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Karnatata 2nd PUC English Previous Year Question Paper March 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.
Whose beauty according to Romeo is too rich for use?
Answer:
Juliet’s beauty.
Question 2.
What is the population of the Kingdom of Monaco?
Answer:
7000.
Question 3.
Name the movement which took place in the Himalayan region to save trees.
Answer:
Chipko movement.
Question 4.
Who is the caretaker of Don Gonzalo in the play ‘A Sunny Morning’?
Answer:
Junaito.
Question 5.
How many acres of land did Basavaiah encroach?
Answer:
200 acres.
Question 6.
Mention any one of the places through which the foot walks in ‘To the Foot from its Child’.
Answer:
Markets, fields, mines, ministries.
Question 7.
Whom did Borges look upon as an intelligent and a gracious woman?
Answer:
His mother.
Question 8.
“In the splendour of harvest and of moonlight
Heaven lies all over!” The phrase refers to
(a) harvest and moonlight are no match to heaven
(b) Splendour is only in heaven
(c) heaven can be seen in the harvest and moonlight.
Answer:
(c) heaven can be seen in the harvest and moonlight.
Question 9.
Which animal bowed to the author at Nara in ‘Japan And Brazil Through a Traveler’s Eye’?
Answer:
The deer.
Question 10.
How much money did the leader of the POP campaign team offer Roof?
Answer:
5 pounds.
Question 11.
What had stunned the inhabitants of Pudukkottai on the International Women’s Day?
Answer:
Female cyclists.
Question 12.
Where did the Mahad Struggle mentioned in ‘Water’ take place?
Answer:
Chadar tank.
II. Answer any eight of the following (choosing at least two from poetry) in a paragraph of 80-100 words each: 8 x 4 = 32
Question 13.
What were the arguments put forth by the prisoner for not running away from the prison?
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 ran 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 14.
Explain the views of the prophet on children and parents in the poem. ‘On Children’.
Answer:
The prophet offers a critique of the usual expectations of parents about their children
and urges them to introspect. A woman who held a baby against her bosom asked the prophet to speak on children. The poet feels that though the children stay with them, they do not belong to them. The parents may give them their thoughts. They may house their bodies, not their souls. The poet uses the metaphor of bows to represent parents and living arrows to children.
Archer refers to God. The poet feels that the archer i.e., God bends his bows so that his arrows may go swift and far. The poem not only focuses merely on the lives of children but also talks about ’ the responsibilities of parents. Parents should not be possessive of their children. God is the original creator of both children and their parents. Parents are mere actors who act on the wish of God. God never discriminates as he loves both the bows (parents) and arrows (children) equally. So, parents should not be possessive of their children.
Question 15.
Describe the ‘role of forest’ in Vandana Shiva’s life as brought out in ‘Everything I Need To Know I Learned In The Forest’.
Answer:
Vandana Shivas ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalayas. Her father was a forest conservator, her mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It was from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that she learned about ecology. The songs and poems of her mother were about trees, forests, and India’s forest civilizations. Her involvement with the ecology movement began with Chipko movement. She decided to become a volunteer for the Chipko movement and she spent every vacation doing padyatras, documenting deforestation and the work of the forest activists and spreading the message of Chipko.
Question 16.
How is the speaker’s passionate love for his beloved brought out in the poem ‘When You Are Old’.
Answer:
The speaker is visualising his beloved in the future, in her old age, reading through his book of poems, telling about his true love for her, sitting besides a fireplace. Many had loved her beauty and grace in her youth either with true sentiments or superficially, but none did so in her moments of ageing, where she finds herself alone and unattended and uncared for. Her true lover, the speaker, had always loved the changes in her for he was seeing her soul and not her physical charm.
He loved her pilgrim soul which was forever changing with time, a restless spirit seeking something meaningful in life. He would still be loving her when her face in old age is shrunk with sorrowful lines etched on them. He avers that physical beauty is ravaged by time, whereas beauty of soul was permanent and eternal. The indirectly pleads with her to accept his true love in the present.
