CBSE

Class 11 English Core

Sample Paper 01 (2019-20)

Maximum Marks: 80
Time Allowed: 3 hours

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.

Section A

1. Read the following passage carefully:

Following the onset of industrialisation and the sustained urban growth of large
population centres, the buildup of waste in the cities has caused a rapid deterioration
in levels of sanitation and the general quality of urban life. The streets are gradually
becoming choked with filth due to the lack of waste clearance regulations. So keeping
cities clean is essential for keeping the residents healthy. Our health depends not just
on personal hygiene and nutrition, but critically also on how clean we keep our cities
and our surroundings. The spread of dengue and chikungunya is intimately linked to
the deteriorating state of public health conditions in our cities.

Waste management is the complete process of handling, processing, transporting,

storage, recycling and disposal of human, industrial and environmental waste. Waste
management is a global phenomenon, but its ramifications are more prominent in
developing countries.
The good news is that waste management to keep cities clean is now getting attention
through the "Swachh Bharat Mission" in our country. However, much of the attention
begins and stops with the brooms and the dustbins, extending at most to the collection
and transportation of the mixed waste to some distant or not so distant place,

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preferably out of sight.
The challenge of processing and treating the different streams of solid waste and safe
disposal of the residuals in scientific landfills have received much less attention in
municipal solid waste management than is expected from a health point of
view. Weak institutions, chronic under-resourcing and rapid urbanization are major
challenges to the waste management in a developing country like India.
One of the problems is that instead of focusing on waste management for health, we
have got sidetracked into ‘‘waste for energy’’. If only we were to begin by not mixing
the biodegradable component of solid waste (close to 60 percent of the total) in our
cities with the dry waste, and instead using this stream of waste for composting and
producing a gas called methane.

Waste collection and disposal methods vary widely among different countries and
regions. For example, curbside collection is the most common method of disposal in
most European countries, Canada, New Zealand and many other parts of the
developed world in which waste is collected at regular intervals by specialised trucks.
Domestic waste collection services are often provided by the local government
authorities, or by private companies for industrial and commercial waste. Some
areas, especially those in less developed countries, do not have formal waste-
collection systems.
In major areas of our country, city compost from biodegradable waste provides an
alternative to farmyard manure (like cow-dung). It provides an opportunity to
simultaneously clean up our cities and help improve agricultural productivity and
quality of the soil. Organic manure or compost plays a very important role as a
supplement to chemical fertilisers in enriching the nutrient-deficient soils. City
compost can be the new player in the field.
Benefits of compost to the farm are well-known. The water holding capacity of the soil
which uses compost helps in drought-proofing, and the requirement of less water per
crop is a welcomed feature for a water-stressed future. By making the soil porous, use
of compost also make roots stronger and resistant to pests and decay. Farmers using
compost, therefore, need less quantity of pesticides. There is also an evidence to
show,that horticulture crops grown with compost have better flavour, size, colour and
shelf-life.
City compost has the additional advantage of being weed-free, unlike farmyard

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 manure which brings with it the seeds of undigested grasses and requires a
substantial additional labour cost for weeding as the crops grow. City compost is also
rich in organic carbon, and our soils are short in this. Farmers clearly recognize the
value of city compost. If city waste was composted before making it available to the
farmers for applying to the soil, cities would be cleaned up and the fields around them
would be much more productive.
Quite apart from cleaning up the cities of biodegradable waste, this would be a major
and sustainable contribution to improving the health of our soil without further
damage by excessive chemical inputs. What a marvellous change from waste to
health!
The good news is that some states are regularly laying plastic roads. Plastic roads will
not only withstand future monsoon damage but will also solve a city’s problem of
disposal of non-recyclable plastic. It is clear that if the mountains of waste from our
cities were to be recycled into road construction material, it would tackle the problem
of managing waste while freeing up scarce land.

The government should initiate awareness campaigns and advertisements informing

people about the adverse effects of excess waste. New and advanced technology
should be used for the disposal of waste. Maximum recycling and reuse of the waste
should be encouraged. Waste management is the call of the hour.

1. On the basis of your understanding of the above passage, make notes on it using
headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations (wherever necessary-
minimum four) and a format you consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate
title to it.
2. Write a summary of the passage in about 80 words.

