SECTION A (READING)
A1. See Al, 2004 (Comptt. I Delhi).
A2. Read the following poem carefully. (8 marks)
The Coromandel Fishers
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull’s call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fail of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives%
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, 0 brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.
—Sarojini Naidu
A2. On the basis of your understanding of the poem above, complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. (8 marks)
(a) The poet refers to fishermen through different words. Two of them are (2)
(i) ………………… (ii) ……………….
(b) The leaping wealth of the tide is (i) …………….. which the fishermen catch with their (ii) ……………… (1)
(c) The Sea-God would (i) ………….even if (ii) …………. (2)
(d) Pick out and write the word(s) from the poem that refers to: (3)
(i) The coming of the morning ………..
(ii) The wind is not wild ……………….
(iii) The sea waves are the fishermen’s friends …………….
SECTION B (WRiTING)
B1. Rahul is writing an article on “Aye-aye” for his school magazine. He referred to an encyclopaedia and made the following notes. Use the information in the notes to complete his write-up. Do not add any new information. Write your answer against the correct blank number in your answer sheet. (5 marks)
| Aye-aye — world’s largest nocturnal primate — found in Madagascar — known as hay-hay, ahay and aiay — bizarre looks — classification--rodent kingdom — cat’s size — 75-100 cm — short white hair —adaptation — in rain-forests, deciduous forests, scrubs. |
One of the most bizarre-looking primates, the aye-aye
Daubentonia madagascariensis (a) …………...in the world. Among the people of Madagascar,(b) …………….it is also known as the hay-hay, ahay and aiay. Its bizarre looks (c) …………..the rodent kingdom in the 18th century. These small animals are about the size of a cat, (d) ………….. from end to end. Aye-ayes have short white hair along with long white-tipped black hair. Over the millennia, (e) ………………...to life in rain-forests, deciduous forests and even scrubs.
B2. You are Vikram / Vasantha of Class XII studying in Sun Residential School, Chennai, staying in the school hostel. You are participating in an Inter School drama competition. You require money urgently for getting the necessary costume stitched and for paying the entrance fee. Draft a telegram in not more than 20 words to be sent to your parents in Trivandrum. Copy the format of the telegram from the question paper in your answer sheet. (5 marks)
B3. You are Varun / Vijay. Our country is experiencing drought and water shortage due to low and inadequate rainfall. You are very much concerned about it. Making use of the information in the visual and your own ideas, draft a speech to address your friends in the school assembly about the drought in various parts of the country and what we should do to promote rainfall and to provide water facility to the public. Your answer should not exceed 200 words. (10 marks)
LOWER IN SOME ‘SUB-DIVISIONS’
What matters more, the fact or the terminology?
| Meteorological sub-division SEVERE DROUGHT West Rajasthan East Rajasthan MODERATE DROUGHT Harayana Chandigarh Delhi Punjab Coastal Andhra Pradesh Rayalseema North Interior Karnataka South Interior Karnataka Coastal Karnataka Tamil Nadu Kerala Lakshadweep45 |
Rainfall (percent below normal) —71 —60 —36 —36 —36 —36 —26 —33 —31 —44 —30 —45 —35 —45 |
Or
You are Varun / Veena. Our country is experiencing drought and water shcrtage due to low and inadequate rainfall. You are very much concerned about it. Write a speech to address your friends in the school assembly about the drought in various parts of the country and what we should do to promote rainfall and to provide water facility to the public. Your answer should not exceed 200 words.
B4. See B4, 2004 (Comptt. I Delhi).
SECTION C (GRAMMAR)
C1. See C1, 2004 (Comptt. I Delhi).
C2. Supply a suitable word in each of the blanks and complete the paragraph meaningfully. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. (½ x 8 =4 marks)
A curtain merely treated with insecticide (a) ……………..help save your life. A recent study (b) ……………that (c) …………...curtains treated with insecticide can reduce the incidence (d) ………………cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL)—a disease (e) …………….has fatal, debilitating (f) ……………………...deforming
consequences in (g) ………………..form of skin ulcers. The disease is caused (h) ……………..the leishmania
C3. Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences. The first one has been done as an example.
Write the correct sentences in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. (½ x 6 =3 marks)
80 percent / air consists of / almost / that / nitrogen / of / all living organisms / need / to build protein / the
Almost 80 per cent of the air consists of nitrogen that all living organisms need to build protein.
(a) only / convert / can / usable form / a / a few organisms! into / however, / nitrogen from air
(b) from Michigan State University / researchers / of nitrogen fixing bacteria / have / a new group / discovered / Spirochaetes / called
(c) studied in the / laboratory / from termite guts / Spirochaetes / and / were isolated
C4. Look at the newspaper items below. Then provide a suitable headline to each of the paragraphs. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentence. (½ x 6 =3 marks)
(a) …………..
Shimla, Aug. 30.
Atleast 30 persons were feared drowned when a Punjab Roadways bus going from Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh to Ropar in Punjab got stuck midstream in the Sarsa river today.
(b) Moscow, Aug. 30,
A decommissioned K-159 nuclear submarine of the Russian Navy sank in the Barents Sea today, killing at least two of the 10-member crew.
(c) Chennai, Aug. 30,
The Government is now considering the feasibility of utilizing a 35-acre land at Kotturpuram here as an alternative site for constructing a new Secretariat building.
SECTION D (LITERATURE)
D1. See D1, 2004 (Comptt. II Delhi).
D2. See D2, 2004 (Comptt. II Delhi).
D3. See D3, 2004 (Comptt. I Delhi).
D4. See D4, 2004 (Comptt. I Delhi).
D5. See D5, 2004 (Comptt. H Delhi).
D6. See D6, 2004 (comptt. II Delhi).
