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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Do not write anything in the question paper.
3. All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper and written in the answer sheet provided to you.
4. Attempt all questions in each section before going on to the next section.
5. Read each questions carefully and follow the instructions.
6. Strictly adhere to the word limit given with each question. Marks will be deducted for
exceeding the word limit.
Section - A (Reading) 20-marks
A1.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions follow:
1. We’ve just left dinner table, when I hear music coming from my daughter’s computer. It surprises me that me daughter Ida is listening to music from a time she refers to as the very old days. “What are you playing?”. I ask, “Its Phil Collins”, is her prompt reply, while she shows how, with a few strokes she can download almost any song from the internet. Times have certainly been changing since I scratched my first Beatles record. Tactfully I do not mention that I had bought the record belongs to a bygone age and I do not want to spoil the pleasure she will get from discovering her “own” new favourite musician.
2. The music bring memories flooding back. I have a sudden urge to bring my record collection from the attic, where it has mouldered for almost a decade. Only one thing stops me: turntable succumbed to the damp air in a cellar where I stored it for a good ten years. No, I do not care if turntables are ancient technology: I will find one. And I will restore my long lost record collection-which took up a good amount of shelf apace-to its former glory. Buying something as un cool as a turntable takes courage and planning. I find a promising TV and radio store in the phone book but I am expecting a mountain of question from the clerk, who will most certainly have been born and raised after the demise of the turntable.
3. “A turntable? Coming fright up!” says the young man behind the counter. He disappears into the stroreroom and before I can say long-playing record, he’s back with a small cardboard under the arm. It’s too good be true. An hour later my new acquisition is in the living room and a respectful atmosphere descends. I’ve sorted my records into piles all over the floor. I find a Beatles album.
4. Behind the wonderful musich now flowing through the loud speaker is the unmistakable sound of vinyl. It doesn’t take long for my twelve year old son’s eagle eye to spot the turntable and he has to try it out. Jonas is technically mined, a child of the computer age, yet I sense a certain reverence as he picks up the tone arm and tries to pace it in the middle of the record. Brought up in the CD age how could he know what’s wrong? I say in a soothing voice: “The starting groove is on the record”/ “Does it matter which side is up?” queried my daughter. “it does matter, “ I replied. Soon we were listening to a Phil Collins number we both like. The generation gap vanishes as the music takes over. I relish the moment to the full and cast a glance at Ida. She’s relaxed and smiling.
8-marks
A1.1 Fill in the following summary using only one word for each blank. Write the answers in our answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.
It was a moment of surprise for the author to (a) ……………… that his daughter had the same (b) ……………. for music as he had. This brought back (c) ………….. for his (d) …………… collection in the attic. Though, a (e) ………… Task, he was (f) ………… in locating a turntable as …………………. 3-marks
A1.2 Complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(a) Jonas did not know how to handle the turntable as ……………….
(b) Music could bridge the generation gap as ……….
(c) The author was reluctant to bring out his turntable from the cellar because ……………. 3-marks
A1.3 Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following
Skillfully avoiding giving offence (para-1)………..
A feeling of respect (para-4)……………. 2-marks
A2.
Explanation: