SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- I
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English Communicative
Maximum marks: 80 Time-3hours
The question paper is divided into four sections.Section A: Reading comprehension 20 marksSection B: Writing 20 marksSection C: Grammar 20 marksSection D: Literature 20 marksSECTION A(READING -20 MARKS)Q1 Read the following passage carefully. (5 Marks)Sponsored FestivalsThis is the high noon of the Age of Sponsorship. For several years now, we have become used to all kinds of events being sponsored. In many newspapers, every possible feature, barring the editorials, is sponsored. Even the daily weather report is.Student organizations, which were once content to hold low-key festivals in their college, now find corporate sponsors and get massive media exposure for such events.Ganesh Chaturthi, the festival was once an affair confined to individual homes. Today, in Mumbai it provides competition for rival sponsors as the size of the idols grows in height and girth every year and the festivities are held with greater gusto and noiseDuring Dushera, Mumbai reverberates to the beat of drums. Thousands of young people spend nights dancing to the various versions of the traditional Gujarati ‘garba’ dance- including the mutant-“disco garba”. It is one of those strange twists of irony that dance, which actually liberated women and gave them a legitimate reason to dance their hearts out, has now become a highly sponsored event in which there is no place for traditional ‘garba’ dancers. In the past, the dancing was free of both self consciousness, as it was a women’s dance, and commerce as it was held in the courtyard.Thus each year something precious is being lost –and the worst part of it is that the majority of us are not even aware of it.Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options from the ones given below:1) It is called the age of sponsorship asa) there’s too much money in the marketb) newspapers , festivals in colleges are all commercializedc) common man loves the paraphernaliad) money attracts the common man2) The role Garba played in the lives of the women in the past was to a) help them get rid of their inhibitionsb) provide a stage for their talentc) root them in traditiond) prove commercially viable for them3) Today Ganesh Chaturthi is a festival that a) is confined to individual homesb) provides an opportunity for sponsors to invest moneyc) is held with great fanfared) has a few sponsors4) ‘Mutant ’ in para 4 meansa) crazyb) unimaginablec) dangerousd) adapted or changed5) According to the author the greatest tragedy of sponsorship isa) the loss of moneyb) the focus on unnecessary expenditurec) the common man is being dupedd) the loss of the essence of our culture without realizing it Q2 Read the following poem carefully: (5 Marks) WHAT I LEAVE TO MY SONNo point in leaving you a long listOf those who have diedEven if I limit it to my friends and your unclesIt won’t do. Who could remember them all?My son, isn’t it true?The obituaries leave me indifferentas the weather. Sometimes they seem to matterEven less: How can that be, my son?I’ll leave you , yes,A treasure I’m always seeking, never findingCan you guess? Something wondrousSomething my father wanted for meAlthough (poor man!) it’s been nothingBut a mirage in the desertOf my life.My soul will join his now, prayingThat your generation may find it-Simply peace-Simply a life better than oursWhere you and friends won’t be forcedTo drag grief-laden feet down the roadTo mutual murder.Nguyen Ngoc Bich Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate options from the ones given below:1) The obituaries and weather a) have no significance for the poetb) leave the poet depressedc) matter a lot to the poetd) are an integral part of the poet’s survival2) The legacy the poet wishes to leave to his son isa) To live a life devoid of hatredb) To have a better life than his own generationc) To be a happy and responsible citizensd) All of the above3) Mutual murder is an example ofa) Imageryb) Alliterationc) Metaphord) Simile4) The poet‘s father’s wishes have been nothing but a) A dreamb) Something wondrousc) Treasure he always is seekingd) A mirage in the desert of his life5) The expression drag grief laden feet meansa) A life that has no aimb) Being unhappyc) Leading a slow lifed) Leading a life of monotony Q3 Read the following passage carefully: (5 Marks)The tree was young and strong and it took a long time to kill. It took two workmen with axes, two days, including tea breaks. Which without conscious irony, they took in the shade of the leafy branches of the tree they were chopping down. It was a Gulmohar I had planted 13 years ago, along with several other saplings, when Bunny and I moved into the National media centre. The NMC is built on a little over 22 acres and many hundreds of the local babul trees that used to cloak that part of the Haryana countryside like smoke from evening chullas must have been cut down to