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1. 1 st PUC English Mid -Term Exam MODEL PAPER EASY WAY TO SCORE IN ENGLISH

2. Answer all the questions in a word, phrase or a sentence. (1x12=12) 1.What fate awaited the man each time he built a new house? Ans. The other animals in the jungle overpowered him and confiscated his house. 2.Who encroached on the man’s hut after he built the hut the second time? Ans. Mr. Rhinoceros 3.Name the bird that sings with the poet? Ans. Skylark 4.Who does the child ask not to nip his buds ? Ans. His parents 5.How many wallets did the man takeout from his pocket? Ans. Five

3. 6. At what age did Babar Ali start his school? Ans. Nine year old 7.Who is Tulu Rani Hazara? Ans .An illiterate fishmonger 8 . What is sheltered inside the cow’s body? Ans. Thousands of Gods 9.Who would not turnback taking the speaker for a dog eater? Ans. Mother Earth 10 . What was the name of the king in ‘Watchman of the Lake’? Ans. Rukmangada 11 .What was Mara’s last wish? Ans.To make his son and the forth coming generation as the watch man of the lake. 12.Name Mara’s son? Ans Ganga

4. II Answer any eight from the following questions in a paragraph of 80-100  words: (8x4=32)  How did the man finally outwit the gentlemen of the jungle? 0R How did the man secure justice for himself, in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’? OR How did the man finally buy peace, in ‘The Gentlemen of the Jungle’? Answer:After being repeatedly pushed out of his own huts , the man thinks of a plan to safeguard his rights . He knows that he cannot put up a fight against the powerful animals. Hence, he made a clever . He builds a hut which is big enough to accommodate all the animals. As he had expected, all animals, including Mr Lion, come to the hut and soon started to claim the hut . Making use of the opportunity , the man sets his hut on fire and along with the hut, all animals gathered in it are also dead. What the man couldn’t achieve by using muscle power, he achieves by using brainpower. Thus, the man gets justice by taking law into his own hands .

5. Why would mother earth not flee according to the speaker Mudnakudu Chinnasawamy ? Ans : The speaker feels that trees life is more meaningful and beautiful than being born as a low caste member  in human society . This is because humans have built barriers among themselves based on their castes. The upper caste individuals feel that they are superiors and enjoy the privileges . In contrast, the lower caste people are denied their rights. Besides, this discrimination further divides human society making the life of the suppressed even more miserable . In the poem the mother earth wouldn’t flee when the roots of the tree branch out. The mother earth nourishes and sustains every living organism without any discrimination. Nature has a wonderful system of coordination and peaceful co-existence. So, the mother earth wouldn’t flee. This is in total contrast with the human world where the high caste member runs for a holy bath on encountering a lower caste individual. The poet finds nature to be a perfect haven to be without facing any insult and humiliation 

6. III Answer the following in about two hundred words. (6x1=1) What were the incidents that led the king to build the shrine in ‘Watchman of the Lake’? Watchman of the Lake’ by R.K. Narayan enacts the legendary story of the martyrdom of Mara, an innocent villager of Sakkarepatna situated in the eastern base of Baba Sudan Hills, in Karnataka . It was once the capital of a king called Rukmangada . One afternoon, Mara, looking at the clouds gathering in the sky, realized that it was going to rain very heavily that evening and called his son back into the hut and both of them stayed indoors. Soon after that, there was a torrential downpour and a shrieking storm. Late in the night, when the winds rocked his hut, Mara came out of the hut and saw the river water flooding the tank and the water level was a hair’s breadth below the shore. He concluded that the river might heave and flow over the tank any moment.

7. Immediately, Mara knelt on the ground and prayed to the Goddess . The Goddess stood before him, wielding a sword in her hand. She asked him to move out of the hut at once, as she intended to destroy the tank. Mara pleaded with her earnestly to save the people, but she refused to grant his wish. Then Mara requested her to give him an assurance that she would stay her hand until he returned from the king’s palace after informing him about it . She granted his wish and Mara hurried to the king’s palace. When Mara gave the king the message of the Goddess, the king was shocked. Then Mara told the king that he had a plan to save the tank and the kingdom . He requested the king to get him executed and make it impossible for him to return. If he did not return, the Goddess would stay her hand and the tank would not be destroyed. Though the king was reluctant to do so, Mara persuaded the king to get him executed for the sake of his people . Thus , the king built a shrine in honour for the Goddess and Mara also placed the statue of both . The king gave orders that worship is should be performed on every Tuesday and F riday.

8. IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it. (Unseen passage) (10x1=10) V.A. Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions given in the brackets. (1X4= 4) I have always regarded it as my duty to protect the interests of my friends and this appears to have caused a misunderstanding between my friends and myself. (the , to , the , a , between) B. Fill in the blanks with suitable form of the verbs given in brackets. (4x1=4) 35. It was a busy restaurant. The owner gave (give) a loud guffaw startling everyone around. He caught (catch) the narrator by the lapels of his coat and shook (shake) him. He told (tell) him to put the money down and go.

9. C. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject. (3X1=3) 36. Babar Ali __ gives ____ (gives/give) lessons just the way he has heard them from his teachers. There __is ___ (is/are) no building for his school. But he ______ (has/have) managed to run classes for hundreds of students. D. Correct the following sentences and rewrite them. 37. Give me an another book. Ans. Give me another book or Give me a book. E. Rewrite as directed. (6x1=6) 39. (Fill in the blank with appropriate word given in the brackets.) The principle _ (principle/principal) lesson here is to learn homophones. 40. Complete the sentence with the right form of word given in the brackets. Everything would end to the satisfaction_ (satisfy) of all.

10. 41. (Rearrange the segments to form a meaningful sentence.) kingdom/lion/tranquility/wanted/the/peace. Ans. The Lion wanted peace and tranquility. 42. Add a question tag I am now narrating an experience which I had, aren’t I? 43. Change into a question beginning with the right form of ‘do’ He brought a whole bundle Ans. Did he bring a whole bundle? 44. He enters the a crowded restaurant. Ans. Does he enter the crowded restaurant?

11. VII. A. 47. Match the expressions under column A to its corresponding language function under  column B. (1x5=5) Expressions Functions  A B 1. Hello, Good Morning a. Introducing (2) 2. Meet my friend Mohan. b. Disagreeing (4) 3. You look nice in this dress. c. Leave taking (5) 4. I beg to differ with you. d. Greeting (1) 5. Good night. e. Complimenting (3)

12. B. 48. Complete the dialogue. (4x1=4) Principal : You are late again to college, John.  John : Madam, I ……………………………   Principal : John , ……………………………   John : Sorry, ……………………………….  Principal : ………………………………………….. B. 46. Write a letter to the corporator, Municipal Corporation Mangalore, requesting him to take serious step to issue of garbage dumping in your locality. Your letter should include the following points. (5x1=5) # Bad odour # Serious health Hazards # Inconvenience to the public