CS (Main Exam), 2014
ENGLISH
( COMPULSORY )
Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 300
QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of the following instructions carefully
before attempting questions
All questions are to be attempted.
The number of marks carried by a question is indicated against it.
Answers must be written in ENGLISH only.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to and if answered in much longer or shorter than the prescribed length, marks may be deducted.
Any page or portion of the page left blank in the Question-cum-Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
(a) What kind of crisis is India facing _moral or economic ?
(b) Participating in sports helps develop good character.
(c) Should students be allowed to grade their teachers ?
(d) Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted.
Q2. Read carefully the passage below and write your answers to the questions that
follow in clear, correct and concise language: : 5x15=75
A complete reading program, therefore, should include four factors:
at least one good book each week, a newspaper or news magazine, magazines
of comment and interpretation, and book reviews. If you keep feeding your
intelligence with these four foods, you can be sure that your brain cells will be
properly nourished. To this must be added the digestive process that comes
from your own thinking and from discussion with individuals or groups.
It is often desirable to make books that you own personally part of your
mind by underlining or by marking in the margin the more important
statements. This will help you to understand the book as you first read it,
because out of the mass of details you must have selected the essential ideas. It
will help you to remember better the gist of the book, since the physical act of
underlining, with your eyes on the page, tends to put the thought more firmly
into your brain cells, It will save time whenever you need to refer to the book.
Above all, never forget that creative intelligence is correlation of facts
and ideas, not mere memorizing. What counts is what you can do with your
knowledge, by linking it with other things you have studied or observed. If you
read Plutarch’s life of Julius Caesar, think how his rise to political power
paralleled the technique of Adolf Hitler, or that of your local political boss. If
you read a play by Shakespeare, think how his portrayal of the characters
helps you to understand someone you know. In everything you read, keep at
the back of your mind what it means to your life here and now, how it supports
or challenges the things you were taught in school, in church and at home, and
how the wisdom you get from books can guide you in your thinking, in your
career, in your voting as a citizen and in your personal morals.
Questions :
(a) What are the four things required for a complete reading program and
why? 15
(b) What else is required to feed your intelligence ? 15
(c) ‘Why does the writer recommend underlining or marking in the margin
the more important statements ? 15
(d) What use can you put' your knowledge to ? 15
(e) How can what you learn from books help you in your life ? 15
Q3. Make a précis of the following passage in about one-third of its-length. Please
‘do not give a title to it. Précis should be written in your own language.
If this century has, in the famous phrase, made. the world safe for
democracy, the next challenge is to make a world safe for diversity. It is in
India’s interest to ensure that the world as a whole must reflect the idea that is
already familiar to all Indians — that it shouldn’t matter what the colour of
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your skin is, the kind of food you eat, the sounds you make when you speak, _
the God you choose to worship(or not), so long as you want to play by the' same :
rules as everybody else, and dream the same dreams. It is not essential in a
democratic world to agree all the time, as long as we agree on the ground rules
of how we will disagree. These are the global principles we must strive to
uphold if we are to be able to continue to uphold them securely at home.
We want a world that gives us the conditions of peace and security that
will permit us to grow and flourish, safe from foreign depredations but-open to
external opportunities. Whether global institutions adapt and revive will be
determined by whether those in charge are capable of showing the necessary
leadership. Right now many of us would suggest that there is a global
governance deficit. Reversing it would require. strong leadership in the
international community by a number of powers, including the emerging ones.
India is an obvious contender to provide some of that leadership. India should :
aim not just at being powerful - it should set néw standards for what the
powerful must do.
This is a huge challenge; and one to which India must rise. An analogy
from another field is not encouraging; many would argue that India has not
acquitted itself well when given the chance to have global impact in one domain — that of the sport of cricket, where India accounts for more than
80 percent of the game’s revenues and perhaps 90 percent of its viewership, :
giving it an impact on the sport that no country can rival. Clearly,
international opinion does not believe that in its domination of world cricket,
India has set new standards for what the powerful must do. Broadening the
analogy to global geopolitics, one could well say : India, your world needs you.
