(SECTION I)

Reading for Comprehension / Language Study/ Summarizing

Q.I (A) Read the following extract and complete all the activities given after it:(12)  

A1. State if the given statements are True or False. (2)

I. The astrologer used to have the preparation of his business in quite professional way. True

II. The physical appearance of the astrologer hardly created an impact on the customers. False

III. The place was busy with a variety of occupations. True.

IV. The astrologer’s style of handling the business lies in his skills.True.

A2. Complete the given web. (2)

1) Spread his equipment in the Market. 

2) Covered his forehead with ash and vermilion powder. 

3) Wore the turban around his head. 

4) Sat under a tamarind tree waiting for a customer. 

A3. The astrologer was a shrewd judge of a character. Explain with some details from the extract. (2)

Ans:- The Astrologer has applied ash and vermillion power to his forehead to look professional and appeals to the people, he was a master at guesswork and telling the things which please and surprise the people. He had set up his equipment in a professional way. From all these things we can conclude that he was shrewd.

A4. We need to understand even the smallest details of the business to succeed. Write your views. (2)

Ans:- Many people are trying to be an entrepreneur but to be successful businessmen we need to understand the smallest details like the demand of the customer, the need of the time, geographical scenario, religious aspects, marketing, production, sales, competitors etc. There are many innumerable things which help us to be successful businessmen. 

A5. Do as directed. (2)

1) It was a remarkable place in many ways. (Choose the correct alternative to rewriting the given sentence as an exclamatory sentence)

Ans:- III. What a remarkable place in many ways it was!

2) He spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells.

(Choose the correct alternative to rewriting the given sentence as a compound sentence) 

II. He spread out his professional equipment and it consisted of a dozen cowrie shells.

A6. Find the synonyms for the following words from the passage. (2)

a. Confusing = Bewildering 

b. hanging around = Dallied 

c. difficult to understand  = Obscure 

d. magical effect = Enchantment 

(B) Language Study (Non-Textual Grammar)

Do as directed.

I. Use the correct articles and rewrite the sentence.

Covid-19 is the most dangerous disease the human race has ever witnessed in the world.

II. Use the correct prepositions and rewrite the sentence.

They enter the class with/without masks and sanitiser.

III. Choose the correct option for indirect speech.

She told him, “You should work hard to get good marks”

Ans:- She advised him that he should work hard to get good marks. 

IV spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence.

I am liking to see movies at the theatre.

I like to see movies in the theatre 

Q 2 Read the extract and complete the activities given below it.

The idea that coffee is bad for the heart pops up periodically. It was found that regularly drinking very strong coffee could sharply increase cholesterol levels. Researchers even isolated fatlike chemicals, cafestol and kahweol, responsible for the rise.

It turned out that the European brewing method—boiling water sits on the coffee grounds for several minutes before straining – produces high concentrations of cafestol and kahweol. By contrast, the filter and percolation methods remove all but a trace of these chemicals. Moreover, the studies involved large amounts of coffee—five to six cups a day. Moderate coffee drinkers down only two cups.

Research has also shown that regular, moderate coffee drinking does not dangerously raise blood pressure. And studies have failed to substantiate fears that coffee might trigger abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) in healthy people.

“For heart disease, I think the issue is closed,” says Meir Stampfer, an epidemiologist at Harvard who has studied many aspects of coffee and health. “Coffee drinking at reasonable levels is unrelated to heart risk.”Evidence suggests that coffee may help fend off Parkinson’s disease. A 30-year study of 8000 Japanese-American men found that avid coffee drinkers had one-fifth the risk of those who didn’t drink the brew.

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, found indirect evidence that Caffeine- the habit-forming stimulant in coffee – may combat Parkinson’s disease. The caffeine seemed to protect mice brain cells from the depletion of the nerve chemical dopamine – the problem underlying Parkinson’s disease in humans. However, these are preliminary findings; human studies have- not consistently supported caffeine’s protective role.