make way for the brick and cement of our colony. I’m not a tree hugger but still felt that some restitution was due. So Bunny and I planted several saplings.The two gulmohars at the rear were foot high saplings when we put them in the soil. In a few years their branches aflame with scarlet flowers in summer, rose above the first floor window, flooding the room with afterglow and screening from view the ugly scars of new construction in what had once been open fields behind our house. I felt the smugness of satisfaction, of having done the right thing. I’d given back, in however small a way, a little bit of what we take away from the earth everyday, everywhere.Righteousness invites its own revenge. The roots of one of the trees had spread, crushing the sewage system. The handyman gave us the choice of either cutting down the tree or its roots would endanger the foundations of the house.Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate option from the ones given below: 1) The irony in the first para is that thea) The tree was planted by the author but cut by the workmenb) The workmen chopped the tree that gave them shade.c) It took 13 years for the tree to growd) The author was not passionate about trees yet he planted them2) When the colony was settled, the author decided toa) make the outskirts greenerb) plant a few saplings around the housec) sulk in depressiond) start a movement3) The feeling the newly grown gulmohar trees evoked in the author was ofa) remorseb) pridec) self – satisfactiond) regret4) The writer had to get the free felled becausea) he was being righteousb) the house was in danger of being destroyedc) the tree had grown too talld) the sewage system was damaged5) Being righteous meansa) Doing things the correct wayb) Being aware of your rightsc) Following your heartd) Conscious of the ways of the world Q4 Read the following passage carefully: (5 Marks)Ask any parent anywhere on the planet and they will tell you that there is nothing sinister, nothing as singularly depressing as Arpita’s copy.Now this is not just a copy where a tidy conscientious child writes in copious details about everything, taking care to label things in boxes and uses eighteen different coloured pencils while describing ‘My favourite holiday’. This is actually a sinister plot hatched to make your parenting skills look bad by rival parents with way too much time, patience and colouring ability on their side. The child is merely an instrument; it is the parents who are graded.The whole school evaluation process grades parents with a bewilderingly complex classification that involves stars, smileys, goods, very goods, keep it up. Are two smileys better than a ‘good’ and a ‘keep it up’? And what about Arpita? What has she got?Today the child is seen as an entity that is moldable and the role of the parent is to build a person out of a child. This puts tremendous responsibility on parents who believe that their actions determine their child’s future and hence every small step becomes a BIG PROJECT where a minor mistake would make your child a dribbling sociopath tomorrow.Hence the persistent belief that enough is not being done for the child inspite of the unfortunate truth that more than enough is being done to him. Children need to perform in order to make parents feel good about themselves. In that sense, not much has changed; children still become instruments for the realisation of some parental goals. If earlier getting Into Science was enough to make parents proud, now almost nothing is good enough. Ninety per cent is too little and one extra-curricular activity too basic. And yes, there is always an Arpita lurking somewhere with her wretched copy.Answer the following questions by selecting the most appropriate option from the ones given below:1) The aspect of parenting that has not changed over the years isa) Expectations from children by societyb) Belief that nothing has changedc) Parents using children to realize their dreams.d) Parents doing the school assignments for their children2) The word ‘sinister’ in Para 1 means:a) Sinfulb) Complexc) Evild) Bad3) The role Arpita plays in the writer’s life is that ofa) someone who provides inspirationb) somebody who depresses herc) someone who pressurises her to do welld) someone who competes with the writer4) The writer is critical of the parents becausea) they take their role very seriouslyb) nothing satisfies themc) at every step, they worry about their child’s futured) all of the above5) The tone of the passage isa) encouragingb) remorsefulc) mockingd) sympathetic SECTION B (WRITING-20 MARKS)Q5 Write a paragraph using the notes of a journalist on the issue of extinction of species. (4 Marks)ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION - Project- launched –Natural History Museum, London
- Protection of vast species
- Mass wipe out in Decades
- Consequence of human action— wars, taking away too much from nature, hunting, loss of habitats
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