Kerala SSLC English Model Question Papers with Answers Paper 1

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Time Allowed: 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks: 80

Instructions

• 15 minutes is given as cool-off time.
• This time is to be used for reading the question paper.
• You are not supposed to write anything during the cool-off time.
• Attempt all questions according to the instructions.

Questions 16: Read the excerpt from ‘The Scholarship packet’ and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one score. 1×6 = 6
I was almost back at my classroom door when I heard voices raised in anger as if in some sort of argument. I stopped. I didn’t mean to eavesdrop; I just hesitated, not knowing what do do. I needed those shorts and I was going to be late, but I didn’t want to interrupt an argument between my teachers. I recognized the voices: Mr. Schmidt, my History teacher and Mr. Boone, my Math teacher. They seemed to be arguing about me. I couldn’t believe it. I still remember the feeling of shock that rooted me flat against the wall as if I were trying to blend in with the graffiti written there.

Question 1.
What did Martha hear when she reached near her class?

Question 2.
Why did she come back to her class?

Question 3.
Who were there in the class?

Question 4.
What was the subject of their discussion?

Question 5.
Find out the word from the passage which means ‘writing on the wall’.

Question 6.
How did the argument affect Martha?

Questions 7-10: Read the liners from ‘AGirls’s Garden and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one sscores. 1 x 4 = 4

It was not enough of a garden
Her father said, to plow;
So she had to worked it all by hand.
But she doesn’t mind now.

She wheeled the dung in a wheelbarrow
Along with a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her notice load.

Question 7.
Why was it ‘not enough of a garden’ according to her father?

Question 8.
How did she ‘plow’ the garden?

Question 9.
What was the notice load referred to in the poem? ,

Question 10.
Write the rhyme scheme of the first stanza given below.

Question 11.
Read the lines from the song by Bob Dylan and attempt a brief appreciation, focussing on the theme and the poetic devices used by the author. 5

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Questions 12-16: Read the following story and answer the questions given. Each question carries one score.
1 x 5 = 5
‘Fire! Fire! ’ What terrible words! I woke up in the middle of the night! It was a large, old wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped out into the passage.
I began to run. Instead of going towards the stairs. I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see flames all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes. I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat, use the floor under me gave way. I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a flaming doorway in from of me. My feet burned terribly. As I reached the cold air outside, the bundle gave a thin cry. I nearly dropped it in surprise. I saw a woman screaming. She came running madly towards me.
‘My baby! My baby! ’ she cried. The Crowd assembled cheered wildly as she took the baby out of my arms. I saved her baby. I became a hero!

Question 12.
What made the narrator wake up from his sleep?

Question 13.
“ The floor became hot.” How could he feel it easily?

Question 14.
How did the narrator protect his face?

Question 15.
Why was the narrator surprised?

Question 16.
“ I became a hero!” Why did the narrator say so?

Question 17-21: Given below is the menu card of a hotel. Study it carefully and answer the questions given. Each question carries one score. 1 x 5 = 5

Question 17.
Which is the most expensive item on the menu card?

Question 18.
What is the price charged for Masala Dosa?

Question 19.
A vegetarian customer decides to buy an item that costs 150 rupees. Which item can be bought?

Question 20.
Which two items have the same price on the menu card?

Question 21.
Pick out the item which is costlier than Aloo Gobi and cheaper than Chicken Biriyani

Questions 22-23: Answer any one of the following in about 120 words. 7 x 1 = 7

Question 22.
The sufferings Vanka went through at the shoemaker’s house were beyond words. Briefly narrate Vanka’s sufferings and his attempt to escape
from the place.
(Hints: grandfather sends Vanka to the shoemaker his master and mistress treats Vanka cruelly does not get food and clothes remembers Iris good old days writes an Itter to grandfather)

Question 23.
“Even we understood that he must go”, say the children in the story ‘Adolf. Narrate the events that led them to think so.
(Hints: Father brings the wild rabbit children are delighted mother gets angry its life is in danger efforts to nurse it wild nature of the rabbit decides to send it back to wilderness)

Questions 24-26: Attempt any two of the following. Each question carries five scores 5 x 2=10

Question 24.
Mr.ohn.S. easily recognizes. A.Cronin when he meets him on the deck of the ship. But Cronin cannot recognize ohn. What would Mr.ohn write if he made an entry in his diary on the events of the day? Write the likely diary entry.

