Kerala SSLC English Model Question Papers with Answers Paper 3

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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 ‘Adolf’ and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one score.
When we were children our father often worked on the night shift. One sunny morning we were all sitting at the table when we heard Father’s heavy slurring walk up the entry. He loved his long walk through the dewy fields in the first-day break after his night – shift at the pit. We became uneasy. His was always a disturbing presence, trammeling. Directly he came into the kitchen.

Give me a drink.’he said.

My mother hastily poured out his tea. He went to pour it out into the saucer. But instead of drinking, he suddenly put something on the table, among the teacups. A tiny brown rabbit! A small rabbit, a mere morsel, sitting against the bread as still as if were a made thing.

Question 1.
What was the hobby of the father?

Question 2.
Who was the guest that reached home with the father?

Question 3.
Pick out a word from the passage that means ‘ to limit freedom of movement’.

Question 4.
Which phrase in the passage suggests that the children didn’t like the company of their father?

Question 5.
How is the rabbit described?

Question 6.
Read the sentence from the passage: A tiny brown rabbit. The rabbit is described using a determiner and two adjectives. Now, describe a dog in the same manner.

Questions 7-10: Read the lines from ‘Poetry’ and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one score.

And it was at that age… Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street, I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

Question 7.
What happened in the life of the poet at that age?

Question 8.
Which might be the places from where the poetry arrived?

Question 9.
Pick out the word from the lines which means ‘suddenly’.

Question 10.
What do you mean by ‘I was without a face’?

Question 11.
Read the following lines from ‘ ‘Poetry” and prepare an appreciation for the poem high lighting the theme and inspired moments used.

And it was at that age… Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street, I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
on returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

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?
North Sea Hotel Hawah Beach Hotel Spellock Hotel

Question 17-21: Given below is a table which shows the comparison of three hotels. Study it carefully and answer the questions given. Each question carries one score.

 Question 17.
Which hotel is nearest to the town?

Question 18.
What is the free offer given by Spellock Hotel?

Question 19.
Which hotel lies in the seacoast?

Question 20.
Who provides free conveyance to their hotel?

Question 21.
How much does the North Sea Hotel demand for a stay at night?

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

Question 22.
In the story ‘The Snake and the Mirror’, the doctor narrates his experience to his friends. Imagine you are one of the friends who heard the story. You return home and narrate the same to your family members. Prepare the likely narrative.
(Homeopath – meager earnings – lived in a rented house – no electricity – returns home one day – very hot – sits at the table – looks at the mirror – admire own beauty – thoughts interrupt by sounds from the roof – ignores – something fell from above – snake – coils around his arm – sits like a granite – snake looks at the mirror – takes by its own beauty – slithers towards mirror – narrator runs out.)

Question 23.
Is the title ‘The Best Investment I Ever Made’ appropriate to the story? Why do you think so? Write the
review of the story in the light of the title.
(Hints: travels on a ship – a man of forty come – Mr. John S – solicitor – cares adolescents  from juvenile courts – reminds the past story – gambling – ruins life – suicide attempt-has no money to live- help from the sergeant, landlady, and the author)

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

Question 24.
Imagine after the shocking snake’ incident the doctor wrote his experiences in his diary. Prepare the likely diary entry.

Question 25.
The Arts Club of your school decides to organize a film festival of the famous filmmaker Majid Majidi. As Secretary of the club prepare a notice informing the staff and students of the programme.

Question 26.
Imagine that the junk collector identifies the bag with the shoes and returns it to Ali, the next day. What would be the likely conversation between the junk collector and Ali?

Question 27-31: Attempt any three of the following. Each question carries six scores.

Question 27.
Prepare a short profile of D H Lawrence using the hints given below.
Birth: September 11, 1885
Place of birth:  Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
Nationality: British
Known as: Novelist, poet
Notable works: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in love, John Thomas and Lady Jane, Lady Chatterley s Lover
Died: March 2, 1930

Question 28.
Mr. John in ‘The Best Investment I Ever Made’ feels grateful to the doctor for saving his life. He had given him a second chance in life. He writes a letter to the doctor thanking him for all that the doctor had done for him. Write a likely letter.
(thankful for saving my life – utterly friendless – makes bad companions – a victim of loose society – steals money – terrified – attempts suicide – save by doctor, sergeant, and landlady – a fresh start in life – realizes his mistakes – will make life more meaningful and purposeful.)

