Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows:

Mohan: I am a stranger in this town. Could you suggest a reasonably priced hotel?

Old Man: Ashok Hotel will suit you the most.

Mohan: How can I get there?

Old Man: Take a rickshaw.

Mohan: Thank you.

Mohan met an old man and told him that ____(i) ____ and asked him ____(ii) ____. The old man replied that Ashok Hotel ____(iii) ____. When Mohan asked him ____(iv) ____, he replied that he should take a rickshaw. Mohan ____(v) ____.

(a) (i) Prepare a speech in 80–120 words on the topic ‘Cleanliness is essential for a healthy environment.’

(ii) Stray animals are a menace. They are a health hazard and often cause accidents. Write an article in 80 – 120 words on, ‘The problem of stray animals in cities.’ You are Jasprit /Jaspal.

(b) Choosing a career is indeed a tough task. There are so many options and so many suggestions that one feels confused. Career counsellors advise one to choose the career in which one is interested. Write an article in 150 – 200 words on, ‘Choice of Career’. You are Rohan / Rohini.

OR

‘‘Unruly students should be expelled from school.’’ Write a debate in 150 – 200 words either for or against the motion.

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one word missing in each line. Write the missing word along with the words that come before and after. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.

Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow in 50 – 60 words each:

(a) ‘‘I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night.’’ she said, ‘‘you must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years.’’

(i) Who is speaking and to whom?

(ii) How do you know that the speaker’s advice was followed?

(b) When I grow old, I said, And very rich

I shall rebuild the fallen walls and make new this ancient house.

(i) Who is ‘I’? What promise does ‘I’ make?

(ii) Does the poet fulfil his promise or not? How do you know?

(c) No matter where he goes, you must bring him back. Distance is nothing for you. He showed no pity to me. I shall show none to him.

(i) What does the speaker ask ‘you’ to do?

(ii) What is the speaker’s attitude to ‘he’?

Answer any two of the following questions in 80 – 120 words each:

(a) What is your opinion of Margolin as a doctor?

(b) What are Milton’s arguments against building a monument for Shakespeare?

(c) What, according to Shaw, will happen if we allow a person to have control over us?