Series: QR1SP

SET-2

Q.P. Code 1/1/2

Roll No. {} Candidates must write the Q.P. Code

on the title page of the answer-book.

NOTE:

1. Please check that this question paper contains 23 printed pages.
2. Q.P. Code given on the right hand side of the question paper should be written on the title page of the answer-book by the candidate.
3. Please check that this question paper contains 13 questions.
4. Please write down the serial number of the question in the answer- book at the given place before attempting it.

1. 15 minute time has been allotted to read this question paper. The question paper will be distributed at 10.15 a.m. From 10.15 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., the candidates will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the answer-book during this period.

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Time allowed: 3 hours

Maximum Marks: 80

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General Instructions:

Read the following instructions very carefully and strictly follow them:

1. This Question Paper has 13 questions. All questions are compulsory.
2. This question paper contains three sections – Section – A: Reading Skills, Section – B: Creative Writing Skills and Section – C: Literature.
3. Attempt all questions based on specific instructions for each part. Write the correct question number and part thereof in your answer sheet.
4. Separate instructions are given with each question/part, wherever necessary.
5. Adhere to the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.
6. All the names, addresses, etc. used in the questions are fictitious. Resemblance, if any, is purely coincidental.

SECTION - A

(READING SKILLS)

1. Read the following passage carefully:

(22 Marks)

12 M

1. Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom, fear and anger are the reasons a gull's life is so short and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long, fine life indeed.

1. They laughed at him. The other gulls scorned him. 'Such nonsense', they would squawk, as he practised flying, not for food but for the joy of flight itself. But Jonathan, undeterred, flew higher and faster than any gull before him. He learned that the secret to flight was not

merely flapping wings, but in knowing the purpose of flying.

1. 'Break the chain of your thought', he told himself, 'And you break the chains of your body.'

In solitude, he mastered loops, dives and rolls. He flew at speeds that blurred the ocean below. The flock cast him out for defying tradition, he discovered that exile was not the end but a beginning. Alone, he found peace. Alone, he found the sky.

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