2007 ICSE Bangalore University P.U.C English Pre-University Course March/April, 2007 Question paper

Course: P.U.C English

University: Bangalore University

Pre-University Course March/April, 2007
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus)

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 90

Note: i) Follow the prescribed limited while answering the questions.
ii) Write the correct question number as it appears on the Question Paper.
iii) One mark questions attempted more than once will be awarded zero
iv) For multiple choice questions choose the correct answer and rewrite it.

I. Answer the following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each: 12x1=12

1. At what time did Lieutenant Blandford have an appointment with Hollis Maynell?

2. What work did the women do when they left their children in the shade to sleep in “Life’s Beginning”?

3. Choose the correct answer:

Juliane Koepeke did not eat fruits in the jungle because fruits were

a) beautiful
b) delicious
c) poisonous

4. Tansukh thinks that the word ‘broker’ evokes..........................

5. When ‘love is not love’ according to Shakespeare?

6. Where did Mary hide the secret part of teh machine?

7. With whose intervention was Baba Amte able to go to Calcutta to know about the truth about leprosy?

8. Where does the woman work in “The Travel Bureau” stay?

9. Mention the name given to ‘Sadir’ by Rukmini Devi.

10. Why does the speaker want to live in a house by the side of the road?

11. What has become a bad habit with Mutthashi?

12. Which is the country of innovation according to Kie Ho?

II. Answer any eight of the following (Choosing at least two from poetry) in a paragraph of 80-100 words each. 8x4=32

13. Describe the circumstances that developed an intimacy between Blandford and Hollis Meynell.

14. Explain the ways that the children are brought up in the poem ‘Life’s Beginning’?

15. How did the qualities of hope and courage help the girl to survive in the jungle?

16. How does Alan brownjohn explain the effect of urbanization through the phrase ‘only rabbit’ and ‘only patch of grass’?

17. Bring out the contradictory responses of Kuruman Panikkan and Muthashi about the glass tree.

18. Write short notes on Baba Amte’s view about

a) development
b) Youth of India.

19. According to Joe, how does his new machine facilitate children to be free from child labour?

20. Discuss the ways in which Tansukh as a broker manipulate his clients.

21. Given an account of professional and personal life of the woman in “The Travel ?Bureau”.

22. Explain Rukmini Devi’s encounter with Anna Pavlova.

III. Answer the following in about 200 words. 6

23. What ideas of Kie-Ho does Sophia Skoufaki contradict in her essay “Is Creativity Supressed by Knowledge?

OR

Describe the ways in which the woman rebels and asserts herself in the poem “I am not That Woman”.

OR

Baba Amte wants to be remembered as a man whose deeds followed his words. Share your thoughts on the human face of Baba Amte found in “Work Builds Charity Destroys”

IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it: 10x1=10

It has become a cliche, even a politically correct cliche these days, to say that there are two Indias: the India that shines with its fancy apartments and houses in rich neighborhoods, corporate houses of breathtaking size, glittering shopping malls, and high-tech flyovers over which flows a procession of new model cars. There are the images from a globalized India on the verge of entering the first world. And then there is the other India. India of helpless peasants committing suicides, dalits lynched regularly in not-so-distant villages, tribals dispossessed of their forest land and livelihood, and children too small tow lk properly, yet begging on the streets of shining cities. Something talks in the air. The anger of the poor from this other India is understandable. The India if flitter and privlege, it seems is bent on turning its back, and secluding fast from the other India of despair, anger and inhuman poverty. This is not just a matter of growing relative inequality between the two Indias. A more brutal procession at work, with the connivance of governments at the central and at the state level which is not only widening this divide between the two India, it is deepening consciously the absolute poverty and misery of poor India.

The unprecedented high economic growth on which privileged India prides itself is a measure of the high speed at which India of privilege is distancing itself from the India of crushing poverty. The higher the rate of economic growth along this pattern becomes, the greater would be the underdevelopment of India.

Globalization is the context in which growth is taking place. The accompanying processes of economic liberalization and privatization are tilting the balance in favour of the market against the nation state.

