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Instructions : (1) All Questions are compulsory. (2) Answer each next main Question on a new page. (3) Figures to the right indicate full marks. (4) Mobile Phone, Pager and any other Electronic Communication devices are not permissible in Examination Hall.

Marks 1. (A) Answer any EIGHT of the following in one sentence : (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) What has enabled India to prosper with self-sufficiency in food and other achievements ? What resolution did Shaw carry out ? Why did Herman stay with his mother ? What is Gandhiji aiming at ? What had Kalpana Chawla fantasized about ? What was Bedis deliberate thought of line ? What is the difference between the painted face of age and youth ? What should the labourer assured of ? How does Thurber describe the look of the reporter ? 16

(10) What is important to become an effective public speaker ? (B) Answer any THREE of the following in 5-6 sentences each : (1) (2) (3) (4) According to Gardiner, what are the symptoms of a diseased mind ? How did Bedi deal with her criminals in her Open-door policy ? What does Chawla say to explain her own internal focus to become an Aeronautical Engineer ? What are the side effects of smog ?
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(A) Answer any ONE of the following in 150 words : 08 (1) Recount in your own words, Shaws experiences as a public speaker. (2) Explain in your own words the impact of machinery on human life. (3) What aspects of modern life does Gardiner satirise in this essay ? (B) Give meanings of any four of the following words : 04 Surpass, tenacity, drenches, drudgery, whammed, entrepreneurs Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions : 10 Any discussion of desertification of land and the need to arrest it seems to propose that there is only one way to deal with the problem, and that is to plant trees on barren hills and wastelands. In the arid and the semi-arid regions of Maharashtra, which fall within the rain shadow of the Sahyadris, massive efforts are being made in this direction by the departments of forestry, social forestry and soil conservation. After three to seven years, the period fixed by Government, its protection is withdrawn, the local people start cutting the trees for fire wood, the fence is breached and cattle allowed to graze indiscriminately and the forest vanishes within months. The only objectives achieved are to demonstrate that a tree cover can be established in such areas and to provide work for three Government departments and to a few local people. Such efforts are doomed to failure for several reasons. The most important factor in the success of a project of this sort is its economic viability. It can never be economically viable to plant trees in barren places which have no soil and probably never had any tree cover. Even in lands which have 30 to 40 cm of soil, tree growth is so slow that barely one tonne of wood gets added per hectare per year. This is not sufficient to cover the cost of seedlings, planting cost, initial watering and protection. Naturally, the people who see these forests will not feel that the effort is worth emulating. (1) What is this passage about ? 01 (2) How could the problem of desertification be dealt in the semi-arid regions of Maharashtra ? 01 (3) What happens when the protection is withdrawn ? 02 (4) Who are benefitted ? 01 (5) Why are these efforts doomed ? 02 (6) Give opposites of (a) barren (b) deforestation. 02 (7) Give a suitable title. 01

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(A) Do as directed (any TEN) : 10 (i) Practicals were being performed by the students. (Change the voice) (ii) Spring is the loveliest season. (Change the degree) (iii) The motor-cyclist was going too fast for the police-car to overtake it. (Remove too) (iv) They purchased a plot. (Add a question tag) (v) How depressed he looks ! (Make assertive) (vi) Do you expect to get money from the office ? If yes, I would like to borrow from you. (Combine the sentences) (vii) He was killed _______ an accident. (Use preposition) (viii) Public libraries are not well equipped. (Insert a few/the few) (ix) Curry and rice _______ my favourite food. (Fill in the blank with a verb in agreement with its subject) (x) I am not so intelligent as you. (Make an affirmative sentence) (xi) Yesterday he met man, man was engineer. (Change into a complex sentence) (xii) We won the match. (Make an exclamatory sentence). (B) Use appropriate conjunctions : 06 (than, while, only, after, though, that, since) (i) _______ there is life, there is hope. (ii) I would agree _______ in difficulties. (iii) I am so tired _______ I could not stand. (iv) Wisdom is better _______ riches. (v) He returned home _______ I left. (vi) _______ he blamed me; I stood by him. (C) Change the speech (any TWO) : 04 (i) He asked me when I intend to join the services. (ii) The officer said, You may leave now. (iii) She said, Are you coming to the class today ? (A) Develop a paragraph on any one of the following in 75 words : (1) Global warming (2) Readers are leaders (3) Teaching as a profession (B) Classify the following words under the given heads (any FOUR) : (Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective) triumphantly, facilitate, toxic, pioneer, suspicion 06

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(C) Correct the following sentences : (1) She is more educated than me. (2) Advertisement the post. (3) Iron is most useful than any other metal. (4) Not more oil is produced in our country. 6. (A) Give the antonyms of the following : duplicity, distract (B) Give the synonyms of the following : delay, cunning (C) Fill in the blanks with appropriate homophones : (1) (2) (3) (4) (1) (2) (3) (4) He was standing _______ me. (besides / beside) You may _______ the arrangement. (alter / altar) All were present _______ him. (accept / except) _______ a minute. (Weight / Wait)

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(D) Punctuate the following sentences : is there any doctor here The boy said to the headmaster good morning sir You say said the judge that the bag contained money The storm is over we can go now

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(E) Read the given text and supply the missing clues from the list to fill in the blanks : 04 [unity, attack, paralyse, intelligent, damage, body, blood, hopeless] The mind has a _______ of its own. Somehow the most varied elements, sensations, emotions, thought and will, are held together. Inspite of this unity, the mind depends on the _______. If you cut off the _______ supply from the parts of the brain, the most _______ man becomes _______ idiot. An _______ of lethargic encephalitis often turns a previously good child into a little criminal. Serious _______ to the frontal lobes may __________ initiative. ___________