Kerala SSLC English Model Question Papers with Answers Paper 2

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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 1-6: Read the excerpt from ‘Project Tiger’ and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one score.
Every animal in a Hollywood film is well trained. It is not difficult to train a horse or a dog. But have you ever heard of trained ravens? Not just one or two, but nearly a hundred of them? Even this was made a possible in Hollywood when the creator of some of the best suspense films in the history of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, decided to make a film called Birds. In the story, birds from all over the world start attacking humans.

Hitch cock needed a variety of birds, but what was required in the target number was ravens. Notices were placed in the press all over the United States, asking people to contact the filmmaker if they knew how to get hold of trained ravens. Someone replied within a few days. He was asked to bring his birds, and he arrived with almost a hundred trained ravens. Admittedly, their training had not gone very bad. That is to say, they could not do anything that might be seen as extraordinary. But if as many as fifty ravens are told to perch quietly in a row on a specified spot, and if they obey this command instantly, isn’t that pretty impressive?

Question 1.
What is the peculiarity of animals used in Hollywood films?

Question 2.
Name the film made by Hitchcock mentioned in the passage.

Question 3.
Why did Hitchcock need a variety of birds for his film?

Question 4.
What did Hitchcock do to get ravens for his film?

Question 5.
What was ‘pretty impressive’ about the trained ravens?

Question 6.
Complete the sentence suitably. If the Ravens were trained,

Questions 7-10: Read the liners from ‘The Ballad of Father Gilligan’ and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one scores.

Once, while he nodded in a chair
At the mother of the eve,
Another poor man sent for him,
And he began to grieve.
I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace,
For people die and die;
And after cried he, ‘God forgive!
My body spake, not I!

Question 7.
When did Father Gilligan nod sitting in his chair?

Question 8.
Why had the man sent for Father Gilligan?

Question 9.
‘I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace….’Why does the Father say so?

Question 10.
Pick out an instance of alliteration from the second stanza.

Question 11.
Read the following lines from ‘ The Ballad of Father Gilligan’ and prepare a note of appreciation focusing on the theme, poetic devices, etc. in the poem.

He who hath made the night of stars
For souls who tire and bleed,
Sent one of this great angels down,
To help me in my need.
‘He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.’

Questions 12-16: Read the following story and answer the questions given. Each question carries one score.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World. Rising high above the Sahara Desert in the Giza region of northern Egypt, the Great Pyramid stands some 450 feet into the burning desert sky and occupies an area of 13 acres. The rough climate of the Sahara has actually caused the pyramid to shrink 30 feet from its original height. The pyramid was such an amazing feat of engineering that it remained the tallest structure in the world for over 3800 years! The entire pyramid was originally faced with polished limestone to make it shine brilliantly in the sun. It took tens of thousands of workers, twenty years to build. The pyramid contains over two million stone blocks. Although most of the blocks weigh two or three tons, some weigh up to 80 tons!

Question 12.
Pick out the sentence that shows the location of the Great Pyramid.

Question 13.
What caused the shrinking of the pyramid?

Question 14.
How long did the pyramid remain as the tallest one?

Question 15.
What material was used on the pyramid to make it bright and sparkle?

Question 16.
What is the relevance of the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Question 17-21: Given below is the award details. Study it carefully and answer the questions given. Each question carries one score.

 Question 17.
Which film won the Golden Crow Pheasant Award?

Question 18.
Silver Crow Pheasant Award is given for three categories. Which are they?

Question 19.
Which film won two awards in the fest?

Question 20.
Who directed the film Meghe Dhaka Taara?

Question 21.
Which award was won by Sidhartha Shiva?

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

Question 22.
Martha longed to win the scholarship jacket because of many reasons. Prepare a writeup on why Martha wished to get the scholarship jacket and the struggles she had to face.

(Hints: gets A’ grade from first grade father farm laborer poor no possibility of getting sports jacket some teachers on her side change in policy asks for money asks for money gets scholarship jacket without paying money)

Question 23.
The doctor in the story ‘The Snake and the Mirror’ was living alone in a rented house. When the snake coiled around his hand, he was frightened and at last, ran for his life. He reached his friend’s house and narrated the incident to his friend. Narrate the story in your own words.

