SSLC PRANTI SECOND LANGUAGE ENGLISH

Subject Code : 31E

SSLC Summative Assessment – 1 for the Year 2024 – 25
SECOND LANGUAGE – ENGLISH SSLC
Time : 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Max. Marks : 80

I. Four alternative are given for each of the following questions/incomplete statement. Only
one of them is only 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 for the statement
Students love to listen to music, _____________?
A) do they? B) don’t they? C)did they? D) weren’t they?
Answer: B) don’t they?
2. Read the conversation and choose the language function for the underlined sentence.
Pavitra : Hi, could you show me the way to railway station?
Saritha : Sure , Go straight and take first left, You will find your destination.
A) Agreeing B) Offering C) Giving direction D) Requesting
Answer: C) Giving direction
3. Read the following conversation and fill in the blank choosing the most appropriate words:
Student : Good morning sir.
Teacher : Good morning. What about your result?
Student : Sir I passed in first class
Teacher : If you had worked harder, you ______ passed in distinction
A) wouldn’t have B) would have C) shall have D) will have
4. Read the conversation and choose the Infinitive:
We were trekking. We were unable to meet the tribal people on our way.
(A) went (B) were (C) to meet (D) trekking
Answer: (C) to meet
II. Do as directed: 12x1=12
5. Which one of the following words has one syllable?
Temple, teacher, teach, technology
Answer: teach
6. Combine the word in column- A with its collocative word in column- B
Column-A Column-B
Book (Silk, worm, taste, right)
Answer: Bookworm
7. Fill in the blank using the correct article:
Who is ______ fastest bowler in the class?
Answer: Who is the fastest bowler in the class?
8. Fill in the blank using suitable linker
She went to meet her friend in the park_______her friend didn’t come.
Answer: She went to meet her friend in the park but her friend didn’t come.
9. Fill in the blank with suitable preposition.
Suresh is confied ____bed
Answer: Suresh is confined to bed

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10. Fill in the blank with appropriate tense form of the verb given in bracket.
Nirmala ______(be+decorate)the picture yesterday.
Answer: Nirmala was decorated the picture yesterday.
11. Use the word ‘ laugh as verb in the sentence
Answer: I laugh in home
12. Change into comparative degree:
Rakesh is the tallest boy in the class
Answer: Rakesh is taller than any other boy in the class.
13. Change into passive voice:
Students are preparing the project.
Answer: The project is being prepared by the students.
14. Give one word answer for the given sentence
One who travels to work place daily
Answer: Commuter
15. Write the correct form of the word given in bracket:
The _____ ( present) given by the musician was mind blowing.
Answer: The presentation given by the musician was mind blowing.
16. Read the following conversation and change the underlined sentence into reported speech:
Ravindra : Hello, Sundar! How are you?
Sundar : I am fine. Thank you.
Ravindra : What do you want to become?
Sundar : I want to become a teacher.
Answer: Sundar told Ravindra that he wanted to become a teacher
III. The following paragraph has two errors edit the paragraph and rewrite it in the answer
booklet. 1x2=2
17. Teacher narrated a storey in the class. Students enjoy a lot. The moral was revealed by the teacher.
A) Spelling mistake to be corrected :
B) Verbal mistake to be corrected
Answer: Teacher narrated a story in the class. Students enjoyed a lot. The moral was revealed by the
teacher
IV. Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences each: 7x2=14
18. How was swami honoured by his classmates, teacher and the headmaster?
Answer: Congratulations were showered on Swami. His classmates looked at him with respect and .
his teacher patted on his back. The headmaster said that he was a tree scout.
19. Why did Nehru choose Dr. Ambedkar as the law minister?
Answer: Dr. Ambedkar had talented skill in the field of law and legislation. He had a foresighted vision of
social Justice. Above all he had succeeded In his own campaigns against social injustice. From all points of view
he deserved person to choose as the law minister. Therefore Nehru chose him as the first law minister of free
India.
20. Why did American go to buy Don Anselmo’s land?
Answer: Don Anselmo’s land had a good water source as the little creek ran through the land. His
orchard was beautiful and his house was quaint.
21. How can you say that Dr. Ambedkar was a voracious reader?
Answer: Ambedkar was very fond of reading books from his childhood. Throughout his life he read
books. Wherever he went he bought books. He had an insatiable thirst for books. He bought 2000
books from Newyork and 32 boxes of books from London. This shows that he was voracious reader.
22. Why is the poet ‘querulous’? What does he want to do?
Answer: The poet is querulous because the motherland did not wish to listen a song about physical
features, temples, dams and lakes, technology of the nation. The poet wants to sing a song that is pure
and which will remain in memory forever.

