MP English board sample question paper

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This is the MP English board sample question paper:

Section 'A' (Reading)
Q.1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions
given at the end.
There is a myth that there is something magical about computers
and those who run them. The legend has got about that computers
are 'electronic brains and that programmes are some sort of
supermen. The facts are that computers are very stupid and the
people who programme them are normal human beings. Any one
who can count from 0 to 7 on his or her fingers and make eight can
learn to be a programmer. The business is not difficult, just tricky.
It is very misleading to imagine that computers can think like
people. They can not. They have no more a mind of their own than
a lawn-mower. However, they make it possible for people to
'bottle' thought. You work out her to do a particular job or solve a
problem, write a programme and the computer will apply your
thinking to that job or problem as long and as after as you like. In
this sense, computers are half alive because they perpetuate the
thinking of their creators.

Question:
(a) The word similar in meaning to a machine for cutting grass' is :
(i) Computer (ii) bottle (iii) lawn mower (1)
(b) The fact is that computers are electronic brains. (1)
(say true or 'False')
(c) The meaning of 'perpetuate' is: (1)
(i) Imagination (ii) belief (iii) fact
(d) What computers cannot do? (1)
(e) Why are computers like lawn mowers? (2)
(f) What does the 'bottle' mean? (2)

Q.2 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
Our opportunities are great but let me warn you that when power
out strips ability, we will fall on evil days. We should develop
competence and ability which would help us utilize the
opportunities which are now open to us. From tomorrow morning- from midnight today, we cannot throw the blame on the British.
We have to assume, the responsibility ourselves for what we do. A
free India will be judged by the way in which it will serve the
interests of the common man in the matter of food, clothing, shelter
and social activities. Unless we destroy corruption in high places
and root out every trace of nepotism, love of power, profiteering
and black marketing which have spoiled the good name of this
country in recent times, we will not be able to raise the standards of
efficiency in administration as well as in the production and
distribution of the necessary goods of life.
Author : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.

Questions.
(a) The speaker of there lines is: (1)
(i) Mahatma Gandhi.
(ii) Pt. Nehru.
(iii) Dr. S. Radhakrishanan.
(b) The word in this passage similar in meaning to 'takes away': (1)
(i) Ability.
(ii) Out strip.
(iii) Throw.
(c) The meaning of 'suppose' is: (1)
(i) Trace.
(ii) Assume.
(iii) Raise.
(d) What does the speaker warn of? (1)
(e) What have we to assume? (2)
(f) What can we do to raise the standards of efficiency in
administration? (2)

Q.3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
where the knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by
narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection.
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening
thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my
Father, let my country awake.

Question.
(a) Fill up the blank in each of the following sentences with one of the
given words:
(fragments, striving dreary)
(i) The history of science is a continuous ........ after knowledge.
(1)
(ii) If there were no change in life it would become quite ..... (1)
(iii) In many parts of the country agricultural land is cut up into
small .......... (1)
(b) In this poem, the word 'where' refers to: (1)
(i) The entire world (ii) the heaven of freedom
(iii) The entire desert (iv) narrow domestic walls
(c) What are the narrow domestic walls that the poet speak of? (2)
(d) What sort of a place is the present world? (2)
(e) What is the significance of awake in the last line? (2)
(f) What is the heaven of freedom? (2)
(g) What other freedom does the poet want for our country? (2)

Section 'B' (Writing)
Q.4 You are Kamlesh Sharma. As a responsible citizen, you have
organized a campaign on 'Say No To Polythene Bags, in your
locality. Write a report in not more than 150 words for publication
in a magazine. (5)

OR
Describe your child hood in your own words.
Q.5 You are Pragya Kapse, secretary of Apoorva Apartments Residents
Welfare Society, Write a notice informing the residents that the lift
will be out of order for the next three days. (5)

OR
You are attending Military Training camp in Pachmarhi. Write a
post card in not more than 50 words to your father about your
experience in the camp.
Q.6 Write an article for your school magazine on 'Importance of
Newspaper in our life'. (10)

OR
Give an account of importance of a role model?
Q.7 Write a composition on you 'Dream school' with the help of the
given clues: (10)
(i) Building (ii) Staff
(iii) Play ground (iv) laboratory
(iv) Extra curricular activities.

OR
Based on the picture given below and your own ideas, write a letter
to the editor of a national doily on the need to educating people
about keeping the environment clean.

Section 'C' Grammar
Q.8
(A) Read the following lines and fill in the blanks with the correct form
of the verbs given in brackets and rewrite the sentences:
The plumber only (stay) for an hour. What he (do) in that time? He
(turn) off the water and (empty) the tank. (2)
(B) Insert 'a', 'an' or 'the' if necessary.
(i) ............ Australian sheep give us ........... very good wool. (2)
(C) Choose a suitable preposition, given in brackets and fill in the
blanks.: (2)
(i) Please write your roll number........... ink. (with, in, by)
(ii) You must return these books latest ......... Monday.
(D) Fill in the blanks choosing the correct modal given in brackets: (2)
(i) "Cars .......... not be parked here." (must/could/had to)
(ii) .............. you stop making all that noise? (will/can/shall)
(E) Fill in the blanks choosing the correct determiner given in brackets:
(2)
(i) He has not taken .......... food. (some/any)
(ii) The teacher gave remark to ......... boy (each/every)

Q.9. Do as directed (any five) (5)
(i) Who committed a mistake? (change the voice)
(ii) Put the verb given in bracket into simple future tense:
(a) There (is) no Party for a month.
(iii) He said, "Honesty is the best policy." (change the narration)
(iv) (a) My Sister lives in Rewa.
(b) She is a doctor.
(combine the sentences using defining relative clause)
(v) That city on the hill has a fine museum.
(Rewrite replacing the adjective phrase by adjective clause)

(vi) Rewrite the sentence beginning with it.
(a) Swimming is a good exercise.
(vii) Rewrite the following sentence using appropriate form of
participle.
(a) I looked through some old papers and came across this letter.

