XI Standard(+1) English - Previously asked questions - Unit 1,2 - Samacheer Kalvi

 

Unit-1

Prose-1

Synonyms

1. Snapped – Broken  / cut

2. Hobbled - walked unsteadily

3. Fables –tales/stories

4. Perched – sat / rested

5. Seclusion – isolation

6. Contentment – fulfilled

7. Dilapidated – damaged

8. Rebukes – scolding

9. Absurd - logical

 

Antonyms

1. Pretty X Ugly

2. Absurd X reasonable

3. Spotless X dirty

4. Omitted X included

5. Persuade X dissuade

6. Attached X detached

7. Frivolous X serious

8. Monotonous X interesting

9. Inaudible X audible

 

 

Short answers

1. What was the happiest time of the day for grandmother?

2. The grandmother was strong-minded. Justify.

3. Describe the grandfather as seen in the portrait.

4. Why did the grandmother accompany the author to school?

5. What made the dogs follow the grandmother after school hours?

6. Why didn’t the grandmother feel sentimental when the author went abroad for higher education?

7. Where did the author study in his childhood?

 

 

Poem-1

 Read the given lines and answer the questions

1. ‘But now they only laugh with their teeth,

While their ice-block-cold eyes…’

a) Who are ‘they’?

b) Explain: ice-block-cold eyes

c) Identify the figure of speech used here.

 

2. ‘Most of all, I want to relearn

How to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror

Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs!’

a) Why does the poet want to relearn how to laugh?

b) Whom does the poet want to relearn from?

c) Mention the figure of speech used here.

 

3. Cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles

Like a fixed portrait smile.

i. What is cocktail smile?

ii. How do they smile?

iii. Explain the second line.

 

4. I have also learned to say “Goodbye”

When I mean “Good-riddance”

i. What does the poet mean by “good bye”?

ii. What is meant by “Good-riddance”?

One infant grows up and becomes a jockey

i. What does jockey refer to?

 

 

 Explain the following with reference to the context

1. I have learned to wear my faces

Like dresses …

 

2. I want to be what I used to be

 

 

 Unit - 2

Prose-2

Synonyms

1. Confined – restricted

2. Appetite - hunger

3. Princely –very large

4. Etched – imprinted

5. Lauded - appreciated

Antonyms

1. Lauded X censured

2. Arrive X depart

3. Retained X gave up /missed

4. Compulsory X optional

5. Vanished X appeared

6. Traditional X modern

 

 Short answers

1. Why did she call herself ‘lucky’?

2. How was she felicitated on her return to India?

3. How did Mary Kom manage to get financial support for her trip to the USA?

4. What did she consider her greatest achievement? Why?

5. Why did Mary Kom think that she should not return empty-handed?

6. According to Mary Kom, what was the reason for her losing in the finals?

 

 

Poem-2

 Read the given lines and answer the question

1. With all my heart I do admire

Athletes who sweat for fun or hire

i. Whom does the poet admire?

ii. For what reasons do the athletes sweat?

iii. Identify the rhyming words in the above lines.

 

2. When officialdom demands

Is there a doctor in the stands?

 i. Why are doctors called from stands by the sponsors?

ii. Pick out the rhyming words.

 

3. Cracking vertebrae and spines,

Lashes his steed across the line,

i. what is the sports referred here?

ii. What is the figure of speech employed here?

 

 Explain the following with reference to the context 

1. Athletes, I’ll drink to you,

Or eat with you,

Or anything except compete with you…