CBSE Class 11 English Worksheet Set D Solved

1. Read the extract and answer the questions that follow :

Father and son, we both must live
On the same globe and the same land,
He speaks: I cannot understand
Myself, why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive.

a) How do they live?

b) Explain: ‘we each put out an empty hand’.

c) What do they earn for?

2. Answer any three of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each :

a) How does Mrs. Fitzgerald plan to deal with the family of Mrs. Pearson?

b) What are the two reasons that annoy Doris Pearson?

c) What was the purpose of the author’s journey to Mount Kailash?

d) The author’s experience at Hor was in stark contrast to earlier accounts of the place. How?

3. Delhi and surrounding areas are facing acute shortage of water. Prepare a poster advising people to save water and adopt rain water harvesting, in about 50 words.

4. The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction against the correct blank number in the answer sheet.

                                                                                        Error             Correction

England has been long famous for her dramatist,            a)________           ___________

the greatest of who was William Shakespeare.                b)________           ___________

It is hard to find the educated man in                             c)_________         ___________

the English speaking world whom has not heard              d)_________         ___________

for his name. The actor and playwright                           e)_________         ___________

born more than 400 years ago had                                 f) _________         ___________

become not only for Englishman but for                          g)________            ___________

the whole world chief symbol for                                    h)________            ____________

British culture. He is a dramatist and a poet.

→ VALUE POINTS 

1. a) They live under the same roof yet in opinions they are so distant.

b) They try to understand each other but in vain.

c) They earn to forgive and forget the past and start afresh.

2. a) She tells Mrs. Pearson that she will deal with her family not as herself but as Mrs. Pearson. They will change places or really bodies. Mrs. Pearson would then look like Mrs. Fitzgerald and the latter would look like the former.

b) Firstly, Doris is annoyed that her mother has not ironed her yellow silk dress which she has to wear that night. Secondly, she has returned home after working hard all day and mother hasn’t even bothered to get her tea ready.

c) The author went on a journey to Mount Kailash to do the Kora as is the tradition. The Kora signifies a rite of circumambulating the holy mountain; that is taking a full circle around it. For this, the author adopted the Silk route to reach Mount Kailash and faced heavy odds to reach there.

d) According to the earlier accounts, the place abounds in natural beauty. Hor was situated on the sacred Lake Manasarovar. The narrator had how various pilgrims had been moved to tears by the sanctity of the place. But his experience of Hor was in direct contrast with theirs. He felt very bad about the place. He found Hor a dismal, wretched place. There was no vegetation there. The whole place was just dust and rocks scattered with a lot of refuse gathered over the years.

3. POSTER
CONTENT – 2
PRESENTATION - 2

4. EDITING

Error                  Correction

a) Dramatist – dramatists

b) Who – whom

d) Whom – who

e) For – of

f) Had – has

g) Englishman – Englishmen

h) For – of

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