SFL HIGHSCHOOL & JR COLLEGE, DHAMANGAON RLY.
UNIT-TEST I – 2018
ENGLISH
STD-XII (ARTS/SCI) M.MARKS – 25 / TIME - 1.30 HRS
Q.1 (A) Read the first activity, read the extract and then do all the activities that follow: (12)
A1. Find out
Read the following statements and find out two most suitable ones which clarify the
theme of the extract: (2)
(a) Michael believed in good ideas.
(b) The family always supported Michael.
(c) Michael has become the largest manufacturer of personal computers.
(d) Due to the power of good ideas, Michael could rise from teen to tycoon.
One afternoon in 1977, as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year-old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline — a maze of ropes to which several fish hooks could be attached. "You're wasting your time," the rest of the family called to Michael, as they pulled in fish. "Grab a pole and join in the fun."
Michael kept working. It was dinner time when he finished, and everyone else was ready to call it a day. Still, the youngster cast the trotline far into the water, anchoring it to a stick that he plunged deep in the sand.
Over dinner his family teased young Michael about coming away empty-handed. But afterwards Michael reeled in his trotline, and on the hooks were more fish than the others had caught all together!
Michael Dell has always been fond of saying, "If you think you have a good idea, try it!" And today, at 29, he has discovered the power of another good idea that has helped him rise in just a few years from teen to tycoon. He has become the fourth- largest manufacturer of personal computers in America and the youngest man ever to head Fortune 500 Corporation.
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents, Alexander and Lorraine — he an orthodontist, she a stockbroker with the desire to learn and the drive to work hard. Even so, stories about the middle boy began to be told early.
A2. Complete (2)
Complete the following sentence:
Family members thought that Michael was wasting time because –
(i) ...................................................................................................
(ii) ..................................................................................................
A3. Explain (2)
Explain what would have happened if Michael didn’t make trotline.
Explain in about 50 words.
A4. Match (2)
Match the words/phrases in column A with their meaning in column B:
A B
(i) call it a day (a) like
(ii) plunged (b) made fun of
(iii) teased (c) stop doing something
(iv) fond of (d) thrusted into water
A5. Personal Response (2)
‘If you think you have a good idea, try it!’ State your response to justify the statement.
A6. Grammar (2)
Rewrite the following sentences in the way instructed:
1. Choose the correct alternative which is the active form of the given sentence:
Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents.
(i) Their parents imbue Michael and his two brothers.
(ii) Michael and his two brothers imbued their parents.
(iii) Their parents imbued Michael and his two brothers.
(iv) Michael and his two brothers are imbued by their parents.
2. Over dinner his family teased young Michael about coming away empty-handed.
(Rewrite the sentence using ‘who’)
(B) Grammar (2)
Do as directed:
1. Kanyakumari is to …. south of India. It is …. beautiful place.
(Fill in the blanks with proper articles or ‘X’ for no article is needed)
2) I was born ---- the 23rd ---- April, so there is no school when it's my birthday.
(Fill in the gaps with suitable prepositions or ‘X’ if no preposition is needed)
Q.2. Read the given extract and then do all the activities that follow: (8)
By this time, I felt very small,
and now my tears began to fall.
I quietly went and knelt by her bed;
"Wake up, little girl, wake up," I said.
"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
She smiled, "I found'em, out by the tree.
I picked'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like'em, especially the blue."
I said, "Daughter, I'm sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
She said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay. I love you anyway."
I said, "Daughter, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."
A1. State whether the following statements are true or false: (2)
1. Mother went with flowers to her daughter’s bed.
2. The daughter couldn’t forgive her mother for her yelling.
3. Mother liked the flowers especially the blue.
4. She felt sorry because her daughter didn’t speak with her.
A2. Poetic device: Figure of speech (2)
Find out an example of simile and explain it.
A3. Personal Response (2)
How would you react when your mother scolded you for no fault of yours.
Write in about 50 words.
A4. Creativity (2)
By this time, I felt very small,
.................................................
I quietly went and knelt by her bed;
.....................................................
"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
Compose two lines of your own for the blanks keeping the rhyming scheme ‘aabbc’.
Q.3 Speech Drafting
Write a short speech (in about 100 words) on the topic ‘Save Girl Child’ to be given
at the occasion of the ‘Beti Bachao’ Campaign. Consider the following points:
1) Girl – a beautiful creation of God
2) Importance of daughter, sister, wife and mother
3) Balance of male-female ratio
4) Need to save girl child (3)
