আজ একটি নমুনা প্রশ্ন দেওয়া হল PART- A থেকে। আগামী সংখ্যায় PART-B থেকে কিছু প্রশ্ন দেওয়া হবে। 


     PART-A [60 marks]
1. Answer any two of the following questions each in about 100 words:           6x2=12
A] “She was an interesting girl”.
Who said this to whom and when? What else did the person say? What reply did he get?    3+1+2
B] What had remained the routine for Abdul Kalam’s father even when he was in his late sixties? What does Abdul Kalam say about his emulation of his father?           3+3
C] Why did the bearded man become an enemy of the Tsar? What did the man swear and resolve to do? Why did he ask forgiveness of the Tsar and what did he promise him? 1+2+3
D] “I would teach you right from wrong?” Who said this to whom and when? How did the speaker transform the person spoken to here? 1+1+1+3
2. Answer any two of the following questions each in about 100 words:            6x2=12
A] “It takes much time to kill a tree”.
Why does it take much time to kill a tree? According to the poet, how is the tree finally killed? 3+3
B] Justify the poet’s attitude to war as revealed in the poem “Asleep in the valley”    6
C] “But thy eternal summer shall not fade”. Whose eternal summer is referred to here? What does “eternal summer” mean? What conclusion does the poet draw at the end of the poem?  1+2+3
D] Explain the significance of the title of the poem “The poetry of Earth”.        6
3. Answer any one of the following questions in about 100 words.                       6x1=6
A] Give a brief sketch of the character of Chubukov in the play “The Proposal”.        6
B] Why did Lomov think about taking a decision about getting married? Whom did he want to marry? Why did he want so? 3+1+2
C] Do you think ‘The Proposal’ is a farce? Give reasons for your answer?       6
4.
A] Do as directed:                                                                                                                 1x6=6
1] “Then I won’t turn you loose”, said the woman to the boy. [Turn into indirect speech].
2] My parents were regarded as an ideal couple. [Change the voice]
3] A man, getting into the compartment, stammered an apology. [Turn into a complex sentence]
4] I do not recall the exact number of people she fed everyday. [Turn into affirmative sentence]
5] I am the most unhappy of men. [Change to positive degree]
6] I wished to kill you. [Rewrite the sentence using the noun form of the underlined word]
B] Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles or prepositions.                             1/2x6=3
We lived …………. Our ancestral house, which was built ……….. the middle ……………. the 19th century. It was a fairly large pucca house made ………….. limestone and brick …………. The mosquestreet ……………. Rameswaram.
C] Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below:                                                                       1x1=1
His answer filled me with a strange energy and enthusiastic.   
[Options: enthuse/ enthusiastically/ enthusiasm]
5. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
Population is the basic source of man power resources in a country. The quality of which is shaped largely by education and training conditioned by the socio-economic and political structures of the society. ‘Population education’ refers to the outlook and understanding of the problem by the people of a society.
Almost all the developing countries of the third world are burdened with large and rapidly growing population, mass illiteracy, mass unemployment, under-utilisation of natural resources, backward technology, all manifested through the abysmal poverty and extremely low standards of income and living, stagnant economy and exploitation by rich countries.
For the past two centuries, the Mathusian theory of population has been made as an effective tool in the hands of the rulers and exploiting clases to spread false theory of population education which taught people the overpopulation is responsible for all their causes and they are themselves responsible for it.
Modern understanding of population has demolished this myth. It has led to the realization that it is not the size of the population as such but under development of the resources as well as the system of faulty distribution of the wealth produced and the family socio-economic structure which are more responsible for the malady.
A] state whether the following sentences are true or false. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false.                                                                                                                                      1x4=4
1] the basic source of manpower in a country is its population. [      ]
2] Mass illiteracy is one of the burdens for almost all the developing countries of the third world. [       ]
3] Malthusian theory is related to economics. [       ]
4] the faulty socio-economic structure is responsible for the Malady. [       ]
B] Answer the following questions.                                                                                2x3=6
1] What are the burdens of a developing country of the third world?
2] Which theory has been used as an effective tool for the past two countries?
3] What kind of realization has demolished the Mathusian theory?
6]
A] Write a report on the 150th birthday celebration of M.K.Gandhi in your school.
                                                                                                                                              2+8=10
Or
B] Write a letter to the Editor of an English daily about reckless driving and frequent road accidents in your locality.                                                                                       2+8=10

C] Write a precis of the following passage. Add a suitable title.                             2+ 8=10
Among the misfortunes that trouble human beings. The loss of health is the most troublesome. A man cannot enjoy his wealth, his happiness or his relations when he is sick. If you can give a sick man everything but leave him to his sufferings, he will feel that the world is lost to him. Even when he is laid on a bed of roses, he groans in physical agony, and remains sleepless. On the contrary, a beggar who is healthy, can enjoy a sound sleep even lying on the bare ground. A man with good health can enjoy his food and choose his drink but a sick man cannot take a morsel out of fear that his health may deteriorate. In fact, a healthy man is always envied by a rich man with poor health. If a sick man is surrounded with the pomp of a king, if his chair be made his throne, if his crutch be his scepter, even then he will envy the good health of his meanest servant. His great palace would not be able to provide him the comfort that a man with a sound health gets even if he lives in a hut with thatches roof.