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Plus One Solved Model Question Paper

  (Questions 1 - 8: Answer any four questions. Each carries 1 score.)                                   (4 x1=4) Read the passage and answer the questions below. He waited a moment in surprise, wondering why she did not come nearer, and then maddened by hunger, he dived at the fish. With a loud scream, he fell outwards and downwards into space. His mother had swooped upwards. As he passed beneath her, he heard the swish of her wings. 1. “He waited a moment in surprise.” Who is ‘he’, referred to here?   ‘He’ refers to the young seagull in the story His First Flight. 2. What surprised him? He was surprised because his mother had stopped in the air with a piece of fish and did not come nearer to him. 3. What prompted him to dive at the fish? His intense hunger prompted him to dive at the fish. 4. “He hear...
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Plus One Improvement model solved question paper

  Questions 1-8. Answer all the questions. Each carries 1 score.           (8x1=8) 1. Who is referred to as the vital man? Mahatma Gandhi is referred to as the vital man. 2. How did he fascinate the masses of India? He fascinated the masses of India through his self-confidence, unusual power, and his stand for equality and freedom for every individual. 3. He attracted them like a __________. Answer: He attracted them like a magnet. 4. Five kilometres __________ not a short distance. (is/are) Five kilometres is not a short distance. 5. If I had tried again _________. If I had tried again, I could have solved the problem. 6. Hasan assisted Dr. Cronin to help the patients. Change into passive voice. The patients were assisted by Hasan with the help of Dr. Cronin. 7. ‘Women of Namuana perform a strange ritual’. Name the ritual. The women of Namuana perform the ritual of walking on fire. 8. “And treat those two i...
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Plus One English -Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Complete Notes

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  OZYMANDIAS -         Percy Bysshe Shelley Critical appreciation of the poem, ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandias is a famous sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major poets of the Romantic period. The poem deals with the temporary nature of human power, pride and glory. The speaker meets a traveller from an ancient land who tells him about the broken statue of Ozymandias, a once-powerful king. The statue lies in the desert with two huge legs and a broken face partly buried in the sand. The expression on the face of the statue shows the king’s pride, arrogance and cruelty. The words “wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command” clearly describe his proud and commanding nature. The sculptor had successfully captured the character of the king in the statue. Though the king and his kingdom have disappeared, his expression still remains on the broken statue. The inscription on the pedestal says, “My name is Ozymandias, King of...
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