COUNCIL OF HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION, MANIPUR

MODEL ANSWER, 1999

ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

Full Mark - 100

Pass Mark - 33

Time : 3  hours

 

Instructions to Examiners

Full marks: 100
Pass marks: 33

Examiners of this paper are requested to follow the instructions / guidelines provided to ensure a uniform and objective evaluation.
Model answers with marking scheme supplied for the paper may be strictly followed for uniform assessment of answers point to point.
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        HEAD EXAMINER

Council of Higher Secondary Education,
Manipur
HIGHER SECONDARY EXAM. 1999

ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH

Full Marks-100
Pass Marks-33

1.  (a) Context : patriotism by Sir Waltor Scott. 1 +1  
 

Expl : The poet describes the facts of an unpatriotic man. Theman without any passion or love for his motherland cannot receive any honour or respect. The Minstrel does not have any joy nor keeness to sing for him. He may possess high title. proud name and boundless wealth as much as his wish can own in his life. But his fair name, power and money will be for fleted and he will face double death-his death and loss of fair name.

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  (b) Context : A wind Flashes the Grass by Ted Hughes. 1+1  
 

Expl : The wind flashes the trees in a hush. The trees got shuddered violently like horses frightened by lightening. The buds or twigs also move under the influence of the wind. It suggests a grim picture. The twigs look like skeletons tossing in the air. Their movement in the air is the prophecy that everything is momentary and that there is nothing beyond death on the earth.

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2.

 (a) The dragon-fly comes out of its cocoon. It comes from the wells of its cocoon. The inner force/life force bursts out from the veil of its cocoon. Its whole body is visible. The markings on the tender body and wings of the dragonfly give it the appearance of light blue armour. He dries his wings that grow like the spreading of a net of silken fibre through the small dewy farm and pasture. Thus he flew as a living flash of light in the air.
OR
Tred Hughes builds up a theme of mortality in his poem. A wind clashes the grass, Leaves are falling
when the wind flashes. Human beings cling to the earth with tearful eyes on hearing the eternal cries of the tree. Men try to find the meaning of the phenomenon. The trees thunder in uniform on a gloomy afternoon. The ploughman feels anxious and his tractor becomes terrible as his senses scatter. The shadows of his bones move on the air. The trees with their twings gets shuddered and their complex mystery is the oracle of the earth and the images of the blankness of mortality of life.

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(b) The lover sends the rose as an ambassador of love to his ladylove. He instructs the rose to get itself mixed with other flowers to bind his love. As he has been bound by her love, she should not remain free. He further instructs the rose that he has bands of pure and gold to bind her if she is fretful. If she struggles still, he has myrtle rods, a flowering vine. sacred to Venus, the goddess of love, to fame her. He instructs the rose not to cause any anger to the lady, which like a lightening from the eyes may burn up both of them.

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3.

 (a) Shakespeare describes the winter wind nor so unkind as the ingratitude of man. Its tooth is not very keen and seen though its breath is rude.

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  (b) The mountain echo is an automatic answer to the shouting cuckoo sound for sound and it is not solicited. 2 2
  (c) The thrush is wise enough to sing twice over, proving that he is able to recapture the first fine careless rapture of his song. 2 2
  (d) The soldier would have treated his enemy as a friend sitting down together to wet right many a glass of wine in an old inn with offer of coins, 2 2
 

(e) The poet could not live like the live-oak happily alone of since he was bound by the ties of friendship and lovers around him without which there was void for him.

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  (f) He got anxious and his memories scattered in disorder. 2 2
4. (a) The sons are going to pick up some spinal dises. 1 1
  (b) He was enlisted as an infantry soldier. 1 1
  (c) An inner force of life that made the dragon-fly come out of its cocoon. 1 1
  (d) It will burn up the rose. 1 1


SECTION-B

 

5.  (a) Context : The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur conan Dyle. 1+1  
 

Expl: Holmes explains his sick appearance to his friend Watson. He took three days of fasting which naturally affected his body and appearance. He used absorbent materials used in surgery. He applied Vaseline upon his fore head. belladona in his eyes, rouge over the cheekbones and crusts of beeswax round. his lips. This gives a satisfying effect.