So India must play its due part in the stewardship of the global
commons(including everything from the management of the Internet to the
rules governing the exploitation of outer space). We can do it. India is turning
increasingly outward as a result of our new economic profile on the global
stage, our more dispersed interests around the world, and the reality that
other countries, in our neighbourhood as well as in Africa, are locking to us for
support and security. India has the ability and the vision to promote global
partnerships across the broad range of its interests; it only needs to act.
The world economic crisis should give us an opportunity to promote
economic integration with our neighbours in the subcontinent who look to the
growing Indian market to sell their goods and maintain their own growth. But
as long as South Asia remains divided by futile rivalries, and some continue to
believe that terrorism can be a useful instrument of their strategic doctrines,
that is bound to remain a distant prospect. We in South Asia need to look to
the future, to an interrelated future on our subcontinent, where geography
becomes an instrument of opportunity in a mutual growth story, where history _
binds rather than divides, where trade and cross-border links flourish and
bring prosperity to all our peoples. (603 words)
Q4. (a) Rewrite the following sentences after making necessary corrections.
Please do not make unnecessary changes in the original sentence.
1x10=10 :
(i) School is very near my home. .
(ii) They never fail who die in great cause.
(iii) It rained an hour before.
(iv) He wrote a most complete account of his travels.
(v) Either of these three answers is incorrect.
(vi) You will be late until you hurry.
(vii) He is seldom or ever absent from school.
(viii) The colours so passed off one another that she could not distinguish them.
(ix) The general as well as his soldiers were killed in the battle.
(x) . The boat was drowned.
(b) Supply the missing words: 1 x 5 = 5
(i) If you see him give him ____ message.
(ii) hope to reach the station____ an hour at the outside.
(iii) _______ Rustam and Sohrab, there were three other boys present.
(iv) Invalids are not capable _____ continued exertion.
(v) _____ he had not paid his bill, his electricity we cut off.
(c) Use the correct forms of the verbs in brackets : 1 x 5 = 5
(i) His company is greatly ____ after. (seek)
(ii) His courage _____ him.(forsake)
(iii) The terrified people _____ to the mountains.(flee)
(iv) The police ______ no stone unturned to trace the culprits.
(leave)
(v) The robber ______ him a blow on the head. (strike)
(d) Write the antonyms of the following :
(i) Ability
(ii) Precise
(iii) Constructive
(iv) Extravagant
(v) Pretentious
Q5 (a) Rewrite each of the following sentences as directed without changing the Meaning:
1 x 10 = 10
(i) He finished his exercise and put away his books.
(Change into simple)
(ii) In the event of his being late, he will be punished. (Change into compound)
(iii) He said to me, “I have often told you not to play with fire.”
(Change into indirect speech)
(iv) He said that he had come to see them. (Change into direct speech)
(v) He drove too fast for the police to catch. (Remove ‘too’)
(vi) The audience loudly cheered the Mayor's speech.
(Change into passive voice)
(vii) A reward was given to him by the Governor.
(Change into active voice)
(viii) Sita is not one of the cleverest girls in the class.
(Change into comparative degree)
(ix) I was doubtful whether it was you.
(Change into negative form)
(x) It is sad to think that youth should pass away.
(Change into exclamatory sentence)
(b) Use each of the following words to make a sentence that out their
meaning clearly. Do not change the form of the words. (No marks will be
given for vague and ambiguous sentences) . 1 x 6 = 5
(i) gratitude
(ii) flavour
(iii) explosion
(iv) dismal
(v) clumsy
(c) Choose the appropriate word to fill in the blank: 1 x 5 = 5
(i) He got a _____ blow from his enemy. (deadly/deathly)
(ii) The of his speech was very lucid and natural.-
(delivery/deliverance)
(iii) I do not know how to express my gratitude; you1 have been
to me. (beneficial/beneficent)
(iv) My friend will me to the hospital. (accompany/escort)
(v) We sat in the of a tree and relaxed a “while.
(shadow/shade)
(d) Use these phrases in sentences of your own to bring out their meaning
clearly. Do not change the form of the words. 1 x 5 = 5
(i) According to
(ii) All of a-sudden
(iii) Ready-money
(iv) A burning question
(v) Ins and outs
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