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Karnataka 2nd PUC English Previous Year Question Paper June 2019
Time 3.15 Hours
Max.Marks – 100
Instructions:
(a) Follow the prescribed limit while answering the questions.
(b) Write the correct question number as it appears on the question paper.
(c) One mark questions attempted more than once will be awarded zero.
(d) Answers to question number 24 (a-j) and 25 (i-iii) should be in sequence and at one place.
(e) For multiple choice questions choose the correct answer and rewrite it.
I. Answer the following in a word, phrase or a sentence each: 12 x 1 = 12
Question 1.
When does Juliet want Romeo to be a star?
Answer:
After her death.
Question 2.
On the shores of which sea is the kingdom of Monaco located?
Answer:
Mediterranean Sea.
Question 3.
‘On Children’ you may give them your love but not your ?
(a) dreams
(b) thoughts
(c) gladness
Answer:
(b) thoughts
Question 4.
Name the author of ‘Tapovan’ as mentioned in “Everything I need to know, I learned in the Forest?”
Answer:
Vandana Shiva.
Question 5.
What does Don Gonzalo use to brush the dust from his shoes?
Answer:
Handkerchief.
Question 6.
To whom is the poem ‘When You Are Old’ addressed?
Answer:
To his lady love.
Question 7.
How much of Tammanna’s land did Basavaiah acquire forcibly?
Answer:
200 acres
Question 8.
What would the foot like to be?
Answer:
Apple or a butterfly.
Question 9.
What is the most astounding invention of man according to Borges?
Answer:
Books.
Question 10.
How long had Roof been a bicycle repairer apprentice?
Answer:
2 years
Question 11.
Name the Arivoli activist who penned a famous song.
Answer:
Muthu Bhaskaran.
Question 12.
Whose life is becoming more hazardous in Brazil everyday?
Answer:
Pedestrians’ life.
II. Answer any eight of the following questions (choosing at least two from poetry) in a paragraph of 80-100 words each: 8 x 4 = 32
Question 13.
How does Romeo describe Juliet’s beauty in ‘Romeo and Juliet’?
Answer:
Romeo was fascinated by Juliefs beauty. He praises her beauty with many sirniles. He says that she teaches, torches to burn bright. He feels the light in Lord Capulefs house is dim in comparison to Juliet’s beauty. She seems to hang upon the cheek of night and he compares her to ajewel in an Ehtiope’s ear. Her beauty is too rich for tise and for Earth too dear. He compares her to a white dove among crows. He says that he would make his hand blessed by touching her. Romeo asks if his heart has loved till then. He says that he has not seen true beauty till that night.
Question 14.
Why did the criminal refuse to escape from the prison in ‘Too dear?’
Answer:
The prisoner said that he had nowhere to go and what could he do to earn a living. They had ruined his character by their sentence and people would turn their backs on him. Besides, he had gone out of the way of working. He was treated badly. It was not fair. When he was sentenced to death, they ought to have executed him but they did not do it. That was one thing he did not complain about. Then they sentenced him to imprisonment for life and put a guard to bring his food, but after some time they took him away and he had to fetch his own food. Again he did not complain. But then they wanted him to run away. And he could not agree to that. These were the arguments put forth by the prisoner for not running away from the prison.
Question 15.
‘Your children are not your children’. How does the poet illustrate this truth in the poem ‘On Children’
Answer:
The poet categorically states that the children are not your children because after coming out of the mother’s womb the child has its own individuality, it never addicts to the likes of its parents. Though parents only give love and affection it does its profession according to its own wish. After getting profession he marries and settles according to his own likes. Though the child born through parents they could not take care always as God. Children always play a role in according to God.
Question 16.
How does Vandana Shiva describe the ‘Navdanya Farm’?
