HSC Board March 2022 Exam - Activity Sheet

HSC Board March 2022 Exam - 

Activity Sheet

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Important instructions:

 

(1) Each activity has to be answered in complete sentence/sentences. Answers written in only one word will not be given complete credit. Only the correct activity number written in case of options will not be given any credit.

(2) Web diagrams, flow charts, tables etc. are to be presented exactly as they are with answers.

(3) In point 2 above, only the words written without the presentation of activity format/design, will not be given credit. Use of colour pens/pencils etc. is not allowed. (Only blue/black pens are allowed.)

(4) Multiple answers to the same activity will be treated as wrong and will not be given any credit.

(5) Maintain the sequence of the Sections/Question Nos./Activities throughout the activity sheet.

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SECTION -I: PROSE

 

(Reading for Comprehension, Language Study, Summary and Mind Mapping)

 

Q. 1. (A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below: (12) [16]

At a corner of Sixth Avenue electric lights and cunningly displayed wares behind plate glass made a shop window attractive. Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass. People came running round the corner, a policeman in the lead. Soapy stood still with his hands in his pockets, and smiled at the sight of brass buttons. “Where’s the man that done that?” inquired the officer agitatedly Don’t you think that I might have had something to do with it?” said Soapy, with a friendly voice, as one greets good fortune. The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue. Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police. They take to their heels. The policeman saw a man half-way down the block running to catch a car. With drawn club he joined in the pursuit. Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along, twice unsuccessful. On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. It catered to large appetites and modest purses. Its crockery and atmosphere were thick; its soup and napery thin. Into this place Soapy betook himself without challenge. At a table he sat and consumed beefsteak, flapjacks, doughnuts and pie. And then he told the waiter the fact that the minutest coin and himself were total strangers. “Now, get busy and call a cop”, said Soapy. “And don’t keep a gentleman waiting.” “No cop for you,” said the waiter, with a voice like butter cakes and an eye like the cherry in the Manhattan cocktail. “Hey, Con!” Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiters pitched Soapy. He arose, joint by joint, as a carpenter’s rule opens, and dusted his clothes. Arrest seemed now but an elusive dream. The island seemed very far away. A policeman who stood before a drugstore two doors away laughed and walked down the street.

A1. True/ False : (2)

Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements and rewrite them.

(a) Soapy broke the glass of the shop window.

(b) Nobody heard the breaking of the glass window.

(c) The policeman chased Soapy.

(d) Soapy did not run away from the place.

Answer:

(a) Soapy broke the glass of the shop window.- True

(b) Nobody heard the breaking of the glass window.- False

Correct: People heard the breaking of the glass and they came running to see it along with a policeman.

(c) The policeman chased Soapy. - False

Correct: The police man did not consider Soapy as a culprit so he didn’t chase Soapy. He chased a man running to catch the car.

(d) Soapy did not run away from the place.- True

A2. Rearrange: (2)

Rearrange the following statements in order of their occurrence in the extract.

(a) The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.

(b) Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass.

(c) "Now, get busy and call a cop," said Soapy.

(d) Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along twice unsuccessful.

Answer:

(b) Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass.

(a) The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.

(d) Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along twice unsuccessful.

(c) "Now, get busy and call a cop," said Soapy.

A3. Guess : (2)

Read the following sentences and write down what it means.

(a) "Don't you think that I might have had something to do with it?"

Answer:

The statement shoes that Soapy tried to attract the attention of the policeman to accept him as a criminal / culprit of dashing the glass window with a stone.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

(b) He told the waiter the fact that the minutest coin and himself were total strangers.

Answer:

Soapy declared that he didn’t have money to pay the bill and he had nothing to do with this situation.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A4. Personal response: (2)

Suppose you are a manager of a hotel, a poor boy has taken dinner in the hotel and then he found, he has not enough money to pay the bill. Describe how you will react in the situation.

Answer:

If I know that the boy is really poor, I will allow him to pay whatever amount he can pay. I will pay the remaining amount of the bill.

(Accept any reasonably correct answer)

A5. Language study: (2)

(1) On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions.

(ii) Men who smash windows do not remain to chat with the police.

(Make the above sentences simple)

Answer:

(i) On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions. (The sentence is already a simple sentence)

(ii) Men smashing windows do not remain to chat with the police.

A6. Vocabulary:

Match the following words in column 'A' with their meanings in column 'B'. (2)

Column 'A'	Column 'B'
(a) gibberish	(i) magic
(b) enchantment	(ii) meaningless speech
(c) arrest	(iii) threw
(d) pitched	(iv) nab

 

Answer:

Column 'A'	Column 'B'
(a) gibberish	(ii) meaningless speech
(b) enchantment	(i) magic
(c) arrest	(iv) nab
(d) pitched	(iii) threw

 

B1. Grammar/Language Study (Non-Textual Grammar)  

Do as directed: (3)

(i) We can accept our life gracefully.

(Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing 'compulsion')

Answer:

We must / ought to accept our life gracefully.

(ii) As I entered the post office, the Post Master presented me with a telegram.

(Begin the sentence with "No sooner........)

Answer:

No sooner did I enter the post office than the Post Master presented me with a telegram.

(iii) The mother looks after her child.

(Make it a rhetorical question)

Answer:

Doesn’t the mother look after her child?

B2. Spot the error in the given sentence and rewrite the correct sentence. (1)

(i) Summers in Delhi are extreme hot.

Answer:

Error: Wrong word is used as adverb.

Summers in Delhi are extremely hot.