(Hints: doctor bachelor rented house often looks at the mirror admires himself hears a thud snake falls coils onto the arm freezes snake slips to the table runs out)

Questions 24-26: Attempt any two of the following. Each question carries five scores.

Question 24.
After returning from Bharat Circus Co., Satyajit Ray felt very happy with fulfilling his desire to shoot a scene with a tiger. He wrote his thoughts in his diary. Prepare the diary entry.

Question 25.
The English Club of your school decides to stage the play ‘The Book that, Saved the Earth’. You are the secretary of the Club. Prepare a notice to be circulated among the students in your school.

Question 26.
You have read that Adichie had discussions with her roommate on various topics including her ability to speak English. Prepare a conversation between Adichie and her friend.

Question 27-31: Attempt any three of the following. Each question carries six scores
Name:                               Malala Yusafzai
Birth:                                12 July 1997.
Birthplace:                     Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Pakistani
Nationality:                    Pakistani
Famous as:                     Activist for the right to education of girl children, a female education activist.
Parents:                           Ziauddin Yusafzai (father), Toorpekai Yusafzai (mother).
Awards and honors:
a. Nobel Prize (Peace) (2014)
b. Sakharov Prize.
c. National Youth Prize (2015)

Question 27.
Prepare a profile of Malala using the given details.

Question 28.
Vanka writes a letter to his granddad describing his problems and sufferings and requests to help him to escape from the miseries, write the likely letter written by Vanka to his granddad.

Question 29.
What does Adichie mean by ‘the danger of a single story? Write a paragraph based on your reading of the speech.

Question 30.
The character Granddad Konstantin Makarich is portrayed wonderfully in the story Vanka. Do you agree with this statement? Justify your answer and prepare a detailed character sketch.

Question 31.
Satyajit Ray meets the Manager of Bharat Circus to express his gratitude for providing the tiger for the shooting of the film. What would be the likely conversation between Ray and the Manager? Manager?

Question 32.
Complete the following conversation suitably.
Satyajit Ray: You look very confident, ……….(a)……….?
Thorat: Yes, because I have brought two tigers.
Ray: ……….(b)……….?
Thorat: I decided to play it safe.
Ray: What will you do with the two tigers?
Thorat: If one tiger fails to act, ……….(c)……….
Ray: You had better ……….(d)……….
Thorat: Ok, I will take the tigers out.
Ray: ……….(c)……….
Thorat: No, they will not create any trouble. I have tied wires on their neck.

Question 33.
There are a few errors in the passage given below. They are underlined. Edit the passage making corrections.
‘The Book that Saved the Earth’ is a player who (a) tells about a Martian invasion that takes place in the twentieth century. The twentieth century is described as the era for (b) books. Think Tank and his team is (c) confident enough to invade the earth. They believe (d) that the earthlings are inferior creatures. They are try (e) their level best to conquer the earth but fail.

Question 34.
Report the following dialogue.
Akbar: What do you want?
Ali: I want some potatoes.
a. What did Akbar ask Ali?
b. What did Ali reply?

Question 35.
Supply the missing words in the passage given below, choosing from those given in brackets.
The younger brother decided that they should follow/(a) instructions given on the stone. He said that no harm would come/(b) them. If they did not make/(c) effort, they would never succeed/(d) anything. He did not want others to think that he was afraid /(e) taking risks.

Question 36.
Complete the following passage choosing the appropirate phrasal verbs given in the box. (went for, make out, made up their mind, set out, gave up, turned up)
The students a for a tour programme to Munnar. They b for the tour at 6’o
clock in the morning. As there was mist all over, they couldnot c the sights
around. They d the idea of going to Rajamala. They e to go to Thekkadi.

Question 37.
Identify the noun phrase and the head noun in the subject position of the sentence given below. The little young Vanka wrote a detailed letter in a crumpled paper.
a. Noun phrase: ……………………..
b. Verb phrase: ……………………..

Answers

Answer 1.
The peculiar thing about animals is that they are welltrained.

Answer 2.
‘Birds’

Answer 3.
In the story, birds from all over the world needed to be filmed, attacking humans. So he needed a variety of birds for his film.

Answer 4.
Hitchcock placed notices in the press all over the United States asking people to contact him if they knew how to get hold of trained ravens.

