STD XI Unit-Test – I ENGLISH (२०२१-२२)

 

MSG  JUNIOR COLLEGE, MALEGAON (NASHIK)

Unit-Test – I (२०२१-२२)

Sub.:- English

      Std:12^th                         Marks:25             Time: 1 hrs.

Q.1 A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

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Punctually at midday, he opened his bag and spread out his profession equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and bundle of palmyra writing. His forehead was resplendent with scared ash and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome of a continual searching look for customers, but which is simple clients took be a prophetic light and felt comforted.

The power of his eyes was considerably enhanced by their position- placed as they were between the painted forehead and the dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks: even a half-wit’s eyes would sparkle in such a setting. To crown the effect he wound a saffron-colored turban around his head. This color scheme never failed. People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks. He sat under the boughs of spreading tamarind tree which flanked a path running through the Town Hall Park.

It was remarkable place in many ways a surging crowd was always moving up and down this narrow road morning till night. A variety of trades and occupation was represented all along its way: medicine sellers of stolen hardware and junk, magician and, above all, an auctioneer of cheap cloth, who created enough din all day to attract the whole town. Next to him in vociferousness came a vendor of fried groundnuts who gave his ware a fancy name each day, calling it Bombay Ice-Cream one day and on the next Delhi Almond, and on the third Raja’s Delicacy, and so on and so forth, and people flocked to him.

A1. Web

Complete the web with the professional equipment mentioned in the extract.

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   Square piece of cloth

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Professional Equipment

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

Palmyra writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A2.	Describe the market place 50 words.			(2)
A3.	Find			(2)
	The prophet made special arrangements to attract people. Finds its proof from the extract
A4.	Personal Response			(2)
Write in 50 words about the career you like to choose in your life.
A5.	Language Study (Do as directed)			(2)
	1)  This color scheme never failed.
	(Make an affirmative without changing the meaning)
	2)  To crown the effect, he wound a saffron-colored turban his head.
	(Make compound sentence)
A6.	Vocabulary			(2)
Match the words given in “A” with their meaning given in “B”.
	A	B
1) punctually		a) unclear
2) remarkable		b) holy
3) obscure		c) striking
4) sacred		d) at the proper time
B) Grammar				(3)

 

i) He puts his books------- table (Choose an appropriate an article a/an/the)

 

ii) He comes ------- 9 a.m. ---------- Sunday (Choose an appropriate preposition in/on/at)

 

iii) He was making proud of us (Identify Tense)

 

Q.2) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

 

Healthy, free, the world before me,

 

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

 

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,

 

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,

 

Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,

 

Strong and content I travel the open road.

 

The earth, that is sufficient,

 

I do not want the constellations any nearer,

 

I know they are very well where they are,

 

I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

 

 

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,

 

I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,

 

I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,

 

I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)

 

 

 

 

A1. Complete		(2)
Complete the following table with the describing words use for them.
Words		Describing words
Speaker	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
World	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Road	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Burden	------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A2. Locate		(2)
Locate any two lines showing ‘carefree mood’ of the poet and write them down.
A3. Personal Response		(2)
Give any two problems which you may face during a journey. Give the ways to overcome these
problems.
A4. Figure of speech		(2)

 

i)                    Name and explain the figure of speech from the following line.

 

“Still here I carry my old delicious burdens”

 

ii)                  Give one example of inversion from the poem.

 

A5. Poetic creativity	(2)
Compose a short poem in about four line on ‘My Life’

 

 

 

Best Of Luck