SET-3

Series BVM/5 Code No. 1/5/3

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students will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the
answer-book during this period.

ENGLISH (Core)

Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

General Instructions :

(i) This paper is divided into three sections : A, B and C. All the sections
are compulsory.

(ii) Separate instructions are given with each section and question,
wherever necessary. Read these instructions very carefully and follow
them faithfully.

(iii) Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the
questions.

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 SECTION A — (Reading) 30

1. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that
follow : 20

1 Archaeology is the scientific study of the remains of past human

culture. Archaeologists investigate the lives of early people by studying
the objects those people have left behind. Such objects include
buildings, artwork, tools, bones and pottery. Archaeologists may make
exciting discoveries, such as a tomb filled with gold or the ruins of a
magnificent temple in the midst of a jungle. However, the discovery of
a few stone tools or grains of hardened corn may reveal even more
about early people.

2 Archaeological research is the chief means to learn about societies that

existed before the invention of writing about 5,000 years ago. It also
provides an important supplement to our knowledge of ancient
societies that left written records. In America, archaeology is
considered a branch of anthropology, the scientific study of humanity
and human culture. European archaeologists, however, think of their
work as closely related to the field of history. Archaeology differs from
history in that historians mainly study the lives of people as recorded
in written documents. Archaeologists look for information about how,
where, and when cultures developed. Like other social scientists, they
search for reasons why major changes have occurred in certain
cultures. Some archaeologists try to understand why ancient people
stopped hunting and started farming. Others develop theories about
what caused people to build cities and to set up trade routes. In
addition, some archaeologists look for reasons behind the fall of such
early civilizations as the Mayas in Central America and the Romans in
Europe.

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 3 Archaeologists examine any evidence that can help them explain how
people lived in past times. Such evidence ranges from the ruins of a
large city to a few stone flakes left by someone making a stone tool long
ago.

4 The three basic kinds of archaeological evidence are artefacts, features

and ecofacts. Artefacts are objects that were made by people and can
be moved without altering their appearance. Artefacts include objects
like arrowheads, pots and beads. Artefacts from a society with a
written history may also include clay tablets and other written records.
Features consist mainly of houses, tombs, irrigation canals and other
large structures built by ancient peoples. Unlike artefacts, features
cannot be separated from their surroundings without changing their
form. Ecofacts reveal how ancient people responded to their
surroundings. Examples of ecofacts include seeds and animal bones.
Any place where archaeological evidence is found is called an
archaeological site. To understand the behaviour of the people who
occupied a site, archaeologists must study the relationship among the
artefacts, features and ecofacts found there. For example, the discovery
of stone spearheads near bones of an extinct kind of buffalo at a site in
New Mexico showed that early human beings had hunted buffalo in
that area.

5 If objects are buried deep in the ground, their position in the earth also
concerns archaeologists. The scientists study the layers of soil and rock
in which objects are found to understand the conditions that existed
when the objects were placed there. In some places, archaeologists find
many levels of deposits called strata. The archaeological study of
strata, called stratigraphy, developed from the study of rock layers in
geology. Archaeologists use special techniques and equipments to

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 gather archaeological evidence precisely and accurately. They also
keep detailed records of their findings because much archaeological
research destroys the remains being studied. Locating sites is the first
job of the archaeologist. Sites may be above ground, underground or
underwater. Some large sites are located easily because they are
clearly visible or can be traced from descriptions in ancient stories or
other historical records. Such sites include the pyramids of Egypt and
the ancient city of Athens in Greece.

6 Archaeologists use systematic methods of discovering sites. The

traditional way to find all the sites in a region is through a foot survey.
In this method, archaeologists space themselves at measured distances
and walk in preset directions. Each person looks for archaeological
evidence while walking forward. Scientific methods are used to help
discover underground sites. Aerial photography, for example, can
reveal variations in vegetation that indicate the presence of
archaeological evidence. Archaeologists describe, photograph and count
the objects they find. They group the objects according to type and
location. Three steps are followed to interpret the evidence found. They
are classification, dating and evaluation.

1.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, answer each of
the questions given below by choosing the most appropriate option : 1 5=5

(a) The best sources of finding out archaeological facts are

(i) artwork, buildings, bones and pottery.

(ii) tombs filled with gold.

(iii) grains of hardened corn.

(iv) ruins of a magnificent temple.

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 (b) The basic kinds of archaeological evidence are

(i) artefacts, features and ecofacts.

(ii) Mayan and Roman civilizations.

(iii) cultural developments in written documents.

(iv) cities and trade routes.

