biharboard.bih.nic.in : Senior Secondary English Question Paper Model Bihar School Examination Board

Name of the Board : Bihar School Examination Board
Name of the Exam : Senior Secondary( XITH) EXAM
Subject : English
Document Type : Model Question Paper
Website : biharboard.bih.nic.in

Download Model/Sample Question Paper : https://www.pdfquestion.in/uploads/biharboard.bih.nic.in/6976-MQS-Humanities-XIth.pdf

Bihar Board English Question Paper

Model Set—I :
Class–XI :
** Candidates are required to write their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
Figures in the margin indicate full marks :
Time : 3 Hours + 15 Minutes
Full Marks : 100

Related : Bihar School Examination Board Senior Secondary Entrepreneurship Question Paper : www.pdfquestion.in/6975.html

SECTION–A
1. Read the passage given carefully and answer the questions that follow. 3× 4 = 12
Buddha was one of the world’s great religious teachers. His real name was Gautam Sidhartha. He was born a prince. His father was the king of Kapilvastu.

But he did not want to become a king. He wanted to find out the meaning of life. He left his place as a young man. He went out to seek the truth .For years he lived a hard life of poverty. He went to many teachers. But they could not help him. At last, the light came to him. He was thinking deeply under a Bodhi tree near Gaya. He became the Buddha or ‘Enlightened One’.

Questions :
(a) Who was Buddha?
(b) When and where was Buddha born?
(c) What was his real name?
(d) How did he become the Buddha or “Enlightened one’?

2. Write an essay in about 100-150 words on any one of the following topics: 10
(a) Your ambition in life.
(b) Mobile mania.
(c) The book you like most.
(d) Television .
(e) The value of English in India .

4. Make a precis of the following passage’ 1 + 2 + 4 =7 Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. He was a self-made man. His father was a poor farmer. Abraham worked hard as a wood- cutter. But he wanted to make progress in life.

He learnt how to read and write. He got a job as clerk. Then he was a store-keeper, and then a postmaster. He studied law in his spare time. He became a lawyer .He took-up politics. Soon he was well-known as an orator. In 1860 he made a famous speech against slavery. At that time slaves were kept in southern States of America. The same year he was elected president of the United States. He was a great and good man. He was the greatest American president.

5. Put the verbs in any three of the following sentences into the correct tense form. [3]
(a) Columbus (discover) America.
(b) He was (dance) on the road.
(c) We (know) Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
(d) E.M.Forster (write)” A Passage to India”.
(e) I (teach) English since 1984.

6. Change the following Sentences into the passive Voice. 3
(a) Who killed Indira Gandhi?
(b) I know William Wordsworth.
(c) Advertise the Post.

7. Fill in the blanks with suitable auxiliary Verbs: 3
(a) We____________ obey our parents and teachers.
(b) She ___________ running on the road.
(c) He and I _____________ walking in the morning.

8. Turn the following into Indirect Narration. 3
(a) The teacher said to me,” Where do you live?”
(b) The doctor says to me, “Health is wealth.”
(c) My friend said to me, “Believe in God and do the right.”

9. Transform the following sentences without changing the meaning . 3
(a) Gaya is hotter than Patna . (To Positive)
(b) You are too fat to run on the road . (Remove too)
(c) Students should follow the rules of grammar. (To Interrogative)

10. Use three of the following idioms and phrases in your own sentence: 3
Crocodile tears, In lieu of , take after, Break into , at all.

11. Analyse the following sentences. 3
(a) He that is down needs fear no fall.
(b) This is the place where I learn English.
Or,

Pick out the compound sentences and complex sentences:-
(a). I could not go out because it was raining
(b) I teach English but you teach Sanskrit.
(d) I know Shakespeare who is the greatest poet and dramatist of the world.