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Exam : AISSE English Language & Literature
Document Type : Question Paper
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Language and Literature
SECTION – A :
READING – 15 MARKS
1. Read the passage given below : (5 Marks)
A park created by a Maharaja, the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, 176 km. from Delhi and 55 km. west of Agra and the Taj Mahal, is perhaps the only habitat created by a Maharaja. Two kilometres away from Bharatpur town, the royal family of Bharatpur developed the area in the late
19th Century. The Maharaja constructed small dams for water conservation, diverted
Complete the following sentences based on your reading of the passage in your own words:
a. The dams for water conservation served a dual purpose for the Maharaja because…………….
b. The purpose of the sandstone in the park is to ……….
c. The National Park is full of ………………..
d. In winter the Keoladeo Ghana is visited by the famous….……………..
e. The word in the fourth paragraph that means ‘growing or living in……..
2. Read the passage given below and write the option

THE DISGUISE ARTISTS
Aesop prawns start life as colourless, almost transparent infants who drift with the tide. On reaching maturity, they drift inshore, reach out to grasp the first passing seaweed and, once established upon it, they proceed to colour themselves to blend with it. After a week, their colouring is
complete and they are safe from the closest scrutiny.
1. The unique feature of Aesop prawns is that………………..
a. they blend with their surroundings b. they drift with the tide
c. they grasp seaweeds d. they are transparent
2. When Aesop prawns are rendered homeless,………………………
a. they change their colour b. they first look for a home of the same colour
c. they cannot survive d. they become transparent
3. During the night Aesop prawns
a. change to a deep blue colourb. take on their chosen house-colour
c. become red, yellow and blue d. revert to light colours.
4. Colour change of Aesop prawns is influenced by
a. the will of the prawns b. the light that falls on their body and eyes
c. the harmones that control the pigments d. the five branches of its colour bag
5. A word from the passage that means the same as ‘night like’ is…………………..
a. reverting b. pigment c. nocturnal d. cloak

Syllabus :
WRITING
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. express ideas in clear and grammatically correct English, using appropriate
punctuation and cohesion devices;
2. write in a style appropriate for communicative purposes;
3. plan, organise and present ideas coherently by introducing, developing and
concluding a topic;
4. write a clear description (e.g., of a place, a person, an object or a system);
5. write a clear account of events (e.g., a process, a narrative, a trend or a causeeffect
relationship);
6. compare and contrast ideas and arrive at conclusions;
7. present an argument, supporting it with appropriate examples;
8. use an appropriate style and format to write letters (formal and
informal),biographical sketches, dialogues, speeches, reports, articles,e-mails
and diary entries;
9. monitor, check and revise written work;
10. expand notes into a piece of writing;
11. summarise or make notes from a given text; and
12. decode information from one text type to another (e.g., diary entry to letter,
advertisement to report, diagram to verbal form).

LISTENING
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. adopt different strategies according to the purpose of listening (e.g., for pleasure,
for general interest,for specific information);
2. use linguistic and non-linguistic features of the context as clues to understanding
and interpreting what is heard (e.g., cohesion devices, key words, intonation,
gesture, background noises);
3. listen to a talk or conversation and understand the topic and main points;
4. listen for information required for a specific purpose, e.g., in radio broadcast,
commentaries, airport and railway station announcements;
5. distinguish main points from supporting details, and relevant from irrelevant
information;