However, the game is no longer what it used to be. Nineteenth century capitalism developed through a complex process of conflict and co-operation between the state and the market. The state furthered the interest of the market, but at times also regulated it. For instance, it regulated the hours of work, abolished child labour or legalized trade unionism. Kari Polyani, the perceptive commentator on the nineteenth century capitalism described this as a process of “great transformation” driven by the “double movement” of the market and the state. If the state fails to play a constructive role, the result is not a freer market and more freedom, but growing desperate anger to the poor, which must engulf all sooner or later.

24. What has become a clinche these days?

25. Describe any one image of a globalised India.

26. What is the privileged India proud of?

27. How did the nineteenth century capitalism develop?

28. Who is the perceptive commentator on the nineteenth century capitalism?

29. Who are the people committing suicide in the other India?

30. According to Karl Polyani the ‘double movement’ is taking place betwen

a) poor and rich
b) globalised India and other India
c) market and state.

31. Who are the victims of globalization?

32. How may Indias do you see in the passage?

33. Which India is distancing from the India of crushing poverty?

V. 34. Report the following conversation: 5

Old man: What are you thinking? Have you decided to overlook my request of
buying a buffalo?

Tansukh: I have’nt I was thinking about Kashi’s buffalo.

Old man: Please help me to buy the buffalo.

35. Complete the following by filling in the blanks using appropriate form of the verbs in brackets. 3x1=3

Melkkoran took a long time to finish teh glass tree. Initially the roots and the trunk of the tree ...............(sculpt) out. Later green glass ............... (need) to carve out the leaves. After the supply of green glass, each leaf ............ (carve) out diligently by melkkoran.

36. Rewrite as directed. 1

When a person loses land and the other resources completely on account of a dam project, he/she is....................

Dis========== palced OR located.

(Use the correct root word with the prefix to fill in the blanks)

37. Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate expressions given in brackets. 2x1=2

(washed off, take care of, poke about)

The heavy rain .................. some of the maggots from the body of Juliane Koepeke, and later she also wanted ............. of her right arm which was getting worse.

38. Choose the appropriate linkers from the ones given in brackets and re-arrange the sentences into a coherent paragraph. 5

( in order to, therefore, despite, but)

............... to help people and make their work easy, he decided to continue with his invention. ............. one night they attacked him. ........... the people’s protest and attack. Joe still continued to work on the same night. Joe was a dedicated inventor.

......................people thought that he would take away their bread.

VI. A) 39. Read the following passage and make notes by drawing and filling in the boxes given below: 8 x ½ = 4

Rajasthan boasts of its colourful culture, cheerful people and their extraordinary passion for kite flying or patangbazi, a special cultural sport and past time of the region. The kite flying is celebrated to herald the coming of spring. It is also a leisure sport and a passion among foreign tourists too. The people of Rajasthan enjoy the rich tradition of kite flying.

Rajasthan boasts of
...................... ....................... ..........................
1 2 3
Patangbazi is

.............................. and .....................
4 5
Kite flying is
Celebrated to herald
..............................
6

to foreign tourists
kite flying is

........................... ...........................
7 8

B) 40. Write a letter of application in response to the following advertisement which appeared in “Deccan Herald” dated march 10. 2007 (Write XXX for name and YYY for address) 5

Apollo Hospitals in Bangalore require STAFF NURSES.
Qualification: B.Sc / Diploma in General Nursing.
Fluency in English and the local language essential.
Send in applications within 7 days.

Apply to : Manager, Personnel Department, No: 29, Ganapathi Street, Bangalore- 560003.

C) 41. Imagine that you have been selected as a union leader and is supposed to address a gathering of students and lecturers of your college. Write a speech in about 100 words focusing on the infrastructure of your college and the necessity of disciplinary attitudes among students. Use the hints given below): 5

-- Library, toilet facilities.
-- Science labs to be upgraded.
-- Reading room, waiting room for girls.
-- Inspire and motivate students to study well and behave properly.

OR

Study the two pie charts given below and write a report in 120 words on the education status of women in rural and urban areas. 5

(PIE CHART IS A DIAGRAM WHICH CANNOT BE DRAWN)

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