JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA, JHAJJAR

PERIODIC TEST 1 CLASS: 11TH SUB: ENGLISH MARKS: 40

SECTION A - READING
Q. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:-

1. Saving the tiger is surely common to all environmentalists. So, was it really so important for me to have seen a tiger to have the
expertise for what could be done to save it? Why did I need to prove my ‘loyalty’?. It was clear the tiger was under threat from many
fronts. There was the poacher, whose network extended from the poor hunter to trade groups. There was the miner and developer,
out to grab the tiger’s home. Then there were the desperately poor people sharing the tiger’s habitat. We needed to understand
what had been done so far --- successfully or unsuccessfully—to find answers.

2. We learnt how critical conservation history was to the tiger’s future. Project Tiger began over 30 years ago, amidst international
concerns and foreign advisors who believed large areas—reserves – would have to be set aside just for the tiger. The history I read
showed the Indian architects of this programme knew even then this was not possible in this densely populated country.

3. The Indian architects planned to create reserves and to keep the tigers within larger landscapes of forests so that they could roam
and, multiply. They knew coexistence was critical. By the early 1980s ---- just 10 years after the Project Tiger began--- they realised it
would need innovative strategies to involve people in regenerating lands, so that the tiger habitat could expand.

4. Sadly, this message never went home. What happened instead was this : on the one hand the threat to the tiger grew; on the
other, protectors responded by raising the barricades higher. Their paranoia grew; they began to believe everybody else was
increasingly against the tiger.

5. Our inquiries taught us many things have to be done. We must throw a protective ring around the tiger, not by deploying more
armed forces but carefully improving internal management and scrutiny so that defences will not fail. We have to break wild life
crime, by building investigative and forensic capabilities; most of all, we have to amend the criminal provisions of Wildlife Protection
Act 1972, so that the poacher can actually be convicted.

6. But all this is half the work. In the past 30 years of conservation we have never really discussed what has to be done about the
people that share the tiger’s home. Most reports or policies for wildlife conservation talk notionally about them. They either fail to
mention their existence or dismiss it.

7. We learnt only 80 villages had been relocated from the country’s 28 tiger reserves till date; a minimum 1500 are still inside. The
problems of relocation were many. Many of the relocated had returned, or turned against the park. The law provided rights of
people had to be settled before a protected area could be notified. In other words, people should have been resettled or
compensated before protection measures for the tiger began. But this was not done. Relocation did not happen. People continued
to live within reserves, where conservation imperatives became harsher. They needed resources. The conflict between people and
park authorities grew. Here was deadly stalemate for conservation.

8. So it is that we learnt, that there will have to be an Indian way of conservation. Even as we secure areas for the tiger by relocating
people, we will have to accept not everybody can be relocated. We will have to practice coexistence—sharing benefits of
conservation to gain reciprocal protection. It is here we will have to learn managing multiple and competing needs without
compromising the protection needed to secure the tiger’s future.
9. The protection of the tiger needs inclusive conservation. It is clear that we must hear a multiplicity of voices, to converse, and
continue to converse. Only then, can the tiger roam.

1.1 Answer the following questions:

a. The author claims that the tiger was under threat from many fronts. List here threats to the tiger’s future and state how they were
threats. 2 marks

b. When the Project Tiger began what did the architects of the programme plan to do? 1 mark

c. What three measures does the author claim should be done to protect the tiger? 1 mark

d. Mention three problems associated with relocation of the people. 1 mark

1.2 Find words in the passage that mean the following: 2 marks

a. new method (para 3) c .mutual, when two people feel the same way (para 8)

b. To make up for loss (para 7) d. when neither side in an argument can win (para 7)
SECTION B – WRITING SKILLS

2. Jagat Taran School, Allahabad is organizing a Career Counselling session for the students of class 11 and 12.Write a notice giving
details of it to be displayed on your school notice board. You are Sumit/ Shreya , School captain. ( Word limit: 50 )
4 marks

3. You are Mohan/ Mohini, General Manager of PK Industries, Hyderabad. You need an Accountant for your company. Draft ,in not
more than 50 words, an advertisement to be published in the local newspaper. 4 marks
4. Fill in the blanks with correct form of the verbs: 5 marks

a) Look ! Those bees ……..(buzz) round the flowers.

b) The police ……… no stone unturned to trace the culprits. ( leave)
c) Mary told him what ……..(happen )to his dog,so he ……..(run )home to see how it ……(be).
5. Write an article on ‘Importance of time management for students’. 5 marks

SECTION C- TEXT BOOK

5. On the basis of given extract answer the following questions: 3 marks
Now she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all.
Its silence silences.
a) How long has the poet’s mother been dead?
b) What is the meaning of the word ‘ circumstance’ in the poem?
c) Why is there nothing to say at all?

6. Answer the following questions: 12 marks

a)How were the narrator and the grandmother good friends in the village?

b)What was the last sign of physical contact between the author and the grandmother?

c)Why did the author decide to forget the address?

d) Why did the author decide to pay a second visit to Marconi Street?