But some, the tourists, travel for pleasure. Some travel for business and some travel in search of health. Reread the excerpt given above (for Questions 4 – 6) and write a precis reducing the passage into 1/3 rd of its length. (Questions 7 – 10): Answer any three questions. Which traveller will not feel happy when he looks at the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower of Paris, or the Great Wall of China? When you see exotic birds and animals, historical places and monuments, the great cities and their wonders, different people and their cultures and styles, you definitely feel happy. Travelling does give pleasure to those who like travelling. Do you agree with this statement? Give your comments. The writer tells us that people who travel rarely find happiness. Travelling gives them new topics to talk about. Moreovertravelling gives people something to talk about when they get home. By going to different places, they feel superior to those who have not gone there. They also travel, especially tourists, because they want to be socially correct. People travel for business and in search of health. Why, according to the author, do people travel? To miss, to mix, inquisitiveness, uncertainty Pick out the words that have the meaning ‘to neglect’ and ‘curiosity’ from the options given below. Moreover, traveling gives one something to talk about when one gets home, The subjects of conversation are not so numerous that one can neglect an opportunity of adding to one’s store. To have been to certain spots on the earth’s surface is socially correct and having been there, one is superior to those who have not. People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. If they go to the trouble and expense of traveling, it is not so much from curiosity, for fun, or because they like to see things beautiful and strange, as out of a kind of snobbery. The fact is that very few travelers really like traveling. Tourists are, in the main, a very gloomy-looking tribe. It is those who travel for pleasure as the phrase goes. But it is neither the sickly nor the men of affairs who fill the Grand hotels and the pockets of their proprietors. Some people travel on business, some in search of health. (Questions 4 – 6): Read the excerpt given below and answer the questions that follow. Instead of rushing to save themselves in the lifeboats, the Crew helped women and children and other passengers to escape in the life boats and they themselves went down into the depths of the sea with the sinking Titanic. The Titanic’s story shall sound sublime because the Titanic’s Crew showed great courage that was noble and true.
Why is it said that the Titanic’s story shall-sound sublime? Then was shown on that night, by the Titanic’s Crew. (Questions 2 & 3) : Read the lines from the poem, ‘The Wreck of the Titanic’ and answer the questions that follow.Īnd with these down the corridors of all time,įor never was courage more noble and true, They also miss those thoughts that come to their mind when they allow it to wander aimlessly through the background noise of human and mechanical life. When the new generation is too much involved with their smart phones they miss may things – the funny piece of an overheard conversation that stays with them, the sight of the children that will take them back to their childhood, bird song, weather, accents and the laughter of others. What are the little pleasures of life missed by the new generation, when they are too involved with their smartphones? Write your responses in two sentences. In his essay, ‘Is Society Dead?’, Andrew Sullivan speaks about the many things that the ‘iPod generation’ misses.
(Questions 1 – 6): All questions are compulsory.
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Kerala Plus One English Previous Year Question Paper March 2018 with Answers Board
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