11th Eng Core Revision Test 80 M- Set-2 2024-25 Strictly Based on CBSE pattern

Class XI ENGLISH 

Time allowed: 3 Hours]

[Maximum Marks: 80M

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

Read the following instructions very carefully and strictly follow them:

1. This question paper has 16 questions. All questions are compulsory.

 2. This question paper contains three sections Section

 A: Reading Skills, 

Section B: Grammar and Creative Writing

Skills and Section C: Literature. 

3. Attempt all questions based on specific instructions for each part. Write the correct question number and part thereof in your answer sheet

4. Separate instructions are given with each question/part, wherever necessary.

5. Adhere to the prescribed word limit while answering the questions

SECTION-A: READING SKILLS

Q1. Read the passage given below.

(26 MARKS)

(1) Every form of human activity upsets or changes the wildlife complex of the area unceasingly and unavoidably. Man has destroyed many forms of wildlife for no reasonable purpose. Small sections of the community, for their own narrow, selfish ends, have destroyed many things of general interest. Expediency has often led man to make grave blunders in land use, habitat destruction, and the extermination of many forms of wildlife.

(2) in his everyday life, man's attitude is determined in the main by purely practical considerations; ethical or moral considerations come afterwards. Looked at in this way, the disappearance from Britain of such animals as the wolf and wild boar can be more easily understood. In our intensively cultivated and over-populated country there was no room for such large mammals, the one a predator of big livestock and the other a pest to agriculture. Thus, man's first attitude to animals is the result of their effect on his own survival, or what he considers to be their effect on his survival.

(3) Then there is his concern with sport. The animals he sets aside for this purpose are given special protection and war is waged unceasingly on any other creatures that may be a danger to them. This creates many problems and man has made serious errors in his destruction of predators. Until recent years all hawks and falcons were destroyed as "vermin" by game preservers. This meant the destruction of kestrels, which are useful to the farmer: it meant the destruction of owls, which are useful to the farmer, so here you had sport acting against the interests of food production. The tragedy of all this is that all the killing of predators did not in any way improve man's sport. It has been clearly shown by modern research that eagles, hawks, falcons and predatory mammals have not the slightest effect on the numbers of game birds anywhere.

(4) Broadly speaking, man wages war against the creatures which he considers harmful, even when his warfare makes little or no difference to the numbers of his enemies. And he encourages those creatures which are useful, even though their attacks on pests make little difference to the numbers of those pests. It would be true to say, therefore, that our attitude to songbirds, to most birds of prey and to many of our predatory animals, arises from the fact that they have either been proved useful or of no consequence. Either way, from this, we have developed the idea of conservation which means preserving what we have left of our heritage of wildlife and even finding room for rarities which may do a little damage on the side.

1.1 On the basis of your understanding of the passage, choose the most appropriate option to answer any ten of the following 

questions/complete the statements:(10x1=10)

(a) The writer thinks that every form of human activity..............

(i) is bound to interfere with the life and inter-relationships of all the wild animals in the area.

(ii) is bound to result in the extinction of all the plants and animals in the area.

(iii) will eventually lead to serious mistakes in land use

(iv) illustrates man's selfishness and thoughtlessness

(b) The main point made in the first paragraph is that..............

(i) man is a creature of expediency.

(ii) man is basically selfish in his attitude to wildlife

(iii) man's various activities have harmed the environment and caused the destruction of many forms of wildlife

(iv) all wildlife face extermination because of man

(c) Man's attitude to animals is governed mainly by......

(i) his moral principles.

(ii) agricultural and population considerations.

(iii) his fear and distrust of various animals. 

(iv) the effect any particular animal has on his own survival.

d) “the one" in para 2 refers to………

(i) big livestock. (ii) large mammals.

(iii) the wolf.(iv) the wild boar

(e) In the third paragraph, "vermin" refers specifically to…………

(i)hawks and falcons (ii) kestrels and owls.

(iii) game animals and birds (iv) all predators.

(f) Pick out the true statement from the four given.

(i) The killing of predators has improved man's sport

(ii) Birds of prey control the numbers of game birds in existence.

(iii) Man's destruction of predators has had some bad effects on his food production

iv) The numbers of game birds anywhere are affected by predatory mammals.

(g) In his concern with sport, man has given special favourable consideration to..........

(i) game birds and animals 

(ii) wolves and wild boars.

(iii) kestrels and owls. (iv) vermin

(h) If an animal or bird is of "no consequence" to man, it is likely to be.............

(i) preserved.

