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ENGLISH (COMMUNICATIVE)
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Do not write anything in the question paper.
3. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written
in the answer sheet provided to you.
4. Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section.
5. Strictly adhere to the word limit given with each question. Marks will be
deducted for exceeding word limit.
SECTION A
READING
The young liftman in a City office who threw a passenger out of his lift
the other morning was fined for the offence was undoubtedly in the
wrong. It was a question of ‘Please’. The passenger, entering the lift
said “Top”. The liftman demanded “Top, please”, and his demand
being refused, the liftman hurled the passenger out of the lift.
While it is true that there is no law that compels us to say ‘Please’,
there is a social practice much older and much more sacred than any
law which enjoins us to be civil. And the first requirement of civility is
that we should acknowledge a service. ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ are the
small change with which we pay our way as social beings. They are the
little courtesies by which we keep the machine of life oiled and running
sweetly. They put our intercourse upon the basis of a friendly co–
operation and easy give–and–take instead of on the basis of superiors
dictating to inferiors. It is a very vulgar mind that would wish to
command when he can have the service for asking and have it with
willingness and good feeling instead of resentment.
SECTION B: WRITING
2. Unnikrishnan of class X is the Student Editor of ‘The Winged
Word’, the school magazine of Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Kochi. The
school is planning to bring out a special silver jubilee edition. He
has been asked by the Principal to put up a notice inviting
articles from students. Write this notice in not more than 50
words. Place the notice in a box.
3
New Delhi: Health Minister A. Ramadoss has said that all villages
affected by chikungunya fever would get Rs.10,000 to prevent
mosquito breeding and to spread awareness among people even
as 17,000 suspected cases of the viral disease have been
reported so far this year.
SECTION C: GRAMMAR
4. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given in
brackets 2
SECTION D: LITERATURE
a) In what way was the speaker, as a child, like the West Wind?
1
b) How has he changed? ½
c) What does the speaker ask of the wind? Why? 1½
8. Explain who pays the tribute, to whom and what for in the story
“The Tribute”. 2
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