(c) An archaeological site is one where

(i) tombs and buildings exists.

(ii) archaeological evidence is found.

(iii) extinct animal bones are located.

(iv) ancient civilisations perished.

(d) In America, archaeology is taken as

(i) lives of people as recorded in written documents.

(ii) study of humanity and human culture.

(iii) closely related to the field of history.

(iv) written records of ancient people.

(e) Archaeologists do not study

(i) ancient hunting and farming.

(ii) ancient cities and trade routes.

(iii) fall of some civilisations.

(iv) weather and climate.

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1.2 Answer the following questions briefly : 1 6=6
(a) What do archaeologists do ?
(b) What is archaeological research ?
(c) What do European archaeologists think of their subject ?
(d) What kinds of evidence are used by archaeologists ?
(e) What methods do archaeologists employ to discover archaeological
sites ?
(f) What is stratigraphy ?
1.3 Answer any three of the following questions in 25 – 30 words each : 2 3=6
(a) How do archaeologists find out how people lived in the past ?
(b) How is archaeology different from history ?
(c) What are features and how are they different from artefacts ?
(d) How do archaeologists study the behaviour of the people from a
particular place ?
1.4 Find words/phrases from the passage which are similar in meaning to each
of the following : 13=3
(a) splendid (para 1)
(b) lived (para 2)
(c) uncover/show (para 6)

2. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that
follow : 10

1 Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal

behaviour in India. Only during the last hundred years or so has the
development of scientific techniques made diagnosis possible. The
doctor is now able to follow up the correct diagnosis of many
illnesses — with specific treatment of their causes. In many other
illnesses of which the cause remains unknown, he is still limited to
the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to
treat symptoms only and when to attack the cause. This is the
essential difference between medical prescribing and
self-medication.

2 The advance of technology has brought about much progress in some

fields of medicine, including the development of scientific drug
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 therapy. In many countries public health organisation is improving
and people’s nutritional standards have risen. Parallel with such
beneficial trends are two trends which have an adverse effect : one is
the use of high pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical industry
which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has led
to the overuse of drugs generally. The other is the emergence of the
sedentary society with its faulty ways of life : lack of exercise,
overeating, unsuitable eating, insufficient sleep, smoking and
drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as
these, as well as from unhappy human relationships, often resort to
self-medication and so add the taking of medicines to the list.
Advertisers go to great lengths to catch the market.

3 Clever advertising, aimed at chronic sufferers who will try anything

because doctors have not been able to cure them, can induce such
faith in a preparation, particularly if steeply priced, that it will
produce — by suggestion though — a very real effect in some people.
Advertisements are also aimed at people suffering from mild
complaints such as simple cold and cough which clear up by
themselves within a short time.

4 These are the main reasons why laxatives, indigestion-remedies,

painkillers, cough mixtures, tonics, vitamins and iron tablets, etc.
are found in many households. It is doubtful if taking these things
ever improves a person’s health, it may even make it worse. Worse,
because the preparation may contain unsuitable ingredients; worse
because the taker may become dependent on them; worse because
they might be taken in excess; worse because they may cause food
poisoning and worst of all because symptoms of some serious
underlying cause may be masked and therefore medical help may
not be sought. Self-diagnosis is a greater danger than
self-medication.

2.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, make

notes on it using headings and subheadings. Use recognisable
abbreviations (wherever necessary – minimum four) and a format
you consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate title to it. 5