Answer:
Vandana Shiva learned about biodiversity in the Himalayan forests, and transferred those lessons learnt to the protection of biodiversity on their farms. She started saving seeds from farmers’ fields and then realized they needed a farm for demonstration and training. So, she started ‘Navdanya farm” in 1994 in the Doon Valley located in the lower elevations of the Himalayan region of Uttarkhand province. She conserved and grew 630 varieties of rice, 1 50 varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species. Riodiversity also helps to produce more food and nutrition per acre, and reduces malnutrition and improves human health.
Question 17.
Describe the beauty of nature that makes the earth a heavenly abode?
Answer:
‘Heaven, If You Are Not Here On Earth’was penned originally in Kannada, by the noted Kannada poet Kuvempu. He wonders that the much revered heaven, if not on earth, where else could be found? If the humans themselves by their thoughts qualities and deeds cannot become Gods and nymphs, who else can be the gods and nymphs, he questions in uncertainty. One can attain divinity and inner beauty by one’s actions and the wherever they are, that place truly becomes heaven. Kuvempu describes nature in graphic detail and paints a beautiful picture with his words.
The streams with a big roar rush along, making surf at the edges of waves when merging with the sea. The gentle sun tenderly spreads the sunshine over the verdant greenery and plants, enveloping them lovingly as if caressing with his soft touch. When we chance upon the fields with their bumper yields under the moonlight, we also see the happy and lovely faces of the farmers. These sights make earth nothing but heaven. The poet takes in all these wonderful sights, assimilates their beauty. and in his colorful narrative, gives the essence of it all in words that others can read and visualize the heaven on earth .
Question 18.
How does Don Gonzalo try to hide his identity?
Answer:
Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo spin fictitious stories because they think that it was not a good idea to reveal their identities at old-age. Moreover, Dona Laura married subsequently and Gonzalo was suffering from gout. Thinking all these, they decided to hide their feelings for each other and wanted to spend their remaining life with the sweet memories of the past.
Question 19.
Why does Borges say that book will never disappear? Explain.
Answer:
During the course of his interview by Roberto Alifano. Borges touches upon the significance of books ¡n a person’s life. He believes that books will never disappear from the face of the earth. Among the many inventions of man, the book is the most astounding one. Other major inventions are extension s of our bodies, whereas books are the extensions of man’s imagination and memory.
In some memorable passage, he refers to literature as a controlled dream. He likes dreaming with remembering the past, which is nothing but a sequence of dreams. Books, he feels are the great memory of all cenfliries. Their function is irreplaceable. He concludes in an ominous note that if books were to disappear, history would disappear and surely man would also disappear forever.
Question 20.
Bring out the culture of Japanese as explained by George Mikes.
Answer:
In Japan, bowing is almost like a mania. Everybody keeps bowing to everybody else, with great solemnity and natural, inimitable grace. Bowing is akin to shaking hands or kissing the cheek as is normal in the west. It is quainter, more formal, more oriental with complex rules and hierarchies but very much infectious. Foreigners may find themselves bowing, but with amusing, unintentional blunders, either bowing too deeply or not deeply enough or to wrong persons at the wrong places.
The differences in ranks, standing, age, social position are subtely reflected. There are clear cut differences in positions and basic rules inside the family too. But Japanese carry out these complicated, hierarchical rituals without difficulty and with great aplomb. Bowing ¡s part of their culture and ingrained in them since birth.
Question 21.
How did Basavaiah react to Tammanna’s popularity?
Answer:
Basavaiah became too greedy arid made a lot of property, and became too materialistic. He also built a mansion and hired a number of persons to praise him, and he bought many ornaments and precious stones as status symbols.
Question 22.
What role did Sheela Rani play in the cycling movement?
Answer:
The District Collector of Pudukottal. Sheela Rani Chunkath introduced mobility as a part of the literacy drive. Her idea in 1991 was to train female activists so that literacy would reach women. She pushed the banks to give loans to women to buy cycles. She also got each block to accept specific duties in promoting the drive. She gave it her personal attention. First the activists learned cycling. The neo literates wanted to learn. Every woman wanted to learn. It gave women a sense of self respect and reduced their
dependency on men. The neo-cyclists enriched the literacy movement.