(ii) ignored or even destroyed.

(iii) a game bird or animal

(iv) given special protection.

(I) the idea of conservation" has for its objective……..

(i) the preservation of wild life

(ii) the extermination of wild life.

(iii) the study of wild life.

(iv) the hunting of wild life.

(J) Which of these statements is correct?

(i) Man ceases to wage war against harmful creatures if he finds, his efforts do not reduce their numbers.

(ii) Man encourages creatures which are useful only when they reduce the numbers of harmful animals.

(iii) Because so few wild creatures are left, man wishes to preserve all sorts of animals, whether they are useful or not.

(iv) Man wishes to exterminate harmful creatures and preserve only those which are useful.

(k) Which of the following words means 'without stopping?

(i) unceasingly. (ii) intensively.

(iii) unavoidably (iv) broadly 

Q2. Read the passage given below.

(1) in an era where selling and buying of goods & services has grown exponentially with the help of technology, it is important that the consumer's rights are protected.

(2) The government has decided to augment the capacity of the national helpline to deal with increasing number of consumer complaints. As per data available with the government, consumer

complaints have increased by over 70% between 2014 and 2016.

(3) Consumers can lodge a complaint about a good or service through various modes like the

*National Consumer Helpline

*Any of the 28 State Consumer Help lines

*Lodging a complaint online

*Approaching the National/State/District Consumer Forum

(4) The government has also been working towards consumer awareness through the Jago Grahak Jogo' campaign for many years now. It has also established Grohak Suvidha Kendros in various states to help consumers.

(5) The National Consumer helpline received 1.72 lakh complaints in 2015-16, up from 1 lakh odd complaints in 2013-14. The state help lines also received 54827 complaints in 2015-16. Most complaints on the National helpline were received from Delhi followed by Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The state help lines in Gujarat, Maharashtra & Rajasthan received more than 10000 complaints each in 2015-16.

(6) National Consumer helpline and State Consumer help lines provide telephonic advice, information, guidance and grievance redressal procedure to consumers relating to their complaints and forward their complaints to companies and regulators concerned for taking necessary action.

(7) National Consumer Helpline has tied up with more than two hundred companies as part of its convergence program for resolution of consumer complaints. Convergence is an alternate dispute resolution mechanism to resolve grievances expeditiously. As per government data, 53185 consumer complaints were sent to companies as a part of the convergence program and 80% of these complaints have received full or partial response from the respective companies.

Q2. On the basis of your understanding of the passage and the graphic picture, choose the most appropriate option to answer any eight of the following questions/complete the statements: (8x1=8)

(a) Which of the following factors has increased the tendency of selling and buying of goods and services in the modern era?

(i) Increased production.

(ii) Consumer Rights.

(iii) Online sale and purchase.

(iv) Consumer complaints.

(b) 'augment' in the second para means……. 

(i) increase (ii) test (iii) reduce

(iv) calculate 

(c) As per the given chart, the highest number of consumer complaints were lodged in............

(i) 2014-15 on state helpline.

(ii) 2015-16 on state helpline.

(iii) 2015-16 on national helpline.

(iv) 2014-15 on national helpline.

(d) Which of the following is NOT a suggested mode to

(i) Doordarshan TV channel

(ii) National Consumer Helpline

(iii) State Consumer Helpline

(iv) Local Consumer Forum

(e) 'Jago Grahak Jago' is a Govt. initiative started with a purpose of............

(i) solving consumer complaints

(ii) registering consumer complaints

(iii) educating the consumers

 (iv) protecting consumer rights

(f) Which of the following figures shows the correct representation of the number of consumer complaints on national helpline in the year 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16?

(g) In 2015-16, the maximum number of consumer complaints received on state helplines were from……….

(i) Gujrat (ii) Delhi (iii) Maharashtra (iv) Rajasthan.

(h) The consumer helplines do not provide.... …..

(i) information (ii) guidance (iii) compensation (iv) redressal procedure 

(i) The Convergence programme has been started to...... 

(i) reduce the load of consumer forums.

(ii) act against the faulty companies 

(iii) speed up the grievance redressal.

(iv) save people's money 

Q3. Read the passage given below.

 (1)Cyber security is an important issue. A computer or cyber crime can be broadly defined as criminal activity involving an information technology infrastructure, including unauthorized access, illegal interception by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system, data interference, systems interference and electronic fraud.

