Roll No. ………………….

Number of pages printed: 9

Name ………………………….

151 346(BS)
2025

English

Time: 3 hrs. 15 min. Max. Marks: 100

Instructions:

i. First 15 minutes are allotted for the candidates to read the

question paper.

ii. This question is divided into four Section-A, B, C and D.

iii. All questions from all the sections are compulsory.

iv. Marks are indicated against each question.

 (Section-A Reading)

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer

the questions that follow:

The real ornament of woman is her character, her

purity. Metal and stones can never be real ornaments.

The names of women like Sita and Damayanti have

become sacred to us for their unsullied virtue, 'never

for their jewellery, if tehy wore any. My asking from

you, your jewellery has also a wider significance.

Several sisters have told me that they feel all the

bettter for getting rid of their jewels. I have called this

an act of merit in more ways than one. No man or

woman is entitled to the possession of wealth, unless

he or she has given a fair share of it to the poor and

the helpless. It is a social and regligious obligation

and has been called a sacrifice by the Bhagavad Gita.

He who does not offer this sacrifice has been called

a thief. The Gita has enumerated many forms of
sacrifice, but what greater sacrifice can there be than
to serve the poor and the needy? For us, today, there
 can be no sacrifice higher than to forget the

distinctiions of high and low and to realize the

equality of all men, I also wish to bring home to the

women of India that real ornamentation lies not in

loading the body with metal and stone, but in

purifying the heart and developing the beauty of

soul.

(a) What is the real ornament of 'woman'? 3

(b) What thing hs been called a sacrifice by the Bhagwat 3

Gita?
(c) What is considered to be a greater sacrifice? 3

(d) Where does the real ornamentation lie? 3

(e) (i) Which word, in the passage, means 'spotless'? 1

(ii) Which word, in the passsage, is the opposite of 1

'insignficance'?

(iii) What does the phrase 'getting rid of' mean in 1

the passage?

(Section-B (Writing)
2. Write an article on any one of the following topics 10
in about 100-150 words.
(a) Role of Women in Modern India
 (b) Is Science A Blessing Or A Curse!

(c) Horrors of Terrorism

3. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper 10

complaining about the frequent breakdowns of

electricity in your locality.

Or

Write a complaint letter to the Executive Officer,

Municipal Board informing about the insanitary

conditions around your locality and urging him to

take immediate action.

(Section-C Grammar)

4. Choose the correct option to answer the 5x2=10

following questions.

(a) A style in which a writer makes a display of his

knowledge-

(i) pedantic (ii) verbose

(iii) pompous (iv) ornate

(b) ................ is a heavy metal.

 (i) led (ii) lid

(iii) lead (iv) none of these

(c) The synonym of medicore is .......................

(i) medieval (ii) industrial

(iii) agricultural (iv) average

(d) The antonym of 'loyal' is ................

(i) cordial (ii) faithful

(iii) ungrateful (iv) disloyal

(e) The phrase 'fair and square' means -

(i) honest (ii) dishonest

(iii) clever (iv) none of these

5.(a) Change any one of the following into indirect 2

speech -

(i) My brother said to me, "may you live long!"

(ii) Reena said, "Alas! I am undone."

(b) Combine any one of the following as directed - 2

(i) You must work hard. You will not succeed.

(into Simple sentences)

 (ii) My friend is diligent. He is cunning.

(Into compound sentences)

(c) Change any one of the following as directed - 2

(i) He is beaten severely by his mother.

(Into Active voice)

(ii) No other girl is as beautiful as she is.

(Into Superlative degree)

(d) Correct any one of the following sentences - 2

(i) Ramesh is junior than Mahesh.

(ii) Sheeps are grazing in the field.

(e) Use any one of the following pairs of words in your 2

own sentences to make the difference in their

meanings clear -

(i) Birth-Berth
(ii) Dose-Doze

6. Translate the following passage into English - 5

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fons'kh vkØe.kdkfj;ksa us bl ns'k dks ywVus dk iz;kl fd;kA
bldh laLd`fr rFkk blds Kku&foKku dks feVkus dk iz;kl
fd;kA ijUrq ns'kizsfe;ksa ds cfynkj vkSj cgknqjh ds dkj.k os
lQy ugha gq,A vkt Hkh ns'k esa fdlh pht dh deh ugha gSA
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(Section-D Literature)

7. Answer the following questions in about 40 4+4=8

words each:

(a) What did Franz think after hearing about the last
lesson?

Or
What terror did Douglas have in his heart? How?

(b) Why did the rattrap seller return to crofter's cottage?

Or

What had happened in December 1916 in Lucknow?

8. Answer any one of the following in about 80 7

words:

(a) Who was Mukesh? What did he want to do in his life and
what did he not want to follow?

(b) Whose cottage did the peddler find along the road? How
was he treated by the owner of the cottage and why?

9. Read the following extract carefully and answer 3x2=6

the questions that follow -
 Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

A flowery band to bind us to the earth,

Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth

Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,

Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways

Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,

Some shape of beauty moves away the pall

From our dark spirits.

(a) What are we doing on every morrow and why?

(b) What negativities surround us?

(c) What helps our dark spirits?

10. Write the central idea of any one of the 4

following poems -

(a) My mother at Sixty-six

(b) Keeping Quiet

(c) A thing of Beauty

11. Answer the following questions in about 40 4+4=8

words each -
 (a) Who was Hana? How did Hana meet Sadao?

Or
Who was the Tiger King and how was he named so?

(b) What did Sam write in his letter to Charley?

Or

How did the author reach Antarctica?

12. Answer any one of the following questions in 7

about 80 words -
(a) What did the astrologers tell when the tiger king was
born?
(b) Give a character sketch of Derry.