Council of Higher Secondary Education English Sample Question Paper : cohsem.gov.in

Organisation : Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur
Exam : Higher Secondary Exam
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Category or Subject : English

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English Sample Question Paper :

Full Marks : 100
Pass Marks : 33

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Time :
** Three Hours and *Fifteen Minutes
** 15 minutes are given as extra time for reading questions
** The figures in the right margin indicate full marks for the questions

Section-A :
Prose :
1. Answer the following question in about 100-125 words : 8
Describe the Titanic’s supremacy of which every maritime nation of the world was envious
Or
How did one nights’ mistake in Rajen’s life cost heavily to his family 7

2. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words each:
a) “Do not begin to quarrel with the world too soon.” Why does Hazlitt say so to his son
b) On which conditions did Mrs. Slater ask Henry to wear the new slippers of her father ?
c) “But the great difficulty is this” Who spoke this and why?
d) On what pretext did Rajen avoid earlier business trips outside Manipur
e) How is Mahmood compared to the Banyan tree ?
f) “This is the most pathetic and horrible sight of all.” Which is the incident referred to here ?

3. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow :
The splendour of your lamps; they but eclipse
Our softer satellite, your songs confound
Our more harmonious notes; the thrush departs
Scar’d and th’ offended nightingale is mute.
(i) Who are “we” referred to here
(ii) What is the “softer satellite’ mentioned here
(iii) Which natural objects do the lamps eclipse
(iv) What are the more ‘harmonious notes’ referred to here

Or
Tis known that thou and I were one,
I’ll think it but a fond conceit
It cannot be, that thou art gone!
Thy vesper bell hath not yet toll’d;
And thou wert aye a masker bold!

1. Who was supposed to be with the poet for a long time
2. What was the warning that the poet gave indicating that his youth had not gone yet 2
3. Whom did the poet call “a masker-bold’ ” 1

By ‘fond conceit the poet means a
(A) good idea º
(B) bad idea
(C) foolish idea
(D) wise idea

4. Answer any three of the following questions in about 30-40 words each :
a. Why does the poet say that the town people know no fatigue 2
Give reasons why the poet thinks the skylark to be the type of the wise the people all exulting.

while follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring.”
b. Why is the vessel described as ‘grim and daring’” 2

‘The voice of my education said to me’
c. What does the voice of education say to the poet 7 2

Economics :
Question Nos 1 to 6 there are four answers marked A, B, C and D.
1. The temporarily unemployed person who move between jobs is called
(A) voluntary unemployment
(B) involuntary unemployment
(C) casual unemployment
(D) frictional unemployment

2. The concept of consumption function is a significant contribution made by
(A) J.M. Keynes
(B) J.B. Say
(C) Marshall
(D) Adam Smith

3. Which of the following is issued by the Ministry of Finance? |
(A) One-rupee notes
(B) Ten-rupee notes
(C) Hundred-rupee notes
(D) Five-hundred rupee notes

4. The opening of the Suez Canal I
(A) benefited India’s foreign trade
(B) intensified British control over India’s foreign trade
(C) made no change in India’s foreign trade
(D) None of the above

5. The period between 1991-2003 º called an effort to heralding
(A) Golden Revolution
(B) Green Revolution
(C) White Revolution
(D) None of the above

6. Which of the following persons is known as the architect of Indian planning 2
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) P.C. Mahalanobi
C) Hanumantha Rao
(D) Bimal Jalan

Answers to Question Nos. 7 to 12 should be limited to a few words or a sentence each :
7. What is meant by involuntary unemployment 7
8. Define aggregate demand.
9. What is government budget 7
10. Why do the producers need modernisation 7
11. What is perspective plan
12. Identify the peculiarity of Mao’s the great proletarian cultural revolution.