

Prepare a speech on „Personality Development‟.

(Question 24): Prepare an invitation card for coming “Independence Day Celebrations” to be held at your
school. (5 marks)

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