Question 17.
Write a note on the rivalry between Tammanna and Basavaiah as explained in ‘The Gardener’.
Answer:
In a far-off place there was a man called Tammanna. He had everything. Ten acres of wetland, a comfortable house and people too ready to do his bidding. The most important among all his possessions was his rival Basavaiah. If Tammanna bought four more acres adjacent to his land, Basavaiah also followed suit. If one had 10 friends, the other acquired 15. To begin with, all this looked like healthy competition.
Gradually it rose to such a pitch that there was no land left in the village for them to buy. All land belonged to either Tammanna or Basavaiah. Tammanna had 1000 acres and Basavaiah owned 800 acres. He sent word to Tammanna to sell him 200 acres. Tammanna in turn informed that he was prepared to buy all the land that belonged to Basavaiah. Basavaiah acquired 200 acres of Tammanna’s land forcibly. A fence was built around that land.
Tammanna hit upon the idea of composing all his experience in the form of ballads and singing them. Tammanna was felicitated as the best poet of his times. Basavaiah had no answer to this. One day Tammanna ill. At that point, Basaviah’s spirits were revived. Tammanna felt only his death could destroy Basavaiah completely. He gave up everything and started off. After a few days, Basavaiah passed away as he had no further reason to live.
Question 18.
Trace, the stages of the foot’s transformation as portrayed in ‘To the Foot from its Child’.
Answer:
Nerudas poem works out the contrast between colourful dreams and humdrum reality of life. The poet has used the foot as a metaphor for the child and describes the dreams and realities of life. In the beginning, the child is unaware that it is a foot and would rather be a butterfly or an apple. When it grows, it faces difficulties of life as walking on stones and bits of glasses, ladders and the paths on the rough earth.
After facing all these struggles of life, it ‘ understands that it cannot become a butterfly or an apple. The foot feels defeated when it is inside a shoe, though in the darkness of the shoe, it never sees anything. It is like a blind person in darkness. The foot becomes rough and exposed to the difficulties in life. It knows no rest as it continuously walks through markets, mines and other places. It must work without gender discrimination and till death it has to walk and work without sleep. The foot has to work and walk all life facing challenges not able to realize its dreams and unaware of the bitter truth of life.
Question 19.
Why does Borges say that the books will not disappear inspite of modern modes of communication? ,
Answer:
During the course of his interview by Roberto Alifano, Borges touches upon the significance of books in 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 extensions 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 centuries. Their function is irreplaceable. He concludes in an ominous note that if books were to disappear, history would disappear and surety man would also disappear forever.
Question 20.
What is unique about bowing in Japan?
Answer:
In Japan, bowing is almost like a mania. Everybody keeps bowing to everybody else, with great solemnity and ñatural, inimitable grace. Bowing ¡s 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.
Give an account of Roof’s role as ah election campaigner.
Answer:
Roof was in the service of the honourable minister Marcus Ibe. He was a real expert in election campaigning at all levels – village, local government or national. He could tell the mood and temper of the electorate at any given time. He had warned the minister about the radical change that had come into the thinking of Umoofia, since the last national election. Roof was the most trusted of Marcus Ibe’s campaigners. During the day, Marcus made his speeches and at night his stalwarts conducted their whispering campaign, He offered 4 shillings each to the Umoofia elders, who agreed to cast their papers in favour of Marcus Ibe.
Question 22.
How had cycle transformed the lives of many women in Pudukkottai?
Answer:
‘Cycle’ has changed the lives and livelihood of rural women of Pudukottai. Cycling is a symbol of freedom, independence and mobility. Cycle has reduced their dependence on men. It gave them mobility in cut off areas. Cycling had economic implications, their income and business improed. It enabled women to transport goods. cut down on time and gave them time to focus on selling their produce.
Cycling brought about social status and recognition in women’s life. It brought self-respect and gave a feeling of goodness and independence. Thus cycle served as a metaphor for freedom. independence and mobility.
