Time Allowed: 3
hours Maximum marks: 300
1. Write
an essay, in about 800 to 1000 words, on any One of the following.
(a)
Right to Information
(b)
Globalization and Displacement of Culture
(c)
Universities as centers of Excellence
(d)
Advantages of Information Technology
(e)
Dalits and their Future
2. Draft
a report for a local daily on your visit to a Book fair.
OR
Write a letter to your friend in France, describing the measures being
taken in India to contain pollution.
(Sign yourself as ‘X’. Do not reveal your identity in any manner.)
3.
Attempt a précis in your own words, reducing the
passage of 654 words to a précis that contains no fewer than 210 and no more
than 230 words. Mention the exact number of words used. If the précis is not
written in the special précis sheet provided, marks will be deducted.
The history of civilization
shows how many always has to choose between making the right and wrong use of
the discoveries of science. This has never been truer than in our own age. In a
brief period amazing discoveries have been made and applied t practical
purposes. It has become a platitude to say we are living in an age of
revolution. It would be ungrateful not to recognize how immense the boons are
which science has given to mankind. It has brought within the reach of
multitudes benefits and advantages which only a short time ago were the
privileges of the few. It has shown how malnutrition, hunger, and disease can
be overcome. It has not only lengthened life but it has deepened its quality.
Fields of knowledge, experience, and recreation open in the past only to a few
have been thrown open to millions. Through the work of science the ordinary man
today had given the opportunity of a longer and fuller life than was ever
possible to his grandparents. Most thankfully we must acknowledge all that
science has done and is doing for the welfare of our race.
But the gifts of modem science can be
misused. The motor driven vehicle facilitates business and gives harmless
enjoyment to many; but it can strew the roads with dead and dying- over 2,
00,000 causalities in one year in this country alone. The cinema is a means of
instruction and recreation opening magic casements,’ but it is often a channel
of vulgarity and false values. The wireless cam link the world together in a
moment of time, but it can also be the instrument of lying propaganda. The
aeroplane makes travel rapid and easy, but it can also become a weapon of
destruction.
It is the two-fold aspect of the use to
which science can be put that his raised in an acute form the question as to
how far it is morally justifiable to make and perfect discoveries and
inventions which can be used for purposes of destruction or result in the
ultimate impoverishment of man. This, if I understood it rightly, was the
dilemma posed by Professor Hill in the British Association. He summed it up in
the question: “if ethical principles deny our right to do evil that good may
come, are we justified in doing well when the foreseeable consequence is evil.”
He drove home this question by two
problems. The first was token from the development of nuclear physics. This,
rightly used, should be of the greatest value to mankind, especially if
existing sources of power come to an end. But at present the development of
this science is largely with the object of producing weapons, such as the
atomic and hydrogen bomb, of unprecedented destructive power. Is right,
therefore, to continue research on lines which may lead to fearful destruction,
and is it right to keep secret the result of these researchers? The other
problem arises from the success of science in overcoming disease and
lengthening life. Both the birth rate and the expectation of life have been
increased by the removal of the older checks of hunger and disease on the
growth of population. But the supplies of world food are not increasing at the
same rate. Before long population will have outstripped the food available to
feed it. When this happens the scramble for it will be inevitable and in the
fight against starvation the land will be exhausted and soil erosion will
change fertile plains into dust bowls. Is it right to continue improving world
health and reducing mortality if by doing so future famine and disorder become
certain? These and other questions are a challenge to thoughtful men.
4.
Rewrite
the following sentences correctly, choosing the appropriate words given below.
Destroyed; disaster; incessant;
terrifying; freezing; periodic
(a)
The speaker calmly told us the ------ facts.
(b)
The earthquake nearly ----- the old city.
(c)
It was a complete ------
(d)
The hungry wolves were kept at bay by -----
firing.
(e)
The ---- rain made the roads dangerous.
5.
Rewrite as directed :
(a)
The correspondence between (he / him) and (I /
me) continued for three years. (choose
the correct pronouns)
(b)
He behaves like his father. (takes after
/ looks after )
(Use the correct phrase in place of the words underline)
(c)
The encyclopedia had some information. It was
not detailed enough. (use conjunctive
adverb)
(d)
This caller asked who / whom I intended to vote
for. (Choose the correct pronoun)
(e)
Though we had ---- the cash box, it was ------ (Use past participle of ‘ hide’
and ‘ steal’)
(f)
The wind ---- and my hand almost ----- (use past
tense of ‘ blow’ and ‘ freeze’ )
(g)
The elderly man hoped that his children would
visit him on his birthday. (Change ‘ hoped’ to ‘ hopes’ )
(h)
Make a sentence using ‘advice ‘as verb.
(i)
I congratulated him ---- his birthday. (Use
appropriate preposition)
(j)
He called upon him to make a speech. (substitute
a single expression for the words underlined)
6.
Rewrite using the right tense of the verbs in
brackets:
When Ahmed’s father heard how his son (behave)
at the university, he (feel) very angry. He decided that he (will) teach his
son a lesson. He wrote to Ahmed telling him that he (lose) all his money.
7.
Rewrite the following, after correcting the
errors, if any:
(a)
He was the most wisest man I ever knew.
(b)
My sister gets privileges because she is more
older.
(c)
He lain the sick child for a nap and then set
watching over her.
(d)
Defeated at Waterloo, they sent Napolean into
exile.
(e)
Bread and butter are good for breakfast
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