III. Answer the following questions in about 200 words: 1 x 6 = 6
Question 23.
‘The Voter’ ridicules the ‘power and selfishness’ of Marcus Ibe. Explain.
Answer:
Roof was a very strong and intelligent person and trustworthy follower of Marcus. He could guess the mood of the people before elections and inform Marcus accordingly. But when the POP campaign leader came and bribed Roof with five pounds for his support to the POP, he was in a dilemma whether to support his leader or the opposition leader Maduka. Finally, when he entered the voting booth, he tore the ballot paper into two and cast one to Maduka and the other to Marcus. But he ensured that his people had cast their votes for Marcus.
OR
“Wheel brings freedom and progress”. Explain this statement with reference to ‘Where there is a Wheel’.
Answer:
In Verona, there were two noble families, the Capulets and the Montagues, who were sworn enemies.Juliet was Lord Capulet’s daughter and Romeo belonged to the family of Montagues. One day, Lord Capulet hosted a grand supper with dining, drinking and dancing. For his close friends, Romeo was in love with one Roseline, who was a guest there. Romeo attended the supper in disguise, to meet her. There were many dancing on the dance floor, when he made his entrance. On the dance floor was the exquisite Juliet, radiating beauty and poise. and the centre of attractions. Romeo on seeing her was dumbstruck and in his monologue expresses his implicit feelings. He says that she was so beautiful that she made the torches around appear to grow dim and could teach them how to be bright.
She looked as if hanging on the cheek of the dark night, like a dazzling jewel in a dark Ethiopian Ear. She was standing out like a snowy dove among a group of crows, when seen in the company of the other girls. Once the dance was over, he wanted to touch her with his rude hands and feel blessed. He has no words to praise her beauty. He feels that he has never seem such true beauty in his life till that night.
OR
The poem ‘Water’ demonstrates the disparity and discrimination in our society. Justify.
Answer:
The poem describes the discrimination between upper and lower caste people. Water is essential and necessary for all the people. But upper caste people get essential water but poor and lower caste people do not get water even for basic needs. The untouchables have to go far like irrigated canals to bring water. From there they have to fetch the water on their heads though their necks would feel like bursting. People even do not have water to extinguish a fire when Mallepalle village had one. Some people do not get water even to drink but the rich buy bisleri water. Many quarrels happen between upper and lower caste people. When upper caste boys were washing dirty buckets, it was questioned by a lower caste boy and he was being beaten up and this was stopped by Suvarthamma. There was a communal clash started between kammas and the untouchables. This discrimination had led to a wide-spread water movement to gain right to water by the dal its.
IV.
Question 24.
Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it: 10 x 1 = 10
Sporting fraternity and sports lovers across the country applauded and felt happy when president Pranab Mukherji handed over the prestigious Arjuna awards to several eminent sports personalities at a glittering function in the national capital recently on the occasion of National Sports Day. However, nobody perhaps would have given thought to the creator of the slick and wonderfully crafted trophies that dazzled in the hands of these well known sporting icons. The unsung hero is Gajendra Prasad Sahu, a painter and sculptor based in Bhubaneswar.
The 53 year old artist has been making the Arjuna Award trophies for the last five years. Not only Arjuna awards, Sahu is also the creator of well designed Dronacharya and Tenzing Norgay trophies presented every year by the Union Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry to an eminent coach, an important hockey players and an individual for bravery respectively. The turning point in Sahu’s life however came in 2009 when the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs decided to redesign the trophy for the popular and most sought after Arjuna Award for sporting icons and invited applications from artists across the country.