III. Answer the following in about 200 words: 1 x 6 = 6
Question 23.
Trace the incidents where Laura and Gonzalo secretly guess about each other’s identify in the play ‘A Sunny Morning’.
Answer:
Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo were lovers, when they were young. Don Gonzalo used to meet Laura known as the Silver Maiden regularly under the window of her villa called Maricela near Valencia. One night, when Gonzalo went to meet Laura, the merchant whom Laura’s parents had decided for her to marry, came there unexpectedly. The merchant insulted Gonzalo and there was a duel. The merchant was badly wounded. As the merchant was highly regarded in that locality, fearful of the consequences Gonzalo had fled to Sevile and then to Madrid.
He wrote many letters to Laura, which were intercepted by her parents. Believing his love lost to him forever, Gonzalo moves on in life. Laura waited for Gonzalo, for days, months, a year and later she too married somebody. After many many years, when they were in their seventies, both of them meet in a park at Madrid. Gonzalo disturbs the pigeons feeding on bread crumbs being thrown by Laura. As Gonzalo has to share the bench with Laura in the park, he tries to make peace with her. While they get to talking with each other, Gonzalo reveals that he was from Valencia.
Laura and Gonzalo spin fictitious stories. Gonzalo says that it was his cousin who was in love with the Silver Maiden and Laura tells that it was her friend. When Laura questions Gonzalo on how he seemed to know the love story so well, he explains that his cousin had told him. Laura reveals that her friend had told her in one of her letters. They realize that they were the lovers who had been conversing and discussing their own romance as somebody’s love affair.
OR
“Conservation of biodiversity sustains both nature and culture”. Explain with reference to ‘Everything I Need To Know I learned In The Forest’.
Answer:
Biodiversity encourages cocreation with nature. ¡t is based on democratic principles as it ensures equal rights to all creatures. Bio-diversity believes in abundance and freedom, cooperation and mutual giving. It brings about living economies.Monoculture not only affects nature but also life and its values. Diverse thought process ceases and life loses vitality and colour and aesthetic sensibility Life turns dull and monotonous.
Vandana Shiva learned about bio-diversity in the Himalayan forests, and transferred those lessons learnt to the protection of biodiversity on their farms. She started saving seeds from farnier’s fields and then realized they needed a farm for demonstration and training. She started the seed bank. ‘Navadanya Farm’ was started in 1994 in the Doon Valley located in the lower elevations of the Himalayan region of Uttarkhand. She conserved and grew 630 varieties of rice, 150 varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species, Biodiversity helps to produce more food and nutrition per acre and reduces malnutrition and improves human health.
OR
Is water instrumental in social discrimination and disparity? Discuss with reference to ‘Water’.
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 wh 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.
IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it: 10 x 1 = 10
Everyone needs a holiday, both to relax and to have a change of environment. The holiday makers feel relaxed and refreshed at the end of the holiday and look forward to the resumption of their duties, be it at school, office or factories, with renewed vigour. This is the reason why all establishments grant their employees annual leave with the end of the academic year. The schools and universities grant their pupils a long holiday during mid summer.
This will last until early June when the new school term starts. Of course the parents will like to take advantage of this and take their leave to coincide with the children’s vacation. This has become a traditional holiday season in most Asian countries particularly in India.
With the coming of April the traditional holiday season in India reaches its peak point and most of the holiday resorts are packed to capacity. In order to avoid the crowd, some prefer to take their holiday a little earlier. Those who have already taken their holidays can console themselves not ‘ only with reflections on the happy days spent in the country, at the seaside or abroad but with the thought that holiday expenses are over and by taking an earlier holiday they have missed the April rush.
The main thing of course is the weather and whatever the weather is like, the essence of a holiday for most is the carefree atmosphere in which it can be enjoyed. “Take all you need but leave your worries behind” is the sound advice for the holiday maker. Private worries are not always easy to escape from. However, even the pessimist would admit that for the moment,
things appear brighter than they have been. Holiday time is surely a time for shedding serious preoccupations and seeking pleasures that appeal to us.