Question 29.
Prepare a character sketch of Konstantin Makarich, Vanka’s granddad.

Question 30.
Sathyajit Ray narrates the hardship he had taken to shoot a simple scene in the film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne( the adventures of Goopy and Bhaga) Prepare a write up on the importance of team work in the making of a film.

Question 31.
Prepare a short speech on the topic, ‘Books – The Greatest Invention of Man’ in the light of the one-act play ‘The Book that Saved the Earth’.

Question 32.
Complete the conversation suitably.
SatyajithRay: You look very confident, …………(a)…………?
Thorat: Yes, because I have brought two tigers.
Ray: …………(b)…………?
Thorat: Because 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: …………(e)…………?
Thorat: No, they will not create any trouble. I have tied a long wire on their neck.

Question 33.
Complete the following passage choosing from the phrases given in the box
Satyajit Ray decided to postpone (a) his shooting programme. Thorat could not tolerate (b) wasting time. He suggested (c) an idea. He told Ray to shoot the scene from a new location near the circus camp. The shooting continued (d) smoothly in the new location. (put up with, put forward, put across, went on, put off)

Question 34.
Report the following dialogue.
Vanka: Why did you beat me?
Alyakhins wife: You slept while rocking the child.
a. What did Vanka ask Alyakhins wife?
b. What did Alyakhins wife reply?

Question 35.
The following passage has certain errors in it. They are underlined. Edit the passage.
The speaker, Chimamanda Adichie, begins her speech by telling us a story what about (a) she used to write as a child. She would write stories that was (b) similar to the foreign stories she had read who (c) had white skinned children with blue eyes, nothing like her. Only when she find (d) African stories did she realise that people like her could be in stories. If we read only a version of stories about the world, we would (e) feel that this is the life of the people in that place.

Question 36.
Read the following sentences:

1. The lasts can be seen both on the shelf and on the floor.
2. You may either bring the shoes or tell the father.
3. I wrote the questions and Rani wrote the answers.

In the first sentence, the linker ‘and’ combines two prepositional phrases; in the second, the linker ‘either …. or’ combines two verb phrases and in sentence, (3), two sentences are combined by the linker ‘and’. Frame three sentences of the similar pattern using the same linking words as shown above.

Question 37.
Supply the missing word in the passage where/is given.
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.

Answers

Answer 1.
Father’s hobby was to go on long walks through the dewy fields in the first day break after his night shift at the pit.

Answer 2.
A tiny brown rabbit, was the quest.

Answer 3.
Trammeling

Answer 4.
‘Disturbing presence’ is that phrase.

Answer 5.
It is described as a small rabbit, a mere morsel, sitting against the bread as still as if it were a made thing.

Answer 6.
The big black dog.

Answer 7.
Poetry arrived in search of him.

Answer 8.
from the branches of a night or from others.

Answer 9.
abruptly

Answer 10.
He did not have any identity/He did not have the sense of who he was.

Answer 11.
In his 1964 poem entitled ‘Poetry’, Pablo Neruda vividly narrates his experience of creativity and moments of great poetic inspiration. The theme of the poem is about the inner fire – the fire of poetic inspiration as felt by the poet. The poet shares his passion of writing poetry and his experience of being embraced by creativity. He feels the urge to write. In this inspired state of mind, his imagination sours high. Some of the expressions used by the poet to show the inspired moments are—‘Poetry arrived in search of me’, ‘summoned from the branches of night’, ‘deciphering that fire’, ‘something started in my soul’, ‘it touched me” the heavens unfastened and open, ‘drunk with the great starry void’, ‘wheeled with the stars’, ‘heart broke loose on the wind’ etc.

Answer 12.
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.