2. Read the following passage carefully: (12)

Food And Stress

I. We are what we eat. The type of food we eat has both immediate and long-term
effect on us, at all the three levels - the body, the mind and the spirit. Food which
is tamasik (i.e. stale or leftover) in nature is bound to generate stress as it tends to
upset the normal functioning of the human body. Fresheners should be avoided

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 Taking piping hot tea or milk or steaming hot food, whenever available, must be
preferred. Excessive use of condiments also disturbs one's usually calm attitude.
Further, it is a mistaken belief that smoking or drinking, even in moderation,
relieves stress/ Simple meals with one or two food items, rather than too many
lavish dishes, are advisable. Thus, a vegetarian diet is preferable. Although it is
customary to serve fruits with food, it is not the right thing to do. This is because
different kinds of digestive secretions are produced by the stomach for variant
foods. Mixing up too many varieties of food items at one meal creates problems
for the digestive system. In fact, anyone type of fruit, preferably taken in the
morning, is better.
II. On average, we eat almost three to four times the quantity of food than we
actually need. A lot of body's energy is used up for digesting the excess food. It is
said that after a particular level of food intake, the 'food actually eats one up'.
III. It is always good to eat a little less than your 'full-stomach' capacity. Besides, never
eat food unless you are really hungry. Having dinner at 8 or 9 pm after a heavy
snack at 5 or 6 pm in the evening is asking for trouble. In fact, skipping an odd
meal is always good if the stomach is upset. There are varying views on the
benefits of fasting, but we will not discuss them here. However, giving a break to
one’s stomach, at least once a week, by having only fruit or milk, etc. may be
worth trying.
IV. While a little bit of water taken with meals is all right, drinking 30 to 60 ml much
water with food is not advisable. Water, taken an hour or so before or after meals,
is good for digestion.
V. One’s diet must be balanced with all the required nutrients for a healthy living.
Also remember, excess of everything is bad. Related to the problem of stress,
excessive intake of salt is definitely bad. Too much of sugar, fried food and chillies
are not good either. Overindulgence and excessive craving for a particular
taste/type of food generate rajasik (aggressive) or at worst, tamarisk (dull)
tendencies.
VI. An even more important aspect of the relationship between food and stress lies
not so much in what or how much we eat but how the food is taken. For example,
food eaten in a great hurry or in a state of anger or any other negative state of
mind is bound to induce stress. How the food is served is also very important. Not

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 only the presentation, cutlery, crockery, etc. play a role, the love and affection
with which the food is served are also significant.
VII. Finding faults with food while it is being eaten is the worst habit. It is better not to
eat the food you do not like, rather than finding fault with it.
VIII. It is good to have regular food habits. Workaholics who' do not find time to eat
food at proper mealtimes invite stomach ulcers.
IX. One must try to enjoy one’s food, and therefore, eating at the so-called
lunch/dinner meetings is highly inadvisable. Every morsel of food should be
enjoyed with a totally peaceful state of mind. Food and discussions should not be
mixed.
X. .There are accepted ways to 'charge' the food we eat. Prayer is perhaps 'the best
method for energizing the food and it will do some definite additional well at no
extra cost.

A. Choose the most appropriate option: (1×6=6)

i. How does tamasik food influence the person?

a. Generates stress
b. Makes a person energetic
c. Generates a large amount of energy
d. Makes a person bold
ii. What is a mistaken belief people practise at the table?
a. Smoking helps to digest
b. Smoking and drinking even in moderation relieves stress
c. Pickles add the taste
d. Condiments help to enhance appetite
iii. Why does the writer say that food actually eats one up?
a. Digestive system takes too much time
b. Excessive intake of food takes a lot of body’s energy to digest it
c. Food sustains the body
d. It makes the person healthy
iv. What generates rajasik & Tamasik tendencies?
a. Overindulgence of fried food
b. Too much use of spicy food

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 c. Overindulgence and excessive craving for a particular taste
d. Excess of everything
v. Where does the root cause of stress generated by food lie in?
a. How much we eat
b. What we eat
c. How the food is taken
d. Because of irregular food habit
vi. What does ‘induce’ mean?
a. Reduce
b. Cause, influence
c. Aggressive
d. To intake

B. Answer the following questions in brief: (1×4=4)

i. What is the importance of serving food properly?

ii. How is our way of eating-related to stress?
iii. Why is serving fruits with food not advisable?
iv. When should you prefer to skip an odd meal?

