Section – A (Reading)
1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Drinking water plays a vital role in our lives. Consumers, these days are
choosing bottled water over tap water. This may be for several reasons,
including taste, quality, and convenience. The bottled water industry provides
citizens with clean and safe drinking water. In bottled water plants, water is
treated using several processes to obtain purified water as per government
standards. The treated water is bottled and sealed under hygienic conditions.
Bottled water is also a healthy alternative to packaged beverages that have
high sugar and calorie content, artificial flavoursand colours. Moreover, after
natural calamities such as floodsor fires,the public water resources often get
contaminated . During these times, bottled water becomes a reliable source for
clean and safe drinking water.
Although, advertisements of bottled water show images of beautiful streams
and pristine surroundings,many bottled water companies use public water
sources. Moreover, bottled water costs several times more than tap water! Tap
water may sometimes be less clean but it is better in taste.
Yet, Why do people all over the world buy millions of bottles of water every
week?
Bottled water companies use marketing tactics to influence people to buy
bottled water rather than consume tap water. Then, they argue that they are
meeting consumer demand. They call it the most environmentally responsible consumer product in the
world. However, a lot of fuel is utilized in making the plastic water bottles and
transporting them to different places. The biggest problem is the disposal of
empty bottles. Eighty percent of the empty bottles end up in landfills, where they will lie for
thousands of years. Others are burned in incinerators, releasing toxic
pollutants.The rest are recycled.
Ideally, bottles should be recycled back into bottles. Instead, these bottles are
turned into some other low quality product that would also be thrown later. The
parts that cannot be recycled are thrown away to form another heap of plastic
waste. In fact, plastic bottle industry is one of the causes of polluting water
resources. Around the world, about a billion people don’t have access to clean water. Yet,
many countries spend a large amount of money to deal with all the empty
plastic bottles.
Wouldn’t it be worthwhile to spend money to prevent pollution and improve
public water supply systems?
1.1 Answer the following questions. 2x4=8
(a) Why are people choosing bottled water over tap water?
(b) What are the advantages of tap water over bottled water?
(c) How is bottled water not an environmentally responsible product?
(d) What would be more worthwhile than spending money on disposing empty
plastic bottles?
2. Do as directed 1x4=4
(a) Most bottled water industries obtain water from ...
i. glaciers
ii. mountain streams
iii. public water sources
iv. oceans and seas
(b) The biggest problem with bottled water is ...
i. cost of water
ii. disposal of the bottle
iii. quality of plastic
iv. quality of water
(c) The antonym of the word ‘pristine’ (para 3) is ...
i. pure
ii. perfect
iii. soiled
iv. spotless
(d) Which word in the text means ‘strategies’ ...
i. access
ii. resources
iii. influences
iv. tactics
Section –B (Writing and Grammar)
1. Write an article in about 100/120 words on your state or any town in the state as
a place of tourist interest.
The article should include location, topography, tourist attractions, people,
languages spoken, flora and fauna, weather conditions, best time to visit and
other highlights. 9
2. Complete the following paragraph by filling in the blanks with the help of
the given options. 1x3=3
There has been a lot of (a)......... about why the teamplayed badly in the final of
the Champions Trophy.The coach claimed that it (b).........because of lack of
(c)............."
(a) (i) speculation (ii) speculate (iii) speculating (iv) speculator
(b) (i) has done (ii) did so (iii) have done (iv)do so
(c) (i) experiencing (ii) experienced (iii) experience (iv)experience able
3. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line.
Write the error and its correction as shown in the example. 1⁄2 x6=3
Error Correction
The necessary of personal cleanliness and e.g necessary necessity
environment clean is known to us. (a)
An healthy environment (b)
Has a bad effective on our body.Some people (c)
understand the important of cleanliness and (d)
follow right habitat. Others throw dirt and (e)
filthy in the environment. (f)
4. Look at the words and phrases below. Rearrange them to form
meaningful sentences. Write the correct sentences in your answer sheet.
1x3 = 3
(a) of the/ President /crowd / waved / the/ his hand / the /cheers / to acknowledge
(b) of the rope strands is made many of fibre together woven
(c) Passengers / all/ the /The/ safety/ rescue ship/ brought back / to/ from/ the/
team sinking.
Section -C (Literature)
a) And somehow I had always been able to dig one up for him, so I’d begun to get
a bit cocky as to my ability’. (1x3=3)
(i) Who is referred to as ‘him’?
(ii) What was the speaker able to dig up for him?
(iii) What other job did the writer do?
(iv) What does the phrase ‘to get a bit cocky’ mean?
(b) ‘With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow (1x3=3)
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
The southward aye we fled.’
(i) Who is the pursuer (foe) and who is being pursued here?
(ii) Explain: ‘Still treads the shadow of his foe.’
(iii) In which direction did the ship flee?
(iv) Where did the ship reach after the storm?
6. Answer the following in 30-40 words. 2x2=4
(a) What surprising revelation is made by the ghost? Why did the writer not believe
her?
(b) What is the poet trying to convey through the poem – ‘The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner’?
7. Answer the following in 80-100 words. 2x4=8
(a) How did the narrator get rid of the Ouija board?
(b) Describe the hardships that the sailors had to undergo when the ship was
stuck in the silent sea.
8. Answer the following in 200-250 words.
(a) Why did Helen feel compelled to give an account of the ‘Frost King’ episode?
(b) What was Mr.Anagnos’ attitude towards Helen in the “The Frost King’ episode?
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