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23. Why were Babu and Manju disappointed with the way the students were marching?
OR
Why had Patil, the Sub-inspector come to Mohan’s house?
Answer: Babu and Manju were bit disappointed with the way students were marching because it was
a peaceful march. There were no slogans no shouts and no violence.
OR
Why had the students been marching? How was it an unusual march?
Answer: A teacher who was the follower of Gandhi has been arrested by the police. So, his students
had organized a march. It was an unusual march because they walked in complete silence. There were
no slogans’, no shouts just the shuffle of feet etc.

24. How did Dicky Dolma prepare for the task of scaling Mount Everest?
OR
How Dicky Dolma describes the breathtaking view of the Mount Everest?
Answer: Dicky Dolma was from poor family .She lost her mother and brother when she was 11 years
old. Her father was bedridden . She was interested in mountaineering. She got hard training at Manali.
She climbed Mount Everest at the age of 19 in 1993.
V. Answer the following questions in 5 to 6 sentences: 2x3=6
25. Baleshwar risked his life to save the life of Roma Talreja. Discuss
Answer: ; Baleshwar Mishra saw Roma bleeding alone on the tracks. But nobody was ready to rescue
her. He jumped off the moving train and ran to rescue her. He prayed silently and took her in his
hands and walked through the shrubbery and he reached the road. He was helped by the tempo truck
driver and they took her to a small hospital where she was given only the basic first aid. Again they
took her to the Divine Hospital and there Dr. Anil Agarwal treated her in the ICU. Though there was
not lasting damage, she needed deep wound sutures. If Baleshwar had not helped her to admit to the
hospital, she would have died bleeding alone on the tracks. Thus the stranger Baleshwar rescued
Roma by taking risk to his life.
26. How does the mother earth show her patience in each situation in the poem‘‘I am the land’’?
Answer: The poem ’I am the Land’ is written by Marina de Bellagenta. In this poem the earth
speaks to the people. The people buy the land and say they own it .They shout but the earth lies
patiently. The earth imagines itself with muddy holes and cars parked on with lights on as its staring
eyes. The happiest thing that the earth feels is that the farmers ploughing the earth ,plant trees, grow
fruits, flowers, children play and birds sing. The earth shares its unhappy feeling that the soldiers fight
against other country soldiers. They put fence between the nations. But they do not know they are
choking the earth with the smoke from the wars. The fence looks like a chainlink necklace that chokes
the earth. Finally the earth asserts that men can put fence between the countries but not around the
earth planet. The poem conveys universal brotherhood
VI. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: 4X3=12
27. “Can I have a burning lamp in the room”? 4X3=12
A. Who raised the question
Answer: Swami
B. Whom did the speaker ask?
Answer: Father
C. Why did the speaker want a burning lamp in the room?
Answer: Because Just It was trick to escape from his father
28. “Oh I couldn’t thank him”?
A. Who is the “I”
Answer: Tempo truck driver
B. Who does ‘him’ refer to ?

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Answer: ‘Him’ refers to himself
C. Why speaker couldn’t thank him?
Answer: Because the tempo truck driver slipped from the hospital having done all he could.
29. “I do not like to have speak to me in that manner”.
A. Who made this statement?
Answer: Don Anselmo
B. Who was this said to?
Answer: A.A Sedillo/Narrator
C. Why did the speaker say like this?
Answer: Because he was the man of principles
30. “Sing of the filth and the dirt”
That foul my sylvan retreats,”
A. Who is the speaker?
Answer: Mother India
B. when did the speaker say this?
Answer: When poet wants sing about Himalayan Mountain at that time mother India told this
C. From which poem these lines are taken?
Answer: The song of India
VII. Given below is a profile of Dr. Mahesh. 1X3=3
31. Write a paragraph using the clues given below:
Name : Dr Mahesh
Age : 39 years
Place : Hassan
Qualification : MS in General Surgery
Popularity : Very kind hearted person, down to earth, easily available for
the patients and gives free treatment .
Achievements : Conducted a number of operations free of cost.
Awards : Many local and state awards
Answer: Dr. Nikitha is a well known doctor in Hassan. He is 39 year old. His qualification is MS
IN General Surgery. He is kind hearted person, down to earth, easily available for the patients and
gives free treatment to poor people so he is very poplar doctor. He conducted a number of operations
free of cost. He got many local and state awards.
VIII. Develop a story using the clues given below: 1x3=3
32. One day a lion___ nothing to eat___ the hungry lion___ roamed in the forest___ in search of
food____ caught a small hare____ lion raised his paws___ to kill the hare___ a deer was coming
from the opposite side ____ lion dropped the hare ___ran after the deer___ hare ran away___
deer was much faster than lion____ in a trice deer vanished___lion disappointed ___
returned___ repenting.
Answer: Once upon time a lion was living in the forest. Lion did not eat anything so it was very
hungry Hungry lion roamed in the forest in search of food. Lion caught a small hare in the forest. Lion
raised his paws to kill the hare at that time lion saw a deer. A deer was coming from the opposite side. Lion
dropped the hare and started to run towards the deer. The hare ran away from that place. Deer was much
faster than lion. The hare vanished in a trice. The lion was disappointed. The lion realized the mistake.
The moral of the story is that too much desire is too much

