ENGLISH LANGUAGE

MISSION100

TEST-3

Maximum Marks: 80 Time allowed: Two

hours

Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.

You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.

This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.

The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.
Attempt all five questions.

Question 1
(Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.)
Write a composition (300 - 350 words) on any one of the following: [20]

(i) Write an original short story entitled: ‘The Sleeping Giant’.

(ii) Imagine a situation where you had the chance to talk to a famous personality. Explain what
you noticed that were different about the person. What did you learn from the experience?

(iii) “Troubled and uncared for children will turn out as criminals.”

Express your views either for or against this statement.

(iv) You spend some time in your society park everyday and notice children playing there and
having fun. Give a detailed account of the memory.

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(v) Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what it
suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take
suggestions from it; however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your
composition.

Question 2 [10]
(Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.) Select any one
of the following:
(i) One of your cousin wants to buy a pet that you also already own. Write a
letter to your cousin telling him/her all about the pet, its caring routine etc.

(ii) You are part of a band and perform at certain occasions in your society from
time to time. Write a letter to your Principal requesting him for a chance to
perform at your school’s annual function. Also, inform him in what ways you
can be helpful in making the function a memorable one.

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Question 3

(i) Your school is hosting an Old Clothes Collection Drive to donate the clothes collected
at a nearby charity. Write a notice as the Charity Club Secretary informing all students
about the drive. [5]

(ii) Write an e-mail to the Principal of a neighbouring school informing him/her of the Old
Clothes Collection Drive. Request him to help out by introducing the same drive at his
institution as well. [5]
Question 4

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

By May 9, 2021 India accounted for 57 percent of new COVID-19 cases anywhere in the world.

This phenomenon rippled through the interconnected economies of the world, including those in
Africa. Indeed, India has risen over the past decade to become Africa’s third most important
trading partner, after the European Union and China. In fact, the African market is precariously
dependent on Indian suppliers for certain products, notably pharmaceuticals and rice. This is
especially the case of East Africa, in which 35 percent of pharmaceutical imports come from
India, and 20 percent of rice.

As India’s second COVID-19 wave raged, a concern for African countries has been the potential
for economic and trade-related spillovers channeled through these trade sensitivities. There is a
precedent. At the start of the pandemic, in April 2020, Indian rice traders were forced to suspend
exports amid disruptions to transport links, and maritime shipping and production bottlenecks
caused by lockdown restrictions imposed to suppress the spread of the virus. In a United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) survey of African businesses across the continent in
July 2020, companies reported switching suppliers as a result of sourcing disruptions, with 56
percent finding equivalent products and favouring national and regional suppliers.

Fortunately, the supply-side disruptions seen in early 2020 have not substantively materialized,
but the recent soaring numbers in India have complicated things for the continent. Indeed, India
is more than your average country in the face of a health pandemic and is also quite notably the
“vaccine factory of the world.” In being forced to redirect COVID-19 vaccine exports
domestically to fight its current outbreak, India is estimated to have left COVAX with a shortfall
of 190 million doses by just the end of June.

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Though countries across the world are also facing the vulnerabilities of having been too dependent
on Indian vaccine supplies, it is developing and least-developed countries that are most dependent
on COVAX and have already fallen behind in vaccination rates. According to WHO Africa, while
the world—as of mid-June—had administered 29 doses per 100 people, African countries had
managed just 1.5 doses per 100 people. (Note that this Africa figure excludes Morocco, which is
an outlier on the continent as a large economy with an exceptionally high vaccination rate.) A
scenario is emerging in which well-vaccinated rich countries like Israel, the United States, and the
United Kingdom begin reopening their economies while African and other developing countries
face persisting lockdown restrictions and stifled economic recoveries.

(a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or
short phrases will be accepted. [3]

(i) Bottlenecks
(ii) Disruption
(iii) Persisting

(b) Answer the following questions briefly, in your own words.

(i) Which phenomenon rippled through the world? What happened as a result? [2]
(ii) What happened to rice exports? When and Why? [2]
(iii) How did the world suffer through the dependence on India for vaccines? [2]
(iv) How did Africa fare in contrast to the world in vaccination? [2]
(v) Briefly describe “the vaccine factory of the world”. [2]

(c) In not more than 50 words, write a summary of the above passage. [7]

Question 5

(a) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in brackets. Do not
copy the passage, but write in correct serial order the word or phrase appropriate to the
blank space. [4]

Example: One day he (0) __________ (go) to them and begs to be allowed to sail.
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Answer: (0) goes
His father and mother lecture him, (1) __________ (demand) a promise to give up the idea.
His desire (2) __________ (prove) too great for him to (3) __________ (keep) this promise,
and one day he (4) __________ (run) away to sea. A terrible storm (5) __________ (arise) and
the vessel (6) __________ (be) soon a total wreck, and Robinson is the sole survivor. He (7)
__________ (reach) shore more dead than alive, and (8) __________ (offer) up thanks to God
for his deliverance.

(b) Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word: [4]

(i) What are you thinking ………….?

(ii) They have ordered him to come back …………. a week.

(iii) She gave the book back …………. I reminded him.
(iv) She was made to sit …………. the floor.
(v) These people are always quarrelling …………. themselves.
(vi) I was invited …………. dinner.
(vii) He was touched …………. pity when he heard the tale.
(viii) Ravi was accurate …………. his calculations.

(c) Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so.
[4]
a) The king died. His eldest son came to the throne.
b) I will speak the truth. I am not afraid of any consequences.
c) He must apologise. He will not escape punishment otherwise.
d) Herman was obstinate. He refused to listen to advice.

(d) Re-write the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Make other
changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of each sentence.
[8]

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 1. As soon as the firecracker was lit up, a string of lights erupted.
(Begin : No sooner………. )
2. None other than the Prime Minister himself inaugurated the hospital.
(Remove: ‘none’)
3. My brother Ravi was too dumb to have understood the equation.
(Begin : My brother Ravi was so……… )
4. “There was no road after I surpassed the mountain,” he told.
(Rewrite in Indirect Speech)
5. Although we had never helped her, she excelled by herself.
(Begin : Inspite……… )
6. Ishan would rather stay at home than run out and play.
(Begin : Ishan prefers…….. )
7. They had never seen such a marvellous temple.
(Begin : Never…….. )
8. Amrita has restored the garden back to its former glory.
(Begin : The garden……… )

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