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  (b) Context : The sixth Century before Christ, and Relegion by Jawaharlal Nehru. 1+1  
 

Expl : The writer pointed out the confusion of religion by different persons. It can be like the different opinions about a tree. One may see a tree as the leaf only and another may take the trunk, each has seen a part of the tree only. It is a foolish thing to quarrel over the identity of a tree as the flower only or the leaf or the trunk, The tree bears all the parts.

    
6.

 (a) Culverton smith was a criminal who killed his nephew Victor Savage. He also tried to kill Holmes by sending an ivory box with a spring. Holmes was fully aware of this. He wanted to arrest Smith with evidence of his crime. So he pretended to be very ill and asked his friend to send for his treatment. His plan was to make a trap to arrest the culprit Smith use to see Holmes at his residence and he referred the case of Holmes receiving in ivory box with a sharp spring inside it. In the course of talk smith warned that Holmes would die with the knowledge that he killed him in the same fate of victor, Holmes took advantage of his disclose of the evidence of his crime. Inspector Morton appeared there and he declared that Smith was arrested on charge of the murder of one victor savage.

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  OR    
 

Behrman was an old Painter of past sixty. He was a failene in art. He had been in the profession for the last forty years without getting near enough to touch the point. He had been always to paint a master piece of his own but had never yet began it. He earned a little by serving as a model two young artists in a colony. He drank gin to excess and still talked of his coming master piece. He was not soft. On the cold night he painted the last leaf on the wall to save the lingering life of Johnsy . This is his master peice.

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(b) He was a Kshattriya, a prince of royal house. His name was Siddhartha and his mother was Queen Maya, the great lady. He was brought up in comfort and Luxury-away from all sights of suffering or misery. But he had a curious turn of mind for the suffering humanity. There was no peace for him. One night he left his palace and his dear ones, for the wide world to find answers to his questions which troubled him.
At last he got enlightenment sitting under a peepal tree in Gaya. He became the Buddha, "the Enlightened". He began his teaching from Kashi. He pointed out the path of living. He condemned the sacrifice of all manner of things to the Gods. He taught his followers to sacrifice their anger, hatred and wrong thinking. He came as a great popular reformer.

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7. (a) It reveals the evidence of a flood on a large scale resulting the shifting of capital. 2 2
  (b) Holmes was very untidy, practiced his violin at strange house, shorting his revolve within doors. Carried out strange bat-smelling scientific experiments connected with violence and danger. This makes him the worst tenant in London. 2 2
  (c) The actual last leaf fell. But Behrman painted a replica of the ivy leaf on the brick wall and it stood
there.		 2 2
  (d) He was angry with Fotheringay when through mistake the mirade stick of Fotheringay went backward at a high speed and hits Mr. Winch. 2 2
  (e) The Brahmin priests had a strong influence at the time of tee birth of Buddha. They introduced all manner of rites and Pujahs and superstition and they flourished out of it. 2 2
  (f) Denis committed the crime of unscrewing one of the nuts from the bolt .securing the rail to the tie to make it a sinker. 2 2
8. (a) 13 Lower Burke Street. 1 4
  (b) Pneumonia. 1
  (c) Buddhist literature. 1
  (d) Nephew. 1


SECTION-C

9.  A complete topical essay is expected. The break-up of makes :     13
  (i) Content relevance 5
  (ii) Organisation of materials  3
  (iii) Language & structure 3
  (iv) Punctuation & spelling 2
10. Model Letter.    
 

                                                    Palace gate
                                                Imphal -
                                             Date -

    

Dear/My dear,

1 am very glad to inform you that the marriage. of my sister comes off next month. I wish you to attend the marriage ceremony which will be solemnised in our traditional custom. It will be very nice of you to attend the function. My sister also eager to see you on the occasion. Hope that you will be with. us, and send your confirmation in advance, Format invitation card is also enclosed.

Looking forward to seeing you.
                                         Best wishes,

Yours,
Mr X.....,

To
   The moosapot, Hyderabad.

  

 
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