The studies on coffee and cancer have focussed on three organs – and are reassuring. You may remember a brief coffee scare in the early 1980s when a single study linked coffee with pancreatic cancer. A false alarm: Many studies since then have shown that the association is either extremely weak or non-existent. If there’s a connection between coffee and bladder cancer, it possibly applies just to coffee junkies. A reanalysis of ten European studies found an increased risk only among people who drank ten or more cups a day. And studies show that coffee seems to have no adverse influence on the risk of colon cancer.

Caffeine is such a powerful stimulant that the International Olympic Committee and the National Collegiate Athletic Association set limits on how much can remain in the blood during competition. In addition to boosting physical endurance, caffeine increases alertness and improves mood. The buzz may come at a price, though. People who drink more than they’re used to may become restless and unable to sleep. Moreover, it’s possible to become physically dependent on caffeine for days.

The question now arises: how much to drink? Those with heartburn and anxiety may want to see if cutting back on coffee improves their condition. For most people, however, there’s virtually no risk in consuming up to three normal cups a day. Harvard’s Stampfer tries to keep his coffee drinking irregular enough to avoid habituation: “That way, I can get a buzz when I feel like it.”

A1 Complete the following statements with the correct options given below it

(a) Coffee increases the cholesterol of those people who regularly drink very strong coffee.

(b) A person should not drink coffee not more than three cups a day

(c) It has been proved that coffee does not have any adverse effect on the risk of colon cancer. 

(d) Caffeine boosts physical endurance.

A2. State whether the following statements are True or False. 

1. Caffeine combats Parkinson's disease. True. 

2. Drinking 5 to 6 cups of coffee a day is considered a moderate drinker. False 

3. Moderate coffee drinking raised blood pressure. False

4. Drinking coffee increases cholesterol levels. True. 

A3. Explain the correlation and findings about coffee and cancer as found by the scientists.

In the beginning, scscientistsound a connection between coffee and bladder cancer but later it was found that it's only in the case of people who drink more than ten cups of coffee per Day. Studies show that coffee seems to have no adverse influence on the risk of colon cancer.

A4. Which drink do you prefer to have in the morning? Give the reason for that.

I love to have pure cow milk in the morning because it's very good for my health. Even its benefits are said in Ayurveda and our ancient culture. 

A5. Do as Directed.

1. Moderate coffee drinking does not dangerously raise blood pressure.

(Make it affirmative and rewrite it. Choose the correct option) 

b) Moderate coffee drinking fails to dangerously raise blood pressure.

2. Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, found indirect evidence.

(Select the correct option for changing the voice.)

a) Indirect evidence was found by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital. 

A6 Vocabulary.

Write the verb form of the following.

Stimulant  = Stimulate 

Competition. = Compete 

Dependent. = Depend 

Question. = Question 

(B) Summary Writing.

Write the summary of the above extract with a suitable title. Take the help of the following points.
Coffee……. Content……. Effects on the human body……… findings of the various research…….. Moderate quantity…….. misconception about It.

                     Coffee. 

Coffee is a stimulant drink which contains caffeine, Cafestol and kahweol. It's claimed that it increases cholesterol with excessive consumption. Two cups a day is a moderate way of drinking, which will not raise blood pressure. The claim of having an abnormal heart rhythm from coffee proved false. Drinking coffee helps to combat Parkinson's disease. Findings also stated that it does not increase the risk of cancer if moderately drunk, yet there are many misconceptions about it. 

(C) Mind Mapping.

Develop a ‘Mind Mapping’ frame/design using your ideas/ thoughts /concepts/to illustrate /develop on the topic: ‘Social Networking

Answer:-

Q.3 (A) Read the given lines and complete the activities given below: (10)

When I had money, money, O!

I knew no joy till I went poor;

For many a false man as a friend

Came knocking all day at my door.

Then felt I like a child that holds

A trumpet that he must not blow

Because a man is dead; I dared

Not speak to let this false world know.