C. Find words in the passage similar in meaning as (1×2=2)

i. More than enough (para II)

ii. Bring about (para IV)
Section B

3. You are president of the Cultural Society of your school. You are planning to organize
a cultural program. Write a notice for the school notice-board inviting names of
students willing to participate. You are Sudhir, the secretary of the society.

OR

You are Shirish Saxena of 47, Mall Road, Shimla. You are a young man of 35 with
seven years of experience as an expert executive. You seek an immediate change to
some prestigious export house in Mumbai/Bangalore. Draft a suitable advertisement
for the Situation Wanted column of a National Daily.

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4. Write a letter to the Manager, Oberoi International, Lucknow, to find out the rates for
conducting the wedding reception of your sister on their lawns, enquiring specifically
about the catering cost per head, service and decoration charges and advance to be
paid. You are Nandu / Nandini of Agra.

OR

You are Krishna Kant, Administrative Officer of ET & T Computer Education,

Mansarovar Garden, New Delhi. Ms. Aparna Ghose of Lajpat Nagar has made certain
inquiries about the Computer Programming Course. Write a letter to her supplying
information regarding the course. Give a specific reply to the points raised and supply
other details as well.

5. You are concerned at the advertisements in the media which are focussed on children
and aim at targeting them as their prospective buyers. Write a letter to the Editor, The
Times of India, New Delhi, protesting strongly against this trend in customer
management. Sign yourself as Aakash/Aakriti of 58, Mohan Nagar, New Delhi-110068.

OR

India. Assurance Company, New Delhi has given an advertisement in ‘The Hindustan
Times’ for recruitment of management trainees to be groomed as managers of their
company. Apply for the same, giving your detailed bio-data (curriculum vitae).
Invent all necessary details. You are Aman/Aditi, 54-A, Gulab Road, Lucknow.

6. Information Technology has provided new avenues to the students for knowledge,
creativity, discovery as well as job opportunities at home and abroad. Computers
have brought in a silent revolution. Write an article in 150-200 words showing how
the information technology has provided the younger generation new opportunities,
joys of discovery and thrill of creativity. You are Madhu/Mudit.

OR

The Environment Club of your school organised a campaign to celebrate cracker-free

Diwali. Posters, placards and banners were prepared. Then a long march was
organised. Write a report in 150-200 words for publication in your school magazine
about the campaign describing the efforts put in by staff and students to make the

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 campaign successful. You are Mohini/Mayur of XI C.

7. In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the
missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes
after it in your answer sheet. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is
underlined as shown below:

Examination comes every year is a eg. Examination which comes

necessary evil no one welcomes it and (a) _____________

tries to avoid it he can. It is the only (b) _____________

tool measures a student's achievement. (c) _____________

Student shudder they get the date sheet. (d) _____________

8. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Find
the error and write the correct word in your answer sheet. The first one has been
done for you as an example.

Incorrect Correct

Children are fond to coconut. It is the e.g. to of

biggest of all the nuts, and are indeed a wonderful (a)

fruit. It grows on a tall palm tree and is find (b)

in tropical countries round a seashore. The (c)

name was giving to it by the Portuguese. (d)

9. Look at the sentences given below in a disorderly form. Re-order (Rearrange) them to
form meaningful sentences:

i. house / live / is / this / I / where / the

ii. that children / he / live / hard / may / works / comfortably / his / so.
Section C

10. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (any two)

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 (1x2=2)
Some twenty-thirty-years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.

i. Who does ‘she’ in these lines refer to?

ii. What snapshot is the poet talking about?
iii. Who were Betty and Dolly?