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IX. Study the picture given below: 1x3=3
33. Answer: Description of the language accuracy

X. Quote from memory: 1x4=4

34. The throned monarch .........................
………………………………………
………………………………………
………………………..fear of Kings;

Answer:
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
OR
It is enthroned ..................................
……………………………………..
…………………………………….
……………………..seasons justice.
Answer:
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice

XI. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: (1×4=4) (2×2)
35) Kashmir is a garden of beauty surrounded by a wall of snow-capped mountains. We enter the
valley of Kashmir at Baramulla. From the bridge over the river Jhelum, we can look north and see the peak
Nanga parbat standing like a huge sentinel pointing to the sky. At Baramulla we board the house boat which
is to be our dwelling for the next few months. We are then towed twenty miles up the Jhelum till we come to
Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, the city of the sun, lying like a jewel in the centre of the valley. About half
the people living here are Muslims the other half Hindus. They appear good-natured and happy-go-lucky. The
houses of the city are built of wood and bricks. Most of the houses have a very dilapidated appearance. But
they are very picturesque all through summer months, for the roofs of many of them are covered with flowers.
Some have tulips. Some wild irises and some others red poppies. The Jhelum flows through the city of
Srinagar and with its canals cuts it up into so many islands as to give it the name of ‘The Venice of India’. As
the sun melts the snow on the mountain tops, the snow water flows down the valley and causes the river to
rise and supply her life-giving waters to the fields and gardens.

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a) Why is Srinagar city called as ‘The Venice of India’ ?
Answer: The Jhelum flows through the city of Srinagar and with its canals cuts it up into so many islands as
to give it the name of ‘The Venice of India’
b) Why do the houses in Kashmir look picturesque during summer ?
Answer: Most of the houses have a very dilapidated appearance. But they are very picturesque all through
summer months, for the roofs of many of them are covered with flowers. Some have tulips. Some wild irises
and some others red poppies.
XII. Answer the following question in about 8 to 10 sentences: 1x4=4
35. The poet’s grandmother had a zeal to live on top of the tree. How was she able to fulfil her desire ?
OR
How does the poet describe man’s greed and land’s assertion in the poem ‘I am the land’ ?
Answer: The poet Ruskin Bond calls his grandmother a ‘Genius’ because of her strange qualities. She
could climb a tree even at the age of 62. Everybody feared that granny would fall from the tree one
day. One day she climbed a tree but could not come down. After the rescue doctor recommended rest
for a week. But for granny it was like a brief season in hell. She demanded a house to be built in a
tree. The poet’s father who was a dutiful son, fulfilled his mother’s wish. Granny stayed in the tree
house happily.
XIII. Write an essay on any one of the following: 1x4=4
37. a) Zero mosquitoes, zero dengue b) Water pollution c) Uses of mobile phones.
Answer:
Inclusion of all the points
Language accuracy
XIV. Write a letter using the information given below: 1x5=5
38) Imagine you are Narendra/Nayana studying in Government High School, Basavapura.
Write a letter to your mother about your preparation for the SA – 1 Exam
OR
Write a letter to the Headmaster/Headmistress requesting to organize a visit to the planetarium.
Answer:
From
Narendra
Government High School
Basavapura.
Date: 25-09-2024
Dear mother
I am fine, How are you? I hope you are also fine. We have the S.A –I examination on 24-09-2024 so I am
studying well. My teachers are teaching well. I study for six hours with the help of study time table, in all the
tests conducted, I have scored good marks My. teachers opine that I can get first class. I am working hard to
get distinction.

Convey my regards to all at home.

Yours loving
…………………

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