Much have I thought of life and seen

How poor men's hearts are ever light;

And how their wives do hum like bees

About their work from morn till night.

So, when I hear these poor ones laugh,

And see the rich ones coldly frown

Poor men think I, need not go up

So much as rich men should come down.

When I had money, money, O!

My many friends proved all untrue;

But now I have no money, O!

My friends are real, though very few.

 A1 Complete the web (02)

Poor men's qualities 

1) Light Hearted,

2) Hardworking 

3) Satisfied 

4) Calm 

1) The poet wanted to become poor because he was not happy as a rich man. 

2) The poet doesn’t want to speak to this fake world because the poet finds a difference in the words and actions. Being rich he has to follow some protocols. 

A3 ‘Can we live without money’ write your view’s about this statement.  (02)

A4 Complete the following table. (02)

A5 Compose four lines on ‘friendship’. (02)

The best in the world is a relation 

Where there is no condition 

It does not need the scholarship 

Relation in the world is friendship 

This is an open-ended question so multiple answers are possible, the above given is just one of them. 

(B) APPRECIATION: (04)

Read the extract carefully and write an appreciation of the poem considering the

following points.

 About the poet and the title

 The theme

 Poetic style, Language, poetic devices.

 Special feature

 Values

 Your opinion about the poem

My father travels on the late evening train

Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light

Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat

Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books

Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age

fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.

Now I can see him getting off the train

Like a word dropped from a long sentence.

He hurries across the length of the grey platform,

Crosses the railway line, enters the lane,

His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.

Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,

Eating a stale chapati, reading a book.

He goes into the toilet to contemplate

Man's estrangement from a man-made world.

Coming out he trembles at the sink,

The cold water running over his brown hands,

A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists.

His sullen children have often refused to share

Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep

Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming

Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking

Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass. 

                 Poetic Appreciation 

‘Father Returning Home’ is the famous poem by Dilip Chitre, taken from "Traveling in the cage". He is known as a bilingual poet. He has translated ‘the popular Marathi Abhangas (Spiritual Poem) "Says Tuka" into English. He received the Prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his remarkable contribution to poetry as well as to Translation. The present is an autobiographical poem where the poet shows the complete solitude and lethargic life of an old man in modern society by depicting a picture of his father returning home from work. Thus the main theme of the poem is "Man's Isolation from a materialistic man-made World". The poet expressed his feelings for his working father. He realised that his father was neglected and uncared for despite being the lone bread-earner for the family.

Though the poem ‘Father Returning Home’ has autobiographical touch, it goes beyond its autobiographical significance. As is an account of every old man in a suburban area who does hard work for his family but leads a monotonous life where no one to converse with him, understand his feelings and look after him.
The poem consists of two stanzas the first stanza is 12 lines and the second stanza is 13 lines. It is a free verse where there is no rhyme and no rhythm. The poem is very symbolic the very structure of the poem is also symbolic as the lack of rhythm symbolises that the poet’s father was uncared for life. The language is easy and simple but full of imagery and symbolism. It is in first person narrative where the poet himself is the speaker who narrates the isolated life and monotonous routine of his father. The prominent figures of speech in the poem are Alliteration, Simile and Onomatopoeia. The poet expresses his feelings for his old father, but every old father has almost the same condition so we can take the moral from the poem that 'we must look after the elderly members in our family and society' I like the poem very much as it depicts the real picture of monotony and lethargic life of the elderly hard-working person in the modern society. 
Though the poem ‘Father Returning Home’ has autobiographical touch, it goes beyond its autobiographical significance. As is an account of every old man in a suburban area who does hard work for his family but leads a monotonous life where no one to converse with him, understand his feelings and look after him.
The poem consists of two stanzas the first stanza is 12 lines and the second stanza is 13 lines. It is a free verse where there is no rhyme and no rhythm. The poem is very symbolic the very structure of the poem is also symbolic as the lack of rhythm symbolises that the poet’s father was uncared for life. The language is easy and simple but full of imagery and symbolism. It is in first person narrative where the poet himself is the speaker who narrates the isolated life and monotonous routine of his father. The prominent figures of speech in the poem are Alliteration, Simile and Onomatopoeia. The poet expresses his feelings for his old father, but every old father has almost the same condition so we can take the moral from the poem that 'we must look after the elderly members in our family and society' I like the poem very much as it depicts the real picture of monotony and lethargic life of the elderly hard-working person in the modern society. 

