Friday, July 15, 2011

Published in Times Of India

 Don’t Brood (A poem composed )-my own poem

'Is dark beautiful' a quest,
verily a discrimination I detest !
To boost up a spirit of dark
'You are cute' a humbug remark.
Tired of hearing' I am dark but beautiful'
Goes the song of Solomon,so cheerful
Words of consolation,from the FAIR,
Just to see my emotions bare.


'You know,Cleopatra was dark'
Said a bosom aloud to hark !
But her darkness was fairness
No dark can reach that closeness!
Dancing was my passion
But choice of FAIR is till now fashion;
Amidst the audience watching it oh! dear
Developed a complex hiding my tear!

Eyes of guys fixed on FAIR
Looking at 'dark but sweet' very rare;
So in the season of marriages
Rejection finds the 'dark' grow ages!
Wedding bells heard at last
Not the groom fair as in dream so best!
Young ones too emerged;
But black and black well merged!

So generations to go black
And only to find 'fair' as lack?
Whom to blame as days gone by
Feeling the presence of God nearby!
Oh !,don't you hear His voice!
So divine as it goes on rise.
'When I baked my cakes oneday,
I overburnt you my child,don't cry !'
 Mrs.S.Casilda Nimmi
  KV1 Tambaram

Class XI English Unit Test 1 July 2011

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO. 1 TAMBARAM

UNIT TEST I – JULY 2011
CLASS XI
    Time :90 mts                                           ENGLISH                                                  Marks : 50
SECTION –A -READING-12marks
1.Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:     (12 marks)
1.            Global warming is the warming up of the earth due to the trapping of gases like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane and nitrous oxide, when the atmosphere fails to perform its function of acting as a protective blanket.  The incoming solar radiation is partly absorbed by carbon dioxide, though a vastly higher amount of the outgoing radiation is trapped in the atmosphere.
2. Carbon dioxide possesses immense staying properties in the atmosphere.  It is being speculated that carbon dioxide concentrations may double in about a century.
3. This increased carbon dioxide level, according to predictions, indicates an increase in temperature ranging from 1.5-4 degrees Celsius, or a rise in sea levels by about 50cms by AD 2100. However, Earth apparently has its own system of checks and balances.  Water vapour in the atmosphere is known to absorb radiation more than any other atmospheric component.
4. A doubling of carbon dioxide concentration would increase the capacity of the Earth’s surface to absorb infra-red radiation by about 4 watts per square metre, though over all, the levels of absorption would be small.
 5.Volcanic eruptions, too, are believed to be responsible for reduction in the carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere.
6.A massive volcanic eruption in Philippines had in fact a cooling impact.
7.Cooling through volcanic eruptions is believed to release certain gases into the atmosphere, which are responsible for increase in the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere.
8.Measurement of the incident of CO2 in the atmosphere made in Hawaii indicates that during 1992-93 about two billion tonnes of the gas was found missing from the atmosphere.
9. As far as the impact of ozone depletion is concerned, it seems to be dictated more by political considerations, than any other factor.  This increased burning of fossil fuels for energy is largely responsible for the increase in temperature through ozone depletion.
10.A tug-of-war has been going on among the industrialised countries and the developing countries on the share of the blame. In fact, the US, the erstwhile USSR, Brazil and China account for almost half of the net global emissions of harmful gases such as CFCs.  While North America generates about 5 tonnes per head of carbon dioxide, Africa, China and India together generate approximately 1 tonne of CO2 per head.
11.Developing countries, on the other hand, are charged with emission of methane largely generated from paddy fields and discharge of animals.
12.However, despite the fact that 1995 was one of the hottest years of the century, snowfalls have been recorded in some part of the world – notably on the eastern coast of America and in Jammu and Kashmir.
13. Moreover, over the last 50 years, the Arctic climate has not been undergoing any noticeable temperature changes.  In fact, till 1975, global temperatures had been undergoing a downward trend.  Could the recent spurt in temperatures be a natural cyclical process, or temporary offshoot of the shifting pressure belts?
14. Given the rising temperatures, growing seasons would be prolonged.  Higher temperatures would also lead to an increased evaporation from oceans, thereby intensifying cloudiness, leading to moderate temperatures during the day and warmer nights.
15. Warmer temperatures during the night enhance agricultural productivity. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will also result in an increase in fertility.
Global warming will also have an impact on the EI Nino phenomenon – the circulation of weather disturbances around the world as a result of the warming of Pacific Oceans around the tropics.
16. However, a few questions remain in the ongoing debate on global warming.The process of heat transfer in the atmosphere – convection – is a field in which a lot of research needs to be done.
17. Secondly, clouds and vapour are known to be major absorbers of incoming radiation back into space.
18.If the cloud cover, as a result of increased evaporation due to rising temperature, were to increase, it would result in more containment.
19.Plants, which both absorb and release carbon dioxide, too have a crucial role to play.  Their role, however, has been till now underestimated.