OR

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering
Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.

i. How does song have its fulfilment?

ii. Explain the words: ‘reck’d or unreck’d’.
iii. What returns with love? Where does it return?
11. Answer any five of the following questions:

a. How did the sparrows express their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died?
Answer in the context of The Portrait of a Lady.

b. Why did the author of Silk Road take the short-cut in spite of high mountain
passes?

c. Bring out the father’s distrust in the son’s abilities in the poem Father to son.

d. How did the old lady satisfy herself about Ranga?

e. What reasons could Amitav Ghosh have searched to avoid writing about Shahid’s
death?

f. How did Mourad put John Byro off when the two met one morning?

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12. How does the author contrast the Chinese view of Art with the Western concept of
painting? Which one do you find easy to understand and admire? Answer in the
context of Landscape of the soul.

OR

AR Williams says, “King Tut is.....in death, as in life moving regally ahead of his
countrymen.” How far do you agree with the assertion and why?

13. Comment on the ending of the play Mother’s Day.

OR

How, according to you, can peace and liberty be maintained in a state? Answer in the
context of The Tale of Melon City.

14. Give a brief character-sketch of Taplow.

OR

Man is “the eye of the landscape” says Francois Cheng. Discuss this concept on the
basis of reading Landscape of the soul.

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 CBSE Class 11 English Core
Sample Paper 01 (2019-20)

Solution

1. Modes of Waste Management

1. Ramifications of rapid industrialisation, urbanisation and population growth

1. deterioration of sanitation standards
2. poor public health
3. spread of diseases: dengue & chikungunya
2. Waste management process
1. handling
2. processing
3. transporting
4. storage
5. recycling
6. disposal waste (types)
1. human
2. industrial
3. environmental
3. Challenges to waste management
1. limited atten. by people
2. chronic under-resourcing & rapid urbanization
3. no effective municipal policies
4. only transportation to dist. place―no treat.
4. Waste collection differs in countries
1. Curb-side collection in developed countries
1. Collection through specialised trucks
2. Collected at regular intervals
2. Domestic collection for industrial and commercial waste
1. provided by
1. local gov. authorities
2. private companies

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 3. Less developed countries
1. No formal waste collection systems
5. City compost―a boon!
1. effective waste management
2. adv. to soil & crops
1. an alternative to farmyard manure
2. supplement to chemical fertilisers
3. drought-proofing
4. soil porous, roots stronger, resistant to pests & decay
5. less qty. of pesticides
6. horticulture crops―better flavour, size, colour & shelf life
3. weed-free, rich in organic carbon
4. simultaneously clean cities & imp. agricultural prod.
6. Other methods of waste management
1. Plastic roads
i. another e.g. of waste management
ii. states reg. laying these
iii. withstand future monsoon damage
iv. disposal of non-recyclable plastic
v. managing waste while freeing scarce land
2. use of advanced technology
3. awareness about effects of excessive waste
4. recycling & reusing

Abbreviations used:
& - and
atten. - attention
dist. - distant
treat - treatment
adv. - advantages
qty. - quantity
imp. - improve
prod. - productivity
reg. - regularly

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 e.g. - example
diff. - different
gov. - government

Summary:
Waste management, varying with different countries, is essential for public health.
However, limited attention to it by people, weak institutional regulation, chronic
under-resourcing and rapid urbanization pose challenges to it. City compost is an
effective waste management method. It simultaneously cleans cities and improves
agricultural productivity (e.g., Horticulture crops have better flavour, size, colour and
shelf life because of city compost.) It benefits soil and crops in many ways, as an
alternative to farmyard manure and supplement to chemical fertilisers, enables
drought-proofing etc. Certain initiatives regarding waste management
include building plastic roads (withstand future monsoon damage and dispose of non-
recyclable plastic), use of advanced technology, recycling and reusing.

2. A. i. (a)
ii. (b)
iii. (b)
iv. (c)
v. (c)
vi. (b)
B. i. How the food is served property shows our presentation, cutlery, crockery, etc.
It is also the token of our love and affection.
ii. Food is eaten in a great hurry or in a state of anger or any other negative state
of mind is bound to induce stress.
iii. Because of a different kind of digestive secretions are produced by the stomach
for various foods.
iv. Skipping an odd meal is always good for the body. Generally, we should prefer
to skip an odd meal when our stomach is upset.
C. i. Excess
ii. Induce
Section B
3.

