English 1st Paper Model Questions for Class XI (Eleven)
Marks-75
Read the passage below and answer the questions 1-4
Approximately 100,000 children who do not hold German citizenship are born in the Federal Republic of Germany every year. This situation will change on 1st January 2000 , when a new citizenship law will come into force. From that day on, children born in Germany to non-German parents will receive German citizenship at birth.
The citizenship reform consists of the following points: The children of non-German parents will receive German citizenship at birth in Germany if the father or mother has been legally resident in Germany for eight years. The parent must hold a permanent residence certificate or have held an unlimited residence permit for three years. If these children also acquire the citizenship of another country st birth they must choose between their German and non-German citizenship within a period of five years following their eighteenth birthday. If they wish to keep their German passport, they must prove that they have given up or withdrawn the citizenship of another country. If they do not do so, their German citizenship will be taken away.
Foreigners will thus be able to apply for naturalization after only eight years rather than the present period fifteen years. Those seeking naturalization must be able to support themselves and their families without the help of social security payments, must not have committed crimes and must also prove to possess adequate knowledge of German. The Federal Government considers the reform an important contribution towards the integration of the foreign population. The acquisition of German citizenship entails not only rights, but also duties, for example the obligation to do military service for a short period, which is compulsory in Germany.
1. Choose the right word to complete each sentence 05
a. Children born in Germany/German/ anywhere to German parents will receive German citizenship.
b. Children are allowed five/eight/fifteen years of time to choose either German or non-German citizenship.
c.To protect /preserve/ prevent German passport anyone has to withdraw the citizenship.
d. In case of not withdrawn/withdrawal/withdrew of the citizenship of other countries German citizenship will be taken away.
e. Naturalization means immigration /plantation/irrigation.
2. True /false? If false, give the correct information. 05
a. German people need not surrender dual citizenship.
b. The law regarding citizenship in Germany has remained unchanged.
c. To acquire German citizenship one must be enlightened.
d. Military training is compulsory to the citizen of Germany.
e. German people will also follow the new rules.
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the words in brackets. Add any preposition if necessary. 05
a. (Solvent)……is needed for German citizenship.
b. The new low ( enforce)…… will change the situation.
c. Now there are some limitations in (ecquisit)…..of German citizenship.
d. Military training is (obligation)…..Germany.
e. The reforms will (able)…..the foreigners to acquire German citizenship.
4. Make a list of five things necessary to be a German citizen according to the new citizenship law.
Read the passage below and answer questions. 5-8.
The village Somal, nestling away in the forest tracts of Mempi, had a population of less than three hundred. It was a remote village cut off from the rest of the world ( the nearest bus stop was ten miles away), nevertheless the people of the village lived in a kind of perpetual enchantment. The enchanter was Nambi the storyteller. He was a man of about sixty or seventy- who could say! If any one asked Nambi what his age was, he referred to an ancient famine or an invasion or the building of a bridge and indicated how high he had stood from the ground at the time.
He was illiterate in the sense that the written word was a mystery to him, but he could make up a story, in his head, at the rate of one a month, each story took nearly ten days to narrate.
His home was the little temple at the very edge of the village. He spent most of the day in the shade of the banyan tree that spread out its branches in front of the temple. On the nights he had a story to tell, he lit a small lamp and placed it in a niche in the trunk of the banyan tree. Villagers, as they returned home in the evening, saw this, went home and said to their wives, "Now, now, hurry up with the dinner, the story teller is calling us." As the moon crept up behind the hillock, men, women, and children gathered under the banyan tree.
The storyteller would open the story with a question. He asked, "A thousand years ago a stone's throw in that direction, what do you think there was? It was not the weed-covered waste it is now. It was not the ash-pit it is now. It was the capital of the king…"
5. Write short answers to the following questions : 1x5=5
a) How was Nambi?
b) How old was Nambi?
c) What was his dwelling place?
d) Where did he spend most of the day?
e) What was Nambi's method of telling a story?
6. Fill in the gaps with suitable words: 1x5=5
Nestling away in the forest tracts of Mempi, the village Somal had no communication with the (a) ____ world. The favourite pastime of the people of this village (b) ____ to listen to the stories of a great story teller named Nambi. He could (c) _____ up a new story every month. He would (d) ______ a small lamp before narrating his story. He could (e) _____ people with his stories.
7. Summarise the passage in five sentences.
8. Based on your reading of the passage, make short notes in each of the boxes in the flow-chart showing various aspects of Nambi. ( No. I has been done for you).
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A story teller |  |  | |  |
Part :B Vocabulary ( marks -20)
9. Fill in the gaps with a suitable word from the box (any grammatical changes if necessary) There are more words in the box than you need. 1x10=10
domestic, household, competition, work, unfortunate, livelihood; very; torture; hardship; struggle; supposition; break; preference; effect. |
There are many ______ boys and girls around us. They manage their meals with great ______. Nobody cares about their _______. Many boys work as porters. Sometimes they have to ______ with adult porters, who often threaten them if they are _______by the owners. Many girls work as _______ servants. They have to do almost all the household works. But they are _______ often tortured by the householder. Again many are seen working in factories or _______ brick. The soft hands which are ______ to use book and pens, are _____with hammers.
10. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words or phrases. You may use the same word more than once if necessary. 1x10=10
If we make a comparative study of the life of the (a) age and that of the modern age, we can see the(b) between the two, one is darkened (c) ignorance and the other is (d) with the blessings of science and (e) . Man has opened the door of many (f) things and made life (g) . The invented things are considered the (h) of science. Life becomes (i) after hard labour of the day but soon recreational (j) at home or somewhere else refresh ones mind and body.
Part - C
Composition / Writing test : Marks - 20
11. Answer the following questions to form a continuous paragraph. (100 words) 10
a) What is greenhouse effect ?
b) How is it caused ?
c) What is the main culprit for global warming ?
d) What are the threats of global warming ?
e) What measures can we take to prevent global warming ?
12. Think about a stormy night. Now write when it occurred, how it occurred and what it
damaged. (150 words)
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