Madhyamik Model Question Set 3 | English Second Language

Section – A

Reading Comprehension (Seen)

Question – 1 :

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

A month later a letter came for Father. After he finished reading it, his eyes looked as if he had been crying. “Do you want to know what became of your kite?” he said. Then he sat down beside us and told us the whole story.

Father had a brother and a sister. He had quarrelled with his brother and left home. Years afterward, he felt sorry, and when he went back, he found his brother had died and he couldn’t find his sister.

The letter father had just received was from his sister, Aunt Esther, mother of Dick and Mimi. She was a widow who lived hundreds of miles inland. One day when Dick and Mimi were out in the woods, they discovered the kite on the top of a tree and carried it home. When their mother saw the kite patched with the letter, she turned pale. It was the very letter she had once written to her brother. Philippa was her mother’s name and Claude was her father’s. She knew who we must be. So she sat down and wrote to Big Half Moon, and Father received her letter.

Next day, Father went and brought Aunt Esther and Dick and Mimi with him. They have been here ever since. Aunt Esther is a dear and Dick and Mimi are too jolly for words.

A. Write the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences: [1 × 5 = 5]

(i) After reading the letter, Father looked to be—

(a) mourning

(b) weeping (Ans)

(c) laughing

(d) jesting

(ii) Father told them a story of their—

(a) friends

(b) colleagues

(c) kinsman (Ans)

(d) foes

(iii) Father fell out with his—

(a) brother (Ans)

(b) sister

(c) daughter

(d) both brother and sister

(iv) Philippa was the name of—

(a) father’s mother (Ans)

(b) Dick’s mother

(c) narrator’s mother

(d) Mimi’s aunt

(v) The kite was patched with the letter written by—

(a) Esther to her husband

(b) Esther to her brother (Ans)

(c) Father to her sister

(d) Philippa to Claude

B. Complete the following sentences with information from the text: [1 × 3 = 3]

(i) Uncle of the narrator died after ________.

(ii) Aunt Esther saw ________.

(iii) Claude was ________.

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C. Answer the following questions: [2 × 2 = 4]

(i) What did Father do finally after getting the letter?

(ii) What story did Father tell his son and daughter?

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Question – 2 :

Read the poem and answer the questions given below:

Within that house secure he hides
When danger imminent betides
Of storm, or other harm besides
Of weather.

Where’er he dwells, he dwells alone,
Except himself has chattels none,
Well satisfied to be his own
Whole treasure.

Give but his horns the slightest touch,
His self-collecting power is such,
He shrinks into his house with much
Displeasure.

A. Write the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences: [1 × 4 = 4]

(i) Danger comes to the snail in the form of—

(a) other animals

(b) storm (Ans)

(c) air

(d) tides

(ii) The snail feels his house as—

(a) safe (Ans)

(b) insufficient

(c) dangerous

(d) small

(iii) The snail dwells—

(a) cautiously

(b) freely

(c) solitarily (Ans)

(d) commonly

(iv) For the slightest touch the snail winces into his shelter with—

(a) happiness

(b) coyness

(c) unhappiness (Ans)

(d) satisfaction

B. Answer the following questions: [2 × 2 = 4]

(i) What does the poet mean by “self-collecting power”?

(ii) What does the snail do at the time of its danger?

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Reading Comprehension (Unseen)

Question – 3 :

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Rajam was a fresh arrival in the First A. He had sauntered into the class on the reopening day of the second term, walked up to the last bench, sat beside Mani, and felt very comfortable indeed till Mani gave him a jab in the ribs, which he returned. He had impressed the whole class on the very first day. He was a newcomer; he dressed very well—he was the only boy in the class who wore socks and shoes, a fur cap and tie, and a wonderful coat and knickers.

He came to the school in a car. As well as all this, he proved to be a very good student too. There were vague rumors that he had come from some English boys’ school somewhere in Madras. He spoke very good English, “Exactly like a European,” which meant that few in the school could make out what he said. Many of his classmates could not trust themselves to speak to him, their fund of broken English being small. Only Sankar, the genius of the class, had the courage to face him, though his English sounded halting and weak before that of Rajam.

A. Write the correct alternatives to complete the following sentences:

(i) Mani jabbed Rajam’s—

(a) stomach

(b) ribs (Ans)

(c) head

(d) backside

(ii) Rajam sat, in the class, on the—

(a) first bench

(b) middle bench

(c) last bench (Ans)

(d) upper bench

(iii) Rajam arrived at the school by—

(a) a car (Ans)

(b) a bus

(c) a bike

(d) by school van

(iv) Only Sankar was able to talk to—

(a) Mani

(b) many of classmates

(c) Rajam (Ans)

(d) none in the class

(v) Rajam came to school—

(a) on the day of the second term

(b) on the last day of the first term

(c) on the opening day of the first term

(d) on the re-opening day of the second term (Ans)

(vi) Rajam was a student in the First A.

(a) new (Ans)

(b) old

(c) vague

(d) last bench

B. Each of the following statements is either True or False. Write ‘T’ for True and ‘F’ for False in the boxes on the right-hand side. Provide suitable line(s) or phrase from the passage in support of your answers:

(i) Rajam fastly entered the class and sat beside Mani.

Supporting sentence: ___

(ii) Rajam jabbed Mani in return.

Supporting sentence: ___

(iii) Sankar had the courage to speak English fluently with Rajam.

Supporting sentence: ___

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