EXAMINATION 2011 SPECIAL ENGLISH XII Time: 3 Hrs. Instructions: 1. All questions are compulsory 2. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions. 3. Marks of each question is indicated against it. 4. Answer must be complete and to the point. SECTION - A Q.1A. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: We live in a highly competitive age of science and technology and can no longer afford the luxury of mediocrity if we are to forge ahead. This rapidly changing
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The short story‚ Spilt Cherry Tree‚ was written by Jesse Stuart. In the beginning of the story‚ Dave and his classmates went with Professor Herbert on a field trip for biology class. They were all searching for lizards‚ bugs‚ snakes‚ frogs‚ flowers‚ and plants. Dave and five of his classmates had spotted a lizard in the old cherry tree up the hill‚ so all six of them ran up the tree after it‚ and the tree broke down. Eif Crabtree‚ the owner of the tree was plowing when it happened and he ran up and
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The Orange Tree There was a time where the smallest things seemed to be like they were the biggest. Like no problem big or small could ever be resolved. Back when getting in trouble for something you did was the worst of your problems. Back when using something that wasn’t yours was so bad that you felt like it was the end of the world. Back when orange seeds led you to such a huge problem that you felt like you couldn’t ever fix anything. This all began when i was just a young girl‚ around 6
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The Iguana Tree Summary The novel The Iguana Tree describes what a person might go through to come to the America. There are many different reasons to want to come to the America such as a job‚ to attend school‚ and a better life‚ etc. A reason to come over illegally would be not having the money to be able to afford the legal fees to come legally. In this novel‚ the man wanted to come to the America to find a job‚ to make more money for his family. Once he had enough money he was going to
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The Lemon Tree composed by Sandy Tolan introduces a personal side to well known war between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Tolan is a very well educated man who attended both Harvard and UC Berkeley. He has made great contributions to research and documentary based media. In 1967 Bashir Khairi who at the time was a 25 year old Palestinian‚ took a trip to Israel to see his house that him and his family had fled 19 years earlier. Bashir had been waiting for this trip since he was 6 years old. When
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resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians and fighters. This fierce fighting has led to public outcry for the two factions to come to a peaceful solution that will once again bring stability to the region. Sandy Tolan‚ author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab‚ A Jew‚ and the Heart of the Middle East presents the conflict through the true histories of two families‚ antithetical in nature‚ whose pasts ultimately lead them down a road of friendship. Despite a few exaggerations and assumptions‚ Tolan
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1 In the book‚ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ Francie Nolan lives in a world where she has trouble finding who she is‚ but eventually finds a way of discovering who she wants to be. Francie is an eleven-year-old girl living in Williamsburg‚ Brooklyn. You can find Francie sitting on her fire escape reading book‚ while imagining that she lives in the Tree of Heaven. The narrator says: “An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. That’s what Francie
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree written by Thomas Friedman is not important because it simply refutes the long held belief that globalization is a temporary side affect to the machinations of American foreign policy interests‚ but because Friedman takes it one step further by claiming it is a totally new world system which has completely replaced the old Cold War system. Even the title of his book is representative of this idea. The Lexus and the Olive tree represent "symbols of the post-Cold War
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The Taliban In everyday life in Afghanistan‚ people live in constant fear due to a group of terrorists. The novel‚ Under the Persimmon Tree‚ by Suzanne Fisher Staples‚ demonstrates the cruel truths of life in Afghanistan. The book follows two girls‚ Najmah and Nusrat as they are faced with tough challenges everyday that will alter their lives forever. The Taliban impact the everyday lives of people worldwide in an awfully negative way‚ and the book accurately proves this to be true by following
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they know that Doodle is going to die soon‚ but if they throw out the coffin‚ it would show that Doodle isn’t going to die and that he might live after all. The scarlet ibis symbolizes the color red and evil. This bird is found on the bleeding tree outside of the narrator’s and Doodle’s home. The scarlet ibis looks very ill which is very similar to Doodle. They both have a sickness and are brought from a very far place which makes them very similar to one and other. “Dead birds are bad luck
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