AMINUDDIN AND JAHORALI COLLEGE, RAMNAGOR A. Choose the correct answer.

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TEST EXAMINATION: 2024 a) What does the expression, “My father lives very far away” mean? : I
ENGLISH (COMPULSARY) 1st PAPER live with my father/my father feels me/my father does not live with me/
FULL MARKS: 100 TIME: 3HOURS my father wants to live with me
b) Who advised Amerigo to live far from trash dump :
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the question no A&B His father/ his friend/his doctor/a doctor
My name is Amerigo, 13 years old living on the street alone. My c) How did one of Amerigo’s friend die? : By an accident/of
mother, separating from my father, doesn't want me. My father lives disease/for want of food/by failing into a hole
very far away. I want to go to him, but he won't take me either. I d) Which of the following statement is true about shoe-shining? : Shoe-
begged him to send me some money so that I could buy a bus ticket. shining is very favourite to the street children/ shoe-shining is very
I am still waiting. The streets are now my home. Sometimes I find disgusting to the street children/ice cream selling is very favourite to the
work. I used to collect trash and sell it to a vendor. I stopped doing street children/ waste collecting is very favourite to the street children
that after I had a serious infection and a doctor told me to stay away e) The word “pile” mentioned in the passage means :
from the trash dump. Once I worked for an ice cream shop owner store/sort/separate/heap
and sold ice cream on the beach. But I got no money in return. The f)Who wants to take Amerigo with? : his father/ his mother/his
owner of the shop gave me something to eat, and let me sleep in his parents/none of them
hut at night. The work was difficult and painful. The ice cream box g) Who are street children? : children who play on street /children born
is quite heavy when it is full. I had to walk for hours, offering my on the footpath /children left on the street to survive on the mercy of
ice cream to whoever wanted to buy. There were days when I could others/ children specially taken care of by the government
not even sell one ice cream. In a way, I am lucky because I am alive. h)Owner means: proprietor/instructor/administrator/prosecutor
My friends who work sorting rubbish in dumps often suffer from i) doctor means : physician/psychologist/tutor/instructor
serious diseases. One of them was recently killed after he fell into a j) trash refers: trouble/tolerance/rubbish/rhythm
hole that opened up in the pile of trash. Many of us work for 10 to B. Answer the following questions : 15
12 hours, and get so little in return that we can't even buy food. a) What should society do for children like Amerigo? b) What does
Shoe-shining is very popular among the street kids. A few of my Amerigo desire now? Should he desire such things? c) What is your first
friends also work in factories and workshops. A boy I know lost one impression about Amerigo’s parents? d) How does Amerigo evaluate
of his eyes after a piece of hot glass flew into his eye at the glass his life now? Does he have any option to change it? e) If you were
factory where he worked. The owner refused to pay for medical help Amerigo, what would you do?
and fired him. For me, like all other children on the street, it is very 2. Read the passage and make a flow chart showing the adolescent girls
hard. I am always hungry, and I don't know where I will sleep the in Bangladesh. 5
next night. I would like to live in my own home and sleep there in The situation of adolescent girls in Bangladesh is characterized by
peace. The nights are very cold in the winter. You can die of cold in inequality and subordination within the family and society. This
the street. inequality leads to widespread practice of child marriage,
 marginalization or exclusion from health, education and economic
opportunities, and vulnerability to violence and sexual abuse. In 5. Fill in the gap with suitable word. 10
Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys. Mandela's last major appearance on the world stage was in (a) -- when he
However, 33 percent of adolescent girls are married before the age of 15 (b) --- a cap in the South African winter and rode on a golf cart, (c) -- to an
and 60percent become mothers by the age of 19. Research finds that exuberant crowd of 90,000 (d) -- the soccer World Cup final, one of the
adolescents with higher level of education and from more affluent biggest events in the country's (e) -- apartheid history."I leave it to (f) ---
families tend to marry at a later age. Boys, however, become ready for public to decide how they should me (g) --," he said on South African (h) --
marriage only after several years of adolescence and young adulthood. before his retirement."But I should (i) --to be remembered as an ordinary
South African who together with others has (j) ---- his humble contribution.
1. Inequality and
subordination 6. Rearrange sentences according to sequence. 10
A) Desdemona was fascinated by his stories and especially by the story of
3. Summarize the poem. 10 his life.
0 father and mother if buds are nipped, B) Othello was a brave soldier who had risen to become a general.
And blossoms blown away; C) Brabantio, a rich senator of Venice, had only one child, a daughter
And if the tender plants are stripped
named Desdemona.
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, - D) Her pity soon turned to love and she confessed to Othello that she loved
How shall the summer arise in joy, him.
Or the summer fruits appear? E) She refused them all because she loved Othello
Or how shall we gather what grief’s destroy, F) He had shown his bravery in many bloody battles against the Turks.
Or bless the mellowing year, G) She pitted Othello for the misfortunes and hardships of his life.
When the blasts of winter appear? H) She was so beautiful that many young men of the best families wished to
marry her.
4. Fill in the gap with suitable word from the help of box. 5
economic clash Serious, armed interpersonal I) Brabantio often invited Othello to his house where he and his daughter
resource natural called deaths Within listened in wonder to Othello as he spoke about his adventures.
J) Hearing it, she had to weep and she never became tired of listening to it.
Conflict can be defined as (a) ------- of values and ideas among other things,
and the most serious form of conflict is (b) -------- clashes that results in lot 7. Complete the following story according to the sequence. 15
of (c) --- and casualties. There can be conflict among us, which is (d) -- --- Once upon a time there lived a boy who used to tell lies.…………
interpersonal conflict. The conflict between or (e) --- persons is called (f) ---
conflict. Constraints of (g) --- resources is also a cause of conflict and it is
known as (h) --- conflict. Conflict 1s a very (i) --- phenomenon, but
sometimes it takes (j) --- forms.
8. The graph below shows the Internet Users from 2005 to 2013. Describe
the graph in 150 words. You should highlight and summaries the
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9. Write a letter to your friend congratulating him on his brilliant