2.2 Write a summary of the above passage in about 100 words. 5

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 SECTION B — (Advanced Writing Skills) 30
3. You are Shahneela/Sameer Malik living at No. 4, Zakir Bagh, Meerut. You
and your friends decide to host a dinner to honour the teachers who have
taught you in Class XII. Draft a formal invitation in not more than
50 words to all your teachers to a grand dinner at your residence. 4
OR
You are Sutapa/Damodar Dey of 22, Kalinga Nagari, Bhubaneswar. You
want to sell your car as you plan to buy a new one. Draft a suitable
advertisement in not more than 50 words to be published in a local
newspaper in the classified columns.
4. You are Bhai Bajrang/Radha Joshi, Principal, Basant Public School,
Nashik. Your school has just decided to plant trees along the boundary
wall of your school, for which you need saplings. You also want to place a
large number of potted plants in all the corridors to help make the school
green and reduce pollution. Write a letter in 120 – 150 words to the
proprietor of Masjid Nursery, Nashik, wholesale suppliers of all kinds of
saplings and indoor/outdoor plants, placing an order for saplings of plants
for the school. 6
OR
Blue Waters Public School, Port Blair, urgently requires a Physical
Education Teacher to teach the senior classes. The instructor should also
be able to teach swimming. The school places an advertisement in ‘The
National Express’. You are Bharat/Madhu Sharma, from 21, First Cross
Street, Chennai. Draft a letter in 120 – 150 words along with your biodata
for the advertised post.
5. You are Amir/Shikha and you love comics. Write an article in
150 – 200 words to be published in ‘The National Times’ on ‘Children’s love
for comics and the role that comics play in every child’s life’. 10
OR
You are Yogita/Vignesh, Sports Captain, Maywood School, Chandigarh.
You are very excited on hearing that Indian women wrestlers, Geeta and
Babita have won many medals in Wrestling in Commonwealth Games.
Write a speech in 150  200 words, which you will deliver in the school
assembly on the occasion of your school’s Sports Day, in which you show
your appreciation of the achievements made by Geeta and Babita under
adverse circumstances and how they have become role models for women
athletes in future.
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6. Write a debate in 150 – 200 words either for or against the motion :
‘Chance plays a great role in the success of a businessman’. 10
OR
Students of Class XI gave a farewell party to the students of Class XII.
Some students who had excelled in their fields were given gifts. Class XII
honoured its teachers for their dedication and subject knowledge. As
convenor of the function, write a report on it in 150 – 200 words. You are
Anupreet/Sukhwinder.

SECTION C — (Literature : Textbooks and Long Reading Text) 40

7. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : 1 4=4

Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors, would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing.

(a) Who are ‘those’ in line 1 ? 1

(b) What are ‘green wars’ ? 1
(c) Explain : ‘victory with no survivors’. 1
(d) What is the significance of : ‘put on clean clothes’ ? 1

OR

And yet, for these

Children, these windows, not this map, their world.
Where all their future’s painted with a fog,
A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.

(a) Who are these children ? 1

(b) What future do these children have in store for themselves ? 1
(c) What does ‘lead sky’ symbolize ? 1
(d) What facilities are these children deprived of ? 1

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8. Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each : 3 4=12
(a) What is the poet’s childhood fear ? (My Mother at Sixty-six)
(b) Why did the peddler accept the invitation extended by Edla having
already declined the one from her father ?
(c) Why did Gandhiji not take C.F. Andrew’s help during the
Champaran campaign ?
(d) Mr. Lamb and Derry were both suffering from similar problems.
Comment.
(e) Why did Jack feel irritated with his daughter again and again ?
(f) How was the hundredth tiger made available to the king ?

9. Answer any one of the following questions in 120 – 150 words : 6

(a) Both Sophie and Jansie belong to the same social background yet
their attitudes are so very different. Comment.

(b) Mukesh finds himself caught between two distinct worlds. How do
they affect his life and that of the other bangle makers ?

(c) How does a thing of beauty bring joy in our lives ?

10. Answer any one of the following questions in 120 – 150 words : 6

(a) The arrival of the American prisoner upsets Sadao’s home. Give
instances from the text in support of the above statement.

(b) Evans outwits everyone, and in spite of the precautions taken by the
Governor, he is able to escape from the prison. Describe how he was
able to do so.

(c) ‘‘Since the day I was taken from my mother I had suffered extreme
indignities.’’ Elaborate with the help of the account written by
Zitkala-Sa in ‘Memories of Childhood’.

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11. Answer any one of the following questions in 120 – 150 words : 6

(a) Mrs. Hall is greedy and opportunist. Comment with reference to the
novel, ‘The Invisible Man’.

(b) Griffin’s sufferings are his own doing. Attempt a character sketch of
Griffin in the light of this remark.

(c) Why do people regard weavers with suspicion in the novel, ‘Silas
Marner’ ?

(d) Godfrey Cass is good-natured but weak-willed. Comment with the

help of instances from the novel, ‘Silas Marner’.

12. Answer any one of the following questions in 120 – 150 words : 6

(a) ‘‘Pull yourself together,’’ said the Voice, ‘‘for you have to do the job
I’ve chosen for you.’’ Why did Griffin choose Mr. Marvel ? What role
did Marvel play in his life ?

(b) Griffin came to Iping due to his desire for solitude. Was he left
undisturbed by the people of Iping ? Describe with reference to
the role of Mr. Teddy Henfrey and Dr. Cuss in the novel.

(c) How do William Dane’s deceit and Sarah’s desertion affect Silas ?

(d) What reasons prompt Godfrey to consider telling his father about his
imprudent marriage and debts ? Why does he ultimately decide not
to do so ?

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