Answer 5.
Almaost a hundred ravens obeyed the command and perched quietly in a row on a specified spot. This was pretty impressive.

Answer 6.
They would follow the commands.

Answer 7.
At the moth hour of the eve.

Answer 8.
To do the last rituals for a dying man.

Answer 9.
He was completely exhausted because of stress caused by work.

Answer 10.
‘…. no rest, no joy, nor peace

Answer 11.
Ballad tells a story in rhyme and in The Ballad of Father Gilligan the poet WB Yeats relates the story of how one particular evening God showed mercy on both a tired old Priest and a man at the moment of his death. The theme is Gods omnipresence and grace in the lives of the faithful. In these lines, the poet is telling us that though God has planets in his care, he attends to the physical and spiritual needs of all his peopleincluding an exhausted priest who humbly considers himself the least of things.

Answer 12.
Rising high above the Sahara Desert in the Giza region of northern Egypt.

Answer 13.
The rough climate of the Sahara has caused the pyramid to shrink.

Answer 14.
For over 3800 years

Answer 15.
Polished limestone

Answer 16.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Answer 17.
Parviz

Answer 18.
For the best debut film, For the best director and best feature film.

Answer 19.
Errata

Answer 20.
RitwikGhatak

Answer 21.
Silver Crow Pheasant Award for the best feature film

Answer 22.
Martha was a studious girl who main tained an A+ grade during her eight years of schooling. Winning the scholarship jacket was the only target in her mind. She was an eighth-grade student of Texas school. It was the tradition in the school to present the scholarship jacket to the class valedictorian.

Martha was the daughter of a poor farm laborer who struggled hard to bring up his children. So when she was six she was given to her grandparents to raise. She was skillful in athletics but couldn’t afford the expenses of training. So the scholarship jacket was her only dream. But all her hopes came to an end when she overheard a conversation among her teachers about her and the scholarship jacket.

The history teacher wanted Martha to get the scholarship jacket but the maths teacher wanted Joann to get it. Martha went home sad that day. The ‘next day the Principal called Martha and told her that the board had decided to charge fifteen dollars for the jacket and so Martha was asked to pay money if she

wanted the jacket. Martha asked her grand father whether he would give her the money but he refused to pay the money. He believed that there were things which cannot be bought with money. The next day Martha told the principal that her grandfather had refused to pay the money she also added that he could give the jacket to Joann. On hearing this the principal feels guilty and decided to make an exception in Matha’s case and thus she got the jacket.

Answer 23.
The young homeopath lived in a rented room that was not electrified. He had just set up his medical practice and his earnings were meager. One summer night he returned to his house after his meal. When he entered the room he heard a sound. He thought that they were rats. As the room was not electri fled, he lighted a kerosene lamp which was on the table. After changing his dress, he went to sleep but he couldn’t sleep as it was very hot. He went out to the veranda for a little air, but the wind God didn’t bless him.

When he came back, his eyes got struck in the mirror. He was tempted to look at the mirror. He said, ‘ I am very handsome. I have to shave daily Then another lovely thought struck him. He wanted to marry a woman doctor with good medical practice. She had to be fat for a valid reason. If he had made any silly mistake and needed to run away she should not be able to run after him and catch him.

With such thoughts in his mind, he resumed his seat in the chair in front of the table. Suddenly he heard a thud sound and felt something slither along his shoulder. He was frozen as he understood that it was a big snake. If he had moved, it would strike him. He sat there holding his breath. The snake then turned its head and saw its reflection in the mirror. Like the homeopath, the snake was also conscious of its beauty. It slowly crept onto the table and moved towards the mirror. Oh! My God, he felt relieved and ran away from there. When he came back the next morning from his friend’s house he saw that his house was looted by some thief. Only his dirty vest was left behind. He thought that it was a snake which was taken by its own beauty.

Answer 24.
November 21-2017 Thursday
Oh my God, Today I am so happy. I am going to fulfill my dream of shooting a film with a tiger. I had visited Bharat circus today to ask for a tiger. The manager readily agreed to give us a tiger. Thank god. Mr. Thorat the ring master will come along with the tiger tomorrow. Though I am a little tense, I am happy that we got the tiger. I saw the tiger, it looks ferocious. Hope it will perform well. Completing this film is my dream. I need to fulfill this.