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

Answer 14.
The pyramid remained as the tallest structure for over 3800 years.

Answer 15.
Polished Limestone

Answer 16.
Great Pyramid is the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the world.

Answer 17.
Spellock Hotel

Answer 18.
Free tour to Mount Kinabalu

Answer 19.
Hawah Beach Hotel

Answer 20.
North Sea Hotel

Answer 21.
Rs 3000/-per night

Answer 22.
Today my friend, the Homeo doctor told me about some strange experience in his life that happened last summer. He lived in a rented room which was not electrified. He was sitting in his room. Suddenly he heard a dull thud sound as if a rubber tube had fallen on to the ground. Suddenly he realized that it was a snake. It was sitting on his chair near his shoulder.

He was frozen. He couldn’t move from there. He sat there like a stone image. The snake slithered from the chair on to his left arm. He sat breathless. Sud denly the snake turned its head. It saw its own image in the mirror. Perhapes it was staring its own beauty. Then it moved towards the mirror as if to have a closer look. Without wasting a second the doctor got out and ran to his freind’s house. He smeared oil all over his body and had a bath. On the next day, he went back to his room with his friend and two others for shifting his belongings. But he couldn’t find any of his belongings there.

Answer 23.
Valuable Investment
The word investment gives different ideas to different people. But it is generally associated with money and the return gained in terms of money. The story of Mr. John reminds us of the idea that investment is not merely in terms of money. It can indicate the values that we imbibe in our lives would remain as the best investment forever.

It was on the second day of the narrator A.J Cronin’s voyage, he noticed that one of the passengers was watching him closely. As he was not interested in a conversation with the passenger at that time, the narrator ignored him. The following afternoon the narrator saw him again along with his wife. They approached the narrator and introduced themselves as Mr. and Mrs. John. But the narrator couldn’t reveal the identity of the fellow voyagers. Mr. John told the narrator that he was a solicitor by profession and was the director of a charitable organisation devoted to the rehabilitation of derelict adolescents.

They had been on their first visit to America. Curiously the narrator enquired why he was attracted to social work. Mr. John reminded the narrator that he was none other than the young man whose life the doctor had saved. He was an orphan and worked as a clerk in a solicitor’s office in London. As he was friendless he joined the company of bad people and lost all his savings betting on horses. He took a sum of money from the office safe for a final gamble.

But his last resort failed. Terrified of the prosecution that must follow he tried to commit suicide. But the timely intervention of the doctor, landlady and sergeant saved Mr. John. The doctor came forward with his minor contribution of seven pounds and ten shillings to put back the money in the office safe. The sergeant promised to make no report of the case.

The land lady offered him a months free board. Recollecting those incidents, the narrator felt that it was the finest act he ever done or it was the best investment he had ever made. Hence the title ‘ The Best Investment I Ever Made’ is suitable for the story.

Answer 24.
Monday, 4th May
My goodness, what a horrible day was it! I can see the snake now also. Where did it come from! I have to shift the house and must move to some other safer place. The rent for the new room! Where can I have it? Let us hope that more patients will come and I may get more money. Was it dream? or Was it a real snake? It was looking at the mirror enjoying its serpent beauty. It may also be a bachelor like me expecting to enhance its beauty. If the snake could pay a share for the room rent there is no harm in permitting it to stay with me and use my mirror till I get a permanent life partner.

Answer 25.


Answer 26.
Junk collector: Hello Ali, I am Moosa the junk collector.
Ali: Yes uncle. I know you. I was waiting to meet you. I had lost my sister Zahra’s shoes in Akbar’s shop. I was wanting to ask you whether you mistook my shoes to be junk.
Junk collector: Yes my boy I found the pair of shoes from the junk collected from Akbars shop.
Ali: Thank you so much Uncle.
Junk collector: No need of thanks. But again onwards be careful of your things.
Ali: I have learn a lesson. Again I will not be careless.
Junk collector: Ok Good. I will give you the shoes in the evening. I must leave now.
Ali: Bye see you in the evening.
Junk collector: Bye

Answer 27.
D.H Lawrence
D.H Lawrence was born on September 11 in 1885 in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. He was famous as a Novelist and poet. Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, John Thomas and Lady Jane and Lady Chatterley’s Lover are his notable works. He passed away on March 2 in 1930.