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 Cultural Society
ABC SCHOOL, BHOPAL
9th July 2019
NOTICE
OPPORTUNITY FOR BUDDING ARTISTS
Talented students are invited to submit their names for a musical evening to be held
on 21st July 2019 in the school open-air theatre from 6 p.m. onwards:
Items:
i. Light vocal music (solo)
ii. Group Song
iii. Group Dance
iv. Classical Dance (Solo)
Contact the undersigned before 16th July 2019.
Sudhir
Secretary
Cultural Society

OR

SITUATION WANTED
A highly experienced young export executive in the top export house needs change
to some prestigious export house in Mumbai / Bangalore. Familiar with E-
Commerce, marketing administration advance license, etc. A minimum salary
expected: Rs.35,000+perks.
Please write to Shirish Saxena, 47, The Mall, Shimla Tel.: 0177-2437195

4. 23 Fort Road
Agra
15 July 2019

The Manager
Oberoi International
Lucknow

Sub: Enquiry regarding expenses for wedding reception

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Dear Sir,

Kindly let me know whether your lawns would be available on the evening of 7th
December to hold the wedding reception of my sister. In case of space is available,
please enlighten me regarding the following:

i. catering cost per head (Menu no. 3)

ii. service charges
iii. decoration charges
iv. advance amount to be paid.

Please send me a point-wise specific reply at the address given above.

Looking forward to an early reply.

Yours sincerely,
Nandani.

OR

ET & T Computer Education

Mansarovar Garden
New Delhi

2 August 2019
Ms. Aparna Ghose
C-176, Lajpat Nagar
New Delhi-110024

Sub: Computer Programming Course

Dear Ms. Ghose,

I thank you for your letter dated 25 July 2019 and the interest you have shown in the
crash course of computer programming. The point-wise reply to your queries is as
under:

a. The short-term course is of six weeks duration.

b. Many other courses like web-designing, data processing, etc. are available.
c. Rs.1500: in two instalments.

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 d. 10 per group.
e. 30 min. in a class of 3 hours.
f. Morning: 9 to12, Evening: 3 to 6 on alternate days excluding Sunday.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Yours faithfully,
Krishna Kant.
(Administrative Officer)

5. 58, Mohan Nagar

New Delhi-110068
July 23, 2019

The Editor
The Times of India
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi

Sub: Children targeted marketing

Sir,
I wish to draw the attention of the authorities in general and the parents in particular,
towards certain malpractices carried on by the media in their advertisements. The
manufacturers approve of these ads as they boost the sales of their products.
Most of these ads have a mother and a child or two young children. The product is
praised and its virtues extolled. The child or children in the ad seems to offer a
suggestion to his/ her peers—it is good for me/us; why don’t you try it? Thus children
become targets or prospective buyers. This trend may be fashionably termed as
‘market strategy5 or ‘customer management’, but it is certainly malpractice. It
exploits parents’ love for their children. They can’t refuse the demands of their child
whether it is proper or improper. This new consumer-culture is doing more harm
than good to society.
Will the concerned authorities pay attention to this malpractice and punish the errant
ad agencies?

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Yours faithfully,
Aakriti.

OR

54-A, Gulab Road

Lucknow
18 July 2019

The Personnel Manager

India Assurance Company
New Delhi.

Sub: Recruitment of Management Trainee

Sir,
With reference to your advertisement in the Hindustan Times dated 14th July 2019 for
management trainees to be groomed as managers for your company, I would like to
be considered for the said post. My Bio-data is enclosed for your perusal and
consideration. If I am found suitable, I can appear for the interview at any time
suitable for you. In case of selection, I assure you of my unstinted co-operation and
devotion in the discharge of my duties.