Section 'D' (Text Book)
Q.10 Read the extract carefully and answer the questions that follow.
(A) "May that which guides men like a good charioteer.
Who controls fleet footed horses with the reins,
That which abides in the heart, most swift and active, may that my
mind resolve on what is good.".

Question:
(a) The poem from which these lines have been taken is: (1)
(i) Goodwill (ii) if
(ii) To the Cuckoo (iv) The Bridge Builder
(b) The one word used for, a long narrow band usually of feather by
which a horse is controlled; in the extract is: (1)
(i) abide (ii) fleet
(iii) reins (iv) Charioteer
(c) In what sense is the word 'Mind' used in this poem? (2)
(B) "A youth, whose fleet must pass this way,
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair faired youth maya pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

Question.
(a) The poet of these lines is: (1)
(i) John keats (ii) W.A. Drom goole
(iii) William Wordsworth (iv) W.B. Yeats
(b) The one word used for mistake that can easily be made in the
extract is:
(i) Pitfall (ii) naught
(iii) Twilight (iv) chasm
(c) What did the old mantell his fellow pilgrim? (2)
Q.11 How did Gerrad finally confine the intruder into the cupboard? (4)

OR
How far is a school or educational institution accountable for the
future of its students? Support your answers with the arguments
given in the play 'REFUND'.
Q.12 Describe some of the activities that the inmates at Tolstoy Farm
took up for Physical exercise. (5)

OR
Discuss the story Happy Prince as an indirect criticism of the
insensitivity and shallow thinking of man.
Q.13 'A Friend in need is a friend indeed'. How did Sue prove that she
was a friend indeed? (8)

OR
There is nothing more valuable than wisdom in this world.'
Examine this statement in the light of the message emerging from
the story.

MODEL ANSWER
English -X (Special)
Time: 3 Hours MM-100
Section-A
Q.1 Answer.
(a) Lawn mower (1)
(b) True (1)
(c) Belief (1)
(d) Computers cannot think like people. (2)
(e) Both have no mind to think like people (2)
(f) To store (1)

•1 each for correct objective answer.
•2 each for correct content.
Q.2 Answer.
(a) Dr. S. Radha Krishnan (1)
(b) Outstrip (1)
(c) Assume (1)
(d) The speaker warns that power outstrips ability (1)
(e) W have to assume the responsibility ourselves. (2)
(f) We have to check corruption in high Places and root out
nepotism in order to raise the standards of efficiency in
administration. (2)

•1 each for correct objective answer.
•2 each for correct content.
Q.3 Answer.
(a) (i) Striving (1)
(ii) dreary (1)
(iii) Fragments (1)
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(b) The entire world (1)
(c) The poet here speaks of the division of society on the basis of
caste, creed and religion (2)
(d) The present world is a slave of darkness. It has no vision. (2)
(e) The rebirth of India after independence. (2)
(f) The heaven of freedom is the attainment of knowledge. (2)
(g) Poet wants free knowledge for all. It is the other freedom. (2)
•1 mark for each correct objective answer.
•2 marks each for correct content.

Section 'B'
Q.4 Answer. Say No To Polythene Bags (5)
The Mahila Kalyan Samiti of Vijay Nagar Organized campaign
from 5th to the 10th of this months to form an awareness in the
society about the hazards of the polythene bags slogans were
written on the banners and those banners were displayed at several
places to attract the attention of people. The members of Mahila
Kalyan Samiti were divided into four groups. Group by group they
visited people in their residences and made them know to the
disadvantages of Polythene use. People were taught. that Polythene
bags are not biodegradable. There bags chokes sewer lines. They
also spoil the fertility of our soil. Shopkeepers were guided not to
make the use of polythene carry bags. People demonstrated great
interest in the campaign most of them swore never to use Polythene
bags in life. They decided to tell their views to others.
Kamlesh Sharma
Responsible citizen

OR
Answer.
Childhood is the golden period in every man's life. It is that period
when children are not worried about anything. It has its own
Pleasures and pains. In childhood, I used to get tonnes of love and
affection. I was pampered and cared and given everything I asked
for but within limits I used to find joy and happiness all around me.
I enjoyed eating sweets and playing with colourful balls and
balloon. As a child, I was a quick learner therefore my elders were
very careful when they spoke in front of me, they never used a
wrong word in my presence. I had to do what my elders felt was
right for me, may be therefore I desired to grow up soon and
become free to take up my decision, but I some times do regret and
desire for my childhood to return to me even if is for a flying
moment.

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