Sahu responded and sent the sketches of his designs which were approved by the Union Ministry. Once the preliminary sketches were okayed, he was summoned to New Delhi to submit his final design, which too, was approved and he was assigned the job of making the trophies for prestigious sports awards every year. He won the job despite the stiff competition from individual as well as institutional competitors. Interestingly though Sahu creates the most coveted trophies for the Indian sports icons, he never had any personal interest in sports. His works of paintings have found a place in art galleries and exhibitions in different parts of the country.
(a) Who handed over the prestigious Arjuna awards on the national Sports Day?
Answer:
Pranab Mukherjee.
(b) Where is Gajendra Prasad Sahu from?
Answer:
Bhubaneswar.
(c) How long has Sahu been making Arjuna Award trophies?
Answer:
Last five years.
(d) To which sport is Dhyanchand Trophy presented?
Answer:
Hockey players.
(e) Tenzing Norgay Trophy is awarded for
(i) coaching
(ii) bravery
(iii) painting
Answer:
(i) coaching.
(f) Mention the year that brought a turning point in Sahu’s life?
Answer:
2009.
(g) Why was Sahu summoned to New Delhi?
Answer:
He was summoned to New Delhi to submit his final design.
(h) Sahu’s paintings are found in
(i) palaces
(ii) galleries
(iii) Government, offices
Answer:
(ii) Galleries.
(i) Gajendra Prasad Sahu is the (creation/creator) of the trophies.
Answer:
creator.
(j) Add prefix to the word ‘known’ to form its antonym.
Answer:
Unknown
Question 25.
Read the following lines and answer the questions. 3 x 1 = 3
A ship on the sugar fields lands and splits its crew of black workers into the landscapes …………..
Lord, I do not want to go to their school.
Please help me that I need not go again.
(i) Where does ship land?
(ii) What does it spit out?
(iii) Who are the passengers in the ship?
Answer:
(i) sugar fields.
(ii) Crew of black workers.
(iii) black workers.
V.
Question 26.
Complete the following by filling in the blanks using the right form of the verb given in brackets: 1 x 3 = 3
A fence ………. (build) around …………… Tammanna’s land by Basavaiah. Both of them …………. (encourage) by their supporters. Tammanna …………. (advise) by supporters about the various means available for getting back his land.
Answer:
A fence was built around Tammanna’s land by Basavaiah. Both of them were encouraged by their supporters. Tammanna was advised by supporters about the various means available for getting back his land.
Question 27.
Report the following conversation: 1 x 5 = 5
POP Campaigner: We want your vote.
Rufus Okeke : How can I vote for Maduka
POP Campaigner: Are you taking this money or not?
Rufus Okeke : Will it not be heard outside this house?
POP Campaigner: Don’t worry about it.
Answer:
POP campaigner said they wanted his vote. Rufus Okeke questioned how could he vote for Maduka. POP campaigner questioned whether he was taking that money or not. Rufus Okeke questioned whether it would not be heard outside that house. POP campaigner replied not to worry about it.
Question 28.
Complete the following dialogue. 1 x 4 = 4
(Raju II PUC student wants to get into the class).
(Conversation between Stranger and Ravi)
Raju : (asking permission to enter the class).
Lecturer : (gives permission)
Raju : I am sorry sir for being late today.
Lecturer : It is OK, but
Raju : (gives reason)
Answer:
Raju : Excuse me Sir. May I come in?
Lecturer : Yes, come in.
Raju : I am sorry sir for being late today.
Lecturer : It is OK. but why are you late?
Raju : I missed my bus.
Question 29.
Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate expressions given in the bracket: 1×2 = 2
The telephones are situated on a table or a counter in Japan, anybody, any passer by could …………..,but nobody does. The telephone receiver can be ………………. (one’s castle, all and Sundry, listen in).
Answer:
The telephones are situated on a table or a counter in Japan, anybody, any passer by could listen in. but nobody does. The telephone receiver can be one’s castle.
Question 30.
Fill in the blanks with the right link (and, neither, nor, so): 1 x 4 = 4
In Monaco, there was ………. a guillotine for cutting the heads off ………… an executioner in Monaco ………. the ministers wrote a letter asking the French Government whether they could lend them a machine an expert to cut off the criminals head.