Yours faithfully,
Aditi

Bio-Data

Name Aditi Sharma

Father's Name Prof. S.N. Sharma

Address 54-A, Gulab Road, Lucknow

Date of Birth 7th July 1980

(i) B.Com, Delhi University

Educational (ii) MBA from Symbiosis, Pune
Qualifications (iii) Diploma in Computer Application from NIIT,
Lucknow

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 Experience 1 year

Present Employment Working with Global Telesystems, Lucknow

Marital Status Unmarried

Age 27 years
Height 5'-3"
Personal Details
Weight 60 Kg
Mother Tongue - Hindi

Languages known English, Punjabi, French

Hobbies Reading, Listening to music, Painting

(i) Professor Suresh Mohan, IT College, Lucknow

References
(ii) Professor Kapil Ranjan, Symbiosis, Pune

6. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND YOUNGER GENERATION

(by Madhu /Mudit)

Information Technology has provided new avenues to the students for acquiring
knowledge, enhancing thrills of creativity, enjoying pleasures of discovery as well as
new job opportunities at home and abroad. Computers have brought in a silent
revolution. These electronic devices are as efficient as the best of human brains.
Computers have become indispensable in data-processing and resource planning.
Access to the Internet has opened a vast field of knowledge to the computer-operator.
The computer is more than a calculating machine. No doubt it has made lengthy
calculations and working out tedious problems a matter of fun. In writing articles too
it helps like a good friend by correcting spellings and grammatical errors. Web-
designing, e-mail, and e-commerce are quite engrossing and rewarding.

OR

CAMPAIGN AGAINST CRACKERS

(by Mayur, XI C)

Environment club is fairly active in our school. It organised a campaign to celebrate

cracker-free Diwali. Posters, placards and banners were prepared. Posters were

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 displayed in prominent places. Then a long march was organised. Teachers and
students assembled at 9.00 a.m. All the students were in their school uniform. They
carried banners and placards in their hands. They stopped near the posters and
notices displayed along the road. The aim was to create awareness among the public
in general and the young children in particular. Crackers create sound pollution.
Being expensive, they are a wasteful luxury. The money ends in smoke and fire.
Moreover, child labour is involved in cracker industry. Thus exploding crackers
indirectly leads to exploitation of child labour. The response of the general public was
good.

7.

(a) evil as no one

(b) it if he

(c) tool which measures

(d) shudder when they

8.

Incorrect Correct

(a) are is

(b) find found

(c) a the

(d) giving given

9. i. This is the house where I live.

ii. He works hard so that his children may live comfortably.
Section C
10. i. The word ‘she’ refers to the poet’s mother.
ii. She is talking about the snapshot that has her mother’s photo as a girl of twelve
along with the mother’s two girl cousins.
iii. They were mother’s girl cousins.

OR

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 i. It has its fulfilment when it showers its strains on the world.
ii. It does not matter to the soul whether anyone pays heed to its music or not (reck’d
or unreck’d).
iii. The song returns with love. It returns to its birthplace which is the soul.

11. Answer any five of the following questions:

a. Author’s grandmother was very fond of feeding sparrows with bread crumbs.
When the grandmother died, thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor
where she lay dead and stiff wrapped in the red shroud. There was no chirruping.
The sparrows did not take notice of bread crumbs thrown by his grandmother and
flew away quietly when her corpse was carried off. In this way, they expressed
their sorrow at her death.

b. The short-cut would take them south-west, almost directly towards Mount Kailash.
Crossing high mountain passes posed breathing problems. Absence of snow meant
a fairly good ride.

c. The father in the poem Father to son does not trust his son. He thinks that his son
cannot move away from him and survive. He wants his son always with him.

d. The old lady ran her hand over Ranga's chest. She looked into his eyes. She was
satisfied to find the sacred thread on his body. She was that he had not lost his
caste.

e. Amitav Ghosh might have told himself that he was not a poet. Secondly, their
friendship was not very old, it was of a recent date. Thirdly, there were many
others who knew him much better and would be writing with greater
understanding and knowledge.

f. One morning the two cousins ran into the farmer John Byro who recognised his
horse and examined it thoroughly. But Mourad confidently told Byro that his
horse’s name was My Heart. Byro made no fuss because he knew about the
honesty of Mourad’s family.

12. A classical Chinese landscape does not stick very close to reality. It leaves enough
scope for the viewer to use his imagination. The painting can be looked at from any

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 angle and from any viewpoint. One need not see it through the eyes of the painter.
The scroll on which the artist paints has white, blank spaces left after every painting.
It gives freedom to the viewer to travel up and down. It captures the essence of the
inner life.
A European or Western painting, on the other hand, is realistic. The painter wants
you to look at it exactly as he had seen it. From a particular angle. It creates an
illusion of delicate realism. The story of Quinten in the 15th century illustrates this
point clearly. He entered a painter’s studio slyly and painted a fly on the artist’s blank
canvas. The artist mistook it for a real fly and tried to drive it away. That story is
representative of Western painting.

