CBSE Class 11 English Core PT-1 Question Paper 2025-26: St. Margaret School, Rohini

11th Class CBSE Board English Core (301) SET B Examination (2025-26): St. Margaret Sr. Sec. School, Prashant Vihar, Sector 14, Rohini, Delhi-85 India

School Name:	St. Margaret Sr. Sec. School, D-BLOCK, Prashant Vihar, Sector 14, Rohini, New Delhi 110085 India
Class:	11th Standard (CBSE)
Subject:	English
Time Duration:	01 Hours
Maximum Marks:	25
Date:	~ June – July, 2025

Question 01: Answer any four of the following. In 40-50 words. (3×3)

1. What was the routine followed by the author and his grandmother in the village?
2. Why did the boys return the horse? .
3. How can you say that the grandmother was a religious lady?
4. Bring out the humour in the character of Uncle Khosrove.
5. Why was it hard for the author to believe that his grandmother was once young and pretty?

Question 02: Read the given extract and answer the questions: (1×4)

The sea holiday Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry

With the laboured ease of loss.

1. Name the poet and the poem.
2. Why has the holiday been referred to as the mother of the past?
3. What has been lost by the speaker?
4. Give the meaning of the word ‘wry’.

Question 03: On behalf of the Rotary Club of India, design 4 posters in not more than 50 words to encourage the citizens to volunteer for ‘Blood Donation’. (3)

Question 04: Edit the given passage by replacing the incorrect word in each line with the correct one. Use the format given below. (4)

1. Romanticism is a literary movement that spans, roughly,
2. 1790-1850. The movement was characterised by a
3. the celebration of the nature of the common man, a focus,
4. on individual experiences, an idealisation of women, and,
5. an embrace of isolation and melancholy. Romanticism
6. focused on emotions and the inner life; the writer
7. often use autobiographical material to transform
8. the work or even provided a template for it, unlike traditional literature of the time.

 

Question 05: Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:

1. evils / social / all / of / cause / is the / poverty
2. corruption / is / our / cancer / the / of / society