EVALUATION- I (2016-2017) SET
A
NAME: _______________
R.NO: ____
DATE:
CLASS: XI MARKS: 25 TIME: 1 Hr.
SUBJECT: ENGLISH CORE
SECTION A –READING SKILLS (5)
I. Read the following passage and answer the
questions that follow:
The Sluggard
‘tis the voice of the sluggard; I
heard him complain,
“you have wakened me too soon, I must
slumber again.”
As the door on its hinges, so he on
his bed,
Turns his sides and shoulders and his
heavy head.
“A little more sleep, and a little
more slumber;”
Thus he wastes half his days, and his
hours without number,
And when he gets up, he sits folding
his hands,
Or walks about sauntering, or
trifling he stands.
I pass’d by his garden, and saw the
wild brier,
The thorn and the thistle grow
broader and higher;
The clothes that hang on to him are
rags;
And his money still wastes till he
starves or he begs.
I made him a visit, still hoping to
find
That he took better care for
improving his mind:
He told me his dreams, talked of
eating and drinking;
But scarce reads his Bible, and never
loves thinking.
Said I then to my heart, “Here’s a
lesson for me,”
This man’s but a picture of what I
might be:
But thanks to my friends for their
care in my breeding,
Who taught me betimes to love working
and reading.
1.1 Choose the correct option: (1)
a. The word
___________, in stanza 1, means the same as ‘sleep’
i.
Sluggard
ii.
Slumber
iii.
Heavy head
b. ‘sauntering’
means the same as_______
i.
Running very fast
ii.
Walking in a very slow manner
iii.
Hectic activity
1.2. Find words or phrases in
the poem which mean the same as: (1)
i. Countless
ii. rarely
1.3
Answer the given questions briefly: (3)
i.
What does the sluggard long for?
ii.
Why did the poet visit him?
iii.
What does the simile in stanza 1
imply?
SECTION B: ADVANCED WRITING SKILLS AND GRAMMAR (12)
2. Put the verbs in bracket in the correct tense and rewrite the
following: (2)
India (have) many calendars which Indians
(use) since very early times. More than thirty (be) still in use.
One difficulty about having so many calendars
(be) that the same date falls on different days according to
each.
3. Literary Club of your school is going to organize a Literary Meet at
Cluster level. Write a notice in about 50
words being the Secretary of the Literary
Club of your school inviting students from higher classes for being
volunteers. Invent other details. (4)
4. ‘All over
the verandah and in her room right up to where she lay dead and stiff wrapped
in the red shroud,
thousands
of sparrows sat scattered on the floor. There was no chirruping. ‘
The
sparrows took no notice of the bread. When we carried my grandmother’s corpse
off, they flew away
quietly.’
Animals do recognize and value a relationship established with human beings.
Write an article
pertaining
to the above sentence. (6)
SECTION C: LITERATURE (8)
5. Answer the following
questions briefly: (2)
‘And forever, by day and night,
I give back life to my own origin.
And make pure and beautify it.
(For song, issuing from its birth place, after fulfilment,
wandering reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns)’
1) How is the cyclic movement
of rain brought out in the poem?
2) What is the significance of the world
‘song’ here?
6. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words: (6)
i.
January 2 was crucial for the
voyagers. How?
ii.
What philosophy of life does
the poem by Toulson reflect?
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