                       Section III 

                    Writing Skills 

Q. 4 Complete the activities as per the instructions given below.

A1. Attempt any one of the followings. (4)

1. Drafting Virtual Message

Imagine that you have to leave your hostel room to attend to a relative coming to the city hospital from your native place. Draft a message in about 100/150 words giving the reason for your absence at the birthday party of your roommate at the hostel. Give your reasons to support your message.

Answer:-

Monday, January 24, 5:00 pm. 

Dear Raju, 

Manohar's uncle has to be admitted to a city hospital for the treatment of joint pain. As he is alone and from my native place he is unaware of the admission process in the hospital and other formalities so I have to be there with him. So I have to leave the hostel room by 5:15 pm to receive him from the station and do the other formalities. I am the only person to take care of him in the city. I am well aware of the fact that my presence at your birthday party matters a lot. Being your roommate I must attend the party but Manohar's uncle needs me. I am very sad to express my inability to attend your birthday party. Wish you a very happy birthday day. 

Yours lovingly 

Vijay. 

Marking Scheme 

Content.                                      2  

Sequence/Flow of idea.                 1

Appropriateness (Language uses) 1

B. Attempt anyone from the given activities.              (4)

3. Interview

Imagine, you have to interview a distinguished personality in the field of entertainment. With the help of the given table and points draft questions on the given fields associated with the personality. (Do not change the sequence of the questions)

 Marking Scheme. 

(C) any one of the following activities.     (4)

1 Speech

Imagine that as a part of the Republic Day celebrations, your college has organized an elocution competition. Prepare a speech in about 120 words on My Idea of India as a Developed Country.

Answer:- 

Honourable principal, respected teachers and my dear friend wish you a very happy republic day. We are very fortunate that we are citizens of India. India is one of the most important nations in the world. But unfortunately, we are considered a developing nation, I wanted to see India as a developed nation. I have an idea about how India will be as a developed nation. It will be a corruption-free India. Where work will be done without any bribe. It will be an independent nation where we don't have to import any product as our nation will be capable of the production of all our requirements. We must be vocal for locals. India will be independent in all fields where we don't have to rely on others. Looking at the present achievement of our nation while dealing with the pandemic, I am very sure that India will be the number one nation in the world as recently our honourable prime minister Mr Narendraji Modi got the recognition as the best prime minister in the. I wanted to see India economically sound, physically fit, and spiritually sound. This will be developed in India. 

I am very thankful to the organisers for allowing me to express my feelings and I am thankful to the audience for listening. With this, I will end my say. Jay hind Jay Bharat! 

(D) Complete any one of the following activities.    (4)

Appeal

The student council of your college has organised a Blood Donation Camp to mark national youth day. Prepare an appeal with the help of the following points.

 An effective slogan

 Use a logo or a picture

 Blood donation – Noble cause

 No loss of strength

 Time, venue and date

 Signature line

    Donate Blood............ and save Life 

The student council of AFAC Jr. College 

Invites you for the blood donation. 

Venue:- AFAC Jr. College of Commerce and Science Chembur Mumbai 71. 

Time:- 10: 00 am onwards. 

Date: 26th January 2022.

Be part of noble and human acts and feel proud and peaceful. 

Marking Scheme:-

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                       Section IV 

             Literary Genre Novel 

Q5 Complete the activities given below as instructed. (16)

1. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct alternative. (4)

1) A novel is relatively a long narrative. 

2) English word ‘Novel’ is derived from the Italian word Novella. 

3) Geoffrey Chaucer wrote  The Canterbury Tales. 