Answer 28.
John.S
New York
22/7/17
Dear Doctor,

How are you? Hope everything is fine. The day I met you was the most memorable day in my life. How happy I was that day. You are the real God that appeared before me in human form. If I hadn’t met you my life would have been a hell. I was sad at first because you didn’t recognise me but later when you spoke to me my sadness changed to happiness. I wish I could meet the landlady and sergeant who helped me. Inspite of the risks involved they were ready to help me. If you hadn’t helped me that day I would have been dead.

After that incident, I became a man who loved charity and sacrificed my belongings for orphan kids. What I learnt in life is that the best investments in life are the good relationships we build and maintain and those are priceless. Thank you so much doctor. You gave me a second chance in life.
Wish we could meet again.
I hope that you will contact me when you receive this letter.
Yours lovingly
John.S

Answer 29.
Vanka’s grandfather Konstantin Makarich was a small, lean old man about sixty five but extremely alert and vigorous. He was a funny person with a smiling face. He worked as a night watchman on the estate of a man called Zhivarev. In the daytime, he either slept in the back kitchen or sat joking with the kitchen maids and in the night wrapped in a great sheepskin coat, he walked round and round the estate, sounding his rattle. He kept a snuffbox with him. He was the only one left for Vanka as a relative. He was a cheerful man who didn’t like to take responsibilities in life.

Answer 30.
Unity is a strength is a good old famous proverb. In the case of making films, it gains another momentum. A film or cinema is every meaning a group venture where all types people put their head together for a single goal the success. Of course, Director plays a pivotal role but the contributions other faculties cannot be neglected.

Once the script writer completes his work after the discussion with the director the film gets its beginning. The cameraman and the artists realizes it is visually possible. To make an artist a character the role played by the make up artist is great and the costume designer’s role also adds to it. The light boys and the assistants work for the visual perfection, in the case of the Sathyajith Ray’s film shooting scene we come across the hardship they faced to shoot a simple scene where a tiger simply moves in front of the camera. As a whole, we can say that it is the different thoughts and brains make a piece of, art wonderful. One can create wonders but many can create miracles.

Answer 31.
Books: The greatest Invention of Man
A very warm welcome to all present here. Today I am here to speak on the topic ‘Books – The greatest Invention of Man’ First of all what is a book? A book is the map of man’s life and the life in nature. Every page of a great book is a store house of man’s best and noblest thoughts. We can say that Books are the greatest invention of man. Books are wonderful gifts to mankind.

Books are useful in many ways. They educate, entertain and serve as good companions when we are lonely. They guide us when we are confused. Books console us when we are in sorrow. We are never alone in the company of books. They demand nothing for the service they do to mankind.

Books help to widen our interest. They broaden our outlook. They enrich our thoughts. They help us in understanding different aspects of life. They give us the inspiration to do great things in life. They encourage us to fight odds of life bravely. They mould our characters. But we should be very cautious in the choice of books.

We can conclude by saying that books are a blessing. They are the treasures richer than treasures of the King. They are the gold mines of art, literature, science and information. We should develop a habit of reading. It is good for us and society as well. With these, I stop my words.
Thank you.

Answer 32.
a. don’t you?
b. Why did you bring two tigers?
c. I will use the other
d. Take the tiger out
e. Will the tigers create any trouble?

Answer 33.
a. put off
b. put up with
c. put forward d. went on

Answer 34.
a. Vanka asked Alyakhin ‘s wife why she had beaten him.
b. Alyakhin’s wife replied that he had slept while rocking the child.

Answer 35.
(a) about what
(b) were
(c) which
(d) found
(e) will

Answer 36.
a. The meeting had started when he reached the venue.
b. Martha reached the class room and took her PE shorts.
c. The story is good but lengthy.

Answer 37.
a. That
b. By
c. In
d. From
e. Of the

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