Unit Test 1 English Modal Question Paper 11th Class Maharashtra State Board
Unit Test 1 English Modal Question Paper 11th Class Maharashtra State Board
Std:11th Sub: English Marks:25
Section I Prose
Q 1. Read the extract and complete the activities given below: (12 Marks)
When we left Camp Nine on Friday morning, I was determined to get to the top on this day. That morning I remember thinking, “I was to get to the top even if I die.” I was not afraid to die that day. We set out early and all the way from Camp Nine to the peak we alternated. I would take the lead and then Hillary. The man who follows when climbing has a difficult job both in climbing up and climbing down. He is the anchor. The man going in the lead cuts the steps and breaks the way.
In my pocket I had four flags. When we were still at Camp Four, Colonel Hunt gave me three flags, those of Britain, the United Nations and Nepal. He charged me with the duty of planting them on the top of the world.
“These three flags are in your care,” he said. “When you and Hillary reach the top, put them at the peak. I am sure that you and Hillary are going to do it.” alternated: changing places. I told Colonel Hunt that I was carrying the Indian flag with me and I would like to be on the top with the other flags. I had to ask Colonel Hunt’s permission in his capacity as leader of the expedition.
Indian Flag
Colonel Hunt said, “By all means, I am glad to know that you brought an Indian flag”. After one hour of steady going, we cut across from the south face and started up the west side where we had to pass up a steep line of rocks. This was slow and difficult. Once we had cleared these, there was nothing barring our way to top but a snow-covered incline, sloping less and less as it neared the top.
A1) Global understanding: (2)
- Complete the statements and rewrite it.
- Sherpa Tenzing was determined to…………
- Sherpa Tenzing was charged with…………..
A2) Complex factual: (2)
- Rearrange the jumbled sentences in its proper sequence of the extract.
- I am sure that you and Hillary are going to do it.
- We had to pass up a steep line of rocks.
- Colonel Hunt gave me three flags.
- We set out early and all the way from Camp Nine to the peak we alternated.
A3) Interpretation / analysis: (2)
- Explain: The man who follows when climbing has a difficult job both in climbing up and climbing down.
A4) Personal Response: (2)
- Suppose you are going to trekking and there are certain prerequisites for trekking, explain them
A5) Language study: Do as directed (2)
- Colonel Hunt gave me three flags. (Change the Voice)
- He said to Tenzing, “I am sure that you and Hillary are going to do it.” (Indirect Speech)
A6)Vocabulary: (2)
- Match the column A and B with its meanings:
‘A’ ‘B’
- alternated 1. slanting up or down
- determined 2. changing places
- sloping 3. having or showing fear
- Afraid 4. having firmly decided
(B) Report writing – (3)
- Your junior college celebrated ‘ 75th Independence Day’. Write the report of the function with help of the following points.
* Beginning of the function.
* Flag hoisting ceremony.
* Address of the chief guests.+
* Report about the function.
* Vote of thanks.
Section II Poetry
Q.2 (A) Read the following extract and do the activities given below: (10 Marks)
“Must have a tree of my own , ” I said ,
And watered it once and went to bed
And forgot, but cherries have a way of growing,
Though no one’s caring very much or knowing.
And suddenly that summer near the end of May,
I found a tree had come to stay.
It was very small, five months child ,
Lost in the tall grass running wild.
Goats ate the leaves, the grass cutter scythe
Split it apart and a monsoon blight
Shrivelled the slender stem …Even so,
Next spring I watched three new shoots grow,
The young tree struggle, upward thrust
Its arms in a fresh fierce lust
For light and air and sun.
A1 .Complete the following statements. (2)
i) The thought which prompted the poet to plant the cherry seed – ……………
ii) The seasons mentioned in the poem are – …………………………………………..
A2 .Give reasons – (2)
- The life of the cherry tree was threatened because …………………………
i) ……………………………………………………
ii)…………………………………………………….
A3.Explain in your own words the message that we can learn from the cherry tree.(2)
A4. Name and explain the figure of speech in the following line – (2)
- ‘ It was very small , five months child ‘
A5. Write a poem of your own of four lines describing a plant. (2)
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