(2) In very clear terms, when a computer is manipulated to deal with data or a software program in a way that creates loss or damage, a computer crime takes place. This means that a theft or breach of trust has taken place by electronic means. There are several types of computer crimes. Hacking is one of them. It is unauthorized access by any person using a computer and any other communications device to break computer security or circumvent it to enter a computer system. It is air infringement that is at par with 'breaking and entering'. 

(3) The gravity of hacking is to be weighed against what is actually done upon illegally entering the computer system. Data may be stolen or integrity of the information may be affected which is akin to sabotage and in both cases, there is damage. Some hackers may do nothing but browse. If the intention of a hacker is to destroy files, this can be classified a crime by electronic means.

(4) Pirated software is often made available on unauthorized sites on the Internet and is fairly common. Some people download or purchase pirated software from these sites. Providing pirated software for others to use is a copyright infringement. When you buy software, you do not own it but only acquire the right to use it. Copying a program in its entirety is a contribution to software piracy whereas fair use only allows the reproduction of a part of the copyrighted work. 

(5) Computer fraud is dishonest misrepresentation of fact intended to induce another to do or refrain from doing something which causes loss. The act of fraud will result in obtaining a benefit by altering computer input in an unauthorized way. An example is employees altering the data before entry or entering false data or by entering unauthorized instructions or using unauthorized processes. Another example is manipulating banking systems to make unauthorized identity theft with reference

to ATM fraud.

(6) As cyber crimes are skyrocketing, with one recent study finding that ninety percent of corporations surveyed have suffered a computer break-in in the last year, new laws have been passed to impose stricter penalties on those guilty. However, the crimes are best prevented not with new criminal penalties but with common sense and the use of simple digital architecture that enhances security. Since computer criminals are so difficult to prosecute, digital architecture plays an even more important role in fighting crime.

3.1 Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the questions given below:(5+3=8)

(a) On the basis of your reading of the given passage make notes on it in points only, using abbreviations wherever necessary. Also suggest a suitable title. using the notes made.

(b ) Write a summary of the given passage in not more than 50 words

SECTION-B: GRAMMAR and CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS

GRAMMAR

Q4. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs given in the brackets: 

Five members of a family (1)......

 (kill) and six (2)..... (injure) on saturday when a large quantity of explosives (3)......(catch) fire in a resident's house. The authorities (4)..... (say) that the explosion (5)......(take) place late at midnight when five members of the family (6)..... (sleep) in a room where the material (7)...,. (keep) The blast (8)_____(be) very powerful.

Q5. Rewrite the following sentences by placing the words in the correct order. (Any three) 

(a) children / vacations / can't/for fun / meant / are /compromise / and

(b) comes from / the / most of / flavour / its / aroma of / food.

(c) grew up / of the / amidst / Siddharth / pleasure / the / at / royal court / Kapil-vastu

(d) local / council / The / centre / a /shopping/new/ opened

CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS

Q6. Attempt any one of the two extracts (A) and (B) given below: 

You want to sell some old furniture of your house because your family is shifting to Mumbai. Draft a suitable advertisement to be inserted in the classified columns of a national newspaper. Or (3)

You are Sameera/Sameer the owner of Pink Power, a café run only by women. You are looking for an interior designer to design the interiors of the café. Draft a suitable advertisement for the same, in about 50 words to be published in the classified columns of the National Daily, the local newspaper.

Q7. Attempt any one of the two extracts (A) and (B) given below: 

Fireworks and crackers are known to create pollution during festivals. As an environmentalist design a poster in about

50 words to create awareness of their ill effects.(3)

Or 

As Cultural Secretary of Ryan's International School, Gurgaon, design a poster to announce the staging of a play in your school. 

Q8. You are Priya/Piyush. You are a member of the Environment Club of your school. After visiting many places you have realized that it is the need of the hour to protect environment. You decide to create awareness among the students. Write a speech in 120-150 words on 'Environmental protection' to be delivered in the morning assembly.(5)

Q9. Some people feel that electronic media (TV news) will bring about the end of print media (newspapers). What are your views on the issue? Write a debate in 120-150 words either for or against this view.5M

SECTION-C: LITERATURE

Q10. Attempt any one of the two extracts (A) and (B) given below: 

(A) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup 

A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end. Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt, She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up Of chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings- 

The whole tree trembles and thrills.

It is the engine of her family.

(i) Goldfinch comes to the laburnum tree to……..

(a) take some rest

(b) collect some nectar from the flowers.

(c) enjoy the beautiful afternoon.

(d) feed her chicks.

(ii) She enters into the tree branches cautiously because..........

(a) she doesn't want to disturb anyone.

(b) she is alert about the predators.

