MP Board Class 11th English Varshik Paper 2024 : pdf

Instructions:
Read all the questions carefully.

Read the instructions given with the questions before attempting them.

Marks of each question are indicated against them.

Section-A (Reading)

1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below :

I swept the recitation room three times, then I got a dusting cloth, and I dusted it four times. All the woodwork around the walls, every bench, table and desk. I went over four times with my dusting cloth. Besides, every piece of furniture, had been moved and every closet and corner in the room had been thoroughly cleaned. I had the feeling that in a large measure, my future depended upon the impression, I made upon the teacher in the cleaning of that room. When I was through, I reported to the head teacher. She was a “Yankee”. woman who knew just to look for dirt. She went into the room and inspected the floor and closets, then she took her handkerchief and rubbed it on the wood work about the walls and over the table and benches. When she was unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture, she quietly remarked, “I guess you will do to enter this institution.”

Questions

I swept the ….three times.

Head teacher was a.. woman.

Every corner in the room had been thoroughly cleaned. (True/False)

The head teacher was a careless woman. (True/False)

The head teacher found dirt on furniture. (True/False)

The author dusted the recitation room…………..:

(a) 2 times          (b) 3 times          (c) 4 times           (d) 5 times.

The head teacher inspected………….:

(a) Floors             (b) Closets           (c) Furnitures      (d) All of these.

The head teacher rubbed her………………. on woodwork.

(a) Scarf               (b) Dusting cloth              (c) Hand              (d) Handkerchief

Find the word from the passage which means ‘visit officially to check’.

Find the word opposite in meaning to ‘loudly’.

2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Today we are living in an age of changing fashions. Everyday we see a change in the Prey, fashion of clothes and hair style. Cinema is the home of new fashions. Young boys and girls borrow fashion from there. They copy the fashions of their favourite film stars. They want to excel one another in fashion. But only a few students can afford to adopt these fashions. They come dressed in new fashions. They make fun of those who put on out of dresses. As a result even those students whose parents cannot afford costly dresses are tempted to be fashionable. Sometimes they borrow money and things from their rich friends whenever they have to attend some party. It often leads to quarrels. They often go astray.

Questions

(A) Read the passage carefully, make notes on it and give the suitable title.

(B) Do as directed:

(i) Give the word from the passage that gives the meaning: “To take money from others in sense to return”.

(ii) Give the noun form of the word “attend”

(iii) Give the synonyms of the word “afford”.

Section-B (Writing)

3. Your father has been transferred to another city. You want to sell certain house- hold goods. Write a suitable advertisement to be published in local newspaper.

Or,

You are Director General of Health services. You want to invite people to come forward for eye donation. Draft a poster.

4. Write a letter to the Superintendent of police about the nuisance of loud speakers.

Or,

Write an application to the Secretary, Board of Secondary education, M.P. Bhopal requesting him to issue a duplicate marksheet of your High School ex- amination as you have lost the original one.

5. Prepare a speech on the topic “Noise pollution” in not more than 150-200 words for your schools assembly.

Or

Write a newspaper Report on a “Theft case” in your colony.

Section-C

6. Fill in the blanks choosing the correct options given in brackets: (any five) (Grammar)

(i) Ceylon is…………. island. (a/an/the)

(ii) The dog ran the road. (in/at/on)

(iii) I knew that he come. (Would/should/could)

(iv) This work was the ………… of all boys in the class. (good/best/better)

(v) She has been suffering fever since last night. (from/for/with)

(vi) I have……… books in English. (a little/a few/any)

7. Do as directed: (any five)

(Rewrite using comparative degree)

(i) Ravi is not so tall as Mohan.

(ii) (a) She won a prize.  (b) She stood first in her class.