a)Answer the following questions briefly:                                                                                    ( 9 marks)     
i) What is the function of the earth’s atmosphere?                                                                          (2)
                                                                                   
ii)What is increased amount of carbon dioxide likely to lead to?                                                  (2)

iii)How does water vapour balance the effect of carbon dioxide?                                                (2)

iv)What is the cause of tug-of-war between industrialized and developing countries?            (2)
v)What is the ‘EL Nino Phenomenon’?                                                                                                (1)

 b). Find words in the passage that mean the same as the following                                                           (3 marks)
  i)
arrested                 (para 1)
  ii)
  iii)
sudden increase (para 13)
to strengthen      (para 14)
                                          SECTION-B Writing- 10 Marks
                                                       
2.You participated in a career counseling program organized by Careers India.  You had the opportunity of listening to professionals from various fields like food technology, fashion technology, media management, etc.  Write an article of the programme for your school magazine in about 150 words. You are Anita/Raj. -                                                                                                                 10 Marks

SECTION  C Grammar-8 Marks


  3.Complete the following dialogue with suitable modals :                                                           3 Marks                                                                                                       
                Sushi:    Someone is knocking at the door.  Who (a)______ it be at this time?     
                Shanu   :It (b)_________ be Smita.  She wanted to come to get my class notes.
                Sushi     :Why (c)______________ she prepare her own notes?
                Shanu   :She (d)______________ not attend the class for three days due to her illness.  She  
                             needs them to get through the test.   
                          Sushi        :Oh, then you e)__________help her. She f)____ need them.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

4. Rearrange the following jumbled words to make meaningful sentences                                5Marks
    a)for/years/have/working/three/I/been/in/firm/this
    b)Ashoka/greatest/rulers/of/of/the/was/one/India
    c)too/to/reached/late/catch/he/train/station/the
    d)a/a/training/soldier/undergo/to/has/hard
    e)hand/worth/the/bird/in/two/the/a/is/bush/in





SECTION D -Literature- 20 Marks

5.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :                           4 x 1= 4 Marks
                                              A sweet face
  My mother’s that was before I was born,
  And the sea, which appears to have changed less
  Washed their terribly transient feet.
a)      Where was the mother standing, with whom and why?
b)      How did she look at that time?
c)       Compare the mother and the sea.
d)      Why are the feet of all the girls called ‘terribly transient?

6.Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each  :                                                      2 x 2 = 4 Marks
   
    a)How could the grandmother be ‘beautiful’ without being’ pretty’?
     b)Describe the way the sparrows paid their homage to the grandmother.

7.Answer the following question in 100-125 words :                                                                     8 Marks  
   What was the turning point in the relationship of the grandmother and the grandson? How did it come? What was the result of that change in them?

8.Answer the following questions in 30-40words each                                                        2 x 2= 4 Marks

 a)What is nostalgia? Describe the nostalgic beginning of the story?
 b)Who was John Byro? Why had he come to the narrator’s house?

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Monday, November 15, 2010

QUIZ CLASS X


Activity –Quiz class X 
Answer these questions  in  a word 10 marks

1Where was Babuli residing when the story took place ?
2 What did Babuli carry for his mother when went to his village?
3 When did Cutie Pie lose his feathers ?(earth time)
4 Who performed rites to tame the poison?( Night of the scorpion)
5 Name the figure of speech “each like a corpse within its grave”
6 What is a ‘Dirge ‘?
7 When does the play” A Christmas carols” take place? Place and date .
8 Who is Belle?
9   Name any other ode and it’s poet?
10 For what did Babuli’s brother mortagage his watch?

QUIZ CLASS X


Activity –Quiz class X 
Answer these questions  in  a word 10 marks

1Where was Babuli residing when the story took place ?
2 What did Babuli carry for his mother when went to his village?
3 When did Cutie Pie lose his feathers ?(earth time)
4 Who performed rites to tame the poison?( Night of the scorpion)
5 Name the figure of speech “each like a corpse within its grave”
6 What is a ‘Dirge ‘?
7 When does the play” A Christmas carols” take place? Place and date .
8 Who is Belle?
9   Name any other ode and it’s poet?
10 For what did Babuli’s brother mortagage his watch?