Question 25.
The English Club of your school has decided to conduct a ‘Satyait Ray Film Festival.’ You have decided to screen ‘Pather Panchali’. ‘Apur Sansar’ and ‘Aparaito’ in the festival. Draft a notice for the function. You may also include the details of the inauguration ceremony.

Question 26.
Imagine that you meet the homeopath after he has changed his stay from the rented house where he had encountered the snake. Write the likely conversation between the homeopath and you. (Write at least five exchanges)

Question 27-31: Attempt any three of the following. Each question carries six scores 6 x 3 = 18

Question 27.
Prepare a short profile of William Blake using the hings given below.
Nationality: English
Birth: November 28, 1757, London
Famous as: Poet, painter, and engraver
Important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Eleven and Hell
Literary movement: Romanticism
Died: August 12, 1827 (aged 69)

Question 28.
Imagine that Satyait Ray decides to write a letter to the manager of the Bharat Circus Company asking him to supply a tiger for the shooting of his film ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’. What would he write? Draft the likely letter.

Question 29.
Attempt a character sketch of Martha, who finally won the Scholarship acket.

Question 30.
Write a paragraph on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s experience in the United States of America during her stay there for her studies.

Question 31.
Imagine that your school team has won ‘A grade’ in the skit competition held at the District level school Kalolsavam. Prepare a news report on the achievement, giving relevant details.

Question 32.
Complete the following conversation suitably. 4
Ali:  I want some potatoes
Akbar:  You want tomatoes also, ……..(a)……..?
Ali:  ……..(b)……..
Akbar:  Sixty five Toumans for a kilogram.
Ali:  My mom said to put it on our account
Akbar:  If you don’t pay at least a part of it, ……..(c)……..
Ali:  ……..(d)……..?
Akbar:  No, I don’t think that you will not pay. But I need some money urgently.
Ali:  I will inform my mom.
Akbar:  Thank you.

Question 33.
There are a few errors in the passage given below. They are underlined. Edit the passage making corrections. s 4
‘My Childhood Days’ are (a) a recollection of Rabindranath Tagore’s boyhood experiences. Tagore which (b) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 narrates the experiences that shaped the writer in him. One day Tagore see (c) his elder brother starting off to school leave (d) him behind.

Question 34.
Report the following dialogue. 2
Cronin: Where are you taking me to?
The Sergeant: A man in the next house has attempted to commit suicide.
(A) Cronin asked the sergeant ……………………
(B) The sergeant replied that ……………………..

Question 35.
Supply the missing words in the passage given below, choosing from those given in
brackets. 4
The earthings hae reached a higher level ……..(a)…….. civilization. At this moment they may be launching ……..(b)…….. interplanetary attack. Notify this too……..(c)…….. invasion fleet ……..(d)…….. to the Mighty Think Tank.
(a, an, the, and, of)

Question 36.
Complete the following passage choosing the appropirate phrasal verbs given in the box. 4

go on, come across, set out, make out, put across
The two brothers ……..(a)…….. on a journey. They reached a forest and ……..(b)…….. a stone with an inscription on it. In the first attempt, they couldn’t ……..(c)…….. what was written on it. The elder brother was not ready to ……..(d)…….. with the journey as suggested in the inscription.

Question 37.
Identify the noun phrase and the head noun in the subect position of the sentence given below. 2
The big cobra that coiled around the doctor’s arm did not bite him.
(a) Noun phrase:……………
(b) Head noun:……………..

Answers

Answer 1.
Martha heard voices raised in anger as if in some sort of argument.

Answer 2.
She came back to her class to take her PE shorts.

Answer 3.
Mr.Schmidt, Martha’s history teacher and Mr. Boone her Maths teacher were in the class.