Answer:
In Monaco, there was neither a guillotine for cutting the heads off nor an executioner. So the ministers wrote a letter asking the French Government whether they could lend them a machine and an expert to cut off the criminals head.
VI.
Question 31.
Read the following passage and make notes by drawing and filling the boxes given below: 8 x 1/2 = 4
Women’s Empowerment is the art of giving power or authority to women. It involves women’s organizations which aim to increase their self reliance, encourage them to make choices and to control resources. Women experience sub ordination or powerlessness in multiple domains. These include the home, the work place and all other public places. The strategies for empowerment of women can be classified as legal, social and economic.
Answer:
Question 32.
Write a letter of application in response to the following advertisement that appeared in ‘The Deccan Herald’ dated 20th Dec. 2018. 5
(Write XXX for name and YYY for address)
|
WANTED Qualification : II PUC passed, Basic computer knowledge |
XXX
YYY
23rd December 2018
The Manager
Sri Basaveshwara Educational Trust
Bangalore – 6
Dear Sir/Madam
Sub: Application for the post of Data Operator.
This is in response to the following advertisement which appeared in The Deccan Herald dated 20th December 2018.1 have completed my II PUC with an aggregate of 75%. I have good working knowledge of computers. I hope my qualification and experience suit your requirement.
Awaiting a positive response
Thanking You
Yours faithfully
Sd/- (XXX)
Resume
Name : XXX
Address : YYY
Educational Qualification : PUC B – 75% (2016)
SSLC – 67% (2014)
Computer knowledge : English, Kannada, Hindi
Languages known : Indian
Nationality Religion : Hindu
Work experience : 2 years as Data Operator in Shobha Enterprises
Question 33.
Imagine you are the Secretary of ECO Club of your college. On the occasion of ‘World Environment Day’ you are required to give a speech on the heed for awareness to preserve nature. Points to be included : need for conservation, cause of destruction, depletion of ozone layer, health hazards. Based on the information, write a speech in about 100 words.
Answer:
Good Morning to all the dignitaries on and off the dias. I deem it an immense pleasure as the Secretary of Eco Club to address the gathering on World Environment Day. We need to conserve our environment. We have been destroying our environment i.e.. land, water, air by polluting it. It has led to depletion of the ozone layer which filters the UV rays of the sun. As the ozone layer is depleted, people are facing health hazards such as skin rashes and cancer. I would like to end my few words that we need to create awareness and help to preserve nature. If nature is destroyed mankind will also be destroyed.
OR
The following pie charts represent information about voters turnout in the general elections held in post independence India over a span of more than fifty years. Use this data to write a report on the polling trends in about 120 words. 5
Answer:
The following pie charts represents information about voters turnout in the general elections held in post-independence India over a span of more than 50 years. Male voters comprise of 45% of whereas freshers was 10% in pre – independence India has increased to 15% in post-independence India.
Female voters were 25% in pre-independence India which has increased to 35% in post-independence India. Senior citizen voter turnout was 20% in pre-independence India has decreased to 5% in post-independence India. Inference : From the above graph, we can conclude that female voters and freshers have increased whereas senior citizen voters turnout has decreased.
VII.
Question 34.
What do the underlined words in the following extract refer to? 1 x 4 = 4
Sahu designs the trophies handed over to the winners. These are presented to them with great ceremony. Though Sahu is not a sportsman, his passion for creating the trophies is outstanding. He has his workshop in Bhubaneshwar where he has been living since his childhood.
Answer:
(a) These : trophies
(b) them : winners
(c) his : Sahu
(d) where : Bhubaneshwar
Question 35.
Rearrange the jumbled segments to form a meaningful sentence : 1 x 1 = 1
every five years / held / their leaders / once in / to elect / elections are.
Answer:
Elections are held once in every five years to elect their leaders.