(Combine the sentence using gerund after preposition)

(iii) As soon as the rats see the cat, they run away. (use No sooner than and rewrite)

(iv) He is too poor to buy the books. (Use so…….that and rewrite)

(v) They sing a new film song. (Change into passive voice)

(vi) I know everything. (form a “question”)

Section-D

8. Read the following extract and answer the questions given below it:

We had survived for 15 hours since the wave hit, but Wavewalker wouldn’t hold together long enough for us to reach Australia. I checked our charts and calculated that there were two small islands a few hundred kilometres to the east. One of them, Ile Amsterdam, was a French scientific base. Our only hope was to reach these pinpricks in the vast ocean. But unless the wind and seas abated so we could hoist sail, our chances would be slim indeed. The great wave had put our auxilliary engine out of action.

Questions

Ile Amsterdam is a/an:

(a) Island                            (b) French scientific base

(c) Both (a) and(b)            (d) None of these.

In the above extract, ‘pinpricks’ in the vast ocean refers to:

(a) two small countries                   (b) two small states

(c) two small islands                       (d) an aircraft

What is the ‘Wavewalker’:

(a) a steamer                     (b) a ship/boat

(c) a submarine                (d) two Dutch bases.

The great wave had put our auxilliary engine .(Fill up the blank)

We had survived for………… hours.

(a) 15                    (b) 16                   (c) 19                    (d) 20.

9. (A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below it:

Father and son, we both must live

On the same globe and the same land,

He speaks I cannot understand

Myself, why anger grows from grief.

We each put an empty hand.

Longing for something to forgive.

Questions:

How do they live?

What emotion does the father feel?

What do they earn for?

What is the rhyms scheme of the above extract:

(a) ABBABA,        (b) ABC ABC,      (c) ABA ABC,      (d) ABBCBA.

The poet of the poem is:

(a) Shirley Toulson,   (b) Ted Hughes,   (c) Elizabeth Jennings,  (d) Walt Whit man.

The line ‘Longing for something to forgive’ portrays the distance between :

(a) Father and daugher, (b) Father and mother, (c) Father and son-in-law, (d) Father and son.

(B) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: For the future generations.

For the first time in human history, there is a growing worldwide consciousness that the earth itself is a living organism-an enormous being of which we are parts. It has its own metabolic needs and vital processes which need to be respected and preserved. The earth’s vital signs reveal a patient in declining health. We have begun to realise our ethical obligations to be good stewards of the planet and responsible trustees of the legacy to future generations.

Question

Name the chapter:

(a) The Portrait of a lady

(b) We are not afraid to die if we can all be together

(c) Discovering Tut, the Saga continues

(d) The Ailing planet.

Who is the author of The Ailing planet:

(a) Nani Palkhivala           (b) Gardon Cook

(c)AR Williams                   (d) Nathalie Divas.

Who is declining in health:

(a) Sun                                 (b) The moon

(c) The Earth                      (d) All of these.

Find out the synonym of the word ‘Steward’ from the following:

(a) Custodian                    (b) Keeper

(c) Care taker                    (d) All of these.

10. Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (any five)

(i) Give reasons: The article has been titled ‘Silk road’?

(ii) What do you think are the reasons for the extinction of languages?

(iii) What lessons do we learn from such hazardous experience?

(iv) Explain briefly “the lack of determinism in quantum theory”.

(v) Explain the statement ‘forests precede mankind:deserts follow’.

(vi) What does ‘Adventure’ mean for Jayant Narlikar?

11. Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (any three)

(i) Why does the Laburnum tree become yellow in the month of September?

(ii) What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem?

(iii) What does the phrase ‘strange to tell’ mean?

(iv) What is the poet feeling towards childhood?

12. Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (any two)

(i) Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience striken or because they were afraid?

(ii) What explanation did Mrs. Dorling give while taking the belongings of Mrs. S?

(iii) Describe Shahid as a teacher.

13. Answer the following questions in about 75 words. (any two)

(i) Write three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school.

(ii) Describe the mental conditions of the voyagers on 4th and 5th January.

(iii) What is the purpose of author’s journey to “Mount Kailash”?

(iv) Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother.

14. What has the camera captured in the poem “Photograph”?

Or

Write the central idea of the poem “The voice of the rain”.

15. How according to you, can peace and liberty be maintained in a state?

Or

There lies a great difference between textbook medicine and the world of a practising physician. Discuss.