Answer 4.
The subect of their discussion was whether the Scholarship acket should be given to deserving Martha or to oann by falsifying the records.

Answer 5.
The word ‘graffiti’ means ‘writing on the wall’.

Answer 6.
The argument heavily shocked Martha.

Answer 7.
The plot given to the girl alone was not enough of a garden. It should be prepared, plowed and fertilized by her own hands.

Answer 8.
She plowed the garden plot by her own hands.

Answer 9.
The dung to fertilize the garden plot was referred to as ‘notnice’ load.

Answer 10.
ABCB is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza.

Answer 11.
Blowin’ in the Wind a brief appreciation
These lines are from the poem ‘Blowin in the Wind’ by Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan is an American singer and songwriter. In this poem, the poet asks nine questions to which no specific answers are given or expected. Out of the nine questions, here there are three questions in these lines.

The poet asks first “how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?” He asks actually how much a man should experience in life or how long a man should endure in life before he is recognized as a human being. He asks, how many seas a white dove should cross before it can peacefully rest or sleep finally in the sand. White doves are a symbol of peace, and when we are going to get really the symbolized peace.

“How many times must the cannon balls fly before they are forever banned?” is a similar question. White doves and the banning of cannon balls are signals of the arrival of peace and end of wars and conflicts; but when will the symbolized peace be realized? The answers to all these questions are known to all and blowing in the wind. People need only open their eyes and ears to catch them.

These questions are the best example of the literary device Rhetorical question. The poet talks about the answers which are available or known easily to whoever actually wants them. He keeps on asking questions and talks about answers repeating the same.

lines “the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is blowin’ in the wind” without actually answering, and making use of another poetic device Refrain.

Answer 12.
The loud and terrible cry of ‘fire! ‘, ‘fire!’ from someone made the narrator wake up from his sleep.

Answer 13.
He could feel the heat of the floor easily because his feet were bare.

Answer 14.
He fell down on a bundle of clothes with which he protected his face.

Answer 15.
The narrator was surprised to hear a thin cry from the bundle of clothes in his hands.

Answer 16.
Although it was a coincidence, the mother of the baby and the people assembled there thought that the narrator had risked his own life and saved the baby in a heroic effort. So they cheered much and made him a hero.

Answer 17.
Chicken Garlic is the most expensive item on the menu card.

Answer 18.
Rupees 50 is the price charged for Masala Dosa.

Answer 19.
He can buy Paneer Butter Masala.

Answer 20.
Fish Biriyani and Paneer Butter Masala have the same price on the menu card.

Answer 21.
Fish Curry Meals is the item which is costlier than Aloo Gobi and cheaper than Chicken Biriyani.

Answer 22.
VankaA Pitiful Orphan
The renowned Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s story’ Vanka’ is a miserable story of a nine-year-old boy namely Vanka. By the death of his mother, he became an orphan and his grandfather sent him to Moscow to apprentice to a shoemaker Alyakhin. Under his master, he had to lead a miserable life which was worse than that of a dog. The master together with his wife. punished him severely for silly matters. The other apprentices also treated him cruelly. It had been only three months since he reached there. But the tortures he underwent were beyond description.

Saddened by the loneliness and miseries he experienced there, he decided to write a letter requesting his grandfather to come and save him. The nostalgic feelings of his oyful life with his mother and grandfather in the village, especially at the time of Christmas, doubled his mental pains. He had secretly made arrangements for writing a letter, and he wrote it when the others had gone to church on the Christmas eve. He imploringly wrote: “come to me dear Granddad and take me a>vay from here”. This single sentence is enough for the readers of the story to know about the plight of a child laborer like Vanka. The poor little child somehow completed writing the letter and ran out to post it. He even did not know the fact that a letter should have a proper address and enough postage stamps to reach it to the destination.

He posted it in the letterbox and came back. He went to sleep lulled by the rosy thoughtsofhisgrandpacomingtohis rescue and dreamed of going to have his happy days once again in his village.