(a) Why does everyone need a holiday?
Answer:
Everyone needs a holiday, both to relax and to have a change of environment.
(b) How do the holiday makers feel at the end of the holiday?
Answer:
Relaxed and refreshed.
(c) The holiday season lasts till
Answer:
(i) March
(ii) June
(iii) December
Answer:
(ii) June
(d) When does the holiday season reach its peak?
Answer:
With the coming of April.
(e) What do some holiday makers do to avoid the holiday crowd?
Answer:
Prefer to take their holidays a little earlier.
(f) Who feels happy having missed the April rush?
Answer:
Those parents who have taken their holidays earlier.
(g) What is the sound advice to the holiday makers?
Answer:
Take an early holiday.
(h) Add prefix to the word ‘advantage’ to form its antonym.
Answer:
Disadvantage
(i) What time is surely meant for shedding serious preoccupations?
Ans.
Holiday time.
(j) Children cannot control their ………… (excite) with the coming of the holiday season.
(Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the word in the bracket)
Ans.
excitement.
Question 25.
Read the following lines and answer the questions set on it : 3 x 1 = 3
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays.
(i) Who leaps on the back of the wind?
(ii) How long does the bird float?
(iii) The bird dips his wings in
(a) orange sun rays
(b) blue sky
(c) dark cloud
Answer:
(i) A free bird
(ii) till the current ends
(iii) orange sun rays
V.
Question 26.
Complete the following by filling in the blanks using the right form of the verb given in brackets: 3 x 1 = 3
Roof’s spirits fell when he …………… (ask) to cast his vote. He ……………. (worry) and confused. He took out his ballot paper from his pocket and looked at it. He …………… (confront) by the car and the head.
Answer:
was asked, was worried, was confronted
Question 27.
Report the following conversation: 5 x 1 = 5
Alifano : What is blindness to you?
Borges : It is a way of life. In my case the visible world has moved away from my eyes
Alifano : Have you thought of writing book on the history of the book?
Borges : It is an excellent idea.
Answer:
Alifano questioned what blindness was to Borges. Borges replied that it was a way of life. In his case, the visible world had moved away from, his eyes. Alifano questioned whether he had thought of writing book on the history of the book. Borges replied that it was an excellent idea.
Question 28.
Complete the following dialogue. 4 x 1 = 4
Mother : Can you book a car for me?
Son: ……….. (agreeing) where do you want to go?
Mother : …………. (giving information)
Son : ………. At what time do you need the car?
Mother : …………… (mentioning time)
son : Ok. I will book it.
Mother : (expressing gratitude)
Answer:
Mother : Can you book a car for me?
Son : Yes, mother. 1 will book a car for you, where do you want to go?
Mother : I want to go to Mysore
Son : At what time do you need the car
Mother : I will be leaving at 6 am tomorrow
Son : Ok. I will book it.
Mother : Thank you, son
Question 29.
Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate expressions given in the bracket: 2 x 1 = 2
Dirty remarks were passed by people when women ……… cycling. Women like Jameela and Fathima did not
…………….. They zipped along the roads of Pudukkottai and continued to inspire others. (make up, give up, took up)
Answer:
took up, give up
Question 30.
Fill in the blanks with the right linkers: 4 x 1 = 4
(Besides, but, at last, therefore)
The General of Monaco asked each of his soldiers to cut the criminal’s head off ………. no soldier came forward to do it ……… the ministers assembled a commission …….. they appointed a Committee and Sub committee ……… they decided that the best thing would be to alter the death sentence to one of life imprisonment.
Answer:
But, Therefore, Besides, At last
VI.
Question 31.
Read the following passage and make notes by drawing and filling the boxes given below: 8 x 1/2 = 4
The most complex of all tissues is the bone. It serves as a framework, giving form to the body, protecting the vital organs and bearing weight and strain. It is also a storehouse for calcium, which is supplied to the blood.