OR

Perhaps no other Pharaoh of Egypt has fascinated the public mind so greatly as the
boyish king Tutankhamun. Although he died in his teens and ruled for about nine
years only, he introduced certain changes during his brief rule. These were significant
as they marked the restoration of the old ways of worship of Amun. The unanswered
questions about the causes and modes of his death as well as his age at the time of
death kept public curiosity alive.
After his death, his dead body has been a centre of scientific examination. Howard
Carter, the British archaeologist discovered Tut’s tomb in 1922. In 1968, an anatomy
Professor X-rayed the mummy. The Egyptian Mummy Project began an inventory in
late 2003. It has so far recorded 600 and is still continuing. The next phase of CT
scanning with a portable CT machine began a 5 January 2005. The pride of place went
to King Tut, whose mummy was the first to undergo C.T. scan. Thus I fully endorse the
aforesaid assertion.

13. The play has a happy ending with a complete reversal of the initial situation. Mrs.
Pearson is now cheerful while the family looks anxiously at her. When she smiles,
they feel much relieved and smile back at her. None of them is going out.
For the first time, perhaps she tells the members of the family what they should do.
Instead of behaving timidly, she looks sharply at the family and asks if they have any
objections. George is the first to yield. He agrees to do whatever she says. Still smiling,
she suggests that they should have a nice family game of rummy and then the
children could get the supper ready while she has a talk with their father. George

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 supports her and looks enquiringly at the children. Cyril hastily approves the
proposal while Doris agrees hesitatingly. A sharp command: “What Speak up!” does
the trick and Doris agrees. Mrs. Pearson bids goodbye to Mrs. Fitzgerald and smilingly
asks her to come again soon. The ending seems quite natural. It also leaves a message
for the mothers. They should assert themselves.

OR

A model answer has been provided for students' reference. It is strongly

recommended that students prepare the answer on their own. Peace and liberty can
be maintained in a state if there exists Laissez-faire, i.e. the principle of non-
interference by the king in the activities of the citizens. However, the king or the
government must maintain law and order in the absence of which anarchy may reign
in the state. There should be a happy balance between state interference and citizens
rights. Only then one can expect peace and liberty to be maintained in a state.

14. Taplow, a student of the fifth form, is 16 years old. He is very talkative and outspoken.
He gets carried away easily. On being provoked by Frank, he opens his heart out and
speaks critically about his Latin teacher. He is mortally afraid of Crocker-Harris
although the master never beats any boy. He dare not ‘cut’ his master because
Crocker-Harris might even follow him to his home. He calls Crocker-harris secretive
and one who can not be easily pleased. Crocker-Harris refuses to tell the boy about his
final result before the stipulated time. Taplow crosses the limit when he says that
Crocker-harris is ‘hardly human’. On the whole, Taplow is quite honest and gullible.
He ridicules his teacher and mimics his voice. He uses derogatory words for his
teacher. He discusses one teacher with another foolishly. His actions show that he is
not mature enough.

OR

The role of man in this universe can be explained with the help of the Daoist view of
the universe. Daoism recognises two contrasting but complementary elements in the
universe. These are called 'Yang' and 'Yin' 'Yang’ is active, masculine, stable, warm
and dry whereas 'yin’ is receptive, feminine, moist and cool. The interaction of 'Yang’
and 'Yin’ occurs in the Middle Void. Hence this Middle Void is essential as nothing can

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happen without it. The importance of man and his fundamental role in the universe
can be explained in the light of Daoism. Man exists in the space between Heaven and
Earth. He is the medium of communication between both poles of the universe, even
if it is only suggested. He occupies an important position in the universe. He is not lost
or oppressed by the lofty peaks. Man’s presence is essential as he is the most
important feature or the ‘eye’ of the landscape. We cannot see without eye. Similarly,
the universe is incomplete without a man.

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