Answer 23.
Wild is ever wild
‘Adolf’ is a very beautiful story of a wild little rabbit told by the renowned man of letters DH Lawrence. Once his father brought home a tiny rabbit. He found it in the field lying by the side of its dead mother and siblings. If he had not taken it home, it would have died there. They, the children at home, were Very much delighted but their mother was not so happy on the arrival of the rabbit.

In the beginning, it was motionless and refused to drink milk. But as days passed it became tamed and started growing mischievous. They named it Adolf and they loved him to take meals with them. He would take tea with them and sometimes hobble up to the sugarbasin. The mother kept an indifferent approach towards Adolf and always complained. She wanted it to be sent back to the woods. But day by day the children grew enchanted with it. For the mother, it was worse than having a child to look after when she was alone at home. She could not keep Adolf away from the front door and there were cats prowling outside. One day as part of his mischievous play he brought down the curtain rod over mothers beloved pelar gonium.

It was his own doom he brought for himself and a heartless wildness had come over him. They understood that he must go and they decided to send him back. Once again the father stowed him into the great pocket of the pitacket and took him back into the wilderness.

Answer 24.
Wed, 14 February 2018
10:30 pm
Today is really a fruitful day for me! Quite unexpectedly my 25 years’ search came to an end today. Dr. A Cronin, the savior of my life, the donor of my second God, You’ve brought him in front of me! It’s sad he couldn’t recognize me in the beginning. I thought he wouldn’t have ever forgotten me. It’s okay, he recollected everything when I explained. It’s been a quarter of a century since the incident happened.

He is a doctor and how many people and incidents in his life! It’s my foolishness to expect him to recognize me at a single sight. Anyhow, he appreciated the changes happened in my life and he valued my present deeds. He also became very much glad to know that his efforts didn’t go wastefully. Thank God once again, for showing the savior and mender of my life!

Answer 25.

NOTICE
Satyait Ray Film Festival

Dear friends,
The English Club of our school has decided to conduct a three-day film festival * in our school starting from 25 February to 27 February 2018. The actorcumdirec tor Sri. Sreenivasan will inaugurate the! show. The inauguration ceremony will take place at 11:00 am on 25 February 2018. Every day there is a Satyajit Ray film as de1 tailed below.

All are welcome to the inaugural functions and the film show.
Kochi Secretary,
14 Feb 2018 English Club
XYZ HSS, Kochi

Inaugural Programme Details

Time and Date : 1 l:00am,25Feb 2018
Venue: School Auditorium
Welcome: Club Secretary
Presidential Address: Principal
Inauguration: Sri. Sreenivasan
A vote of thanks: School leader.
Film Show Details

Answer 26.
Doctor: Yes, of course. I’m very happy here.
me: Have you ever visited your old house after the incident?
Doctor: Yes, the following day I went there to take my things.
me: Did you see the snake again there?
Doctor: No. Nothing was there. Even my dress and other things were not there.
me: Oh, what happened to them?
Doctor: Some thieves have stolen everything.
me: Ithinkyouhaven’tlost anything valuable, have you?
Doctor: No. I lost only some used dress. By the way, If my friends like you hadn’t helped me, I would not have been able to find this new and comfortable house. Thank you!
me: Don’t mention. It’s our pleasure. See you then, bye!
Doctor: Bye!

Answer 27.

William Blake

William Blake was a very famous English poet, painter, and engraver. He was born on 28 November 1757 in London, United Kingdom. As a writer and painter, he published many literary and artworks. The most important of his works are ‘Songs of Innocence and songs of Experience, ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ etc. His poems clearly mark the sparks of romanticism and he is ever considered as one of the most famous Romantic poets of England. William Blake left this world at the age of 69, on 12 August 1827.

Answer 28.
Park Street
B. Lefroy Road
Kolkata.
14 February 2018

The Manager
Bharat Circus Company Ltd.
Marqus Square
Kolkata.
Dear Sir,

I am Satyait Ray, a film director from Kolkata. I believe that your company is now settled in the same city. I am in need of your help.

