SLC Model Question of Compulsory English (Set 5)

Subject: English                                                                  F. M. 75

Time: 2.15hrs                                                                      P.M. 24

Students are required to give answer the questions in their own words as far as practicable.

1.      Read the following poem and do the activities that follow:

This is the weather the cuckoo likes,

And so do I;

When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,

And nestlings fly;

And the little brown nightingale bills his best,

And they sit outside at ‘The travelers’ Rest;

And maids come forth spring-muslim dressed

And citizens dream of the south and west

And so do I

                     This is the weather the cuckoo shuns

                     And so do I.

                     When beeches drip in brown and duns,

                     And thresh and ply;

                     And hills-hid tides thorb, throe and throe

                     And drops on gate-bars hang in a row,

                     And rooks in families homeward go,

                     And so do I

1. Give short answers to these questions:                                   3×2=3

i)        How is the weather in the first verse?

ii)      When does the cuckoo shun?

iii)    How do maids come out?

2. Read the poem and write the meaning of:                           0.5×4=2

i)        Shake gently

ii)      Young girls

iii)    Sharp, pointed part of the metal or wood

iv)    Sings

2.      Read the passage and answer the following question.

But working in summer was very difficult and boring. Without any kinds of irrigation, we had to depend on our own muscles. Swinging baskets or buckets were used to water the fields. They were suspended by four cords and were held at each end by two people. The buckets were dipped  into the water sometimes four feet down and then raised with a single throw so that water could flow into the fields. Thus, with one basket, we could irrigate half an acre a day. By the time the day was finished we were finished too. What I had heard about Europe had led me to believe that what took us an hour to do, an English farmland could have done in 15 minutes. Such were the conditions then and they are same now.

Except for a few tractors there is no change. The bullock cart with its slow jolting motion-the symbol of the village life _____ is still the chief means of transportation. The wooden ploughs, light enough for the farmers to carry them on their shoulders, have not yet been replaced with tractors.

1. Complete the following sentences by choosing the best answers.

                                                                                                    1×3=3

i)        Baskets were also used for ______

            a) Transportation         b) condition     c) Irrigation

ii)      In a day _____ of land could be irrigated.

            a) An acre        b) an half an acre       c) an acre and half

iii)    The _____ are the chief means of transportation.

            a) Bullock cart b) Tractors       c) Shoulders

2. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.                    0.5×4=2

i)        Working in summer was easy but boring.

ii)      Suspended buckets were held by two pupils.

iii)    By the day, they were also very tired.

iv)    There was no any single change in their village life.

3. Answer the following question:                                             1×5=5

i)        Why did they have to depend on their own muscles in summer?

ii)      How did they flow the water into fields for the irrigation purpose?

iii)    Write the symbol of the village life mentioned in the text.

iv)    What are the traditional means of cultivation?

v)      What is the passage about?

3.      Read the following passage and do the activities given below:

The Egyptians were an industrious, highly civilized and deeply religious people, who obediently accepted the supreme authority of their pharaohs. The people were content to serve and work for the state in return for a secure livelihood. They considered this earthy life to be a segment in a great cycle, at the end of which everything would be returned to its original form. The richer and more important the person, the more careful and elaborate would be his or her burial, and the stronger and safer the tomb in which they would be buried.

The burial of the dead in the ground was not considered sufficiently. Safe for kings, queens and court officials, so sunken, sealed tombs were ingeniously constructed to protect personal treasures, food and instructions for the safe conduct of the soul after death. The design of these tombs developed into the stepped pyramid, and finally into the square pyramid that we know today.

There are about 80 ancient pyramids in Egypt. The great pyramid at Gizah, which king Cheops built as his tomb 5000 years ago, holds more interest. It stands with two other pyramids on a slight rise overlooking the River Nile. At the centre of the pyramid is the king is a long narrow area known as the Grand Galley. The pyramid covers is stone, each weighing an average opf 1.5 tones. Its pyramidal forms has a perfectly square base with sides of 756 feet and a height of 481 feet situated directly below the king’s chamber is the Queen’s chamber and there are two air channels leading upwards from the centre of the pyramid to the outside.

1. Match the following:                                                           4×0.5=2

i)        Industrious             (a) foundations

ii)      Treasures               (b) unit for measuring an area of land

iii)    Base                       (c) hard working

iv)    Acres                     (d) collection of valuable things

2. Answer the following questions choosing the correct alternatives: 4×0.5=2

i)        Who accepted the supreme authority of pharaash?

            a) queens         b) court officials          c) the Egyptians

ii)      Finally, the tombs were developed into ___________

            a) pyramid       b) square pyramid     c) stepped pyramid

iii)    What is situated in the center of the Great Pyramid of the Gizah?

            a) King’s Chamber       b) Grand Galley          

            c) Queen’s Chamber

iv)    Who built the Great pyramid of Gizah?

            a) King Cheops                        b) The Egyptians

            c) The queen

3. Answer the following questions:                                            3×2=6

i)        Why were the people happy to serve and work for the state ?

ii)      Why were sealed tombs actually constructed?

iii)    What was the Great Pyramid made of?