(c) there might be poisonous insects.

(d) she wants to give surprise to her young ones.

(iii) The poetic device used in the expression 'a machine starts up" is....

(a) Simile(b) Metaphor

(c) Alliteration (d) Repetition

Or

(B) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

Silence surrounds us. I would have

 Him prodigal, returning to His fathers house, the home he knew, Rather than see him make and move His world. I would forgive him too,

Shaping from sorrow a new love.

(i) This extract has been taken from a poem written by...

(a) Markus Natten (b) Elizabeth Jennings

(c) Walt Whitman (d) Ted Hughes

(ii) The reference to prodigal has been derived from the religious book named……….

(a) The Bible (b) The Quran (c) The Gita

(d) The Vincent

(iii) What is the reason of the silence that surrounds the speaker and his son?

(a) Money (b) Ego (c) Generation Gap

(d) Moral values

Q11. Attempt any one of the two extracts (A) and (B) given below: (A) 

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

Unexpectedly, my head popped out of the water. A few metres away, Wavewalker was near capsizing, horizontal. Then a wave hurled her upright, my lifeline jerked taut, I grabbed the guard rails and sailed the Wavewalker's main boom. Subsequent waves tossed me around the deck like a rag doll.

(i) The narrator was there in the sea waters because…….

(a) the great explosion had thrown him overboard the ship.

(b) he was doing his life raft drill for the worst situation.

(c) he was searching for the lost compass.

(d) he had to repair the damages section of starboard side of the ship.

(ii) In an ideal situation, the mast of the ship should be...........

(a) horizontal (b) vertically upwards

(c) half underwater (d) diagonally poised at 45 degrees.

(iii) As a result of being tossed like a rag doll, the narrato

(a) became unconscious.

(b) lost his control on the wheel.

© felt his ribs and teeth were broken 

(d) shouted for his wives help.

Or

(B) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow :

My headache soon cleared as we careered down the other side of the pass. It was two o'clock by the time we stopped for lunch. We ate hot noodles inside a long canvas tent, part of a work-camp erected beside a dry salt lake. The plateau is pockmarked with salt flats and brackish lakes, vestiges of the Tethys Ocean which bordered Tibet before the great continental collision that lifted it skyward. This one was a hive of activity, men with pickaxes and shovels trudging back and forth in their long sheepskin coats and salt-encrusted boots. All wore sunglasses against the glare as a steady stream of blue trucks emerged from the blindingly white lake laden with piles of salt.

(i) Why do you think the narrator had a headache?

(ii) What do you understand by the statement: 'vestiges of the Tethys Ocean which bordered Tibet before the great continentalcollision that lifted it skyward'.

(iii) Describe the salt flats

Q12. Read the extracts given below and attempt by answering the questions that follow : 

Mrs Pearson: (airily) No, I wouldn't go that far. I might make a bed and do a bit of cooking as a favour.Which means, of course,

I'll have to be asked very nicely and thanked for everything and generally made a fuss of. But any of you forty-hours-a-weekers who expect to be waited on hand and foot on Saturday and Sunday, with no thanks for it, are in for a nasty disappointment.

Might go off for the weekend perhaps. 

(i) Mrs Pearson's going that far here means……

(a) scolding everybody

(b) doing nothing on Saturday and Sunday 

(c) respecting Mrs Pearson

(d) ironing the clothes 

(ii) Mrs Pearson promised to do a little favour only on……..

(a) being asked nicely by everyone 

(b) showing a yellow card 

(c) Mrs Fitzgerald's suggestion

d) giving proper time to her

(iii)The author wants to convey a message that mothers must be……

(a) nicely behaved in each family

(b) given their due respect in each family 

© thanked for their unconditional love 

(d) all of the given

Q13. Attempt any two out of the four questions given below in 30-40 words each.

(i) Who was Amenhotep IV? Why did he change his name? Why was he called wacky?

(ii) What was the reaction of the tourists visiting Tut's tomb? 

(iii) What All is the father ready to do to get his son back? 

(iv) How does rain wash away the dust layers of the globe?

Q14. Attempt any one out of the two questions given below in 40-50 words each.

 (I) Did the boys return the horse because they were conscience-stricken or because they were afraid?

(ii) How did the narrator conclude that she had reached the right address?

Q15. Attempt any one of the following questions in 120-150 words.

Describe the unique relationship of the grandmother with the sparrows

Or

Why do you think people undertake such adventurous expeditions in spite of the risks involved?

(We Are Not Afraid To Die…)