I have a plan to shoot a film named I ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ in which there is a scene of the hero meeting a wild tiger in the forest. A trained tiger is [ required to shoot this scene. I came to know that you can help me by providing: a tiger with its trainer I need the tiger I only for a couple of hours. I and my crew are well, aware of the restrictions of the Animal Welfare Board in connection with wild animals. I have already availed the approval of the Chairman of the Animal Welfare Board in this regard.

I will be grateful and obliged to you if you provide me with a tiger and its trainer.

Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Sd/
Satyajit Ray.

Answer 29.
‘Martha in the story ‘The Scholarship packet’ is a character of mixed feelings. She is a little sensitive but bold and brilliant. She is 14 years old and an eighth-grade student maintaining a consistent ‘A’ level since her first grade. She is in every sense qualified enough to win the prestigious scholarship packet, an award to the class valedictorian of her school. Martha
is the daughter of a poor Mexican farmer.

Owing to the poverty at her own family, she has been given to her grandparents to raise. In appearance, she is very lean and her friends call her ‘beanpole’ and ‘string bean. Once she happens to overhear a heated argument between her two teachers. She understands that a conspiracy is going on to undermine her winning the packet. Eventually, the principal asks her to pay 15 dollars for the award. Although bold and brilliant, this incident makes her cry in despair. But when Martha’s granddad tells her that a paid award is not an award at all, she accepts his words.

She strongly believes that she deserves the award by merit and it will come her way. She determines to tell the principal looking straight into his eyes that she is not ready to pay. Here, we see a bold Martha. In front of the strong determination of her grandfather and bold stand of Martha, the opponents cannot fortify themselves for long and finally, Martha wins the Scholarship packet, her life’s dream.

Answer 30.
At the age of 19, Adichie left Nigeria to go to university in the United States. In the US she had an American roommate. The roommate was shocked to hear the excellent English of Adichie. She had not known the fact that English was the official language of Nigeria. The roommate had a single idea about Africa in which all Africans are members of a tribal community having no education and modern culture, simply leading a life of many rituals accompanied by tribal music and folk dances. The roommate had a patronizing mentality towards Adichie. In her single story, Africans were never similar to her and in human relations never equal to her.

While in the US Adichie for the first time began to realize her own identity as an African. She also realized that even if she were in place of the roommate, she too would think of Africa in the same way as her roommate thought of it. One of Adichie’s university professors once told her that her novel was not authentically African. He meant that her characters were like modern, rich and educated Americans. They should have been poor and uneducated to be authentic. Adichie understood that the professor had also an incomplete idea, a single story, about Africans and the single story was only a partial truth.

Answer 31.
XYZ School Grabs ‘A’ Grade in the Skit competition
Wed, 14 Feb 2018
Staff reporter
Kozhikode: Thousands of students teachers and spectators gathered in the corporation stadium this morning have witnessed the grand inaugural ceremony of the District level School ‘Kalolsa am’. The Chief Minister in the presence of other VIP guests and men of letters inaugurated the function.

Immediately after the one hour long in! an augural session, on the prime arena I staged the comedy skit competition. All the skits were socially and politically relevant, maintained an artistic standard and were really entertaining.

The XYZ School of Kochi has won the first place with ‘A’ grade in the competition.“The competition was tight and it’s a tremendous victory for us. As a beginning, it is an encouragement for us to perform our maximum level in all other items”, said the jubilant winners. The ‘kalolsavam’ is in progress with a wide variety of programmes being staged on different arenas. The festival of young talents will last two more days rendering endless entertainments for the city dwellers.

Answer 32.
a. don’t you?
b. How much is for a Kilogram of tomato?
c. you won’t get any more goods from me. /I will not give you anything more.
d. Do you think that we will not pay your money?

Answer 33.
a. is
b. who
c. saw
d. leaving 1

Answer 34.
A. Cronin asked the sergeant where he was taking him to.
B. The sergeant replied that a man in the next house had attempted to commit suicide.

Answer 35.
a. of
b. an
c. the
d. and

Answer 36.
a. set out
b. came across
c. make out
d. go on

Answer 37.
a. Noun Phrase: The big cobra that coiled around the doctor’s arm.
b. Head noun: Cobra.

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