4) The first Indian English novel ‘Rajmohan’s wife’ was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. 

2. Answer about 50 of the questions given below. (4)

1. Half the yearly report of the student council highlights the conduct of Braithwaite's class. Justify.

Answer:-

The day of half yearly report of the student council was meant to measure the work done by the teachers. The whole program was led by the students. The anchor of the event were the two students from Braithwaite's class Miss Joseph and Denham. Apart from being in charge of the event they both take care that all the representative must present their subject effectively and they help them in it, it reflects their leadership quality. They call all the girls as' Miss' and all the boys as 'Sir' which shows their way to respect others. All other students like Potter, Miss Pegg, Jackson, Feynman, Miss Dare, and Miss Dodd of them present their topics confidently. 

Thus it reflects that Braithwaite was able to inculcate good values among his students which were seen through the event. 

2. Denham and Miss Joseph played a key role in the presentation of the half-yearly report of the student council. Illustrate.

Miss Joseph and Denham are in charge of the half-yearly students' council. They were looking after the smooth functioning of an event as well as helping the organization of the event. They also helped the other students by supervising them and assisting them whenever required. Miss Joseph presented the outline of the student council in her short speech as the in charge of the event. She also presents the Domestic Science report confidently as a student of Mr Braithwaite. On the other hand, Denham played a major role in voicing the opinion of some of his colleagues about the PT period. The question-answer session also healthily raised the question. 

Thus Miss Joseph and Denham played a major role in the student council. 

2. Answer in about 50 words the questions given below. (4)

1. Explain how the author has made use of International Date Lines and time zones in his novel.

Phileas Fogg, the protagonist was challenged to complete the journey around the world in Eighty days. He accepted the challenge and went through his journey to the countries like India, Hong Kong, America and Beck to England. By travelling eastwards he had gained time by journeying through all those time zones. In the end, it seemed that he had lost the challenge as he was unaware of the time he earned because of the international Dateline, but it was his friend who realise it and ultimately they won the challenge.

Thus the author has successfully used the international date line and time zone in his novel. 

2. 'Money was never a concern for Mr Phileas Fogg; it was for the honour he accepted the wager.' Discuss

Phileas Fogg was a man of innovation. With the help of his calculation, he predicts that one can complete the journey around the world in eighty days. But his colleagues doubt his ability to do so and they made fun of his calculation and challenged him that if he complete the journey he will get 20 thousand pounds. Fogg has accepted the challenge, not for the sake of money but it was the question of his honour. He spent all his saving only for the sake of self-respect. 

Thus money was never the concern for Phileas Fogg, it was an honour. 

3. Answer in about 50 words the questions given below. (4)

1. Write the character sketch of Dr Watson as a sensitive character.

Dr Watson is one of the major characters in the story of Sherlock Holmes. Apart from being a major character, he is also the narrator of the story who gave a minute description of everything and every character in the story. He always respects women. His empathy shows that he is a very sensitive character. He has been a very straightforward character and often makes Homes realise his mistakes. His way of dealing with Marry Morstan's wealth reflects his gentle nature. Now and then he deals with emotion as well as a practical mindset. 

Thus we conclude that Dr Watson was a sensitive character. 

2. Narrate the case of Miss Morstan in your word. 

The case of Marry Morstan is quite complicated. Her father disappeared on 3rd December 1878 from the hotel where he called her to meet. She contacted her father's only friend Major Sholto. But he failed to give her any information, so complain about her father's sudden disappearance. Later she saw an advertisement asking for her address once she provide the address she was to receive the precious stone every year for six years on the same day since 1882. Now with the last pearl, she got the letter stating that she had been wronged and must get justice. She was called to meet with the warning not to inform the police.

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All the answers are just guidelines for the students, as in many cases, different, answers are possible. 

There are some open-ended Activities where multiple answers are possible. 

Thank You.🙏🙏

Mr Sanju S Pardeshi. 

AFAC Jr. College Chembur Mumbai

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