This document appears to be an exam for a course on English. It contains instructions for the exam and lists several sections with questions. Section B has 7 short answer questions, asking students to summarize parts of readings or describe events in 40-50 words. Section C has longer answer questions, including writing a report on child labor and revising a paragraph that contains grammatical errors. It also includes a reading passage on cloning with short answer and précis questions. The final question asks students to write an 250-300 word essay on one of three topics: the message of peace in religion, Islamophobia and the role of Muslims, or the power of media in the modern world.

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Roll No.
FAZAIA SCHOOLS & COLLEGES
SEND-UP EXAM : ENGLISH COMPULSORY HSSC-II
(SESSION: 2017-18)
Name of Candidate
Time Allowed : 2 Hours and 35 Minutes Total Marks Sections B and C: 80
NOTE: Sections ‘B’ and ‘C’ comprise pages 1-2 and questions therein are to be answered on the separately
provided answer book. Answer all questions in sections ‘B’ and ‘C’. Use supplementary answer sheet i.e.
Sheet-B if required. Write your answers neatly and legibly.
SECTION – B (Marks 40)
Q. 2 Attempt ALL the questions in about 40 to 50 words each. (7X4=28)
(i) What sort of books were presented by the British public to soldiers? (Refer to the lesson ‘On Destroying
Books)
(ii) Wishes do not come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but
could not have?
(iii) What are social security benefits provided to the Chinese women/ female workers? (Refer to the
lesson ‘China’s Way to Progress’)
OR
Describe some great famines of the past. ( Refer to the lesson ‘Hunger and Population Explosion’)
(iv) What did Churchill do in his Latin paper?
(v) How did they manage to drive the heavy truck in the trackless desert with its soft sand?
(Hitch – Hiking Across The Sahara)
OR
What is the significance of the doctor’s advice: don’t stuff your head with things you don’t understand?
(The man who was a hospital)
(vi) How does financial pressure lead to the failure of students described in the lesson? Do you have
similar cases in your country? (Refer to the lesson ‘ Why Boys Fail in College’)
(vii) Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal?
OR
What are planets and how did they come into existence? (Refer to the lesson ‘The Dying Sun’)
Q. 3 Answer the following questions on “Good Bye Mr. Chips” in about 60 to 75 words each: (6X2=12)
(I) What is the significance of the year 1898 in the life of Mr. Chips?
OR
‘Chips was a conservative while Katherine was the new woman of the nineties.’ What impression did they have
of each other when they first met?
(II) The row of Mr. Chips and Mr. Ralston was a mega event. Discuss.
SECTION – C (Marks 40)
Note: Attempt ALL the questions.
Q. 4 Suppose you work as a research officer with an NGO. Write a report to the Ministry of Labour and
Manpower regarding the prevailing ‘Child Labour’ in your area. Your report should focus on:
(i) A serious public problem
(ii) Causes of Child Labour
(iii) Steps to be taken to overcome the problem
(08)

2. Q. 5 (a)
Correct the following paragraph for the kinds of errors listed in the brackets. There are six
errors in all. Re-write the paragraph as you have revised it. (preposition, punctuation,
spelling, verb, pronoun, adverb):
(06)
Many students read too slow. They continue to read just as they do when in the sixth grade. They moves their
lips as if pronouncing every word and carry his fingers for the line of print to lead their eyes. It is as if they were
reading aloud and had to pronounce each word with care. They have not yet moved to a more skillful level in
reading: reading for comprehension rather than for pronounciation. In reading for meaning tracing each word
with lips and finger is undesirable as well as unnecessary. Reading, seeks the author’s thoughts rather than
his words. The phrase rather than the word is the thought unit and the eyes can learn to take in whole phrases
at a glance
(b) Use any FOUR of the following Phrasal Verbs / idioms in sentences: (04)
(i) Feeling blue (ii) Call off
(iii) Hit below the belt (iv) Count on
(v) Face the music (vi) Bone of Contention
(vii) Lion’s Share
Q.6 Read the following passage and answer the questions appended to it:
“Cloning” means the production of a plant or an animal from the cells of another plant or animal. Through
biological experimentation scientists have cloned animals. The resultant cloned animal thus produced is
called a “clone”. Cloning involves the transfer of the genes of one living being into another. Cloning has
passed on to human beings from animals. So we can have a genetically identical person, a clone, after the
transfer of the genes of another person into his body. Human cloning can have positive as well as negative
results. We can have extremely intelligent and creative clones as human beings from the normal original
people. On the other hand we can also have extremely dangerous and destructive clones from the original
persons if the original happen to be criminals and devil-like creatures.
Questions:
(i) What is cloning? (02)
(ii) What can be the results of human cloning? (02)
(iii)
Write a précis of the given passage in about one third of its length
suitable title for it.
and also suggest a
(06)
Q.7 Write an essay in about 250 – 300 word on ONE of the following topics: (12)
PEACE: The essential message of our religion
Outline: Peace, another name of Islam
(i) How peace may be maintained in society?
Islam phobia and the role of Muslims
Peace is universal
(ii)
The Power of Media in the Modern World
Outline: How arduous receiving and sending news in the past was?
What is media?
Good as well as ill-effects of media on life
Altruism and responsibility of the media