JSC English First Paper Model 6
English 1st paper
Time- 3 hours Marks-100
Read the passage and answers 1, 2 and 3
Human beings
have invented many important things so far. They have brought great civilization
to the world through these inventions. Do you know which invention is the greatest?
It is ‘the wheel’. A wheel is a circular object. It can rotate around its axis
and help easy movement of things across a surface. The wheels are, in fact,
everywhere. They are on our cars, trains, planes, wagons and so on. Besides,
they are on most factory and farm equipment. Fans, propellers, turbines are
also other types of wheels. So the wheel is very important. We cannot imagine
modern life without wheels. But do we know exactly who made the first wheel?
1. Choose
the correct meaning closest to the text: 5
(a) important means…. (i) significant
(ii) trivial (iii) insignificant (iv) marginal
(b) civilization means…. .
(i) progress (ii) culture (iii) polity (iv) refinement
(c) rotate means…… . (i) switch
(ii) revolve (iii) swivel (iv) alternate
(d) surface means….. (i) interior
(ii) internal (iii) inside (iv) outside
(e) equipment means… (i) apparatus (ii) estate (iii) stuff (iv) chattels
2. Answer the
following questions: 10
1 What is a wheel?
2 What can a wheel do?
3 Where can you find wheels?
(a) Why is wheel important?
(b) What is the greatest invention of
science?
3. Read the
text in A again. Now, write the summary of it in your own language. 10
Read the
following text carefully and answer the questions 4 and 5.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It
is over 29,000 feet above the sea level. It was named after George Everest, an Englishman
who first surveyed the Himalayas in 1841. Many expeditions had been led to
conquer Mount Everest. Some of them were abandoned. Many climbers who took part
in them lost their lives. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and his companion
Tenzing Norkay form Nepal led an expedition in 1953. The expedition was set out
on March 10. As the climbers were going up, they set up camps at different
places. They left some of their men and supplies in these camps. The highest
camp was set up at 27,000 feet. Only Hillary and Tenzing reached that height on
March 25. But the top was still 2000 feet away. They went up and up. After two
months of difficult and dangerous climbing, they succeeded in reaching the top
on May 10. They must have felt excited when they stood there. They must have
felt excited when they stood there. They have gone down in history as the
conquerors of the highest mountain in the world. They were given hearty welcome
in 1954. Hillary went to Britain with Tenzing in 1955. There they were given tribute
in 1956. In 1956 they were recorded in the Greenwich book. In 1958 both of them
were given the honour of world hero.
4. Transfer information in the
passage given below:
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Who/what
|
Events
|
Time/Year
|
|
George
Everest
|
First
surveyor of the Himalayas
|
(i)...............
|
|
Sir
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay
|
Led
and expedition
|
(ii)
.................
|
|
(iii)
...............
|
Set
out on
|
March
10
|
|
Hillary
and Tenzing
|
(iv)
...............
|
1956
|
|
(v)
...............
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Recorded
in the Greenwich book
|
1957
|
5. Write True or False.
Give answers for the false statements. 1 x 5 = 5
(a) Mount Everest was first surveyed the Himalayas in 1841.
(a) Mount Everest was first surveyed the Himalayas in 1841.
(b) Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
Norkay are the same country.
(c) They felt very nervous
when they reached the top.
(d) They succeeded in
reaching the top before two month.
(e) One of them is regarded
as world hero.
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