SSC Model Paper-14 (Covering all the syllabus)

English

Time: 3hours Max. Marks .80

Instructions:

I. Read the question paper carefully.

II. Answer the questions under Part-A in the answer booklet.

III. Write the answers to the questions under Part-B on the question paper itself.

IV. Avoid overwriting.

PART-A

Marks 60

Q. No. (1-4) Read the following passage

Nick has a small foot on his left hip which helps him balance and enables him to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up between his toes.

‘I call it my chicken drumstick,’ joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Los Angeles. ‘I’d be lost without it.’

Due to his faith as an Evangelical Christian, Nick has chosen to remain a virgin until marriage.

'He's very modest but he gets marriage proposals from women all the time,' said Nick's friend and publicist Steve Appel, from Los Angeles.

'He would love to get married and start a family but he's waiting for the right girl to come along.'

Water sports aren't Nick's only thing - he also plays golf with a club tucked under his chin, and is a huge fan of the English Premier League. (Attitude is Altitude)

Answer each of the following questions in three to four sentences 4x3=12

1. How does his small foot help Nick?

2. Who was Steve Appel? What was he?

3. ‘I call it my chicken drumstick,’ Explain.

4. If you were one of Nick’s friends, how would you help him?

Q. No. (5-8) Read the following passage

'Dear wife,' he said, 'never in my life will I ride a horse again. Please take this letter to our king and tell him that the enemy has run away. I am going to bed.' His wife ran towards the palace with the letter. When the king read the letter, he was full of praise for his new General. He asked the potter's wife where her husband was. 'My husband is tired, Your Majesty. The servants have put him to bed,' answered the wife respectfully. 'Let him rest today. Tell him to come tomorrow to receive his reward,' the king said.

Next morning the potter went to the king's palace. He left the brown horse in the stable and walked to the palace with his wife. The streets were filled with cheering crowds. They had all heard about his brave action.

'Look how humble he is,' they said to each other. 'Any other man would ride to the palace on a horse but he is walking like an ordinary man. He's truly a humble and brave man.' The king rewarded the potter so well that he did not need to work again. The country was peaceful for the rest of his life and the potter never rode a horse again. (The Brave Potter)

Answer each of the following questions in three to four sentences 4x3=12

5. 'Look how humble he is,' they said to each other. Why do you think they said so?

6. Why did he leave his horse in that stable the next morning?

7. What was the letter? Who wrote it? What was in it?

8. Find the false statements.

A. The king gave the potter a horse as a reward.

B. The potter's wife delivered a message to the king.

C. The people praised the potter for his bravery.

D. The potter enjoyed riding horses.

E. The potter continued to work as a potter after the war.

Q. No. (9-12) The poster given below provides some information. Study the poster carefully and answer the following questions. 4 X 2 = 8

9. What is the poster informing about?

10. According to the poster what to do if you are sick?

11. Write any three ways of maintaining good hygiene.

12. According to the poster what are to be limited?

Q. No. (13). Read the passage given below focusing on the parts that are underlined. Answer any 4 of the questions as directed and write them in the answer booklet. 4X2=8

i) Anil wore a shirt and it was red. ii) His wife ironed the shirt for him. iii) ‘It is the most beautiful shirt I have ever got’ thought Anil. iv) It has got flowers painted on it. v) The shirt is a little longer than other shirts. They are in the cupboard. vi) He lost it. He would feel very sad.

i. Rewrite the sentence using ‘a red shirt’

ii. Rewrite the sentence beginning with ‘The shirt’

iii. Report the sentence.

iv. Rewrite the sentence by adding a tag question.

v. Combine the two sentences using ‘which/that’.

vi. Combine the two sentences using ‘If’

Q. No. 14. You have read the one-act-play ‘The Never-Never-Nest’. Now convert the one-act-play into a story. Use the characters as the same or different. Illustrate the story in your own words.10M

There is an advertisement about the post of management trainee on the notice board of your college. Now write a letter of application to apply the post addressing the Personnel Manager of the firm.