Answer:
Question 32.
Write a letter of application in response to the following advertisement which appeared in ‘The Times of India’ dated 15 March 2019.
|
WANTED Qualification : Customer Care Officer for JVS Motors Apply to : The General Manager JVS Motors, Central Towers |
XXX
YYY
18th March 2019
The General Manager
JVS Motors
Central Towers
Hyderabad – 560001
Dear Sir/Madam
Sub: Application for the post of Customer Care Officer.
This is in response to your advertisement which had appeared in The Times of India dated 15th March 2019.1 have completed my M.Com., from Mangalore University. I have a good knowledge of computers.
I hope my qualification suits your requirement. I have enclosed my resume for your perusal.
Thanking you
Yours, faithfully
Sd/-
(XXX)
Resume
Name : XXX
Address : YYY
Educational Qualification
| M.Com | Mangalore University | 2018 | 72% |
| B.Com | Mangalore University | 2015 | 75% |
| PUC | PU Board | 2012 | 78% |
| SSLC | KSSEB | 2010 | 72% |
Work Experience : 2 years as Sales Manager with M/s Shwetha Enterprises, Mangalore.
Computer Knowledge : Basic, Tally
Language Known : Kannada, English, Hindi
Religion : Indian Hindu
Question 33.
Imagine you are the Secretary of your College Students Union. On the occasion of college day, you are given the responsibility of introducing the chief guest to the audience. Write a speech in about 100 words using the points given in the profile.
Chief guest : Mrs. Sudha Murthy
Native : Shiggaon (Karnataka)
Education : B.E. in Electrical Engineering from BVB College, Hubballi.
Profile : First female engineer hired by TELCO-Chairperson of Infosys
Foundation – member of public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation – A teacher, philanthropist and a writer in Kannada and English awarded Padmashri in 2006.
Answer:
Respected dignitaries on and off the dais, we have gathered here on the occasion of our college day. I being the Secretary of our College Student’s union I’m proud and privileged to stand before you, to introduce the Chief Guest for today’s function, to this august gathering. We are extremely happy to have Mrs Sudha Murthy as our Chief Guest. She is a native of Shiggaon of Karnataka. She has done her BE in Electrical Engineering from BVB College. Hubballi. We are proud to know that she was the first female engineer hired by TELCO, Chairperson of Infosys foundation and a member of Public Healthcares initiatives of the Gates Foundation. She is a multi-talented person – a teacher, philanthropist and a writer in Kannada and English. She was awarded Padmashri in 2006. We extend our whole hearted w elcome to the great personality. Thank you for the opportunity provided to me.
OR
The given bar graph represents data about the favourite after school activities of boys and girls in Karnataka. Based on the information, prepare a report in about 120 words.
to play sports whereas 60% of boys prefer to play sports. 70% of boys and girls spend time in talking over the phone. 40% of girls chat online while 60% of boys chat online. 65% of girls watch TV whereas 30% boys watch TV. 35% of girls spend time in visiting friends whereas boys spend 80% of their time in visiting friends. Conclusion : From the above graph, we can conclude that 70% of both boys and girls spend their time in talking on phone. Girls spend most of their time in watching TV whereas majority of boys spend 80% of their time in visiting friends.
VII.
Question 34.
What do the underlined words in the following extract refer to? 4 x 1 = 4
Every one needs a holiday. It relaxes our minds. Holiday makers w ho go on a holiday feel refreshed. Parents take their leave to coincide with children’s vacation. April which is a traditional holiday season invites all holiday makers.
It : ………..
who : ……….
their : ………….
which : ……….
Answer:
It : holiday
who : Holiday makers
their : Parents
which : April
Question 35.
Rewrite the jumbled segments to form a meaningful sentence : 1
Peace loving / was a / kingdom / Monaco.
Answer:
Monaco was a peace loving kingdom.