SA 1 CLASS VII KVCLRI

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA, CLRI ADYAR  CHENNAI- 20

SUMMATIVE  ASSESSMENT 1

SUB: ENGLISH                                                               MARKS: 90

STD: VII                                                                             
General Instructions:
  1.    This paper consists of four sections
Section A   - Reading          (20 marks)
Section B   - Writing            (20 marks)
Section C   - Grammar         (20 marks)
Section D   - Literature         (20 marks)
  1.     All questions should be answered in your answer sheets only.
  2.     Do not exceed the prescribed word limit.

                                  SECTION-A READING                         20 Marks

DAISIES


At evening when I go to bed
I see the stars shine overhead;
They are the little daisies white,
That dot the meadow of the night.

And often while I am dreaming so,
Across the sky the moon will go;
It is a lady, sweet and fair,
Who comes to gather daisies there.

For, when at morning I arise,
There’s not a star left in the skies:
She’s picked them all and dropped them down.
Into the meadows of the town.

READ THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER. 5x1=5marks

A 1 When does the speaker go to bed ?

a)      At night  

b)      During day

c)      Evening

 

 

2 What does she see in the  night?

a)      Daffodils

b)      Stars

c)      Daisies

3 Who comes to gather daisies?

a)      A maid

b)      A lady

c)      An old lady

4 What crosses the sky when she dreams?

a)      The  Sun

b)      The moon

c)      The stars

5 When she rises up what does she find?

a)      The sky is empty

b)      The sky is brightly lit.

c)      The sky looks cloudy.

A 2  BUTTERFLY

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled  wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings. It never was able to fly.
In his kindness and haste ,he did not understand  that he was restricting  the cocoon and the struggle which was required for the butterfly to get through and  the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

 

READ THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER

1One day a man found  the cocoon of a butterfly---------------
a)      Slowly crawling out
b)      Which was finding difficult to come out?
c)      Ready to fly
d)      Beautiful with coloured wings
2 After some time the man cut the ---------------
a)      Butterfly
b)      Cocoon of the butterfly
c)      Its wings
3 The man’s act ----------- to come out.
a)      Damaged the butterfly’s wings
b)      Eased the butterfly.
c)      Did not help the butterfly
4 The butterfly had to spend the rest of the life crawling because--------------
a)      He took pity on the butterfly
b)      It had a quick and easy way out into the world
c)      He did not allow it to struggle and come out.
d)      It could not fly
5 The story is good example of
a)      Haste makes waste
b)      All that glitters is not  gold
c)      Prevention is better than cure
A 3 The time is now to save these magnificent cats, the tigers, before they vanish from the earth forever. There is little time left to preserve these animals, immediate action is required. The latest predictions state that tigers will be extinct in the wild by the year 2015. That is less than 12 short years from now. That’s less then 14 years to save a creature that has been around far longer than ourselves.
Tigers are an integral part of the ecosystem, and a major link in the food chain. Tigers have been bestowed magical and supernatural properties by many societies, and have also been revered as gods. All living creatures of mother earth depend on one another for survival. We as human beings are brothers and sisters to every living being, from the plants to the animals to each other.
Crimes like killing of tigers must be stopped. Penalties for killing tigers, and other protected wildlife need to be strongly enforced..

Read the passage and choose the correct answer. 5x1=5marks
1The tiger belongs to the -----------------
a)      Wolf family
b)      Cat family
c)      Lion family
d)      Dog family
2 There will be no tigers by the year ----------
a)      2101
b)      2015
c)      2055
d)      2151
3 Tigers are important to maintain the
a)      Ecological balance in nature.
b)      The climate of the environment.
c)      Important links between all animals.
d)      Rainfall in the environment.
4 All living creatures are -----------------on one another.
a)      Dependent
b)      Independent
c)      Interdependent
5------------------ for killing tiger should be seriously implemented.
a)      Reward
b)      Punishment
c)      Award
d)      Rules.
A 4 New York is the largest city in the United States. More than eight million people live in the Big Apple. New York City is also home of the United Nations. New York city is located in the state of New York. New York City is home to two hundred and fifty museums, four hundred art galleries, and the world famous Broadway for entertainment.
New York City is the business capital of the world and many national and international corporations have their headquarters in New York City. Wall Street, the world's leading center of finance and the home of the American Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
As far as professional sports go, this city has two of everything. Two professional baseball, basketball, hockey, and football teams are located in the city.


Choose the correct answer 5 marks
1. New York is the largest ______ in the United States.
a. city
b. country
c. state
d school


2. New York is home to more than _______ million people.

a. two
b)five
c )eight
d)ten

3. Which of the following is a true statement


a. New York is a small city.


b. New York has a large number of arts galleries.


c. New York has little impact on the world's economy.

d. None of the above.

