KARNATAKA SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION BOARD, BANGALORE-03
MODEL QUESTION PAPER-01-2019-20
Subject: Second Language ENGLISH Sub code: 31E
Time: 3 Hrs. 00 min [Link]
I Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions/incomplete statements.
Only one of them is correct or most appropriate. Choose the correct alternative and
write the complete answer along with its letter of alphabet. 4x1=4
1. Choose the appropriate question tag
He is a student?
a) is he? b) has he ? c) isn't he ? d) was he ?
2. Fill in the blank with correct ‘if clause’
I would like to buy a house, But it is costly.
If the house had been cheap I......................................
a) would bought b) would have bought
c) will buy d) would have been bought
3. Read the conversation and choose the correct infinitive:
Nandish : Hi Sweta will you come with me to the temple. I want to pray for my brother
Sweta : Yes I will come
a) come b) want c) to pray d) temple
4. Read the given conversation and choose the language function for the underlined word
Ram : Can you eat 20 bananas?
Sita : No, I can’t
a) Order b) suggestion c) chanllenge d) expressing inability
Il Do as directed: 12 x1=12
5. Fill in the blank with appropriate tense forms of the verbs given in brackets:
She___________(be+play) chess yesterday.
6. Fill in the blank with appropriate 'preposition':
Swami’s father sat gloomily gazing____________ the newspaper on his lap.
7. Fill in the blank using suitable linker:
Venkatesh is a physican. Everyone likes him ................he has lot of patience.
8. Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate words given in the brackets:
He will be___________(there/their) at 2.8 pm
9. Combine the word in column 'A’ with its collocative word in column 'B':
'A’ ‘B’
break [lunch, dinner, fast, last]
10. Give one word answer:
The person one who is unable to walk___________________
11. Which one of the following words has one syllable?
school, people, student, rupee.
12. Write the correct form of the word given in the brackets:
Smita felt as if the gates of________________(enchant) and wonder were opening.
13. Frame a question to get the underlined word as answer:
Las Bahadur Shastry was born on 2nd October
14. Read the following conversation and change the underlined sentence into passive voice:
Father : Where is Swami?
Mother : He is doing homework
15. Change the following sentence into superlative degree:
No other boy is as tall as Akash
16. Use the word 'prepare' as Noun in a sentence of your own.
III. The following paragraph has two errors. Edit the paragraph and rewrite it in
the answer book. Clues are given: 1x2=2
17. it’s a regular seen in India’s most populated cities.
a) Use the capital letter
b) Spelling mistake to be corrected.
IV Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences each: 7x2=14
18. What qualities of Baleshwar do you appreciate?
19. How can you say that Dr. Ambedkar was a voracious reader?
20. Why do the seamen of Santa Maria feel desperate?
21. Technical experts from the super power nations met in Geneva. What was the reason?
22. Why do the tea cups circle around the poet like planets around the Sun?
23. Why were the students marching in the street” Why as it termed unusual?
OR
Life of Hanif in the beginning was never a smooth sail. Why as it so?
24. What can we learn from the life of Dicky Dolma?
OR
How did the first Monster punish Wangjiya?
V. Answer the following questions in 5-6 sentences each: 2 x3 =6
25. Narrate Swami’s dreadful experience when he was lying under the bench.
26. What does the poet, V.K. Gokak, want to sing about?
What is the response of the mother India?
VI. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: 4x3= 12
27. “We have made a discovery”
a) Who does ‘we’ refer to?
b) What was the discovery?
c) What was the result of discovery?
28. “We must not miss the chance”
a) Who said this?
b) What was the chance?
c) Why did he not want to miss the chance?
29. “My ‘son’ is not dumb, sir!
a) Who is the ‘son’ here?
b) Who said this?
c) Why did he say so?
30. “You cannot put a fence around the planet earth”
a) Who is speaker of this line?
b) Whom does ‘you’ refer to?
c) What do these lines suggest?
VII. Given below is a profile of P.T. Usha. Write a paragraph using the clues given below
1x3 =3
31. Nick Name : Payyoli express
Date of birth : 27 the July 1964
Place of birth : Payyoli, Kerla
Field of sports : Atheletics, running
Awards & medals : 4 Gold medals, 1 Silver in 1986 Asian Games,
padmashree & Arjun Award by Indian Govt.
VIl Develop the story using the clues given below: 1x3=3
32. Crow sees a peacock____What to be one____gathers some feathers______sticks then
____looks funny____joins a party of peacocks___no one notices___goes back to his
friends___no one notices him these too____becomes sad____has no friends.
IX Study the picture given below. Write a description or an account of what
the picture suggests to you in a paragraph: 1 x3=3
X Quote from memory: 1x4 4
[Link] is enthroned........................ OR You talk of .....................................................
................................................... ___________________________
..................................................... ...................................................
.................................seasons justice ................................day or night.
XI Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: 1x4=4 (2X2)
35. The great saint Teresa wished to have a torch in her right hand and vessel of water in the left
hand so that with the one, she might burn the glories of heaven and with the other, extinguish the fires
of hell and men might learn to serve god from love without fear of hell and without the temptation of
heavenly bliss
1) Who is paragraph about? What was her message to humanity?
2) Why did she hold a torch and vessel in her hands?
XII Answer the following questions In about 8-10 sentences: 1x4=4
36. Why does the poet say that his grandma was genius?
OR
Write the substance of the poem, Jazz Poem Two
OR
Summarize the poem ‘Ballad of the Tempest’
XIII Write an essay on any one of the following: 1x4=4
a) Social evils
b) National Festivals
c) Importance of Forests
XIV Write a letter using the information given below: 1x5=5
38. Imagine that you are Shankar/Sushila X standard. Govt High School Aland
Write a letter to your friend inviting him to spend summer holidays with you
OR
Write a letter to the PDO, of your Gram Panchayat, requesting him to
repair street lamps in your area
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