4.      Read the following text and do the activities given below:

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         Relevant teaching experience is an advantage-but not essential

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1. Write the words from the above text which are opposite in meaning to the following words.  3×1=3

i)        Penalty

ii)      Inexperienced

iii)    Imaginative

2. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words / phrases from the above advertisement:         4×1=4

                     The text is an example of an _______. It it for the post of _______ in English, science and maths. The duty includes _____ and a variety of extra-curricular activities _______. Teaching experience is not essential.

3. Answer the following questions:                                            4×2=8

i)        Who has advertised for the post?

ii)      How is teaching unique in developing countries?

iii)    For whom are the positions available?

iv)    Where will the selected candidate work?

5.      Complete the dialogue with appropriate clues given in the box below:  6

         Peter: What is the full marks for English?

         Dolma: ___________________________

         Peter: how many listening and speaking?

         Dolma: Ten marks for listening and __________.

         Peter: ________________________?

         Dolma: __________ and writing has 35 marks.

         Peter: ________________________?

         Dolma: Yes, we do, It carries 11 marks _______________.

i)        How about reading and writing?

ii)      Do you have grammar texts?

iii)    It’s 100 marks.

iv)    It’s a part of writing text.

v)      Reading carries 40 marks.

vi)    Fifteen for speaking.

6.      develop a readable story with the help of the skeleton given in the box:           6

         A boy called Ali _____ poor fisherman’s son _____ one evening going home ______ saw an old man by the roadside ______ seriously ill ______ helped him to the nearest hospital ______ old man thanked and asked for name and address ______ ashamed to admit father was a poor fisherman ______ said his name was Mustafa ______  father a school teacher ______ few days later old man died. ______ left all his money to Mustafa, a local teacher’s son _______ obviously Ali didn’t get any of it.

7.      Write a newspaper article on ‘New Nepal’ in about 200 words. Use clues.

Situations in the past----changes that have taken place----- what more had to be done in education, health, agriculture, industry.

8.      Rewrite the following sentence selecting the correct choices from the brackets.          12×0.5=6

i)                    She is ______ honourable women. (a/an/the)

ii)                  That lady is ______ the school management committee. (in/on/at)

iii)    Neither of them got through, ______? (had they/didn’t they/did they?)

iv)    Either Ramsena or Mahinder ______ my cell phone. (are taken/has taken/have taken)

v)      The e-mail was sent by a friend of mine. A friend of mine ______ e-mail. (sent/has sent/ was sent)

vi)    “I have seen a ghost”, she said she ______ a ghost. (has seen/had been seen/had seen)

vii)  America ______ Barack Obama as its 44^th president. (is elected/had elected/has elected)

viii)      “Have you been to America?” she asked me ______ to America. (have been/it I have been/if I had been)

ix)    He was sending an SMS. An SMS ______ (is being sent/was being sent/were being sent)

x)      ______ her poverty she runs a home for homeless. (because of/Although/in spite of)

xi)    Had you invited, I ______ (would have come/would come/would surely come)

9.      Rewrite the following story choosing the correct words from the brackets.     10×0.5=5

         On a hot summer day, a traveler hired a donkey to travel through a desert. The traveler rode over ______ (a/an/the) donkey and started for his destination. The master of the donkey also walked behind the donkey.

         After a few hours, both the donkey and the master ______ (is/was/were) quite tired. ______ (however/therefore/although) the master said to the traveler, “sir, it will be better if we ______ (take, took, had taken) rest for some time.

         The traveler agreed and got down from the donkey in the desert. There was no tree ______ (of/for/with) shade. The traveler too wanted to sit under the shade, but there was no shade around. So the traveler said to the master, “This donkey is hired by me, ______ (isn’t it/isn’t this/wasn’t it)? Therefore the shadow is also mine. It is my right to sit under the shadow.Get up and let me sit there. “ The master replied that ______ the donkey (you had hired/he has hired/he had hired) not the shadow.

         Hence the quarrel begins between the two over the shadow. Soon they ______ (was engaged/were engaged/were been engaged) in the big fight. Their fight made the donkey ______ (fear/to fear/feared). By the result, it ran from there and also ______(takes/took/had taken) away the shadow with it.