Online model Test | Class eleven and Twelve | HSC CANDIDATES

Online model Test | Class eleven and Twelve |  HSC CANDIDATES 

 

HSC EXAM 2024 || Online model Test | Class eleven and Twelve |  HSC CANDIDATES | All Boards |

1.Read the passage and answer the following questions A & B

At daylight I was half wakened by the sound of chopping. Again it was so even in texture that I went back to sleep. When I left my bed in the cool morning, the boy had come and gone, and a stack of kindling was neat against the cabin wall. He came after school in the afternoon and worked until time to return to the orphanage. His name was Jerry... he had been at the orphanage since he was four. I could picture him at four, with the same grave gray-blue eyes and the same independence? No, the word that comes to me is "integrity".... It is bedded on courage, but it is more than brave. It is honest. but it is more than honesty. The ax handle broke one day. Jerry said the wood shop at the orphanage would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it.

" I'll pay for it," he said. "I broke it. I brought the ax down careless."

"But no one hits accurately every time." I told him. "The fault was in the wood of the handle. I'll see the man from whom I bought it."

It was only then that he he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a free-will agent and he chose to do careful work, and if he failed, he took the responsibility without subterfuge.

And he did for me the unnecessary thing, the gracious thing, that we find done only by the great of heart. Things no training can teach, for they are done on the instant, with no predicated experience. He found a cubbyhole beside the fireplace that I had not noticed. There, of his own accord, he put kindling and "medium" wood, so that I might always have dry fire material ready in case of sudden wet weather. A stone was loose in the rough walk to the cabin. He dug a deeper hole and steadied it. although he came, himself, by a shortcut over the bank. I found that when I tried to return his thoughtfulness with such things as candy and apples, he was wordless. "Thank you" was, perhaps, an expression for which he had had no use, for his courtesy was instinctive. He only looked at the gift and at me, and a curtain lifted, so that I saw deep into the clear well of his eyes, and gratitude was there, and affection, soft over the firm granite of his character...

A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives .5×10=5

(a) --------is the correct description of Jerry's in-built strength of character.

(i) Politeness  (ii) Integrity

(iii) Courage   (iv) Honesty

(b) Jerry acknowledged his failure to work responsibly without

(i) excuse      ii) explanation

(iii) trickery   (iv) delay

(c) What sort of courtesy did Jerry show to the writer?

(i) formal  (ii) artificial

(ii) natural  (iv) prideful

d) What type of attitude did Jerry show when he got a gift from the writer?

(i) thankful , (ii) cheerful 

(iii) silent  (iv) indifference

(e) The writer could form an ----- of Jerry at the age of four.

(i) impression (ii) image

(iii) idea  (iv) imprint

(f) Jerry was ------ in the true sense of the term.

(i) unwavering (ii) upright

(iii) bold   (iv) timid

g) What does the phrase 'of his own accord' indicate? 

(i) unwillingness  (ii) reluctantly

(iii) willingly   (iv) freely 

B. Answer the following questions.  3x5=15

(a)Which things cannot be trained? Why?

b) What does Jerry's act of steadying the stone imply?

(c) What does the metaphor 'granite of his character' refer to?

(d) What does the symbolise through 'grave gray-blue eyes'?

(e) He did for me the 'unnecessary thing'. Why have the activities together been called 'unnecessary"?

2. Read the above passage and make a flow chart showing things that are found in Jerry by the writer or narrator. (One is done for you.)  1x5=5

1. Grave gray-blue eyes

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3. Write the summary of the passage

4. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. You may change the form of the words if necessary.

5. Write an e-mail to your friend Rupa  about your plan after the HSC Exam.

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