Q. No. 15. You have known that there was a great friendship cemented between Satyajit Ray and Gaston Roberge. They have worked together for the betterment of the film industry. They together shared many years. At last Roberge met Ray when he was on the deathbed. Ray was so weak. He said, ‘Bhalo laglo’. Roberge couldn’t bear the situation and returned home. It was the last moment they spent together in the hospital and even in their life too. Imagine that when Roberge returned home he made an entry in his diary. Now, write an imaginary diary of him. 5M

Q. No. 16. Imagine that you are the president of the Health Club in your school. Most of the students are not cleaning or washing their hands and plates before meal and found that they who don’t maintain personal hygiene often fall sick.

Now prepare a poster in order to make the students aware of “Personal Hygiene” in your school to display on the notice board. 5M

Part-B

Instructions:

1. Answer the questions on the question paper itself and attach it to the answer booklet of Part-A

2. Avoid overwriting

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Q. No. (17-21). Read the following passage carefully.

Trees are the kindest things I know,

They do no harm, they simply grow

And spread a shade for sleepy cows,

And gather birds among the boughs –

They are the first when day’s begun

To touch the beams of morning sun

They are the last to hold the light

When evening changes into night,

And when a moon floats on the sky

They hum a drowsy lullaby

Of sleepy children long at –

Trees are the kindest things I know. [Harry Behn]

Now answer the questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the correct answer and write A, B, C or D in the brackets given 5X1=5

17. According to the poet, the kindest things are …. ( )

A) children B) cows C) trees D) birds

18. And gather birds among the boughs – Here ‘boughs’ means … ( )

A) branches of a tree

C) leaves of a tree

B) stump of a tree

D) roots of a tree

19. How are the trees helpful to cows? ( )

A) By giving shade

C) By giving firewood

B) By giving milk

D) By giving timber

20. How do trees help the mankind? ( )

A) Food

C) Building material

B) Oxygen

D) All the above

21. What are the uses of growing trees? ( )

A) We can get food and firewood B) We can get fruit and vegetable

C) We can get healthy air and atmosphere D) All the above

Q. No. (22-26). In the following passage, five sentences are numbered and each of them has an error. Correct them and rewrite them in the given space. 5X1=5

Bayaji had packed his entire household goods in this box. 22) There was no longer any reason to hang around at Bombay. 23) He had worked honest for the past thirty-five years in the dockyard and had retired from service two months before. 24) Not that he had hold an important position. 25) He had merely got a extension for two years; during that period he had become a supervisor. 26) Otherwise his entire live had been spent lifting heavy loads. He had worked very hard whenever he could, day and night.

22……………………………………………………………………………………………

23………………………………………………………….……………….………………..

24……………………………………………………….…………………………………..

25……………………………………………………….…………………………………..

26……………………………………………………….…………………………………..

Q. No. (27-31) Complete the passage choosing the right word from those given below. Each blank is numbered and each blank has four choices (A), (B), (C) and (D). Choose the correct answer and write A, B, C or D in the brackets given. 5X1=5

Even though we have …………….… (27) the 21^st century more than a billion people are being in extreme …………….... (28), 40 million people are infected ……………..… (29) 104 million children do not have access to school …………….... (30) 860 million adults cannot …………………. (3231 or write.

27. (A) entering (B) entered (C) enter (D) enters ( )

28. (A) poor (B) poorly (C) poverty (D) poorest ( )

29. (A) from (B) with (C) of (D) by ( )

30. (A) and (B) but (C) or (D) so ( )

31. (A) reads (B) reading (C) read (D) red ( )

Q. No. (32-36). Read the following passage with focus on the underlined parts. Answer them as directed in the space given. 5X1=5

And in a clearing 200m away from the village, next (32) to a stream that the villagers get their drinking water from, is an enormous (33) pyramid of identical drums, reaching to the sky. Some of them are bad (34) corroded, their slimy contents of different (35) colours - grey, dark green, bright orange, etc. - leaking out, down, on to the baked African earth and into the stream. Some have fall (36) down and rolled - or been rolled by playful children - into the bush. Some are smoking in the midday heat.

32. Write the word that is opposite in meaning of the underlined word.