Answer 25.

Answer 26.
Friend: I am so confused Adichie. From where did you learn to speak English so well?
Adichie: English is the official language of Nigeria.
Friend: Oh I didn’t know.
Adichie: I was an early writer and began to write at about the age of seven.
Friend: Is it? What kind of stories did you write?
Adichie: I wrote exactly the kind of stories I read. All the characters were foreign in the books I read.
Friend: Didn’t you read African books?
Adichie: Yes when I discovered African books I realized that people like me could also exist in the literature.
Friend : Which books do you like more?
Adichie: I love the American and British books I read. They stirred my imagination and opened up new worlds for me. But African writers saved me from having a single story of what books are.

Answer 27.
Malala Yusafzai
Famous Nobel Laureate Malala Yusafzai was born on 12 July 1997 at Mingora Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan as a daughter of Ziauddin Yusafzai and Toor pekai Yusafzai. She is famous as an activist for the rights to education of girl children and female education. The world has honored her talents with a Nobel prize for peace in 2014. She also got the national youth peace prize in 2015. She is living in the USA now and busy with her area of interest.

Answer 28.
Dear granddad,
I am writing this letter to tell you the troubles I am facing here.

I am not getting proper food or comfort here. The master and the mistress ill-treat me. They never let me sleep the whole night. I have to rock their baby. If I fall asleep while rocking the baby they beat me with whatever they see. Mrs. Alyakhin also hits me for simple reasons. What is the wrong I have done granddad? The senior apprentices also ill-treat me for trifle reasons.

Please help me, granddad. Please do take me from here. Please save me from this hell. I am ready to do any work over there in the village.

With lots of hope
Yours
Vanka

Answer 29.
The speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, begins by telling us a story about what she would write as a child. She would write stories that were similar to the foreign stories she read which contained white skinned children with blue eyes, nothing like her. Until she found African stories is when she realized that people like her could be in stories. If we hear or read stories about a part of the world we tend to perceive that part of the world as the stories describe those places. Those stories we receive make us feel certain emotions, emotions like pity, towards the people that live in those places. Adichie gives an experience of her own about a single story.

Answer 30.
Grandfather or granddad in the story ‘Vanka’ written by eminent short story writer ‘Anton Chekhov’ is a wonderful character. We come across the character from the words of the protagonist itself. The grandfather, Konstantin Makarich, is a jolly man, his face was always crinkling with laughter. Vanka and he had a wonderful time together. Based on this description of Vanka, it would be fair for the reader to assume that Konstantin Makarich will come at once to rescue his grandson once he hears of his grandson’s plight.

As the story progresses we realize that it is none other than the granddad Konstantin Makarich who sent Vanka away to Moscow to the shoemaker Alyakhin, when Pelageya Vanka’s mother died. If he were a kind-hearted man he would have raised this young boy with him. At the end of the story one may think even if the letter somehow reached Makarich, it is most likely that he would not have come and rescued his grandchild. The jolly man as described by Vanka turns to be a villain of the story. Credit goes to the craftsmanship Anton Chekhov for portraying such a wonderful character.

Answer 31.
Satyajit Ray: Good Morning sir.
Manager: Hello Sir. Good morning
Satyajit Ray: Actually I came to thank you for lending me your tiger for shooting my film.
Manager: Oh really. How was the performance of my tiger?
Satyajit Ray: The tiger did a great job. It performed like an obedient child.
Manager: Actually the full credit goes to Mr. Thorat the ringmaster.
Satyajit Ray: Yes he took a lot of effort to make the tiger perform. Anyway, thank you very much for your cooperation, Sir.
Manager: You are always welcome Mr.Ray.

Answer 32.
(a) don’t you?
(b) What is the need for two tigers?
(c) I will use the other
(d) leave the tigers out.
(e) Will they create any trouble?

Answer 33.
(a) which
(b) of
(c) was
(d) believed
(e) tried

Answer 34.
Akbar asked Ali what he wanted.
Ali replied that he wanted some potatoes.

Answer 35.
(a) the
(b) to
(c) an
(d) of

Answer 36.
(a) set out
(b) turned up
(c) make out
(d) gave up
(e) made up their mind

Answer 37.
a. The little young Vanka Detailed letter
b. Wrote a detailed letter

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