 4. How many stock exchanges reside in New York?
a. none
b)one
c)two
d)three

5) The  city is famous for ----------------------
   a) sports
   b)infotainment
   c)temples
   d)churches











SECTION B WRITING 20 MARKS
B1 The Social Science Club of your school has decided to take the VII class to visit the State Museum. in Chennai. As the secretary of the Social club write a notice informing the students about the visit. Include all necessary details.(5 marks).

B2 Recently you have celebrated your birthday on 20th September but your best  friend could not attend the party.Your  friend had sent a Harry Potter book as a gift on your birthday. Write a letter thanking him/ her for sending such a valuable gift. (8 Marks)

B 3 With the given hints construct a story and give a suitable title with a moral.-(7 marks)
 Two friends were travelling in a thick forest---- met a bear---one man climbed a tree top----another man pretended to be dead-----bear smelt the man--- found him to be dead -----left him and went  away---- .the friend came down  from tree--- the other friend disappointed with his friend who left him in danger learnt a lesson --- don’t believe a friend who runs from from problems.

SECTION C GRAMMAR 20 MARKS
C1 Fill in with the appropriate forms of the words given in the bracket.(4 marks)
1 Due to his a) ------------------- he lost his job.If he hadn’t been b) -------------- with his boss he  could have retained his job.(Anger)
2 I put the a) --------------- of my family above all things .If you make other b)-------------------- you will automatically become cheerful.(happy)
3 The a)-------------------- gave his b)--------------------- , and it brought happiness to all .(judge)
 4 Not everything you read is  ----------------------- true/ truth.
C2 Rewrite each as  a single sentence.Use ‘if’ at the beginning of the sentence.(3 marks)
1 Walk fast.You’ll catch the train.
2 Don’t smoke on the road .You’ll be punished.
3 Don’t tease the animals.It will bite you.
C3 Complete each sentence by choosing the correct option ( 2 marks)
1 He will lend his pen -----------------------------.(If you want to /if you don’t want to/if you want him to).
2 Don’t go to school ------------------------------( If you want to /if you don’t want to/if you want him to).



C4 Change the sentences into reported speech ( 4 marks)
  1 He said, "I like  the song."
     He said---------------------------------------------------------
 2  I cannot drive them home," he said.
     He said -----------------------------------
  3   Gopal said “I want to see the king”
    Gopal told -------------------------------------------
 4 Gopal’s wife said “why is your face half shaven”?
    Gopal’s wife asked him--------------------------------------

C5 Fill in the blanks with correct question words./whereWhat/Who/when/. (4 marks)

Sheela: a)-----------do you plan to go to the movie?
Neha:Probably next Sunday.
Sheela: b)--------- do you plan to wear?
Neha: Some casuals Jeans and t-shirt.
Sheela:c)------------- are all joining you?
Neha: My sister ,Ramya and Shalini .
Sheela:d)---------- is the theatre?
Neha: in royapettai.

C 6 Fill in with  articles( a,an, the)  (4 marks)

1 ----------capital of France is Paris.

2 John had -----omelette for lunch.

3 James Bond ordered ----drink.
Literature 20 marks

Read the extract and answer  the questions . ( 3 marks)

D1    ‘ I often think there is someone staring at me
           Each time that I pass
           I’ll peep through that window one day”.

a)        Which window is the speaker referring to?
       b)   How does the brother frighten the speaker ?

  c)Name the poem and the poet.





Read the extract and answer  the questions .( 3 marks)

D2 What’s the matter with you .?Why are you smearing yourself with ash?
a)      Who is the speaker and to  whom is it  being addressed?
b)      Why did the man smear himself with ash?
c)      Did he win in the challenge ?
d)      Name the lesson.

D3 Answer any two questions.2x2 =4marks
a)      The king forgave the bearded man . What did he do to show his forgiveness?
b)      What makes Mridu conclude that the beggar has no money to buy the chappals?
c)      What did the king ask Gopal to do to prove that he was clever?
d)      Why did the diamo reward the farmer but punish his neighbour for the same act?

D3 Answer any two questions 2x2=4 marks
a)      What was soapy’s first plan and why did it not work?
b)      Why does the temperature rise  during  the day and falls rapidly during at night . why?
c)      How did Kari help himself with the bananas without any tone noticing it?
d)      Why do the worker ants carry the grub about?

D 4  Imagine yourself to be the king . Write a diary on the day  your questions were answered and you felt relieved. ( word limit 100 words ) 6 marks
                                                                       or

Imagine yourself to be the  Music master in the lesson gift of chappals. Write a diary on the day you lost your chappasl and how you were given another pair  by  Rukku Manni. ( word limit 100 words ) 6 marks