ENGLISH BOARD QUESTION 2024 (Q1 TO Q6)

 

SUBJECT-ENGLISH

SET-C (2024)

Full Marks: 100

Time: 3 hours

The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks

Answer all questions

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Questions requiring short answers must be answered serially.

 

1. A dictionary gives the following meanings of the word 'gear'. The meanings are followed by sentences in which the word has been used. Match each meaning with its corresponding sentence given below: 1×5=5

 

 

Meanings:

(i) equipment, clothing, etc., needed for. travel, etc.

(ii) set of apparatus or machinery

(iii) degree of speed or efficiency

(iv) become or make somebody ready

(v) set of toothed wheels which fit into another

Sentences:

(a) The party organization is moving into top gear as election is approaching.

(b) I was all geared up to go on holiday

(c) Careless use of the clutch may damage the gears.

(d) We are only going for two days, you need not bring so much gear.

(e) The reverse gear has jammed.

 

2. You are the Secretary of an NGO working in the field of healthcare. Draft a report, in about 200 words, on the performance of your NGO in the year 2022, for submission to the District Collector.

Or

You are the news correspondent of a prominent English daily published in your city. Write a report, in about 200 words, on the rapid spread of dengue in your ward, for publication in the said daily.

 

3. Make notes, in outlines, on the main ideas in the passage given below:

 

Courage is a mental state - an affair of the- spirit and so it gets its strength from spiritual and intellectual sources. These spiritual and intellectual elements produce roughly two types of courage. The first, the emotional state which urges a man to risk injury or death, is physical courage. The second, a more reasoning attitude which enables him to stake career, happiness on his judgement of what he thinks right, is moral courage.

These two types of courage, physical and moral, are very clear. Many men who have marked physical courage,  lack  moral courage. Moral courage is a higher and rarer virtue than physical courage. To be really great, a man or for that matter, a nation-must possess both kinds of courage. One can defend oneself physically and morally against any opponent if one possesses these two types of courage.

 

Lack of moral courage led to the downfall of the Japanese army. The Japanese army possessed mass physical courage. Its whole strength lay in the emotional bravery of the individual soldier. The Japanese generals shared their men's bravery to the full. But they had not the moral courage to admit when their plans had failed and ought to have been changed, to tell their superiors that their orders could not be carried out and to retreat while there was still time. Thus the Japanese commanders lost their battles.

4. Summarize the passage in Q. No. 3, developing the notes you have made.

5. Write an essay, in about 250 words, on any one of the following, developing the outlines given:

 (a) Advertisement

 [Introduction-electronic medium and print medium-genuineness of all advertisements often consumers are cheated-fake advertisements need to be punished-conclusion]

 (b) Friendship

 [Introduction-difficult to find a true friend-selfishness cause of cracks in friendship-a friend in need is a friend indeed-sacrifice is the foundation of friendship-conclusion]

6. Rewrite the following passage correcting all the ten grammatical errors in it:

 Let us think for then the moment on all kinds of work done by human beings. To begin with many people work in the land. They  dig or plough and sowed seeds and look for domestic animals. Without them there would be no wheat to make to flour, no hay to feed the cattles on, no rice and dal, no milk and ghee. There are miners who dig things out from the earth. Coal and iron are needed for different purposes and we could not get on without them. Things may be either grown or dug up before anything can be made out of them.